[Q] NFC; let's make it clear! - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I just got this new SIII. Amazing phone. Just a pity that the back cover scratches so easily. But let's go back to my question. I started playing with NFC and it can easily read my NFC cards but it can't write. Someone can confirm this? Is there a way to write on the NFC cards?
Thanks

All about NFC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544570&highlight=nfc
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1359057
http://www.nfcworld.com/nfc-phones-list/
http://www.google.com/wallet/
http://www.nfc-forum.org/home/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88onblp44lU (by the way nokia c7 and 701 are really nice phones)

download "liveware manager" and "xperia SmartTags" apps from playstore - i use these on both XPS and SGS3 - can read and write functions on both

nfc task launcher app works for me

Nfc Tag Reader / Writer from the Play Store works fine for me

Just received my tags this week. Can read & write tags using my GS3
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Then I guess is a problem of my tag that it's not formatted. Any idea on how to format it to use with gs3?
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Use NFC Task Launcher......it formats as it writes the info for my tags.
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It also doesn't work with the tags I have. I think they're kinda protected.
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I'll wait to receive a classic 4k and try with it.
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Yeah you'll need to make sure that your tags have the factory Access codes on the secoter you are using (Mifare) (FF's) to be able to write. Most new tags come this way. NFC and NDEF require that they be FF or 00's, as NEDF has no inherent security built into it.
You can make the tag read only by changing these access codes.
NXP (Oweners of Mifare Tags design) have two app on the market, NXP writer can read and write NDEF, very good App. It also tells you details of the Tag Specification.
Just ordered my Blue SGS3 Can't wait...now to sell my SGS 1.
Logicalstep

So will these rfid tags work with the s3?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/5PCS-Pro...?pt=AU_Security_Equipment&hash=item2eb8030ce4

No, they are 125 Khz, you need 13.56 Mhz.
Go for Mifare Classic, Unltralight. NTAG203 is the newest from XP and is apparently the best for NFC, but who knows..
Have a look at this page:
http://rapidnfc.com/which_nfc_chip
Hope this helps.
Logicalstep

Works with a new Mifare Classic
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[Q] NFC Tags

does NFC tags work with galaxy s 3
i live in india can anyone tell me where i can bu nfc tags that are compatible with s3
Yes they do. I've been using Mifare NFC tags with the Samsung Tectile app.
fast1fred said:
Yes they do. I've been using Mifare NFC tags with the Samsung Tectile app.
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i am not able to use it
is there any app for samsung like lg does: the "lg tag"
Is there a way to get the Samsung TecTile App if one is not from US?
The store shows the app, but as a German user (or a non US Galaxy S3 owner) the appstore says it's not compatible with my mobile.
Actually I ordered some TecTiles from the US but now it seems I won't be able to use them - at least not with the Samsung App.
NFC and phone covers
How well does NFC work if you have any sort of Phone cover on? I was thinking about getting a Ringke Slim Lite for my pre-ordered Verizon Galaxy S3, but not sure if covers will cause any problems with NFC.
I would appreciate it if those already using NFC tags with their Galaxy S3 could chime in.
I know what a NFC tag is, but what could I use it for?
If been using nfc tags off eBay work fine go tag in case to turn on Bluetooth and can mode an jab one for home to turn off same and turn.on. Wi-Fi
They are superb
Samsung's tag program works with most
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ThunderWolf78 said:
I know what a NFC tag is, but what could I use it for?
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They can be used to exchange business cards, switch profiles (if you have CyanogenMod9 ROM, which supports profiles), or just toggle various phone settings on/off, launch applications or make payments using Google wallet.
Search for "pocketnow nfc android" on YouTube. They have a 2 part video demonstrating some cool stuff you can do with NFC & your Android.
Thanks
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Samsungtectiles.apk for anyone that wants it.
http://db.tt/3RkpNELy
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nodstuff said:
Samsungtectiles.apk for anyone that wants it.
http://db.tt/3RkpNELy
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Thanks! It's working on my S3.
nearyoutech.com - Provides NFC Tags, Smart Posters & NFC Solutions
Dear Member,
NearYou Technology & Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a Near Field Communication (NFC) and Quick Response (QR) Code technology based company. NFC is an upcoming wireless technology for Smartphones, Tablets & more. We supply good range of NFC tags, NFC solutions and ready-to-go Smart Posters in Indian market. We offer embedding of NFC tags and QR code encoding, testing, hosting service, printing, Hi-Tech marketing solutions and branding services.
Thanks
Have a look in my sig for ideas to use with your NFC tags or tectiles
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In this forum you could find an realy nice app made by one of our bellowed devs thas allow you to use tags without problems. It is able to read any tag (even and used one) to triger actions on the device.
My phone is away now and I can't check name but I think is NFC Anytag or something like that...

