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Samung Pay Beta (USA)

I registered for the Samsung Pay Beta program yesterday. Today I received a mail that I've been accepted in the Beta Program. I happily started the Samsung Pay app and it showed a new screen for installation. I installed it. The interface looks good. You can just scan the card and it captures the card number and expiry date automatically. Rest of the information has to be filled manually. However, It didn't accept my CHASE or AMEX card. It gives following error:-
Registration failed
Unable to register your card. Try another
card or contact the card issuer. (645101)
Anybody else having similar issue ?

I am having the same problem with both my cards

I received the beta invite as well. The participation details list the qualifying cards. http://www.samsung.com/us/samsung-p...ID=0125494973&MKM_MID=&CID=eml-mb-cph-815-975

Bradfordv said:
I am having the same problem with both my cards
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rsfinsrq said:
I received the beta invite as well. The participation details list the qualifying cards. http://www.samsung.com/us/samsung-p...ID=0125494973&MKM_MID=&CID=eml-mb-cph-815-975
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Looks like very limited participants are available for Beta Program. I received a mail from AmEx that my card couldn't be added and when I called their customer support, they said the particular Corporate ard I'm trying to add isn't supported to the Beta program, however, it would be available 28th Sept onward (official launch). The Chase however have no idea about Samsung Pay. They said they are aware of only Apple Pay.

I have it as well. It will only work with US Bank or Bank of America (Visa Debit or Visa Credit card). I also tried my other cards just to see if they would work, nothing else is accepted yet. I did call customer service for all of my cards (Amex, Chase, Barclay's, American Airlines CC and Capital One) and they said they will work with Samsung Pay near the end of September.
Looks like Samsung is just minimizing the testing to keep control of things. Worked perfect at Panera with my B of A Debit Visa card. Of course the girl thought it was an IPhone. Knew that was coming hahahaha
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mcmikelw said:
Of course the girl thought it was an IPhone. Knew that was coming hahahaha
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The inevitable... :silly:

I didn't realize this when I used it the other day but Samsung Pay is actually integrated into your lock screen and every screen screen even after you unlock your phone. I previously accessed Samsung Pay through the app as that is how I was use to accessing Google Wallet.
So here is how you quick access it:
Once you turn the screen on, you will see a small tab floating above the home key that says Samsung Pay.
Swipe it up (without unlocking the screen). Choose a card you want to use, then once you want to use it, you use finger print to unlock it. The phone will start vibrating and have some animation on the screen to indicate you can now pay.
If you have your phone unlocked and you were previously using it, you simply swipe up and bam there it is.
I guess in the excitement yesterday I didn't see this. The Samsung pay tab is so small, if you are on auto pilot using your phone you will miss it.
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Im using it as well.. apple pay still much quiker.. id like to see even your phone is locked just tap it and use fingerprint and it will activate. On samsung pay i have to hit fingerprunt twice since my lockscreen is fingerprint

apurva.giri said:
I registered for the Samsung Pay Beta program yesterday. Today I received a mail that I've been accepted in the Beta Program. I happily started the Samsung Pay app and it showed a new screen for installation. I installed it. The interface looks good. You can just scan the card and it captures the card number and expiry date automatically. Rest of the information has to be filled manually. However, It didn't accept my CHASE or AMEX card. It gives following error:-
Registration failed
Unable to register your card. Try another
card or contact the card issuer. (645101)
Anybody else having similar issue ?
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Hi,
What was the reason for your to enroll in the Samsung Pay (Beta) program to begin with?

ad78 said:
Im using it as well.. apple pay still much quiker.. id like to see even your phone is locked just tap it and use fingerprint and it will activate. On samsung pay i have to hit fingerprunt twice since my lockscreen is fingerprint
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Applepay doesn't support MST and there isn't a way for the phone to know there is a MST terminal in front of it. NFC is 2 way which is why it works for that. They could possibly make it work automatically with NFC capable terminals but it would likely just confuse some people about when it's automatic and when it's manual. I don't find it hard to use at all in its current form.

jasonl.teehee said:
Hi,
What was the reason for your to enroll in the Samsung Pay (Beta) program to begin with?
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Well, the Beta programs (Samsung or no Samsung) intend to execute a trial run before the actual services are officially released. Would make no sense if nobody enrolls in it, don't you agree ?

apurva.giri said:
Well, the Beta programs (Samsung or no Samsung) intend to execute a trial run before the actual services are officially released. Would make no sense if nobody enrolls in it, don't you agree ?
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but what's the purpose behind it? does it have the same approach like paypal?

