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"Test for Ricardo" Notification? (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Seathru@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Any other Motorola phone users get this notification pop-up? I found a post on the forum that shall not be named and it seems like a worldwide Motorola glitch but no official word yet.

Just wanted to repost here in case anyone else was weirded out by what Ricardo is doing on your phone.

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[–] obosob@feddit.uk 18 points 2 years ago

Ricardo was testing in production

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep. Got this earlier today.

[–] BreviusNominus@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, I got it too!

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Got the same stuff some minutes ago. After some checking, there's a Twitter thread about the subject, including Motorola going out of its way to avoid answering what's up.

It doesn't look malicious though, more like plain stupidity.

EDIT: !programmer_humor@programming.dev is saying that this is a notification test, and that someone didn't catch the intern doing this yet.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't see anything, but I did uninstall/disable some motorola default packages.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You probably uninstalled the device help application, it's the one sending this.

And my mum just got the notification. Sent me a desperate message, thinking that some Ricardo (fairly common name here) hacked her phone. ¬¬

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

My family has the name Ricardo, so I would have been especially interested about the notification had I got it!

[–] NiklzNDimz@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Glad you posted this because I'd completely forgotten I got the weird notification, but work things distracted me from trying to figure it out.

"Damnit, Ricardo."

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What'd Danny Ricardo do now?

[–] wim@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crash his car into the wall and break his wrist :(

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

Can confirm I got this too just now on my G Stylus

[–] ashtrix@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Got this too. Someone was testing in production!

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://tenor.com/5Mdo.gif

[–] pepsison52895@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have a Moto G Stylus 2023 (non-5G) and did not receive this notification.

Edit: I never used the Device Help app so it's not setup. I wonder if this is why I didn't receive it.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Oh man, Moto G Stylus 5g 2023 just rolls off the tongue