[Q] Near Field Communications Chip

This is the first phone that I and probably a lot of people have owned with the NFC chip. I have been digging around on the phone and reading about it on the internet but I still have some unanswered questions. I know it takes two chips to tango so there may not be much information or many users with experience with the technology out there, but any info would be appreciated.
1. What native capabilities/apps does the DNA have to utilize this chip? - Found the setting for it under settings>more
2. What apps on the Google Play store are good to use for this?
3. Any tips/tricks/interesting uses people have found for it?
4. Any other pertinent information.
bsSkunkApe said:
This is the first phone that I and probably a lot of people have owned with the NFC chip. I have been digging around on the phone and reading about it on the internet but I still have some unanswered questions. I know it takes two chips to tango so there may not be much information or many users with experience with the technology out there, but any info would be appreciated.
1. What native capabilities/apps does the DNA have to utilize this chip? - Found the setting for it under settings>more
2. What apps on the Google Play store are good to use for this?
3. Any tips/tricks/interesting uses people have found for it?
4. Any other pertinent information.
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1. Transferring pictures, videos, music
2. Google Wallet
3. Showing it to people with an iPhone
4. No
Sent from my Droid DNA. 1080p never looked so sweet
Some people on the Galaxy Nexus forum started writing their own NFC tags. My friend fooled around with it, and made some tags that opened things like Facebook and Gmail when scanned.
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Take a look at the app nfc task launcher. You can buy some nfc tags and program them to automate all sorts of tasks and activities on your phone.
There are a few other nfc apps to play around with.
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jasoraso said:
Take a look at the app nfc task launcher. You can buy some nfc tags and program them to automate all sorts of tasks and activities on your phone.
There are a few other nfc apps to play around with.
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I will, sounds like something fun to do in my free time.
Where is a good place or who is a good manufacturer for these tags?
Edit: Found a link on how to program your tags: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57370478-285/how-to-program-an-nfc-tag-with-your-android-device/
There are a lot of useful/cool things you can do with NFC Tags. Most revolve around automation.
On my website, I keep a list of the NFC Apps that I find work the best and are most useful (there are a ton of nfc apps on google play, but many of them are useless or just not built well). Here's the link to that list: http://www.andytags.com/nfc-apps.html
On other pages, I have list of ideas of things you can do as well as some videos demoing some of the apps/uses. If you use Tasker, then the possibilities are endless since Tasker can do almost anything. But even without tasker many of the apps will do the things you'd want to do most.
hollywoodfrodo said:
There are a lot of useful/cool things you can do with NFC Tags. Most revolve around automation.
On my website, I keep a list of the NFC Apps that I find work the best and are most useful (there are a ton of nfc apps on google play, but many of them are useless or just not built well). Here's the link to that list: http://www.andytags.com/nfc-apps.html
On other pages, I have list of ideas of things you can do as well as some videos demoing some of the apps/uses. If you use Tasker, then the possibilities are endless since Tasker can do almost anything. But even without tasker many of the apps will do the things you'd want to do most.
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Tasker looks amazing.. has anyone tried it on their DNA? Some people were mentioning compability issues so I just wanted to see if anyone here had any experience with it.
For those of you who are interested, here's the app we're talking about: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm
I finally bought some Mifare 4k NFC tags and tried some stuff with NFC Task launcher from the app store. I programmed one to open Pandora that I can scan when I get in my truck and another to toggle airplane mode for my building at work. I haven't gotten a lot of use it of them though because they are a little problematic to scan. Sometimes it takes several seconds. I can just unlock my phone and start an app in that amount of time. Not sure if it's the tags, the chip in the phone, or both.
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I use them to program my business card into my customers phones.
Posted from my Verizon Employee Edition DROID DNA #01749.
xShin said:
Tasker looks amazing.. has anyone tried it on their DNA? Some people were mentioning compability issues so I just wanted to see if anyone here had any experience with it.
For those of you who are interested, here's the app we're talking about: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm
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Tasker works fine for me, I have it set up to detect when my phone is wireless charging.

