It is a wallet app for smartphones that can store bank card details. Thanks to the application, you can make contactless payments in stores and on the Internet without entering your bank card details. This makes payments fast. You can not show a bank card at the checkout. If the purchase is worth more than 1000 rubles, then you will need to enter a pin code.
How to download?
While Android Pay can be used by cardholders of these banks:
- "AK Bars"
- Alfa Bank
- Binbank
- VTB 24
- MTS Bank
- Bank opening"
- Promsvyazbank
- Raiffeisenbank
- Rocketbank
- Russian Standard Bank
- Rosselkhozbank
- Sberbank
- Tinkoff Bank
- "Dot"
- Yandex money
The list of banks will be expanded soon. If your bank is not there, then follow.
The application can be downloaded to a smartphone that supports Android system 4.4 and above, as well as for watches with Android Wear 2.0. This means that if your phone was released in 2013 or later, then it will support the program. It is important that the phone has an NFC chip - thanks to it, a contactless payment is made.
According to Google representatives, if the device allows, then it can simultaneously use Android Pay, and.
Application installation:
- Go to the Google Pay store and download the .
- Open the app. Take a picture of the map and include your home address.
- Read and confirm the terms of use of the application, and confirm the data bank card SMS code.
The installation procedure takes two minutes. Then the card can be hidden between towels in the closet and paid with a smartphone.
How to pay?
It is necessary that the NFC option be activated on the smartphone (sometimes it is turned off due to rare use). If there are several cards in the wallet, then you can choose the one with which it is more profitable to make a purchase. If there is one card by default, then you do not need to enter the program, but simply bring your smartphone to the terminal, as you do with conventional cards that support contactless payment.
Payments with Android Pay can be made in most payment terminals, but not in all. All terminals, according to Google representatives, will switch to contactless within the next 2-3 years.
Just in case, carry one card or cash with you for places where only chip cards or cash are accepted.
Android Pay is definitely accepted on these networks:
To use Android Pay, it is important to connect the data option on your smartphone. At the same time, payments are possible if the phone is not connected to the Internet for several hours. The duration of the gap between connections depends on the bank, Google explained.
It's safe?
Google says yes. AndroidPay is based on tokenization technology. Its essence is to encrypt data about a bank card and its owner. Instead of all the information, one number appears. Even if the scammer intercepts him, he will not be able to do anything.
If the smartphone is lost, then the wallet can be blocked using the option. You can also call the bank and block the card.
Losing a bank card is more dangerous than losing a smartphone with Android Pay.
Cookies and bonuses
Residents and guests of Moscow using Android Pay will be able to ride the metro with a 50% discount until June 23, 2017. “When paying for the metro and MCC fares with using Android Pay trip will cost passengers 50% cheaper. First, the cost of the ticket (40 rubles) will be debited from the card, and within 10 minutes 50% of the cost of the trip will be returned to the account, ”the message on the website of the Moscow Mayor says.
The first 3,000 Aeroexpress passengers can get a 50% discount on a Standard ticket. The bonus is valid when buying a ticket at the turnstile at Moscow airports. You won’t be able to save on family travel – one device with Android Pay – one ticket.
Nothing is known about the benefits for users from other regions of Russia. Their appearance depends on the banks that will promote Android Pay in the cities of their presence.
Not very long ago, a contactless payment service called Android Pay was launched in Russia. However, many owners of android smartphones have difficulties using this service. In more detail, the Android Pay application is successfully installed on the smartphone, but it cannot be launched, a message appears: Android Pay is not supported on this device. We were unable to verify that your device meets the security standards set for Android Pay.
In general, three reasons were found due to which this error may occur:
- Your smartphone is rooted.
- The device has a custom (custom) firmware.
- Smartphone bootloader unlocked.
It turns out that those users who wanted to enrich their experience of using an android device faced an obstacle. After all, it is these users who constantly experiment with their smartphone - and install it to get more freedom. Users of the device were added to the category of victims. Moreover, nothing of the sort was done on their part, except that they only received weekly firmware updates, by the way, those who received updates every few months did not suffer. This is because Android Pay only agrees to work with stable firmware, and these are the ones that are updated infrequently (not weekly). However, the problem that has arisen needs to be addressed. And the Magisk application - the universal systemless interface - will help with this. Magisk lets you stay free without having to unroot or revert to stock firmware. At the same time, Android Pay will fully work.
How to use the Magisk app
The most important thing to do is to change your root rights to Magisk root rights. MagiskSU - allows you to root your phone, and if you are already rooted, then you will have to remove it and put root-rights from MagiskSU.
Making Android Pay Work
- So, let's say you've already rooted your phone with MagiskSU, which means you'll be able to find Magisk Manager in the apps menu.
- If you have other root rights (not SuperSu or MagiskSU), then you need to remove them (flash this script through recovery to remove root rights).
When all of the above conditions are met, it's time to do the following:
- You need to install and run . Then from recovery menu install archive with Magisk12.0_Hide_Fixed .
- If everything went well, a label Magisk Manager should appear in the application menu of your phone - you need to open it.
- Next, find Settings and there Magisk Hide. It needs to be activated, Magisk Hide should appear in the menu.
- And now the most important thing is that we must activate Android Pay. By the way, if you had a problem with the operation of the Sberbank Online application, and you still haven’t solved this problem, I hasten to please you - Magisk cures this trouble too. You need to open Magisk Hide and see if Android Pay is checked (and Sberbank at the same time).
