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Help New Google Wallet?

prerunnerseth

Android Enthusiast
Nov 10, 2009
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So Long Plastic: Google Wallet Now Uses Any Credit Card

According to the link the new google wallet has been launched with the nexus as a supported device. My 7 still has the old wallet that only allows prepaid cards and citi master card. I would like to use any card. The article says they were able to force update from the market, but I cannot do this. Anyone successfully upgrade to the new wallet that supports any card?
 
Is there any way to get wallet to show up in the installed section? It would make updating a lot easier in the future, especially if I happen to miss an article telling me the app has been updated.

I would assume uninstalling it and re-installing it should work but I can't confirm this. Maybe prerunnerseth could do this since his is missing all together?
 
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It'll still work on rooted device. Just don't go crying to Google if you're double charged or a discount wasn't applied.

Really though, Google wallet went from a fun toy to a real tool. I wasn't going to buy a prepaid card every time my Google wallet ran out of cash, but now I can put all my debit and credit cards on here..... Sweet. I wonder if I can add my government credit card lol
 
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I ended up having to side load the new version i downloaded from XDA.

Mods can we post APKs for freeware apps?

Sorry for the delay :). Here's the scoop:

1. If its your own app that you personally developed, you can obviously post it wherever you'd like.

2. If its an app from the Play Market (or Amazon App Store, etc.) that has a normal, central, public location for obtaining that app, then you should link and reference that source. One of the good reasons for always using the well-known, public source link is that the dev and the Market from which its obtained, would be able to get download and install stats, etc. As an app developer myself, I can see all kinds of stats (aggragated, of course) such as device, Android version, country, language, app version, carrier.

Stats like these would allow for fine-tuning of the app itself in a variety of ways (features, language translations, device-specific features, etc.).

3. If it's an .apk file that's normally / publicly available (open source) from an Android release, then there should be no issue. There's plenty of precedent for this for the folks in the root areas, but I would still caution you to know your source and the app's real origin. Installing an app like Google Wallet from an outside source would certainly give me pause unless you have done your due-diligence to vet that the .apk file has not be modified from its original form (i.e., MD5 checksum verification, etc.)

Thanks for bearing with me here ;) :).

Cheers!
 
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This would probably be fine but I'm not so sure I want to sideload a app that handles credit card info.
I may just be uninformed as to how Google Wallet works but it seems if there were ever a gold mine for some talented hackers wanting to get something malice into the wild this would be it.
I can just vision reading about all the empty bank accounts a month from now.
 
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Mobile payment products are the newest thing with regards to financial technology. Some think the systems, which use smart phones to make payments ordinarily done with a card, will replace cash and plastic totally. One step is already used, as Google Wallet, Google's mobile payment system, is now working with all credit and debit cards, where it formerly worked only with MasterCard. I also found it here: All credit and debit cards taken by Google Wallet

Very interested with the tap and pay option of Google wallet!

One more good reason to make sure your getting the APK from Google not sideloading from a unknown source.
 
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