Blocking mode on Verizon s4 - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

So i was messing around with an NFC tag and I programmed it to active the blocking mode, pretty much just to see what would happen. And to my surprise, it did indeed activate. Perhaps Verizon didn't delete it and maybe just made it inaccessible?
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What do you guys think, was this a good find?
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awesome
GunbladeGriever said:
So i was messing around with an NFC tag and I programmed it to active the blocking mode, pretty much just to see what would happen. And to my surprise, it did indeed activate. Perhaps Verizon didn't delete it and maybe just made it inaccessible?
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What do you guys think, was this a good find?
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How did you do this? And of course this is great!

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warchyld77 said:
How did you do this? And of course this is great!
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well, i programmed an NFC tag to activate it. The app is called "NFC Tag Launcher" (Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jwsoft.nfcactionlauncher&hl=en) and in there i created a task that would activate it. It was surprising that it worked, and kind of exciting.
EDIT: Would you like to see some screen shots? .. i think im being pretty vague with this exciting discovery

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Is that the blocking mode for when you want to sleep and stuff so that the notifications dont go off?
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dangerousjenny said:
Is that the blocking mode for when you want to sleep and stuff so that the notifications dont go off?
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Yeah, that's the one.
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GunbladeGriever said:
So i was messing around with an NFC tag and I programmed it to active the blocking mode, pretty much just to see what would happen. And to my surprise, it did indeed activate. Perhaps Verizon didn't delete it and maybe just made it inaccessible?
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What do you guys think, was this a good find?
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Nice find, I need to test this when I get home. I would like some screenshots or at least how you set the profile up if its not too much trouble.

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Several of the custom ROMs already have this built in, plus a whole lot more

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pyro6128 said:
Nice find, I need to test this when I get home. I would like some screenshots or at least how you set the profile up if its not too much trouble.
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Alright, I'll get on that once I get home
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jawiler said:
Several of the custom ROMs already have this built in, plus a whole lot more
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Yes, but the ability to have a custom rom is a luxury some of us do not have thanks to the update that was pushed out
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GunbladeGriever said:
Yes, but the ability to have a custom rom is a luxury some of us do not have thanks to the update that was pushed out
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Or for other reasons like security issues for work.

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GunbladeGriever said:
Yes, but the ability to have a custom rom is a luxury some of us do not have thanks to the update that was pushed out
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From what I've heard you can now use safestrap to install custom ROMs if you're on ME7. There are a lot of people using Hyperdrive that have taken the update. But it's cool that NFC will bring up blocking mode, if you don't want to go that route :good:

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chamberc said:
Or for other reasons like security issues for work.
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What do you mean?
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GunbladeGriever said:
What do you mean?
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If I wish to access my company's assets from my personal phone, I must abide by my employers rules about that access. That includes not having root or using custom ROM's on Android devices.
This is enforced both by employment policy and systemic policy. This is very common with fortune 100 companies and government work.

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Oh cool. I'll have to look at that.
Not everyone wants to install custom roms. Its nice to have a way to use something that should be easy access on the phone the qay samsung intended but for some reason verizon thinks we shouldn't. If it werent for the great service . . . .
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Thank you! Good Find
Great info! Good job man, I can't wait to try it!

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What setting in the app did you use to launch the program, I can't find blocking mode.