Been MIA because I had to go back to stock for the past 2 weeks, ohh how I miss custom roms and ROOT privileges lol.
Anyways, just won $1000 gift card by beating them at the challenge
Post a status update to both facebook and twitter.
I got so lucky for getting this challenge! Even iPhones can win this! lol. There are many apps that allows us to do this, but damn it felt great to win.
let me just start off that the microsoft workers are really cool guys, they weren't trying to deny my win or anything, but were congratulating me with it.
But yeah came in, the greeter told the manager that i'm here to do the challenge. The greeter was really nice about everything telling me how someone just won earlier that day and told me what kind of challenges are asked. He actually helped confirmed that the app I used is fairly well known because the challenger never even heard of it lol.
But yeah the challenger comes out, asked me a couple questions, went through with telling me how things should be done. Restarted my phone, picked a card out of 6, got the said challenge and agreed to post "Hello". Turned on the phone, he told us to connect to store's wifi (you can actually use this time to set up anything just in case ahem ahem)..
put the phone down. He told us he'll count to 3 and we'll unlock the phones and do the challenge. that's when the manager was approaching. As soon as the manager got there, "3!" my phone lagged like a second more to unlock! UGH, but thank god I use swype. "Hello" DONE!. the guys were dumbfounded. the challenger only just entered the app, and only managed to type "h" when I actually waited for my thing to finished updating before yelling out done.. just precautionary measure in case they try to cheat by saying.. you can't say done when it didn't finish uploading lol. But yeah, it took no longer than 2 seconds after the manager got to us.
He asked me to show him what I did, and asked me if it posts to both accounts, and I'm like yeah, this app is actually used on computers too. He was like oh that's cool, he then said "I'm gonna have to check if widgets are allowed, I'm sure it is, but I just have to check to make sure."
He comes back, "yep, there is nothing against widgets, here's your giftcard, come over here so I can set everything up and get your info"
he announced the world that I won through his microphone... I asked to be escorted out because of that announcement. jk.. i didn't ask for escorts lol. But a couple girls approached me and asked what I'm doing afterwards .
no jk again... sigh...
That's awesome congratulations dude.
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Yeah now I need to sell my giftcard somewhere lol. a lot of resellers don't accept microsoft sighh lol
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Yeah now I need to sell my giftcard somewhere lol. a lot of resellers don't accept microsoft sighh lol
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Cool Story Bro.
Well done! I wish I could do the Microsoft Challenge. But no shops in UK
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Yeah now I need to sell my giftcard somewhere lol. a lot of resellers don't accept microsoft sighh lol
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ebay or craigslist. nice job on the win
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and would you like me to tell it again?
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lol thanks jordan, turns out I didn't need any of the other apps I scoured the interwebs for, but yeah gonna try my luck with ebay and CL. I'm gonna have to split the gift card to smaller amounts because I doubt many people want to spend 8-900 on a gc -__-
Where are you at that they are still doing the challenge? I thought that ended a couple of weeks ago. The reason I ask is because I missed it lol and want to give it a whirl.
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Where are you at that they are still doing the challenge? I thought that ended a couple of weeks ago. The reason I ask is because I missed it lol and want to give it a whirl.
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Oh they still do the challenge at every microsoft store throughout the country lol.
The challenge is different though. This is actually the 2nd extension of the original challenge so it is considered "ROUND 3."
You can no longer swap phones if you lose, instead, you get a $25gift card.
You no longer win the hunger games laptop, instead you win a $1000 gc, which I think is better.
tomorrow is the last day! So if you want to try it out then you best do it tomorrow!
maybe they will extend the challenge again! but who knows.
What! Man I'm always out of the loop then find out at the end lol. Did you have to unroot for the challenge? And what challenges do they do? Did you find any apps to be useful? I know you only had to do the status update, but I read that you were doing your homework on this stuff lol.
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There are 6 challenges:
1. take a picture, tag it, post on fb
2. send a message to a friend on fb and text the same person
3. check movie showtimes at the closest theater
4. check the status of your SO or close friend and text that person
5a/b. translation foreign language to english or english to foreign
6. status update to fb and twitter (the one i got woot)
1. Don't think our phone can win this, couldn't find a good app for it. Talked to the microsoft people and apparently their phone actually autotags it, a feature we don't have. I actually think only HTC's sense and their fb integration has a chance at this. (we'll lose this one)
2. gosms + gosms facebook chat, you can make a group text with this
3. cinemadroid is the best one, it downloads the movietimes for you and caches it, You might have trouble downloading movie showtimes in certain cities.. it takes forever... but it eventually gets it... alternative use flixter and click the movie theater not the movie they ask for because clicking on the theater automatically shows all showtimes
4. contapps, you need to fiddle with it
5. google goggles (we'll lose this one)
6. tweetdeck's widget, remember you need to click on/enable fb when you use the widget, it is design to automatically enable twitter but not fb (you'll see what I mean).
however some stores don't go by using cards and actually chooses the challenge themselves (cheap)
We basically have automatic wins at 2,3, and 6 if you don't fumble. cinemadroid is one click and you're done that is our for sure win
4. this one is a little tougher to do..
5. you'll be going against their bing translator which is similar to our google goggles but they have it precached -_- rigged
technically we have about 58% chance of winning considering #4 to be 50/50
I would say if you can't do any of the challenges within 3-4 secs, consider it a loss.
