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[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] PaulusGrandis:
Just got me $50, yay!

Regarding the root issue, using SuperSU on both my rooted Note 2 and rooted Note 3, all I had to do was go into SuperSU settings, turn off SuperSU and set it to Deny all requests immediately, and just by doing that (takes 2 seconds) I was able to download, activate, and use the Isis app with no problems. Just an FYI.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] alejovh1:
Where do you guys sign up? I can't find it on the app itself
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] darkjedi7:
Got my 50 and used some at McDonald's to see if it worked and no problems here.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tonestert:
Do you only get the $50 with American Xpress ? I thought you got it with Chase too ? I don't have a Amex card so I used my Chase but I didn't get the $50.

I answered my own question, Yes you only get the $50 throught Amex serve. I called Chase and got them to take thier card off my Isis then I added the Amex serve card and got the $50.00.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ssmaster:
LOL you are also going to get $10 cash back from that transaction.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] siciliano777:
I'm having this issue right now also. I've tried a dozen times and every single time I get the "activation has failed" email along with an account terminated email.

Why are only very few of us having this issue?? I'm stock rooted and used the root bypass xposed module. This is getting frustrating...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Grompy:
Haha thanks. Didnt even realize that. Ot didn't show up in isis until I went to the serve website.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] FAUguy:
Has anyone that got the initial $10 bonus from ISIS last month been able to change it to $50?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mrlaigle:
Looks like the app is now on app store for note 3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] siciliano777:
Disabling root though su worked! finally!

---------- Post added at 01:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:07 PM ----------

Just got my $50 credit. :) It took about 15 minutes. I assumed it would only take a few minutes so I was getting a bit angry until it showed up. Patience young grasshoppa!

Has re-enabling root though Super su messed with the functionality of Isis in any way for you guys?

I remember using Google wallet on my gnex a few times, and it was sorta hit and miss as far as the tap to pay actually working - sometimes it didn't register at all. Are the terminals generally picky as to where you hold the phone (proximity)? And do you have to physically touch the phone to the terminal?

I just remember looking like a complete idiot when it didn't work, and I'm trying to avoid that! Keep in mind, most people have no idea you can use a phone to pay for things, so when it works you look like a 1337 hacker magician superhero...and when it doesn't work you look like a deranged crazy person waving his phone over the credit card terminal. lol
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Trigster:
Picked up some new winterboots from Sports Authorty tonight with the $50 :good:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] tonestert:
I got my 50 the other day but now when opening isis I'm getting a message "this phone has been rooted. ISIS is not supported. "

I tried turning off root through super user but that did not help.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] PhilPan:
Are you guys getting the 50 bucks in the mail? Or added to Isis?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] siciliano777:
It goes right onto the amex serve card within Isis. It took about 15 minutes after I signed up to show up on the card.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Grompy:
I was afraid of the same thing. I started out telling the guy I wanted to try a new method of payment then preceeded to wave the phone vigorously. The cashier told me most people have the best luck basically just sitting the phone on top of the sensor and leaving it there for a few seconds. Did that and it worked!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] siciliano777:
Did you physically touch the phone to the terminal, or just hold your phone near it?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] neyenlives:
You have to get it so close you might as well lay it on the sensor.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] NinjaPerv:
worked for me as of 1/06/14. Thank u to whoever started this thread. I would have never known this otherwise.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mmw68666:
ni only got $10 also
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Worked perfectly for me too. Although I did find out that if your line is not the primary on the account and you sign up with both you need to do the long sign up through amex to get the 50 on the secondary line.

Sent from my SM-N900V
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] billinaz:
Too bad VZW wont add the isis ability to my account.... arrrgh!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kudosmog:
Is this offer still good or has it ended?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Should still be good.

