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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
OP is a good phone, but I'm literally looking into the $300 or less category lol

Might get the Poco phone but I hate the notch big time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] poncespr:
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Are you on the U.S.?

I almost pulled the trigger yesterday on a pocophone on eBay, but lack of Att LTE bands made me change my mind.

I think it's the best bang for the buck right now, and it has an active development community. But I really want LTE on Att.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Well then that sucks. I have TMobile and I have to have LTE.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I went to amazon and checked out the reviews on it. People are reporting LTE on ATT and T-Mobile. With photos.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] poncespr:
Where I live Att uses bands 2 and 4, the only variant I found had bands 1, 3, 5, and 7.

Maybe there is another variant with different bands?

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Nope. Checked the reviews. No LTE support. Only 4G, which on Att is nothing but HSPDA.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Damn, continue searching. I'll be searching, too. I might end up with a Moto of some sort. I hope they release a big phone. They're the only cheap ones that are guaranteed to work all over the US.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] pbedard:
Doesn't work on snaps :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
What doesn't?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Lol. Looks nice congratulations. I hope you didn't buy it brand new, because there would be no more new phones for you for a long while lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
Anybody went back to Pie?

SM-N935F Note FE Superfast9 Rom
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] pbedard:
Nope
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
What year? My girlfriend actually has the same one in white that I drive sometimes. It's a great ride but quite the gas hog lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Nope. Still waiting on root.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
Welcome to the the Ecobeast family.?

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I did. Still nah. 3 hours at best for SOT.

Now I could be wrong, but by the looks of the rims, I'm thinking 2010 or 2011 XL or XLT. 2012 was the start of the non chrome wheels on every edition. FX trims of course never had the chrome features. Lucky ducks. ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
Its a 2014 Ecoboost

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Very very surprised how qick it is off the line

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Did it unecoboost your wallet, though? LOL
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
Lmao[emoji23][emoji1787]

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That my kind sir is private..I would remind you to keep your nose out of my private business..[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]...kidding.

SM-N935F Note FE using Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
Ohhhh those rims. ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
"Private" or you're afraid to tell us about the fat dent you just had in your pocket and didn't tell the wife either? NO MORE PHONES FOR YOU!!!! I can smell it in the air.

[emoji23]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Never mind :/
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
K-alz your killing me..lol. so has anyone ever encountered this. I have been using a Pie rom on Note FE that is Oreo base. Have had it on device for about 3weeks done numerous reboots. Rebooted yesterday and all I got was this on black screen:

Phone locked..Your phone is locked because Payment Services was uninstalled without authorization.

Only way to use phone was to flash stock firmware with Odin

Sent from my Still Rooted NOTE 8
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
Some form of frp? That's weird. Samsung Pay dependency file missing? That is just all around weird. Troll app maybe? Does booting even complete?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
It would boot for about 10 seconds then that screen would pop up. I was able to odin stock and get rooted again. Thats what I was thinking Frp

Sent from my Still Rooted NOTE 8
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Who has tried elliwigy's new root method? It can't be done on a stock firmware. You have to be on a combo which is a bummer since some essential services probably wouldn't work :/
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
Heads up...One UI rom just dropped for Note 5.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] pbedard:
Oh really I own one
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
I flashed it on Note 5C
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
That is one of three notes that I have skipped.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
I think this is the most ironic thing ever. An antivirus company with terms of service that says they'll tailor my ads. Just goes to show how expensive we are and we are giving it all away for free.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Why do you use these garbage softwares anyway? I've divorced all the antivirus crap a long time ago.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
Question:

Does anyone have issue with blurry pics? Every time I take a pic of my grandson and he's crawling the pic comes out blurry. This happens also when I take pics of anyone thats moving. Really dont dive in to much to camera settings.

Sent from my Still Rooted NOTE 8
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheInfiniteAndroid:
Seems my time with Pie will have to come to a abrupt end, as of the April security patch, I've been suffering WiFi dropouts for the first time ever
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
I been back on Oreo for awhile and love it.