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but what's the purpose behind it? does it have the same approach like paypal?
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Samsung Pay is a payment system which uses NFC and MST. Once you've added your card, you can go to any retailer and pay using your phone instead of your card. If the retailer has an NFC system, you can simply tap your phone onto the NFC section of the payment system and authenticate using PIN/Fingerprint and the payment should be made. Otherwise, if the retailer has traditional magnetic card swiping payment system, just start the Samsung Pay and bring it near the edge of the Payment System where card is required to be swiped. Use PIN/Fingerprint for authentication and the payment should be made easily.
Try googling about Samsung Pay, you'll know more in details.

apurva.giri said:
Samsung Pay is a payment system which uses NFC and MST. Once you've added your card, you can go to any retailer and pay using your phone instead of your card. If the retailer has an NFC system, you can simply tap your phone onto the NFC section of the payment system and authenticate using PIN/Fingerprint and the payment should be made. Otherwise, if the retailer has traditional magnetic card swiping payment system, just start the Samsung Pay and bring it near the edge of the Payment System where card is required to be swiped. Use PIN/Fingerprint for authentication and the payment should be made easily.
Try googling about Samsung Pay, you'll know more in details.
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I'll stick with the classic way, lol, not too sure how safe is the Samsung Pay. :good:

jasonl.teehee said:
I'll stick with the classic way, lol, not too sure how safe is the Samsung Pay. :good:
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I'd say it's significantly safer than carrying a physical card around since anyone could rob you and use it where as samsung pay couldn't be used unless they chopped off your finger when they stole the phone and at that point the cashier would be suspicious I'm thinking.

jasonl.teehee said:
I'll stick with the classic way, lol, not too sure how safe is the Samsung Pay. :good:
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We're talking about Samsung here.. You could trust them with your contacts, messages, social media credentials, banking apps and you can't trust them with Samsung Pay. Really ? May be you don't use banking apps (I thought you may bring that up again), and that's okay. It's your hard earned money, I'm sure you know how to handle it better than anybody else does. You might wanna look into Samsung Knox bdw (just for information purpose), its even NSA approved.
codee said:
I'd say it's significantly safer than carrying a physical card around since anyone could rob you and use it where as samsung pay couldn't be used unless they chopped off your finger when they stole the phone and at that point the cashier would be suspicious I'm thinking.
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And even if someone manages to do all that, one can simply call the bank to nullify the transaction. A chopped finger would suffice as a proof! :cyclops:

jasonl.teehee said:
I'll stick with the classic way, lol, not too sure how safe is the Samsung Pay. :good:
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I think the toeknization is the real value here. When you go to target and buy something they don't actually have access to your card info, they have a token because the card info stays at the payment processor and is activated by the token. At least that's how I understand it.
Hell, in theory, if target gets hacked and your token is compromised they can do a mass update and scramble the tokens only for cards used at target in the last X number of days.
IMHO this is exponentially safer than using your card at a store. Skimmers are probably less effective too, all kinds of joy with this innovation.

They should of had all major banks on board. So people dont sit around and think about why it may not be safe. Big mistake not not have a feature ready by launch. I have capital one and Wellsfargo and i am waiting not even knowing if they will ever sign on.

dallastx said:
They should of had all major banks on board. So people dont sit around and think about why it may not be safe. Big mistake not not have a feature ready by launch. I have capital one and Wellsfargo and i am waiting not even knowing if they will ever sign on.
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As long as they are VISA or Master Card, they should work. Atleast that's what I understand. Also, there are only limited banks supported for Beta, you should try Capital One and Wellsfargo after 28th.
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dallastx said:
They should of had all major banks on board. So people dont sit around and think about why it may not be safe. Big mistake not not have a feature ready by launch. I have capital one and Wellsfargo and i am waiting not even knowing if they will ever sign on.
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American express, Visa, MasterCard and some large banks are on board - seems to be a pretty good backing and show of support to me. Anyone that thinks it isn't safe clearly has no idea of how the system works because it's actually significantly safer than a standard card.

