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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evangelion01:
First of all, Google have full control of the NFC secure element in Nexus devices. This means that any company that wants to build an application that requires high security or the card emulation feature must beg Google for access. But Google are the good guys, right? Maybe not. Kaching wanted to build a NFC wallet for Android, but they say they've been given the cold shoulder by Google. Source here. How convenient that a potential competitor to Google Wallet is denied access, aye?

A related note is that card emulation is not possible for consumers in Android's current state. Let me give you an example of how card emulation would be useful in your everyday life: in your office or school you probably have NFC door access, and perhaps NFC printing and food payments. Many of these systems simply read the unique ID of the card and then associate that card ID with your account on the system. BlackBerry users have card emulation, meaning that they can use their phones with existing infrastructure. I've experienced this myself - my friend's BlackBerry can now be used to pay for his food and to gain entry to the building. Google have disabled this in Android - my Nexus spits out a random ID each time it's placed on the reader. If Google simply provided an application that allowed us to emulate one card at will, this would not be a problem. But they don't.

NFC could soon become a must-have feature on every phone. It certainly has the potential. However, the restrictions that Google have placed on NFC in Android will make gaining popularity very difficult.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
My question to you is, how is Nokia progressing with NFC in the development department? RIM?

Secure Element isn't something to be opened to every developer, because it totally undermines it's purpose if everyone has access to it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fifarunnerr:
I guess you don't fully understand the reason why Google disabled the card emulation.

As you said, some places use an NFC card for payments. Imagine someone that creates an app that emulates the card. But instead of the 10$ you've got on your card, the app tells that you've got $150 dollar on the card.

So, how can a school use NFC in a phone for payment? Simple, create a new NFC system with a secured(!) app, which transfers the data by NFC. Just like Google Wallet does. Google Wallet doesn't emulate an NFC card, it just transfers data though NFC and the receiver knows how to handle that data.

So, there are two things that need to be done:

- Create a new system that communicates with the device, instead of letting the system think it's just an NFC card.

- Wait until more users have got NFC in their phones. For now, only the HTC One series, the SGS3, the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus contain NFC. Maybe a few more, but that's it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evangelion01:
As I mentioned, RIM allows card emulation. BlackBerry devices are compatible with existing infrastructure without having to develop new applications or authentication methods.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is not 'every developer'. They're a bank for Christ's sake. Obviously Google can't open the secure element to layman developers, but they're locking out financial institutions too?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evangelion01:
As I mentioned, many schools don't actually write any information onto the NFC cards. The cards are empty. They simply link the UID of the card to a person's account on their backend system. This is how my school works. This way, there's absolutely no possibility of someone obtaining free food/money. And that's why my friend is able to use his BlackBerry on our system. Card emulation gives him a constant UID. My Nexus' p2p mode chucks out a random UID, meaning that it's not possible.

All Google would have to do to fix that is release an application that uses the secure element to allow us to emulate a single card with a constant UID. Then I too would be able to add my Nexus to the system.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
Where are visa and MasterCard? Only when these giants get on board will nfc take off.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hotshot205:
Trust me whenever the iphone has nfc than nfc will take off and become a "standard" among phones. Just like the front facing camera :banghead:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] j sta:
Wait, are you saying now that apple was a pioneer of a front facing camera?

My daughters brand new first gen iphone had a ****ty 2 meg camera (just one), while my n95 had a front facing one and a main one -5meg on carl zeis optics.

Imho, the only thing apple does well is design. The sales and the place on the market is through the design in a first place.

I remember how their phone wouldnt have mms, bluetooth connection (apart from a headset) and pretty much no file transfer or interconnectivity -a phone!!!

