Any contactless terminal should accept Android pay.

​that will be fun to see, because both Android Pay and Apple Pay have extra layers of security that a standard contactless card from your bank does not have. Your contactless card can be subject to something called a replay attack where someone within a few feet of you can record the transaction between the terminal and your card. with Android and Apple Pay, even if they record the transaction, the cryptography is better, it's a virtual card number and is basically impossible to brute force / programmatically guess ask the different unique parts of the transaction to create a new transaction. finally if your phone gets hacked, it doesn't matter, your bank is still involved in every transaction with Android Pay, and it's still up to your bank to spot odd behaviour, to authorise the transaction and to keep the transaction secure.

Used my £3 Costa gift card yesterday. Didn't buy any drink, just a panini that was £4.25 - used the £3 gift card (well, QR code) and used Android Pay to pay for the difference.
Found it funny that while I was waiting for my panini to be warmed up, the manager seemed perplexed and annoyed that I wasn't having a coffee!

Would never pay full price for that panini though. Flipping heck, £4.25?

If like me you closed the app before realising you had a cracker it can be found in the pile of loyalty cards etc that on in the app.

For those who havent set Android pay up before and on TSB you will need to get a PIN set up for telephone banking when you first set android pay up.

Dont know if other banks are the same.

Do we know the list of stores accept Android Pay.

I was trying at a Tesco Extra last week and nothing was happening.

On Android website, Tesco is not on the list (where all th store logos are) - https://www.android.com/intl/en_uk/pay/

I used this today in Morrisons supermarket (which is not on the list in the above link) and got a my first coin.

tesco is not listed on the Android pay app either

Tesco definitely works

Any contactless terminal should accept Android pay.

works anywhere with contactless, works at tesco - used it numerous times there.

Barclays bank is not supported by Android pay

worked everywhere I have tried it so far.

Works anywhere a contactless card does, already got my £3 Costa gift card this morning.

If like me you closed the app before realising you had a cracker it can be found in the pile of loyalty cards etc that on in the app.

Here is my video trying it at Greggs, Morrisons self pay and Mcdonalds drive thru.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0EOILhzhwU
You dont even need to be in the App, just unlock and scan from the home screen!

Worked for me and got a coin in Wetherspoons earlier

Sainsbury don't even support contactless let alone android pay

Anyone got a screenshot of where the crackers/coins go if you closed the app?

Can you add a Barclays VISA card?

​Strange. I got a new debit card recently and asked on the phone if it would be contactless, she didn't know. It arrived and is not contactless, so they don't all send them by default, I found it odd.
That was with Lloyds by the way. All my credit cards are contactless though.

​Strange. I got a new debit card recently and asked on the phone if it would be contactless, she didn't know. It arrived and is not contactless, so they don't all send them by default, I found it odd.
That was with Lloyds by the way. All my credit cards are contactless though.

Show off! :smile: haha!

refuses to work on my Nexus no matter what and its a stock phone with no custom ROM nor had it ever been rooted. I will stick to my contactless card in until Google actually get it sorted as their are loads of issues with it.

​Excludes northern Ireland...really?

Whats the difference between Apple Pay vs Android Pay?

anyone :stuck_out_tongue:

Heads up, Sainsburys will not scan the loyalty card, even when the app recognising you are in store and prompt you to show the cashier. 1st woman refused to scan it, 2nd woman tried but said the scanners weren't equipped to read it. Also said they couldn't type the code in.

It doesn't work in my local wilko's even though it has contactless payment, have to use my card instead. Works everywhere else I've tried though

might not apply to everyone but I only seem to get coins when I have the Android Pay open when I use it.

​It doesn't always work with a locked screen. If you unlock it pretty much works every time on any payment terminal which accepts contactless payments.

Tapped and paid in 4 different stores today but got only one coin :confused:

update: found the rest of the coins under the offer banner within the app. Just confetti after the first 5 taps.

cool, I got free coffee... tnx

​Have you tried ?

Cheers OP,heat added.
I hope they bring back the tfl travel free and free Cafe Nero promo agen.
I was getting quite used to the idea of travelling around London,up to Central to enjoying me free coffee there.:smiley:

​No. Barclays haven't allowed their cards to be used on AndroidPay

​ No, but if you download the Barclays banking app you can set up your phone for contactless payment anyway. Same goes for American Express.

