No NFC sensor on my S4 - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

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.

ch0ka said:
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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Further support~
Incase anyone cares about the details:
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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:
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!

KryptosXLayer2 said:
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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ogxku5h said:
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.

Tachyon_1 said:
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.

Related

Looks like NFC is battery related

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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My 3month old S3 died :(

Wow lastnight i left it on charge and today i wake up phone is total dead.. removed battery 30min nothing no led or anything, charger plugged in total dead.... :crying::crying: how can this happen i havent root or anything its been working perfect as of lastnight....
and my old 1.5 year desire still works rofl..... i should have bought htc.....:silly:
A minute of silence for your beloved S3...
Well, in case you really have a faulty one which is only 3 month old, you have warranty and it will be replaced. Products who are sold by millions are always some defective, electronics.... I had the same with my Sony cyber shot camera.... a few years back. Just go back to the store and get a new one.
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s3 is like a top end budget phone its crap
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Ahh. Assuming this is just a one off, extreme case for you... it's gonna be pretty damn comforting knowing that you'll still have another 21 months of warranty coverage
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Contact the retailer and tell them, then if needed go to a service centre for a repair
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try replacing battery if a friend our relations have one try that may have over dosed the battery did that last month on my s3
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chwads2k8 said:
s3 is like a top end budget phone its crap
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**** happens man, doesnt mean the model is crap, just your's fella
mines working fine lol i aint prob with mine jus think the device performance doesnt match its hardware software design probs the culprit
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chwads2k8 said:
mines working fine lol i aint prob with mine jus think the device performance doesnt match its hardware software design probs the culprit
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Its not software design its optimization, flash an AOSP ROM and you will see the differences in performance.
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Maybe it's just dead battery. Try another one.
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Maybe it's just dead battery. Try another one.
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I'm not sure about this because he said its the same with the charger plugged in, and it will run with the charger plugged in but no battery.
If you don't have a spare battery to try use a multimeter put the probes across the positive and negative terminals of the battery if there's an output on the screen its fine.
That's if you have a multimeter
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I'm not sure about this because he said its the same with the charger plugged in, and it will run with the charger plugged in but no battery.
If you don't have a spare battery to try use a multimeter put the probes across the positive and negative terminals of the battery if there's an output on the screen its fine.
That's if you have a multimeter
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Not sure if it turns on just on a charger.
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Not sure if it turns on just on a charger.
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If I take the battery out mine won't turn on even when in the charging dock. So it could just be the battery.
FDisk80 said:
Not sure if it turns on just on a charger.
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Hmm I would check but I'm not at home atm I know most modern products will, laptops,PSP, my old lg phone etc.
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delsus said:
Hmm I would check but I'm not at home atm I know most modern products will, laptops,PSP, my old lg phone etc.
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Doesn't work, it needs the battery as well.
Maybe the charger is broken? Connect it with your pc
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take it back to the store you got it from, ask them to put a battery in it for you to check whether its faulty, they shouldnt have a problem with this. If its still dead then you dont need to worry about the fact you have probably flashed a cooked recovery / rom or rooted, it will be dead, they'll likely just swap it out. - albeit via samsung.
Well said
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AOSP
delsus said:
Its not software design its optimization, flash an AOSP ROM and you will see the differences in performance.
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Tried and tested, AOSP is definitely faster on the GS3 and battery lasts longer than stock (depends on your usage) if your not a fan of AOSP and like the Touchwiz wait for the Jellybean update to come.. shouldnt take long now..

NFC problem

hey guys im in stock rooted with stock recovery on mdl and the NFC feature doesnt work with any phone i try with and S3 a note 2 and also with the HTC one and nothing.! and the other phones works perfect with each other
Stock rooted here...no issues with NFC between my S4 and my wife's Note 2. I do have to find the sweet spot by moving the phones until nfc connects.
Both phones are rocking otterbox commuters too
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FanOfSkynyrd said:
Stock rooted here...no issues with NFC between my S4 and my wife's Note 2. I do have to find the sweet spot by moving the phones until nfc connects.
Both phones are rocking otterbox commuters too
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I do it without any cover but thanks any way im going to try the prefect spot like you said.! jejej thanks.!

Run shift without battery?

I have seen this video of someone running their shift without a battery installed, he never actually explains the process but mentions the BIOS lock that disables the device when no battery is present or battery level warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up-G3bqdN_w&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Anyone have any idea how to achieve this? I have emailed the videos creator with no luck -_-
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Bump for anyway browsing lol
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So no one has a clue, that's OK, does anyone have an ideas? Is it possible to hard wire it to accept no battery? Is it true there could be a software block in place?
Just spit balling? This forum gets plenty of traffic, just no one willing to throw some ideas out :/
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Lord_alias said:
So no one has a clue, that's OK, does anyone have an ideas? Is it possible to hard wire it to accept no battery? Is it true there could be a software block in place?
Just spit balling? This forum gets plenty of traffic, just no one willing to throw some ideas out :/
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Mine works anyway with no accu. I used to replace my accu for a full one on the net so it wouldn't turn off.
Armazia said:
Mine works anyway with no accu. I used to replace my accu for a full one on the net so it wouldn't turn off.
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Accu?
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Lord_alias said:
Accu?
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Battery, or whatever you call it
Armazia said:
Battery, or whatever you call it
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Haha ah right see I want to just buy another battery from the net but I'm installing the shift into my PC case and it won't be accessible -_- just wish the thing worked without a battery lol might just have to take the dive and order a new one
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Working home trial