Sent from my SM-N900V
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kudosmog:
Thanks. I'll have to go to a VZW store for their special SIM card. Keep getting the error saying I need an enhanced SIM
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] :
They won't let you? All I needed to do was request a NFC capable sim card and then sign up

Sent from my SM-N900V
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kudosmog:
Went to Verizon, got a new sim, signed up. Offer is expired. Only got 10$
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mazz0310:
Dang, I was planning on signing up today :/
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] mrlaigle:
Offer ended this past weekend :/
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ZuneNinja!:
I was able to get the $50 deal on the last day it was available. Thanks to OP and people helping to bypass the root message.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] billinaz:
I already had the NFC sim card.

My type of account (they said) is not eligible to have ISIS enabled.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] neyenlives:
What? If the device is capable and you have a proper NFC sim card that's all you need. You don't need a special account access.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] billinaz:
Yes, there is a provision they need to ensure is enabled. Both the store and phone support confirmed it. They kne what was not enabled, but the store could not access my account and phone support said they would not enable it.

They told me the name of it but I dont remember what that was.

Here is what I get when I try to sign up:

Subject: Isis Notification

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This is an important service alert from Isis.

We're sorry. Your Isis Mobile Wallet activation process has failed, and you'll need to restart the activation process from your phone. We recommend that you first contact your wireless service provider customer care to notify them of the failure and receive further instructions on how to proceed.

Your Isis Account will not be created, and if you decide to retry your Isis Mobile Wallet activation, you will be required to accept the Isis Services Terms of Service again.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] neyenlives:
Well it must be enabled on everyone's account by default because haven't heard of anyone else having to get it enabled. Are you the account owner, or is your line a addition to someone else's account? That could be why they wouldn't change it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] billinaz:
Its a govt type account, where each person pays his own phone fees.

I think that sometimes VZW does not even know what they put out there.

A friend of mine is able to turn on his mobile hotspot with no error message. He is not paying any additional.

I on the other hand, pay a $10 tethering fee, and Im on the same plan he is.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] neyenlives:
Well yeah, now it makes sense. The government has tight restrictions on mobile devices and what wireless technology can and can not be utilized on a device that could have government data on it. NFC probably hasn't been through some sort of government validation yet so they can't enable it yet.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] billinaz:
Its not a strict govt plan, its like one.

It is set up for the FOP.

Still, my phone, my fees, it makes no sense why I cannot get ISIS to work..... Its not tied to any networks but my own.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] neyenlives:
Yeah. I bet they adopted the same security policies like as a template, and until someone high enough up the ladder wants or needs NFC and changes the defaults, it will be disabled. Not necessarily because they want it to be, but more because they don't care or know any different.

I have my own phone, pay my own bill, but to get access to work email through the exchange server I have to accept a security policy that technically allows the company to enable/disable almost every function of my personal phone. Camera, bluetooth, wifi, you name it.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] NinCaptain:
so not sure if people have seen but when you use ISIS how ever much you spend you get 20% back up to $200

example 2 times I've spent $4.01 at McDonalds (Only place in my area that I can) and each time I've got .80 cents back

and this is going on until the 31st
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] dmrasm:
I paid 470 on my verizon bill the other day and got 94 dollars back, the 20%, and an additional 10 bucks for using it in a Verizon store. I plan on paying another 500 on my vzw bill that way I will be saving 20% on my bill over the next five months.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] platinumrims:
Wait... Wut... I didn't even think about paying Verizon with it
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] physicsguymatt:
Damn great idea! But it looks like the promotion ends 1/31... are you saying you're prepaying $500 before 1/31 just to get the credit on your account to apply over the next five months?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] dmrasm:
Yep, my bill was paid in full so I had a 470 credit. I'll pay another 5 hundo on it just before the promotion ends and that way I should be paid up through about May and will have saved $200.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] physicsguymatt:
Damn. I was all set to do this, then I found out I cannot make a payment to Verizon Wireless at a retail store because I have it bundled with FIOS in OneBill. Gotta find a place to use it to take advantage of the 20%. Maybe get a $1000 Hess gas card...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] dmrasm:
Let me know if the gas card works, that would be awesome.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] physicsguymatt:
So I was at Walgreens and I grabbed 2 Vanilla Visa gift cards and told the cashier to put $500 on each. She said she needed a manager since it was a large amount. So he came and asked how I was paying and I showed him my screen and said "ISIS". Needless to say he had no idea what I was talking about and didn't know "ISIS" or "AMEX Serve". I explained the promotion and I wanted the 20% back and it was just "tap to pay", so he rang up the sale and watched me hold the phone on the NFC terminal for a good 10 seconds before he said "Oh, we had those RFID things [his words] turned off because there was a lot of fraud". A bit of discussion ensued... OK, nevermind.