Sent from my SM-N950U TWIZtd Vengeance Rom
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Enable "Tracking AF" in the camera settings.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Pie has so many minor issues. You know when you're used to the note 9 on oreo with very little issues then comes a new update and destroys all of that and messes up your pace and what you're used to? I don't think I'll ever update to pie until Samsung polishes this software.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I seriously don't find it's nearly as buggy as everyone else seems to. Running fine here.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Just wait. They'll start popping up slowly. Some of them aren't bugs, useful features that you're used on oreo and Samsung felt the need to remove them.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
Wow what a simple solution that worked. Thanks K-alz

Sent from my SM-N950U TWIZtd Vengeance Rom
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Lol. No problem, man.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
It sucks how "dumb" this site has gotten sometimes as far as users go. Everyone expects things spoonfed to them and no one will use the search function or bother reading. Sometimes I miss the days of "read or end up with a brick" lol. Taught people the ropes quite quickly.

Sorry just needed to vent and this seemed like the right place hahah

Been on android since 2008/2009 or so, so maybe I'm just a bitter old timer.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] pbedard:
How does Verizon get the detonator if sprint is the same device and cdma
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] pizza_pablo:
All of the changes, new "features" and bug reports, caused me to prevent PIE from my and the wife's Note 9s, as soon as I figured out how to, with the help of the AWESOME folks on xda .

I have absolutely no desire to experience the pie.

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What is this "detonator" you speak of?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Limeybastard:
Deleted. Due to it being not healthy for the snowflake gen.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Goku80:
Don't know if it can be done but is there a way like in gboard to search for emojis on the Samsung keyboard please? Gone through everything and I couldn't find anything. Many thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I don't get this one.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I think that there is a setting for "emoji suggestions" in the Gboard settings that you can enable then when you're in Gboard just type the thing that you want an emoji for then it'll show up in the suggestions bar on the top like this (don't ask why I chose "tomato" lol)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Ok, two questions:

1.Is there a way to enable Google assistant on the note 9 instead of this dumb bixby? I really need it.

2. For some odd reason, Samsung chose to cut the long messages on their messages app and instead, they put a "view all" towards the bottom of those messages. That is very annoying. Why not just show the who message in one bubble and get it over with? Anyway to fix that? I like Samsung messages, but this is very annoying.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Limeybastard:
I was trolling your fake YouTuber mates. That's all.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
U dunno know me son

Talk to the hand.:highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Limeybastard:
Flossy didn't take it so well either when I posed the same questions about his reviews of various brand devices he was given for free.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Is it worth wasting your time trolling them? Pretty much the whole planet knows that YouTubers are not a reliable nor honest source if you're shopping for a phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] pizza_pablo:
1. https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-9/themes/app-bxactions-remap-bixby-button-single-t3832301

It worked for me. I went back to Bixby, in order to have reading SMS aloud, from the Samsung Messages app.

2.

I have no answer for this.

No one sends me long enough texts, for this to be an issue.

Sorry!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Limeybastard:
Yeah you're right.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Who else has totally given up on carrier phones? I know I am and this is my last ever carrier and locked phone. I'll pay it off and sell it for another unlocked one. Even with the huge amount of customizations Samsung has put into their new software (and I appreciate that), root is still very essential to me for certain things that stock doesn't and will never support.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I wish I could get something that had as quality hardware, cameras, etc that was still dev friendly. I had pixels and after multiple RMAs I won't be doing that again. I guess it just isn't a big enough market for them to care about. Sucks but I feel like Android will only keep getting more and more locked down.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
So, pixels aren't good? Damn. I haven't had a pixel since the nexus 6p and I loved it, but hated the battery life on it. Guess I'll always be getting a one generation older flagship phone (the unlocked version) to get it a lot cheaper. Like the S9 plus and how cheap it really got after a while.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I had so many issues. I didn't unlock the bootloader on the first one and I won't up to it in a bootloader loop, would not enter recovery or anything else, and since I hadn't unlocked it could not send any commands to fix it.

