[Q] Where is the S Beam feature? - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello there!
So I've just bought a Mini and was excited about the features, especially the NFC and S Beam.
According to specs, both are supported out of the box, but it seems like I'm missing something.
NFC is working with external apps (like bump) but not with built-ins like phonebook's contact sharing and Beam is completely missing - or it is just me not finding that in the settings.
So the question is, where can I find those?
Slight update: it seems that none of the apps available on play can use the phone's nfc.

adamess said:
Hello there!
So I've just bought a Mini and was excited about the features, especially the NFC and S Beam.
According to specs, both are supported out of the box, but it seems like I'm missing something.
NFC is working with external apps (like bump) but not with built-ins like phonebook's contact sharing and Beam is completely missing - or it is just me not finding that in the settings.
So the question is, where can I find those?
Slight update: it seems that none of the apps available on play can use the phone's nfc.
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The phone currently doesn't hace nfc.
Nfc chip is located on the battery.
Current releases of the device come with non nfc battery.
It might be possoble on the future to use nfc battery with compatible ROM on early versions of the device
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ppero196 said:
The phone currently doesn't hace nfc.
Nfc chip is located on the battery.
Current releases of the device come with non nfc battery.
It might be possoble on the future to use nfc battery with compatible ROM on early versions of the device
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It really is a shame... I always wanted to try those nfc tags.
They should have stated this clearly..
It's like they are giving half-functioning devices to the first customers for full price.
Thanks for your answer!

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Which custom ROMs support WiFi-Direct?

Hello everyone,
I am new to all these ROM's and cannot find a definitive answer to my question. I would like to know which custom ROM supports WiFi-Direct perfectly? I am creating an app that will use WiFi-Direct to share data and hence would like to know this, so when I can actually use the WiFi-Direct API in my code, it works the way it's supposed to. Please reply...Thanks in advance!
I had this issue. Trying to get my SGS1 to talk to my other SGS1. I finally found "PeerDeviceNet" in the Play Store. It actually works. You could try it, there's a free version to test with. I bought it, 'cause it works!
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HotrodHarry said:
I had this issue. Trying to get my SGS1 to talk to my other SGS1. I finally found "PeerDeviceNet" in the Play Store. It actually works. You could try it, there's a free version to test with. I bought it, 'cause it works!
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You don't get it, the objective here is to not just use a third party app, this is my original app. Secondly, I am looking for native support for WiFi-Direct so I can use the API for android developers for WiFi-Direct, and use all the methods from it to connect and share data.
If you would want to really see if your current ROM supports WiFi Direct than download this and see if it shows your own device under "My device"...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.wifidirect&hl=en
Anybody else?
Anybody else can tell me which ROM/ROMs support WiFi-Direct natively?
To test, try this app and see if it recognizes your phone and is able to connect to another device...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.wifidirect&hl=en
Oops , I did misunderstand.
I tried to install WiFi Direct, but the Play Store gave me this.
This app is incompatible with all of your devices.
Samsung GT-I9000 (last used April, 2013)
This item cannot be installed in your device's country.
I've never come across this error.
Looks like I can't help. Sorry.
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HotrodHarry said:
Oops , I did misunderstand.
I tried to install WiFi Direct, but the Play Store gave me this.
This app is incompatible with all of your devices.
Samsung GT-I9000 (last used April, 2013)
This item cannot be installed in your device's country.
I've never come across this error.
Looks like I can't help. Sorry.
Sent from my GT-I9000
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download:- blackmart store
you can download all apps
lucky88shp said:
Hello everyone,
I am new to all these ROM's and cannot find a definitive answer to my question. I would like to know which custom ROM supports WiFi-Direct perfectly? I am creating an app that will use WiFi-Direct to share data and hence would like to know this, so when I can actually use the WiFi-Direct API in my code, it works the way it's supposed to. Please reply...Thanks in advance!
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Its a bit strange how neither stock roms nor custom roms seem to support Wifi Direct, considering that the SGS was apparently the first ever Android phone to be Wifi-Direct certified (or something like that).
I'm sorry but I don't have an answer to your question, I haven't found any roms that natively support it... I don't think any roms so far can for the I9000...
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Voice activation

