Hi all,
Just got my Galaxy Nexus one week ago, the GSM unlocked version. I was looking for a specific app, so I accessed the Google Play store from my computer, and it seems Google knows I have a T-mobile phone! See attached pic. (Technically, it's true, I am using T-mobile service, but I'm pretty sure there is no such T-mobile branded Galaxy Nexus.) I just find that funny, especially since my phone was imported by Expansys (possibly from Russia, based on the included manual and charger that are printed in Cyrillic lettering. )
I wonder if other GSM owners see the same thing? (Obviously, I expect Sprint and Verizon to be shown.)
This is normal. The Play Store puts your telephone service provider in front of the model name. Because you are using a T-Mobile USA SIM, the Play Store determines this from your APN settings AFAIK.
kwurky said:
This is normal. The Play Store puts your telephone service provider in front of the model name. Because you are using a T-Mobile USA SIM, the Play Store determines this from your APN settings AFAIK.
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^This.
My Galaxy Nexus (from Expansys, I think it's a UK version) is labeled "T-Mobile" as well. Same thing with my Nexus One.
I get the same on my Nexus with me using Rogers in Canada.
Mine got labeled SingTel Samsung Galaxy Nexus, pretty sure my country do not have operators that sell branded phones.
It had to do with the sim card's operator numeric thing i think.
I was using Market Enabler the other day, pretty sure i did not have data enabled and Play Store labled my gnex as a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
It just reads your carrier, and reads your device. Then puts them together...
Its cause of your SIM reporting the info to Google when you linked your account to that phone/number.
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Interesting. It does seem a bit intrusive on Google's part to sniff my SIM like that, but I guess I'm OK with it. thanks all.
zAlbee said:
Interesting. It does seem a bit intrusive on Google's part to sniff my SIM like that, but I guess I'm OK with it. thanks all.
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If you also had another Nexus with AT&T you would be thanking Google for doing that so that you knew which device you were about to download an app to.
zAlbee said:
Interesting. It does seem a bit intrusive on Google's part to sniff my SIM like that, but I guess I'm OK with it. thanks all.
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There are carrier-specific apps and things that they need to know your carrier info for. Such as when you are in the Play Store and click on "Music" you get a "Live Exclusive T-Mobile Free Songs" button.
And believe me, Google is doing a lot of stuff more intrusive than knowing what carrier you're on... I'm surprised you ever thought that Google wouldn't know your carrier.
zAlbee said:
Interesting. It does seem a bit intrusive on Google's part to sniff my SIM like that, but I guess I'm OK with it. thanks all.
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As was stated, it is used by the Play Store to determine what apps/features are available to you and it is also used for enabling carrier billing.
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Anyone know if Google Wallet will be able to be ported over to the Galaxy Nexus? I'm going to miss being able to use my phone to pay for things, as I've grown somewhat accustomed to being able to do it. lol I love going to Dairy Queen, or Best Buy, or the drug store and just tapping my phone. I'd love to be able to do it on the Galaxy Nexus.
mysterioustko said:
Anyone know if Google Wallet will be able to be ported over to the Galaxy Nexus? I'd love to be able to do it on the Galaxy Nexus.
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Should not need to be ported, GNex has NFC
NFC is just a chip. You still need the software to use it. For example, I used Google Wallet on my Nexus S (which has a NFC chip). Without software to use the NFC chip with, it's useless. In other words, you have to have some sort of payment software on the phone in order to make use of the NFC as a form of payment.
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Should not need to be ported, GNex has NFC
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NFC is a chip. Google Wallet is an app that lets you use NFC for payments.
For example, only the Sprint Nexus S 4G officially has google wallet. The T-mo Nexus S doesn't. Neither do the SGSII varieties with NFC.
OP, I'd assume that once they have it working for ICS they'll make it happen with an update, but I'm not sure whats holding them from just launching with it.... then again they still haven't given it to the T-mo Nexus S lol so idk what's going on.
I'm really looking forward to Google Wallet too.
While there has been no official announcement, I don't ever think the Verizon version will ever see Google Wallet. Verizon has teamed up with T-Mobile and AT&T to put together Isis, a competitor to Google Wallet. Thats why we only see Google Wallet or Sprint.