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What! Man I'm always out of the loop then find out at the end lol. Did you have to unroot for the challenge? And what challenges do they do? Did you find any apps to be useful? I know you only had to do the status update, but I read that you were doing your homework on this stuff lol.
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lol i was in the middle of posting my tips for you when you already replied, but yeah that's the best I can do. for contapps there is a tab to look at your contacts recent fb status post. choose the STATUS POST (not sure on actual term) not their fb page you'll see when you play with the app. they have you READ aloud your friend's status, so my tip for this is to just remember what your friend said, and click on that tab real quick and switch to the text tab within the same app and text him whatever you guys agree upon.
edit: oh you must link it with your social hub's facebook. so contact sync your social hub's facebook or something like that.
oh and yeah I unrooted because modified OS is against the rules... in reality, i went back to stock, removed some bloatware and deleted superuser. just don't remove all bloatware, leave some t-mobile stuff on there. The microsoft employees don't know the difference, but in case they do, it's best to remove superuser.
Thanks, I am going to give it a try tomorrow! Just one more idea, with FriendCaster Pro you can sync your contacts facebook statuses with your contact list
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Thanks, I am going to give it a try tomorrow! Just one more idea, with FriendCaster Pro you can sync your contacts facebook statuses with your contact list
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crap, I meant the challenge is over today!
the friendcaster pro status sync is way too slow and you want to text the person too.
contapps have them both built in and they're instant. there is no load period. I'm telling you, if you can't check the status and send him a text message in like 3 secs you'll lose because their widget uhh "deeplinks" does that from their homescreen
Do they check if your phone is rooted?
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Do they check if your phone is rooted?
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It says that rooted phones are not allowed, but I suppose it will depend on each individual employee as to if they actually check or not. You could download a launcher that allows you to hide apps from the app drawer and hide su. Couldn't really see them checking for anything else.
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Do they check if your phone is rooted?
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Anybody else getting this when trying to pull up the desktop version of a website? I called customer support and politely explained what I was experiencing and I was told (that she was posting this on the T-Mobile forum) she'd get back to me on Thursday.
Workaround, perhaps?
Imported GSM Nexus in Chicago.
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That's weird. I always tether and I have never seen that.
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I've heard of others having this happen, but I haven't experienced this myself. What data plan are you on? I wonder if that is a factor? I'm on the $30 Walmart plan.
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That's weird. I always tether and I have never seen that.
I wasn't even tethering! I was just trying to pull up desktop sites instead of mobile.
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I've heard of others having this happen, but I haven't experienced this myself. What data plan are you on? I wonder if that is a factor? I'm on the $30 Walmart plan.
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I'm on a family plan with 5 GB "unlimited data"
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I've replied to every one of these threads it seems. Do just a little research here.
T-Mobile "catches tethering" by filtering UAstring (user agent strings). Problem is, people can have desktop UAstrings on the phone, because they request desktop sites or use 3rd party browsers that only use desktop UAstrings.
Basically theres not much you can do (some things work for some people, no solution worked for me). You can call in and ***** about it but in my experience I wasn't able to get anyone to tell me anything they either literally had no idea what I was talking about, or refused to tell me anything.
In 14 months of T-Mobile service I've only had this happen 1 time, and it was for about 2 weeks then it stopped.
Good Luck.
OP, do you ever tether? If so, how much data do you typically transmit?
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OP, do you ever tether? If so, how much data do you typically transmit?
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It literally has nothing to do with you tethering. You can never turn on tethering and still get that message. They are only filtering UAstrings.
I just started having this problem today, and I spoke at length with a tmo tech who really couldn't help me much, said I needed to talk to Samsung (lol!) And unfortunately the cache/cookie clearing didn't help me at all. I think I'm going to call TMo back again...
UPDATE: Ticket has been submitted to the TMo engineers, so hopefully this will get fixed permanently at their end. This tech was much more helpful and actually listened when I told him was was obviously going on with the UA string filtering, etc. This sucks though...
I know this has nothing to do with tethering but it first showed up after I downloaded a massive file from tethering.
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UPDATE: Ticket has been submitted to the TMo engineers, so hopefully this will get fixed permanently at their end. This tech was much more helpful and actually listened when I told him was was obviously going on with the UA string filtering, etc. This sucks though...
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Good luck. My ticket got "submitted to engineers" with an assurance that I'd hear back in 3-5 days and I never got a call back.
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I actually talked to someone in customer support and they seemed to understand that I was not tethering, just trying to access a desktop site. She got back to me with sorry don't know what I can but give me a couple days .
She actually got me on the phone with an engineer who kept asking me about the UAstring. Finally, I had to get into an in depth conversation about ICS and why the UAString is irrelevant. I think it hit home with him and he said they're working on a solution. He promised to keep me in the loop, let's see how that goes.
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I actually talked to someone in customer support and they seemed to understand that I was not tethering, just trying to access a desktop site. She got back to me with sorry don't know what I can but give me a couple days .
She actually got me on the phone with an engineer who kept asking me about the UAstring. Finally, I had to get into an in depth conversation about ICS and why the UAString is irrelevant. I think it hit home with him and he said they're working on a solution. He promised to keep me in the loop, let's see how that goes.