​Is NFC & android pay enabled?

Find it a bit hit and miss using my S7 Edge. BP stations it's 50/50 if it'll work, McDonalds 100% works, smaller shops 75%. Although a lot may be down to their terminals rather than anything my side.

What you on about. I have Apple Pay and it works anywhere where it's contactless!! Just because they don't advertise it as long as it's contactless it works.

cold, not Apple pay

Don't forget there is a £30 limit. If over that limit, if doesn't work and doesn't tell you why (happened to me once at Asda).

I have used Android Pay at :
Costa Coffee
Nero
Starbucks
Asda
Tesco
Waitrose
Tfl
Nandos
Lidl
A Bicycle shop
Pubs that accept contactless cards

Two places that I know do not:
Sainsbury (no contactless)
Decathlon

can you use amex on android pay? :neutral_face:

I get 100% success, so you are doing something wrong (like not unlocking the phone before trying a payment)

Paid at Wilko twice yesterday with Android Pay, and many times before...

They are trying to promote their own app, which in fairness to them was available before Android Pay.

However, I can't see their app lasting very long now, and they will need to join Android Pay at some point

£3 for a coffee? Well bend me over and rim me. I can get a pint for that.

Their till scanners are too old to scan the screen - same in M&S and Morrisons.

If you key in them long nectar number then it will know its a nectar card (on self scan there is button 'key in item code'). This also works in M&S and Morrisons with their loyalty cards.

They don't offer that 'service' at Costa :laughing:
Maybe at the more 'festive' pubs you frequent :stuck_out_tongue:

Nope. Amex has enabled payment through its own app, just like Barclays. No idea why this silliness is they use Android Pay in the US.

Anywhere...in the uk only

I still don't see one, I guess I just didn't get one as I did a transaction at subway, weird
...

Should work with the Nexus 4, 5, 5x, 6, 6p, 7(2013) & 9. I've used a 6 & 6p with only problems in my local WHSmith. Make sure your bootloader is not unlocked too.

Any contactless payment machine.

I'd love to use it, but until someone has the balls to actually do a good job with audio software (and not just slap boomsound onto a terrible EQ etc) then android will always be worthless to me without root. System wide ad blocking is nice too.

For those that don't know already, root breaks android pay.

Android with my bank details err no

These will be the next big hacking story in the news.
Stick with the piece of plastic in your pocket that can't have a Trojan installed on it.

you even get coins if you use it for the ticket inspectors on the DLR!

They're kept in an encrypted form on a secure enclave on the phone and cannot be accessed by any apps, or even Google. The banks would not have allowed it any other way.

For the people saying Apple Pay has less support than Android Pay, this is nonsense. Both of these services work exactly the same as a contactless debit card - it's basically using the NFC on your phone and an encrypted and (effectively) cloned form of your debit card details. This will work anywhere that a contactless card will work, and any problems with payment will either be down to the terminal or the setup of the phone. I've used both Android Pay and Apple Pay since day one, and have been able to use them anywhere from Tescos to little pubs in the middle of nowhere. Where my phone has failed to scan I've often been able to replicate the same problem on my actual card; although in that case I had the backup of chip and pin (which uses a different system and should therefore work.

I'm seeing fewer and fewer issues with this service and often go out on my lunch without even bothering to take my wallet with me these days. I like Android Pay better than Apple Pay because of the snazzy animations

i moved away from root as i enjoy android pay, systemless root was still being hard worked on so not sure if its been cracked yet.. had a rooted phone with android pay but android keep moving the goalposts due to the banks wanting tighter secuirty i guess.

also i have made a £84 transactions on android pay at ikea so i guess the limit may be £100 not £30 as previously mentioned?

Terminal does not have to be "Apple Pay ready". It works the exact same way Android Pay does. If the terminal accepts contactless, then both Android and Apple Pay will work.

Yeah but why you lying though? Apple Pay and Android Pay are IDENTICAL. Work in all the same places.

