[Mate 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] childoftheworld:
I also have a problem with NFC on my Mate 8. :confused:

Current firmware L29C636B563, previous firmware tested on L29C636B321 (and maybe L29C636B330)

First off, I was testing this with an LG Washer / Dryer with the "Tag On" logo. The LG Application could not detect the NFC so I will assume the problem is with the phone? Where exactly is this NFC strip they are talking about? No, even after updating to L29C636B563 Nougat OTA Push Update, my Mate 8 will still not work with LG Tag On.

So, I got curious as to whether or not NFC was working to begin with. I live in Canada. It is a very *backwards* country and NFC applications are few and not mainstream. Apple Pay just got introduced... and Android Pay is not even available for download... so... I never really had any use of NFC at all.

Anyway, I have another Mate 8 (not mine). It recently got an OTA push, L29C185B560. At that time, my Mate 8 was still at L29C636B321.

We tried Android Beam... I guess the instruction was to bring the phone close together (in this case - back to back) and both phones will detect each other... then you can tap content to the other phone...

Well... the L29C185B560 (let's call this C185 for short) made a sound and it picked up a tag, but that tag was empty... ?? My phone, the L29C636B321 (let's call this C636 for short) did not do anything at all... it just stared and stared in outerspace.... :eek:

I also tried to "Share" and then pick "Huawei Beam" and of course, nothing happened between the 2 phones....

I was suddenly discouraged... eeeks! No NFC? I thought this phone was the *super* phone... time to shop for another phone.

Just last week, my C636 got its first OTA update... uhm... only after downloading Firmware Finder... maybe it did something to the settings to correct it...

So, it got updated to C636B330 first, then 2 days later, C636B563 arrived. Yay... Nougat! What bugs are there?

Just 2 days ago, I tried to Beam with a Samsung Galaxy S4. No luck there...

So just this weekend, I tried Beam again... first, just putting the phone together... no luck.

Then, I thought... uhm... so this time, I put the phones together, back to back and then picked a photo on my phone, "Share" and "Huawei Beam".... surprise, surprise... I heard a tone.... I angled my head and saw that my phone recognized a device and I tapped and I guess the other phone, the C185 didn't need to accept the beam, it was already downloading the photo...

So I tried the LG Tag On again... no luck...

Then. I got home and downloaded apps to read my chip enabled Canadian passport (inside and outside the covers) and my Paypass enabled credit card... No... none of the apps detected anything.

To my understanding NFC will "communicate" once detected. No further action. In the experience with Huawei Beam... it seems that an "action" has to be triggered for NFC to activate? Maybe I am wrong and have been wrong all this time?

So, does "reading" an NFC tag also require an action?

What else is broken?

I found some documentation on Huawei Mate 8 NFC. Maybe someone with more experience will be able to explain this occurrence way better? Give us more insight and get it working?

I just bought 10 NFC Tag stickers on eBay, let's see late on if the phone actually reads it....