Please add a list of devices that works with MCT

[Moelf]

Known a list of devices that does not work. How about add a list that name a few devices that work perfectly with MCT?

[ikarus23]

It is not that easy for me. MCT should work on all NFC enabled phones & tablets which have
an NXP NFC controller (Please see #1). Unfortunately very few manufacturers provide information on the NFC controller they use in a certain product.

You can check out sites like https://www.ifixit.com/ for a teardown of the phone you want to buy. e.g.

• Samsung Galaxy S4: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+S4+Teardown/13947#s46426 --> Broadcom controller --> no Mifare Classic support --> MCT will not work.
• Samsung Galaxy S3: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+S+III+Teardown/9391#s36088 --> NXP controller --> should have Mifare Classic support --> MCT should work fine.

There is no guarantee for that, but it is a good rule of thumb.

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A "small" list of devices that should work fine:

Notice: There is no guarantee that MCT works on this devices. The list only shows the top 20 devices with MCT installed. (The number behind the device name represents the "current device installations" via google play.)

• Samsung Galaxy S3 (m0) - 1834
• Google Nexus 7 (grouper) - 644
• HTC HTC One (m7) - 609
• Samsung Galaxy Note II (t03g) - 491
• Samsung Galaxy S5 (klte) - 452
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus (maguro) - 413
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Z (C6603) - 318
• Samsung Galaxy S3 (m3) - 282
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Z1 (C6903) - 252
• HTC HTC One X (endeavoru) - 208
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Z1 Compact (D5503) - 179
• Google Nexus 7 (tilapia) - 177
• Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (golden) - 160
• HTC HTC One (M8) (htc_m8) - 154
• Sony Ericsson Xperia S (LT26i) - 147
• Google Nexus S (crespo) - 134
• LGE Optimus L5 (m4) - 133
• Samsung Galaxy Note3 (hlte) - 126
• Samsung Galaxy Note2 (t0lte) - 124
• Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (serranolte) - 123

[mora-phi]

This is a list of installations, but I don't see a relation with working phones.
For instance, I know for a fact that the LG G2 does not have an NXP chip, but it appears in a good position in the list...

[ikarus23]

Hehe you are right. Thank you for pointing that out.
I made a mistake in assuming that people would uninstall MCT after noticing that it works not the way it should. I edited the list to show only the top 20. Sure, there is still no guarantee that all of the devices have Mifare Classic support, but I don't know a list that is more reliable.

[kofdasad]

Which one can be the cheapest with MifareClassicTool/Mifare Classic support?
My S4 is not good at that
:v

[ikarus23]

Sorry, I really don' t know. Some guy at the proxmark3 said

Philips Xenium I908 works like a charm! Its the most cheapest up to date platform for the app available nowadays

But if you don't care on the up to date there should be cheaper ones. An old Nexus S or an Samsung Galaxy S3 should do the trick es well.

Also, have a look at the bottom of this list. Maybe one of them is really cheap.

[lambia]

I'd like to report these one:

Working:

• LG G4 (H815)
• LG G3
• ZTE Axon 7
• Xperia Z3
• Huawei P8 Lite 2017

Not working:

• LG G2
• Samsung S8
• Samsung S5 mini

With "working" I actually mean working, with Mifare capable of read/write through NXP chip.
The "no working" ones allow you to install MCT but are useless due to the broadcom board.

[ikarus23]

@lambia Thanks for reporting. I will check which one of there is already on COMPATIBLE_DEVICES.md or INCOMPATIBLE_DEVICES.md and which not.

[rawisha]

You can add mate 10 pro to the compatible list also.

[mora-phi]

And galaxy S8 to the incompatible 😑 Le 23 janv. 2018 06:36, "rawisha" <[email protected]> a écrit :

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[ikarus23]

Thanks, I updated the lists.
Athough with the "retry authentication" feature the Huawei Mate 10 Pro works, I did not add it to the list because of #158. Compatible should be 100% compatible without strange behavior ;)

[lambia]

Nokia 8 has compatible NXP chipset and MiFare works like a charm, although some Nokia 8 seems to suffer of "Found new tag" loop. Anyway finding to good spot near the antenna, and holding a card firmly on it will do the magic. A lot of Nokia8 users reported me as "not working", just for this problem. So I hope this post can help out someone.

[ikarus23]

Hi @lambia! Thanks for the heads up. I will consider to add the Nokia 8 to the list of compatible devices (and hope the users will be smart enough to figure out the antenna issues).

[apnof]

Working: BQ Aquaris X Pro

[2thewes]

The Sony Xperia X Compact (with Android 8.0) is also working.

[ikarus23]

The Sony Xperia X Compact (with Android 8.0) is also working.

Interesting. This device was reported to me as not compatible. Did it started to work since Android 8?

[2thewes]

Interesting. This device was reported to me as not compatible. Did it started to work since Android 8?

I don't know. I have not tried it before I updated to Android 8.