They then sent a refurb. Issue is, all refurbs they were sending out could not be bootloader unlocked. After 4 rmas I finally gave up. The quality control on them is terrible anyway, every one I received had some sort of issue. I'm not going to spend that much money to gamble on getting a decent device that does what is promised.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Man, that sounds horrible. I am going to gamble on deals from now on.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TakamineSubasa:
I've always been hesitant to use a cellphone for my multimedia purposes and I always ditched it whenever i wanted to watch videos, movies etc... in favor of my PC... Well, this phone is the first one that i really enjoy for my multimedia purposes. I've never imagined ditching my PC in favour of my cellphone to watch movies or videos until i bought the mighty Note9!!!

Do you guys feel the same?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
PCs are horrible for multimedia because of the LCD panel. I'm so used to OLED screens that I can never enjoy any video on an LCD screen. The blooming on a black screen just drives me nuts. I have a Dell laptop that comes with a gorgeous 4k screen, but whenever I try to watch Netflix on it and comes a dark scene, I'd just close it. Plus, Samsung takes OLED to the next level. So, I'm right there with ya. This phone rocks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
8 RMAs of the Nexus 6P in 1 year. They finally gave me back my money in full and a50% off Pixel XL. 4 RMAs later I went to Note 8. Haven't been with native Google since.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] JOSHSKORN:
In plain, dumbed-down English, can someone tell me what this thread would do for me?

[U/U1]Note 9 Official Firmware and Guide to Convert to USA Unlocked

About my phone:

Model #; SM-N960U / SM-N960UZBFTMB

Carrier: T-Mobile

Baseband version: N960USQS1CSD1

Will it unlock my bootloader?

Will it allow me to root?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
No, in the biggest and boldest letters you could imagine.

:rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Eudeferrer:
People who had this problem will also be getting $500 in a settlement against Google which was just declared recently by the courts. This is much more than Samsung ever gave anyone who had their Note 7 explode due to battery issues. Personally, I can't imagine another locked down Bootloader and no root. Pixels might not be the best looking phones around and they might not even have the best hardware around. However, the buttery smoothness of a Pixel phone and stock Android are hard to duplicate even on Samsung's powerhouse devices. The camera sharpness is pretty much still the industry standard to which every other new Android device gets compared to. My Pixel 3Xl is hands down the best device (and the most well rounded) I've ever owned. I guess it's personal preference, but my latest Note sits on a drawer collecting dust.

Sent from my Pixel 3 XL
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Yeah but you have no idea if you're going to get one that even works. The QA control is horrendous. Also if you read above, when they send out refurbs they cannot be bootloader unlocked so you end up in the same scenario.

Never again for me, I'm not paying to be a beta tester.

I'm not in the US so I don't get anything
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I had the 6P and I had zero issues with it. The only two things i hated about it was the garbage battery life (with root and custom kernels and underclocking/volting) and never got through the day. And the build quality. It literally bent on its own the edge folded out like it was gonna break just by sitting in my pocket. Otherwise, it was solid the whole time I had it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
You could say that for anything though, which is simply anecdotal. It was a huge issue for a great deal of people.

For the record mine also bent. Anything Huawei is garbage.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I have always disliked Huawei as a company. I never knew what this fuss was all about it. And you're right.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheInfiniteAndroid:
Huawei's software is definitely slacking, however I don't see how you can fault the hardware as of late, the Mate 10 Pro, 20 Pro, P20 Pro & P30 Pro are outstanding devices, just unfortunately let down by EMUI...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Yeah until something does go wrong and they say "oh me no speakie English" or just hang up in your ear, both of which is what happened when I tried to warranty my Nexus 6p.

No thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheInfiniteAndroid:
Had a great experience with Huawei's customer service regarding my Mate 10 Pro... twice actually, there will always be a few bad experiences with companies, no one's perfect
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...-how-and-why-its-phones-were-banned-security/

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheInfiniteAndroid:
TL;DR Trump bullying Huawei & masks it as (security concern)

Anyway let's try stay on topic, mods have already had to clean this up..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Yeah except it's been going on since way before he was president....

Also stay on topic in the everything thread? Good thing you're a mod. Oh wait
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheInfiniteAndroid:
On topic from the original post I made, mentioning recent Huawei devices having good hardware, to which you replied about the Nexus 6P warranty, which we all know was a **** show.. Good job

A everything thread is perfectly fine as long as people stay related to the what's being posted, I mentioned mods because that's exactly what happened last time, somehow the conversation between some users was completely steered in a different direction.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
A racist direction which this isn't.