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NFC is a chip. Google Wallet is an app that lets you use NFC for payments.
For example, only the Sprint Nexus S 4G officially has google wallet. The T-mo Nexus S doesn't. Neither do the SGSII varieties with NFC.
OP, I'd assume that once they have it working for ICS they'll make it happen with an update, but I'm not sure whats holding them from just launching with it.... then again they still haven't given it to the T-mo Nexus S lol so idk what's going on.
I'm really looking forward to Google Wallet too.
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Well I have a T-mobile Nexus S that I use Google wallet on. Of course it isn't officially supported, but they ported it over from the Sprint Nexus S. I was just holding out hope that it might be possible to bring it to the Galaxy Nexus. lol of course this is just a hope. I'm not sure what libs or framework is needed for it to work.
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Well I have a T-mobile Nexus S that I use Google wallet on. Of course it isn't officially supported, but they ported it over from the Sprint Nexus S. I was just holding out hope that it might be possible to bring it to the Galaxy Nexus. lol of course this is just a hope. I'm not sure what libs or framework is needed for it to work.
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I get a little miffed every time I see a google wallet enabled payment system and I can't use it on my TMo nexus s 'officially'.
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I get a little miffed every time I see a google wallet enabled payment system and I can't use it on my TMo nexus s 'officially'.
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Yeah you would think that "officially" you'd be able to do it. Heck all Google would have to do is just put the app in the market to be downloaded and they wouldn't have to deal with the carriers at all (I think lol). But hey, gotta love the guys here at XDA, that got us around all that and brought it to the tmobile nexus. I'm just hoping it can be done on the Galaxy Nexus too.
Consider yourselves lucky that you can even use a hacked version on your phones.
What about us poor saps in Australia who can install the app and use it, but can't add any funds to it. I really don't understand why Google choose to operate like this.
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Consider yourselves lucky that you can even use a hacked version on your phones.
What about us poor saps in Australia who can install the app and use it, but can't add any funds to it. I really don't understand why Google choose to operate like this.
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Perhaps there are legal issues with it. I have no idea. I just wish a standard would be established already so that we can use it in our day to day. I love using my phone to pay for things! lol
I loved wallet on my tmobile nexus
It worked flawlessly
I was hoping for a gs2 port but that never took place.
Why wouldnt the flagship device for google have wallet pre installed ?
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Is wallet available outside the US? If not, then it may not be on the gsm version since it's not being sold in the states.
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fdm1 said:
Is wallet available outside the US? If not, then it may not be on the gsm version since it's not being sold in the states.
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It's a US-only service, yes. It's just an app so nothing is stopping them from supporting it on the GSM/HSPA version.
I thought the Google Wallet app just makes sure the credit card data travels a save way from the NFC sender to NFC receiver. I don't see how it'd be US-centric, when there's no mobile data involved in the transaction, since Google said that it doesn't require a data connection.
Also, I've read people in Germany using their German T-Mobile Nexus S to pay at the very few Paypass terminals in that country.
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I thought the Google Wallet app just makes sure the credit card data travels a save way from the NFC sender to NFC receiver. I don't see how it'd be US-centric, when there's no mobile data involved in the transaction, since Google said that it doesn't require a data connection.
Also, I've read people in Germany using their German T-Mobile Nexus S to pay at the very few Paypass terminals in that country.
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I meant it as in "the service is currently available in the US only". As far as I know Google has only officially launched the service in the US as of yet. That could just have been a marketing thing though. I'm not sure if it works fine if a seller outside the US just plugs in a comatible NFC-enabled terminal.
Actually, the relevant standard is called Paypass and used outside of the US. In Europe, there's various sort of cards being distributed by Visa, Mastercard and sorts. But apparently there's a RFID version of Paypass, and a superset that does NFC. The current distributed cards are RFID. But there appear to be NFC capable terminals in at least Germany.
From what I could gather, Google Wallet does Paypass NFC. It seems mostly a matter of getting it to install and run on a phone that's not the Spring Nexus S.
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Actually, the relevant standard is called Paypass and used outside of the US. In Europe, there's various sort of cards being distributed by Visa, Mastercard and sorts. But apparently there's a RFID version of Paypass, and a superset that does NFC. The current distributed cards are RFID. But there appear to be NFC capable terminals in at least Germany.