Symbian may be dead now, still, a much better system than osx as far as I installed and fiddled with both of them.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Archpope:
Regrettably, Hotshot205 is right. iPhone = traction. Lots of the features in iPhones existed on phones before they showed up on iPhone. But, all those fanboys will tell their friends and try to make phandroids jealous. Would you give a damn about Instagram if not for all the iTards going on and on about it? We had better photo-sharing apps before that, but nobody cared. Rumor has it the next iPhone will have NFC, and if it does, I bet we suddenly see a lot more use for a technology we had a year earlier.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrianDigital:
Yeah that our hardware to be used at stores, to enable a wave and pay are not in alot of areas. Wait till visa and Samsung start pushing this hard during the Olympics
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] masully84:
Wouldn't the Isis nfc system also be part of problem with nfc development?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wilsonium:
Google isn't the only blockade to NFC

The NFC P2P protocol is what is most used for facilities access applications on Android. There are systems that take advantage of this on the market already. Some systems for access control are fundamentally incompatible. All our NFC enabled phones are capable of handling this protocol.

As for Google holding up NFC. I can see how card emulation can be a thorny issue for Google. You would need access to the secure element and that might provide unintended exploits for scams and fraud. Would you want to be liable?

Individual banks are responsible for including the established NFC features Visa and Mastercard have already implemented. Not only are they loathe to change but they are also tightwads and don't want to issue millions of cards with chips in them or build the infrastructure to manage them. The are also paranoid about access to the information stored in the NFC secure element.

Merchants also must not only purchase and install the POS terminals that are NFC enabled but they also must be troubleshooters and educators for people that have trouble using their NFC cards. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to use Google Wallet at a merchant but couldn't because the clerk didn't know how to use it. Of all the places I use my cards at, only about 15% actually have the POS terminal for NFC transactions.

And while I'm not including the typical XDA member, people are paranoid. My 85 year old father refuses to use his credit union Visa debit because he thinks it's less secure than writing a check. He comes to me to order stuff online with my AmEx card... he's never going to change.

As far as Apple is concerned, they will bring a monolithic install base that will bring critical mass to the party. All those iPhones running around asking to pay with their iBucks will probably push us over the cliff and you'll see a much more rapid deployment of POS readers. Nobody will know what Apple is doing until it's released. I've not even heard any credible chatter for inclusion of NFC in the next iPhone.

I know I've rambled on a bit. But I doubt Google is as big a barrier as you would think. I think it's more likely the banks, merchants, not having critical mass for full scale deployment, etc.

EDIT

I just found an article at Forbes outlining a patent from Apple about an iWallet using the bluetooth 4 low power features... interesting but very disruptive for the ecosystem.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthony...t-paves-way-for-next-iphone-to-be-an-iwallet/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jokerzx12:
You obviously don't know what your talking about. Android phones has FFC before iPhones. Many features appear in Android way before in iOS (I.e. notifications, NFC, face unlock, etc.). The list goes on.....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
He never said otherwise. He said it didn't "take off" until the iPhone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
Please try reading before bashing..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evangelion01:
The P2P protocol will not do anything for the proliferation of NFC. Existing infrastructure does not use P2P, and that Google are trying to push it is laughable. When a person sees that their phone can give them access to their buildings using hardware that has been deployed for years, they'll sit up and notice. That's the case with BlackBerry.

The banks are only an issue because they're trying to get a cut. They know that NFC is coming. HSBC have made NFC-enabled cards the standard now. Barclays have issued over 21 million NFC-enabled cards; they're even giving away NFC stickers and wristbands. Even over there in America, many banks issue NFC-enabled cards as standard.

The merchants are adopting NFC at a fast pace now. Just last week the UK Post Office announced it would be installing NFC terminals into all 11,500 of its stores by October. A number of supermarkets are rolling out NFC terminals. Many small mom-and-pop shops even have NFC terminals.

