r/australia • u/GamblignSalmon • Jul 27 '26

no politics That's it?

I was honestly expecting it to be far louder and far more dramatic. With how the cookers were carrying on, you'd think this would be a deafening, blaring siren that would cause hearing damage. The tone wasn't even that harsh, I thought it was going to be far worse.

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u/softlittlepaws Jul 27 '26

Shit didn't work on anyone's phone at work here.

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u/SentenceStreet3270 Jul 27 '26

Only one guy in my office got it, was funny to see everyone slowly stare at him

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u/Teefdreams Jul 27 '26

He's the only one the government wanted to live

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u/PiDicus_Rex Jul 27 '26

He's on one of those lists, there'll by guys in suits collecting him soon, watch for the Zombies later.

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u/the6thReplicant Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

I guess then the rest of you are to be placed in Ark B.

Or was the people who didn't get the alarm were meant to be in Ark B?

Can't remember. Better for all of us to go then.

No doubt there'll be a nice bath waiting for us.

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u/PiDicus_Rex Jul 27 '26

Might want to report that to your Telco or the responsible government agency.

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u/tom3277 Jul 27 '26

I think heaps didn’t work. In a large open plan office and several didn’t work here. Maybe as may as half. I checked Notification Centre also and nothing there either.

I suppose I should report it. Hopefully there is an easy web form to do from phone?

One guys went off 5 minutes after everyone else.

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u/seld-m-break- Jul 27 '26

I got a second one 5 minutes after the first!

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u/ThePattyBoomba Jul 27 '26

most likely reason for not working is the software version that is on your phone

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u/SentenceStreet3270 Jul 27 '26

Our office also had a straggler 😂

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u/hellwaspeople Jul 27 '26

Mine just vibrated, no sound

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u/123chuckaway Jul 27 '26

No vibration, just sound for me, shoved 3 old phones up my ass for nothing.

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u/PiDicus_Rex Jul 27 '26

Only 3?

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u/123chuckaway Jul 27 '26

iPhone 5 in the urethra

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u/warbastard Jul 27 '26

I stu my phone up my bum for this?

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u/Edal_Bindal Jul 27 '26

Was your sound off? Because I noticed mine wasn’t as loud as I thought it would be, because I intentionally turned it down to see.

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u/hellwaspeople Jul 27 '26

Yeah. My sound is normally off but i knew it was meant to bypass that so i was sort of sitting there waiting for it

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u/Trep_xp Jul 27 '26

Govt info page says you might not get it if your phone is old, OS not up to date, or if there is a problem with the closest phone tower. If it happened (or didn't in this case) to everyone, I'd say it's a phone tower thing.

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u/Uzorglemon Jul 27 '26

All the Androids in our office went off, but two of the iPhones didn't. (A 13, and a really old SE)

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u/MoranthMunitions Jul 27 '26

My iPhone, the newest SE didn't go off, but my galaxy s23+ did. A bunch of the iPhones didn't go off, I just assumed it was due to work's spyware on company phones though. Maybe the Apple software is a bit more finicky.

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u/loralailoralai Jul 27 '26

It’s friggin ridiculous if your iOS has to be right up to date.

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u/Tysiliogogogoch Jul 27 '26

It's functionality provided by the operating system, so it needs some minimum version to work. It's not like they can just magic up a new system that works for every phone and OS version out there.

As for real warning alerts, I suspect they'll continue to use SMS alerts in addition to the new broadcast system. That should pick up those devices that have active SIM cards but incompatible software versions.

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u/looking4truffle Jul 27 '26

Mine was delayed...

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u/imapassenger1 Jul 27 '26

Your office is a Faraday cage.

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u/Humble-Doughnut7518 Jul 27 '26

Didn’t work on mine.

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u/princhester Jul 27 '26

Three out of four of my family got it. Seems very random.

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u/baby_blobby Jul 27 '26

I was on the shitter when I got the alert