I got contacted for a focus group next week for Gear Fit, Gear Neo and Gear 2 in LA. Did one of these last year for my original Gear so it looks like Samsung is continuing to listen to owners.
Wanted to pass this along the incentive pays a couple hundred bucks and great way to help things improve.
The guy said I could pass this along and his name is mod edit...names and number removed.
Guys, you are not going to believe this.
I was having dinner when I received a confirmation email from Amazon, confirming I just ordered "Samsung Gear Fit Smart Watch, Black (US WARRANTY)"
I was with my wife in a restaurant. Only us have access to the account, and I don't autosync passwords with chrome for amazon (I removed saving the password and changed the Amazon one for christmas). So no, it was obviously not us who ordered it.
Then I recalled, just before stepping in the restaurant, I received a watch notification with a nice animation from S-health, saying "You reached your goal!" type of stuff, with a fancy boot drawn. This is new and is part of the new software update that was pushed recently. I think I might have tapped it before dismissing, or like, "what is this" type of tap, trying to interact with it.
I tell my wife, "no f*** way, I was busy eating, cannot have been me". I cancelled it right away on the phone itself.
At home, I opened a support chat with Amazon. Explained situation. I asked guy if he was able to track back if the device was known, if it was my phone. I was really suspicious. Lately I was seeing a lot of S-health notifications on the watch, this seemed too much of a coincidence.
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Me: still, there is still no way you can track back if the order was placed from my phone for example?
Loudis: Oh, let me check.
Eduard, Order Method: One-Click, that's why.
Me: holy ****
Loudis: Yup, thanks you give me additional information, so I checked.
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Guys, I still don't quite believe it either. I never, ever looked at that. I didn't even know it existed. Does somebody have an alternative explanation, other than the obvious one?
Edit: Phone is Galaxy S6 5.1.1 very seriously debloated, only maintaining Samsung software for exclusively the Gear s2 watch, which I also own.
Thanks
No idea what this has to do with your Gear or S-health. Guy says it was ordered with the one click method. Doesn't mean its from your phone or watch. Could be any browser with your info logged in.
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No idea what this has to do with your Gear or S-health.
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WELP, This is the right reaction. Holy ****, I'd say the same, It is quite impossible that samsung move to do shady stuff like this. I am skeptical too, but I would never order something I literally don't know it even exists (I didn't know samsung had a fitness band), and even less with one-click from amazon. Additionally there were no other accesses from any other unknown devices on the account for more than 30+ days. The only ones who had access to the account were both present, and we know for a fact that we didn't order.
I posted to know if there is other people who has gone through something similar. I think I heard of applications that were doing this in the past, insta-buying stuff from amazon, but I would never expect anything like that from Samsung.
I'd like you please to consider, I'm not the stereotype of dumb normal user who just click all over the place and then blames.
The most likely explanation is that you or your wife accidentally ordered it. You said you didn't know one-click existed, so it's possible you clicked on it without realizing. Also purchase notifications often don't show up for hours after purchase, so the fact you were "both present" doesn't prove anything. Another possible explanation is that someone has your amazon password and is ordering stuff on your account. You may want to check your order history to make sure nothing else has been ordered without your knowing.
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The most likely explanation is that you or your wife accidentally ordered it. You said you didn't know one-click existed, so it's possible you clicked on it without realizing. Also purchase notifications often don't show up for hours after purchase, so the fact you were "both present" doesn't prove anything. Another possible explanation is that someone has your amazon password and is ordering stuff on your account. You may want to check your order history to make sure nothing else has been ordered without your knowing.
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Eliminate the Gear from the equation as it's nothing but a conduit to the apps on your phone. So you're saying someone/something hijacked your S Health app to trick you in to ordering something on Amazon. You didn't say what was being ordered was being shipped to a third party address so I'm assuming it was being sent to you. So who's to gain from what you described? It sounds like something odd caused you to inadvertently order something from Amazon. The breach in Android and app security you're describing would be front page news if it existed.
Hey guys.
Haven't posted on XDA in a while but thought I'd potentially start a discussion in regards to Samsung Pay here in the UK.
I emailed Samsung about the fact in which they announced the UK as a 2016 expansion location for Samsung Pay. They have released the service to a multitude of countries that were not actually on the expansion list before bringing it to the UK (which they still have not done).
Here was the response I got:
Following your email, I can confirm Samsung UK Pay is currently not available in the UK. Samsung Pay is currently in the testing phases, please continue to check our Samsung UK website and social sites for further news and updates.
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While I already knew it was not available, could this be an indication of them 'testing' it in the country?
I have also noticed a random Lloyds Bank URL with 'Samsungpay' in it. (It says nothing about it on the actual page, just some random terms: https://islands.lloydsbank.com/samsungpay/)
I have actually prevented myself from rooting my phone just to wait for this and am disappointed it has not been released yet. I know it may sound stupid but if I rooted and then it was released I'd be gutted!
What do you think fellow brits? :good:
Im the same as you, been/still waiting for it....Thanks for the info.