Literally next store over was a CVS. Went inside, 2 Vanilla Visas, I'd like $500 on each, "OK, that'll be $1009.90" ($4.95 fee for each card), Tapped, paid, profit. He did need the last four digits of the card and I paused for moment since the plastic Serve card was at home, but on the app it has the last 5 digits under "my cards". Done.

Now I wait for the $200 cash back and then I'll probably grab another $200 gift card.

Final tally: paid $965 ($1000 + $15 in fees for three cards, $50 initial credit from Serve still on there) for $1200 in Visas.

By the way, I linked my debit card to the Serve account so I didn't need to load money, it just grabbed the overage out of my bank account directly.

Now do I bother keeping the Serve account? There's no fees in NY so maybe I'll hang on to it for the novelty.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MeridianSun:
Mine quit working. Says I need a secure sim card even though I have it...

Sent from my Note 3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] robroy90:
Same here. I went and got a new SIM when I got my Developer Note 3. It worked initially as it allowed me to set it up. I also got my physical Serve card, but now I am getting an error about not being able to contact the secure element.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] brianrent:
You may need to reinstall the ROM. I re-flashed cleanrom 1.5 which i was already using . Someone earlier in this thread told me this and it worked so I'm passing it along.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] MeridianSun:
I've been on the stock software the whole time and not used a rom
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] oneandroidnut:
Same here says can't connect top 3g/4g yet I'm still on it no idea what's up
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] NoFanboy:
They sent me a card to use when I signed up.. Only tried using it once and it got declined. Is it supposed to have 50$ on it also?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] neyenlives:
The card is just a physical redundancy of the one stored in the Isis app. If you show a balance of $50 in the Isis app on the Serve card you have $50 on that card as well. The same $50 you see.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] physicsguymatt:
For those keeping track, my $200 cash back just posted. 36 hours after purchasing 2 $500 Vanilla Visa cards at CVS.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] ZuneNinja!:
That is awesome. It's good to hear you get the cash back so quickly. I'm considering doing the same myself now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] kimdoocheol:
It is very weird. I don't know of a resolution was found to this, but I had to exchange the phone and I got another one at Best Buy instead of VZW (rt the one at VZW because it was acting funny and BB had a deal on phones.) Anyways, it worked. I kept the sim card that I had from the VZW Note 3, and popped it into my BB Note 3, downloaded ISIS, and it worked instantly.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] YarsRevenge78:
I signed up today and only got $10. Guess the $50 promo is over.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] goldy253:
I think the promo for $50 ended January 6th.

Galaxy Note 3, HTC Rezound, HTC Evo 3D, HTC Evo, HTC Touch Pro 2, LG Voyager
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Trigster:
tap-n-pay no longer works for me on ISIS for my N3, it however still works fine on my deactivated GN with G-wallet when I tried it at the exact same time. I know NFC is working on my N3 as I can tap and transfer from my GN.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] dmrasm:
Looks like they extended the promotion for the 20% back until Feb 28 2014
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] YarsRevenge78:
I tapped to pay and got myself some gas at BP with my ten bucks.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] djoutlaw32:
Heads up guys. They promotion changed from $10 to $40. Not sure for how long but we'll see!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] sixstringedmatt:
Been trying to search for a catch... What do you do to sign up for this? Commit to a credit card? Anything?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] djoutlaw32:
Nothing really. I read about people closing it out after they're done but who knows. It's really card.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] Mr. HQ:
Confirmed!