Samsung Pay Experience Thread

Just got my Samsung Pay Beta activated on my phone two days ago (Sprint GS6) and I wanted to share my experience. In short, it works brilliantly. I tried it today for the first time. I have my chip & pin Bank of America card attached to it.
The first place I tried was Walgreens. They have NFC readers, but I turned off NFC because I wanted to try the MST part to see how good it would work. As soon as the cashier told me how much I had to pay, I put my phone up to the reader and it worked almost instantly. I was actually surprised at how fast it was, even faster than NFC (Google Wallet) from my past experiences. The cashier didn't even flinch or ask questions, I guess she is used to people paying with their phones.
The second place I tried was Dollar Tree. I pretty much did the same thing, as soon as she told me the price I held the phone to the reader and it worked instantly. This time the cashier had never seen someone pay with their phone. She asked me if I had just paid with my phone and I said yes. She told me I was very advanced and modern (she was an older lady) and the old lady behind me said the same thing. She was smiling the whole time I was walking out the door. I laughed and told them it was the new Samsung Pay.
So far it has been a really nice positive experience from ease of use, to cashier response. I need to try it at more places obviously. Just one thing to mention, when the phone is off and you pull up the credit card, you have to swipe up all the way to the middle of the screen for it to recognize what you are trying to do and turn on. I wish they made it a smaller swipe motion.
I'll update this as I try it at more places. I plan on getting the Gear S2 Classic, so I'm excited to try NFC on that as well.

Got my beta a few days ago, just updated my FW today (T-Mobile Latest) still can't get the placeholder app to give me the install button.

no experience yet. samsung just keeps emailing saying im invited to test the beta and i just keep putting in my email....maybe I'll get the link to the beta app on the 27th....

nolimit78 said:
Got my beta a few days ago, just updated my FW today (T-Mobile Latest) still can't get the placeholder app to give me the install button.
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Are you signed into your Samsung account on the phone? Your Samsung sign-in has to be the same email as the email you signed up for in beta.
rob219 said:
no experience yet. samsung just keeps emailing saying im invited to test the beta and i just keep putting in my email....maybe I'll get the link to the beta app on the 27th....
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What carrier are you using? Do you have the Samsung Pay app on your phone already?

@senneca01, though i think i know the answer but you must be on stock rooted isnt it? Has anyone tried the samsung pay on rooted device?

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Are you signed into your Samsung account on the phone? Your Samsung sign-in has to be the same email as the email you signed up for in beta.
What carrier are you using? Do you have the Samsung Pay app on your phone already?
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att and no app

Yeah. I wasn't at first but I fixed that quick. Wiped the galaxy app store, account, Samsung pay and samsumg÷ app. I even tried downloading someone else's Samsung pay and framework app. That got me further. I was able to get all the way to where it sees your login and I hit next it tries to load but fails.

rob219 said:
att and no app
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Okay, I guess ATT has not updated their FW yet.
nolimit78 said:
Yeah. I wasn't at first but I fixed that quick. Wiped the galaxy app store, account, Samsung pay and samsumg÷ app. I even tried downloading someone else's Samsung pay and framework app. That got me further. I was able to get all the way to where it sees your login and I hit next it tries to load but fails.
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I've read that it takes a few days to show up for some people, I hope it works soon for you.

used it the other day. Strange experience. but it worked flawlessly at Home Depot
Its also cool you can swipe up with the screen off and active it so you dont have to have it active all the time
(FYI: i had to call Samsung Pay to get beta activated because this is my 2nd phone and they had tied to the original IMEI i had)

Tried it at GameStop today and the MST worked flawlessly. Only this time the cashier asked me for the last 4 digits of the card. Samsung just updated the app yesterday and now it shows the last 4 digits of the digital card right under the last 4 digits of the real card. It did not show that before, so it is a nice update. Showed him my phone and was out the door. He was totally confused about the whole transaction, had never seen it done before.

had to report my first bug today. Samsung pay seems to break my IR blaster. have a ticket in so we'll see what happens

Lockeskidney said:
had to report my first bug today. Samsung pay seems to break my IR blaster. have a ticket in so we'll see what happens
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Reported the same bug and got a ticket in as well. It seems to break both the top IR blaster (used by the Peel remote) and the proximity IR emitter on the front (used by Beep'nGo).

