I am getting the Nexus S 4g in the next couple of days and have been very curious as to the NFC feature. Outside of the advertised features, I was wondering what else you could use it for?
One thing that jumped to mind was possibly using it to replace an RFID card, assuming they are compatible. Has any one tried to do anything like this before? I did some searching and couldn't find any information on this.
i think this is possible. for example an access card for a office. you would have to place your nexus on the access card writer that admin uses to write to its normal RFID cards.
you cannot however clone a card via a nexus NFC capability.
i am not sure if you can actually substitute your stored credit (i.e. public transportation cards) with a nexus. probably not.
I bought some RFID-tags on www.tagsfordroid.com. I use them for example to start bluetooth and navigation when entering the car or to start/stop wlan @home.
Recommend software is NFC task launcher.
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I need to recover my lost contacts off my sim card. Active sync isnt an option, long story.
I already have a data recovery software. But i guess it wont read it through usb-phone itself, so i picked up a 51 in 1 card reader. I plug it into it and it wont read it, it reads my micro sd fine. My question is what type of sim card is the one in the 8525, Phoenix type, or PC/SC?
Sorry, I can't add much to this other than to advise you not to buy one of those cheap usb sim card readers. The ones made in China, they fit in the palm of your hand and are usually a colored semi-transparent plastic.
I bought one and it sucks, the software is horrible, and I lost the CD so now I have no drivers....can't find any on the internet and there are no markings on this reader to determine who made it.
I believe they usually go for under $15
eagercrow said:
Sorry, I can't add much to this other than to advise you not to buy one of those cheap usb sim card readers. The ones made in China, they fit in the palm of your hand and are usually a colored semi-transparent plastic.
I bought one and it sucks, the software is horrible, and I lost the CD so now I have no drivers....can't find any on the internet and there are no markings on this reader to determine who made it.
I believe they usually go for under $15
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If your Card Reader still requires a driver, either your computer/OS or your card reader is too old. Most cards produced in the last 3-4 years do not require special drivers.
Also there seems to be a mix-up with SIM card (for phone connection) and Memory card (e.g. SD, CF, MS.....) reader in this post!
eagercrow said:
Sorry, I can't add much to this other than to advise you not to buy one of those cheap usb sim card readers. The ones made in China, they fit in the palm of your hand and are usually a colored semi-transparent plastic.
I bought one and it sucks, the software is horrible, and I lost the CD so now I have no drivers....can't find any on the internet and there are no markings on this reader to determine who made it.
I believe they usually go for under $15
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Yup i know what your talking about, It a USB thumb drive for sim cards. I think im going to order one, There pretty cheap.
I downloaded a sim card data recovery about a month ago and just getting into it now. So i found the only simcard reader i could find at a local store, But its an all in one memory card reader. And the software dosnt work with it.
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If your Card Reader still requires a driver, either your computer/OS or your card reader is too old. Most cards produced in the last 3-4 years do not require special drivers.
Also there seems to be a mix-up with SIM card (for phone connection) and Memory card (e.g. SD, CF, MS.....) reader in this post!
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nothing is too old, I'm running a computer that is under a year old, with windows XP, the card reader is also less than 6 months old.
This isn't mine, but except for the color it looks exactly the same and the price is about what I paid....http://www.meritline.com/usb-sim-card-reader.html
My point was these SIM card readers are crap, and yes even in today's plug and play world some things still need drivers to work correctly, this being one of them.
eagercrow said:
Sorry, I can't add much to this other than to advise you not to buy one of those cheap usb sim card readers. The ones made in China, they fit in the palm of your hand and are usually a colored semi-transparent plastic.
I bought one and it sucks, the software is horrible, and I lost the CD so now I have no drivers....can't find any on the internet and there are no markings on this reader to determine who made it.
I believe they usually go for under $15
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One more question, Could you acess your sim at all from windows of did u have to rely on the software? I was under the assumption that you could access it like any other memory card.
And i miss read your message, thought you were recommending one of those cheap ones. I took your advice and ordered a namebrand one so hopfully I dont have any compatibility issues with my recovery software.
Hi.
Can this be used?
The Eye-Fi Card :http://www.eye.fi/cards/
no shooting in the war room
Chances are it could,
it's no fancy GPIO card, but a mini computer that exports the fulesystem to the host and uses energy of the host to conduct Wi-Fi networking.
Fairly basic stuff, only a cool product incorporating them this way...
If You feel Your $49 as a burden, go for it, otherwise get a 4GB SD and a 100m range USB bluetooth for Your Internet host (PC?), and for the rest buy a chocolate to Your best friend...
