Help NFC Tags?

[Dignan17]

Greetings!

After reading the review of Sony's latest Android phone and the nifty NFC tag solution they've thought up, I was left wishing that the NFC in my Verizon Galaxy Nexus wasn't completely useless.

I don't know anyone else who has a GN, and I don't want to use Google Wallet on my phone (I don't have any vendors near me that use it anyway), so basically NFC is completely useless for me.

The Sony solution, however, is to give you a bunch of these NFC tags to place at home, at work, in the car, etc, and you can set them to change settings on your phone and launch applications. This sounds fantastic to me. If possible, how might I go about getting such a thing on my Galaxy Nexus?

 

[drdoom]

http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/467394-anyone-tried-nfc-task-launcher.html
That should answer it for you.

 

[quiklives]

http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/467394-anyone-tried-nfc-task-launcher.html
That should answer it for you.

I suggest ordering from tagstand, which is linked several times in that thread, and specifying that you want them formatted for the Nexus.

Been using them for a couple of months now with no problems.

 

[litrekid]

I just ordered some from tagstand and they were not formatted and still work great. I had a hard time getting any of them to work at all but eventually they all started working one by one. I am on 4.0.4 and switched to the latest cm9 nightly and they would work but would do all kinds of different things they were not programed for. Not sure what's up there but works great on 4.0.4.

 

[Dignan17]

Nice! Thanks folks. So I assume I can use the phone to program the stickers, right? So I don't need the very expensive kits?

 

[kylebarendrick]

That is correct, NFC task launcher will program the tags from your phone.

 

[Dignan17]

Nice! Thanks folks. This is awesome...

 

[zetroc]

Any recommendations as to which tags to buy? I see that the ultralight ones have a smaller capacity than the 1K. Does this matter? What could I accomplish with the 1K that I can't with the Ultralight?

 

[prostang]

Any idea if placing tags on car mounts will do any harm?

 

[tdub88]

Any idea if placing tags on car mounts will do any harm?

Harm to what? It will not harm the phone if that is what you mean.