Really had to jump through quite a few hoops to get this working with a rooted phone, but it is working & is crediting $40 when you link your Amex

Nice & thanks for the headsup!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] physicsguymatt:
Now tap that $1000 before the end of the month for the 20% cash back. $200 free money.

And don't forget your daily free Jamba Juice Smoothie.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] YarsRevenge78:
Has anyone purchased a $500 visa card, linked it to serve and used it to pay for a second card? $200 for spending $510 total on the two cards wouldn't be bad. I got $100 back for buying one card at CVS and a few more bucks for gas at BP. I wish I had though of buying a second visa card with the first, now that I spent the $500 on bills and stuff!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] brianrent:
Tried. Wouldn't let you load from a prepaid card. However you CAN use a credit card or cash at CVS to load once you card arrives. Then buy two visa gift cards ( no registration required ones ) then use those to buy two $499.30 money orders from walmart at 70 cents each then deposit into your bank account. BAM! 200 free dollars!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] brianrent:
I meant to say visa ONE VANILLA OR VANILLA ONE card that says no registration required on the back not gift card. Gift cards don't work at walmart for money orders. You could probably use a gift card or reloadable visa at cvs to load back to Serve but just not on the Internet in the serve account.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 General] jws86:
I just got my gn3 yesterday at Verizon. The rep told me about this app. I don't use chase or amex but I received a $40 promo with the prepaid card.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] *ZeuS*:
So I successfully rooted my note 10.1 and wanted to try some custom roms out. Cm, Paranoid Android, etc. I've flashed 3 different roms only to come to a dead end with this issue. Rom flashes correctly, ,when it comes time to connect to wifi, it scans, tries to connect and then just says saved. Never actually connecting.i revert back to factory rooted TW and all is good. Can't figure this out. ?..
[Moto X Q&A] iceman198:
Hey,

Looked around and didn't see anything on this so I'm posting.

I get this error whenever I try and use the 'Instant Mix' in the play music app. Honestly, I don't care about it but it seems to need to work right in order for me to use the 'Touchless control' to start playing music using my voice...which would be pretty cool!...if it worked.

I read on another site to add a payment method through google play but that didn't work.

any help would be appreciated! Thanks all!
[Moto X Q&A] sickorwuut:
Noticed this as well. My friends Nexus 5 seems to handle the "play this" command quite well. My moto x seems to look for a instant mix and play it.
[Moto X Q&A] iceman198:
Tried the "play this" and the same thing happens...well, what happens is that the app just closes and go backs to the home screen.
[Moto X Q&A] Ctrl-Freak:
"Couldn't prepare instant mix. Please try again." <- A bug I've been trying to fix for a long time...

I too have been frustrated with this error, but it didn't start with my Moto X. I also had this problem with my previous phone, a Nexus S, yet there is a surprising lack of information on the error when googled.

For troubleshooting, here is my environment:

AT&T Moto X, official 4.4, rooted

Google play music up to date (as of 12/13/2013)

all music (about 6 gigs) is on the phone, none on google music cloud. All songs have good album, artist, genre, albut art, etc 'tags'

I tried rebooting and clearing data on google play music

I verified my location and signed up on google.com/music yesterday, added a few songs and sync'd, but that did not help

Sometimes my "Im feeling luck mix" works, sometimes it doesn't. My library -> songs -> shuffle always works fine