- Then we need to find the Modules section and put the necessary module there in order to pass the Safety Net check. If you did not find your module, then you need to install Terminal Emulator and write the following commands one by one:
su
sh /magisk/.core/magiskide/disable
sh /magisk/.core/magiskide/enable
Well, it remains to run the Safety Net check. Once the verification was successful, then we just have to check if Android Pay is working.
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We waited and on May 23, Android Pay did work in Russia. Many have uncovered their phones to pay for their purchases in a new convenient way. But it turned out that not everyone can install and configure Android Pay, even if the smartphone fully meets the requirements of the system. The fact is that Google, in order to protect its users, banned the use of the payment application on phones with obtained superuser rights (root) and with installed modified firmware or firmware from third party developers(custom).
But! We have instructions for you that will help you bypass this blocking. Read below.
How to bypass blocking: instructions
Android Pay can be installed on a phone with superuser rights, if you hide the presence of root from the application. To do this, you need the Magisk utility.
Unfortunately, you will have to upset the owners of Pixel XL and Google Pixel smartphones - this method will not work on them.
Before you begin, make sure of the following:
- you have an unlocked bootloader (bootloader);
- custom recovery is installed on the smartphone (software for diagnosing hardware, creating system backups and restoring it);
- you did backup data.
We take instructions
If you installed the official root of MagiskSU or SuperSU (Android 6.0 and above):
Have you installed any other root:
- unfortunately, you need to uninstall it and install one of the ones we mentioned above: MagiskSU or SuperSU.
- to remove unsupported root, run special script(you can) through custom recovery. Thus, only the following roots can be removed:
- ROM su binaries
- SuperSU System;
- SuperSU Systemless;
- phh's Superuser;
- Koush's SuperUser.
When you have successfully installed the Magisk utility on your rooted phone, you can proceed to hide the root from Android Pay.
All the time expanding the scope of its geography. And now more and more consumers in different countries world can use this system for a more comfortable shopping experience. You can make purchases using your smartphone very quickly and without the need to carry cash and payment cards with you. This feature is very convenient, and for some users even necessary. When you activate the Android Pay application, unfortunately, sometimes the system displays a message that Android Pay is not supported on the device. In this article, we will show you how to fix this error.
You can read more about how Android Pay works and how to use this payment system in our article - How to use Android Pay on Android devices.
There are several reasons why android usage Pay will be impossible, namely:
- The device is running Android 4.3 or below
- NFC and HCE technologies are missing or not installed on the smartphone
- superuser rights activated (root-rights)
- the device has a version of the Android operating system for developers
- installed Samsung program MyKnox
- Android bootloader unlocked
- changes in the factory settings of the gadget
- device model does not support Android Pay
Android Pay is not supported on your device. How to fix?
Some users are faced with the fact that Android Pay is not supported on the device and are wondering why Android Pay does not work? If the version of the Android operating system on the device is lower than 4.4 or it does not support NFC and HCE, then it makes no sense to take any action.
The only option to use Android Pay is to purchase a new gadget with support for the necessary technologies.
If these reasons are absent and Android Pay still does not perform its functions, then use the instructions below:
- Turn on NFC in your device settings. You need to go to the phone settings, select " Connections» or in some models there is an item immediately NFC and move the slider towards activation
- reinstall Android Pay on the device. In the app, go to Settings”, then go to the section “ Contactless payment", after that " Basic means of payment» and select Android Pay
- remove root rights. How to do this, you can read in our article -
- the next step is to lock the bootloader
- activate HCE Wallet. For this you need to go to settings android apps Pay, then go to " Location of the security element"and activate the function -" Use HCE Wallet»
Can Android Pay be used with root rights on a smartphone?
Yes, you can. If you want Android Pay to work on a device with superuser rights, you need to hide the presence of root rights from payment system. To do this, install the program
Enables contactless payments. But the owners of Android-smartphones did not have time to enjoy the new opportunities, as many of them faced a problem. The application was successfully installed on the device, but when I tried to launch the smartphone, I received a message with the following content: “Google Pay is not supported on this device. We were unable to verify that your device meets the security standards set for Google Pay. The reason may be that it has root access configured, the bootloader of the operating system is unlocked, or a non-original ROM is installed.
Interestingly, as usual, the part of users who prefer to carry not just a phone for communication, but a convenient and productive tool for solving various everyday tasks has suffered. As you probably already guessed, these are those who received Root rights to their smartphone and installed modified firmware with high-quality translation into Russian, while unlocking the bootloader (read). Even more interesting is that, for example, Xiaomi smartphones even the official weekly build for the devices of this popular brand does not pass the test in Google Pay - the application only works with stable versions of MIUI which are updated every few months.
We already dealt with a similar problem a year and a half ago, and then we managed to help users bypass security requirements mobile version service "". The Google Pay protection mechanisms turned out to be approximately identical. But (we repeat) a year and a half has passed, and today, thanks to the efforts of those very advanced and inquisitive users, a program called " Magisk - The Universal Systemless Interface”, which allows you to get the desired result easier and faster - without giving up superuser rights and installing patched versions of the software. Installing this program allows you to fully use Google service Pay on smartphones with root rights, unlocked bootloader and custom firmware.
How to use the Magisk app?
The main condition for using Magisk is the presence of it own Root-rights(MagiskSU) or officially non-system SuperSU. In any other case, Magisk will try to remove third-party root permissions and install MagiskSU by default.Solving the problem with Google Pay: 
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In case you do not want to install Magisk and other third-party software, there is an easier way to hide Root rights and / or an unlocked bootloader from Google Pay: you need to replace two lines (manufacturer name and smartphone model) in build.prop file(for example, using