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Existing Metro By T-Mobile Customers: Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite or TCL TAB 8 LE

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$219.99
(w/ New Tablet Line Activation + 30 Days of Service)
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Metro By T-Mobile offers Existing Smartphone Plan Customers: Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite or TCL TAB 8 LE + 30 days of service w/ New Tablet Line Activation with prices starting from $20 when you follow the deal instructions below. Shipping is free (if available, otherwise choose in-store pickup).

Thanks to Community Member xlnc for posting this deal.

Note: Availability for shipping may vary, 32GB Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite appears to currently be In-Store Only.

Deal Instructions:
  1. Select your tablet:
  2. Purchase tablet above and pay the applicable sales tax on the pre-credit price at time of purchase. Instant rebate will be applied to the full retail price.
  3. Activate a new tablet line on a qualifying $20 or higher rate plan to your existing Metro smartphone plan.
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Metro By T-Mobile offers existing customers the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite [metrobyt-mobile.com] for free when you add a new tablet line. Expired (Now $19.99)
How to get this offer online:
  1. Purchase a new Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite and pay the applicable sales tax on the pre-credit price at time of purchase. Instant rebate of $199.99 will be applied to the full retail price.
  2. Activate a new tablet line on a qualifying $20 or higher rate plan to your existing Metro smartphone plan.
Limited-time offer, subject to change. While supplies last. Existing Metro smartphone plan required. Purchase a new Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite and receive an instant $199.99 rebate off the full retail price. Applicable tax due at sale. One-time $25 activation fee may be required in-store. Limit 1 tablet instant rebates per household.
Alternately, Metro By T-Mobile offers existing customers the TCL TAB 8 LE [metrobyt-mobile.com] for free when you add a new tablet line.
How to get this offer online:
  1. Purchase a new TCL Tab 8 LE and pay the applicable sales tax on the pre-credit price at time of purchase. Instant rebate of $159.99 will be applied to the full retail price.
  2. Activate a new tablet line on a qualifying $20 or higher rate plan to your existing Metro smartphone plan.
Limited-time offer, subject to change. While supplies last. Existing Metro smartphone plan required. Purchase a new TCL Tab 8 LE and receive $159.99 rebate off the full retail price. One-time $25 activation fee may be required in-store. Limit 1 tablet instant rebates per household. Rebate applied as credit against regular purchase price and has no cash value.
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Last Edited by soloma March 17, 2024 at 11:03 AM
crazycool:
You can bypass that by tapping four corners from top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left, do it for two more time in the same order, so total 12 tap, then press volume down, after that you will able to connect to wifi and set up without SIM.

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Just FYI, if you want this tablet unlock after 180 days and you don't intent to keep your metro phone number , it's better to activate your tablet with metro sim as soon as possible. Otherwise this could happen:

1. It's time to pay your next metro phone bill, metro will charge you $40, it will charge from the $20 which you have paid for the tablet first, but of course that's not enough, so you still have a $20 due on your account.
2. After this point, you can't activate your tablet since you don't have $20 to pay the first month tablet charge any more...
3. Then your stable could be locked to metro forever since it never get activated on metro.

Credit to daredayo:
Turn OFF RAM plus under Device Care-> Memory
ENABLE "Reduce transparency and blue" under Accessibility--> Vision enhancement

This sped up my tablet a lot.
EDIT: A7 lite


As per Samsung: Remove animations: Tap this to negate screen effects from apps if your eyes are sensitive to animations. It can also help speed up your device a little.

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https://adbappcontrol.com/en/

This can un-install any app
I got the same error and figured out how to get around it. Don't use the links above. Login to Metro with your phone line and PIN. Then, go to Phones & devices >> Tablets & devices. I was then able to select the Samsung tablet and added a line and paid $20. Hope this helps you out.
It did not work for me. It said, I could not add a new line.

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03-11-2024 at 09:15 PM.

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03-11-2024 at 09:15 PM.
Quote from fungame :
Samsung A7 Lite: steps to make it more responsive and fast-feeling.

[1] Turn off RAM plus under Device Care->Memory.
[2] ENABLE "Reduce transparency and blue" under Accessibility--> Vision enhancement
[3] ENABLE Developer Mode: disable all the animation

[4] Activate table on metro SIM and download Android 14 (UI 6.0)

First two steps, thanks to the other poster.
Even AFTER doing all this - the tablet feels like a phone from 6 years ago.
Isn't spending $20 more and getting a phone (Moto, Nord etc) a MUCH better idea.
What do people even do with this tablet especially at this speed?
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3pinephrine
03-11-2024 at 09:28 PM.
03-11-2024 at 09:28 PM.
Quote from NeoPaxSinica :
Called Metro, and they told me they can't ship out a SIM card. Rep said she's very sorry, but asked that I go to a Metro store, buy a $10 SIM card, and then call them back, and they'll credit me $10 towards my next month's bill, which I have no intentions of renewing. I said I'd rather return the tablet, which surprisingly, the rep didn't really try to talk me out of. She did question why I wasn't open to visiting a physical Metro store, and I explained being a Tmo subscriber, I've gotten much better quality of service than being told to run out and grab a SIM card out of pocket before calling them back for an adjustment of credit.

In the past, I've been able to activate on Tmo using left over Tmo network MVNO SIM cards(from Mint, Ultra Mobile) I've gotten for free. I think I might still have a few that haven't expired. What are the chances I can use one of those to activate on Metro?

