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  2. Fix problems with the AOL app on Android

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    Verified for version 4.4 and later. 1. Open the Settings app. 2. Tap Apps. 3. Tap AOL. 4. Tap Force Stop. 5. If prompted, tap Force Stop again to confirm. 6. Relaunch the app and attempt to reproduce the issue.

  3. National wireless phone alert test coming Oct. 4. - AOL

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    The test is to ensure certain alert systems are still effective in warning the public about emergencies, especially national ones, according to FEMA's site. The test will occur around 2:20 p.m ...

  4. Emergency alert test – live: Government reveals why phone ...

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    Millions of people across the country received the first-ever nationwide test of the government’s new emergency alert system today.. While the alert was scheduled to go out at 3pm, many mobile ...

  5. Wireless Emergency Alerts - Wikipedia

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    An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to cell phones using Cell ...

  6. First Warning - Wikipedia

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    First Warning is a severe weather warning system designed for broadcast television stations, typically those in the United States. A weather advisory product based on First Warning, called First Alert, is an automated version of this product, which has come into widespread use by television stations and is marketed under different names depending on the graphics service vendor.

  7. Emergency Alert System - Wikipedia

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    The alert was followed by dead air, and then audio from designated station 720 WGN in Chicago being simulcast across almost every television and radio station in the Chicago area and throughout much of Illinois. A confused Spike O'Dell, host of the station's morning show at the time, was heard on-air wondering "what that beeping was all about".

  8. Why you should expect a blaring phone alert Wednesday - AOL

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    Even if your phone is set to silent, it will blast the nationwide test of the emergency alert system.

  9. Hook flash - Wikipedia

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    Pick up phone handset (causing the line to be off-hook). Hear a dial tone. Dial the first number and greet the first party. Press the hook flash button (or quickly tap the on-hook sensor on the phone). Hear a stutter dial tone (a series of beeps followed by another dial tone). Dial the second number and greet the second party.