I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what was wrong with my IR Blaster. I'm glad my hunch was right and that Samsung Pay (once a card is activated in the software) is the culprit.

Well, I was very excited to see Samsung Pay available for my use today. After the hour or so of updates that I needed, I went to start adding cards to it. Out of about 6 cards in my wallet, only one actually works. So, yeah, it's great that it can be used at more places than Google Pay or Apple Pay, but only with one of my cards, which happens to be an AmEx, which also means that it's NOT accepted at a lot of places.
Also, when I tried using it at the grocery store, I couldn't get it to work. I kept holding it near the card swipe slot, moving the phone around, never got it.

Does anybody know when it will come to Europe ?
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Does anybody know when it will come to Europe ?
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This depends on the given country and also the local banks AFAIK.

I got it activated today and added a card.
Seems a bit laggy at times,
It's froze a couple of times on me.
Have yet to try it, I will next time IF I REMEMBER lol.
Gotta get used to it.
Also Question, do you have to have NFC activated or android beam in order to use sam pay?

Crisisx1 said:
I got it activated today and added a card.
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Also Question, do you have to have NFC activated or android beam in order to use sam pay?
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Nope. NFC is merely a fallback if it cannot do a MST. I keep NFC off just to try and get MST sales to go through.

I just used Samsung pay at auto zone. . It was so easy and effortless! !
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It worked great for me on my second try, using a vending machine today.

Anyone missing Samsung pay on their VZW S7?

i got mine today and Samsung pay is not installed. i went to the google play store and it said samsung pay was not compatible with my phone? everything is stock...no root or other hacks.
Thanks.

Try Galaxy Apps

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I agree I'm missing it too On my samsung galaxy s7 edge. I went to galaxy apps and it looked like it downloaded but I can't find it anywhere. I must be missing something or its hidden in a folder. I'll keep looking!

Trying to remember how I activated it on my wife's S6. I think you have to go into settings > tap & pay.
I just read that Verizon forced Samsung to remove Samsung Pay from VZW S7 and Edge. You can also side load it from APKmirror.com also.

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Found this when searching for Samsung Pay in Google Play Store comments
Sheena Caballero March 6, 2016
Won't download I am trying to download/install this on my s7 edge and it has been at 43% downloaded for the past 3 hours?????
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. March 7, 2016
We are sorry for the inconvenience. Galaxy S7 is scheduled to be released on March 11th, and Samsung Pay service for S7 will be enabled once it is officially released.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/0...alaxy-s7-and-s7-edge-but-you-can-sideload-it/
One post said that Verizon has also removed any mention of Samsung Pay from their S7 manual.

Wow you are completely correct! Verizon just pulled that lowball move and demanded that Samsung remove it. I'm sideloading it as we speak.

Has anyone had any trouble getting past the finger print registration on samsung pay?

emmawilliam834 said:
Has anyone had any trouble getting past the finger print registration on samsung pay?
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Had this issue on the s6, remove your fingerprints and clear cache in the fingerprint app then set it up with a pin. Once you finish the install turn on fingerprints
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I had to download the apk, then install. Once I installed I was able to register my card fine.

dandiaz21 said:
Found this when searching for Samsung Pay in Google Play Store comments
Sheena Caballero March 6, 2016
Won't download I am trying to download/install this on my s7 edge and it has been at 43% downloaded for the past 3 hours?????
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. March 7, 2016
We are sorry for the inconvenience. Galaxy S7 is scheduled to be released on March 11th, and Samsung Pay service for S7 will be enabled once it is officially released.
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Seems you may be correct. (Update)
"We've spoken with Samsung, and they have clarified that while Samsung Pay currently cannot be installed via the Play Store or Galaxy Apps on the Verizon model, it will be available to Verizon Galaxy S7s and S7 edges via those channels starting on March 11th, the official launch date for the phones. Samsung Pay is not pre-loaded on Verizon models, unlike some other US carriers, and Verizon does not advertise the app - and even went so far as to strip it from the user manuals of its versions of the S7 and S7 edge - but sideloading will not be necessary by the time we reach the retail launch date for the devices."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/0...axy-s7-and-s7-edge-but-you-can-sideload-it/#2

Samsung pay is live on the play store.

