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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Dis] Craniotomy:
I came from a t-mobile note 5, held off getting the note 7, coz for me new gadgets tend to have bugs, true enough it happened, but now my daughter's note 3 is having problems, then t-mobile had a note 8 zero down and $40+ a month jump on demand with just $7.50 up front for shipping, so no brainer for me, sold the note 3 to pay off note 5 and gear s2. Now between note 5 vs 8 worlds apart, 8 battery excellent for the last week I've used it, Wi-Fi on, Bluetooth on, aod on 7pm to 7am, 3 email sync every 30 minutes, facebook sync, weather screen, hd widgets ever 30mins refresh, 3-6 calls ranging from 20 mins to over an hour, I play games, brightness 55%-60, fully charged at 1230am it's 1020 pm already and I still have 32% battery. Yes i know I should have held off a little longer but 2 years no new phone, upgrade bug got me. ?

I don't use the finger print sensor just for camera shots, don't use facial recognition, I use iris scanner but mostly I use pattern with pin code as its faster for me to open it. I don't use phone speakers to listen to music coz I know most mobile phones speakers are crappy especially if you have a good home theater set up, I always use a good set of headphones, I guess just have fun with the new toy. Try to bargain or wait for one with your carriers if they have a good promo.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Dis] bajasur:
I did the BOGO deal and everything eventually worked out.. TMobile tried to screw me though and not pay off Verizon when we switched
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Dis] kja4kc:
Its one thing to blindly buy a 1k phone, because you are a fan of a company's products, but its another thing to actually assess the product's value in relation to the price. I did not buy the note 8. I received it free through the tmobile deal buy one get one free. Tbh, if it were me gauging the price of this phone to be $700-800 for all its combined features. I sure as hell would have not coughed up 1k for this thing. Hell you could very well buy yourself an s8+ for cheaper with a note stylus and save a ton more money. People like to jump up and down claiming the s-pen is worth the $200-300 mark up compared to the s8+, but when it comes down to it majority do not even use the damn thing (surely not worth that markup price either).

In addition, scrutinizing the company for the price in relation to the actual product is a good thing. Consider what apple is doing for their new iphone, it has taken away essential phone feature (headphone jack) forcing people to buy the accessories to use headphones, finally implementing fast charge that require additional accessory purchases and marking up the phone for 1k. This is because they are aware that their fan-base that blindly buy their new products is so large that they can sell the same with implementing less. The last thing we want are android companies doing the same unsavory business models. All in all, I highly respect OP's opinion and choice.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Dis] RaymondPJR:
I agree mostly, I don't think I could really get myself to pay so much for this phone of I had to pay full price. It's getting ridiculous! The Note 7 prior owner discount was a big plus because I was going to use the full refund from my Note 7 and just pay the extra 100 dollars out of pocket. Now I'm keeping the entire refund and paying half with a qualifying device turned in, an option I like better since ideally I'd like this phone to be priced close to 600 dollars. Then there is always the fact that to date the Note series is still in a class of its own. Yes, I do use the pen.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Dis] TheAnarchist1:
1. The battery life hasn't been of an issue to me. This is coming from a person who (very briefly) owned an S8+ with a larger battery, as well as a Pixel XL (still own it) with a slightly larger battery. I have no clue what magic research sauce Samsung employed behind the scenes in the Note 8 battery design, but it works, and it works well, in spite of the bigger and bright as hell screen. I haven't had any battery complaints at all in terms of average usage (streaming, web surfing, email management, social media updates, etc). I am easily getting 4-5 (and sometimes with conservative use 5.5-6) hours of screen on time. The device doesn't even really warm up, either, except under the utmost heaviest of loads.

2. The fingerprint sensor, while still inopportunely placed, is an improvement over the sensor on the S8+. The sensor is inlaid some and distanced a bit more from the camera/flash modules. I don't use it as my main biometric, but it is there when I do use it and accurate enough.

3. Samsung has always had lousy external speakers...but then again I live a lifestyle that isn't necessarily conducive to carrying around my smartphone on my shoulder like a boombox, either, so yeah. It is a bit w/e.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Dis] masri1987:
FYI y'all, if you did a JOD you can return your phone if in good condition to any T-Mo store at anytime to cancel the lease
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Dis] RaymondPJR:
I get good battery life too as long as I use the phone. My standby battery usage is wack though.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] orkavaneger:
Since I got my S8 there have been times where the volume is being decreased out of nowhere without pressing the volume buttons or adjusting the slider and i have never found what's possibly causing it.

