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[Q] Google Play My Apps side scrolling?

the latest version of Play that i had on my GS II had side swiping under My Apps and showed everything i'd ever downloaded, uninstalled, and forgotten. i may just need to wait for the update or install it myself, but maybe not. does your have it or did they remove that feature already? i liked having that big list to pick from.

NFC Problems between S3 and Nexus 7

Not sure what the deal is. I have tried sending pics, links and mp3s with no luck. I have the settings toggled on... What am I missing? Thanks

Samsung forces you to use their proprietary S-Beam to beam stuff with other devices. These other devices also need S-Beam for it to work. The Nexus 7 isn't a samsung device so it uses the regular Android Beam, which doesn't work with the Galaxy s3.
Supposedly with the Jellybean update, you aren't required to use S-beam and you can still beam files with android-beam if it's disabled. Until then, you have to install CM10 if you want to beam with another non-samsung device.

yousefak said:
Samsung forces you to use their proprietary S-Beam to beam stuff with other devices. These other devices also need S-Beam for it to work. The Nexus 7 isn't a samsung device so it uses the regular Android Beam, which doesn't work with the Galaxy s3.
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The GS3 does have Android Beam support.
The problem is ICS Android Beam can't do the things the OP described. You can only send links. And only using the Stock Browser. No pics, no mp3s.
S-Beam and Android Beam 2.0 are not compatible. Android Beam 1.0 was very limited.

Thanks, that sucks so bad. I was trying to showoff to my friends and it was a epic fail, lol.

thelastgoodbrother said:
Thanks, that sucks so bad. I was trying to showoff to my friends and it was a epic fail, lol.
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Blue NFC app worked well between my nexus 7 and s3. Seemed a con though.
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Also you sure you tapped at the right area?
The nexus 7s NFC is right around up top ,where the nexus logo is.
There's also this app called instawifi in which you can use NFC devices/cards to transfer WiFi passwords to others by tapping on their device. If you donate to the guy who made it, he'll send you a free NFC card
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jnadke said:
The GS3 does have Android Beam support.
The problem is ICS Android Beam can't do the things the OP described. You can only send links. And only using the Stock Browser. No pics, no mp3s.
S-Beam and Android Beam 2.0 are not compatible. Android Beam 1.0 was very limited.
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It works with chrome as well. Also i believe it works with contacts and few other things too.
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thelastgoodbrother said:
Thanks, that sucks so bad. I was trying to showoff to my friends and it was a epic fail, lol.
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hate when that happens, lol. That's even worse than when you go to pay with google wallet and it completely fails. Cashier always looks at you like your crazy. Google wallet need some bugs worked out.

Works fine on my N7
I had no problems beaming to S3 on my Nexus 7.

No problem beaming anything to anybody. I be throwing them high beams all day every day. Low beams when the occasion calls for it...
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Try turning the phone sideways and putting it at the top of the tab. I had the same issue til I did this..
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Always had and have problems also. Now transfers with the note 2 or S3 works flawlessly
.:Sent from my Sprint Galaxy Note II:.

Go into your setting and turn off S-Beam then turn on Android bream on your galaxy S3. Thats how i get my two girls to play nice with each other. You can do pics and files just not BIG files.

I have had 0 issues transferring files between my N7 and S3 using NFC. Not sure what your problem could be. My biggest file was approximately 250mb.
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I tested this and it works for me I sent a few pics, no mp3 though that was the only thing that did not go. Some times the pics up would have to do like 2-3 times for it to go but that's it.
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Observation
What i have observed is... I cn send pics from nexus to s3... But not other way around... Even play window pops up on nexus....

it finally worked
I have just successfully sent a picture from my S3 to my nexus 7. All I had to do is turn off s beam and it works fine. Really don't know why Samsung included s beam. It is pointless.

still fails
Well, this isn't working for me. I'm using a stock nexus 7, not even rooted. My SIII is rooted and running People's ROM 3.10. Turning the phone sideways in relation to the tablet helps as did turning off S-beam on the phone. Prior to doing this, the beam didn't seem to even start.
But what I am seeing now on the tablet are an "incoming beam" message, followed by several downloading indicators (the downward moving arrow) and finally a "beam did not complete" message. These are showing up on the tablet.
I'm trying to move a .jpeg taken on the phone over to the tablet for editing and ultimately posting it to Facebook. I've tried it with a couple of different .jpegs.