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Hey thanks for posting your update. I also feel fairly confident that I conveyed the idea that TMo is erroneously using the detection of a desktop UA string as a means of detecting tethering users, and that users of all the best new phones (like the GNex) only ever use the desktop UA as these phones with their big displays and Flash capabilities have rendered the mobile site versions useless. So clearly its on them to sort it out ASAP, otherwise they are going to have thousands and thousands of really pissed off smartphone users.
BTW I'm giving them til Monday afternoon to return my call at which point I'm going to start calling tech support every day and really be up their butt about it. Plus it just so happens that I'm now no longer under contract with them, so I'll let them know if they can't sort it out quickly I'll take my business elsewhere.
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By the way to the OP, might we be able to change the title of the thread to something like "Tmobile using desktop UA to detect tethering, block full websites?" just hoping that anyone and everyone who might be experiencing this to be able to easily spot this thread and know exactly what it is about so that they can chime in with their info or experience.
And actually it would be nice if Android Police or Droid Life picked up on this and posted a story.... perhaps a couple of emails might be in order this evening
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And actually it would be nice if Android Police or Droid Life picked up on this and posted a story.... perhaps a couple of emails might be in order this evening
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Ya it'd be nice but this has been going on for a very very long time. You're not the first one to call and ***** at them about this.
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Ya it'd be nice but this has been going on for a very very long time. You're not the first one to call and ***** at them about this.
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Well I just sent email tips to both AP and DL, and linked to this thread so that they can see the screengrabs, etc.
As for the *****ing, I may not be the first to call them about it, but I promise you I can be a bigger pain in the ass about it than pretty much anyone. I'll call and have a ticket processed every day if I have to! The other odd thing that I can't figure out is, I'd been running my Nexus One for over 2 years and now my GN for the last 3 months (on desktop UA for every day of it) and only this morning did I encounter this for the first time. I just wonder, why now all of a sudden? Makes no sense.
Hey Everyone... Originally when I got my GNEX, I could have sworn that when I tried to unlock/root it, it had been easier than a lot of the instructions, but I didn't think too much about it at the time. (I got it directly from a VZW wireless store) I think at this point, it was already unlocked. Now that I've changed phones, I wanted to prep this one for selling, and I was trying to follow instructions on how to reset/relock the phone, but it doesn't seem to let me lock it with the fastboot oem lock commands... but if this is an engineering build, should I even bother? Or can I sell it as is and just state factory unlocked?
Here is an image of my "About Phone" after flashing back the google images that I downloaded from here: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/mysid-icl53f-factory-65895fa8.tgz
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Should this be ok to sell in this state? My plan was to ebay it, but I don't want to get in any trouble.
Not ur fault they sold you it. Profit on ebay
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Not ur fault they sold you it. Profit on ebay
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Yep, I would list it as "Factory Unlocked", you aren't the one who screwed up
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Yep, I would list it as "Factory Unlocked", you aren't the one who screwed up
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Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, but I tried -looking- for a factory unlocked CDMA version to judge it against, and can't even seem to find any, am I just missing something? Are people selling them somewhere else?
You won't find a "Factory Unlocked" model, AFAIK they don't make them. What you have is somewhat unique, although not that useful since it's a Nexus device. If you want more info on what exactly you have this thread has a decent overview if you read the first 2 pages: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1461386 Bottom line, your fine to sell it as is.
To the right person you will get more just because it is an engineering model! If I were you I would bank on that!!
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To the right person you will get more just because it is an engineering model! If I were you I would bank on that!!
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I thought about that too when I first read the post. But, since this is a Nexus device to begin with, does that really get you anything?
I doubt it gets you anything but I want one lol. I'd pay maybe $20 more than a normal one but beyond that I'd get a stock. Someone may want it just to have it like me though.
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I thought about that too when I first read the post. But, since this is a Nexus device to begin with, does that really get you anything?
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I doubt it gets you anything but I want one lol. I'd pay maybe $20 more than a normal one but beyond that I'd get a stock. Someone may want it just to have it like me though.
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The one post answers the other lol. It gets you at least $20 more, and to the right person even more, depending on the person!
Good luck let us know if it sells for more.
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Good luck let us know if it sells for more.
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Will do. Kinda bummed about the selling prices in general, haven't been able to decide what to list it for. Gonna throw it up with no reserve and see what happens.
Put rare and what not in it.
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If its rare people will pay, just due to the fact that no one else can get it.
I personally am the type of person you want to sell this to. I buy tons of stuff for hundreds more just because I collect tech.
***Speaking of which, if anyone knows someone that owns an original 20gb PS3 I am looking to spend $400 or more depending on condition. Been looking for 3 years. Also looking for a copy of Super Metroid for SNES, I`ll pay $60 with out box, $100 in box***
Anyways yeah, if I didn`t already own a Galaxy Nexus and was not in the process of looking for a Galaxy S2 White (perferably from France to use here in Canada) I`d pay around $800 easy.
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If its rare people will pay, just due to the fact that no one else can get it.
I personally am the type of person you want to sell this to. I buy tons of stuff for hundreds more just because I collect tech.
