**** The Official Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Thread ****
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Well, I did it. Pulled the trigger on a contract deal last night. Wrestled with the idea of the Huawei Mate Pro for hours, but the lack of a headphone jack settled it for me in the end, despite the excellent battery.
Nothing upfront, £46 a month with 10gb. Not at all bad I thought! The only thing I that's going to be hard to adjust to is the lack of a dual sim tray :/
Should hopefully be here tomorrow
Nothing upfront, £46 a month with 10gb. Not at all bad I thought! The only thing I that's going to be hard to adjust to is the lack of a dual sim tray :/
Should hopefully be here tomorrow
Man of Honour
Gave up waiting and flashed it just now.
Getting a bit annoyed waiting on the update myself
did you do a reset after or is everything working ok ?
All good here. No need to reset. Battery life seems much improved .
Soldato
Well, I did it. Pulled the trigger on a contract deal last night. Wrestled with the idea of the Huawei Mate Pro for hours, but the lack of a headphone jack settled it for me in the end, despite the excellent battery.
Nothing upfront, £46 a month with 10gb. Not at all bad I thought! The only thing I that's going to be hard to adjust to is the lack of a dual sim tray :/
Should hopefully be here tomorrow
I got my Dual sim Note 8 direct from Samsung. 24 mth interest free credit ~ £36/mth. I got a Gear VR for free as well, but that offer has now stopped.
Man of Honour
No reset and all ok. From this thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74990722
Just make sure CSC is entered as HOME_CSC_OXM on Odin and region is set to BRI when using SamFirm to download.
Done ...all working fine ..and a poo in Samsung's letter box for new year from simfree BTU owners
How long have you owned it.... I've had 1 crash and it rebooted itself since I got mine at launch
Does that give you the BTU firmware. I tried downloading the BTU and XEU and both turned my wife's note 8 into XEF.
Just checked and BRI is Taiwan.
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Yeah BTU simfree bought direct from Samsung and put at the bottom of the update queue
So I followed the other members on here who flashed the update
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Caporegime
Any thoughts on when these might get cheaper? I'm sweating my Note 4 (fantastic phone) but it's starting to show a few faults.
Soldato
I've seen a few vendors still selling new Note 4s.
Package Disabler, manual brightness for me, make sure performance metrics are checked everyone now and then (so at 90%), I use a blue light filter in the evenings (no idea what impact this has though) and Greenify.
I get around 5 hours SoT on a heavy (data, websites and YouTube) day and can easily get 6-8.5 hours on lighter days (videos, WiFi).
I get around 5 hours SoT on a heavy (data, websites and YouTube) day and can easily get 6-8.5 hours on lighter days (videos, WiFi).
Cheers for this! Picked up Disabler yesterday and after a bit of tinkering screen time has gone up by an hour or so
I'm willing to put some of it down to just the fact that the battery hasn't been thoroughly cycled properly yet. Regardless, even if I get around 5/6 hours SOT it's going to be difficult to step away from my OP5. That thing sipped on power whatever you where doing.
Another general question to the folks who've been regularly using wireless charging...
I purchased one yesterday. Not Samsung branded. Put it on about an hour ago and have noticed that the phone is slightly warm to the touch. Not hot by any means, but warm enough to notice. About as hot as any phone gets after half hours graphic intensive gaming say. It seems to be mainly located slightly above the middle of the device.
Is this normal? I assume it's just a by product of wireless charging in general, but as this is a follow on from the 7... just want to be sure