Emergency Broadcasts - Never Ending Msgs

**mb2333** · 08-12-2012, 10:20 AM

Has anyone had issue with emergency broadcasts that keep coming through? I received a "Flood Advisory" the first day of terrible weather in Chicago. Now I've been receiving the same message in the emergency inbox several times a day for over a week! I don't see a way to turn this off and have yet to explore deleting the funtion all together as I can see it being useful.

Thanks!

**Berry_Intelligence** · 08-12-2012, 10:41 AM

Depending upon where you are, yeah you can issues like that... I experienced an issue when I was flew to D.C. the other week. As soon as I left the area, obviously, that stopped it from bugging me.

However, I think I know what you meant by "deleting the function": I assume you are talking about going under the options and deselecting the 'Severe Threat Alert'? I ended up doing that the other week when I was having issues and then re-enabled it after I was out of the area and it worked fine. I would definitely recommend just removing that option to stop the issue temporarily if not for awhile if you don't need it.

Best of Luck!

**mb2333** · 08-12-2012, 01:39 PM

Thanks. I think I'll give that a shot.

**gees97** · 08-12-2012, 05:48 PM

Mine doesn't go off at all. I wish mine did

**otacon#AC** · 08-13-2012, 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by gees97

Mine doesn't go off at all. I wish mine did

What is yours set to? Do you have Severe Threat Alert Messages checked? I live in AZ and we're in the monsoon season so I get flood warning alerts all the time. I turned off Severe and just kept Extreme. Presidential can't be turned off.

**starchit** · 08-13-2012, 08:59 AM

This feature must not be working in Portland, OR. We've had weather and AMBER alerts on radio/tv but they never did show on the BB Emergency Broadcasts. The weather alerts did come thru on BeWeather but the timing of the app's updates usually meant the alert would happen during or after the storm.

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**eam13** · 08-16-2012, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by Berry_Intelligence

Depending upon where you are, yeah you can issues like that... I experienced an issue when I was flew to D.C. the other week. As soon as I left the area, obviously, that stopped it from bugging me.

However, I think I know what you meant by "deleting the function": I assume you are talking about going under the options and deselecting the 'Severe Threat Alert'? I ended up doing that the other week when I was having issues and then re-enabled it after I was out of the area and it worked fine. I would definitely recommend just removing that option to stop the issue temporarily if not for awhile if you don't need it.

Best of Luck!

How do you do this? I have a BB9900 bold. Does anyone know how to access this setting? Can't find it and these alerts are sooooo annoying.

**Berry_Intelligence** · 08-16-2012, 04:56 PM

Go into "Emergency Alert Messages" > "Options" > Uncheck "Severe Threat Alert Messages"
This will take care of the SevereWx Warnings

You may also disable by choice: "Extreme Threat Alert Messages" and "AMBER Alert Messages"

Please note by disabling any or all of these options you will/may affect more than just SevereWx Warning Notifications...