Alert SA for Android
Notifications don't always come through to mobile. App crashes when opening via notification on tablet. Can't rely on it to notify me of events in my bushfire area at home when at work. No alerts for the last week.
Its great but i cant find a way to display the wind direction? Also if a warning is cancelled it just disappears even if you are following the incident leaving people wondering what is happening. Would it be possible to show cancelled for a short time?
Why has the beach water quality data stopped showing up? Especially after all the rainfall we would like to know if it's safe to take our families swimming.
Unable to set up watch zones, no address I put in is a valid address, which is a pain considering work and home are a fair way apart. - update- cleared data/cache for app and is still as useless for setting up watch zone, not valid/address not found every time.
Notifications don't work.... If I receive a notification my phone merely vibrates, plays only a milisecond of notification sound and no notification is left on the screen.. so if I don’t hear my phone vibrate I miss the notification. I emailed them regarding this and received no response. This has been going on for over a year... last summer didn't work either... surely some app developer can work out how to fix this notification problem??? Not the SA Gov though..... :(
And no alerts... even 2 hours after. Not a whimper. Not very useful.
Brings up the map of my location for watch zone, but when the physical address is typed in says it is not valid. How can it not be valid when it shows where I am on the map? Needs fixing urgently.
Maps are pixilated in bright colours but other features ok. Have to view in lists. Not helpful!
There needs to be a way to decrease or turnoff the notification sound.Being notified of events every single time and at all hours gets to be annoying.If people get annoyed enough they will just uninstall the app which defeats the purpose.
Running for a few weeks. Still giving me alerts on android in notifications but when I go to see the detail its asking me to log in or pair again. Very frustrating!!
Why are my notifications not working AGAIN on my Samsung S5 - very frustrating!
Fine when it's working, only get notifications every now and then. And when we have a fire less than 3ks from home, a notification would be great!!
Stopped working for me. UPDATE it's back working now. Re-paired my device and now it's working perfectly fine.
Terrible app go to Adelaide Hills Emergency Alert on Facebook much better information.
Unable to find my address
Cant put in watch zone never updates way out date
Poor app....flicks from screen to screen with no control by user to stop it...only way is to close the app
disabling vibration on notifications doesnt seem to work properly
Good when it works, notifications stop working for no apparent reason.
Easy to use
Now my tablet tells me the app is draining power and i should close it saying it has crashed 10 times this week. Very poor performance. It must work better than this to be usable.
Bring back the CFS app it was 100% better than this rubbish the only alerts I get are fire ban days. I set up a 25k radius yet didn't get notification of a truck accident 12k away that closed roads. This is the worst thing that ever happened in SA. I would give it a Minus 5 stars if I could. Get your act together and bring back the informative CFS app.
Find this app very beneficial . l have been alerted twice due to flooding risks. You get to know alternative routes if you need to leave the town you're in. This app is a must.
This app is cool except i noticed im not receiving any notifications! Have uninstalled and reinstalled - hoping this helps?? It helped for a couple of days but again not receiving any notifications whatsoever even though on the website it shows I have received these alerts. Would be great if it worked!
Notifications to mobile. Samsung Galaxy S5 have stopped working. I have tried repairing and reinstalling with no luck.
Massive improvements incorporated with the latest release.
Use to use this app in partnership with the CFS app. The CFS app was better in a few ways and thats why i used both. I find the notification setting on Alert SA too broad and get notifications im not always interested in order to get ones that i do want. The CFS app also had the advantage of showing the street name within the push notication so i knew straight away if i needed to go in to the app for more details. Ive never seen fire zones or the fire danger shown on the Alert SA map.
Just got notification the cfs app is closing and we now have to rely on this app... you may as well kiss goodbye notifying people at risk from bush fire and putting lives at risk. THE WORST app ever. Never works and always crashes... ALWAYS. Congratulations SA government on another job well done. What a joke- stop the app that actually works and replace it with something that doesn't. ... bravo
Works beautifully, would love to see more details about incidents though. Highly recommend.
I have used once but since then it has stopped working, very disappointed
Nothing on screen for weeks....was useful at one time, but nothing anymore!!!!waste of space......
Pity it is not always working - don't now what the problem is.
Stops constantly.
Liked it but notifacations stopped working on my galaxy s7
Since last two updates,can no longer open app
Notification zones seem to disappear, so I thought I'd set up an account, which can't be done from a mobile device... Catch 22
The App is great, I have it set up to get notifications for home as well as for where my parents live and my son lives. BUT, when I try to open the App from the notification, I get an error message saying the app has stopped working. I have used the report function twice now and the problem is unresolved. I can still open the app from the shortcut and click through to my watch area notifications, but it is frustrating when I just want to see quickly whether it's something to be concerned about or not. Samsung tablet 10.1 2014 edition.
The area finction when picked does not work as I wanted a particular area and get notifications of fire acidents that have no relevance to where I live. Sometimes I dont get all the notifications in the area that my friends get....
Runs great on my Samsung tablet. But not on my Samsung S5 phone. On my phone im having to uninstall the app and then reinstall it about once a week. It just stops sending out notification.
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Good app. Has been very helpful at times. There is a bit of room for improvement but this will happen in time. Obviously only alerts events that go through the proper channels. Have hit a couple incidents that didn't come up. Keep developing and improving data throughput this has so much more potential.