I can confirm that BP is really hit and miss and most likely will not work for some unknown reason. However yesterday had no problems with KFC and Tesco. Costa this morning worked aswell,

When you scan, the app will open, wait a few seconds and a screen will appear with a crack in it. Click on the cracker to reveal your prize.

How do I set this up?

Not iPhone so cold

Technical they may be identical, but there are still places that decide to support only one or the other. I certainly found a few shops that advertise Apple Pay, and do not accept Android Pay. With all the wireless cards being handed out and new phones supporting mobile pay, I would expect that shops need to clean up their act and get this working properly.

So can I buy 5 packs of 10p sweets in different transactions and get a free coffee? As many times as I want?

Anywhere the contactless symbol is displayed, Apple pay and Android pay will be accepted. The terminals do not have to be geared up for it - in short, the reader simply thinks you're fobbing a contactless card in front of the machine, so of course it will work! Just because the operator has never heard of it, or there isn't a sign, it doesn't mean it doesn't work; try it.

The advantage of using Android Pay/Apple Pay is that the £30 limitation does not apply. But, I understand, for this the readers do need to have a firmware update (most will now have had that I reckon).

The only real difference I can see is that Apple Pay requires fingerprint authentication for any payments, whereas Android Pay does not unless the value is >£30. But, that could possibly be handset specific.

I just wondered when you use Android pay five times to get the £3 costa drink can this free £3 costa drink be only claimed once, or is there a way of being able to claim the free £3 costa drink more than once for example making another five transactions but using a different supported card for your android pay

I got a coin at McDonald's last night but when I bought coffee there today I didn't so I'm guessing it's 5 unique retailers

got my first coin at morrisons

I found if I used my phone when locked, no reward. I used it twice at the same retailer last night (the pub) and both credited me with a 'coin' towards a coffee.

Deal is good (so heat added), but Android pay is not. Some idiot decided all power users who root their device are blocked. And before anybody starts about the security nonsense, if banks are OK with people accessing their accounts through bug riddled web browsers on machines with who knows what running in the background, you can't claim people with the technical know how to root a phone are a risk.

The app says that up to 30 no unlock needed, 30-100 unlock needed. I think some retailers disable contactless above 30 though.

​the policy has changed recently and they now accept reward cards on phones and it can be typed in manually however you need original card to redeem any points

​android and apple pay have no limits

The T&Cs say Android Pay payments need to be 1 minute apart... there goes my plan of scanning 5 items 1 at a time in Tesco at the self service.....

I can imagine the 250k coffees will be gone pretty quickly!

Just tried it, doesn't work in Northern Ireland. Pah!

Clearly, you don't understand much about the difference between what information is accessible by a web browser, vs. what information is accessible via an app on a rooted device.

Android Pay is for payment up to £100. Below £30, unlocking the device is not required

Same with HSBC the first few times,then after you can confirm via text. (I accidentally clicked remove card a couple of times)

Clearly, you don't understand the point I'm making, If banks are OK with one possibly insecure environment, they have no right to ban another possibly insecure environment. What makes it even more annoying is the environment they are fine with is FAR more likely to have been exploited than the one they flat out refuse to allow. Yes there are differences between a cracked browser and a cracked Android device, but as either could potentially empty your account if you didn't take steps, the difference is moot.

Phone doesn't need to be unlocked, just woken up. Unless it's my thin phone case, then I'm doing nothing wrong. The phone vibrates etc, they just say sometimes it's not working. May be the phone case.

​when I setup my card the app told me phone has to be unlocked and awake

Slightly off topic but Aldi seem to want a signature (!) when I pay via Android pay... Never ask for proof just ask me to sign it.... Anyone else experienced this?

​RBS doesn't require anything else other than enter card details and the app goes through contacting the bank and its setup.

Initially, I tried using Android Pay without unlocking the phone, and I had many failures. I always unlock the phone before payment now, and it goes through each time. Maybe you should try...

Don't know if anyone's mentioned it, but if you're travelling in London each end of the journey counts as a use so you rack up the coins that much faster.