From what I could gather, Google Wallet does Paypass NFC. It seems mostly a matter of getting it to install and run on a phone that's not the Spring Nexus S.
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Interesting. So it's nothing specific needed on the merchant's side other than an NFC-compatible paypass terminal? How does the service work software wise? They could very well have limits on the cards you can use it with.
You might want to check this out.
sitnlow4life said:
I loved wallet on my tmobile nexus
It worked flawlessly
I was hoping for a gs2 port but that never took place.
Why wouldnt the flagship device for google have wallet pre installed ?
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This is the same thing that I was thinking. This is supposed to be the flagship device...you'd think it would already have Wallet on it...or at least have it available.
Here's a 17-yo Brit's contribution to this (and his first ever to the Android communication - received my first Android phone 3 days ago!):
Google Wallet can be "enticed" to run on the Galaxy Nexus. I'm still waiting for an attempt to test it, so we may find out if it works on Monday.
I used the "googlewalletfix_1.1R38v5_ICS_aok.zip" file (no credit to me - found it elsewhere on these forums) - I did the following (with MoDaCo custom ROM):
Flashed MoDaCo, flashed googlewalletfix, reboot to "proper"
Found Google Wallet wasn't installed
Open root terminal, cd to /mnt/sdcard/gw/
mount -o remount,rw /data/system
cp system/app/NfcGoogle.apk /system/app/NfcGoogle.apk # this is probably a terrible, terrible thing to do to your phone. Turn NFC off first and cross your fingers!
cp system/app/Wallet.apk /system/app/Wallet.apk
I saw some logcat entries telling me it was doing something with my newly positioned apk and lo-and-behold, Wallet was installed and would allow me to get a prepaid Google card!
I attached some pretty pictures taken using the Dalvik Debug Monitor.
lukegb said:
Here's a 17-yo Brit's contribution to this (and his first ever to the Android communication - received my first Android phone 3 days ago!):
Google Wallet can be "enticed" to run on the Galaxy Nexus. I'm still waiting for an attempt to test it, so we may find out if it works on Monday.
I used the "googlewalletfix_1.1R38v5_ICS_aok.zip" file (no credit to me - found it elsewhere on these forums) - I did the following (with MoDaCo custom ROM):
Flashed MoDaCo, flashed googlewalletfix, reboot to "proper"
Found Google Wallet wasn't installed
Open root terminal, cd to /mnt/sdcard/gw/
mount -o remount,rw /data/system
cp system/app/NfcGoogle.apk /system/app/NfcGoogle.apk # this is probably a terrible, terrible thing to do to your phone. Turn NFC off first and cross your fingers!
cp system/app/Wallet.apk /system/app/Wallet.apk
I saw some logcat entries telling me it was doing something with my newly positioned apk and lo-and-behold, Wallet was installed and would allow me to get a prepaid Google card!
I attached some pretty pictures taken using the Dalvik Debug Monitor.
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Great work! Anyone willing to try this to see if it works? I'd try it but I don't have my Galaxy Nexus yet (thanks to Handtec....). Great to see progress being made so quickly.
Does anyone know for sure if we can use Google Wallet with our One X and if not why not? I'm looking for a solid answer, not speculation if anyone knows for sure. Thanks a lot in advance!
It all depends on your carrier. Even if your unlocked. I'm using an international version on US's AT&T. I can download google wallet, but as soon as I open it tells me my country/carrier is not supported at this time.
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Willieumm said:
Does anyone know for sure if we can use Google Wallet with our One X and if not why not? I'm looking for a solid answer, not speculation if anyone knows for sure. Thanks a lot in advance!
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No. You can download it from the Market but when you open it you get "Google Wallet has not yet been certified in your country or on your device/carrier." I'm hoping it's not the former because it's picking the phone up as being from the UK. If it's the latter I'm hoping that when AT&T launches the One X it'll be Google Wallet certified. That may not benefit us though because the AT&T phone will have a different model number. Bottom line, don't buy the international One X if Google Wallet is one of your hot buttons.
Unlikely AT&T will ever allow this as I believe all US carriers are collaborating on using an alternative to Google Wallet. The only thing I can think of is to edit build.prop to spoof a UK carrier.
