Anyone else experienced problem with Google Pay after update?
It worked extremely well for me up until the update, then all of the sudden it doesn't work any more.
I checked the settings inside Google Pay, but all seems well. Card is registered and everything.
When holding my phone up to the terminal there is no reaction from the phone at all.
What can I do to fix this?
I have exactly the same, but with my normal banking app. It can also do payments via NFC, but when I hold it up to a terminal nothing happens like you said.
I'm now factory resetting my phone to see if that helps, I'll let you know!
Gfhoihoi72 said:
I have exactly the same, but with my normal banking app. It can also do payments via NFC, but when I hold it up to a terminal nothing happens like you said.
I'm now factory resetting my phone to see if that helps, I'll let you know!
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Thanks! Looking forward to your feedback if this works or not.
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Thanks! Looking forward to your feedback if this works or not.
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Nope... Unfortunately not. Maybe I'll just downgrade to Android 9 and wait until a new patch for Android 10 comes out where they fix this.
No problems here, working as before
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No problems here, working as before
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What firmware version are you on?
I've downgraded to Android 9.1 and the mobile payment is working perfectly again, so it's definitely an issue with Android 10. So if you really want to use it, you can downgrade for now. Otherwise just wait for the next Android update and hope that it gets fixed.
Same here in France, Google Pay says Phone moved too fast.
Can pay with one other bank's app, but not the other one's. (both Georgian banks)
They did warn in changelog that some banking apps are not working due to their compatibility issues with Android 10, though
giosal said:
Same here in France, Google Pay says Phone moved too fast.
Can pay with one other bank's app, but not the other one's. (both Georgian banks)
They did warn in changelog that some banking apps are not working due to their compatibility issues with Android 10, though
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True, that changed the way apps can use your IMEI and this was the way most banking apps verified your phone. But my banking app should be compatible with Android 10 and it is working for some people but not for others.
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What firmware version are you on?
I've downgraded to Android 9.1 and the mobile payment is working perfectly again, so it's definitely an issue with Android 10. So if you really want to use it, you can downgrade for now. Otherwise just wait for the next Android update and hope that it gets fixed.
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10.0.0.168. "normal" update. Not a member of the beta or anything, just normal OTA. Working exactly as on Android 9. Also tested/used with different cards/institutes in google pay. Working like a charm
Same problem here, Google Pay worked perfectly in 9.1. Now, with 10.0.0.173 there's no response when near terminal. No error messages anywhere. NFC works fine, e.g. ReadID to read the NFC chip in my passport.
The same here, but I have a mate 20 pro. After the update to Android 10 I can no longer pay with Google pay.
From Germany
Updated yesterday and works fine for me in UK
So i better stop an update i am asked to update to 173 and stay on my 168 It is working for sure on 168 for me. Used it quite often
I solved the problem on my P30 Pro. I was using a "twin SIM" card from Ice (service provider). When I switched sim cards to my main SIM, Google pay works as before. The twin SIM worked fine with Android 9. I think the problem is that the twin SIM does not have the real phone number, but some long code that the phone system somehow recognizes, but causes issues in some scenarios e.g. iMessage on iPhone which cannot verify it. That's why I had the twin SIM in my P30 Pro.
EDIT: The iMessage problem is caused by the fact that only the main SIM receives "class 0" or flash SMSs, used for iMessage's verification.
I'm having the issue with my UK region VOG-L29 that's running .173. I rarely use Google pay, so I'm not sure if it was working before the upgrade. Google Pay works fine on my Fossil Wear OS watch that's tethered to the phone. NFC also seems to work fine when connecting my camera to the phone.
Have also the problem of nfc payments (with gpay and postfinance app) not working after updating to Android 10. Full reset didn't help currently on version 10.0. 0.173 and still not working.
Huawei support doesn't know anything about this and said I should wait for app updates and/or emui update.not very helpful...
Uninstalling gpay and deleting the cards linked to it and setup everything from scratch didn't help either. Nfc hardware seems to work as I can trigger my bt connection with my nfc enabled headset.