At least not from anything I've seen posted. It is news and directly relevant to the android community.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheInfiniteAndroid:
You're right, it's a surprise to me you aren't a journalist

Regardless, fact of the matter is I spoke about hardware upon recent Huawei devices which you deflected with warranty support about a device from 3? Or nearly 4 years ago... Anyway, Huawei seems to be finished regardless at least outside of China, so I've nothing else to say on the matter
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
That was exactly what was said to me though, they pretended they didn't speak english. If a direct quote is racist then I don't know what to tell you. This happened a couple of times to me, and this was when calling huawei support Canada.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheInfiniteAndroid:
I wasn't insinuating you where being racist, I've had a similar experience with EE here in the UK but that's unrelated, I was just saying, whether or not Huawei deserve the situation they're in or whether they brought it upon themselves, it's a shame to see them fall because the last few devices have had great hardware, I suppose Xiaomi will take over from here..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I had written that prior to your edit, sorry for misunderstanding your post.

I think their situation has a lot to do with their prior charges of intellectual theft and having spies in cell companies, etc. In my opinion they brought it on themselves, and even though many fear the same happening to oneplus, xiaomi, etc... I can't see that happening. Huawei has fairly direct ties to the Chinese government and I believe there is something to the boycott other than just a trade war like many believe.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
Sorry guys I was just showing what was out there about a device that many love. Was just information is all. I felt it was on topic don't know why the post is considered a bad thing, was just a hey guys this is what is being said if you plan to buy one.

Sent from SM-N950U Still Rooted Note 8
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheInfiniteAndroid:
No need to apologize you're post was informative, thanks for sharing, I previously owned a Mate 10 Pro which was my reason for praising the hardware a few posts back, I'm happy on my Note 9 now though..

The reason I quoted it was just to highlight the simple version of the situation which I believe to be Trump going after Huawei, regardless of the previous "security concerns", Trump is basically flushing them out right..

This article for The Verge is a good read in my opinion

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/...explanation-trade-deal-national-security-risk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I disagree since many have voiced these concerns way before Trump, but hey none of us know so you know what they say about opinions huh haha.

It's a tough situation really. I'm from Canada and seeing what they've done to our citizens in China after Meng's arrest definitely made me dislike the company even more and distrust them further.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I don't think you guys are violating any of xda rules in your convo. You're all just discussing a tech subject. Some of you are probably upset because you love Huawei's phones and others are ok with it. It's all cool.

Me on the other hand, I've never owned a Huawei device except one (honor 7). I had that phone for literally 3 days and smashed it against the wall because it was horrible. My signal zeros out the minute I enter a building everywhere i went. The phone call quality was sh*#@. I know it's one of their cheaper ones, but still, come on, you can't be that bad. All that aside, my main issue with Huawei phones (and most of other Chinese phones) was, how can a company make phones that are comparable to flagship phones for the cheap prices they've been selling them? What's the catch? Xiaomi is literally losing millions of dollars yearly because of their prices? How are they still in business? We all know that when a company ceases to make profits, they go out of business, but these companies are just growing despite the fact that they're losing a lot of money. THAT, never made me comfortable buying their phones.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheInfiniteAndroid:
As far as I'm aware (and I'm only speaking about Xiaomi) they're only really in the mobile business for brand recognition, in their home country (China) they make anything & everything, bikes, scooters, clothes, shoes, appliances, you name it, overseas however they opted for mobiles rather than the other stuff (although in the UK at least the Xiaomi store in London does sell light bulbs, scooters etc.)

Additionally they make a lot of money from MIUI (their skin over Android) most of the default Xiaomi apps have some sort of ads in them, especially in the Chinese version of their ROM (I believe the Global ROM has minimal ads)

Personally I like Xiaomi devices haven't had one as my daily driver (yet) but definitely something I'd consider, in my opinion Xiaomi & OnePlus are the "most reputable" Chinese OEMs, I mainly favour Xiaomi as they tend to use quality materials such as ceramic on their devices, & I believe the Xiaomi Mi 9 has a sapphire glass camera lense (similar to Apple not 100% sapphire)