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tino posted:Thanks guys I know Chinese, just haven't seen back in a few years. Most phone operators have their own app store (Huawei/Xiaomi/Oppo/etc...) and Baidu/360/etc also exist. But most android apps are downloaded by an APK just for ease of use, especially for free stuff like Baidu maps here from Baidu's own site： https://shouji.baidu.com/software/24792415.html They're probably also on google play though and you can grab them before you come over, they'll all work fine.
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I think baidu maps is more than accurate than tencent maps but tencent maps is better at automatically translating English search terms into chinese results And of course set up wechat or Alipay
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Oct 1, 2018 05:36
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Do both alipay and wechat imo
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Jeoh posted:pay everything in 1 jiao coins
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caberham posted:I think baidu maps is more than accurate than tencent maps but tencent maps is better at automatically translating English search terms into chinese results Setup WeChat and Alipay using a Chinese phone number in China. You get separate features on WeChat at least, and better integration with Wallet functionality.
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Tom Smykowski posted:Do both alipay and wechat imo Yeah, Alipay is better integrated with Taobao and I also found it easier for stuff like paying phone/utility bills. But I might've just been used to using that since it came before Wechat pay.
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Is there any way to set up wechat /alipay without a chinese bank card?
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Guy Axlerod posted:Is there any way to set up wechat /alipay without a chinese bank card? Alipay requires two verified Chinese bank accounts for foreigners.
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Oct 1, 2018 22:53
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My name was too long for Alipay 
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:My name was too long for Alipay Oh yeah, try to have a short name, and avoid having any middle names before you come to China.
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Trammel posted:Alipay requires two verified Chinese bank accounts for foreigners. I only needed 1
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Trammel posted:Oh yeah, try to have a short name, and avoid having any middle names before you come to China. manchurian hatred of catholics endures till this day
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I had to make a fake bank account to stay verified when Alipay changed that rule. It was perfectly China.
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Well since I come back to China to visit family and show the infant baby to grandparents, doing China hasnt been too hard for me. My family handed me a 4g phone with wechat pay already installed so I dont have to deal with getting a Chinese bank account and all that crap. But getting my "important apps"(awful app, reddit sync, express vpn etc) on the new phone has been a huge pain. I finally just backup the apks from my old phone with ef explorer and move the sd card to the new phone. Sidenote, apperently Sprint has free slow 2g global data roaming on all its postpaid plans, but none of the Sprint reps I spoke to before I left knew about it. It doesnt go thru the Chinese firewall, its actually very handy.
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Shenzhen goons I will be in town this weekend. Anyone who wants to help me acquire food and beer? My treat of course. It's a big place obviously but I hope to navigate to downtown for the majority of the weekend. Staying up in dongguan tho...
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tino posted:Well since I come back to China to visit family and show the infant baby to grandparents, doing China hasnt been too hard for me. My family handed me a 4g phone with wechat pay already installed so I dont have to deal with getting a Chinese bank account and all that crap. All global roaming is essentially a VPN back to your home country. Also for WeChat Pay if someone sends you a red envelope you can then accept it, add an international credit card (my Aussie Amex worked) and it’ll activate your wallet. You can’t add money but just hand cash to friends/family/acquaintances and have them transfer you the value. This has made me way less worried about buying some random poo poo and being gestures that the vendor doesn’t accept cash.
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Nam Taf posted:All global roaming is essentially a VPN back to your home country. I believe that was the old policy. My inlaw sent me a red pocket in my birthday earlier this year, I couldn't accept it because wechat wouldn't let me create a wallet account with a US credit card.
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Y'all, I had to transfer out of PEK airport. During the process, the worker at the Hainan flights desk took a photo of my passport with their phone. Has that happened to anyone else? What's the purpose of that? Should I be worried about getting murdered by a robot version of myself. Hit me with the truth, docs.
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tino posted:I believe that was the old policy. My inlaw sent me a red pocket in my birthday earlier this year, I couldn't accept it because wechat wouldn't let me create a wallet account with a US credit card. I did it 2 weeks ago so it can’t be that old. My colleague had previously said it failed for him when he tried last year. I don’t know if it is just super dependent on which card you use?
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Nam Taf posted:I did it 2 weeks ago so it can’t be that old. My colleague had previously said it failed for him when he tried last year. I don’t know if it is just super dependent on which card you use? What do you know, I tried a Barclay US mastercard and it worked this time. Thanks for tipping me. Now I am armed with wechat money I am going to raid the street food scene!
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tino posted:What do you know, I tried a Barclay US mastercard and it worked this time. Thanks for tipping me. Glad it worked! I’ve yet to run into anything in Wuhan that wasn’t cash-available (though I’ve had my translator dude buy me poo poo before that may have been WeChat only), but it’s only a matter of time. It also means drunk me has an escape when I run out of cash which is good.
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ive only seen wechat/alipay only stuff in shanghai and it tends to be real hipstery coffee places
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I tried to make alipay work and while it added both cards without issue, when I try to do the scan it asks me to enter a card number again and then there is an error. Tried a CC and a debit card but no luck. I guess my US banking institutions are not welcome?
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Nam Taf posted:Glad it worked! I’ve yet to run into anything in Wuhan that wasn’t cash-available (though I’ve had my translator dude buy me poo poo before that may have been WeChat only), but it’s only a matter of time. It also means drunk me has an escape when I run out of cash which is good. Does this let you pay for poo poo with your US card? Cause that would be awesome for me.
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Lanky Coconut Tree posted:Does this let you pay for poo poo with your US card? Cause that would be awesome for me. I haven’t tried to add cash from my card; I just get my chinese work lackeys to red envelope me money and I shower them with cash money
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Y'all, I had to transfer out of PEK airport. During the process, the worker at the Hainan flights desk took a photo of my passport with their phone. Has that happened to anyone else? What's the purpose of that? Should I be worried about getting murdered by a robot version of myself. Hit me with the truth, docs. Let the peace of knowing that control is an illusion wash over you now when it comes to your identity and deal with that erroneous interpol red notice for trafficking down the road.
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Haha, yeah. Erroneous.
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As if on cue: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3260679&perpage=40&pagenumber=570#post488722555 Bardeh posted:I've just been informed by a friend back in Chiang Rai that they went to a Big C today to get some passport photos done, and my photo is up on there to advertise the British passport option.
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I'm several days late, but you should be able to download apps at apkmirror.com and just install that way - much less sketch than finding elsewhere if you don't have google play store access.
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when I flew home one time on tianjin airlines, the lady at the counter took a picture of my passport and sent it to a WeChat group of over 500 people, and I said "what are you doing?" and she said "don't worry about it", and I saw the first two responses were "interesting" and "good looking" lol when  rules the world
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The Great Autismo! posted:and I saw the first two responses were "interesting" and "good looking" Boy are they wrong.
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Grand Fromage posted:Boy are they wrong. hence my lol, which you deleted from the sentence
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Grand Fromage posted:Boy are they wrong. Are you sure? I think it was a picture of tga not you
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lol at implicitly complimenting another poster you loving nub learn how to post
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Oct 10, 2018 07:57
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Sometimes you gotta weigh the options and just go for it
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rofl I love these passport photo stories
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Every hotel photocopies mine here. I just sort of hope that I'm too ugly to be worth much on the black market and end up flying under the radar.
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Oct 11, 2018 07:12
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Ugly people use the black market too, man
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Nam Taf posted:Every hotel photocopies mine here. I just sort of hope that I'm too ugly to be worth much on the black market and end up flying under the radar. That’s a legal requirement though
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