Emergency Alert
$0.89About Emergency Alert
Emergency Alert is a useful tool for alerting you to urgent events via SMS, even when your phone is on silent. You can even set up your own rules which can be triggered with SMS messages that start or contain text, or that are from a specific number.
A useful application for the following scenarios:
- Business continuity
- Urgent notifications from friends or family
- Disaster notifications - Earthquakes, flood alerts and security threats. Please note however that the app also does not provide alerts from your local emergency service providers after installation. If you receive SMS alerts regarding tornadoes, flooding or earthquakes, you must manually create a rule to alert you when you receive these messages.
The application listens out to specially formatted SMS messages - when triggered, the app can alert you one of three ways:
Green Alert - This alert simply displays a popup message from the sender.
Yellow Alert - This alert will vibrate until dismissed, allowing you to be quietly notified of an urgent matter.
Red Alert - This alert will alert you with a loud alarm and vibration until dismissed, even if the device is on silent with media volume turned down.
To trigger the rules, the sender or automated alert system needs to be aware of the text to add at the beginning of the SMS message:
**redalert**, **yellowalert**, or **greenalert**. Any text sent after the alert status will be displayed in the popup on the screen. See the screenshots for example.
The app is also intelligent - if you have a headset plugged in, it will use the current volume so you aren't deafened! Without headphones, the alert will play at full volume through the speaker, ensuring you won't miss an alert.
Please Note: Other apps that intercept SMS messages may affect the alert - please test on your device after installation to ensure it is working with your set up.
A useful application for the following scenarios:
- Business continuity
- Urgent notifications from friends or family
- Disaster notifications - Earthquakes, flood alerts and security threats. Please note however that the app also does not provide alerts from your local emergency service providers after installation. If you receive SMS alerts regarding tornadoes, flooding or earthquakes, you must manually create a rule to alert you when you receive these messages.
The application listens out to specially formatted SMS messages - when triggered, the app can alert you one of three ways:
Green Alert - This alert simply displays a popup message from the sender.
Yellow Alert - This alert will vibrate until dismissed, allowing you to be quietly notified of an urgent matter.
Red Alert - This alert will alert you with a loud alarm and vibration until dismissed, even if the device is on silent with media volume turned down.
To trigger the rules, the sender or automated alert system needs to be aware of the text to add at the beginning of the SMS message:
**redalert**, **yellowalert**, or **greenalert**. Any text sent after the alert status will be displayed in the popup on the screen. See the screenshots for example.
The app is also intelligent - if you have a headset plugged in, it will use the current volume so you aren't deafened! Without headphones, the alert will play at full volume through the speaker, ensuring you won't miss an alert.
Please Note: Other apps that intercept SMS messages may affect the alert - please test on your device after installation to ensure it is working with your set up.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
v1.6.0 Changes:
- Added ability to disable Emergency Alert from within the new Settings screen so that you no longer have to delete the app to disable it.
- Updated the alert sound
- Updated the SDK to Android 4
v1.5.2 Changes:
- Fixed an issue with ICS where database was not populated correctly causing a force close.
v1.5.0 Changes:
- Now supports custom rules:
v1.6.0 Changes:
- Added ability to disable Emergency Alert from within the new Settings screen so that you no longer have to delete the app to disable it.
- Updated the alert sound
- Updated the SDK to Android 4
v1.5.2 Changes:
- Fixed an issue with ICS where database was not populated correctly causing a force close.
v1.5.0 Changes:
- Now supports custom rules:
Version update Emergency Alert was updated to version 1.6.0
More downloads Emergency Alert reached 500 - 1 000 downloads
Price update Price changed from $0.83 to $0.89.
What are users saying about Emergency Alert
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We use your Emergency Alert app to alert engineers in case of IT emergencies. Unfortunately the app stopped working since our upgrade to Android 7 on the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. While the text message **REDALERT** is intercepted correctly, and an alert is shown, the app now fails to turn up the volume of the device if the device is on no-disturb mode (sound turned off). I have given the app full privileges to turn on sound, and have enabled this setting in your app. Yet it still fails to turn on the sound, hence I am missing the emergency alert. Note also that the email address listed on play store does not work. All emails are returned. @Ryan, I've tried to send you another email now.
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Junk
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Using on HTC Desire. This app is really useful. My burglar alarm can send out calls and or text messages, so I programmed it to send out a red alert in the event of an alarm activation. I was very impressed because the app even works if I used 'force stop'. The red alert noise is loud enough to be heard but wasn't startling or intrusive, so I really like that feature. Finally, I was pleased the file was as small as it is because my phone is crammed as it is! Great app!
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Thank you !!
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I cant figure out how to use it
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I use it for my family to contact me in emergency with red alert or for important information you can use yellow alert .
by S####:
Won't alert when the message comes from an email address, which is how my alarm monitor sends activity alerts out. That stated, if all you want is for it to alert for messages from other phones, it does that nicely.