Samsung TecTile US,Canada only

★★★★★ Almost Perfect, But lots of oversight This app and the idea driving Samsung's Tectile NFC setup is fantastic, it removes complex hardware to enable vehicle modes and launch apps, etc -- if only they had thought to add the proper options. Universally: Persistent mode NFC tags (While the tag is in range, it is polled every couple of minutes to make sure its still there, if the tag is no longer there, the phones settings return to how they were BEFORE the NFC tag was put in range, so it automatically disables the things it enabled). This can be done in the software on the phone. For automotive: It's been said, but there needs to be a GPS ON/OFF featurette. As a matter of fact, on my phone, I'm amused there's an option to enable to light via the Tectile, But NOT a featurette to either turn on "Driving Mode" (which enables voice input) or GPS On/Off. Of all the things considered in the 3.0 version of this app, why did those two get overlooked? For the Outdoorsmen: - On my Galaxy S Relay, there's a low-power mode toggle, which, in an ideal world, when put on a mount on say, a bicycle, or in a dedicated hiking pack, would place the phone into power saving mode while hiking, to preserve battery.

★★★★★ Great utility! Finally can implement manual profile switching, where each stick is placed. One at home office desk, where ringtone and volume is set to full, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on. One on my nightstand, where bt, Wi-Fi turn off ; the one at work, where ringtone and notifications change to mild, half volume and turns off bt. One at the gym setting a Facebook check-in and firing up sports tracker and going to silent... Only thing to get that last star is a hometown widget. Would love 1x1 or 2x1...

★★★★★ Gs3 I love this app and my tectiles. Technology is so advanced and makes life easier. I bet apple wish they had something like this lol.

★★☆☆☆ WARNING! Write-Protect/lock permanent on v3.0.12 To quote Samsung's tectile faq: "Yes, just check the ‘Lock TecTile’ checkbox before you write the tag. But be careful - when you do this, nobody can ever change that tag, not even you. Tags locked with version 3.0 of the TecTile app *can* *be* *unlocked* so long as the phone performing the unlock has the same primary Google Account as the one used to lock the TecTile"... sure. I just got my care package from Samsung - thanks, guys. I installed version 3.0.12 (build 312) of this app. I proceeded to write and lock 2 tags, and they are now locked forever. Same phone, app, everything, 1 minute later and it will not unlock either tag. The app doesn't indicate failure to unlock nor failure to write or erase, but it just sits on the same write or unlock screen bleeping and doing nothing. A subsequent read shows that the data on the tag has not changed, and reading out info from an nfc taginfo app shows a locked tag. Now I have 3 tags and I'm annoyed and am leery of using them. $2+ a pop is too much for throwaways. Oh and why does it not have GPS toggle? Why should that require root?

★★☆☆☆ Worked on s3 not on s4 I programmed a samsung tectile with this same program on my s3. Now I try to erase, program, run the same app and tile I get tile not supported. What a sham.

★★☆☆☆ Waste of Money Bought some Samsung Tech tiles and as I try to format it says tile is not supported? Samsung to Samsung?

★★☆☆☆ Unable to unlock Tectiles. Says that the TecTiles are unlocked but doesn't allow me to erase or program them. Tried on all of my TecTiles