Hopefully Huawei sorts this out quickly as it is very annoying since I used nfc payment almost every day on emui 9.1
Any solution for this problem? I also used the ohone to pay and the point is that it is a big inconvenience that there is no solution
Waiting for Huawei to fix the damn bug in their next update (hopefully). Downgrading or resetting and so on is a pain when the affected phone is your daily driver.
Been using GPay already multiple times with 10.0.173.
No problems here in germany.
Regards
Same here!
Updated yesterday to EMUI 10 and realized today that I could'nt pay at the terminal. Bad situation without credit cards
Seems like NFC does not work at all. When I try to read my credit cards with NFC Tools, there is no reaction from phone as before.
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Greetings,
I've recently switched over from the Samsung galaxy s3 to the m8. I have my phone rooted, but currently on the stock rom. I have Google wallet installed on my phone, and tried to us the tap and pay function at McDonalds. I was unable to get the NFC function to work. I know the store terminal works because I used my stock nexus 7 (not rooted) a few months ago to get some coffee there.
I had the same issue on my s3, but I was running cyanogenmod on the phone, and I thought that was the problem. Now I'm wondering if it's having root access. Anyone else having problems with tap to pay on their rooted phone?
Maybe the store terminal broke since... A few months cab do that try a different store
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I'm having the same issue. For me, the problem started when I switched from a Sprint-specific ROM to Viper ROM (intl base). After 2 minutes of bashing my phone against the terminal at McDonald's, it did finally work. But it is not working instantly like it used to, and it acts like nothing is happening. I know it's not McDonald's terminal because it happens at another McDonald's and Walgreens where previously it was working fine. Tapping my phone to another NFC phone works so NFC itself is working.
I don't really feel like going back to a different ROM over this, but it is annoying.
Only place I have has issues is one checkout lane at meijer. Felt like pretty stupid last night since I left my wallet at home. Cancelled my order, went to a different Lane and it worked fine. So for me at least it's not an issue with the phone
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I still cannot get tap and pay to work. The light on the NFC reader at walgreens will blink once when I tap it, but there is zero activity on the phone even though google wallet says "tap and pay ready". Doesn't work at McDonalds either. Friend can use his Note 3 just fine with google wallet in those locations so I know it's not the NFC reader.
I have tried RUU back to the latest stock ROM, no dice. I re-locked my bootloader and RUU'd back to the oldest available HK ROM and did all the OTAs, still same exact issue. I have not been restoring from backup either so my phone is basically 100% stock now non-rooted. The only difference is it's S-OFF, but I've been S-OFF since June and my tap and pay was working until early September so I don't think that's it. I can use NFC to share things with other phones so I know my NFC is fine.
I'm completely stumped.
I think the nfc antennas on this phone might be too weak, I have to get my phone JUST right to read nfc tags...
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I don't think that's the issue I'm having. I bought the phoen right when it came out, and I used NFC just fine at McDonalds and Walgreens without having to fiddle with it. It just worked. Now it doesn't work at all. I don't know what happened, the last time I was able to get it working was early September. Not sure if there was a wallet update or something that broke it. NFC communication to other phones still works fine though.
A few stores in my area have been working fine until recently. I was starting to think they were disabling the NFC on purpose. As it turns out, quite a few retailers really are purposely disabling the NFC portion of their credit cards terminals. Found an article about it yesterday.
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A few stores in my area have been working fine until recently. I was starting to think they were disabling the NFC on purpose. As it turns out, quite a few retailers really are purposely disabling the NFC portion of their credit cards terminals. Found an article about it yesterday.
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Yep, Best Buy and CVS are the big ones who have disabled it. However, Walgreens and McDonalds have not. They still accept NFC payments via Google Wallet, and it still works on my friend's Note 3 as of yesterday.
Just wanted to say I've had the same problem. It seems to work when it wants to. NFC itself works fine. I feel like it stopped working after the WiFi calling update... If someone's able to go to the previous update and test it would be awesome.
Figures if it affects Apple its all over the news.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/25/7069863/retailers-are-disabling-nfc-readers-to-shut-out-apple-pay
My wallet hasn't worked for me the past few times I've tried (at Walgreens and my work vending machine). I'm guessing it has something to do with my ROM (Viper) or a xposed mod I have running (though I don't have much and nothing related to Wallet directly).