***Speaking of which, if anyone knows someone that owns an original 20gb PS3 I am looking to spend $400 or more depending on condition. Been looking for 3 years. Also looking for a copy of Super Metroid for SNES, I`ll pay $60 with out box, $100 in box***
Anyways yeah, if I didn`t already own a Galaxy Nexus and was not in the process of looking for a Galaxy S2 White (perferably from France to use here in Canada) I`d pay around $800 easy.
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I hadn't thought of it from a collectors point of view, I was thinking purely in terms of a developer. fiyawerx, maybe you should at least look for an alternative market? Maybe Adreno knows some other collectors?
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I hadn't thought of it from a collectors point of view, I was thinking purely in terms of a developer. fiyawerx, maybe you should at least look for an alternative market? Maybe Adreno knows some other collectors?
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No I don't sorry.
Only reason I threw out the $800 number is because, really its not that much more you'd pay buying a "normal" phone really.
I still remember paying something like $700 after tax for the Xperia x10 (ouch bad device) and another $700 for the Xperia Arc (Better device but still too much IMO)
$800 is not that big of a jump, and you are getting something truly unique.
***On a side note: I bought the Xperia x10 and my wife's first iphone, the white 3GS the same day...I think the total was like $1400. Imagine my surprise learning my brand new "latest tech" android didn't support multitouch....mmm still feel that burn! Oh well I guess 2 finger touch ended up being supported later, but by then I was on the Samsung Captivate. Loved the Captivate!***
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No I don't sorry.
Only reason I threw out the $800 number is because, really its not that much more you'd pay buying a "normal" phone really.
I still remember paying something like $700 after tax for the Xperia x10 (ouch bad device) and another $700 for the Xperia Arc (Better device but still too much IMO)
$800 is not that big of a jump, and you are getting something truly unique.
***On a side note: I bought the Xperia x10 and my wife's first iphone, the white 3GS the same day...I think the total was like $1400. Imagine my surprise learning my brand new "latest tech" android didn't support multitouch....mmm still feel that burn! Oh well I guess 2 finger touch ended up being supported later, but by then I was on the Samsung Captivate. Loved the Captivate!***
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And here I'd be thrilled if I got around 5 for it. Still haven't listed it, though. My wife will kill me if I don't soon.
What's the condition of the phone?
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Used daily for about 3 weeks daily, with a screen protector installed @ verizon when I bought it. Somehow it still managed to get a tiny line in it near the front camera in the upper right... you have to have the light hit it just right to see it, I tried getting it in the pictures here but could not. I took the screen protector off now to show how clean the real screen is, there's some dust on it though.
The pictures came out a bit too big that I'd want to post here, you can see them here:
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I still have the original box and books, but am not sure which usb cable or where the actual wall wart is right now that came with it.
SALE ON APPS HERE!!
Google Play APKs here.
Okay so Google has changed a bunch of their apps adding the word "Play", seemingly NOTHING has changed except the addition of the word. Best I can tell it is an attempt to make people aware of their cloud services, which have been in place for a while now. They even changed the "Android Market" on desktop to "Google Play", so pointless. However, they are ushering in the change with a HUGE sale of some of their best apps for only 50c. And the "Play of the Day" is "Where's My Water?" for 25c. My suggestion is buy them all. I already had most of them from the 10c sale they did last year, which was a much better deal, but I picked up the ones I didn't have. Just a heads up.
EDIT: I just received this text from Verizon!
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EDIT 3/7/12: Google Play has been pushed to me. Here are some pics..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...WRfbXVsdGlfX18yX3Byb21vXzEzMzEwNTgxMjcxNTIiXQ..
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Are you saying mine doesn't? Cause I tried it and it works fine for me?. Either way thanks for the mirror.
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Are you saying mine doesn't? Cause I tried it and it works fine for me?. Either way thanks for the mirror.
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No, it's says the URL can't be found on the server.
Anyway, I bought World Of Goo and Sprinkle!
I love it when there are sales ^^
Google Play sounds like a video streaming service. Bad name for something so unified. On another note, I got ShadowGun for 50p!
i picked up Camera Zoom FX. thanks for posting this, OP!
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Google Play sounds like a video streaming service. Bad name for something so unified. On another note, I got ShadowGun for 50p!
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I agree with you. But I guess that they did it because of the lawsuits with Apple.
Because of the "Market" word in the name.
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I agree with you. But I guess that they did it because of the lawsuits with Apple.
Because of the "Market" word in the name.
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Nah Apple didn't patent the word "market". LOL.
I always thought Market is too generic for the app store and it can mean anything. Play is not awesome but better than Market, at least it's more identifiable.
Just noticed this new "Play" moniker myself too. Already raped my Visa with a hefty $4 to grab 8 games!
I love it when these types of sales appear...too bad I paid full price for Shadowgun back when it was launched...oh well, the new savings make me feel better!
Good find my man, thanks.
Seems to be a sale on certain music selections today as well.
Best $12.95 I've spent in awhile...
diSke said:
No, it's says the URL can't be found on the server.
Anyway, I bought World Of Goo and Sprinkle!
I love it when there are sales ^^
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I dunno?. I have clicked the link several times. Anyone else 404?
diSke said:
I agree with you. But I guess that they did it because of the lawsuits with Apple.
Because of the "Market" word in the name.
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Nah Apple didn't patent the word "market". LOL.
