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Woohoo! This phone is a complete beast!

This phone is an absolute monster. Wouldn't change a thing about it! It's so fast and smooth (coming from tmo s7 edge) battery life has been great for first cycle use (I know my battery isn't a dud lol) and it works great with T-Mobile after changing the APN to regular T-Mobile LTE I'm getting great LTE now and at work my speeds have triple. charges much faster than s7 edge and for being 1080P it's such a good display and knowing it dropped less juice then QHD, big W. Haven't gotten into development much just yet. Or have done any system updates or gaming. Today is that day, was just testing how well battery performed and after unplugging at night 1/18 throughout all day yesterday, had 12% at night. Plugged in this morning have 3 accounts and have used GPS and BT (not all the time). Is there anything you vets can share a few tips and tricks with our OPO? What are your thoughts on this Device?
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Welcome to the 3T :highfive:

Hey I have a tip, I just got my 3t the other day and just realized WiFi Calling & VoLTE Calling is OFF by default. You can turn these on in Settings -> SIM & Network settings.
Having those on makes it sound like phone calls are much louder & clearer instead of using a tin can to communicate.

nano303 said:
This phone is an absolute monster. Wouldn't change a thing about it! It's so fast and smooth (coming from tmo s7 edge) battery life has been great for first cycle use (I know my battery isn't a dud lol) and it works great with T-Mobile after changing the APN to regular T-Mobile LTE I'm getting great LTE now and at work my speeds have triple. charges much faster than s7 edge and for being 1080P it's such a good display and knowing it dropped less juice then QHD, big W. Haven't gotten into development much just yet. Or have done any system updates or gaming. Today is that day, was just testing how well battery performed and after unplugging at night 1/18 throughout all day yesterday, had 12% at night. Plugged in this morning have 3 accounts and have used GPS and BT (not all the time). Is there anything you vets can share a few tips and tricks with our OPO? What are your thoughts on this Device?
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Where is the APN setting? I cant seem to find it.

ken1645 said:
Hey I have a tip, I just got my 3t the other day and just realized WiFi Calling & VoLTE Calling is OFF by default. You can turn these on in Settings -> SIM & Network settings.
Having those on makes it sound like phone calls are much louder & clearer instead of using a tin can to communicate.
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Thanks man!
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aaronc_98 said:
Where is the APN setting? I cant seem to find it.
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Under sim network. Sim 1 and access point names. By default it was on tmo LTE 260
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nano303 said:
Under sim network. Sim 1 and access point names. By default it was on tmo LTE 260
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mine was actually defaulted to T-Mobile GPRS (fast.t-mobile..com)

I just got my OP3T yesterday. I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP and OOS4.0.2.
I agree though, this phone is INCREDIBLE. It is by far the smoothest phone I have ever used. I also had a Samsung Galaxy S7 (not the edge variant though), and this phone runs laps around the S& (in terms of performance).
I know a lot of user complained about camera quality, and I think the main thing with the main back facing camera is that it's VERY sensitive to movement, so you need to have a steady hand otherwise your pics can come off a little blurry. I'm playing around with different camera apps right now to see how they compare. I will say though that the front facing camera is really great quality and doesn't take distorted or blurry pics at all.
The only thing I would say is if you want, I installed 2 apps to help out with the battery even more. I use LeanDroid and ForceDoze (both on play store)
I also use Nova launcher to help organize my apps (although I have no complaints with the stock OOS launcher)
I use ccleaner from time to time to clean up "crap" from my phone
I also have Blokada on my phone - http://blokada.org/ (prevents advertisements on sites and in apps)
Other than that, everything else is working GREAT! Phone is very responsive.

m0d hipp¥ said:
I just got my OP3T yesterday. I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP and OOS4.0.2.
I agree though, this phone is INCREDIBLE. It is by far the smoothest phone I have ever used. I also had a Samsung Galaxy S7 (not the edge variant though), and this phone runs laps around the S& (in terms of performance).
I know a lot of user complained about camera quality, and I think the main thing with the main back facing camera is that it's VERY sensitive to movement, so you need to have a steady hand otherwise your pics can come off a little blurry. I'm playing around with different camera apps right now to see how they compare. I will say though that the front facing camera is really great quality and doesn't take distorted or blurry pics at all.
The only thing I would say is if you want, I installed 2 apps to help out with the battery even more. I use LeanDroid and ForceDoze (both on play store)
I also use Nova launcher to help organize my apps (although I have no complaints with the stock OOS launcher)
I use ccleaner from time to time to clean up "crap" from my phone
I also have Blokada on my phone - http://blokada.org/ (prevents advertisements on sites and in apps)
Other than that, everything else is working GREAT! Phone is very responsive.
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Thanks for your input fella!! Would download those now!
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aaronc_98 said:
mine was actually defaulted to T-Mobile GPRS (fast.t-mobile..com)
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When you run a speed test, what do you average on T-Mobile-GPRS? I have that as my default APN as well, and get about 40Mbps down and 25-30Mbps upload.