It works on mine!

Spoke with a Samsung rep yesterday about this. I was looking into the phone and he said that the VZW version just won't have it. He said that only Android pay would work.

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Spoke with a Samsung rep yesterday about this. I was looking into the phone and he said that the VZW version just won't have it. He said that only Android pay would work.
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another good reason to not ever call customer service! haha

Got the S7 today. Just downloaded Samsung Pay from the Playstore, installed and registered a card without a problem.
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I don't have any cards that work with Samsung pay. I got all excited to get my free charger and try out the service and nothing. At least android pay works

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another good reason to not ever call customer service! haha
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Yep haha. I just happened to be a in Best Buy store because my friend works there and I was able to hold the phone without the security tether. Their resident "Samsung Expert" was the one who told me that. Only for me to see an article the next day about how VZW was allowing it on phones.

I was able to install Samsung Pay from the Play Store, but adding a card won't work on my Verizon S7.
I called Samsung Pay support and ran through settings, clear cache, uninstall, restart device, reinstall Pay and still won't connect to server to add any cards.
They have sent it up the chain at Samsung Support and said I should hear back within 48 hours.

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I was able to install Samsung Pay from the Play Store, but adding a card won't work on my Verizon S7.
I called Samsung Pay support and ran through settings, clear cache, uninstall, restart device, reinstall Pay and still won't connect to server to add any cards.
They have sent it up the chain at Samsung Support and said I should hear back within 48 hours.
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Works perfectly for my Verizon S7 and Bank of America debit

Samsung Reactivation lock?

Can't seem to find it anywhere on my VZW S7 Edge. Takes all of ten seconds to locate it on my VZW S6 Edge, but the menu item is just plain missing on my S7.
Looking at the various carrier's user-manuals, I can find it on the AT&T S7 manual but the Verizon manual makes absolutely no reference to it.
Anyone else notice this?
I'm going to guess it is yet another item that VZW decided was something I just don't need, kind of like the built-in white pages integration. It's so nice that they remove these evil and potentially damaging features so so I don't get into trouble using them.

I think I've figured this one out. Verizon offers their own version of remote-wipe for $11/month, so naturally they removed the free Find My Mobile functionality that Samsung had built into the phone. With that gone, so goes the Samsung reactivation lock as well.
Thanks, Obama.

Oh.. wow, what a crap. I was also looking for that feature in case my phone gets stolen. I thought all phones now come with these reactivation lock built in, just like an iPhone to discourage theft...

afh3 said:
I think I've figured this one out. Verizon offers their own version of remote-wipe for $11/month, so naturally they removed the free Find My Mobile functionality that Samsung had built into the phone. With that gone, so goes the Samsung reactivation lock as well.
Thanks, Obama.
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What does Obama have to do with this on your phone? His current job is President of the United States, not of Verizon.
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I use to have a Nexus and have android device manager. So I suggest that.
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What does Obama have to do with this on your phone? His current job is President of the United States, not of Verizon.
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Didn't he or somebody was supposed to make this function a mandatory thing to lower theft? I don't know about politics so don't quote me on that.

Just being a little snarky there, guys. Blaming Obama for this was intended to be so ridiculous that no one could possibly assume it was sincere.
I was wrong.
Anyway...
I stopped by the Verizon store to ask them to please turn on the Samsung Reactivation Lock on my S7 Edge. They, of course, had absolutely no idea what that was or even what I was talking about.
So, as I stood there watching them do web-searches to find out what I was asking for, I noticed that one of them had an S6 Edge. I guided them to the function in question on that phone, and told them I wanted that activated on my phone.
Once they saw what I meant, they immediately offered to sell me back that missing functionality for the aforementioned $11/month in the form of their Security and Protection service.
When I directed their attention to Samsung.com, and the various user-guides published for each of the major carriers, and pointed out in the appropriate document that AT&T had left that feature on the phone, they actually told me "No, AT&T just added that additional feature. We didn't remove anything."
At that point I realized that I was arguing with idiots and bid them a good day and left the store.

