Technology @beehaw.org Seathru @beehaw.org 12mo ago

"Test for Ricardo" Notification?

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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Ricardo was testing in production
Yep. Got this earlier today.
- Yes, I got it too!
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.
- I didn't see anything, but I did uninstall/disable some motorola default packages.
  
  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. ¬¬
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."
What'd Danny Ricardo do now?
- Crash his car into the wall and break his wrist :(
  
  :(
Can confirm I got this too just now on my G Stylus
Got this too. Someone was testing in production!
https://tenor.com/5Mdo.gif
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.
- Oh man, Moto G Stylus 5g 2023 just rolls off the tongue

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