Track And Trace Plan

[Barsel]

Could somebody tell me, do you have to have a smart phone to be able to partake in this?
I don't have a smart phone and a lot of my elderly neighbours don't either. This is because a lot of us oldies can't figure out how to use them.So, does this mean this plan would be of no use to us, does the Government think that everybody in the country has a smart phone, the internet and all the other gadgets you seem to need these days.I live on a complex of 14 bungalows for the elderly and I would say more than half don't have the internet.

[ToraToraTora]

don't talk rot gromit, do you self a favour and try and install it. Do you use android?. That is a shot of my google play account on my PC it shows the apps you have installed. If you do not have it that green box bottom right says "install" not "installed". Will someone else install this and tell gromit.

[ToraToraTora]

when you use android you can see all your apps on a PC gromit, that's how they get reinstalled when you change phones.

[Gromit]

As I said earlier, I trialed the Swiss and the UAE Corona Apps because they work similar to the UK one, always on. I used a VPN to Trick the Apps that I was in Switzerland and UAE. So the App was pinging out on bluetooth, but obviously getting no replies.
My battery was running out 3 hours earlier than normal.

https://ibb.co/gPTK48v

[ToraToraTora]

try the NHS one!

[Gromit]

Tora,

I can download tons of apps that don’t work in the UK.
I have posted my phone screen with 3 Corona Apps on it, it would be more useful if you did the same.

But, I repeat.
IT ONLY WORKS ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT regardless of if you do have in somewhere else in the UK.

[ToraToraTora]

I cant get my screen shot to work, yes I know it only works in the IOW but the app is installed.

[Gromit]

// We are releasing the app on a smaller scale before making it available to the UK public.

We chose the Isle of Wight because it is a geographically defined area with a population size that enables us to evaluate the contact tracing and testing services effectively before rolling it out across the rest of the country.

We intend to make the app available nationally in the coming weeks. //

https://www.covid19.nhs.uk/isle-of-wight.html

// I have been running the app for over a week and noticed no degradation. // - because it is not working LOL

[ToraToraTora]

figured it out, here you go:
https://ibb.co/P4HTSw9
The top left indicator tells me it's running, LOL!
So we've gone from, you can't possibly have it, to it's not working! right oh!

[ToraToraTora]

the app thinks it's working:
https://ibb.co/5W6WGpn

[Gromit]

TTT,
So you have installed an App that doesn’t work. It is not pinging out to Bluetooth phones near you, and it is not getting any data to upload. So pretty pointless, until it goes nationwide.

[ToraToraTora]

how do you know what it's doing? we've come a long way from "you can't possibly have it", haven't we? The app says it's working, now I've been in programming most of my working life and I know how programmers work and if it was somehow disabled it would say that. I can't prove it's pinging out and you cannot prove it isn't.

[Mamyalynne]

At least you have it ready for when it is rolled out, presuming the installation is the same as the one you followed.

[Gromit]

TTT
The Government says it isn’t working yet.
The NHS says it isn’t working yet.
Your Google store account warns it is not finished.

The app is being trialed. If you are a programmer, you should understand what that means. A limited number of testers have been given access to the fully working version, and they are asked to report bugs. Backend, the data the The users are uploading is being used to test the collection systems

The App itself is extremely basic. It has no user functionality. All the heavy lifting work is being done backend, and that is what they are evaluating. When they are happy that it is fit for purpose, it will be rolled out Nationwide. Until then, it is just an icon that does nothing.

[THECORBYLOON]

Can we agree that TTT has the app on his 'phone in readiness for the roll-out?

[ToraToraTora]

cobras, android thinks it's an app, it shows as an app, it's own front page thinks it's running.

[Mamyalynne]

Corby, I doubt that very much - any excuse for a verbal battle.