Disable emergency alerts

[MonCon 125]

Is there any way to disable 'Emergency alerts', I can't find a way. 

(Pro1X LOS20)

Edited May 21, 2023 by MonCon

[Hook 3,031]

3 hours ago, MonCon said:

Ia there any way to disable 'Emergency alerts', I can't find a way. 

(Pro1X LOS20)

Settings, Notifications, tap wireless emergency alerts.

[MonCon 125]

Thanks @Hook, I've tried settings/notifications/wireless_emergency_alerts and settings/safety_and_emergency/wireless_emergency_alerts and turned off what I can, but one of the selections (emergency_alerts) is greyed-out and active.

I don't suppose rooting would make a difference?, maybe I'm stuck with it. 

Edited May 20, 2023 by MonCon

[EskeRahn 5,464]

Guessing here but some countries might have legislation that prevent it from being turned off. It might be something forced deep in the android kernel?

Here in DK, on a Pro1 (not X) on LOS20, I AM allowed to turn them off, On both a Pro1X and a Pro1 on stock Android it is the same.
I have not flashed a Pro1X with Lineage (yet), but seems unlikely that it should be generally disabled by LOS for the Pro1X..

[Hook 3,031]

Strange, thats not what I see on my Pro1x.  I wonder if local carrier policy provided by sim would make a difference.

 

[EskeRahn 5,464]

Note also if you in the apps list, select ellipsis and then Show System, there is an app "Emergency Information", that can be stopped but not be disabled easily.

You might try the method here (no root needed) to disable it anyway.

[EskeRahn 5,464]

...A totally different question is if it is wise to do so.

AFAIK It is not a two-way thing, and should not require location to be turned on. It is the matter of the carrier broadcasting a message over the cell towers covering an affected area. And HOPEFULLY it is needed so rarely that you are unlikely to know if it is on or off.

In DK they have started using this with yearly testing, with a nasty ear-wrecking sound, so this year I made sure all my phones were off,,, during the test...

[Hook 3,031]

2 hours ago, EskeRahn said:

...A totally different question is if it is wise to do so.

AFAIK It is not a two-way thing, and should not require location to be turned on. It is the matter of the carrier broadcasting a message over the cell towers covering an affected area. And HOPEFULLY it is needed so rarely that you are unlikely to know if it is on or off.

In DK they have started using this with yearly testing, with a nasty ear-wrecking sound, so this year I made sure all my phones were off,,, during the test...

You make a good point, and I do actually have them enabled.  And they are rare.  However, I understand people finding them annoying.  They rarely provide actionable information (in the case of amber alerts they may not have a lot of actionable information and the ones I get are mostly so far away from me it rarely matters anyway), I don't mind that they send the alerts far and wide, but why they have to use such an obnoxious loud sound is beyond me.  To get me to paty attention.  Alas, I spend my time trying to kill the sound rather than Pay full attention to the message.  I read every text message that comes in with it's little "ding."  Why not just use a unique ringtone that is somewhere short of an air raid siren. 

Maybe this: 😄

 

[MonCon 125]

@Hook@EskeRahn thanks for the pointers, I'll give it a go

Edit:  
Connected to pc via adb, ran:  
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.module
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.cellbroadcastservice
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver
and the obnoxious mosquito has gone.  
Didn't need root, still good after a reboot and an update.  
Hopefully that's the end of it. 

Edited May 21, 2023 by MonCon

[MonCon 125]

We had an emergency alert test at the weekend.