The Snapdragon 800 has on Chip Voice activation, how I can active it?
I was saw a Video on the Qualcomms Website the people call: Hey Snapdragon and the phone turn on and say Hello Master?
Sony deactivate the function on the Software or I make some wrong?
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Nice Option, I never know something like that it's possible with Z1. I am curious too if we can get this option to work.
Here : http://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon/processors/800
Scroll down to Technology that listens you.
Tomorrow I will ask the Sony support.
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It's not implemented yet. Has nothing to do with Sony. It's a new feature in KK
jamespmi said:
It's not implemented yet. Has nothing to do with Sony. It's a new feature in KK
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What a shame. Are you sure?
eclyptos said:
What a shame. Are you sure?
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A shame? A pity maybe as no implemented before 4.4
Very sure. The first KK phone introducing it was N5 with the Google Experience Launcher.
There are apps simulating this, but as a system cheat I rather think a battery drainer...
jamespmi said:
A shame? A pity maybe as no implemented before 4.4
Very sure. The first KK phone introducing it was N5 with the Google Experience Launcher.
There are apps simulating this, but as a system cheat I rather think a battery drainer...
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Then is a software related? That mean we will get ti soon, maybe.
The Voice Activation is Hardware Features from S800.
It is exist on Chip but locked by Sony.
Look my link scroll down.
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Nemeziz 56th said:
The Voice Activation is Hardware Features from S800.
It is exist on Chip but locked by Sony.
Look my link scroll down.
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Ok, so the Chip have the ability to use that feature but is locked by Sony. I hope it will can be unlocked but I doubt.
Guys it's not Sony related. It's a feature introduced in KitKat. We are still on 4.3. Stop begging Sony for each and everything. Just njoy the rest of the beautiful device. There is a lot of stuff coming soon, step by step. Think about holding a device in hands witch will smoothly be able to handle all the features they introduce even in one year while other phones just give up due missing specs...
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This disinformation in this thread is amazing. Then is not locked but is System related and is implemented in KitKat, if so we will get that feature.
Update Google Search to 3.2.16.1006154 and the Experience Launcher to 0.10.1.920880 and you are in the game...
Probably you don't even need the Experience Launcher but I can't understand people not using it as the tight Google Now integration is just awesome...

