JSR 257 Read Mifare Ultra Light

[Alex_Polt]

It's not a problem to read NDEF formatted tag. But is anybody know how to read proprietary data from Mifare UltrLight tag using JSR 257.

It's clear that PlainTagConnection should be use, and Vector output transceive(Vector input) method. But what data should be set in input Vector.

Is anybody has experience concerning this question?

[mkdani]

How to read mifare ultralite,1k or 4k using jsr 257?

[zinxed]

anybody got a solution to this?

[tsavinen]

I am not sure what the people in standardization though when they created the
PlainTagConnection. But since the content of the Vector parameters is not defined
in any way that class is in practise unusable. In 6131 NFC there is only stub implementation.

You can use SimpleTagConnection to handle Mifare Ultralight tags and MFStandardConnection
for Mifare 1K/4K tags. MFStandardConnection class is implemented in phone software
version 5.11 so you need to update your phone if you have older version.

[zinxed]

well, the problem is when you try and read an external tag on the simulator <simulated tag found on the emulator> and try and read its class name (using getName() method), we get javax.microedition.contactless.ndef.NDEGTagConnection.

is it because of this class name, that we are not able to type cast the connection to MFStandardConnection or simpletagconnection?

If this is the prob, then how do we make a card with a class name as com.nokia.nfc.nxp.mfstd.MFStanadrdConnection <on the emulator>?

or is there any alternative way to simulate reading an external mifare card?

[tsavinen]

When you call addTargetListener, did you use TargetType.RFID_TAG?
If you use TargetType.NDEF_TAG then you will not get SimpleTagConnection
or MFStandardConnection targets.

[zinxed]

yes the target type we are trying to listen is : RFID_TAG....

but yet, simpletagconnection or MFstandardConnection casting is causing a problem.

One thing observed as output of the following code:

public void targetDetected(TargetProperties[] properties)
{
//System.out.println(properties[0].getUrl());

Class[] trial = properties[0].getConnectionNames();
System.out.println(properties[0].getUrl(trial[0]));
System.out.println(trial[0].getName()
---- "javax.microedition.contactless.ndef.NDEFTagConnection"

and if you take a look at programmers guide distributed by the 6131 NFC SDK,
one of the section briefing on MFStandardConnection is checking for the string from getName method as "com.nokia.mfstd.MFStandardConnection"

Well, I think this is the problem that we are trying to typecast a NDEFTagConnection to MFStandardConnection...

well..is my analysis of the problem correct? Or the problem is altogether different.

Whatever be the problem, we need a solution for this....

ANybody who has any knowledge regarding the same, may please contribute and hence help us advance to the next stage of development.

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards.

[tsavinen]

Try to iterate the returned Class[] that you get from getConnectionNames().
In your case you should find the correct Class from trials[1].

[zinxed]

Thanks a ton.

Its working now. I styill havent tried on the phone though. Are there any issues to take care of when implementing on the phone? (is there any particular s/w version that i must note before ordering a phone?)

[tsavinen]

Latest version is 5.11. If you get older version you can update in Nokia Service Points.