m0d hipp¥ said:
When you run a speed test, what do you average on T-Mobile-GPRS? I have that as my default APN as well, and get about 40Mbps down and 25-30Mbps upload.
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There's a lot of variables, but I am usually at least in that range. I have been as high as 100mbs download...
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m0d hipp¥ said:
When you run a speed test, what do you average on T-Mobile-GPRS? I have that as my default APN as well, and get about 40Mbps down and 25-30Mbps upload.
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how do you get T-Mobile-GPRS? All I have is fast.t-Mobile.com and T-mobile ims.

se7ensde said:
how do you get T-Mobile-GPRS? All I have is fast.t-Mobile.com and T-mobile ims.
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I'm using fast.t-mobile.com right now as well on the stock rom. I can't recall maybe at that time i was using a different rom and they had the APN named differently.
Anyway just ran a speedtest and here are the results: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/2726953248

Edge notifications

Hi all, is there any way to have the notitifications on edges like note edge. Means the running of complete message or whatsapp just like note edge.
If anyone know any third party app please let me know.
Thanks.
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I havent seen something like it, only thing is an edge panel, but you must swipe to see the notifications

Smart Lock

Hi folks I've never been able to get smart lock by location working on the note 9 exynos version. Having just compared to Note 8 there seems to be a setting missing so I've reported that its not working to Samsung directly and they are investigating. Feel free to log the same fault in the UK on 03307269000. The more who do, the greater chance of a fix.

bonerp said:
Hi folks I've never been able to get smart lock by location working on the note 9 exynos version. Having just compared to Note 8 there seems to be a setting missing so I've reported that its not working to Samsung directly and they are investigating. Feel free to log the same fault in the UK on 03307269000. The more who do, the greater chance of a fix.
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It's Google that decided to remove this feature. I doubt that reporting it will change anything.

Nastrahl said:
It's Google that decided to remove this feature. I doubt that reporting it will change anything.
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No wonder. I was getting pretty annoyed at it not working the other day.

bonerp said:
Hi folks I've never been able to get smart lock by location working on the note 9 exynos version. Having just compared to Note 8 there seems to be a setting missing so I've reported that its not working to Samsung directly and they are investigating. Feel free to log the same fault in the UK on 03307269000. The more who do, the greater chance of a fix.
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What is this mystery setting that's missing? I have a SM-N960F (Exynos) in the UK and Smart lock works fine, you just have to add your location a couple of times.

Never worked for me but note 8 works fine.

PuffinNugz said:
No wonder. I was getting pretty annoyed at it not working the other day.
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You are not alone...same wonder here...

willhemmens said:
What is this mystery setting that's missing? I have a SM-N960F (Exynos) in the UK and Smart lock works fine, you just have to add your location a couple of times.
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I made it forget it and re-added it a couple times and it still doesn't work. Not a huge deal, as I have it connected to my watch for smart unlock, but early mornings, late nights, or just lazy days when I'm not wearing the watch, it's annoying.

PuffinNugz said:
I made it forget it and re-added it a couple times and it still doesn't work. Not a huge deal, as I have it connected to my watch for smart unlock, but early mornings, late nights, or just lazy days when I'm not wearing the watch, it's annoying.
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Just to confirm, you're adding the same location multiple times? It took me adding the same location 6 times before it reliably unlocked for me at home.

Bad video quality?

I have a note 9 on Verizon and have noticed that the video quality from my phone to any iPhone Stinks... Pixated and Def not HD...
Any way around this other than using a different chat client?
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techjunkie25 said:
I have a note 9 on Verizon and have noticed that the video quality from my phone to any iPhone Stinks... Pixated and Def not HD...
Any way around this other than using a different chat client?
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Is this the same whether you're on WI-FI,or a data connection?
Perhaps the resolution depends on which VZW Data plan you're on &/or,if your high-speed cap has been reached for the billing period?
IDK if the different resolutions on the various data plans apply to video chat clients,just tossin' around the possibilities..........

