User guide

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Receiving Emergency Alerts Messages
Emergency Alerts service allows you to receive automatic alerts in times of crisis. (e.g., earthquake, hurricanes, etc.)
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), also known as CMAS, is a part of a national alerting system called
IPAWS (Integrated Public Alert and Warning System) that enables emergency management o cials to
rapidly disseminate the warnings and safety information via text alerts to wireless phones based on the
phones’ geographic location, The Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA is responsible for
receiving the alerting information and forwarding the alerts to participating wireless carriers such as
Cricket. Such alerts may come from the President of the United States; the National Weather Service, state
or county public safety o cials. This system is integrated into the same national alerting services that
serve television and radio today. For more information regarding WEA/CMAS please go to: FEMA website.
http://www.fema.gov/emergency/ipaws/projects.shtm#6
Receiving Emergency Alerts Messages
1. From the Home screen, tap Apps > Messaging.
2. Tap Emergency alerts message you want to view.
Emergency alert messages are indicated with
Emergency alert icon.
• If Emergency alert arrives on your phone during a call,
is displayed in the Status bar. If Presidential Emergency Alert,
Emergency alert icon  ashes. If non-Presidential, Emergency alert icon is static icon.
• ONLY the Presidential Emergency Alert icon is displayed under the Time/Date on the unlock/lock screen.
• If you are on a Emergency alert message screen in the Messaging application, the following options are removed or disabled :
Reply, Forward, and Call.
• If you have power cycled your phone and a Presidential Emergency Alert has NOT been viewed, the Presidential Emergency
Alert icon will continue to  ash when the device is powered on again.