I want to know if anyone else have had this problem and if you have found any fix for it yet?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Jostian:
Weird, no such issue on mine and haven't heard of this issue before, you on latest firmware? tried a reset?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pixel_junkie:
On my S7, I was able to change the display resolution and fit more on the screen. N8 has that built into the OS but everything is too large even in the smallest setting. Is there a way to reduce the display further with Nova launcher or something?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] SteelPicori:
Have you tried changing the DPI setting under minimum width in the developer options menu
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pixel_junkie:
No, what would you change it to so it doesn't screw things up?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Tidbits:
Keyboard and icons don't scale well when doing it. So annoying.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pixel_junkie:
That would bug me
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Tidbits:
It goes to 411. Going to 460 I believe is where it starts to get really bad.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mostopher:
456 work fine
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pixel_junkie:
F. awesome! Exactly what I was hoping for, thanks dude!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shootermc77:
i use 444 and all looks good
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Panzerapple:
I run at 550 the only thing I have noticed is setting up the phone you have to keep your dpi low.

Edit : I am an idiot running that on S8 I was lurking Note 8 forums not the S8 forums my bad.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] De_Falt:
Exposed
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Panzerapple:
I know I should not be in here I can feel my wallet getting lighter.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Notasaurus:
I run 625, 600 is where the browser switches to tablet format. Nova makes dealing with icons very easy. I set them at 125% and scaled the icon font up. You can then adjust the icon grids to a more natural layout.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] vadimo:
Queston. The device model works well but defaults to its values when you toggle resolution.

Is there an app that can resolve this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions & Answers] timmyhawk1983:
anyone else have problems with 4k/1080p video being saved to sd card ? i let my phone set for about 30 min where it was stuck on the lens saving it (yellow circle around the lens), and the next morning .. my sd card was corrupted pics .. and will not even recognize that i have a card .. friend told me it fried itself
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions & Answers] xfaega:
No problem saving to Samsung Evo Plus 128GB Mirco SD. Maybe your Mirco SD had bad sectors.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions & Answers] timmyhawk1983:
could be. by writing to card over and over. i had a samsung evo 32gb ... but just upgraded to a SanDisk plus 128gb class 10 for $33 at best buy
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions & Answers] xfaega:
I'm not to big of a fan of SanDisk. My whole family had 64gb SanDisk in out smart phones and they all died at the same time. I've used Samsung since and never had any issues yet.
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilija simeunovic:
Hi everyone.

I am using stock rom on my galaxy S 5.

Is it posible to disable 160 characters limit before converting to MMS in stock Samsung messages app?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toddreg:
I installed Google Play and installed several apps. I have however run across 2 that need GPS or location service access. According to the settings -wireless- location based services menu it is enabled for these apps. However, they will not access my location. Any ideas?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DragonFire1024:
Try downloading the main Google App. Some have reported that works. Or try AppOps:

adb shell appops set com.package.name COARSE_LOCATION allow

adb shell appops set com.package.name FINE_LOCATION allow

No idea if the AppOps commands will work, but its a shot in the dark. If you have a firewall active, try disabling it and see if that works.
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fire_User91:
Bump. I am curious about this as well. Any solid solutions to this problem?
[Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DragonFire1024:
The Amazon tablets only support agps. There are a few problems that affect location services. When you install more than one, it is much less accurate and takes longer to work. Unfortunately without root or being on FireOS 5.4.0.0 or lower, there's not too much you can do. I'm in the process of trying to get full agps support but Amazon has made it very difficult because the agps settings are predefined in the framework as Google's agps, but without proper location services installed in system, I'm not sure it has any effect. I've managed to get most of agps working, except I have been unable to get agps to detect any satellites. Likely due in part to too many location services running at once.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] jamsoolee:
DISCLAIMER: I ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE.

So, after countless hours of tinkering and searching around the forums, I was able to successfully install V4A and Dolby onto my Pixel XL.

I realized after a while, I realized that there were many others like me who wanted this, but some were not as vigilant and gave up as the process was different depending on who you asked and everyone was giving mixed results.

I decided that I could give back a bit to the community by writing up a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this.

Even after I installed V4A successfully, I, against my own sanity, wiped my phone again and followed my own steps one by one to ensure it worked.

SO, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, here's what I did...

STEP 1: Back up all data. Unless you don't care about that junk, then move right along.

