Before I ordered my s4 I bought ten nfc tags and had naively thought I could just walk past a tag to activate it...I then became further annoyed when I found you had to have the screen on and unlocked.
however a couple of days ago I flashed a mod to allow nfc to work with either the screen off or on the lockscreen(two separate mods but the screen off incorporates both!)
I'm just about to head out to work so won't go searching for a link just yet, but if I get some feedback here I'll happily get it later
as expected,I have noticed a slight drain on battery life if keeping nfc on all the time, it is however, pretty minimal considering and it has allowed me to program a few different tags that get settings suitable for that environment (car has Wi-Fi off to save battery, sound up etc, bed has sound all off so not too waken baby and living room Wi-Fi on for coming home) all these things are lazy but it means that I have a tag where I place my phone in the car and automatically have my desired settings
however a couple of days ago I flashed a mod to allow nfc to work with either the screen off or on the lockscreen(two separate mods but the screen off incorporates both!)
I'm just about to head out to work so won't go searching for a link just yet, but if I get some feedback here I'll happily get it later
as expected,I have noticed a slight drain on battery life if keeping nfc on all the time, it is however, pretty minimal considering and it has allowed me to program a few different tags that get settings suitable for that environment (car has Wi-Fi off to save battery, sound up etc, bed has sound all off so not too waken baby and living room Wi-Fi on for coming home) all these things are lazy but it means that I have a tag where I place my phone in the car and automatically have my desired settings