Well I got very lucky. I tried the Good home trial program where they sent me 4 different versions of Glass with the prescription frames. The package list clearly mentioned that these were non working versions.
However...The good news. One of my units is working. I have a completely functioning Glass for $50. I wanted to be upfront with Google and let them know but they said it wouldn't work forever but it's been over a month and still working. It is version XE13 of the firmware and isn't updating to anything beyond that at this point. Everything else is okay...
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inmnbob said:
Well I got very lucky. I tried the Good home trial program where they sent me 4 different versions of Glass with the prescription frames. The package list clearly mentioned that these were non working versions.
However...The good news. One of my units is working. I have a completely functioning Glass for $50. I wanted to be upfront with Google and let them know but they said it wouldn't work forever but it's been over a month and still working. It is version XE13 of the firmware and isn't updating to anything beyond that at this point. Everything else is okay...
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You could try to manually flash a newer update. If I were you, I wouldn't tell Google .
Can you show some pictures from the four different Glasses with the usb ports? Google 'destroy' the usb ports, and send them out to the people who use the trial program.
the XE13 is a software update that never got released for the 'official' explorers.
Well they didn't destroy the USB enough on one. With the right combination of chargers and cable I can charge it. I don't think I am able to get a computer to recognize it so I have to play with that to get it to work to before I can flash it.
I wonder if the fact that it is XE13 is why it won't automatically update.
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all 4 of mine work but each one has its own problem, one holds battery but hard to see - one doesn't hold battery but has a great bright screen
the other 2 i haven't played with yet.
Have you connected to them via a phone etc
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inmnbob said:
Have you connected to them via a phone etc
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yeah they connect to the phone but they destroyed the connections that connect it to the computer
i gotta see where i can find a logic board if its cheap or see how i can fix these pins
Same problem I am having. I can get all the features to work but can't connect to the computer. Are you stuck on XE13 as well?
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inmnbob said:
Well I got very lucky. I tried the Good home trial program where they sent me 4 different versions of Glass with the prescription frames. The package list clearly mentioned that these were non working versions.
However...The good news. One of my units is working. I have a completely functioning Glass for $50. I wanted to be upfront with Google and let them know but they said it wouldn't work forever but it's been over a month and still working. It is version XE13 of the firmware and isn't updating to anything beyond that at this point. Everything else is okay...
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Has G contacted you in any way asking for them back? Or did they just charge you the $50?
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Well I got very lucky. I tried the Good home trial program where they sent me 4 different versions of Glass with the prescription frames. The package list clearly mentioned that these were non working versions.
However...The good news. One of my units is working. I have a completely functioning Glass for $50. I wanted to be upfront with Google and let them know but they said it wouldn't work forever but it's been over a month and still working. It is version XE13 of the firmware and isn't updating to anything beyond that at this point. Everything else is okay...
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So you kept the glasses and they only took $50 from your account nothing more?
That's correct. I also told them that I had a working Glass but they didn't seem to care so I figured my side of the street and conscious was clean.
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inmnbob said:
That's correct. I also told them that I had a working Glass but they didn't seem to care so I figured my side of the street and conscious was clean.
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and you kept the cases and everything. Do you think they will try to charge you full price eventually?
Nope. I got an email saying they were charging me $50
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Nope. I got an email saying they were charging me $50
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Can you please take a snapshot of the email if you don't mind because I might try this lol
inmnbob said:
Well I got very lucky. I tried the Good home trial program where they sent me 4 different versions of Glass with the prescription frames. The package list clearly mentioned that these were non working versions.
However...The good news. One of my units is working. I have a completely functioning Glass for $50. I wanted to be upfront with Google and let them know but they said it wouldn't work forever but it's been over a month and still working. It is version XE13 of the firmware and isn't updating to anything beyond that at this point. Everything else is okay...
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Also how do you remove the clear lens?
I just left it
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oh ok. So any idea on how to charge the glass units because i have my try out kits.
larrygornick said:
When do you guys think Google will release these to the public? They've been in development for so long....
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Next year they have to because the competition is heating up quickly
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Good to hear it. The sooner they release it and the competition takes it's place, the price will hopefully go down to where it is slightly more affordable. I mean, really, no one needs these. They are almost always cosmetic and "cool" and I'll be much happier to buy something like this for fun when it doesn't cost more than a thousand dollars
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well you could sign up for the home trial program. then you will have 4 pairs of google glass (semi working) Then you let google charge you the $50 hold and sell the 4 pair on ebay then you will have more than enough for google glass or some spare cash.
I had success using an Apple USB charger and tried different types of cables until I got one to work
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In the process right now lol
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