Hi,
I am a Galaxy Nexus owner and I sent an email yesterday to Orange asking if they were planning on porting the Orange Quick Tap app (mobile NFC payments) to Android phones like the Galaxy Nexus.
I got a call back just now and she said she didn't know, but she read a list of phones that have Quick Tap and the Galaxy Note was one of them. However I searched online and I don't see any reference to Quick Tap payments relating to the Galaxy Note.
Do you guys have the Quick Tap app on your Notes? If so I'd love to get the apk and try it on my Galaxy Nexus!
I don't have it on mine - emailed Samsung and they said they might support NFC on an ICS upgrade at some point. Very confusing, as the Note doesn't seem to have the chip required...
Did you ask for Technical Team?
Call operator CS on Orange is useless, especially when asking them about Android Upgrades
case0 said:
Hi,
I am a Galaxy Nexus owner and I sent an email yesterday to Orange asking if they were planning on porting the Orange Quick Tap app (mobile NFC payments) to Android phones like the Galaxy Nexus.
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I just emailed Samsung UK and this is their response:
Thank you for contacting Samsung and I have pleasure in providing the following assistance.
In response to your query, the Samsung Galaxy Note currently would not support NFC with or without an NFC battery. The gingerbread operating system does not support NFC. In the future when the Galaxy Note receives the Ice Cream Sandwich update then the device would have the software that supports NFC.
So it would seem that we will get NFC when the ICS update appears. Hooray!
At least I think that is what that reply means...
and how would you use NFC without the NFC chip?? software is not everything
Nice and confusing since NFC was "optional" for the Note and not integrated into the European model as best I can tell. NFC is available in the Note 2... Most likely if the option to enable NFC was not there in Gingerbread the device doesn't have it.
Android Gingerbread did not support some of the technology required to make work Quick Tap work (Single Wire Protocol IIRC) and therefore Quick Tap will never work on a Gingerbread phone. To answer the original question - Oranges' Android Ice Cream Sandwich update for some devices included the Quick Tap App - but it doesn't work yet. Although some devices, the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S3 being prime examples, have an embedded secure element for Wallet-type payments Orange and Barclaycard have opted for the Secure Element to be located in the SIM card. This also applies to the Galaxy S2 NFC (aka GT-I9100P) which lacks the secure element but does have NFC so with an appropriate SIM card will also support Quick Tap. FWIW the only phone currently supported for Quick Tap payments is the Galaxy S3.
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Are we Galaxy Note I going to have Galaxy S4 features? There are news that S3 and Note 2 will have it. Hope XDA dev could port some for us.
Don't even know if the note is going to get another update. But yeah s4 has some non hardware depended feature like smart pause which may work
Well its too early to say as its just unpacked but i believe that Dev will start working on it once it hits the streets to port as many features as possible until any specific hardware is missing for that feature :good:
Well, looks like Samsung will indeed be sticking to its usual schedule of announcing new Galaxy S flagships in March and launching them in April. Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of the company’s mobile business, confirmed to Bloomberg that the Galaxy S5 would launch sometime in April, along with the second-generation Galaxy Gear (already hinted at by another Samsung exec.)
“We’ve been announcing our first flagship model in the first half of each year, around March and April, and we are still targeting for release around that time,” Lee said. “When we release our S5 device, you can also expect a Gear successor with more advanced functions, and the bulky design will also be improved.” He also mentioned that the Galaxy S5 would feature a radically different design with a focus on the display, as the lack of visual differences between the Galaxy S III and Galaxy S4 were part of the reason why the latter didn’t sell as well as expected.
Lee also mentions that the company is looking at implementing iris/retina scanning technology for its next flagship, lending credence to the plethora of rumors that have been swirling around in the last few months. “Many people are fanatical about iris recognition technology and we are studying the possibility,” said Lee; his words suggest that even if the Galaxy S5 doesn’t sport the iris scan feature, at least the Galaxy Note 4 could do so when it launches later this year.
The Galaxy S5 is expected to sport a QHD (2,560×1,440) 2K display, a Snapdragon 800 processor/64-bit Exynos processor, 3GB/4GB of RAM, 16-megapixel camera, and Android 4.4 KitKat. It is also expected to be the first Samsung flagship to have a metal construction, at least on one of its variants.
Source:
http://www.sammobile.com/2014/01/09/samsung-planning-april-release-for-galaxy-s5-considering-iris-scan-technology/
huh
I don't know how keen i am about retina scans for your phone. I have had eye surgery and really dislike the idea of stuff messing with my eyeballs.
I mean at one point you gotta ask yourself " how much security is to much?". I will stick with a pin number. Finger print scans, iris/retina, God only knows what is next?
Samsung Galaxy S5 model numbers confirmed: Report
http://www.sammobile.com/2014/01/29/all-model-numbers-sm-g900-galaxy-s5-confirmed/
In related news, the model numbers of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone have been confirmed. Shared by SamMobile today, the various Galaxy S5 version will be known SM-G900(X), where the ‘X’ will change depending on the region or variant of device.
Here are the full model numbers:
SM-G9006V_CHN_CHN (China)
SM-G9008V_CHN_ZM (China)
SM-G9009D_CHN_CTC (China)
SM-G900A_NA_ATT (AT&T)
SM-G900D_JPN_DCM (Japan)
SM-G900F_EUR_XX (Open Europe)
SM-G900H_EUR_XX (Open Europe)
SM-G900I_SEA_XSA (Asia)
SM-G900J_JPN_KDI (Japan)
SM-G900K_KOR_KTC (Korea)
SM-G900M_LA_VF (Vodafone)
SM-G900P_NA_SPR (Sprint)
SM-G900R4_NA_USC (US Cellular)
SM-G900S_KOR_SKC (Korea)
SM-G900T_NA_TMB (T-Mobile)
SM-G900V_NA_VZW (Verizon)
SM-G900W8_NA_BMC (BMC)
I heard somewhere that Samsung gonna release it in Barcelona on 23rd February
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So much for that retina scanner talk. Galaxy S5 was a disappointment. Good but still a disappointment.