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Well I'm on AT&T as well and when I flashed the google wallet .apk on my Galaxy Nexus I had no problems using it. It wasn't a download from the market, it was a cwm flashable zip and I was able to use it just fine on AT&T. Could this not be done with our One X just the same?
if not, then everyone should get back $50+ on their phones. even descriptions on store sites mention NFC and Google Wallet.
Willieumm said:
Well I'm on AT&T as well and when I flashed the google wallet .apk on my Galaxy Nexus I had no problems using it. It wasn't a download from the market, it was a cwm flashable zip and I was able to use it just fine on AT&T. Could this not be done with our One X just the same?
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AT&T supports Google wallet on the GN and NS.
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/02/0...still-nothing-for-the-lte-variant-on-verizon/
brent8577 said:
if not, then everyone should get back $50+ on their phones. even descriptions on store sites mention NFC and Google Wallet.
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Neither HTC or Google can do anything if AT&T doesn't add the device to their supported list. The GN and NS are designed to be used on multiple carriers while AT&T has their own version of the One X(L). You can root your phone to get Google Wallet working but I advice against it as it's way too easy for your financial info to be hacked.
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Neither HTC or Google can do anything if AT&T doesn't add the device to their supported list. The GN and NS are designed to be used on multiple carriers while AT&T has their own version of the One X(L). You can root your phone to get Google Wallet working but I advice against it as it's way too easy for your financial info to be hacked.
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I'm not too sure about that. The application only seems to work on the Nexus devices; even a rooted and unlocked One X with Market Enabler will receive the same error about device compatibility. Sounds to me like Google will have to update Wallet before One X owners can use it.
I read the other day that google has suspend Google Wallet for now as it's so easy to hack in to anyone's account...
http://pymnts.com/briefing-room/mob...oogle-Wallet-Prepaid-Capabilities-After-Hack/
beanbean50 said:
I read the other day that google has suspend Google Wallet for now as it's so easy to hack in to anyone's account...
http://pymnts.com/briefing-room/mob...oogle-Wallet-Prepaid-Capabilities-After-Hack/
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That is an old article. Wallet has received a few updates since then and all is working fine again. Wallet itself was never suspended either. The ability to add new Google prepaid cards was turned off for a short time, and the ability to re-add existing Google prepaid cards that had been removed was disabled for a few weeks after that.
If you were an existing wallet user prior to all the hype you were completely unaffected during that entire time so long as you did not remove your existing prepaid card from with the app itself or wipe/reset your device etc.
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That is an old article. Wallet has received a few updates since then and all is working fine again. Wallet itself was never suspended either. The ability to add new Google prepaid cards was turned off for a short time, and the ability to re-add existing Google prepaid cards that had been removed was disabled for a few weeks after that.
If you were an existing wallet user prior to all the hype you were completely unaffected during that entire time so long as you did not remove your existing prepaid card from with the app itself or wipe/reset your device etc.
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I installed Google Wallet on an AT&T One X in store and it had the same error about being unsupported. FYI
mobilehavoc said:
I installed Google Wallet on an AT&T One X in store and it had the same error about being unsupported. FYI
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Well, that sucks. They could be supporting the Nexi under pressure/cajoling from Citibank/MasterCard/Google. Do any of the phones they sell directly have NFC and support Google Wallet? Being optimistic the One X launch was pushed up and maybe their just not ready yet. There's still no telling if the international version will work because it has a different network ID. Sigh.
if there is some hacked version that works, post it here because i will use it. i don't care if it's not secure. i don't keep money in my bank account for long and i have nothing to hide. ;p
BarryH_GEG said:
Well, that sucks. They could be supporting the Nexi under pressure/cajoling from Citibank/MasterCard/Google. Do any of the phones they sell directly have NFC and support Google Wallet? Being optimistic the One X launch was pushed up and maybe their just not ready yet. There's still no telling if the international version will work because it has a different network ID. Sigh.
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FWIW, I think it uses Market to determine carrier and I'm guessing build.prop possibly for device. I'm sure there's a way to get it to work especially since AT&T is officially supports so it's just the device you have to get over.
It worked on my Galaxy nexus with market enabler. It doesn't with my one X...