After the 4.4.4 update and also removing all my cards from Wallet and re-adding them, tap-to-pay is working for me now.
kwolf said:
After the 4.4.4 update and also removing all my cards from Wallet and re-adding them, tap-to-pay is working for me now.
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I am on the 4.4.4 HK firmware but not on the 4.4.4 rom (still on Viper which hasn't updated yet). I removed my cards, wiped app data, uninstalled/reinstalled wallet, and then put my cards back in and still when I put my phone up to the reader wallet doesn't open. The error I get on one machine is "Unable to read card" and the reader just beeps on a different machine. I do have SuperCID on my phone in order to flash HK ROMs/Firmware. Don't think that should matter since I've had that on for months well before Wallet quit working.
I'll wait until Viper updates to 4.4.4 or if they take more than a few days I might try a different stock-ish rom.
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I am on the 4.4.4 HK firmware but not on the 4.4.4 rom (still on Viper which hasn't updated yet). I removed my cards, wiped app data, uninstalled/reinstalled wallet, and then put my cards back in and still when I put my phone up to the reader wallet doesn't open. The error I get on one machine is "Unable to read card" and the reader just beeps on a different machine. I do have SuperCID on my phone in order to flash HK ROMs/Firmware. Don't think that should matter since I've had that on for months well before Wallet quit working.
I'll wait until Viper updates to 4.4.4 or if they take more than a few days I might try a different stock-ish rom.
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Hmm, when I had the problem the card reader barely responded at all (a light blinked and that was it).
If you open the wallet app manually, does it do anything when you tap? Or is the phone acting like nothing is happening at all?
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Hmm, when I had the problem the card reader barely responded at all (a light blinked and that was it).
If you open the wallet app manually, does it do anything when you tap? Or is the phone acting like nothing is happening at all?
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Wallet doesn't react at all if I have it open or not when "tapping" my phone. I think the phone beeps too but can't remember now. I know my nfc works fine as I use a nfc tag every morning when I get to work to put it on silent.
My m8 does the same thing... I figured it was running Viper as well, but I just flashed the newest firmware and the stock rom... Same story. I hold my phone up to the NFC terminal, and the lights stop blinking on the terminal, but nothing happens on my phone. When I use my S4, the terminal beeps, my phone vibrates and it just works. I just tried deleting all my cards and trying again... No dice. I just went through a chat with HTC, and they're escalating the issue, who knows, maybe it's bad hardware. (I've never had NFC working)
Update: htc called to confirm my information and to say the turnaround time is 7-10 days. They mentioned that it's rarely a software problem if you're not getting an error. I'm not. I'm assuming that once they research some more, they'll just end up replacing my phone. We'll see.
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After upgrading Viper to 4.4.4, removing all cards, removing all old devices from here (https://wallet.google.com/manage/#devices:), uninstalling/installing wallet, and adding cards back in and it now works. I don't know which one of those fixed it as I did them all before trying.
Thanks henderjr! I tried everything you had posted there, but still didn't have any luck. (holy crap, I had a ton of devices listed... One for each ROM installed in the past few years.) Hope your information helps someone else get their device working!
Hello,
I'm using the latest Chinese ROM.
With the latest update 8.0.7.0, I can't use android pay anymore, instead is opening a window with "mi pay" asking me for my bank account Nr.
I've googled it, xiaomi introduced it 1.10, it's not working with my bank (Lloyd's UK).
Anyone got similar apparence??
Mr. Joop said:
Hello,
I'm using the latest Chinese ROM.
With the latest update 8.0.7.0, I can't use android pay anymore, instead is opening a window with "mi pay" asking me for my bank account Nr.
I've googled it, xiaomi introduced it 1.10, it's not working with my bank (Lloyd's UK).
Anyone got similar apparence??
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Any reason why you would be using the Chinese ROM and not the latest Global MIUI 8 Stable? http://en.miui.com/thread-341069-1-1.html
I'm running that and Android Pay is working just fine for me with First Direct.
