[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
Unfortunately I don't know anyone with a Tmobile Note 8 so I can't comment on that. There may be a chance my Mom might get one so that would be great for me to compare but no word on that yet.

I did not swap out the TMB_keystrings.dat file. Something I did not know in the early days of this thread... KT stated that his earlier zips did not use the dat file from U variants that was causing the issue & that's what I have been using the entire time, one of his earlier zips with the S8+ files., v3a to be exact. I never felt I had an issue with speeds so I never bothered to try any later versions.

I've never encountered any of the issues reported in this thread since day one of my Note 8 even before installing KT's zip.. My Note 8 gets better speeds than my Note 5 in all the places I have tested them so far. My Note 8 has seen the fastest speeds I have ever seen around here on any of my family & friends phones with Tmobile & other carriers.

Sure there are areas around town where speeds aren't so great but it's not the phone, it's the area, & I have verified that with my Note 5. I live in Los Angles county, just outside downtown, not a rural area, not everywhere has blazing speeds but they are good enough. My speed tests are always consistent whether one area my have slow speeds & another area will have great speeds. My point is running speed tests multiple times consecutively will not have huge differences like many of the guys here were reporting. Only time I've had connectivity issues are in places where I know there is bad reception, like inside my local Walmart or certain warehouses where my Note 5 didn't get good reception either.

I can't say the issue is 100% resolved, just saying I never had the issue, CA working fine for me too. Although there are a number of people who all reported similar experiences I'm sure there are a lot more people with exynos variants out there in the US that aren't having issues otherwise we would be seeing a lot more threads about & even outside XDA. It could also be just where I live too where there is higher cell density & greater coverage?

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To add & I think I've already mentioned this..... when VoLTE first got turned on in my area with my Note 5 I had to turn VoLTE off. I would get so many dropped calls, calls taking forever to connect or wouldn't connect at all. Only time I could use VoLTE was if I stayed in one location like at home or work. VoLTE is supposed to switch network while on a call if it dropped out of LTE range so the call wouldn't drop but that never worked for me. Like 6 months or sonlater I tried again, same issue so I just always left it off.

With my Note 8, after I installed KT's TMO zip to enable VoLTE, I figure the issue should have been resolved by now but nope. I had the same issues as with my Note 5. Turned off VoLTE issues went away. A week later I decided to try again, sure enough same issue, turned it back off. But a few weeks ago I noticed that somehow I had turned VoLTE back on by accident but I haven't had any issues. Donxt know what changed but I've had it on since & haven't had one dropped call or calling out issues. I was curious if it was even working but I tested it & sure enough it is working. So nice to be able to browse the internet with good speeds while on a call. Not that I need to often but I'm glad I can.