Is there any way to fool the phone in to thinking it's a galaxy nexus?
bufodill said:
It worked on my Galaxy nexus with market enabler. It doesn't with my one X...
Is there any way to fool the phone in to thinking it's a galaxy nexus?
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Pretty sure you can fake it in build.prop
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Pretty sure you can fake it in build.prop
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So... anyone wanna try?
Wouldn't it be reasonable to believe that the wallet app would accept it if it believes it runs on a galaxy nexus on t-mobile us?
bufodill said:
So... anyone wanna try?
Wouldn't it be reasonable to believe that the wallet app would accept it if it believes it runs on a galaxy nexus on t-mobile us?
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How? I tried changing my carrier to t-mobile us with market enabler and had no luck.
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it's my guess that after the security flap, google has really beefed up the barriers for wallet. i've read that google is working on whatever has to be done to jump through the hoops in the eu to enable wallet, so if that happens things might change. or maybe if an agreement is reached with at&t, for example, to enable wallet on its one x's that would change accessibility. otherwise everything i've read says no joy on this right now.
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How? I tried changing my carrier to t-mobile us with market enabler and had no luck.
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The point was trying to change phone id to galaxy nexus, if it's possible.
Changing carrier ID on the galaxy nexus is confirmed to work, also outside of the states.
Hello I just bought an unlocked samsung galaxy nexus GT-I9250 and I have a couple of questions #1 has anyone successfully registered their galaxy nexus with samsung. If so I need help. I found the serial number and typed it in along with the purchase date it tells there is an error. #2 does anyone know where to download the drivers for the unlocked galaxy nexus? please give me a link. And last #3 is there some apn I need to put in to get the phone to connect to AT&T's HSPA+ network. Please help. this is my first nexus phone.
1) I can't answer because I imported mine.
2) Here are the drivers. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20058157&postcount=1
3) I'm on T-Mobile so I don't know for sure but, I believe you have to call them to provision HSPA+
You can't register it with Samsung.
am i supposed to register it. if so then who?
joshnichols189 said:
You can't register it with Samsung.
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Am I supposed to register it? If so who?
El Daddy said:
1) I can't answer because I imported mine.
2) Here are the drivers. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20058157&postcount=1
3) I'm on T-Mobile so I don't know for sure but, I believe you have to call them to provision HSPA+
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Thank you for your help!!! But why are the drivers beta?
caddyman1989 said:
Thank you for your help!!! But why are the drivers beta?
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They're Beta because they're universal. There's official drivers that are specifially for the Galaxy Nexus, but they're tricky to install if you're not familiar with computers.
As for your first question, I tried, couldn't either. Doesn't really matter though, as I called them up for a warranty repair (got some water in the power button) and when asked for my IMEI number, they knew the day it was purchased and shipped.
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caddyman1989 said:
am i supposed to register it. if so then who?
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You don't have to register it with anyone.
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You don't need to register the phone, all warranty claims can be made through Google, just tell them the Checkout Account you used to purchase the phone. AT&T will need to provision you a "4G" plan, which requires the IMEI of an AT&T "4G" phone. Go in store and they should be able to use a floor model or some unit that they have laying around back, don't bother calling Customer Service, they won't know what to do. No fancy APNs to deal with, just crap AT&T mobile registration (even for prepaid).
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You don't need to register the phone, all warranty claims can be made through Google, just tell them the Checkout Account you used to purchase the phone. AT&T will need to provision you a "4G" plan, which requires the IMEI of an AT&T "4G" phone. Go in store and they should be able to use a floor model or some unit that they have laying around back, don't bother calling Customer Service, they won't know what to do. No fancy APNs to deal with, just crap AT&T mobile registration (even for prepaid).
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I have a 2 gig plan that I got when I upgraded to the inspire and never saw HSPA+ not even in settings. I saw on YouTube a video and a guy had gotten an LTE plan. But I tried changing my plan online but seeing how att doesn't recognize the phone I couldn't. Do I need to try an lte plan? I have been places that supposedly have HSPA+ but was always on hsdpa and att said "HSDPA is more enhanced version of HSPA+" which I know isn't true.
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You do not have an LTE phone.
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You do not have an LTE phone.
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I know that I'm not stupid. I'm just wandering why I never get HSPA+. I didn't get it when I had an inspire 4g and i still don't get it with the galaxy nexus. I still have HSDPA. And I've gotten HSDPA where there is supposedly "4G" for example Atalanta.
Wonder if anyone that flashed takju is using Google wallet
Or any other way
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I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work because it would detect your carrier as a Canadian one and would just say unsupported.
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It is restricted and is locked by your location although I'm sure there are some applications that can mock your location.
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I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work because it would detect your carrier as a Canadian one and would just say unsupported.
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Cretheus said:
It is restricted and is locked by your location.
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You CAN use it. You just need to be using something like MarketEnabler, which makes your device look like it's using an American carrier.
Try Tim Hortons, they have Pay Pass.
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Lith808 said:
I have mobilicity in Toronto, and I ended up with the latest MoDaCo rom on my GN and it came with google wallet. I didn't have any problems activating it and even getting $10 credit on there. I just don't know if it would work when I would go and try to pay for something..
Anyone have any idea?
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It will work anywhere that has Mastercard PayPass terminals... off the top of my head they have them at McDonald's and Tim Horton's although I have never seen one work at Timmy's (not NFC, my regular PayPass cards never register with their terminals).
Market Enabler?
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You CAN use it. You just need to be using something like MarketEnabler, which makes your device look like it's using an American carrier.
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Do you have a link to an up-to-date Market Enabler? Something that works with Jelly Bean and the Play Store? I've been digging through threads looking for one, and I can't find an official thread for one. There's one called "Market Access" (sorry, I don't have enough posts to include an outside link here) that will apparently do it, but I'm hesitant to install something from a random link.
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Do you have a link to an up-to-date Market Enabler? Something that works with Jelly Bean and the Play Store? I've been digging through threads looking for one, and I can't find an official thread for one. There's one called "Market Access" (sorry, I don't have enough posts to include an outside link here) that will apparently do it, but I'm hesitant to install something from a random link.
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Here ya go: http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/
Lith808 said:
I have mobilicity in Toronto, and I ended up with the latest MoDaCo rom on my GN and it came with google wallet. I didn't have any problems activating it and even getting $10 credit on there. I just don't know if it would work when I would go and try to pay for something..
Anyone have any idea?
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Try to add money to your Google prepaid card. It did not work for me, even if my Canadian Visa has a US billing address. I think it detects the institution who released the card and blocks it. I purchased my Nexus directly from Google Play, using the same card. From what I heard, they detect also if your phone is rooted or non-stock ROM:
We strongly discourage gaining system-level "root" access to your phone if you plan to use Google Wallet. We are unable to support devices with unauthorized operating systems as the security layers of the device may be limited.
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My phone is not rooted, and it does not work on Bell network:
It does work properly when I use my T-Mobile SIM card:
I used the market enabler, but it says my Nexus S is not supported by Google Wallet. Is that so? I don't see why since the The Nexus S has NFC just like the GNEX.
how long did it take you guys to set up... mines bee "verifying your account" for about 10 mins now...
edit:... nevermind... just finished lol
edit2: anyone been able to add their own canadian credit card at all?
c_86 said:
anyone been able to add their own canadian credit card at all?
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Do you really think Google is that stupid to allow adding a credit card with a fake address like others are trying to do?
Anyways, I have a Canadian credit card with an official US billing address on it. Guess what, Wallet does not work at all on Bell. Even if I put my T-Mobile SIM card on the phone, I'm pretty sure it will not work also with a Canadian card as the financial institution is not registered into Google's Money Network.
We have to wait like every one else... until Google decides to open Wallet in Canada, if it will.
At the rate they open products in Canada, we should have it enabled in about 10 years.
Ya I agree. Its stupid. Sorry Google but USA isn't the only country in the world. This the usa likes to think so. Lol
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First and foremost, I'm a noob.
Anyways, I'm giving this whole Android thing a go for the third time. I had an S7 and an S7 Edge, both were great phones but they were also carrier versions. I've owned pretty much everything Apple and coming to the realization that Apple is dropping the ball. It's time to switch it up.
I ordered an International Unlocked 930F Note 7 and I'm currently with AT&T. After researching, I'm aware that I'll be losing a few things like Samsung Pay and VoLTE. Few questions I have: When the Note comes in the mail, shall I remove the SIM out of my iPhone SE and insert it into the new phone? Or go to an AT&T store and ask for another SIM?
Your feedback/suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Someone will correct me if I am wrong but I don't believe you will lose Samsung Pay. It should work. And yes, just plug your SIM (if its a nano) and go. I plan on getting the same phone and I had the S7 Edge international version and it worked fine on AT&T. I never tried Samsung pay though.
Thanks for the quick reply.
Not too worried about Samsung Pay, as I don't even use Apple Pay. But the VoLTE is what I'm mainly concerned about.
Also what about visual voicemail? I understand it can be downloaded from Google Play, but will it still work and keep my same greeting, etc..?
Brings me to next question: Samsungs website offers the micro SD card as a free gift when purchasing the phone, do you know if they honor purchases from eBay and/or international devices?
Yeah I don't use Samsung pay either. Not sure about VoLTE.
Visual voice mail works fine. Just download the app from the Play Store like you said but not sure about the greeting. Don't know if that stored in the app or on AT&T's server.
From what I've been reading, when you register your phone, regardless of where you got it, you will be able to take advantage of the current promotion. LETS HOPE!
Samsung pay should still work, and so will the VVM app from the play store.
Eventually if a root/flashing method should come out for the international model which could let you flash over AT&T stuff such as HD voice. Not 100% sure on that but maybe someone else can verify that.
When you get the phone, go to the store and ask for a sim.
As for the free gift, it only applies if you buy it from a carrier store, or certain stores. I'm assuming the guy you bought it from already got the promo gift from Samsung. If you really want it maybe cancel the eBay order and get it from Samsung.
As far as I know you can't buy the international version straight from Samsung. If that would have been an option, I'd been all over that.
Would the SIM in my iPhone not work?
Seems you may be right, the only options I see on their site are carrier models. If you go to the promotion site though, they have an option for "other" retailers so you can try with your eBay invoice as proof of purchase.
I like where your heads at.
I suppose what I can do with the SIM is try swapping it into the Note and if it doesn't work, go to the store.
mattjewell said:
I like where your heads at.
I suppose what I can do with the SIM is try swapping it into the Note and if it doesn't work, go to the store.
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I'll pop in with a lil info for you. I use a international Note 4 on AT&T now with zero issues. A few reasons why I went with this version instead of a carrier branded phone. First one was the unlocked bootloader, since the AT&T version was locked up and still locked to this day. My 4 still works perfectly fine with a custom S7/Note 7 Rom on it. So you decide if you want it..
Now in regards to the crapple sim going into the N7, if I'm not mistaken you're going to have to get that changed from the crapple set-up. Think they need to put it back to regular data or whatever all the other phones use. You know it's always something special with crapple! I would say try the sim if no data you'll know why.
Good luck
Bajan
mattjewell said:
I like where your heads at.
I suppose what I can do with the SIM is try swapping it into the Note and if it doesn't work, go to the store.
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As mentioned above, I believe Apple uses different settings for data with their sim cards. When my brother switched from a 4S to Android he had to get a new card. I also just got his LTE working for him by contacting support and registering his Sim card with the one I from a store display phone. I just took a picture of the IMEI of an S7 in store and used the "ATT Phone" APN settings. The NXTGENPHONE APN will not work for some reason when I tried it.
cadcamaro said:
As mentioned above, I believe Apple uses different settings for data with their sim cards. When my brother switched from a 4S to Android he had to get a new card. I also just got his LTE working for him by contacting support and registering his Sim card with the one I from a store display phone. I just took a picture of the IMEI of an S7 in store and used the "ATT Phone" APN settings. The NXTGENPHONE APN will not work for some reason when I tried it.
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While I'm at the store, I'll snap a pic of the back of an S7 as well just to be safe. Can you clarify "ATT Phone" in the APN settings? Where is this located?
Go into the phone settings and get the IMEI and IMEISV
I needed both when talking to tech support.
As for the APN I used the same ones as the OP from this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-s7-edge/how-to/verizon-s7-edge-sm-g935v-att-lte-tip-t3429897