It des not look as it can be re-configured on the PDA so You will probably forget "]["
IMHO
It could only be used as a regular SD card. I don't think the Wifi could ever be made to work because there is no I/O connection between the SD card pins and the Atheros Wifi chip/processor. I think the only way into the processor and OS of the thing is through Wifi, so even if you could hack the EyeFi's OS, the PDA will never recognize it as more than an SD card.
Hello!
I've been searching for a (preferably portable) bluetooth flash card reader, so it can be used to read/write files without opening the case of the f-ing phone (yes, I'm very pissed at the phone designer, who made flash card slot in Fuze under the damn lid, which hard to open with a chance find the battery on the floor = the dumbest thing I've ever seen)
Changing cards in the phone is only one of the problems, another problem is that I install most of the programs on flash card, and it might freeze the phone when it's changed.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Hi there,
Depending on the ROM you have, the bluetooth file explorer works exactly as you want. You can send / receive files over bluetooth from your laptop. I will warn you however, that this is an extremely slow process when working with files especially over the 10mb mark. If taking the chip out is the main concern, I advise you to get the USB cable and put the phone into Disk Drive mode. That mode is not quite as fast as taking the chip out and using it in a card reader, but it is still MUCH faster than bluetooth.
Feel free to PM me if you need help or further explanations
Thank you for the reply.
By portable I ment something much much smaller and much cheaper then a laptop...
Since designer of the photo camera I'm using was much smarter then HTC designer, the flash card can be easily be removed from it, and that where the files I need to transfer are from.
I've seen so many portable BT gps loggers, that look like a little box with a usb dongle sticked in (the box is battery), why not make something similar, but instead of GPS add flash card reader bult-in the dongle?
I mean it makes so much sense, but I failed to find anything even remotely close to this...
I still have my previous phone 8525, with a flash card slot outside, perhaps I could use that phone for now...as soon as I can figure out how to set up the bt link between the phones...probably will need update the rom on 8525..
tired of syncing phone to google to live to windows 7 for my calendar and contacts, then using windows for my daily use, but needing linux to modify, compile and decompile android apps and what not. would like to stream line my life a little.
my main concerns are bluetooth, navigation and media/sd card.
i use a jabra sp700 in car bluetooth device for phone and media while driving. how well does the focus connect and remember bt devices? my current phone, i have to switch on bt, wait like 1 minute, then switch on my bt device, otherwise, it won't connect for some odd reason.
navigation, i see that bing has navigation now, however, every video and review i've seen is it's just the top down view, which is ok, however, it also looks as though everyone is zoomed way out. can you zoom in more to see/read cross roads? is there works (or does anyone know of any upcoming updates) for a true turn by turn navigation like google's navigation?
sd card, i see the approved list, but i have an HP 8gb card, not that i care if i could use it or not since the focus has 8gb internal and i've never needed more than 7gb on my phone. however, can you use both the internal memory and sd card at the same time? ie have some stuff internal and some external?
in call volume? how is it? not really concerned with quality since i grew up in a time with rotary dial phones. just need it loud enough to hear in louder than normal areas.
oh, and apps. my past experience with windows phones was that there were no decent apps for free. hows that with wp7? right now i have angrybirds and pulse news reader, which are the apps i used most throughout the day (yes, i know no ab on wp7 yet). but are there other apps that are worth using that are free?
photos, current phone has 8.1mp camera that takes decent photos as long as lighting is perfect. how's the quality of the focus'?
About navigation,
I think there is a turn by turn Nav App called A to B, still kind of basic, but usable.
Bing map is detailed in US, you can see the crossroads.
About SD card,
There is no guarentee unless you test it. And once the SD card is integrated into the internal storange, currently the only way to format it is to use a Nokia phone.
Call volume is fine for me. Camera is also fine, LED flash is present this time.
Most games are not free, usually 2-6USD. Other than that there are many free decent News apps.
when you say integrated as in the sd card, does that mean if i put in an 8gb card, i would have 16gb? or 8gb total?
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when you say integrated as in the sd card, does that mean if i put in an 8gb card, i would have 16gb? or 8gb total?
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You are going to get 16G.
If you put the SD card into the phone, the card will be part of the internal storange and you cannot different the original storange and your SDcard inside the system.
Hi all. I am not 100% certain but sure this is to do with the encryption policy on my phone...
My company requires my phone and external SD card be 100% encrypted...no way around that unfortunately.
I noticed that my car receiver, MVH-X360BT from Pioneer, can read the files on my phone just fine, but not on the SD card. It sees the folders but won't list anything underneath them. All of the files are supported of course (MP3 and such) but for some reason this only happens on the SD card.
Is there any known way around something like this? I'm certain it has to do with the encryption policy and my company is not going to change this. I can stream via blue tooth but it would be handy to use direct USB mode so I can search through music as my kids often want me to play one song or another.
I also noticed that playlists like to disappear...any known issues with that by chance?
Running Android 5.0 on T-Mo.