The biggest issue for Android and NFC is Google. The people that want to use NFC to its fullest can't, because Google Wallet is so limited in terms of supported banks/countries/devices. Then when competing companies want to make an NFC Wallet, Google shuts them out. There was a company who wanted to make NFC-based door locks, but Google wouldn't give them access to the secure element. Obviously you can't just give anyone access to the secure element, but Google are turning their backs on established businesses. They're stifling development. Why do you think the Nexus devices don't have MicroSD slots? It's very possibly because MicroSD cards can be used as removable secure elements which Google can't control. Same with SIM cards, which is why it's still unclear whether the Nexus devices can use SIM cards as secure elements.

Take the Galaxy S3. Its embedded secure element is controlled by Samsung, but it can also use the SIM card and the MicroSD card as secure elements. Samsung have already provided Visa and Lloyds access to the secure element for NFC payments at the Olympics. Can't say the same for Google and the Nexus devices.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] io53:
Yep. We can just hope they Apple will add NFC to the next iPhone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hotshot205:
Thanks for everyone who took up for my post. I never said apple made it they only made it cool or the "in the happening" I've used so many different phones its not even funny and my first phone with a front facing camera was the Nokia N95(still one of my favorite phones) Nokia been had ffc, I remember using fring for GOD sakes lol. So I'm not a noob to technology but I know apple marketing is crazy when they add new features that's been out before it hits their phone. Plus I wish the new Apple iphone have nfc. It will give nfc the push it needs to get off the ground. While android will still have cooler nfc apps in my opinion. :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] j sta:
...ftr -

N95 release 2007, front camera-VGA, main-5Mpx (carl zeis)

3 years later...

Iphone 4 2010, front camera-VGA, main-5Mpx

btw, I put my old N95 to envirophone, was offered 65 Euro,

same age iphone-10 Euro.

lol

not to sound harsh now, Steve Jobs did a lot for the technology, design and innovation in all his areas, somehow, I dont think apple will do as well without him, just like they didnt do well without him before -just my opinion

sorry off topic
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
Nfc needs a universal standard or be narrowed to 2 or 3 standards for it to become competitive and viable. Apple may or may not give this momentum. Personally, i think they will. Too many companies want their cut for digitally touching your money. Sad but true. And hope i don't ever hear an apple user saying something stupid like apple invented nfc or smartphone payments. Been through that too many times with other 'established' or 'invented' technologies. Like apps. And voip. Even the smartphone itself. Ugh.

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pfmiller:
I would very much love to be able to use my phone to emulate the smartcard to get into my office, however I would not like someone else to be able to do that. What prevents someone else from cloning my access cards with their Blackberry? Anything?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fatttire:
I totally hear ya, but the problem is with the technology, not the manufacturer. Its your company's fault for using a technology that is so easy to crack.

Any decent criminal I'm sure could find a device with full nfc capability regardless of whether blackberry or android unlocks their devices. All this does is make it easier for lazy criminals
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Evangelion01:
Like I mentioned, the BlackBerry is being added to the system. It is not cloning an existing card. BlackBerrys are able to emulate a unique card, but I'm not sure if they're able to change the content on the emulated card - this means that card cloning is still impossible on mobile phones.

What my friend is doing is adding the unique ID of the card that his BlackBerry is 'beaming out' to our school's database; he is not cloning an existing card or hacking the system. It's merely that his phone is acting like one of the standard credit card-sized NFC cards that you're given. Android phones do not currently 'beam out' a card, meaning that this is impossible for us on existing infrastructure.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rlpaul:
I don't think you can blame poor development of NFC on Google. Its huge in Japan, and Google has nothing to do with its development there. Its facing the same problem all our wireless services face.