I always thought Market is too generic for the app store and it can mean anything. Play is not awesome but better than Market, at least it's more identifiable.
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Apple uses the word "AppStore", and they did sue Amazon over it. I dont think they won, but they absolutely took them to court, because Apple is a bunch of fascist Dbags.
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Seems to be a sale on certain music selections today as well.
Best $12.95 I've spent in awhile...
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Seems to be a sale on certain music selections today as well.
Best $12.95 I've spent in awhile...
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Am I seein' double here? A quadruple post?
I bought Tune in and Shadow Gun. Own a few of the other apps on sale, purchased during the 10 cent sale in December.
I re-did the link hopefully this one is better!
As for the 25c "Play of the Day", "Wheres My Water?", I would say that is a fun game except Disney has pulled a bunch of BS as in excluding levels from the paid version that are in the free version, and then adding Valentines Day levels to the free version ONLY!! Obviously they want you to click on the ads. I have personally wrote them an email and wrote on their fb wall about this, they dont care, they have no intention of updating for users who PAID to support them. They only want you to click on their ads. assholes.
It seams as if the "Play of the Day" thing will be a every day thing now!! That is cool with me. Not quite the Amazon "FREE app of the Day", but I like the Android Market, err, "Google Play" uhm Market better than Amazon AppStore anyways.
Man I hate android's market sometimes. I installed TuneIn Radio Pro from GetJar's market awhile ago. Now it shows up in android's market as having been purchased (which I never did). I'd like to buy it today, but it says it's already purchased. Click on install and it get's declined because I haven't purchased it. I contacted google support over two months ago because of a similar issue with another app and they are 'still working to resolve this issue'. In another year or two, I'm sure they'll get it fixed...sigh. Just give me a delete button.
I guess I can use another google account, but that seems like a pain as well.
mudferret said:
Am I seein' double here? A quadruple post?
I bought Tune in and Shadow Gun. Own a few of the other apps on sale, purchased during the 10 cent sale in December.
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Tethered to a bad 3G connection while downloading all the apps I just bought and surfing other pages...a recipe for multi-posting.
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Man I hate android's market sometimes. I installed TuneIn Radio Pro from GetJar's market awhile ago. Now it shows up in android's market as having been purchased (which I never did). I'd like to buy it today, but it says it's already purchased. Click on install and it get's declined because I haven't purchased it. I contacted google support over two months ago because of a similar issue with another app and they are 'still working to resolve this issue'. In another year or two, I'm sure they'll get it fixed...sigh. Just give me a delete button.
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It seems that the market has this problem with any 3rd party app store. I got SwiftKey X off Amazon's app store and even though Google's system says I have purchased it, I cannot get it to update. This isn't the biggest problem because I can just hop over to Amazon and do it that way, but it could be annoying if I ever decided I didn't want to partake in Amazon's services anymore...
Hopefully if that day ever comes this issue will be fixed.
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It seams as if the "Play of the Day" thing will be a every day thing now!! That is cool with me. Not quite the Amazon "FREE app of the Day", but I like the Android Market, err, "Google Play" uhm Market better than Amazon AppStore anyways.
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I haven't really been watching Amazons FAOTD lately, but when I have looked it seems that the picks are usually not that great. I, for one, would rather have a discounted price on a good app then get a bad one for free...
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Man I hate android's market sometimes. I installed TuneIn Radio Pro from GetJar's market awhile ago. Now it shows up in android's market as having been purchased (which I never did). I'd like to buy it today, but it says it's already purchased. Click on install and it get's declined because I haven't purchased it. I contacted google support over two months ago because of a similar issue with another app and they are 'still working to resolve this issue'. In another year or two, I'm sure they'll get it fixed...sigh. Just give me a delete button.
I guess I can use another google account, but that seems like a pain as well.
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You'll have to uninstall the GetJar one first.
mwalt2 said:
Man I hate android's market sometimes. I installed TuneIn Radio Pro from GetJar's market awhile ago. Now it shows up in android's market as having been purchased (which I never did). I'd like to buy it today, but it says it's already purchased. Click on install and it get's declined because I haven't purchased it. I contacted google support over two months ago because of a similar issue with another app and they are 'still working to resolve this issue'. In another year or two, I'm sure they'll get it fixed...sigh. Just give me a delete button.
I guess I can use another google account, but that seems like a pain as well.
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Had this problem with Osmos HD (got it in the "Humble Bundle" last month, but want updates from Market, err, ugh, Play). I uninstalled, cleared chache/data in Market, "broke" Market links with Titanium Backup, waited about 10 minutes and was able to purchase it on desktop. Hope that helps!
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I haven't really been watching Amazons FAOTD lately, but when I have looked it seems that the picks are usually not that great. I, for one, would rather have a discounted price on a good app then get a bad one for free...
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Agreed agreed agreed! And I would rather give 25c to the Android Market than deal with the Amazon AppStore. But just as an example.. Today's app "WMW?" was given away for free from Amazon months ago. Its actually really wierd, I LOVE everything else about Amazon.. Their cloud is the tits! UNLIMITED music in the cloud for $20/year. Their Prime service is double tits! Yes I am a homebody, and Ive been boycotting WalMart for years now. Their customer service is excellent, any time I have a problem and that is rare, but if I do they just credit me back the cost no questions asked. Their Free app of the Day is a really cool concept BUT the Amazon AppStore app itself drives me effing crazy! I dont know what it is about it I just hate it, yes I realize it just got an update recently and the notifications can now be disabled, but I just dont have any love for the Amazon AppStore app. I always kill it after checking the FAotD because I feel like it eats my battery.
