Wondering if this could be useful in getting Google Wallet working on our phones. They seem to have gotten it working on the Galaxy Nexus.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/28/google-wallet-unofficially-finessed-into-galaxy-nexus-complete/
http://android.modaco.com/topic/348718-galaxy-nexus-and-google-wallet/
As I understand it, our phone is missing some necessary libraries (fixable problem), and we don't have the correct keys to access the secure element, which is needed to use the NFC chip in card emulation mode (near-unfixable problem for the time being).
I'm actually surprised the GNex didn't have it stock from the get-go.
Basically, unless it's an officially supported AOSP device with an NFC chip, the odds are not good.
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Though I'm unsure of what uses an NFC would have with such a large device as the Jetstream, it would have been an interesting hardware spec to have added in, huh?
I read NFC tags all the time with my EVO LTE thanks to tagsfordroids. (get in and out of the car, and a separate tag for enabling gps and opening maps in the car(handsfree!))
What would be some uses for NFC with tablets?
I suppose the Nexus 7 tablet has it...?
I've read that the snapdragon 400 chip natively support GPS.
Is it possible to active it in a custom rom ?
doud1357 said:
I've read that the snapdragon 400 chip natively support GPS.
Is it possible to active it in a custom rom ?
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No, while the processor chip may have support for GPS, the watch does not have the required sensors needed to get a GPS lock and to feed data to the processor.
If the sensor was actually in the device? Certainly there would be a way to enable it with a custom ROM, but that still dictates that the sensor would need to be built into it.
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I've read that the snapdragon 400 chip natively support GPS.
Is it possible to active it in a custom rom ?
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It means it natively has support for a GPS, it doesn't mean it has one embedded within the Snapdragon 400 SoC.
How about a portable gps reciever it's small and you can take with you. I have a nexus 6 and a LG G not GPS when I go for a run I have to take my phone to track my run could there be a way to bluetooth a GPS reciever to work with G watch. Like the way some people use there tablets and GPS same Idea?
What about Wi-Fi?
Many sites I follow are currently suggesting that the smartwatches powered by the Snapdragon 400 might have built in Wi-Fi antennas. The LG G Watch has a Snapdragon 400 APQ8026 but this SoC doesn't seem to have it. Can anyone confirm this?
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Many sites I follow are currently suggesting that the smartwatches powered by the Snapdragon 400 might have built in Wi-Fi antennas. The LG G Watch has a Snapdragon 400 APQ8026 but this SoC doesn't seem to have it. Can anyone confirm this?
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When I looked at the teardown, the radio chipset is solely BT 4.0 :\ no wifi hardware in sight. However while the SoC supports it, without the hardware, that support is useless. Sorry to say
I read the watches have wifi but no antennas. Is it that they actually have the needed hardware but lack the circuitry for an antenna? Maybe a hardmod? Or no?
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I read the watches have wifi but no antennas. Is it that they actually have the needed hardware but lack the circuitry for an antenna? Maybe a hardmod? Or no?
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No. What you are reading is that they have the hardware to SUPPORT a wifi module (Some do actually only lack the antenna, however those will also lack drivers since the OEMs are not likely to make them). Not that there is one built into the SoC. As with the GPS above, even though your SoC supports something, doesn't mean it already has the hardware needed built into it.
@LittleLX: I actually attempted this and attempted to sideload a Bluetooth GPS receiver app to the watch, unfortunately because almost all of them use the Android ActionBar, it refused to start up. Android Wear is restricting applications to the swipe to dismiss action and forbidding the actionbar on versions of Android with Swipe to Dismiss on. That said, there is definitely room for this type of application to be developed for Android Wear, I had sideloaded CF.Lumen and ES File Manager, and while CF.Lumen doesn't open because of it's ActionBar, I had put together a tasker app factory app to attempt to play around and trigger (I had manually installed the CF.Lumen driver) it, it did show that it would work if I had been able to set up location services inside the app (choose the location for the automatic dimming..)