I made a purchase at Tesco yesterday but didn't receive a cracker

Gah! Make sure you have updated the app! Used android pay three times today, Nada, just updated and the banner has appeared but alas no coins..

seems a limit of 5 per day

If you think you've made a cracker-eligible transaction, you need to tap on the card that you used to pay, and scroll down. The cracker will be there.

The terms and conditions say limit 10 per day, and it has to be a minute between each transaction.

​yeah. only managed 5 then it wouldnt do any more after. Even allowing 1 minute gaps.

So if you make 5 transactions a day is that a free costa coffee each day?

I made two transactions in Tesco yesterday and still cannot see any crackers, there is no wallet in the app, nothing when I click on my card and the loyalty notifications are greyed out?

​its only the first 5 eligible transactions, not every 5.

Can you delete the app and reinstall using a different card as the payment method to keep getting the free costa offer
So for e.g
If you had 10 cards could you delete and reinstall the android pay to keep getting the offer on your 10 cards or would you use 10 different email addresses

as well as using a different card and clearing app data, you may need to reset/change the android device id on your phone for it to work, you need root to do that so android pay wouldn't work after that. the alternative is using a different phone. seems like a lot of effort for some hot water and beans.

Thanks for the tip there are many offers way you are able to register using different email addresses or register using different credit or debit card details never mind thanks anyway cheers

Getting a cracker for every transaction I make (7/8 a day, usually low value). Got the £3 Costa for 5 transactions and a £10 Costa voucher so far.

Can someone please please explain, where I can find the coin/cracker.

I search all through the application and nothing is there.

I've only one card (which is default).

Once I open the application (Android Pay) it shows me the default card (No cracker on this screen).

Tapping on that card shows me transactions on that card (at this screen no cracker).

Tapping on a single transaction, give me little more information on a new screen (again no cracker here).

What am I missing here?

Nothing to say you will get 5 coins.
I got 'confetti' last time. AKA cock all.

​Haha. Power user.

Same thing happened to me, what fixed it was to open Google Play and search for Android Pay, then click on it and select update. After you update you can then opt in to the program.

Same here :smiley:

Any one knows if the costa gift card will be valid for 1 year since last use? Thanks

I love the term "power user" for someone who just spends too much time on their phone.

Thanks I was due an upgrade, will see how it will go now.

The funny thing is, Power users are power users because they make low-level alterations to their device, like rooting, etc to allow them not only to do more, but to work quicker, ultimately spending less time on their phones. There is so much more you can use these devices for than updating facebook you know LOL

I am ultimately old fashioned, I don't believe there's any phone out there that will allow you to work as quick as one can on a laptop, therefore rendering "working" on your phone utterly pointless.

If you want to do meaningful work, regardless of rooting etc, get your laptop out.

LOL LOL LOL

You should see something like this when you open the app. I think if you don't have that reward card showing then it won't work. You might need an update as someone else suggested.

Yesterday I made two purchases without data connection. At the time of each one I saw a cracker but you can't open it without data. When I got home only one cracker was there. So if you make payments and don't open the cracker I think only one will show after.

With me I only got coins the first 5 times I used Android Pay, since then I only get confetti. Even redeemed my £3 Costa voucher a few days ago and still I only get confetti. Mainly been only receiving confetti for almost a week now :disappointed:

Used my £3 Costa gift card yesterday. Didn't buy any drink, just a panini that was £4.25 - used the £3 gift card (well, QR code) and used Android Pay to pay for the difference.
Found it funny that while I was waiting for my panini to be warmed up, the manager seemed perplexed and annoyed that I wasn't having a coffee!

Would never pay full price for that panini though. Flipping heck, £4.25?

I removes shop tap and reward from my android pay :confused: how do I re-enable it????

i was under the same impression as you are that we will keep getting coins for every purchase.
​you get coins for only first 5 eligible purchases and after that its gift draw, which unfortunately resting in confer I for me so far. and while experimenting I also removed the offer from android pay and trying to find out how to enable it back.

I won a £10 Costa voucher when paying for a gift card in Wetherspoons. Free £13 to spend in Costa, great offer. :smile:

Did you unlock the bootloader? Google are marking that as a safe net fail now.

Does anyone know if using Android Pay on TFL is the same fare as Oyster or Contactless?
Because in the app I'm being charged more for train journeys than what I would usually pay for with contactless & oyster.