Note 4 AOSP state

Just wondering how well does AOSP work so far for Note 4?
Do all features work without glitches? Are there still problems with Samsung not releasing drivers/documentation causing serious bugs and glitches? How is samsung-specific hardware (like S-Pen or fingerprint reader) functioning on AOSP builds?
I'm considering Note 4, but I want a phone with well working AOSP (for example Note 2 has a lot of issues, especially in Lollipop versions, presumably due to lack of Samsung's documentation).
Basic ly you lose all extra features with aosp
Crappy camera no pen. This is with all samsung phones
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I'm aware about loosing all fancy samsung S-Pen apps but how well does S-Pen work technically (does it support right-click via pen button for example? This feature got cut in Lollipop on N2 for some reason so I'm wondering if it works on N4).
matejdro said:
Just wondering how well does AOSP work so far for Note 2?
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You might want to ask this in the Note 2 section.
Racinghart91 said:
Basic ly you lose all extra features with aosp
Crappy camera no pen. This is with all samsung phones
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The camera is hardware........
If your talking about the Note 2 then probably. If your talking about the Note 4 then this is just more rubbish being posted to confuse people.
matejdro said:
I'm aware about loosing all fancy samsung S-Pen apps but how well does S-Pen work technically (does it support right-click via pen button for example? This feature got cut in Lollipop on N2 for some reason).
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Again two phone were mentioned and I have no idea which you are referring to. I'll assume Note 4 .
Everything works fine. Even camera and sPen. UHD recording works. Battery life is ok. You'll get around 12-18 hours of moderate usage. Of course you will loose TW features but you should already have known that. If you don't use action memo, S-health, S-whatever, KNOX or use the downsize app feature (Which nothing supports it anyways) then you will be fine.
EDIT: I forgot to mention. If you have another Samsung accessory like the Samsung Gear 2 then you don't want to use anything but TouchWiz. Samsung has locked out paying customers from using them on anything unless it is running BloatWiz, I mean TouchWiz.
Yeah I meant Note 4, I mistyped, sorry (edited my post above).
Thanks for the answer.
Also @airwa1kin7 does what you said apply to Kitkat roms or also to Lollipop ones?
matejdro said:
Yeah I meant Note 4, I mistyped, sorry (edited my post above).
Thanks for the answer.
Also @airwa1kin7 does what you said apply to Kitkat roms or also to Lollipop ones?
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Like KK AOSP?
Racinghart91 said:
Basic ly you lose all extra features with aosp
Crappy camera no pen. This is with all samsung phones
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S-pen works fine. FV-5 camera is great and UHD recording works fine. Currently the finger print sensor is not supported, but might be in future versions, most of the code is there already: Google pulled it at the last moment cause Apple bought the company but most was uploaded already, so it should be doalbe to support it.
Battery is the same as TW. ROM is stable, no crashes or weird bugs.
Anyway make sure you buy the snapdragon variant if you want AOSP: Exynos chipset is not yet supported and I'd say you'll see the Note 5 in the shops before the Note 4 Exynos AOSP is stable.
airwa1kin7 said:
Like KK AOSP?
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Yes.
matejdro said:
Yes.
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Haven't used a KK AOSP ROM yet. If i'm going to go through the painful process of using 4.4.4 I'll just use TW instead of AOSP. I've primarily just used LL AOSP ROMS.
gekkehenkie11 said:
S-pen works fine. FV-5 camera is great and UHD recording works fine. Currently the finger print sensor is not supported, but might be in future versions, most of the code is there already: Google pulled it at the last moment cause Apple bought the company but most was uploaded already, so it should be doalbe to support it.
Battery is the same as TW. ROM is stable, no crashes or weird bugs.
Anyway make sure you buy the snapdragon variant if you want AOSP.
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can you use air view/command/pointer action memos etc on aosp or just as stylus?
tmac31 said:
can you use air view/command/pointer action memos etc on aosp or just as stylus?
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Yeah. s-pen Air view/command just works as in TW. And you can link ejects of the s-pen to an action (like opening your favourite memo). However you can not select and copy/paste a part of the screen although it should be easy to write an app for it, maybe it even exists (it should just overlay the screen with your sketch and then copy/paste that area).
gekkehenkie11 said:
Yeah. s-pen Air view/command just works as in TW. And you can link ejects of the s-pen to an action (like opening your favourite memo). However you can not select and copy/paste a part of the screen although it should be easy to write an app for it, maybe it even exists (it should just overlay the screen with your sketch and then copy/paste that area).
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hmm maybe its possible to try on my 915f note edge too.
tmac31 said:
hmm maybe its possible to try on my 915f note edge too.