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And Halifax
http://www.halifax.co.uk/helpcentre/samsung-pay/
It's currently a testing page which is exactly what they had before Android pay was released.
tinker_tf said:
And Halifax
http://www.halifax.co.uk/helpcentre/samsung-pay/
It's currently a testing page which is exactly what they had before Android pay was released.
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Nice find! So it looks like we will be getting it soon
Should be before end of the year :good: but the novelty wears off and you end up just pulling your card out and using contactless :laugh:
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Should be before end of the year :good: but the novelty wears off and you end up just pulling your card out and using contactless :laugh:
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I kind of have that with Android Pay I just think Sammy Pay looks so sleek and because it's accepted everywhere, I'm still excited for it!
I heard rumors that they were going to leave out MST payments in the UK which I think would be pointless, if that was the case I'd stick with Android Pay!
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I kind of have that with Android Pay I just think Sammy Pay looks so sleek and because it's accepted everywhere, I'm still excited for it!
I heard rumors that they were going to leave out MST payments in the UK which I think would be pointless, if that was the case I'd stick with Android Pay!
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Where is Android Pay not accepted? I just use it at any random NFC terminal and it's worked fine, so far....?
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Should be before end of the year :good: but the novelty wears off and you end up just pulling your card out and using contactless :laugh:
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Same lol. My Natwest card is always on me. Slap that on the terminal and I'm done. Sometimes I don't want to pull a phone out.
skezza said:
Where is Android Pay not accepted? I just use it at any random NFC terminal and it's worked fine, so far....?
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To be honest, I haven't tried it anywhere that isn't listed as supported on the Android Pay website
I've used it at the BP garage, Co op, Cafe Nero etc.
I thought the retailer had to officially support it (much like apple pay) but maybe not!
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Same lol. My Natwest card is always on me. Slap that on the terminal and I'm done. Sometimes I don't want to pull a phone out.
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I have only used Android Pay to either take advantage of a special offer or when I have forgotten my debit card. Otherwise contactless is so effortless. I am not sure how Samsung Pay can compete with Android Pay in the UK. We are more chip & PIN or contactless here than many other countries. Our debit cards are definitely more convenient.
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I have only used Android Pay to either take advantage of a special offer or when I have forgotten my debit card. Otherwise contactless is so effortless. I am not sure how Samsung Pay can compete with Android Pay in the UK. We are more chip & PIN or contactless here than many other countries. Our debit cards are definitely more convenient.
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Agreed
apprentice said:
I have only used Android Pay to either take advantage of a special offer or when I have forgotten my debit card. Otherwise contactless is so effortless. I am not sure how Samsung Pay can compete with Android Pay in the UK. We are more chip & PIN or contactless here than many other countries. Our debit cards are definitely more convenient.
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Well i kind off disagree here, too late for me btw cause is knox 0x1 xd, but going back to the topic, samsung pay take the advantage of using the phone at the terminals without contactless, so u can probably use it just anywhere, hence how it can compete with android pay! i am using android pay everyday, rather than havin to open my wallet
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Well i kind off disagree here, too late for me btw cause is knox 0x1 xd, but going back to the topic, samsung pay take the advantage of using the phone at the terminals without contactless, so u can probably use it just anywhere, hence how it can compete with android pay! i am using android pay everyday, rather than havin to open my wallet
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I don't even use a wallet lool. Too much to lose at one time if it goes missing.
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I don't even use a wallet lool. Too much to lose at one time if it goes missing.
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haha yeah true... i would be totally f... if i was gonna loose one xd.
I've been waiting for Samsung Pay since last year when I bought my S6. I haven't rooted either my S6 or S7 Edge in the hope that Samsung Pay would finally arrive. Typically it's taking so long that I've almost given in and rooted the f*ck out of it!
If they don't support MST in the UK, they might as well not release Samsung Pay here!
Has anyone used Barclays' contactless mobile app? I much prefer that to Android Pay.
I'm in the US and flashed UK because I had Egypt, I thought UK was supported and went ahead and flashed. Its pissing me off that Samsung said UK would be first after US and S Korea but now there are almost 10 countries and they still haven't released it. I doubt its the banks since those links prove their waiting for it. I don't want to flash again because I like the UK Rom most (updates faster, more features etc.) Samsung better release it this month or early December, if they don't in 2016 I'm gonna ****ing riot. Also it better support MST because here in the US very few stores have NFC.
It's really strange that it hasn't been released in the UK. Really odd
Guy's and Gals I have made a review video of the Gear S3 Frontier so please check it out if you feel it will be helpful thanks you. Mod Edit
Good review! I'll be picking up the LTE version tomorrow... If my local T-Mobile store has them in stock.. I'm currently using the G Watch R. and am looking forward to never seeing Android Wear on my wrist again.
Excellent review. However, I can not find nowhere any review and real test of a route-tracking using GPS standalone function. Does it work smoothly? Is the track correct on a map?
Hi,
Any idea how do I get the Gear VR (+controller I assume) promotion? I don't think I've got any email and of course, nothing was in the package itself (i.e. a leaflet with details...)
Thanks,
Google search samsung promotions or use the Samsung shop app. Then it'll ask for some info that you need to fill out.
https://samsungpromotions.com
Thanks! Just placed my promotion claim. Waiting for confirmation.