So there won't ever be any more coins.

I don't think you can :disappointed:

It should be the same as contactless according to the tfl website.

​that will be fun to see, because both Android Pay and Apple Pay have extra layers of security that a standard contactless card from your bank does not have. Your contactless card can be subject to something called a replay attack where someone within a few feet of you can record the transaction between the terminal and your card. with Android and Apple Pay, even if they record the transaction, the cryptography is better, it's a virtual card number and is basically impossible to brute force / programmatically guess ask the different unique parts of the transaction to create a new transaction. finally if your phone gets hacked, it doesn't matter, your bank is still involved in every transaction with Android Pay, and it's still up to your bank to spot odd behaviour, to authorise the transaction and to keep the transaction secure.

​Not true. Abocado in London won't. Android crashes their system

Ok, but it should (and does)...they're just having a problem.

Yay, free coffee.

But based on my experience of these things I almost guarantee it'll go like this:
(Order coffee)
"That'll be (£3ish) please"
"Okay I have this gift card on my phone"
"..... er.... "
"It's Android Pay, once I've used my phone to pay for 5 things it gave me a gift card, you just scan this QR code"
".... er... a what code now? I don't think the scanners work on those, or phone screens..."
"Should do, it's a pretty popular thing now, I think your normal gift cards use them or there's the Costa app."
".... it won't scan... sorry... never heard of this! Jane, have you heard of this phone payment gift card R Q code thing or some kind of phone app?"
(queue backs up, tutting ensues, mutterings of "why can't people just use cash instead of these gimmicks" can be heard)
"Never mind, I'll pay cash"
(End up buying a coffee I never would've bought in the first place)

I got a 10 pound voucher yesterday! I was surprised when that happened.

Yeah this is the case on most things, although in Wickford it worked fine, scanned my phone screen with the scanner under their card machine.

Got my free coffee today. Still dont see the benefit of using my phone to pay for something, its actually quicker using my card i find.

Won two Odeon tickets!
As I don't go to the cinema, I'll just send the codes to my sister.

Update: Tried it today, this is almost word for word exactly how it went. Walked out £3.05 poorer. I've have a whinge on social media though...

Strange, I've had no problems using mine 3 times (i got a £10 gift card too). They recognised it, and the same scanner the use for membership cards worked just fine.

There is also a FAQ page which can be found from the android wallet which is on Costa's own website.

Had a reply from Costa, apparently they're supposed to process it as an "eGift" and all the stores were notified. The machine was making positive beeps when scanning the code, so I think she was just pushing the wrong buttons on the till.

Didn't surprise me at all though - we're a small town where usually people say "oh I've never seen anyone pay by phone before" (they pretty much just invented the motor car around here) so I think they tend to assume they don't need to read these things.

Won a £10 Costa Gift Card earlier.

So that's a £3 Costa Gift Card to start off with, two free Odeon tickets and now £10 to spend at Costa.

If they keep on doing promotions and competitions like this I'll never use my contactless card again.Unless I lose my phone or need to pay for something over £30 of course.

This worked for me - thanks very much (back to the Co-op for me now)
Shame it doesn't pick up on the 5 transactions I already made today trying to get it to work...

Just tried using £3 card today and they said it was expired/invalid. I ended up paying with cash. Very poor and frustrating experience, as I had to wait 15 minutes in queue and another 15 minutes to get my coffee as they were so busy they forgot about my order.

Does anyone know the expiry date?
edit: Expiry date is apparently 1 year? Not 100% sure. The code scanned okay made beeping sound, tried scanning it 4 times, beeped each time, so I think it was most likely operator error. Why aren't the staff trained to know about this promotion and how to redeem the codes?!

"PRIZES/GIFTS MUST BE CLAIMED BEFORE 23:59 (GMT) ON 15 JANUARY 2017"
Full terms and conditions (they've removed them from their web site, so here's Google's cached copy).

Thanks just used mine this afternoon, by default they will assume it is a loyalty card and it will give some error message like 'not a valid costa membership card', I had to specifically tell them to select 'egift' or something similar to that and rescan it for it to work.

Yes, last day to redeem is today.