Is there in the mid time an easier way to switch??
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Is there in the mid time an easier way to switch??
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Not sure I understand, do you mean a work around for staying on China ROM?
The install of the Global doesn't take long tbh, obviously setting back up may take a while, but at least then you know you should be getting updates which will not break things such as Android Pay
my pay and android pay doesnot work overseas
Can confirm this behavior on newest China stable. I would try uninstalling mipay with a root uninstaller. That may break Android pay but easy to fix.
Hi all,
I've had my LG Watch Sport since the beginning of the year and Android Pay worked fine in Android 7.x on this device. Since the update to Android 8 it is always disabled. I have manually re-enabled it and updated it which then it works for a short while, then it disables itself again.
I've used it fine and the bank I am with supports this, but it is starting to frustrate me that this function has now gone (well, not really, just have to re-enable the app every time I want to use it so not convenient) when I have gotten so used to it. I can use it on my phone fine.
The Android Wear version from the watch information is 2.7.0.1778645119 and there do not seem to be any other updates available at this time.
Someone on one of the Google threads has indicated that it is due to the region being locked on these devices - so if you are not in the US or UK, you cannot use Android Pay.
I am curious to know if you are experiencing this issue if you are located in the US or UK. There doesn't seem to be too much noise in the forums here about this, so I am guessing it is working fine for the US and UK folks where this is supported.
Also wondering if anyone knows how it determines its location - whether it is like the Microsoft Band 2 where you can set your phone up as US first, then change your time zone, etc to your location and keep using it, or if the new Android Wear and Android Pay do a GPS lookup on the watch before operating.
If this works fine for all our US and UK owners, maybe we can set the watch up thinking it is in a different location and see if it gets disabled? It would seem silly to have it disable once set up, as I would forsee travelling with this device and just being able to conveniently use this for both store cards and credit card without having to bring anything else.
I can not believe this, it do not want either.'
Any country that supports Android Pay the app should work
deswong said:
Hi all,
I've had my LG Watch Sport since the beginning of the year and Android Pay worked fine in Android 7.x on this device. Since the update to Android 8 it is always disabled. I have manually re-enabled it and updated it which then it works for a short while, then it disables itself again.
I've used it fine and the bank I am with supports this, but it is starting to frustrate me that this function has now gone (well, not really, just have to re-enable the app every time I want to use it so not convenient) when I have gotten so used to it. I can use it on my phone fine.
The Android Wear version from the watch information is 2.7.0.1778645119 and there do not seem to be any other updates available at this time.
Someone on one of the Google threads has indicated that it is due to the region being locked on these devices - so if you are not in the US or UK, you cannot use Android Pay.
I am curious to know if you are experiencing this issue if you are located in the US or UK. There doesn't seem to be too much noise in the forums here about this, so I am guessing it is working fine for the US and UK folks where this is supported.
Also wondering if anyone knows how it determines its location - whether it is like the Microsoft Band 2 where you can set your phone up as US first, then change your time zone, etc to your location and keep using it, or if the new Android Wear and Android Pay do a GPS lookup on the watch before operating.
If this works fine for all our US and UK owners, maybe we can set the watch up thinking it is in a different location and see if it gets disabled? It would seem silly to have it disable once set up, as I would forsee travelling with this device and just being able to conveniently use this for both store cards and credit card without having to bring anything else.
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I have the same issue. I have had LG Watch Urbane 2nd before and there had been Android Pay working well. Now I have to enable it after approx. 1 hour.
I've got the watch one week ago, there was Android 7.1.1. I had to join beta testing, then I got Oreo.
My country is suported by Oreo and also Android Pay is supported (Czech republic)
Has anybody an idea how to fix this? Very annoying.
Android Wear 2.7.0.178645119
Andtoid OS 8.0.0
Services 11.9.51
1st October 2017
Build OWR1.170919.023
I've got the watch one week ago, there was Android 7.1.1. I had to join beta testing, then I got Oreo.
Android Wear Beta did disable Android Pay.
This is why I refused to sign up for the beta program.
But I got final Oreo, not beta.