afh3 said:
Can't seem to find it anywhere on my VZW S7 Edge. Takes all of ten seconds to locate it on my VZW S6 Edge, but the menu item is just plain missing on my S7.
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If your phone is lost or stolen just call Verizon and have them deactivate it. My wife lost her iPhone, she called Verizon and they deactivated it. I can't see Verizon not locking the phone down if requested for loss or theft.
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Eddie Hicks said:
If your phone is lost or stolen just call Verizon and have them deactivate it. My wife lost her iPhone, she called Verizon and they deactivated it. I can't see Verizon not locking the phone down if requested for loss or theft.
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That's different then a reactivation lock. Verizon blacklisting the device makes it unusable in the US, but usable oversea. The reactivation lock makes the phone completely useless, as in you can't even get to the OS.
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I don't know how Device Manager replaces the functionality of Reactivation Lock.

Samsung now only uses google's FRP protection (which is a joke to bypass)same goes for samsung..anyways before some phones supported the two of them but with the s7 thats not the case anymore. The moment you add a google account to your phone you can check in the download screen it will say FRP lock : ON which means when you do a factory reset it will ask you for your google credentials.

_Dennis_ said:
That's different then a reactivation lock. Verizon blacklisting the device makes it unusable in the US, but usable oversea. The reactivation lock makes the phone completely useless, as in you can't even get to the OS.
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OK I see now. I didn't realize it's for U.S. only. I'll have to keep that in mind next time we're abroad.

just a rant

My insurance replaced my wet v20 with this phone. I really like it. However why in the hell do Samsung & att find it necessary to add so much bloated crap?? I want to stop rooting but I these types of annoyances hinder me from buying any Samsung phones and make it NECESSARY to root the phone.
Don't even get me started on TouchWiz.

Stop buying carrier branded phones, you know they're going to have this crap so why do it?

You can get Package Disabler from the play store.
It gives you the ability to disable lot of the Bloatware crap that is installed. And no root needed.
But, first thing to disable is a package called "DT Ignite". If you don't disable that one first, then a lot of other apps you disable will automatic download and update as soon you disable them.
Mobile Strike, Slacker Radio, some other stupid games, all get pushed to my Verizon S7 Edge with that enabled.

peachpuff said:
Stop buying carrier branded phones, you know they're going to have this crap so why do it?
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I agree, but I dont use credit card and wont drop that kind of money instantly on a device. I usually pay it off in a year. But I totally agree. I used to buy Nexus phones, but whatever Googs is doing with the Nexus brand, I couldnt wait. The Edge isnt a bad phone, if not gimmicky. I just hate both ATT and Sammy because of all of the **** they add.

joe.skelly said:
You can get Package Disabler from the play store.
It gives you the ability to disable lot of the Bloatware crap that is installed. And no root needed.
But, first thing to disable is a package called "DT Ignite". If you don't disable that one first, then a lot of other apps you disable will automatic download and update as soon you disable them.
Mobile Strike, Slacker Radio, some other stupid games, all get pushed to my Verizon S7 Edge with that enabled.
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I manually went through everything and disabled it. I am going to root, as Sammy phones seem pretty easy to root and just install a custom rom. Currently I am researching the root method and want to ensure that there is a back-to-stock unroot method in case of emergency warranty work.

cwis said:
I agree, but I dont use credit card and wont drop that kind of money instantly on a device. I usually pay it off in a year. But I totally agree. I used to buy Nexus phones, but whatever Googs is doing with the Nexus brand, I couldnt wait. The Edge isnt a bad phone, if not gimmicky. I just hate both ATT and Sammy because of all of the **** they add.
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You can get a credit account at AMAZON and pay with no interest for 12 months. This gives you the option to buy any phone - spread payments out over a year and not pay any interest. Just a thought.

mocsab said:
You can get a credit account at AMAZON and pay with no interest for 12 months. This gives you the option to buy any phone - spread payments out over a year and not pay any interest. Just a thought.
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My credit is not the best right now and I dont want to add extra expenses because II'm adding a wing to my home and making some upgrades. My wife/accountant says no phone fun for a year, so I am stuck for a year. I'm already going through Nexus withdrawal LOL

cwis said:
My credit is not the best right now and I dont want to add extra expenses because II'm adding a wing to my home and making some upgrades. My wife/accountant says no phone fun for a year, so I am stuck for a year. I'm already going through Nexus withdrawal LOL
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Been there - done that. Good Luck