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Apple uses the word "AppStore", and they did sue Amazon over it. I dont think they won, but they absolutely took them to court, because Apple is a bunch of fascist Dbags.
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Apple did sue Amazon for calling it Amazon Appstore but Google's app market is, was called Market which Apple did NOT patent for it and did NOT sue.
Apple is just capitalism at its finest. There's nothing personal about all the lawsuits, especially after Jobs passed away.
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Apple is just capitalism at its finest. There's nothing personal about all the lawsuits, especially after Jobs passed away.
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I think you are confusing capitalism and fascism. As for Steve Jobs I hear Apple is releasing an upgraded version this summer. Steve Jobs 2.0 will come with curley hair, a white turtleneck, and not wear "dad jeans".
I have a "fixed" Note 7 and I understand I have to turn it in but I want to wait as long as I can. I know I seen on here a way to block OTA updates. Something about freezing system apps? I wan't to block any battery crippling updates Samsung puts out. I just want to wait to see if I can make it till S8 comes out.
It isn't fixed. Just send it back. Seriously.
Disabling these bottom four will end future updates.
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Disabling these bottom four will end future updates.
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Four? Or all 7?
projectrs2 said:
Four? Or all 7?
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You can do all seven but the bottom for is the main one you want to disable.
I am on Verizon and do not have some of the ones that you are showing that are checked in Package Disabler Pro. Anyone on Verizon have these to disable future updates?
lawrence750 said:
It isn't fixed. Just send it back. Seriously.
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That's why I put fixed in quotation marks
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This is what I disabled. Am I good to go?
Fahrenheit85 said:
That's why I put fixed in quotation marks
This is what I disabled. Am I good to go?
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Yes no more updates ever...
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I had all of those disabled at AT&T and many more (lessons learned from from the note 5) . Guess what, they pushed the update anyway in the middle of the night with no prompt that will let me cancel.
also install a firewall just in case.
its far fetched to think samy could have their system apps pass on/tunnel your personal data via other innocent apps (im definitely sure google is doing it to ensure they gather as much data from us as possible). if I'm wrong, at least a firewall saves you on wireless 4g data charges
This is the only thing we can do if we want to keep the phone, if it goes through then it will force the keepers to switch if it doesn't we'll see how long we can last without updated/support.
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I had all of those disabled at AT&T and many more (lessons learned from from the note 5) . Guess what, they pushed the update anyway in the middle of the night with no prompt that will let me cancel.
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are you sure you disabled all update packages? damn that's scary to realised you don't actually own the phone you bought, your just leasing a product with the illusion of full control...
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are you sure you disabled all update packages? damn that's scary to realised you don't actually own the phone you bought, your just leasing a product with the illusion of full control...
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Yes I did. Had the note 5 remember?
It was crazy scary, especially when the phone turned blue and AT&T logo popped out without a warning.
It was doing something for nearly 10-20 minutes with a bar on the bottom of the screen (so I knew it was doing something).
it was in recovery mode and did not have the running android logo (like updates usually do).
I was worried to turn it off cause I did not want my phone to be bricked. When it turned back on I got the message that I must return the phone (and it kept of popping every time I charged it).
So, I am 100% positive that AT&T, and Samsung can do what they want.
Also, yesterday before I returned the phone my line got suspended. But my line is a corporate line so the company just decided to force me to return it.
damn, that's dodgy.
Ridiculous people are doing this, why not turn the damn thing in seriously? Its not going to be supported by samsung or 3rd party developers.
Samsung will almost certainly release something just as good hardware wise if not better in the future.
I just can't figure out why some of you are so insistent on keeping an unsupported and dangerous phone.
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Ridiculous people are doing this, why not turn the damn thing in seriously? Its not going to be supported by samsung or 3rd party developers.
Samsung will almost certainly release something just as good hardware wise if not better in the future.
I just can't figure out why some of you are so insistent on keeping an unsupported and dangerous phone.
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Here, ill give you my reason. I go upgrade to the s7 edge tonight. Now, when the new note or whatever it is with the stylus comes out, I cant upgrade yet. Whereas if I still had/have this, then I could with the note even year deal or whatever its called with Verizon. I guarantee im not the only one in this boat.
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It isn't fixed. Just send it back. Seriously.
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Yet another policeman. How the **** do you know if there's anything wrong with his or not. This is getting REALLY tedious.
FWIW, having wiped my Note 7 and boxed it up, I've changed my mind. I am keeping it for a month or two to see what pans out, news of S8 availability, take a look at the Pixel etc.
There's no rush to get them swapped and I not could give a pico-sh1t about the "explosion" risk. Seriously when ZERO have had any issues in the UK. None, nil, nada. Why would anyone be so concerned. Sure there may be a small risk but let's keep this in perspective, please.
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Ridiculous people are doing this, why not turn the damn thing in seriously? Its not going to be supported by samsung or 3rd party developers.