Hi All:
If they deal with me as fear as they deal with Galaxy S6 / 6 Edge owners I wouldn't complain and I will wait patiently for the update to come, where Galaxy S6 / 6 Edge are getting nearly weekly updates and issue fix and nothing for other smartphones.
the problem for the Note 4 updates that they have to wait double time to make it compatible with the Gear VR !!!!!!
So Samsung think it is not a problem to let the majority of the Note 4 owners angry with Software full of bugs, to satisfy the few Gear VR kids.
I believe that we should push Samsung to change that miserable update policy and not to link Note 4 updates to Gear VR or anything else.
Samsung should deal with smartphones updates in equal way, they should understand that if I bought a Samsung device that will not be the end of the story and they can put me on hold as much as they wish.
Samsung should hear the voice of the people, and they should know the number of unsatisfied owners of Samsung smartphones (Note 4, Note 3 & Galaxy S5.....ect.
I think the way to go is by using social media , twitter & Facebook pages in different languages, to let Samsung & the future customers for Samsung to know that we are facing issues with Samsung software update policy, where they ignore their smartphone software after short time
one-option said:
Hi All:
If they deal with me as fear as they deal with Galaxy S6 / 6 Edge owners I wouldn't complain and I will wait patiently for the update to come, where Galaxy S6 / 6 Edge are getting nearly weekly updates and issue fix and nothing for other smartphones.
the problem for the Note 4 updates that they have to wait double time to make it compatible with the Gear VR !!!!!!
So Samsung think it is not a problem to let the majority of the Note 4 owners angry with Software full of bugs, to satisfy the few Gear VR kids.
I believe that we should push Samsung to change that miserable update policy and not to link Note 4 updates to Gear VR or anything else.
Samsung should deal with smartphones updates in equal way, they should understand that if I bought a Samsung device that will not be the end of the story and they can put me on hold as much as they wish.
Samsung should hear the voice of the people, and they should know the number of unsatisfied owners of Samsung smartphones (Note 4, Note 3 & Galaxy S5.....ect.
I think the way to go is by using social media , twitter & Facebook pages in different languages, to let Samsung & the future customers for Samsung to know that we are facing issues with Samsung software update policy, where they ignore their smartphone software after short time
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Samsung doesn't really care about their customers...besides there aren't many people like us on XDA where we wait for the latest and greatest update.I wish they changed over these past years but they didn't.
Posting on social media won't make one single bit of difference they will not update the phone any quicker than they do now, one of the main reasons it takes longer to update the Note 4 is because there is alot more stuff within Touchwiz on the Note series than there is on the S series this takes longer to test and debug before they release it to the public unfortunately.
The S6 is brand new and with it being brand new it came with alot of critical bugs that need to be fixed asap, hence why your seeing more updates for the S6.
The Note 4 will get the updates it still a flagship you just have to be patient, if your not happy with Lollipop then switch back to Kitkat which was alot more stable and bug free than Lollipop currently is until the time comes they release 5.1 or 5.1.1.
For those who ever wondered if Galaxy S6 Active (updated to android 5.1.1) supports MST technology for Samsung Pay the answer is YES! (thanks God).
Yesterday Samsung announced support for Chase cards so I went ahead and added them to Samsung Pay app . While playing with it I got to the payment screen and heard some high pitch noise in the back of the phone. That was MST transmitter!
I ran the sensor test mode (*#0*#) under MST option if you press on you can here same noise.
Well today I've tested on my own at a local coffee shop and it works just like regular S6 or S6E.
Go ahead and try it yourself. Notice you need to be updated to latest firmware 5.1.1.
I'm even more happy I bought this phone. Love my G6A.
Hey everyone,
After many years without a Samsung (my last one was s3) I had a few questions on the move.
Is there an easy way to clone my Huawei phone (P30 Pro) to the newly coming Samsung (S21 Ultra)? - I know that there are clone applications for each company but its a move between them..
I'm using Lastpass as a password manager, and on Huawei theres an annoying bug that Accessibility Service and Draw Over Apps permissions just gets turned off occasionally, is that a thing in Samsung phones as well?
What are your suggestions for the first time using the phone, full charge? use out of the box?
Is there G-Cam for Exynos version?
Is rooting still a thing on Samsung devices?
Thanks alot!
CosTuMe said:
Hey everyone,
After many years without a Samsung (my last one was s3) I had a few questions on the move.
Is there an easy way to clone my Huawei phone (P30 Pro) to the newly coming Samsung (S21 Ultra)? - I know that there are clone applications for each company but its a move between them..
I'm using Lastpass as a password manager, and on Huawei theres an annoying bug that Accessibility Service and Draw Over Apps permissions just gets turned off occasionally, is that a thing in Samsung phones as well?
What are your suggestions for the first time using the phone, full charge? use out of the box?
Is there G-Cam for Exynos version?
Is rooting still a thing on Samsung devices?
Thanks alot!
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1. Samsung devices will prompt you to migrate your phone's content with Smart Switch. It's pretty decent, it mimics what Huawei does with Phone Clone.
2. I have the same issue on my P30 Pro, no idea with that one.
3. It doesn't really matter, modern batteries don't have the same issue with "battery memory" or whatever it was called that plagued early cellphones. It would still be preferable to keep it between 20%-80% most of the time.
4. Probably not yet, but no clue about that.
5. Yes, however I know some phones lose some camera optimizations when rooted so that's something to look into.