present NFC application & uses

Jamolah · May 2, 2012

kishke said:
At the moment there doesn't seems to be way to do it in the app itself, you'll have to contact the developer. But when I used the phone on a tag when silent mode is on there was no noise, so maybe you can use tasker to silence it right before and enable sound right after.

To the other guy just buy them, I bought 5 from ebay for 5$ and at the moment got no use for 4 of them.

Try using the following TAG app, it's got a lot of features, try the free version and if it works for you you can purchase the full version.
NFC Retag (in the parket)
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1477138
This app doesn't actually write anything to the tag, it reads the TAGS' id and then peforms task that you specifiy. Very good.

dac1227 said:
I have been following Skyrocket development from day one, and yet I am confused about the push for NFC in current ROMs.

How is everyone using NFC with their Skyrocket at the present time? Certainly I understand the potential future uses for NFC -retail, data, ect; but what functionality does it serve anyone now?

I purchased 5 blank TAGS (that you can put on a key chain) from tagstand. They are very inexpesnive ($1.29/each).

I use 3 of them in the following way:
nightstand: turns off all sounds, turns off wifi, turn off bluetooth.
car: turns on bluetooth, launches the music app, turns all sounds up to full volume
work: turns bluetooth off, sets all sounds to 0 and puts phone on silent/vibrate.

If you guys have the Mastercard/Visa with PAYPASS you can test your NFC using your credit card. Remember NFC has a very small transmission signal. So you actually have to be touching the NFC tag/CreditCard to the back of the phone.

smalis · May 2, 2012

kishke said:
At the moment there doesn't seems to be way to do it in the app itself, you'll have to contact the developer. But when I used the phone on a tag when silent mode is on there was no noise, so maybe you can use tasker to silence it right before and enable sound right after.

To the other guy just buy them, I bought 5 from ebay for 5$ and at the moment got no use for 4 of them.

Is it the app itself making the noise, or it is the Android NFC system reading the tag? I think it is the latter, because the phone still makes the noise when I read a tag with NFC Task Launcher uninstalled.

kishke · May 2, 2012

Jamolah said:
Try using the following TAG app, it's got a lot of features, try the free version and if it works for you you can purchase the full version.
NFC Retag (in the parket)
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1477138
This app doesn't actually write anything to the tag, it reads the TAGS' id and then peforms task that you specifiy. Very good.

I actually tried it and saw it only checks for the tag's id, didn't like the limited functionality of it. Also on nfc task launcher you can use switches and stuff, I dont have much need for it yet so I didn't explore it so much, maybe next year when I'll start my MSc.

smalis said:
Is it the app itself making the noise, or it is the Android NFC system reading the tag? I think it is the latter, because the phone still makes the noise when I read a tag with NFC Task Launcher uninstalled.

You seem to be right I froze the app and the phone still did the noise, I'll try snooping around and figure how to turn it off.

Hawkeye9723 · May 2, 2012

If you are rooted, just look for the sound file and rename it. that's what I did for the camera shutter tone.

kishke · May 2, 2012

After searching the internet a bit there's no current solution, my second option was to mess with the sound file now I just gotta find it, got any general direction?

Edit: while trying to find the file I found this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21857196&postcount=524

Face Of Boe · May 4, 2012

Is there a main forum (on XDA or elsewhere) where NFC is heavily discussed?

smalis · May 4, 2012

kishke said:
After searching the internet a bit there's no current solution, my second option was to mess with the sound file now I just gotta find it, got any general direction?

Edit: while trying to find the file I found this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21857196&postcount=524

SOLVED!

NFC.apk has 3 ogg files in res\raw: start.ogg, end.ogg, and error.ogg. The start sound plays first, then either the end sound if success or the error sound if no success. I opened each file in Audacity, did Edit|Silence Audio, and saved (i.e., exported the file). I replaced the original sound files with the silenced sound files, and now my NFC is totally silent. And, since NFC Task Launcher has a sound/silent/vibrate option, I now have total control over my NFC notifications.

The modded sound files and the modded NFC.apk are in the attached zip, if anyone wants them. NFC.apk goes into system/app, with rw-r--r-- permissions. Or, use the modded sound files on your own NFC.apk. Mine shows an August 1, 2008 date in properties, if that helps.

NANDROID, and BACK UP your original NFC.apk, just in case.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Software Guy · May 4, 2012

This thread is great. I'm going to order a few tags to mess around with. Just what I need, something else as a hobby....

kishke · May 5, 2012

Thanks smalis downloaded and will do it later you should also post in in my link I bet it will help tons of people.

scott14719 · May 5, 2012

smalis said:
SOLVED!

NFC.apk has 3 ogg files in res\raw: start.ogg, end.ogg, and error.ogg. The start sound plays first, then either the end sound if success or the error sound if no success. I opened each file in Audacity, did Edit|Silence Audio, and saved (i.e., exported the file). I replaced the original sound files with the silenced sound files, and now my NFC is totally silent. And, since NFC Task Launcher has a sound/silent/vibrate option, I now have total control over my NFC notifications.

The modded sound files and the modded NFC.apk are in the attached zip, if anyone wants them. NFC.apk goes into system/app, with rw-r--r-- permissions. Or, use the modded sound files on your own NFC.apk. Mine shows an August 1, 2008 date in properties, if that helps.

NANDROID, and BACK UP your original NFC.apk, just in case.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Yep thanks for taking the time to do and post this. I'm not sure if I will need it but it is nice to have the option to silence the NFC apk if it is needed and obviously others needed it alot. Again, thank you.

smalis · May 5, 2012

kishke said:
Thanks smalis downloaded and will do it later you should also post in in my link I bet it will help tons of people.

Already did it: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25674600&postcount=610

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