Samsung will almost certainly release something just as good hardware wise if not better in the future.
I just can't figure out why some of you are so insistent on keeping an unsupported and dangerous phone.
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And I can't figure out why people like you are so insistent on ramming your opinions down others' throats.
I will change mine in a month or two once theirs more alternative devices either available or announced. What's YOUR problem with what I do with MY phone?
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Yet another policeman. How the **** do you know if there's anything wrong with his or not. This is getting REALLY tedious.
FWIW, having wiped my Note 7 and boxed it up, I've changed my mind. I am keeping it for a month or two to see what pans out, news of S8 availability, take a look at the Pixel etc.
There's no rush to get them swapped and I not could give a pico-sh1t about the "explosion" risk.
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No not at all, just not a complete moron who thinks he knows better than the multi billion dollar company (with people way way smarter than any of us) who would have done anything in their power to make sure that this didn't happen. You think they would have stopped production for something that's easily fixed? Come on, use your brain!
How do I know if there's anything wrong with his or not? I don't - nobody does - that's the problem... duh? No one can surely say that it will or won't blow up at any time, and you've got hundreds of these idiots going 'hmm, i know better than samsung, mines cool for now, therefore its always gonna be fine'
And thereby not only putting their own selfish ass at risk, but other people who they might be around at that time, god forbid it did explode/set on fire.
It's ridiculous. This whole thing should never have happened, but people insisting on keeping something that is known to randomly (until they can reproduce it, unless they already have and aren't disclosing it) set on fire, and that is just complete stupidity, and nothing else.
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No not at all, just not a complete moron who thinks he knows better than the multi billion dollar company (with people way way smarter than any of us) who would have done anything in their power to make sure that this didn't happen. You think they would have stopped production for something that's easily fixed? Come on, use your brain!
How do I know if there's anything wrong with his or not? I don't - nobody does - that's the problem... duh? No one can surely say that it will or won't blow up at any time, and you've got hundreds of these idiots going 'hmm, i know better than samsung, mines cool for now, therefore its always gonna be fine'
And thereby not only putting their own selfish ass at risk, but other people who they might be around at that time, god forbid it did explode/set on fire.
It's ridiculous. This whole thing should never have happened, but people insisting on keeping something that is known to randomly (until they can reproduce it, unless they already have and aren't disclosing it) set on fire, and that is just complete stupidity, and nothing else.
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Yawn. It was a no brainer for Samsung to discontinue it. They could be 100% confident they would have many more fires and other issues.
Any single user can be 99.99% confident they will not.
If you don't get that, I suggest you have a quick read up on probabilities 101.
@Chippy_boy dont waste your energy man, there will always be people who are just upset in general... they start the fire the moment they hear someone scream witch just continue to help like minded others and ignore their verbal traps, it'll eat them up inside every time they come back here... otherwise they wouldn't come back to troll about a phone they don't have
So after side loading 2.4 a little while ago in a previous post I got a pop up lately that said I had to update Samsung Pay but it wouldn't let me update (assuming because I have the Note 7), and if I didn't update it, it would close. so I looked for the latest version: 2.5.02 apk found here:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsu...ease/samsung-pay-2-5-02-android-apk-download/
When I installed Samsung Pay it was acting up, my phone kept vibrating as if the credit card was trying to "come out". It kept doing it and Samung Pay wouldn't open. I didn't see an option to rollback the updates on my T-mobile version otherwise I'd try to get one before 2.4. However, I deleted the cache and data for both the Samsung Pay and Samsung Pay Framework, crossed my fingers and......VOILA! Samsung Pay 2.5.02 works!! lol I was able to load 2 credit cards back on. I tested the process of unlocking the card to use and there were no problems. Just need to try it at the store but its good to go/safe to try. I will add that when I first started up the app, it mentioned a notice regarding the Note 7 recall. It works though.
A note I will add regarding points from your credit card. I am a preferred customer at bank of america and they give me an extra 75% points. So instead of earning 4 points I earn 7. I noticed on my rewards page which (shows in real time regarding points earned/pending) when I use Samsung Pay, I did not earn the bonus points. Thats a biggie to miss out on. Money talks so I will probably just use Samsung Pay sparingly, as a backup and when I forget or don't have my cc. I still love Samsung Pay and its a top favorite feature on the Samsung phones for me. Something to keep in mind though if you get bonus points on top of the regular points from your credit card issuer.
Dude you are awesome thank so much for your post
It works but Samsung also screwed us - Note 7 is no longer a "qualifying device" and therefore cannot be used to redeem reward points.
EDIT: Actually, looks like redeeming points does work in the app.
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It works but Samsung also screwed us - Note 7 is no longer a "qualifying device" and therefore cannot be used to redeem reward points.
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Yes you can still redeem points, see screen shots below
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Yes you can still redeem points, see screen shots below
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I don't understand what you are showing. There appears to be no actual screen of successful use of points...
Ugh I didn't want to use my points but here this help:
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corvette72778 said:
So after side loading 2.4 a little while ago in a previous post I got a pop up lately that said I had to update Samsung Pay but it wouldn't let me update (assuming because I have the Note 7)
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Something weirder happened to me yesterday.
I got a notify that there was a Samsung Pay update so I tapped it.