I live in Spain LG Watch Sport with Oreo, and I have the same issue[emoji852]️
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Seems like many people are seeing this, me I will refuse any update until I an sure Android Pay will work.
I purchased the watch because it has NFC and Android Pay support.
I live in Taiwan LG Watch Sport with Oreo, and I have the same issue️.
LG or Google should face & fix this problem.
It's a problem for all devices with Oreo, not only LG Watch Sport
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Do you mean all devices or only all wearables? Should I stop upgrading to Oreo on my phone?
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Do you mean all devices or only all wearables? Should I stop upgrading to Oreo on my phone?
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All wareables
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Lots of good info here.
Having read this and upgraded both my smartphone and my watch to Oreo 8, I tried Pay today. And it did work with both the LG watch sport and my Oneplus 5 (rooted). Suprisingly, the Pay on the smartphone now worked in a shop where I could not pay with smartphone/smartwatch before.
.....
Keep in mind only Non-Americans seem to have issues
How to make a downgrade - Android 7.1.1 Nougat, I really need Android Pay. Does anyone have a factory image?
AstroDigital said:
I can not believe this, it do not want either.'
Any country that supports Android Pay the app should work
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Android Pay on Android Wear supported only in US and UK
I'm Huawei Watch 2 user also probably soon affected by this. To work around this, I prepared a proxy app that takes only two more taps to enable and launch Android Pay. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android-wear/development/app-pay-enabler-android-pay-oreo-t3750815 Any thoughts/feedback?
Thank you. I appreciate it but we should pust to Google to enable it.
I tried the application and I like it.
One suggestion: is possible to check if Android Pay is enabled and if not, display the page for enabling, if yes, start AP? Then I could set hardware button to your application and it would start what is necessary.
EDIT: I checked source code and you alreadyd did it! Thanks, it works well!
moneytoo said:
I'm Huawei Watch 2 user also probably soon affected by this. To work around this, I prepared a proxy app that takes only two more taps to enable and launch Android Pay. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android-wear/development/app-pay-enabler-android-pay-oreo-t3750815 Any thoughts/feedback?
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Thank you~
Your app helps us a lot~ :good:
Hi,
Has anyone noticed that starting in late April, NFC based payments no longer work?! I wonder because other NFC usage works (e.g. Android Beam or simply reading various NFC tags or cards). I can't figure the exact date, but the last payment that I made with my phone was around 24 april, then it comes the april security update. And after 1 May I noticed that it simply don't work.
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net4u said:
Hi,
Has anyone noticed that starting in late April, NFC based payments no longer work?! I wonder because other NFC usage works (e.g. Android Beam or simply reading various NFC tags or cards). I can't figure the exact date, but the last payment that I made with my phone was around 24 april, then it comes the april security update. And after 1 May I noticed that it simply don't work.
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I also have the april security patch, but i could still do a payment yesterday with the NFC of the phone.
So no problem for me.
Yes, Google Pay stopped working for me in mid-April, *but* before I installed the April security patch so that wasn't the cause for me. I was hoping the April patch might fix it but no joy. I've been checking here to see if anyone else had the same problem but this is the first report I've seen.
It's very annoying as I'd got very used to using it... as you say other NFC things are fine.
I've done all the usual tricks of uninstalling, wiping caches, trying an earlier version (it seemed to stop working after the Google Pay update was installed that was released on the 15th, so I thought that might help), etc. etc. but no joy at all. It just doesn't trigger.
Same problem, suddenly NFC doesn't work anymore. Weird thing I discovered is that it might work at that moment when I press the power button to switch display off. ... Strange
Using Magisk with it? Rooted device?
Ah, ok, maybe i wasn't clear enough.
For me it still works, but i do NOT use Google Pay, i use the app from our bank for NFC payments.
I think that i have read some time ago about problems with Google Pay, so maybe that is the case.
I also found out some time ago, that i have to have the lockscreen on-screen, otherwise i cannot do a payment.
So unlocking the phone makes payments impossible and screen-off is also a no-go.
But i suppose you guys already knew that.
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Using Magisk with it? Rooted device?