If I choose to just keep it as a Wi-Fi tablet, I'm guessing it'll never auto unlock after 180 days?
So if you pop in a TMobile sim while activating this, it will still activate and start the 180 day "timer"?

Does it have to be an unused sim or can you take one out of your phone?
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MozVolta
03-11-2024 at 09:39 PM.
03-11-2024 at 09:39 PM.
Quote from fungame :
Samsung A7 Lite: steps to make it more responsive and fast-feeling.

[1] Turn off RAM plus under Device Care->Memory.
[2] ENABLE "Reduce transparency and blue" under Accessibility--> Vision enhancement
[3] ENABLE Developer Mode: disable all the animation

[4] Activate table on metro SIM and download Android 14 (UI 6.0)

First two steps, thanks to the other poster.

Turning off RAM plus makes it faster? That seems counterintuitive but I'll give it a shot, thanks for the tips!
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03-11-2024 at 10:49 PM.
03-11-2024 at 10:49 PM.
Quote from PowerfulName4771 :
Even AFTER doing all this - the tablet feels like a phone from 6 years ago.
Isn't spending $20 more and getting a phone (Moto, Nord etc) a MUCH better idea.
What do people even do with this tablet especially at this speed?

Yeah, I went through with the update and did all of these suggested steps... It's still slow as sin. It should be embarrassing for Samsung to be releasing such a slow device (I believe this was released in 2021). I have a cheap free LG Boost Mobile phone from 2017 that's much faster than this thing. I bought it for the form factor (tablet, bigger screen), but had I time machine I would've gladly spent an extra $20 to get the Moto Stylus instead. I'm not sure how much I'll use this tablet for apart from maybe YouTube. All I know is it's going to be testing the limits of my patience
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03-11-2024 at 11:03 PM.
Quote from dvdrdiscs :
Are there any utilities to debloat or strip the Samsiung tablet down to the barebones to use for surfing web and playing youtube? I manually went in to delete the apps that I could. The speed is OKAY but every so often while playing Youtube, it does lag a bit temporarily. Something must be happening in the background during this slowdown. Even an old ipad does not have this type of hiccup on youtube playback.

For $20 it's not a bad deal. But currently, it's not worth getting a 2nd one.

https://adbappcontrol.com/en/

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03-12-2024 at 02:49 AM.
03-12-2024 at 02:49 AM.
Can someone tell me how to get the phone app like ppl in the youtube videos? I can't figure it out.
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merlinx
03-12-2024 at 06:43 AM.
03-12-2024 at 06:43 AM.
Quote from fungame :
It is under "Connections" --> "More connection settings" --> You will "Network unlock" and "Permanent unlock"

Click on Permanent unlock after 180 days of activation....it should unlock it for any mobile service provider sim.
Thank you. Found it.
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Olafur
03-12-2024 at 07:43 AM.
03-12-2024 at 07:43 AM.
Quote from Ludwigger :
I screwed up and had the sim in when I connected to the internet.
Anyway to get rid of the Metro PCS stuff at this point?
Sorry if this is a dumb-dumb reply (I don't know much about how this works) but would performing a factory reset restore it to its original, pre-SIM-insertion condition that lacked the Metro apps?
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03-12-2024 at 08:14 AM.
03-12-2024 at 08:14 AM.
Quote from Olafur :
Sorry if this is a dumb-dumb reply (I don't know much about how this works) but would performing a factory reset restore it to its original, pre-SIM-insertion condition that lacked the Metro apps?
I was originally planning try that when my phone has used up the first month and the tablet service terminates with it.
But the Metro PCS bloat has a Unlock button I plan to try in 6 months. If it unlocks I'lll try the reset at that time.
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03-12-2024 at 01:39 PM.
03-12-2024 at 01:39 PM.
Keep in mind that if you recently got in on that Moto G Stylus 5G 2023 or a similar phone deal and are not planning on renewing that line (or those lines) you recently got, once those lines become deactivated for non-payment in the 2nd month, this secondary tablet data line may also become restricted and deactivated.

Happened to me on a previous account with 2 lines - 1 of which was added a few days before the 2nd.

The hassle it took to get it fixed with their support was not worth the number of days lost I eventually recovered.
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03-12-2024 at 03:16 PM.
03-12-2024 at 03:16 PM.
The Galaxy Tab is out of stock.
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03-12-2024 at 03:23 PM.
03-12-2024 at 03:23 PM.
Oh wow. Just got the tablet last night. Did all the recommended steps. This thing is so slow... I'm going to use it as car GPS hopefully it can at least do that.
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03-13-2024 at 10:58 AM.
03-13-2024 at 10:58 AM.
Quote from crazycool :
You can bypass that by tapping four corners from top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left, do it for two more time in the same order, so total 12 tap, then press volume down, after that you will able to connect to wifi and set up without SIM.
What's the downside of bypassing sim activation? What's going to happen to the mobile plan?
Thanks.
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03-13-2024 at 06:35 PM.
03-13-2024 at 06:35 PM.
Quote from Allex :
What's the downside of bypassing sim activation? What's going to happen to the mobile plan?
Thanks.
The downside is only that it will not unlock after the six months. If you don't need that it shouldn't really matter.

Actually not sure if you don't activate it properly if you will be able to order other phones or not.
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snake384
03-13-2024 at 09:30 PM.
03-13-2024 at 09:30 PM.
Silly question, but where can I see the tablets monthly due? I had the tablet for a few days and it's still not showing up under my metro account. Or does it usually take a while to reflect the new device in our accounts?
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