I was reading a post in Phandroid last night about Verizon not including Google Wallet for it's version of the Galaxy Nexus, for Verizon's partnership with ISIS, and spare batteries not supporting NFC (third party batteries that is) because the NFC chip is built in to the battery itself.
I don't know if this was covered here already, bit I have read countless posts from folks wanting to enable NFC on their Galaxy S2.
Hopefully this will help someone get to the bottom of hacking it into our GS2's
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The battery contains the NFC aerial. We have a space for the NFC chip but its missing.
Well ****. Thanks for clarifying.
Thread done!
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What I'm most curious about is the GPS, since Samsung did design the phone does it have the same issues with GPS as the Galaxy S does..
I know we probably won't know until next week, but still curious.
presence06 said:
What I'm most curious about is the GPS, since Samsung did design the phone does it have the same issues with GPS as the Galaxy S does..
I know we probably won't know until next week, but still curious.
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I am pretty damn sure that the issue has been resolved, i mean it would be absolutely stupid if they didnt
I'd hope so, but then again. The original I9000 Galaxy S phone shipped with broken GPS and then when they came to the US, they had broken GPS...
But in the end, software tweaks fixed most of the GPS issues if you had a rooted phone.
Yea my vibrant GPS is fine now but when on jfd firmware GPS and compass were faulty but was only software related.
But even now with everything working I noticed that my GPS and phone antenna interfere cuz putting my phone in flightmode makes GPS much more accurate so I'm thinking this s why they replaced the antennas.
But yea GPS should be fine on NS
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The GPS chip in the NS is different from the SGS series. It'll work just fine.
Acording to FCC they changed the antenna
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/11/29/samsung-nexus-s-fcc/
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Yes they changed the antenna. The Vibrant's GPS works anywhere, hard-ware wise. It was just some of the software builds that it didn't work on.
I just read a review that stated gps worked "flawlessly"
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Which review?
Engadget did a review but stupidly did not test the GPS. What a shame review.
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I just read a review that stated gps worked "flawlessly"
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Il do some searching and try to find it. I don't think it talked about the gps it just had a little headline in the middle that said wifi and gps work flawlessly.
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Here's the review.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/06/google-nexus-s-review/
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I was trying to S beam some stuff over with my note 2 to my new s4 but couldn't make it work. I've done it many times with friends with the S3. So I took out the back case of my black S4 and I didn't see the NFC sensor that my note 2 has. Anyone else out there know if its suppose to come with the NFC sensor or not.. Thanks.
Isn't the NFC included in the battery?
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Yes its in the battery. Your battery should say "Near Field Communication" on it
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danwitherman said:
I was trying to S beam some stuff over with my note 2 to my new s4 but couldn't make it work. I've done it many times with friends with the S3. So I took out the back case of my black S4 and I didn't see the NFC sensor that my note 2 has. Anyone else out there know if its suppose to come with the NFC sensor or not.. Thanks.
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The Note 2 NFC location is pretty high, put the S4 to the camera area of the Note 2 and it'll work just fine.
NFC Beaming
I was having the same issue this weekend with beaming things from my note 2 to my friends S4. After doing a lot of trouble shooting, i found that the S4 has to be inverted to beam. I know weird. the phones have to 69 to beam.
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Isn't the NFC included in the battery?
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geoldr said:
Yes its in the battery. Your battery should say "Near Field Communication" on it
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If the NFC is in the battery, does that mean it will be harder to find quality OEM batteries? Ya know, with the NFC being in the battery and all.
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When you look around for batteries just make sure they say NFC included on it. I remember a good portion of the high capacity S3 batteries didn't have NFC and then I think Mugen or something came out with one. Just gotta read carefully.
Actually~
I believe this round's NFC is associated directly with the SIM.
I remember reading when ordering the device that it comes with the device and the NFC-ready SIM or some such thing, as compared to the battery or back housing like other devices had in the past.
Very odd this is..I was thinking the S4 had a diff kind of NFC, since it worked with S3 and not N2. Held it upside down. Worked...
So I guess the S4 and Note II have to perform 69 in order to beam stuff, huh?
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U gotta place the s4 half way higher on the note 2 to get it to work. I transferred movies to my friends note 2 that way so I know it works. Only thing I couldn't get to transfer was music. Ive done it before on my s3 but the s4 wont. Its weird
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Incase anyone cares about the details:
(I think I uploaded this right)
SO much bad information being spread on this thread, I had to step in and help out.... the NFC chip is inside your phone, the NFC antenna is what's on the outside layer of your battery! Here's a good article for everyone here to read since no one has identified this correctly:
http://samsunggeeks.com/2012/07/03/nfc-explained-nfc-for-smartphones/#.UYP8o7WV9B0
Here's a link to what the antenna looks like under the battery label:
http://tamsandroid.tamoggemon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/nfc_battery.jpg
Your phone absolutely came with an NFC chip and an NFC antenna, let's not get too carried away because you either A) didn't have NFC or S Beam enabled on the S4, it's a different process than it was with the SIII, or B) weren't using it correctly!
