T-Mobile: Galaxy Note 8 Pre-Order Thread

[Ryano89]

Mines says week of 2017-10-9, but I'm thinking the date format is backwards. So I believe it ships the week of September 10th instead of October 9th.

Good point! I just assumed October.lol

 

[avandie]

Anyone has the note 8 and not able to send live messages through text?
I currently have wifi calling enabled.
I Can send sms and picture messages.
But cannot send the live messages or Gifs
Carrier is tmobile



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I had the same exact issue and had to switch to Textra... I could not get it to work in the messenger that came with the phone. Once I had Textra installed, I got the error you have above (it looks like you're using Textra. I then found out from the message board threads that you have to change your MMS settings to "Legacy". It worked fine after that.

 

[avandie]

Anyone has the note 8 and not able to send live messages through text?
I currently have wifi calling enabled.
I Can send sms and picture messages.
But cannot send the live messages or Gifs
Carrier is tmobile



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One other thing that I read on the message boards from folks that are having issues with the Live Message was that the carrier has a limit of 1 MB for message size. I do notice that Textra has an option in the settings to set this. If you select the Carrier Send Limit as 1 MB, the app will compress the image to 1 MB so that it can be sent. I also have T-Mobile and I do believe that I heard that it does have that limit set.

 

[dev-slash-null]

One other thing that I read on the message boards from folks that are having issues with the Live Message was that the carrier has a limit of 1 MB for message size. I do notice that Textra has an option in the settings to set this. If you select the Carrier Send Limit as 1 MB, the app will compress the image to 1 MB so that it can be sent. I also have T-Mobile and I do believe that I heard that it does have that limit set.

We turned of WiFi calling and it worked without issue. On previous phones I saw the setting you refer to, I do not see it on the Note 8 in the messaging app.

 

[Willy25]

Does your guy's note8 load 720p or above on YouTube well? Cuz mine just buffers I can only watch video in 480p which it sucks. I tested my download speed and it's 60 megabits!

 

[nicemann]

Double post

 

[nicemann]

Mines says week of 2017-10-9, but I'm thinking the date format is backwards. So I believe it ships the week of September 10th instead of October 9th.

Wishful thinking, mine says Estimated to ship: 10/08/2017-10/23/2017 .

So the date is not backwards. It will be 10/08 or later. Every day I check it gets pushed back by another day. Assuming you ordered a grey one and not just a black one.

 

[gpatrick15]

Wishful thinking, mine says Estimated to ship: 10/08/2017-10/23/2017 .

So the date is not backwards. It will be 10/08 or later. Every day I check it gets pushed back by another day. Assuming you ordered a grey one and not just a black one.

Sorry for the mix-up, we were discussing the pre-order bonuses when talking about those dates.

 

[nicemann]

Sorry for the mix-up, we were discussing the pre-order bonuses when talking about those dates.

Aah that makes more sense. Thanks

 

[gpatrick15]

Aah that makes more sense. Thanks

No worries! Sucks that your pre-order has been pushed back so long.

 

[nicemann]

No worries! Sucks that your pre-order has been pushed back so long.

Just hoping they can get it to me before the BOGO expires. If they don't I won't be switching to T-Mobile. I will stay with Verizon.

 

[torbach1]

Does your guy's note8 load 720p or above on YouTube well? Cuz mine just buffers I can only watch video in 480p which it sucks. I tested my download speed and it's 60 megabits!

Mine doesn't have a problem playing YouTube videos at higher resolution when I'm on WiFi. But they said that they'll allow unlimited YouTube at 440P on LTE, so I wonder if it couldn't be something related to your WiFi? Are you seeing this over the air or on WiFi or both?

 

[Willy25]

Mine doesn't have a problem playing YouTube videos at higher resolution when I'm on WiFi. But they said that they'll allow unlimited YouTube at 440P on LTE, so I wonder if it couldn't be something related to your WiFi? Are you seeing this over the air or on WiFi or both?

When I am connected to WiFi it loads 1440p prefecly. I just don't get why I can't play FHD on 4g LTE without having it buffering each 10 seconds

 

[blaine07]

Is anyone here who has their TMO Note 8 having issues with correctly identifying which line text are coming in to? I get a text on digit number, it shows received on sim card number. TMO tells me this is a known bug affecting ALL N8s and solution is to wait on Samsung for a fix...?

Anybody?

 

[fuelscience]

Wishful thinking, mine says Estimated to ship: 10/08/2017-10/23/2017 .

So the date is not backwards. It will be 10/08 or later. Every day I check it gets pushed back by another day. Assuming you ordered a grey one and not just a black one.

I had similar ship dates. I went to the T-Mobile Facebook page yesterday and used the messaging function to talk to customer service. They confirmed the back order, so I had them cancel he order. I'll take my chances on 9/15 at the local T-Mobile store.

 

[Gary02468]

Does your guy's note8 load 720p or above on YouTube well? Cuz mine just buffers I can only watch video in 480p which it sucks. I tested my download speed and it's 60 megabits!

T-Mobile's website says their "unlimited" data plan limits all video streaming to 480p. That's an unfortunate restriction for those of us with an expensive 1440p phone. Although T-Mobile does disclose the restriction, their "unlimited" label is highly misleading, especially considering that hi-res video streaming is probably, for most users, what unlimited mobile data is most needed for.

 

[magia21]

So there is a backorder if you try to buy the Note now ? Both colors ?

 

[lawful12]

I cancelled my BOGO order for 2 Note 8s which were scheduled in ship 10/8 to 10/23. I thren reordered and for my issues got free expedited shipping and now expect delivery on Wednesday!

 

[Bianca Horkan]

Mine didn't have an estimated date yet. I'm in no real hurry for those freebies though. Got the phone so that's The main concern lol.

I just did mine on Saturday and it's telling me that it (charging dock & SD Card) should ship out the week of October 16th.

 

[arunma]

T-Mobile's website says their "unlimited" data plan limits all video streaming to 480p. That's an unfortunate restriction for those of us with an expensive 1440p phone. Although T-Mobile does disclose the restriction, their "unlimited" label is highly misleading, especially considering that hi-res video streaming is probably, for most users, what unlimited mobile data is most needed for.

Heh, dude that's a whole other thread. But yes I agree, it's kind of pointless to have unlimited data at that point.

I got a T-Mobile One plan during the $50/line promotion, during which I was able to get HD streaming included in the deal. If I got that kind of functionality today, it'd be $60/line + $10 for the HD video = $70/line. Not exactly highway robbery, but given that I have two lines (I'm the only one in my family who cares about HD video), and with my Note 8 via JOD, that's about $180/month. Which doesn't seem any better than what my friends on Verizon are paying.

Had T-Mobile not offered that promotion, I'd have just stuck with my 6 GB/month Simple Choice plan.