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3. Replying to a message
1. From the Home screen,
Up-slide screen into APP menu
>
Messages.
2. Tap the received message > tap Send message > enter your
message.
3. Tap
Send.
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 officials 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 Sprint. Such alerts
may come from the President of the United States; the National
Weather Service, state or county public safety officials. 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
1. Receiving Emergency Alerts Messages
1. From the Home screen,
Up-slide screen into APP menu
>
Messages > tap
> tap Settings > tap Advanced >Wireless
emergency alerts.
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 will flashes. 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 an 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 flash when the device is
powered on again.
Changing Messages Settings
1. From the Home screen,
Up-slide screen into APP menu
>
Messages.
2. Tap
Option >Settings.
1.
Group messaging settings
Group
messaging
Send an SMS reply to all recipients and get
individual replies(mass text)
Send an MMS reply to all recipients (group
MMS)
2. Multimedia message (MMS) settings