So Android Wear has potential to be a very powerful and extensible platform, developers just aren't interested in it yet it seems. We as a people seem to be stuck looking at a smartwatch as a watch rather than a wrist computer.
If I use a special NFC enabled microSD card with my RedNote 4, will it have NFC?
Will it help to install Cyanogenmod/Lineage OS?
Has anyone tried this?
Did not realize this phone would lack such a basic feature like NFC. I need NFC to get to work. Would hate to have to use my old Samsung Galaxy S3 for this and carry two phones around, like an idiot.
Regarding the SD card, I'm thinking of somethin like this: Professional-MicroSDHC-Hi-Speed-Lossless-Certified on amazon. (can't post link, as I'm a new user)
As the sd card ist installed in the sim card tray, maybe the NFC would be negatively affected by the aluminium?
I think it's not possible to get NFC on this device. Like you already said the aluminum body would interfere with the signal of NFC. To my knoledge there are no external NFC devices for OTG use. NFC enabled SD-Cards are additionally readable by NFC but dont act as NFC device for Android.
Side note: the Kernel of the Redmi Note 4 would need to support NFC wich it doesn't
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I think it's not possible to get NFC on this device. Like you already said the aluminum body would interfere with the signal of NFC. To my knoledge there are no external NFC devices for OTG use. NFC enabled SD-Cards are additionally readable by NFC but dont act as NFC device for Android.
Side note: the Kernel of the Redmi Note 4 would need to support NFC wich it doesn't
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Doesn't LineageOS/Cyanogenmod provide a better Kernel?
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Doesn't LineageOS/Cyanogenmod provide a better Kernel?
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Yes a custom ROM would supply it's own kernel but the developer of this ROM would probably not include NFC drivers because the device doesn't have NFC. You would need to build your own kernel for your device and aside from that you would still be in the need of an external NFC device.
NFC is kind of a hardware so phone won't be NFC enabled whatsoever.
is there any way to add NFC on the xiaomi redmi 5 plus?
I recently upgraded from Samsung galaxy s6 and I missed the NFC
is there anyway with soldering and mods to do something or not?
NFC is not a software feature that could just be enabled, rather a hardware dependent option that requires a nfc receiver and beamer at the back of device, generally present in the back battery cover
So if your device is nfc enabled i.e has a NFC chip then it can interact with other devices and read/write nfc tags etc , otherwise you're out of luck and there's nothing you can do
Nfc dead trend
Is there anything like NFC dongle or something that can be attached to my mobile that works exactly like nfc in mobile ?
I'm pretty sure this phone doesn't have NFC, since the people in China prefer QR Codes in apps like WeChat over Google Wallet.
Unless you want to do stuff with NFC tags or use it to pay without your credit card, it's not really that much of a loss.
Hi all, as we know the Tab7+5G has no NFC (Near Field Communication) hardware or software/firmware installed
by Samsung, while I know this is not a mobile phone it has everything else that a mobile phone can do, so
I don't understand why Samsung would leave off such a cheap production add on, maybe something to do
with their flat magnetic Keyboard/Cover installation to the back of S7 Tablet?
Anyway, for the expert members (I have looked around and googled) is there anyway I can
install an aftermarket removable NFC Dongle into USB C port and perhaps run an appropriate
App to activate so I can get working NFC on this S7 Tablet, or is it impossible or non-existent.
Thanks from this old guy, sorry to ask such a question but I cant find clear answers.
Yes, it's true, this tab lacks NFC. When I bought it, I just assumed that it had it, and was surprised that it doesn't.
It also doesn't have a proximity sensor, which is more important to me, but not a deal breaker.
Another thing that really ****ing peeves me is that you can't get the 256/500GB variant's if you also want LTE/5g. For some retarded reason, they restricted the carrier versions to 128gb only. Why can't I have 500GB AND 5g compatibility in the same tab? The WiFi only/carrier version's of the Tab S7+ are exactly the same size, there's no technical reason why the carrier versions can't have the larger sizes too.
Who are we lowly users to question the design decisions of Samsung?