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by Miraste 326 days ago
That would be quite an implementation flaw if it didn't account for the phone's own vibrations. Lots of countries use widespread emergency alert messages frequently.
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What if it's actually another phone's vibration laying next to each other? Me and my wife leave our phones together when going to sleep.
not only that but my android phone sleeps together with my android reading tablet
Awww that's cute. Did they produce little baby Android devices?
They fixed this bug, we had plenty of emergency cell broadcasts since the false alarm.
if (!isShakerRunning) { sendAlert() }

seems like a pretty obvious thing to add

Only obvious once you've thought of it I suppose...
It's obvious to anyone that's written software for hardware sensors to ensure the hardware itself is not going to interfere with readings of other sensors. Don't tell the motor to run if the motor is already running type of issues. It's a fairly common bozo check
Doesn't seem that obvious to me