I think the better question is, what needs to change for better adoption of new services/technology in North America in general. Nothing gets adopted quickly here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bloodydamnhell:
Uh, what? IME, the POS systems require exactly the same action from the cashier no matter whether you swipe or use contactless payment. There aren't a lot of places near me that have them, though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wilsonium:
Nope... not true. While many POS systems do automatically take what ever you throw at them, many POS systems DO require the clerk to take action because their POS system defaults to DEBIT which is a cheaper option. Every time I use my card at McD's or JitB, they have to push extra keys to make it work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Weird. When at Fatburger, er...McDonalds, I just swipe my phone across the terminal. The cashier each time looks dumbfounded and has pushed nothing as it is approved and the receipt spits out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Beamer9408:
That seems to be the only time it works for me if the cashier does nothing it has worked every time for me the only time it failed me and 2x back to back was when this one kept hitting buttons I kind of felt screwed from the beginning.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chancy319:
NFC isn't meant to be open to the public.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] io53:
There was a hack for nexus s on gingerbread that enabled some kind of card emulation, but it hasn't been updated to ICS nor ported to the galaxy nexus.
[Epic 4G General] lilajrestnom:
So this has nothing to do with the epic, but I was told I was getting a brand new conquer 4G as a gift. I tried finding its forums to see what's up with the phone but it seems likeit doesn't have its own section(or I can't find it)? So I just wanted to know what you guys thought about that phone? Would it be easy to root it and make it better or is it already a great phone stock?
[Epic 4G General] blong82:
i have a friend that has one. He loves it, its not rooted or anything so dont have a clue about development for it. he likes it but of course he is jealous of my phone because of how badass it is...
[Epic 4G General] jeffro18:
My lady's sister has that phone. There isn't much development for it, and no official section for it on xda last I checked. There is some basic rooting info for it in general I found once. There is also another site you can find with google dedicated to only that device. As of a few months ago there were one or two roms for it.
[Epic 4G General] lilajrestnom:
Thank you both for the information=).
[Epic 4G General] Fire n mage:
Basically an updated version of the samsung transform, with 1ghz processor and no keyboard, an 'okay' device if you ask me, but put it to good use :P
[Epic 4G General] lilajrestnom:
Its going to become my mp3 player lol. I got no better use for it for now. My epic is still amazing so I won't switch them and ill just use that for fun. Its size seems pretty nice to carry and have with me so I'm looking forward to getting it. And I found a way to root it, its actually the same way I rooted my epic on froyo. But I couldn't find no roms or anything for it.
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
Coming from a tech perspective, I never see them come in for repairs ;) though they may be indicative of little we sell of them, it's still a great little phone, probably one of the best for your money in terms of an entry level phone. Budget level android phones have come a long way, and the Conquer is a great example of that.
[Epic 4G General] lilajrestnom:
So one more question. What would you perfer the conquer or original evo?
[Epic 4G General] CapsLockKey:
My son had one until it went through the washing machine. Great budget phone in my opinion. The lower screen resolution compared to my Epic was the only noticeable difference, that and it was running a more vanilla flavored Gingerbread without TouchWiz.
[Epic 4G General] lilajrestnom:
That sounds nice lol. I just hope I can get voodoo sound on it.
[Epic 4G General] Fire n mage:
I doubt it works with voodoo.. :O but the evo is a brick anyways, take the conquer, nice light and managable :P
[Epic 4G General] lilajrestnom:
Lol, ya I seen it I liked its size its more comfortable in the hand than the evo and looks better I think lol.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] wellersl:
Specifically the ones that aren't supposed to play on mobile devices. I'm old, but I'll swear they played on CM7 external after I selected

Linux Desktop

under

Select User Agent

in the browser.

After I switched to CM7 internal, I can't get them to play at all.

Any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Gagan93:
<<<<<<<About Battery Drain problem in CM 7.2 RC2 Official>>>>>>>

Hey guys I flashed this rom Altough my mini is running smoothly without any problem......but the main problem I m facing is the battery drainage...so I started this thread to discuss for solving this problem....so plz post ur valueable views and suggestions for making it better.....:):):):)
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] motorazrv3:
Use mebiteks cm 7.2. He has implemented some battery tweaks and battery lifetime is better.