KOLIOSIS said:
Is this the same whether you're on WI-FI,or a data connection?
Perhaps the resolution depends on which VZW Data plan you're on &/or,if your high-speed cap has been reached for the billing period?
IDK if the different resolutions on the various data plans apply to video chat clients,just tossin' around the possibilities..........
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Yes, no matter if on wifi or cellular. Video viewed on my note 9 is amazing.. Thinking it had to do with some kind of bs compression that vzw applies... Photos on the other hand are crystal clear.
Just really frustrating to have a 1200.00 phone that I can't share HD video with anyone else.
I've even lowered the quality below HD and it still pixelates and looks like garbage
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techjunkie25 said:
Yes, no matter if on wifi or cellular. Video viewed on my note 9 is amazing.. Thinking it had to do with some kind of bs compression that vzw applies... Photos on the other hand are crystal clear.
Just really frustrating to have a 1200.00 phone that I can't share HD video with anyone else.
I've even lowered the quality below HD and it still pixelates and looks like garbage
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Not knowing which app you're using,but,it sounds app-related,perhaps it has to do with a size limitation on the chat client & video quality is affected.
Just taking guesses here,hoping someone will chime in with a solid explanation.

I'm assuming you are sending them an MMS - if so, they will always look crappy!
If you had an iPhone before as well, you would have been using iMessage. That system will allow much higher quality images than an MMS will, but obviously it's limited to iOS.
For Android, you'd have to use something like WhatsApp or similar (and have your friends use it too)

techjunkie25 said:
I have a note 9 on Verizon and have noticed that the video quality from my phone to any iPhone Stinks... Pixated and Def not HD...
Any way around this other than using a different chat client?
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Yes, no matter if on wifi or cellular. Video viewed on my note 9 is amazing.. Thinking it had to do with some kind of bs compression that vzw applies... Photos on the other hand are crystal clear.
Just really frustrating to have a 1200.00 phone that I can't share HD video with anyone else.
I've even lowered the quality below HD and it still pixelates and looks like garbage
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has nothing to do with the phone. just share videos via links. you could be on a google,one plus...etc and it would all be the same.
id be tempted to tell you to sell your phone for thinking its a device issue since it makes as much sense than thinking it was a phone problem....lol
just use samsung link sharing when you open the video, then press the share icon.
but you should definitely return the phone :cyclops:

techjunkie25 said:
I have a note 9 on Verizon and have noticed that the video quality from my phone to any iPhone Stinks... Pixated and Def not HD...
Any way around this other than using a different chat client?
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Are you talking about SMS? If so, it pretty much compresses your video to a 10 mb file. As you can imagine, that would give you about 1 second of HD video. Any more than that, compression kicks in. The longer the video, the heavier the compression/loss of resolution. SMS is a technology from 20 years ago, it was never meant for this. They pushed it to being able to send decent quality photos, and that's about as good as you're going to get. Apple's iMessage does not use sms for iphone to iphone texting, so it may avoid the compression issue, I'm not sure. And carriers are doing away with SMS, and moving to RCS, which may help this as well.
Point is, if you are sending video over SMS, don't. The issue you are talking about has nothing to do with your phone or any phone. It has to do with limitations of SMS.

bober10113 said:
has nothing to do with the phone. just share videos via links. you could be on a google,one plus...etc and it would all be the same.
id be tempted to tell you to sell your phone for thinking its a device issue since it makes as much sense than thinking it was a phone problem....lol
just use samsung link sharing when you open the video, then press the share icon.
but you should definitely return the phone :cyclops:
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I completely understand it's a network compression issue with vzw, and not a device issue.
I love my phone but I need to have a native way to send hd videos... So either way, selling it might be the solution.
The problem that I have is that I would have to convince my bosses to use the new app, as I use my phone to document structural issues and send them to their respective management reps.
This will be nothing short of a miracle.
Why would vzw sell a Ferrari of a device, but only let it in the granny lane capabilities wise
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techjunkie25 said:
I completely understand it's a network compression issue with vzw, and not a device issue.
I love my phone but I need to have a native way to send hd videos... So either way, selling it might be the solution.
The problem that I have is that I would have to convince my bosses to use the new app, as I use my phone to document structural issues and send them to their respective management reps.
This will be nothing short of a miracle.
Why would vzw sell a Ferrari of a device, but only let it in the granny lane capabilities wise
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mms videos and pictures always have been this way.
but seriously have your tried samsung link sharing?