Update
I got this to work today. Elsewhere, I read that the NFC chip is actually on the battery, and not in the phone itself or built into the Android opsys. Today, I swapped batteries and it worked beautifully with the spare. So it seems (to me at least) to be related to which of my two batteries I use. Both were bought at the time I bought the phone directly from Sprint during a Black Friday sale, so they should be identical. Apparently one may be defective in this area.

thelastgoodbrother said:
Not sure what the deal is. I have tried sending pics, links and mp3s with no luck. I have the settings toggled on... What am I missing? Thanks
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Which Apps Work and Which Ones Don’t?
Apps that work with Android Beam
Here is a list of apps that work with Android Beam followed by any issues they may have.
aCalendar
Any.Do – This task management app lets you beam assignments to co-workers
Chrome
Clover Pay
Contacts (Android 4.0) – This app seems to be a little temperamental. Wait until the screen gets small before you tap it. This takes about four seconds. Then tap near the photo area.
Gmail
Gallery – only works when Android 4.1 is installed
Google Play – Android Beam pushes a link to the app’s details page in Google Play. On the other device, Google Play launches and loads the details page, for easy downloading of the app.
Google Earth
Google I/O 2012
Google Maps
Internet (stock Android 4.0 browser)
Just Player
Local – Maps, but nothing else
MonTransit
Navigation
NFC Reader
Paper Camera
Pattrn
People (Android 4.1)
Shazam
Shazam Encore
Songkick Concerts
StumbleUpon
WiFiBeam – This app can pass WiFi setup info from one device to another
YouTube – Can’t beam ads, skip any ads before beaming.
This is a partial list of the apps which work with Android Beam. As I find more apps that work, I’ll add them here.
Apps that don’t work with Android Beam
Calculator
Currents – Loads app, but not selected article
Gallery
Google Now – Cards can’t be sent
Google+
Play Music (appears to work on Android 4.0, but music is not transferred immediately)
Samsung’s Calendar
Street View on Google Maps
Most other Android apps

Latest Google Chrome Update Bug with Note 8 (Nov 13)

Hello everyone,
After the latest update of Google Chrome on Nov 13, the whole screen got black and just an address bar is visible, nothing works include uninstall, reinstall, restart, ...
Samsung support is horrible. After multiple emails, they can't understand the bug!
Anyone know a solution?
Also the are many note 8 and s3 are complaining under the Google Chrome app page in play store.

I have this same problem too. I tried to downgrade to previous google chrome versions and that didnt work. I even made a backup of chrome on my s3 and transferred it over and that didnt work. Heres the big one.....I even did a clean install on the rom im on and that didn't work. This also happened on another persons tablet in my house
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One week in: My so-so experience. (Any tips, tricks, etc?)

(Sorry in advance for the super long post)
So, I bought an ATT Unlocked 32GB Fire Phone new for only $80 (free shipping) on Ebay and I've been using it for exactly one week now, and my experience has been so-so. I LOVED the fireos UI on the kindle fire tablets but once I started using it on the smaller screen with the fire phone, I found it to be very cluttered, inefficient, and none of my side loaded apps show up in the UI.
So, two days in I hacked play store and 1mobile market onto the phone and downloaded ZenUi launcher from Asus (which works fantastic on Fire Phone), and now I've been liking the general UI experience. But I've been having a few other minor annoyances about this phone, mostly related to things simply not working.
Heres my biggest annoyance: The facebook suite of apps hardly work. This is a problem for me, because my friends and family, all of them communicate over Facebook, and since Facebook thinks its such a FANTASTIC idea to force you to have messenger to read and send messages (no more messaging through the mobile site), I pretty much HAVE to have messenger. My problem though, is that the facebook app crashes alot on Fire Phone, and messenger is doing the same thing. I had to download all of these through play store because the normal Facebook app isn't even on Amazon App Store, and the messenger app is several versions outdated on the store (apparently they abandoned the platform?), So now, I am basically fighting these to apps to work.
Another problem is Play Services. I am not sure whats going on, but no matter what guide I follow (the one here on XDA, the one on spinyourfire and the one on rootjunkies), after a few resets or after just a few days, play services "break" and any and all apps relying on play services (like snapchat, google apps, etc) refuse to work. So when that happens, I have to purge it all relating to Google and redownload. This is REALLY annoying, because Snapchat is another app I use alot for communications and since Play Services keeps doing this, its becoming really difficult.
Tumblr isn't working either. I guess since the browser version works just fine and unlike facebook you aren't required to have their apps, thats not a MAJOR problem. Now, several other communication apps that I HAVE to sideload, like Badoo, OOvoo and some other chat apps aren't working either no matter what I try.
This being a "Communication" device, I am having a very hard time "Communicating" when this is happening. This is really making me upset because I absolutely LOVE the design of the device, the camera is acceptable, I LOVE firefly and the 3D support, and the specs for the price are fantastic. (How many phones have NFC, 3D, good cameras, 32GB ON BOARD space for $80 new?), but with all these problems, I am highly considering sending the phone back to the vendor and buying something else, and I really don't want to! Games run GREAT on here, like GTA Sanandreas, Sims Freeplay, and Fallout Shelter. The camera works great and like I said, I already am in love with Firefly. But I am upset that all the essential apps pretty much need sideloaded since it seems everyone is abandoning Fire Phone, and side loading isn't working.
I should also mention that I did try CM11 and pretty much right away switched back to fireOS because the cameras were not working. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Thank you!