The update ran (apparently) succesfully, but then the device immediately locked the UI (almost no more interaction with it) and a strange heartbit-like vibration started.
The only thing I could do was the access to the Power menu and nothing else.
Thanks God after rebooting I was quick enough to run Package Disabler and succesfully disable Samsung Pay.
After having uninstalled everything and installed manually latest framework & APK the issue was gone.
The most freaky issue I ever had...
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Ugh I didn't want to use my points but here this help:
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Thanks. I'll probably try to get 1200 points by buying 30 things in the next couple days and try to redeem something physical though.
I bet if a Note 7 owner were to win something substantial, Samsung would shut it down since we are all technically ineligible for reward points.
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Thanks. I'll probably try to get 1200 points by buying 30 things in the next couple days and try to redeem something physical though.
I bet if a Note 7 owner were to win something substantial, Samsung would shut it down since we are all technically ineligible for reward points.
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Ya that I could see happening unfortunately ?.
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Sorry for the numpty question, but why does Samsung Pay exist, when we already have Android Pay? I use Android pay with my Note7 and it works perfectly. Why would I need Samsung Pay?
Chippy_boy said:
Sorry for the numpty question, but why does Samsung Pay exist, when we already have Android Pay? I use Android pay with my Note7 and it works perfectly. Why would I need Samsung Pay?
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Android Pay, or any other "pay," doesn't have MST technology. http://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00043865/
In other words, Samsung Pay works in the US while the rest of pays don't.
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Android Pay, or any other "pay," doesn't have MST technology. http://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00043865/
In other words, Samsung Pay works in the US while the rest of pays don't.
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Yep, that Loop Pay acquisition and tech pay-ing off.
Up next? The Viv acquisition and tech in the S8, S8+ and N8. It will put Siri to shame just like Loop Pay tech put Apple pay to shame.
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Android Pay, or any other "pay," doesn't have MST technology. http://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00043865/
In other words, Samsung Pay works in the US while the rest of pays don't.
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Thanks. That sounds really cool.
But you do have contactless payment (NFC) in the US, right? Or maybe not, I don't know?
Chippy_boy said:
Thanks. That sounds really cool.
But you do have contactless payment (NFC) in the US, right? Or maybe not, I don't know?
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We are slow to adapt NFC terminals. Not every business has them.
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We are slow to adapt NFC terminals. Not every business has them.
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Same in the UK. In a way it's bizarre, but the smaller retailers tend to have them, whereas some of the big players have been much slower. I guess if you are a small shop, buying a couple of new card readers is small change, but if you are Tesco and have 100,000 devices to replace, it's a bigger challenge.
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Thanks. That sounds really cool.
But you do have contactless payment (NFC) in the US, right? Or maybe not, I don't know?
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Yes, but as the other poster said it's very slow. What surprises me the most is the number of people who still don't know about Samsung Pay. I have it happen fairly often when I'm shopping where the cashier will try and stop me and say "oh we don't have that here" to which I reply yes you do. Then I complete the transaction and they either ask what it is or just look at me a little surprised. It cracks me up every time, my big thing is waiting for the time that I accidentally leave my wallet at home. I always have my phone on me so I know I will always have access to my credit or debit cards. That's one of the reasons why Samsung pay is so awesome in my opinion ?.
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Yes, but as the other poster said it's very slow. What surprises me the most is the number of people who still don't know about Samsung Pay. I have it happen fairly often when I'm shopping where the cashier will try and stop me and say "oh we don't have that here" to which I reply yes you do. Then I complete the transaction and they either ask what it is or just look at me a little surprised. It cracks me up every time, my big thing is waiting for the time that I accidentally leave my wallet at home. I always have my phone on me so I know I will always have access to my credit or debit cards. That's one of the reasons why Samsung pay is so awesome in my opinion .
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how would i know where samsung pay is accepted?
you all got me excited now i want to get one, plus im one of those people who would leave home to go to get some groceries, put the items all in the basket only to find out at the cashier that i forgot my wallet. My phone.. well my phone is even in the washroom with me. cant forget that. laugh.
I would have to get CIBC visa tho, since thats the only bank that works with Samsung pay right now.
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Yes, but as the other poster said it's very slow. What surprises me the most is the number of people who still don't know about Samsung Pay. I have it happen fairly often when I'm shopping where the cashier will try and stop me and say "oh we don't have that here" to which I reply yes you do. Then I complete the transaction and they either ask what it is or just look at me a little surprised. It cracks me up every time, my big thing is waiting for the time that I accidentally leave my wallet at home. I always have my phone on me so I know I will always have access to my credit or debit cards. That's one of the reasons why Samsung pay is so awesome in my opinion .
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It's not available in the UK unfortunately. I don't know why.
Also, I wonder if Android Pay will eventually support MST? It would seem a lot easier to add MST support to Android Pay than to replace millions of card readers out there. Surely Google must be looking at it?
Chippy_boy said:
Sorry for the numpty question, but why does Samsung Pay exist, when we already have Android Pay? I use Android pay with my Note7 and it works perfectly. Why would I need Samsung Pay?
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Not all terminals support nfc, so using the magnetic strip works on Samsung Pay.
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Bellmont said:
Not all terminals support nfc, so using the magnetic strip works on Samsung Pay.
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So I gather - thanks.