STEP 2: Download the factory image from here: Oreo Factory Images for Pixel XL

STEP 3: Follow the steps to unlock the bootloader (guide #3) and to install the factory image (guide #4 or #5). LINK TO GUIDES BY Homeboy76

STEP 4: Follow the steps to root the device systemlessly (guide #8) LINK TO GUIDES BY Homeboy76

STEP 5: Install this BusyBox, on the top right corner, tap the 3 dots, go to settings, set the install path to /sbin/supersu/xbin and then install BusyBox.

STEP 6: Download and flash ARISE Aroma and choose what you want through the Aroma installer. (The last options I kept default, the ones that are about removing deep buffer and all the ones following that, yes, this means set SELinux to permissive, it's one of the last options, this does, indeed break SafetyNet, so if Android Pay is a must have, I would not recommend continuing.)

STEP 7: Reboot to system and enjoy better sound! :)

I'm no developer, I take no responsibility for the development of any of the above linked or mentioned applications. All credits go to those hardworking developers, much thanks to them! However, if this guide did help, please feel free to thank and leave a reply and share this to those who are also in the search for better audio!
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Golf c:
If this works, you are a God! I can't find Arise aroma installer in that post you linked. Are you running Dolby in permissive or is that the original one by worstenbrood?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] jamsoolee:
Here's the direct link to ARISE aroma: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767141554

It's the first link in the post that I linked.

And at the end of the aroma installation, it asks if you want to set SELinux to Permissive and I just set that to yes, since that's the default value.

I installed only V4A and Dolby and they both work fine.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Golf c:
Thanks, I forgot what a convoluted mess that ARISE OP is. Lol. Might want to mention the permissive for Dolby in your OP. Let you know if it works. Im confident you got it. ?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] jamsoolee:
Haha, thanks man, and no problem, took me a while to find it myself. Best of luck to you!

And yeah, that's what I meant by keeping everything default, since I can't remember what the exact values and options were off the top of my head now while I'm writing this up at work lol. But I'll add that part in there in a bit. :fingers-crossed:
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Golf c:
Thank you so much for putting in the time. I have a few hours into it myself with no luck.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] jamsoolee:
No problem! That's the great part of this community, everyone out here (well, most of us) to help each other out.

Plenty of times I've benefited from other's hard work and write ups, just trying to pay it back in full now.

Enjoy the music my friend, I sure have. It was between buying new speakers for my car or just putting in some time to figure out how to get this to work :)
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] giant22000:
I'll confirm that following this guide to the T will indeed get you working ARISE/V4A on your Oreo Pixel XL. Instead of using the ARISE version in the first post I used Magnum Opus 9/8 so I'm not sure it maters what ARISE version you use so long as it's fairly current.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] jamsoolee:
Glad to hear it!

I tried with Opus for a while, and it didn't work once for me, so it might be hit or miss, but I'm happy it's working for ya'll!
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] dark2099:
Has anyone tried this with a custom kernel?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] jamsoolee:
I didn't try it on a custom kernel, but from my understanding, it should work, at least that's what I found when searching about.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] krazekid7:
Will this increase the max sound from the speaker?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] john7760:
Yes it works for me on Elemental! Yes Dolby Digital Plus will increase sound volume of you have sound leveler enabled
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] clone1008:
Elemental Kernel has a volume mod itself.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] r80ies:
I had Arise installed then at some time my phone reboot (possible kernel panic?) and when I unlocked my phone it asked me to disable Arise. Now I have to do this process all over again.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Golf c:
Google Play Protect thinks it's malware and automatically disables it. Everything is still there. Go into app settings and enable it again. Everytime it scans apps this will happen. I have to find away around this or disable Google play protect.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] jamsoolee:
Don't worry, as Golf c has said, it'll be there, you can ignore the warnings. I got these a few days in as well and just ignored them and everything was fine.

Looking into what we can do about this, but honestly, I think it's fine to just ignore the warning whenever it pops up.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Павел Рудински:
Thanks to this mod and you friend. Working good...
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] giant22000:
Ya I'm on ex kernel and it works fine.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Golf c:
Couldn't make it work with Magisk. Might have to go back to SuperSU. Can't live without it for too long.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] derelicte:
Was anybody able to get this working on a newer version of ARISE? I kept getting crashes trying this on Android O and with the latest Magnum Opus and I couldn't figure out why.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] jaxenroth:
Same issue here. Running 8.0 w/ Ex and Magisk. Not working. Was previously using SuperSU and all was good. It's like do I want TWRP or Viper. Hard choice. Hopefully this get fixed.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] kingbri:
I was able to install it on magisk. I used osm0sis's busybox zip from homeboy's guide and flashed the module along with the aroma installer link. Works like a charm!
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] djide:
Could you detail your exact procedure? Thanks
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] nycdiplomat:
You on the october security build?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] kingbri:
Install on Magisk

Hi there, I am on the october security patch.