For me google services works fine, one month of using fire phone and I have dust in back camera. So this is the problem for me, and fire os 5.

Are you on the latest update of fireOS? i only switched to the MIUI ROM recently but for the past couple of months when i was still on fireOS, play store and messenger(from play store) have been working fine with no issues. Also please ensure that if you are using google play to take of automatic updates in the amazon store. From experience apps tend to break if not updated from the original source.

for Facebook try using swipe (just search for it in play store). I'm having problems with messenger myself (no notifications) but with swipe i have no problems.

ozan2 said:
For me google services works fine, one month of using fire phone and I have dust in back camera. So this is the problem for me, and fire os 5.
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I had that as well. Thankfully I was able to get it to move by tapping it.
romario3600 said:
Are you on the latest update of fireOS? i only switched to the MIUI ROM recently but for the past couple of months when i was still on fireOS, play store and messenger(from play store) have been working fine with no issues. Also please ensure that if you are using google play to take of automatic updates in the amazon store. From experience apps tend to break if not updated from the original source.
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I am on the latest release of Fire OS and the latest google services files. Nothing. I have auto updates off and I am selectively updating. I can't update SnapChat because everytime I do, it breaks.
dato02 said:
for Facebook try using swipe (just search for it in play store). I'm having problems with messenger myself (no notifications) but with swipe i have no problems.
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I tried Swipe and it opens a black screen then closes quickly, sadly.

I'm loving mine after installing Google play and I've downloaded all the apps I want through there and not through Amazon appstore. I'm using Nova Launcher and it's pretty much a nice Android experience now. Not many 4.7" android phones with these great specs I got my 64GB for $100. This thing isn't a budget phone by any means. Snapchat also works just fine. Screen quality reminds me of iPhone 6s.

No issues anymore with fire os 4.6.6.1 and current versions of FB and messenger from play store.

Google Assistant for Lollipop Devices (Note 3)?!

I remember reading about Google enabling Lollipop devices to start using Google assistant but it's now mid January and my device still has bupkis! I have tried the unofficial ways to get it but they all fail on my stock, un-rooted T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3. I get the Google Assistant Launcher to install but after I do, a reminder it says device is not supported. I have the Play Services beta and Google Search Beta and still nothing, what the heck?
They recently updated Google to this crappy new style which removed the hamburger menu and puts everything on a disappearing bottom bar like iPhones, WTF?! Also it moves all personal items to this weird button that looks like a pimple art demo and the mail Google feed simply shows news? I would rather have my personal Google (scores, travel times, shipping info, etc) on my main page and click a button for the news.
Why does Google always fluck with sh!t? Does anyone know how to enable Google Assistant on the Note 3? Thanks in advance...

It's now almost April and still nothing? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance...

I've seen the app floating around the Play Store, but I'm not sure if it's compatible with Lollipop 5.0 since I'm running 8.1 via Lineage 15.1 (haggertk), but it's worth a try I guess.
Can't post a link as I'm still considered new despite being here for 4 going on 5 years now... RIP
Fifth313ment said:
It's now almost April and still nothing? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance...
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