USA contactless credit/debit/transit (2014-2016)
Oct 31, 2014, 10:38 pm
#226
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Nov 1, 2014, 4:50 pm
#229
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Spoke too soon. Today I got the contactless card. (Yesterday was apparently the new BCE card + terms because I did a PC.)
Moral of the story: don't do two things at once.
Moral of the story: don't do two things at once.
Nov 2, 2014, 5:56 am
#230
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Amex rep I spoke with on Saturday did not even know what contactless is... I did not have time to wait for her discussing this with the manager and have to disconnect. Will call on Monday - I do not think CSRs working on weekends are as good as the ones you get during workweek.
Nov 2, 2014, 10:26 am
#231
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Amex rep I spoke with on Saturday did not even know what contactless is... I did not have time to wait for her discussing this with the manager and have to disconnect. Will call on Monday - I do not think CSRs working on weekends are as good as the ones you get during workweek.
Nov 2, 2014, 1:44 pm
#232
Join Date: Sep 2014
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SIM Card errors with iphone 5s and softcard
Anyone else out there having this problem? Please bear with this newbie question.
I got the softcard (ISIS then) in August and used without issue. Recently added some new cards to take advantage of the $20 Amazon promotion. Was unsuccessful in loading a Chase United Explorer card. Chase said it loaded, Softcard did not list it in the screen. Was gonna call customer service to figure out what went wrong when I started getting messages that my phone could not connect with the "micro SD card". Went to an ATT store who gave me a new sim card. Same error. Rep then opened the back of my incipio case, saw that the sim card was lose (micro, not the nano sim that the iphone has) popped it in and I was good to go I thought.
That was Thursday. Friday tried to use NFC at CVS, didn't realize they had been disabled and it didn't go through. Today (Sunday) I tried to open Softcard and I get the message "Isis cannot connect to your mico SD card." Tried opening the case but all parts seem well-secured.
Any ideas what the matter could be? Could it be because I never updated my operating system (still ios8)? Would updating help or not hurt but would make no difference in softcard utilization?
Thanks!
I got the softcard (ISIS then) in August and used without issue. Recently added some new cards to take advantage of the $20 Amazon promotion. Was unsuccessful in loading a Chase United Explorer card. Chase said it loaded, Softcard did not list it in the screen. Was gonna call customer service to figure out what went wrong when I started getting messages that my phone could not connect with the "micro SD card". Went to an ATT store who gave me a new sim card. Same error. Rep then opened the back of my incipio case, saw that the sim card was lose (micro, not the nano sim that the iphone has) popped it in and I was good to go I thought.
That was Thursday. Friday tried to use NFC at CVS, didn't realize they had been disabled and it didn't go through. Today (Sunday) I tried to open Softcard and I get the message "Isis cannot connect to your mico SD card." Tried opening the case but all parts seem well-secured.
Any ideas what the matter could be? Could it be because I never updated my operating system (still ios8)? Would updating help or not hurt but would make no difference in softcard utilization?
Thanks!
Nov 2, 2014, 1:59 pm
#233
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Hmm AT&T says it no longer has Isis Wallet cases for iPhone 5 in my area.
But eBay has them.
Are they still supported?
But eBay has them.
Are they still supported?
Nov 2, 2014, 2:31 pm
#234
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At the price they better be lol. ISIS' whole tie in to a supporting carrier and phone bit is silly. If they'd use host card emulation, I would use ISIS on my Nexus 5. Google Wallet isn't a good experience because of its proxy card model. Not good for returns and anything that might go wrong somehow
Nov 2, 2014, 3:19 pm
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Tried out the contactless side of the AMEX at Home Depot today. Took a few seconds for the Ingenico terminal at the self checkout to realize there was a card and start lighting up the blue indicator lights on top, but once all four lit up it authorized within a second. Is it normal for it to take that long to recognize the card?
Nov 2, 2014, 5:40 pm
#237
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Tried out the contactless side of the AMEX at Home Depot today. Took a few seconds for the Ingenico terminal at the self checkout to realize there was a card and start lighting up the blue indicator lights on top, but once all four lit up it authorized within a second. Is it normal for it to take that long to recognize the card?
Nov 2, 2014, 7:45 pm
#238
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Could be that its never used before which has happened to me when I was the first to use it at Subway it took a few seconds to read my phone, but then worked. Also I thought self checkout was not working for contactless payments at the Home Depot? That is the 2nd thing I read about it working there, so it must being working with self checkout now.
Nov 2, 2014, 10:18 pm
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Could be that its never used before which has happened to me when I was the first to use it at Subway it took a few seconds to read my phone, but then worked. Also I thought self checkout was not working for contactless payments at the Home Depot? That is the 2nd thing I read about it working there, so it must being working with self checkout now.