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SO much bad information being spread on this thread, I had to step in and help out.... the NFC chip is inside your phone, the NFC antenna is what's on the outside layer of your battery! Here's a good article for everyone here to read since no one has identified this correctly!
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No.... Not on the internet! lol
Grant H said:
No.... Not on the internet! lol
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Nope, never! Hah...
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Sooo how do we get s beam to work?
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Sooo how do we get s beam to work?
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69!
Jragyn said:
I believe this round's NFC is associated directly with the SIM.
I remember reading when ordering the device that it comes with the device and the NFC-ready SIM or some such thing, as compared to the battery or back housing like other devices had in the past.
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No, the NFC isn't in the SIM. Some carriers are using 'special' SIM's which are used as some sort of secondary authentication for NFC transactions. I think this was to satisfy the banks and credit card companies. The actual NFC sensor/antenna is still in the battery.
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No, the NFC isn't in the SIM. Some carriers are using 'special' SIM's which are used as some sort of secondary authentication for NFC transactions. I think this was to satisfy the banks and credit card companies. The actual NFC sensor/antenna is still in the battery.
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Pretty sure I cleared that up two months ago
NFC dont work!!!
KryptosXLayer2 said:
Pretty sure I cleared that up two months ago
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I have problems with NFC, is not work.. i activated but not appear nothing in the notification bar, and i cant send or receive.
someboady help me.
Regards.
There are a million and one threads on XDA about various apps, widgets, and general approaches for saving battery life. What I'm looking for, and haven't been able to find, is a simple program that doesn't actually do anything active to help, but rather just watches and provides detailed data on what's going on.
I'm 1 months into into my S4, and battery life is noticeably different than when I started. I have lots of theories, but have very little hard data - and that's what I'm after. I don't want a full-fledged program that's going to start flipping things on and off for me. I want an app or tool that can pay attention to whats going on throughout a few battery cycles, tell me how much various culprits are impacting my battery, and do nothing more.
Look up BetterBatteryStats. I like it, and find it very useful to drill down anything acting up sucking battery. Read how to properly use it and it's a great tool.
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Look up BetterBatteryStats. I like it, and find it very useful to drill down anything acting up sucking battery. Read how to properly use it and it's a great tool.
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Anybody have more info about Lucidlogix?
http://lucidlogix.com/products/powerxtend-for-android/
Samsung uses them on the Note 3 and s5. The website says it was tested on the s4.
Really hoping to see it on a future update.
Obviously the bogus cpu benchmark overclocking was removed so I know Samsung could add it.
Thanks!
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In the latest update of S healh there's a new stress level indicator, here in Canada even with the latest update i can't find it in S health... The change log says available in certain countries... I guess Canada is not one of them. Is there a way to still get the feature working ?
Thank you
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I'm in the same boat. Did a tonne of research on the Internet, only to find mildly constructive suggestions such as "reboot your device".
So, like a self-respecting sheep I rebooted and rebooted till my reboot finger fell off and I no longer can reboot.
Since I lost a finger, I was forced to type this with my ear.
Still missing the stress sensor feature on S Health, Rogers SM- G900W8
What versions are your S Health apps? Mine is version 3.2.0.0003 and has the stress level module.
I have the same version and dont have the stress level indicator...
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V3.2.0.0003 in Canada doesn't have stress sensor. What kind of devilish taunt is this ?
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I have 3.2.0.0003 in South Africa with the stress level module. It appears to just measure your heart rate for a bit longer that normal. Maybe it picks up irregular beats?
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Strange. I'm on the Bell network, running AllianceROM 3.1 and I have the stress level indicator.
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Strange. I'm on the Bell network, running AllianceROM 3.1 and I have the stress level indicator.
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I have a feeling that it is because you are running a custom ROM which has disabled country-wise restrictions.
Or maybe one of the Samsung execs got hit by a hockey puck covered in maple syrup and thus now they hate us
Another question about S Health, but slightly off topic..
Has anyone been able to get the Runkeeper app to sync with S Health? In settings I have the sync option turned on, but it doesn't seem to carry over any information, which is extremely frustrating.
I use runkeeper to track my gym training as well as other options that S Health doesn't support (Rowing, Stair climbing, skating, etc) but even with the sync option turned on, nothing that I've tracked in Runkeeper shows up in S Health.
Any info would be great..