I've already read this thread
and I seem to be having a different issue. It's not that it's hard to scan, it's that despite trying a few different form factors of nfc chips I have never once got it to register even an attempted read.
Unfortunately I don't know if the stock OS was able to do any nfc, I bought the phone used and it arrived with a carbon-fiber-looking skin already installed on the back. Sources online were mixed about whether carbon-fiber would block nfc, and I wanted the skin more than I wanted nfc at the time so I let it be. Today I changed my mind and took o