Gesendet von meinem WT19i mit Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Deleted member 4229497:
Yeah Mebitek's CM was the quickest and drained the battery most slowly...since CM7.2 i've gone to other roms (gingermod, Emanon etc). They don't drain the battery as fast. Also, CM7.2 seems sluggish and laggy, other ROMs don't seem to have that problem
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Gagan93:
Check this out:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=26418447

This can be helpful:D
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] A_U:
Use cyabnobile latest build along with slaidboost :D

battery life is amazin...

And that script works only when wifi is on..also i observed that it was drainin my battery more...lol :D upto u, to use it or not :)
[HTC EVO 3D] dezt818:
I need help my laptop cant seem to find my Evo 3D i tried installing Htc sync with the drivers and no success i need help !!
[HTC EVO 3D] netwokz:
What does it say in your Device Manager? Is it saying the drivers are not installed?

Sent from my Kanged Shooter
[HTC EVO 3D] dezt818:
When its connected it doesnt show up it just charges it but no pc connection i connect other phones and work well but i dont know
[HTC EVO 3D] netwokz:
Open the run dialog box by pressing the windows key + R. In that box type devmgmt.msc. in the box that opens do you see anything "Andorid" or "HTC"? If you do and it has a yellow triangle next to it, that means the drivers are not installed. If that's the case let me know I'll give you a link to the drivers you need.

Sent from my Kanged Shooter
[HTC EVO 3D] laie1472:
You can also try booting your phone into recovery mode and plug it in. It should recognize. If not then reboot your pc/laptop while your phone is powered on and it should as well.

#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
[HTC EVO 3D] dezt818:
Can you send me that link then appreciate it and i tried in fastboot mode but nothing
[HTC EVO 3D] netwokz:
Here you go: HTC_Drivers - 118.09 KB
[Android Apps and Games] dominicp:
After finding lots of problem solutions on this site, i finally managed to register and make an account here.

Now, that's what I want to give back to you: I developed a game (called Soundmate) about discovering new songs and testing your music skills.

The special thing is: playing the game contributes to a greater good. When people are playing it, it automatically generates song tags. Tags like Rock, Jazz, Guitar, Happy,Sad, etc. There is a central server that collects all generated tags and makes them publicly available. You can find all tags on the Soundmate website. There are already about 12'000 tags available. As I can't post links yet, just search after 'soundmate' in Google Play. It's the first hit. You can find there a link to the website containing all collected tags. As soon as I have my 8 posts, I will add the links here.

How does game work? You play Soundmate in pairs. At the beginning, you get assigned to a partner from anywhere in the world. Then both of you hear a certain song. Some questions about the song will appear. Now, your goal is to give the same answers to the questions like your partner. If you choose the same answers, you score points, otherwise you lose some.

The cool thing is: the more people play Soundmate, the bigger grows the tag collection on the website. Just imagine what you can do when you have tags for all of your songs. For example you could easily create playlists containing just rock songs that are motivating. Or order your songs by instruments.

Some screen shots:

I hope you enjoy at least either the game or the collected tags ;)

Best regards,

Dominic
[General Questions and Answers] deanventure:
hey guys, a couple months ago i heard about a tablet launcher either for 3.0, 4.0 or both and what i really liked about it was that the apps on the home page were not assigned to a grid meaning you can just put an app any where on the home page it would fit.

i dont know the name of this app or if it even exists.

do you know anything about this or know of any app or launcher that can do this?
[HTC One X] boobinator:
Live wallpapers on Sense don't seem to work as well as they do on stock ICS or even the SGSIII. Whenever i swipe to change the homescreen the wallpaper pauses until the homescreen animation is done. This does not happen on SGSIII or a Galaxy Nexus. Also the included Phase Beam live wallpaper(ICS default wallpaper) does not seem to work, whats up with that?
[HTC One X] phil112345:
its a fault with sense

some updates seem to have fixed it, depends on your carrier

or try a different launcher, they don't have the issue on HOX
[HTC One X] Serge.C:
Currently using free Galactic Core Live Wallpaper (search at google play) looks good on HOX.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] madsonhsd:
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