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Nope, pure stock (apart from most evenwell apps disabled for this user).
EDIT: Two threads about it now on the Nokia forum at https://community.phones.nokia.com/categories/nokia-7-plus
Fixed by uninstalling Google Pay
Just an FYI, I had my NFC issue resolved by uninstalling Google Pay. May help someone else.
I did not use Google Pay (since is not available in my country), but two tap and pay apps from two banks where I have accounts. Both have updates in april, and one of them tryied to became forced my default one without asking explicitly. But as I say: other NFC functions works: I can beam, I can read tags or cards.
I didn't use Google Pay as well, however, it seemed to interfere with my banking app (couldn't pay anymore) and access to buildings.
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I didn't use Google Pay as well, however, it seemed to interfere with my banking app (couldn't pay anymore) and access to buildings.
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No, I mean since is not available in my country yet, I haven't it on my phone.
....and fixed in the latest version of Google Pay, released last week
It may be related to this: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-2041 ?
I updated from 12.0.2 to 12.0.3 of MIUI recently and I now cannot pay by NFC with my banking app. My banking app doesn't use Google Pay and I don't have or want Google Pay so I can't try that.
I have checked that "Use HCE" wallet is set. Is there anythign I can do to get things working again?
Does no one have any suggestions on this at all?
@ludditefornow can you elaborate a bit what do you mean by "cannot pay by NFC" - what exactly happens when you place your phone near the terminal: is there any reaction (message) from the banking app or no reaction at all? Did you try to pay with the banking app open? Did you try disabling and re-enabling contactless payments in your banking app? In MIUI settings just below the option where you select "Use HCE" there's another option to select application for contactless payments - maybe the upgrade reset it to "Google Pay"?
I also have MIUI Global 12.0.3 (upgraded from 11.something) but didn't try paying by phone yet.
Thanks for the response. I have always paid with the banking app open. And have never had an issue.
Since 12.0.30 I have had two reactions from the 'pay wave' NFC payment terminals. Either they state that they can't read and throw up an error. or simply do nothing.
I have tried to disable and reenable contactless payments and no difference.
I have confirmed that Google Pay is not the default and that my banking app is. I have also confirmed that my banking app has NFC permissions.
I really have no idea. But I appreciate your reply.
For me (Global version) it's still working fine.
Never used my phone for contactless payments, so can't give specific advice, but a couple of simple questions to help troubleshoot.
Does NFC work at all? Can you communicate with other phones, e.g. can you send a photo to another phone using Nearby Share (or whatever name NFC sharing might be called on MIUI, if it's not the same)
How did you update MIUI? OTA or manually? If manually, did you flash the correct ROM? Because Indian MIUI versions don't have NFC functionality, as the physical device is missing on Indian phones.
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Never used my phone for contactless payments, so can't give specific advice, but a couple of simple questions to help troubleshoot.
Does NFC work at all? Can you communicate with other phones, e.g. can you send a photo to another phone using Nearby Share (or whatever name NFC sharing might be called on MIUI, if it's not the same)
How did you update MIUI? OTA or manually? If manually, did you flash the correct ROM? Because Indian MIUI versions don't have NFC functionality, as the physical device is missing on Indian phones.
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three different NFC checking apps return positive to NFC and HCE. There is no Android Beam and as far as I recall there never has been.
Updates always OTA. And the current ROM is global as is my phone.
I've completely uninstalled the app and reinstalled it and then added the card again. I will check it today and see the result.
Thanks for the assistance all.
Yesterday I paid successfully with my phone (as I mentioned - MIUI Global 12.0.3 upgraded from 11.something).
Interesting outcome (for me anyway).
After removing the credit card from the app and then deleting the app, I then reinstalled the app and added the card. This led to the NFC HCE function again working.
Another symptom that appeared at the same time on the update was that I could turn on airplane mode at the icon on the pull down draw on the home screen. I couldn't turn off the airplane mode in the same way. To turn off airplane mode I needed to do so with the slider in settings.
After HCE function started working again, my airplane mode on / off functionality came back as well.
I am just writing this here in case someone at sometime gets something similar and may have another option to try to repair it.