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Somebody was working on the edge. I remember some guy came into the IRC chat asking question about supporting the edge screen, I think it was a few weeks ago. Not sure if he succeeded though, als dont remember his name, sorry.
airwa1kin7 said:
Haven't used a KK AOSP ROM yet. If i'm going to go through the painful process of using 4.4.4 I'll just use TW instead of AOSP. I've primarily just used LL AOSP ROMS.
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Thanks. I assumed you used KK based on your signature but if everything already works on L, even better. I also don't care about KK if L works fine.
gekkehenkie11 said:
S-pen works fine. FV-5 camera is great and UHD recording works fine. Currently the finger print sensor is not supported, but might be in future versions, most of the code is there already: Google pulled it at the last moment cause Apple bought the company but most was uploaded already, so it should be doalbe to support it.
Battery is the same as TW. ROM is stable, no crashes or weird bugs.
Anyway make sure you buy the snapdragon variant if you want AOSP: Exynos chipset is not yet supported and I'd say you'll see the Note 5 in the shops before the Note 4 Exynos AOSP is stable.
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Is fv5 camera an app ? I really enjoyed your cm12 rom henkie. The only big problem for me was the camera quality.. so if there's a way that I could get the camera better I'm right back to your rom
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airwa1kin7 said:
You might want to ask this in the Note 2 section.
The camera is hardware........
If your talking about the Note 2 then probably. If your talking about the Note 4 then this is just more rubbish being posted to confuse people.
Again two phone were mentioned and I have no idea which you are referring to. I'll assume Note 4 .
Everything works fine. Even camera and sPen. UHD recording works. Battery life is ok. You'll get around 12-18 hours of moderate usage. Of course you will loose TW features but you should already have known that. If you don't use action memo, S-health, S-whatever, KNOX or use the downsize app feature (Which nothing supports it anyways) then you will be fine.
EDIT: I forgot to mention. If you have another Samsung accessory like the Samsung Gear 2 then you don't want to use anything but TouchWiz. Samsung has locked out paying customers from using them on anything unless it is running BloatWiz, I mean TouchWiz.
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And the camera drivers are software.
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Racinghart91 said:
Is fv5 camera an app ? I really enjoyed your cm12 rom henkie. The only big problem for me was the camera quality.. so if there's a way that I could get the camera better I'm right back to your rom
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There are several camera apps. The CM12 stock cam, the google cam, the FV-5 cam, open cam, snap cam, just to name a few. I don't like the CM12 stock cam too much neither but the FV-5 camera app is pretty good. It costs $3 though but those are $3 well spent in my opinion You don't need the Cm12 ROM to test them of course, they run on any android platform, so check them out, all available in the app store.
The Samsung cam app is indeed quite nice though, that's one of the few things Samsung actually did right
Racinghart91 said:
Is fv5 camera an app ? I really enjoyed your cm12 rom henkie. The only big problem for me was the camera quality.. so if there's a way that I could get the camera better I'm right back to your rom
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Oops. Auto correct on my phone. I meant the default AOSP camera app. It works fine for me. Even better then the TW app. Which is odd.
And the camera drivers are software.
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That I know. I was being silly.
I had CM12 on my note 4 for a couple of weeks, it wasn't stable enough for a daily driver really, some of the issues I had:
- Overheating, the phone gets hot, really hot, not just normal warming from charging or heavy use. On one occasion the phone smelt like burning electronics, i thought it was going to be dead.
- Camera is unstable, on first launch it was okay, subsequent launches gave an error of unable to connect to camera, only a reboot fixed it.
- Battery life is aweful, on echo i charge once a day on CM12 I had to charge 3 times a day.
- Random reboots, the phone would reboot then get stuck on the CM loading screen.
(I have the N910G,things maybe different on the N910F)
Yeah according to above replies N910F is considerably better than C edition (Apparently Exynos documentation still sucks way more than Qualcomm's?).
Thanks for the answer though, now I know N910G is completely off limits for me.
thelestat said:
I had CM12 on my note 4 for a couple of weeks, it wasn't stable enough for a daily driver really, some of the issues I had:
- Overheating, the phone gets hot, really hot, not just normal warming from charging or heavy use. On one occasion the phone smelt like burning electronics, i thought it was going to be dead.
- Camera is unstable, on first launch it was okay, subsequent launches gave an error of unable to connect to camera, only a reboot fixed it.
- Battery life is aweful, on echo i charge once a day on CM12 I had to charge 3 times a day.
- Random reboots, the phone would reboot then get stuck on the CM loading screen.
(I have the N910G,things maybe different on the N910F)
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Had the same problems with my Note 4 - N910F, lol..
I'm stuch with Touchwiz aswell at the moment