NFC Tag Writing

Is there an app out there that we can write/config NFC tgas to launch apps, wifi, Bluetooth etc?
I wouldn't mind getting some and putting them around the house & car!
zok-star said:
Is there an app out there that we can write/config NFC tgas to launch apps, wifi, Bluetooth etc?
I wouldn't mind getting some and putting them around the house & car!
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I've used NFC Interactor to write tags, I think it's a dollar or two. Just so you know apparently there is a windows phone limitation where it can't format tags. In my case I had to use a friends android tablet for that. I don't think there is a way to toggle wifi/bluetooth at the moment and it might not be possible with the SDK. But you can definitely start apps or phone settings if you find the GUID for it.
Goatmaster said:
I've used NFC Interactor to write tags, I think it's a dollar or two. Just so you know apparently there is a windows phone limitation where it can't format tags. In my case I had to use a friends android tablet for that. I don't think there is a way to toggle wifi/bluetooth at the moment and it might not be possible with the SDK. But you can definitely start apps or phone settings if you find the GUID for it.
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that's a bit of a shame!
Found some useful links!
URI scheme listing
Reserved file and URI associations for Windows Phone 8
NFC tags, is there a good reliable place to get blank tags (no graphics on them) in Canada? I've been looking around on the net for the plastic ones but all I can find are paper ones or ones with company or product logos. Any recommendations are welcome.
NFC Publisher
Hi all
I've downloaded NFC Publisher but haven't tested it yet.
God bless
andrew-in-woking

[Q] NFC on the DNA

I'm new to using NFC and discovered that apparantly there are issues with transfering data between different platforms (android to windows) and sometimes even between different versions of Android. Has anyone come up with a way to transfer files between different platforms or does anyone have any tips and tricks to make the best use of NFC? I know NFC tags are probably the easiest answer, does anyone know of the best tags or where to buy them? Thanks!
hobie5 said:
I'm new to using NFC and discovered that apparantly there are issues with transfering data between different platforms (android to windows) and sometimes even between different versions of Android. Has anyone come up with a way to transfer files between different platforms or does anyone have any tips and tricks to make the best use of NFC? I know NFC tags are probably the easiest answer, does anyone know of the best tags or where to buy them? Thanks!
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Can you please explain what you mean by issues with transferring data? Like what kind of data? NFC is for like sending contacts to another phone by tapping them together. NFC tags are pretty cool you can program them to do all sorts of thing from enabling WIFI when you get home or disabling it when you leave. NFC isnt for sending files back and forth from phone to phone... as far as im concerned you cant use it from phone to PC.
Sorry not to be clear on that. I'm referring to transferring data such as pictures and videos between android and Windows phone 8. I've also read that some different droid phones have issues doing this as well.
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I'm also curious about NFC. I've never used it before and don't see any kind of app or settings regarding NFC in the menus. How does this stuff work?
It's actually easier to use than I thought. All i did was browse to a contact or webpage and then touch another NFC phone. Once you make contact you'll see your screen change at the top to say "touch to beam" just simply tap the screen to send. That assumes that you have NFC turned on in Settings > More. Also be sure to turn on the Check box for "android beam". My problem was that I thought we could transfer pictures and video from android to windows phone but apparently we can't do that yet, only android to android for that stuff.
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Ah, the Settings > More part is where I'd missed it. Thanks!
Yea its really simple android makes it super easy and all you gotta do is turn it on. Currently not too much is supported by it because it is a newer technology give it another year and more stuff will be using it
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Aldiko ebook reader - buggy on Note 10.1 2014

