Emergency alerts on Straight Talk phones

[rockhillmanor]

Just bought a burner phone from walmart. Straight Talk unlimited calls, text and data. As a backup phone for when on the road.

First of I am really amazed that these low priced burner phones offered are darn right real smart phones!

Although I suggest you go thru all the hidden settings and shut off ALL the items they have connected to these phones that authorize use of your personal phone info and/or use up your data. Since they do state that they throttle you back if you exceed some magical data usage number within each monthly timeline.

There are tons of them running using your data in the back and foreground some that you have not even installed. Took me over an hour to find and disable them and I'm sure I don't have them all.

That said. Go to Emergency Alerts.
There where about 6 of them. I deleted all of them and when I got to THIS one it would NOT let me delete it!

Presidential Alert

Guess you HAVE to listen to him whether you like it or not! :B:B

[wa8yxm]

Generally they do not charge for emergency alerts.. Just so you know.

But then I'm on T-mobile

Unlimited _____ (you name it, not limited) though High Speed Data is limited. (6.5 Gig on my plan) I can still get lower speed data, and where I am now high speed data..... is not (low is best I can do).

Also music streams (pandora, Live-365, et-al) do not count against that 6.5 Gig with T-Mobile.. I like listening to pandora some times.

[nomad297]

rockhillmanor wrote:


Presidential Alert

Guess you HAVE to listen to him whether you like it or not! :B:B

I never listen to this one. Sometimes I hear him, but I never, ever listen.

Bruce