Here's what I did

1. Install TWRP 3.1.1-1 (I installed a custom kernel, you don't need to do that)

2. root using magisk

3. follow Homeboy's guide shown in the OP

4. install osm0sis busybox magisk module

5. download the aroma zip from the OP forum post

6. download the magisk module from the link https://xdaforums.com/android/software/r-s-e-sound-systems-auditory-research-t3379709/post71569390#post71569390

7. reboot to TWRP and flash AROMA

8. follow the guide in the OP

9. after installing the aroma, install the magisk module in TWRP only

10. reboot and pass safetynet

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for some reason, my v4a driver crashed and I cannot re-install it, Magisk installation still works, this was an error on my part, can someone help me with this?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Donric13:
So this means no working v4a with magisk.... I also tried the steps you provided but was not able to make v4a work with magisk. Maybe someone has a solution or we have to wait until arise team finds a solution for our pixel... (seems somebody in the arise team is working on the pixel...). Would be great to have 4va not in a permissive selinux status.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] kingbri:
I did get it to work, I am hunting through the arise forums to find a better solution

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Apparently you need the legacy version of the module for the aroma to work. I will link that soon
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] poboy92:
I have it installed, followed this guide and this guide, but I get no processing. I am permissive, checked it via terminal emulator. Using Magisk vs. SU. Installed the permissive script w/in Magisk. Any other thoughts? Suggestions?

No processing from Spotify, nor any audio I copy to the device.

I am on Oct security patch of Oreo, and
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] kingbri:
Try playing a sound in yt and see if it is processing. Then reply back to me. V4A only processes when it is playing music.

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I may be able to use Magnum opus with my method. Will try it out and confirm
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] poboy92:
I copied 2 mp3s to my phone, and also tried spotify and no processing.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] kingbri:
Have you installed the magisk module by zack and ghost? If not, first try uninstalling v4a, and then reboot. Then re-install it. If that does not work, the best thing to do would be to dirty flash the stock firmware or your rom to un-install the core software. The core software may be conflicting with v4a. You will have to re-root install arise, etc. Follow my guide in order to do this. If you do not know how to dirty flash, DM me
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] poboy92:
I did this one, which I found in the other thread that you created. I know how to flash a dirty rom and such, but what I do not know is where to find the zack and ghost mod? Point me to that please and I will remove current, add in theirs and see what happens.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] kingbri:
On my guide, it is a link to the arise magisk compatibility module. If you are running magisk, you have to install this in recovery
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] poboy92:
Yes I did that, and when it did not process the first boot, I went back into recovery and ran the compatibility module again with no difference.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] kingbri:
Can you send me a picture of ur v4a stats?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] poboy92:
If this is the page you wanted to see, here goes.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] poboy92:
Update...Remove, reinstalled and it worked. No real change for me...thanks to kingbri for the help.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] airmaxx23:
Has anyone got this working on 8.1?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] eladnava:
Thakns so much mate, this worked for my Google Pixel (non-xl) running Android O 8.0. :)
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] r80ies:
Have you tried turning off/ disable Music FX? I use Google music and turning it off instantly enabled processing via V4A.

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Has anyone tried this with November update? I am honestly too chicken to try, it was such a pain for me to get V4A to work on my XL.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] kingbri:
The issue with poboy92 was resolved, and yes, this does work with the november update. It's not a major security patch and you are able to install TWRP, so follow my guide and you should be fine.

However, I am not liable for anything that happens to your phone. Yours may be different than mine.
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] HACK3DANDR0ID:
Install and application worked flawlessly using SuperSU and SUhide... Thanks for sharing!!!
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Scottay5150:
Does this work with Oreo 8.1, Magisk , Android Pay?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Donric13:
Yes
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] Poloasis:
Are you suggesting the OP guide would work with Pixel XL running O 8.1?
[Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion] deepakbhar2:
Can i flash it using TWRP?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Matrix_19:
[YOUTUBE]BFb9SLYztac[/YOUTUBE]

I'm really impressed !
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] eventhorizon13:
Just got the note 8 to test drive until the V30 comes out. This seals the deal for me.