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Jay_t · 7 Jun 2013 at 14:12

ebilcake said:
How are you getting 70MB read speeds from the sdcard slot? it doesn't support UHS-1 speeds.. The most you will get is around 18MB read.

Seems about right, I just got about 19MB per second on a benchmark. Still seems fast enough to prevent any slowdown in games though.

ebilcake · 7 Jun 2013 at 14:39

Jay_t said:
Seems about right, I just got about 19MB per second on a benchmark. Still seems fast enough to prevent any slowdown in games though.

It's definitely fast enough, the initial loading will just take a little longer depending on the size of the app and how much it needs to move into memory.

Using foldermount with larger games it's noticeable but a small price to pay for extended storage.

fornowagain · 7 Jun 2013 at 14:49

kona786 said:
I want to root first to back up some apps.

I've tried to download both pre-rooted MEA and MEA slim rom but both are giveing me error when unzipping. dang!

I'm just going to root my current ROM now with CF-ROOT.

Try again, I had the same problem with a corrupted file. He re-upped the files to the android host.

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=22979706399754842

Deodex slim is the way to go imo. You can add back any stock apps you want and a deodex file system is a must for most modded system files that support any mods like battery or themes etc.

james.miller · 7 Jun 2013 at 15:09

original MEA mirror:
https://mega.co.nz/#!qUUESa5J!RYMBpm2jLUr3LfhjxWTWiRx4zW0ypReEhhXNp4aoGB0

Some people have reported that the audio distortion with certain earphones has gone. It certainly has on mine!

edit: that is a MASSIVE difference, no distortion at any volumn. Perhaps it wasnt a hardware issue after all

Well done Samsung.

tom_e · 7 Jun 2013 at 15:14

That's good! I've only noticed in the last couple of days on certain tracks and it's been slowly driving me up the wall!

kona786 · 7 Jun 2013 at 15:47

fornowagain said:
Try again, I had the same problem with a corrupted file. He re-upped the files to the android host.

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=22979706399754842

Deodex slim is the way to go imo. You can add back any stock apps you want and a deodex file system is a must for most modded system files that support any mods like battery or themes etc.

Cheers - flashed the full fat pre-rooted MEA for now as I'm going custom ROM when they update to MEA very soon. Probably flash Omega 5.0 on Sunday.

Unzip problem was with WinRAR - 7zip unzipped it fine.

Yay - black smearing has been reduced a lot.

james.miller · 7 Jun 2013 at 15:50

Smeaing is no different on mine. the icon theme im using on nova launcher has a lot of grey in it and stuff's jumping around all over the shop when I scroll the app draw

you cant see it anywhere else, but it seems anything around 50% grey is where the smearing is the most obvious. It can be stopped almost entirely by using screen adjuster but that means having something else running constantly. Hopefully Samsung will get it right soon

AFK_Matrix · 7 Jun 2013 at 16:00

Hey I have found a UHS card on the rainforest that is a Samsung pro one but says it is 80 read and 40 write. I assume this is just the same type of card as the 70 read ones? As it is also 5 quid cheaper.

kona786 · 7 Jun 2013 at 16:01

Yep its still bad around the widget icons in nova - but it has pretty much gone from the settings menu, phone book etc.

link the card AFK.

james.miller · 7 Jun 2013 at 16:06

80/40? are you sure that's not an sd card you are looking at? you need a microSD card

kona786 · 7 Jun 2013 at 16:23

Jay_t said:
Here is the fast (none hotfile) link

http://filecloud.io/k6dyiea9

Is this stock unbranded MEA bud?

sanaxe1 · 7 Jun 2013 at 16:28

tom_e said:
Sounds about right as long as it's just the glass.

I've just got back after going to 5 repair shops. I told them all it needs is new glass. I was quoted.

£175
£220
£200
'to expensive'
'a lot'

tom_e · 7 Jun 2013 at 16:32

Sounds like they're all wanting to replace the full LCD/digitizer/glass assembly which is around £150 on it's own

Jay_t · 7 Jun 2013 at 17:09

kona786 said:
Is this stock unbranded MEA bud?

Yes it is. It's as released in Germany recently. There are 5 German bloatware apps to uninstall and you have to alter the selection of language to UK English. Apart from that it seems great!

kona786 · 7 Jun 2013 at 17:19

cheers Jay_t. Did you do the upload? If so where did you get the file from?

A pic from last sunday

Full size - http://d.pr/i/TXPf

AFK_Matrix · 7 Jun 2013 at 18:50

Yeah ignore me, luckily saw it was an sd card and ordered a 32gb micro sd to arrive tomorrow

kona786 · 7 Jun 2013 at 19:21

Stoosh - where you at buddy, rooted and rom'd yet?

You'll be pleased to hear that stock MEA feels more responsive than older ROMS.

EDIT - from here is CWM flashed using Odin? - just a bit confused as the file is a .img.

Nexus18 · 7 Jun 2013 at 20:27

How does the performance compare to the HTC one now kona?

What has changed regarding the camera? Is the shutter speed quicker now?

Good to see that Samsung has fixed/improved some of the issues.

fornowagain · 7 Jun 2013 at 20:32

kona786 said:
EDIT - from here is CWM flashed using Odin? - just a bit confused as the file is a .img.

You don't open it old boy, that's it. Stick the tar file as pda in odin and jobs a goodun.

kona786 · 7 Jun 2013 at 20:53

Nexus18 said:
How does the performance compare to the HTC one now kona?

What has changed regarding the camera? Is the shutter speed quicker now?

Good to see that Samsung has fixed/improved some of the issues.

Performance was always good on the last 2 firmwares I was running - MDE + ME2.

Now is seems the little micro stutter has been fix so just feels fast and snappy everywhere so far.

The smearing black problem hasn't been properly fixed - they seem to have done some sort of workaround in the menu for it not to happen any more - but it still happens in other places like in the apps drawer widgets section.

fornowagain said:
You don't open it old boy, that's it. Stick the tar file as pda in odin and jobs a goodun.

Oooops! Cheers mate for the quick answer. All installed now. Just waiting for the new MEA custom roms.

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