techjunkie25 said:
Why would vzw sell a Ferrari of a device, but only let it in the granny lane capabilities wise
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SMS is SMS, has nothing to do with Verizon. It's not a network compression issue, its the limitation of the SMS protocol itself. You get high speed LTE with verizon, right? Verizon does not limit you from using your LTE connection for Whatsapp for example. You choose to use SMS, therefore you have to play by the rules of SMS. Again, this has nothing to do with the carrier. To further expand your analogy, that's like you buying a Ferrari and never taking it outside the confines of New York City. Your car can hit 200 mph, but you're crawling along at 10 mph. If your job requires you to send HD video to iphones and you know that iphone to iphone there is no issue, and you can't use any other app besides text apps, you probably have no choice but to get an iphone. Perhaps this will resolve when Verizon finally activates RCS messaging instead of SMS, as Tmobile is starting to do, but knowing Verizon, you'll be waiting a while. And I don't know that RCS will solve your problem, you'll have to look into it's limitations and when Verizon will actually enable it.

sputnik767 said:
SMS is SMS, has nothing to do with Verizon. It's not a network compression issue, its the limitation of the SMS protocol itself. You get high speed LTE with verizon, right? Verizon does not limit you from using your LTE connection for Whatsapp for example. You choose to use SMS, therefore you have to play by the rules of SMS. Again, this has nothing to do with the carrier. To further expand your analogy, that's like you buying a Ferrari and never taking it outside the confines of New York City. Your car can hit 200 mph, but you're crawling along at 10 mph. If your job requires you to send HD video to iphones and you know that iphone to iphone there is no issue, and you can't use any other app besides text apps, you probably have no choice but to get an iphone. Perhaps this will resolve when Verizon finally activates RCS messaging instead of SMS, as Tmobile is starting to do, but knowing Verizon, you'll be waiting a while. And I don't know that RCS will solve your problem, you'll have to look into it's limitations and when Verizon will actually enable it.
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samsung link sharing to the rescue. yeah its 2 steps more than just adding a file to a text but it sure gets the job done quickly. guess g drive or onedrive can basically do the same thing.

bober10113 said:
samsung link sharing to the rescue. yeah its 2 steps more than just adding a file to a text but it sure gets the job done quickly. guess g drive or onedrive can basically do the same thing.
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I got to start using that more often. I remember using Samsung link sharing on my S7 edge. But since almost forgot about it.
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Samsung Galaxy note 9 for best full screen video watching experience
Everyone i have found that the note 9 video watching experience in full screen mode is crappy and i have also found an solution for that
Step 1 is to turn on color adjustment and select personalized color option and complete the table.
This will make the washed away red colors in your full screen mode the way you see the color in any other mode
Step 2 is enable the developer options an turn on disable hardware overlay,
This will make the low light quality of the full screen mode 10 times better when watching video
Also applies for the gallery
Thats all hope this was useful for those of you whom watch video on full screen mode and have bad video quality and colors on Samsung phones,.

Thank you, the solution is great, I think it will work great.

It can be an Apple problem as most videos from diferent androids look crap on my iphone , even though the video is sharp on my macbook pro , could be anoyher ios 13 bug as there are alot still not fixed, iphone owners these days seem to be only beta testers for apple , something you dont expect with a 1500 phone ( yes i have both iphone 11 pro and note 9 and 10+ also an old nexus 6 )

Edge Lighting

Has anyone gotten the edge lighting to work for notifications? Mine doesn't seem to do anything when enabled for SMS and Email. I'm using Google's Text App and Aquamail and neither lights up the edge lighting. I hate not having an LED light.

steelersmb said:
Has anyone gotten the edge lighting to work for notifications? Mine doesn't seem to do anything when enabled for SMS and Email. I'm using Google's Text App and Aquamail and neither lights up the edge lighting. I hate not having an LED light.
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Is it an S10e by any chance?

Tel864 said:
Is it an S10e by any chance?
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No, it's an S10+.

Mine works but i am using samsung mms and email app

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No, it's an S10+.
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Ahh, ok. I saw a couple more talking about no edge lighting with the e.

I know it's early.. do y'all think battery takes a hit with the edge lighting?
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bkdodger said:
I know it's early.. do y'all think battery takes a hit with the edge lighting?
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I thought it did with my S9 but that could be just me. I seem to always be fighting battery life with the S9. If they ever ship my S10, I'm hoping it will be better and I can actually use Edge lighting.

Tel864 said:
I thought it did with my S9 but that could be just me. I seem to always be fighting battery life with the S9. If they ever ship my S10, I'm hoping it will be better and I can actually use Edge lighting.
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Yeah I'm curious.. I will be testing.. I noticed there are plenty of settings for the lighting... I'm usually around a charger anyway but definitely want to test it's impact...
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It's the same behavior as on previous phones : it works only with incoming notification that turn on the screen ! So if it's not the case for your notification to wake up the screen, edge lightning won't work.