Remote control

Dear mates,
I intend to buy a new LG phones. I'm in hesitation between LG L90 and LG G3 Stylus.
I really care about their remote function.
I'm wondering if either works fine with a 3rd party remote control apps like Anymote?
and which model can "learn" from other IRR devices?
Please give me your advice.
Thanks a lot
L90 has only stock app for remote and IR is coded to cooperate with only this one app, sadly.
And IR does not work at all if you are wondering about changing stock to custom rom
wojtek267 said:
L90 has only stock app for remote and IR is coded to cooperate with only this one app, sadly.
And IR does not work at all if you are wondering about changing stock to custom rom
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Thanks for your info.
How about LG G3 Stylus? Is its IR coded as well?
jusendq said:
Thanks for your info.
How about LG G3 Stylus? Is its IR coded as well?
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I have no idea, I don't wanna lie, but that would be my guess. I think you will find such info in stylus' section on xda
wojtek267 said:
I have no idea, I don't wanna lie, but that would be my guess. I think you will find such info in stylus' section on xda
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Thanks again . Could you suggest the similar model with open IR blaster? I really need one which has dual SIM and an open IR blaster which is compatible with various IR apps.
jusendq said:
Thanks again . Could you suggest the similar model with open IR blaster? I really need one which has dual SIM and an open IR blaster which is compatible with various IR apps.
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I'd be happily suggest something, but my knowledge about phones is at complete minimum level, sorry
jusendq said:
Thanks again . Could you suggest the similar model with open IR blaster? I really need one which has dual SIM and an open IR blaster which is compatible with various IR apps.
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The galaxy s4 mini as ir blaster compatible with various apps remote, and they are dual sim model
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I bought seven of these l90 phones. Univision branded tmobile phones. The box is only thing with univision. It works with all tmobile sims. These retail around 99.00 on family mobile and were 229.00 at tmo last year. Im happy to have snagged mine for 30.00 usd each at my store. Lol. Time to root. My note 4 is getting a break. Lol
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Question Some questions before buying

I need a new phone with NFC and am considering Redmi Note 10 Pro. I need NFC because of a medical device (glucose sensor). Does NFC work well with custom ROMs? Can anyone check if the device is compatible with the LibreLink app (app for the sensor)? The app should be from Abbott but it may vary depending on the region. Lastly, if it is compatible can you try to install and open the app when I tried the app on Oneplus 6T it just crashed.
I'm using NFC for payments with google pay without problems on custom rom.
I was able to install mentioned app. However after launch it stuck in the something that look like splash screen. This was tested on PixelOS (A12) rom.
nv- said:
I'm using NFC for payments with google pay without problems on custom rom.
I was able to install mentioned app. However after launch it stuck in the something that look like splash screen. This was tested on PixelOS (A12) rom.
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Thanks for the help. It's greatly appreciated.
Berkelium said:
I need a new phone with NFC and am considering Redmi Note 10 Pro. I need NFC because of a medical device (glucose sensor). Does NFC work well with custom ROMs? Can anyone check if the device is compatible with the LibreLink app (app for the sensor)? The app should be from Abbott but it may vary depending on the region. Lastly, if it is compatible can you try to install and open the app when I tried the app on Oneplus 6T it just crashed.
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using NFC can you measure blood glucose? please explain this... i never heard...
sheikfahad said:
using NFC can you measure blood glucose? please explain this... i never heard...
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Not really the sensor, in my case Abbott's Freestyle Libre, measures blood glucose and transmits the data with NFC to the phone. They are called Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) and there are other companies that offers different CGMs. If you want to learn more about them you could search CGMs and if you or anyone close to you needs one of these you should talk with your endocrinologist.
Berkelium said:
Not really the sensor, in my case Abbott's Freestyle Libre, measures blood glucose and transmits the data with NFC to the phone. They are called Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) and there are other companies that offers different CGMs. If you want to learn more about them you could search CGMs and if you or anyone close to you needs one of these you should talk with your endocrinologist.
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okay... i got it bro...

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