For those looking for an ebook reader and tending to use or even buy Aldiko, the following information might be of interest.
I purchased Aldiko and with change from Note 10.1 to Note 10.1 2014, pages with graphics were suddenly displayed as blank.
Some tests showed me finally, that Aldiko is yet not able to cope with the screen resolution of the Note 10.1 2014 (if run in split screen mode, the pages are displayed properly).
Unfortunately, although Aldiko knows about the problem since October and the reason since December, nothing happend. Instead support requests are simply closed without any comment, there is no answer or reaction from the support at all.
Presently, I cannot recommend Aldiko anymore. A pity as I paid for the software.
I use mantano and moored both work well and I can have books on my so card
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I have a subscription on the beam store where Aldiko offered the option to download purchased ebooks within the app.
That's why I purchased (and I wanted to support the developers as the app was good on my GT-N8000).
What about MoonReader?
I second moon reader, ive been using it for 6mons and it replaced everything else
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If you need something fast mupdf beats all competition. The UI is kind of clunky but when it comes to speed of rendering pdf it can't be beat.
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Cirno5 said:
What about MoonReader?
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I have MoonReader, what I missed is the direct integration of eBook stores (buying and downloading).
And what I do not understand is the fact that Aldiko knows about the problem but did not fix it and the app is still available for the Note 10.1 2014 in the app store.
I like the Mantano, the interface is nice and clean and it handles notes well other than the insistence of heavily branding exported note review sheets.
The biggest issue with Mantano is it's inability to handle pdf files. If you select text from a pdf and copy to another application or activate TTS it splits w or ds wi th l o ts of sp ace s, so it renders TTS and copy functions as useless. I wrote to Mantano as at £6.69 it's the most expensive single app I've bought, I had the following response:
" Thank you for your email. Yes we are aware of the issue that you report. It is caused by the software component (from Adobe) that we are using to parse the PDF. We are investigating fixes but we currently have nothing really satisfying. We don't let it be, we'll try to fix but it might take longer than we'd like..."
This is unacceptable as far as I'm concerned for a paid app, ezPDF can cope well with pdfs, but the interface is the equivalent of an ageing digital turd.
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akxak said:
I have MoonReader, what I missed is the direct integration of eBook stores (buying and downloading).
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It does support OPDS though. Depending on where you get your books it is supported
Cirno5 said:
It does support OPDS though. Depending on where you get your books it is supported
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Thanks for the hint... now I just need to get the part working after login (I am always sent to the web site instead of showing the content of the private section inside the app).
As Aldiko still just closes all support requests without answering, I contacted Google for a refund. And I got the refund.
So, as a result people should clearly thing before buying Aldiko with regard to the support policy and the behaviour in fixing bugs.
I like iReader Pro, has no problems with everything I throw at it (epub, prc, mob), works well.
It is free on the p[lay store and has no ads that I've seen. Liked it from Gingerbread over Aldiko...
Give it a shot... Price is right...
I used to use Moon reader, but now I tend to just upload my drm free books to google play and use the play book reader. It syncs, it reads to you (with ivona voice amy, it's tolerable) and it stays in your cloud library. And it has the smoothest 3d page turn animation. I usually end up buying a Kindle ebook, use calibre plug in to dedrm in windows then convert to epub then either upload to google play on the pc, or upload it later when accessing my calibre library with the calibre companion app.
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Try cool reader. Its not as fancy as others but it has more settings than any other reader. You can really adjust your reading environment. It also supports tts. I own the others but i usally use cool reader.
Woody
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Until they get it fixed you might try fbreader. Been using it for quite a while now without issue.
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The reader is meanwhile updated and fixed.

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