Does anyone get the error with their music stored on google's music cloud?
[Moto X Q&A] GuestK0077:
I have most of the music stored on google play music in the cloud and some locally on my phone. When attempting to create an instant mix, only cloud stored music seems to work. Locally stored files give an error. Also making and loading instant mixes seem to only work with an active internet connection, even if the cloud files are set to have offline access.
[Moto X Q&A] iceman198:
So no ideas?...=(...no one else having this problem?...or no one cares about using voice to play music? Maybe a good music player that supports voice? I found 'Clean Music' but not a very robust player.
[Moto X Q&A] GuestK0077:
Well you could try this if you have xposed installed. Its a module that let's you say "play music" and it will just start playing whatever was loaded in play music previously. Works for me.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48109086
[Moto X Q&A] DeathGrind:
Have the same problem as well. Stupid instant mix error. Haven't had much luck finding information about it either.
[Moto X Q&A] iceman198:
Sounds interesting...do I have to root or anything? I'm reading through the framework thread and looks like there is a risk of a soft brick...=(
[Moto X Q&A] GuestK0077:
Well you have to be rooted to install the xposed framework and as with anything, there is a chance of a soft brick. Look at some of the other threads to find info on rooting. Works great for me!
[Moto X Q&A] JazzVH:
Instant mix

Hi,

I've got the same problem on my nexus 5, and what I've found is this:

- When you try to start an instant mix when you've got an internet connection, it'll only play music stored online. (so it won't start if you've got nothing stored in the cloud)

- When you start an instant mix without internet access, it will work (but of course only the music stored on your device will play)

The voice commands only work when you've got an internet connection, so I'm guessing it won't start an instant mix with music stored on your device either? I haven't been able to try it with music stored online, cause I don't have a valid payment method for the service..

So I think it will work when you try the voice command for music stored online?

Can anyone verify that?
[Moto X Q&A] iceman198:
I just tried this as I do have a couple songs I've purchased through Google Play...but it didn't seem to work. I went to a song not on the device and selected "Start Instant Mix" and got the same error. I then turned on Airplane Mode, went to a song on the device and tried and same error. =(
[Moto X Q&A] JazzVH:
Can't start instant mix

Hmm..

I've read somewhere that you need more than a few songs stored online to be able to start an instant mix, so maybe it's that..But I don't really think that's the problem though..that would be stupid:rolleyes:

Does starting an "I'm feeling lucky mix work" with you? (online/offline?)

Can you start a specific song (stored online of course) with voice commands?

why o why do they install it on all nexus devices (and more?), when it doesn't even work properly?:confused:
[Moto X Q&A] dtg7:
Manually update Google play music

Although this thread has been inactive for a bit, the problem for me at least had not resolved itself. After months of ignoring it finally decided to look for a solution. So I'll post here if anyone else still has issues.

The solution is simple but annoying. Had to manually update the player. This should have happened automatically, through play store app but for some reason my Moto X was supposedly up to date on some version of 5.5 when a simple googling session says that play music had been past 5.6 for a while. So anyway I downloaded the latest copy i could find (5.6.1623P.1416251), it installed fine, and now the problem seems to have gone away even with mobile data enabled, which is required anyway for touchless control.
[Moto X Q&A] s24da:
I had nothing online and was getting this error. There's a 'downloaded only' option in the settings that I checked and that brought instant mix back to life for me, although now called shuffle, so would seem to be an online problem I think
[Moto X Q&A] drvoje:
I had same problem,

What you need to do is to go on play store > apps > my apps > all > google play music > update

v5.5.1623P adds ability to search public playlists

now u can say "ok google now play some music" and see what will happen :)
[Moto X Q&A] EJKPBR:
Use the cloud

All you have to do is delete all your songs from your phone... use the internet from a computer... and upload your entire catalog to the cloud using the Google Play Music website/app. You can put up to 20,000 songs there for free. (That's a lot of albums!!) Everything about the app is better after you do this. You can use Chromecast, all album art shows up, etc.

I just want to point out how stupid it is that this is what you have to do to make this product work. Why can't we just put our our music on an SD card and get the same results? Maybe in a few years after they update the app 5,000 more times.:confused: