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bull3964 posted:Hey, maybe this recall will wake Samsung up about how much of a PITA it is to deal with 4 carrier variants and decide to only do one unbranded model moving forward? Samsung's customers are the carriers and it makes little sense to tell your customers to gently caress off.
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A Reddit post claims they were told by Samsung (France) that they are going to brick the recalled Note 7 on September 30th. That may only apply to that market, it's hard to say yet.
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bull3964 posted:Hey, maybe this recall will wake Samsung up about how much of a PITA it is to deal with 4 carrier variants and decide to only do one unbranded model moving forward? This is what they do in Canada. There is one model, ending in "W8". It locks to the carrier of the first SIM card inserted, but there is only one model number.
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Changed out my Note for an Edge. I don't think this is going to be resolved anytime soon and the people at the T-Mobile store who had been told next week previously for new Notes didn't think so either. Of course for whatever reason anytime you do anything at a carrier store it took ages and no one seemed to know how to use the point of sale so who knows how accurate anything they say is. I hadn't gotten a new phone since the Note 2 so I wasn't aware of newer stuff but this Edge is almost exactly like the Note without a stylus. No more stylus doodles but taking notes never ended up being a thing for me. Seems a little snappier. Only time I noticed the slightly smaller display was reading a book which is unfortunately a lot of what my phone is used for out and about (kindle at home), but it doesn't seem enough of a difference to be worth price/hassle. Amusingly, this phone gets way warmer than my note did. FuzzySlippers fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Sep 11, 2016 |
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Sep 11, 2016 00:34
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Is there a way to edit your default share options? The list of apps that pop up when you click "share" on a photo or whatever. Apparently I tweeted one thing at one guy 2 years ago and now google thinks he is my #1 share option when I try to share anything. More annoying is that options only pops up 3 seconds after everything else, messing up the order and making me press the wrong option of the time. Andriod 6.0.1 on galaxy s6.
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Sep 11, 2016 05:07
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Maybe you should send him something. Could be a great friendship waiting to happen.
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Sep 11, 2016 05:48
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Grumpwagon posted:That is also the reasoning I've read in articles. "It's too big of a transition all at once" Here they were moved enough to just set a date for a few months down the track and just say "yeah, after this date signatures aren't accepted anywhere, get your poo poo together". Worked ok. E: and this was like five years ago or something like that
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It's not the retailers that are the issue, it's the credit card companies. Most places that have chip readers but can't accept payments yet other than swipe are waiting for the credit card companies to certify their POS terminals for chip. They are dragging their feet. No wonder that they are too since more liability is currently on the retailer if chip isn't used. So, by delaying things, it works out better for the credit card companies since liability is shifted to the retailer Really though, I wouldn't get hung up on PIN since that's small time stuff. Even chip and signature would have stopped all of the recent high profile compromises due to tokenization. The vulnerabilities that exist in tokenization (like the window that exists where the number can be reused) exist whether or not PIN is used. It only takes two compromised ATMs to empty someone's bank account even with chip and PIN.
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Sep 11, 2016 13:51
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bull3964 posted:Android Pay still doesn't work very well with Smart Unlock. Unless you've unlocked with a PIN recently, it will fail payment with no real feedback. Real PITA with Android wear. I have to take my phone out, wake it up, forcibly lock it from the lock screen, unlock and enter PIN, THEN it will work. If I just pull it from my pocket and have it launch Android Pay on its own, the payment tries to process and just fails. Thanks for this. I'd tried to pay with my phone two previous times at the grocery store and it always failed. Today I forced my phone to lock then unlocked it and the payment went right through, and was WAY faster than using my chip card.
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Sep 11, 2016 15:32
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bull3964 posted:POS terminals I'll say! 
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Sep 11, 2016 17:28
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So if I use my card through Android pay, do I still earn my rewards points like normal?
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RZA Encryption posted:So if I use my card through Android pay, do I still earn my rewards points like normal? Yes.
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Samsung is bad since they decided LED indicators were somehow a terrible thing to have available.i don't care how much better the screens are about power now it's a lot less battery to blink a couple LED transistors still. I'm still boggled
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I think part of the issue is Chip + PIN slows down transaction time significantly considering many retailers decide to eat liability on a huge amount of transactions by not requiring a signature. I really, really did not like using my credit card cards for psychological reasons and preferred my debit until Chip + PIN debit transactions seemed to take an eternity, Chip + Signature transactions are way, way, way faster since most of mine are under the limit that triggers a signature. Besides the real issue is cloning which chip (theoretically) makes extremely difficult, losing physical control of a card I imagine is pretty rare, people generally put them right back in their wallet and keep a pretty close guard on their wallets since they have ID and other valuables that aren't nearly as easy to replace as a credit card. I assume almost all cards that are lost are left at bars, retained for a day or two so they can be claimed or then destroyed.
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Sep 11, 2016 19:29
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Syrinxx posted:Chip & PIN doesn't even exist in the US so tell any foreign person you know that at when you want to pay at a restaurant the waiter takes your card and disappears with it and they will look at you like all Americans are batshit crazy. Also 75% of merchant terminals don't even have the NFC portion turned on (yet). I used Chip + Pin at a Walmart in western NY it is a thing that actually happened
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Millstone posted:I used Chip + Pin at a Walmart in western NY I am almost 100% sure you used Chip + PIN with a debit card.
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LethalGeek posted:Samsung is bad since they decided LED indicators were somehow a terrible thing to have available.i don't care how much better the screens are about power now it's a lot less battery to blink a couple LED transistors still. I'm still boggled What are you talking about? You can disable always on and there is still a notification LED.
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Sep 11, 2016 19:48
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Three Olives posted:I am almost 100% sure you used Chip + PIN with a debit card. I think debit cards issued by banks automatically prompt for a PIN to be entered even if it's run as a credit transaction
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CLAM DOWN posted:What about debit cards? Do you have Interac or Maestro there? Do you just use swipe for those? We have Interac in Canada, in the states they use some weird "debit or credit?" option that involves visa and mastercard somehow, weird poo poo
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It's actually better to run debit cards as credit since they can't withdraw money from your account without the pin, and as long as you don't expose that outside of your bank ATM you're safe. They could still buy stuff with it if they scrape the card details but that's obviously less valuable then straight up cash.
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EugeneJ posted:I think debit cards issued by banks automatically prompt for a PIN to be entered even if it's run as a credit transaction You tap the debit key, it prompts for a pin. You tap the credit key, it prompts for a Sig. Nitrousoxide posted:It's actually better to run debit cards as credit since they can't withdraw money from your account without the pin, and as long as you don't expose that outside of your bank ATM you're safe. It's also better because your purchase will be protected by visa or MC from fraud among other things. If it has a visa or MasterCard logo, you should try to process as credit every time. SB35 fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Sep 11, 2016 |
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I mean, Chip & PIN is tangentially related to Android if you really stretch because of Android Pay, but I mean it feels like there's been dozens of posts about it...
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how do so many of you know so little about something you use so frequently smh
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Millstone posted:We have Interac in Canada, in the states they use some weird "debit or credit?" option that involves visa and mastercard somehow, weird poo poo I think some terminals are just hosed up, almost every terminal I use knows when I am using a credit card or my debit card but the one at the C-Store next to my house always asks me if I am using credit or debit after I swipe a credit card. I assume if you accidently select debit the credit card company screws you with a cash advance but maybe it just fails.
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In Galaxy news airlines are now forcing Note 7s to be turned off and stowed for the flight. https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/774994707587792896
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nimper posted:What are you talking about? You can disable always on and there is still a notification LED. http://www.samsungsfour.com/tutorials/list-of-galaxy-smartphones-with-and-without-led-notification.html I found this out while shopping around earlier in the year that they flat out do no put in a LED in a ton of their phones. I have no idea why.
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Three Olives posted:In Galaxy news airlines are now forcing Note 7s to be turned off and stowed for the flight. Yup, literally just got off an Air Canada flight, they made a special additional announcement before takeoff about the Note 7 
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LethalGeek posted:http://www.samsungsfour.com/tutorials/list-of-galaxy-smartphones-with-and-without-led-notification.html Sure, but there are plenty of other reasons not to buy those phones, especially in a market that's saturated with low cost midrange options.
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I noticed the contactless payment symbol on the POS system in a rural Florida gas station, so I gave it a shot. The cashier had no idea it was even a thing.
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I'm trying out the ZTE Axon 7 right now and it's...pretty great. Build quality is top notch but the capacitive buttons are dumb. Just give me software ones and more customization options. The camera is bad in any situation but being outside during the day. The speakers are the best I've heard and the screen is pretty good. On the software side, I wouldn't bother with using any of the voice stuff and I don't know if this phone is ever going to be updated. The skin doesn't get in the way and there aren't that many duplicate apps. On the lock screen you have to touch a bell to look at your notifications and it's so maddening I installed Next Lock screen. There's no adaptive display, just a green-orange-red LED like the HTC 10. The double tap to wake screen and shake flashlight are almost useless, too. Battery life and performance are really good so far. Compared to the HTC 10 I'd take the Axon 7 since I had no success with the HTC's camera anyway and it's loving $300 cheaper. Compared to the Nexus 6p, the Axon 7 is so much smaller and easier to use with just a .2 in. smaller screen, better battery life and quick charge 3.0, too. The choice comes down to usability, USB-PD getting more wide range support, updates, and camera. Now, the reason I will likely have to return this one is that it doesn't officially support CDMA. I'm on Verizon and it works but it says I'm on data roaming and I don't want to take a chance. loving bummed I'm locked out of this one, the OnePlus 3, or the Honor 8 but my parents still pay for my phone service.
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Not sure how reliable the NY Post is, but they've reported a child getting burned by an exploding Note 7.
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It'll charge the same at best, and potentially slower since I don't think Apple supports any of the fast charging modes various Androids use. If Samsung doesn't use any of those, then maybe?
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anakha posted:Not sure how reliable the NY Post is, but they've reported a child getting burned by an exploding Note 7. Samsung needs to send an update out and brick these things before someone actually dies.
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OhFunny posted:Samsung needs to send an update out and brick these things before someone actually dies. Then somebody would sue them for disabling their ability to dial 911.
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Jigoku posted:I'm trying out the ZTE Axon 7 right now and it's...pretty great. *calls phone pretty great, posts long list of failures* e: oh its a 400$ phone lol
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Blue Train posted:*calls phone pretty great, posts long list of failures* Android.txt
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Endless Mike posted:They could theoretically send an update that disables everything but emergency calling. I actually wonder if Samsung could brick the device with an OTA to the point that it wouldn't even charge, even if they wanted to.
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Blue Train posted:*calls phone pretty great, posts long list of failures* There doesn't exist a device on any OS that doesn't have a long list of failures.
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