So first off I'd like to thank Abdul_pt for giving us a working TWRP Recovery. Without which I'd probably would still be on a much broken 113k4...
Ok I gather that its been suggested before that the Firmwares of late have been taking a bit of a "hit" in either poor spelling, or worse yet an actual performance hit.
Now that I have the ability of making Nandroid Backups, I've manages to get more of a handle on where things seem to stand. With the Stock Firmwares post 109k4*, and they don't look so great.
1) Let's look at AnTuTu's Video CODEC Benchmark, (Sorry I dodn't bother to count up which Part it was), but where 109k4 would at least attempt to play (IIRC), the WMV2 encoded Clips, 112k4 & 113k4 would just blank these completely out.
2) Its not very likely going to apply to most People here unless you use Simple IPTV on XBMC/Kodi... is the complete audio lag in 112k4 & 113k4 in the HD Channels. Neither OpenELEC, or 109k4 suffer from this, and can render such Streams with no problems at all.
3) That eternal problem of lag... (XBMC / Kodi, Showbox etc...), While 109k4 is hardly "Perfect"... The amount of "lag" on 109k4 seems to be a heck of a lot less then on the newer Firmwares. On 112k4 & 113k4 its basically nothing BUT lag. Where as on 109k4 is almost dare I say lag-free? Certainly nowhere even near as much lag as on these AiO Firmwares of late.
Which makes me wonder if these AiO Firmwares are tweaked for the 2G Units, and just made to work on the 1G Units without such "tweaking". 'cause right now for everything I need my MXIII to do. is being done with 109k4. Heck even PPSSPP is kinda working better, though I guess it could just be the Game ROM, was untouched.
As to the Ethernet.. Something that I also wanted to test... It seems that even 109k4 is extremely slow Ethernet, as opposed to Wi-Fi...
I'd just like to point out Once again that Ethernet is 100Mbit/s whereas Wi-Fi is 65Mbit/s So please save your DUH Comments that Wi-Fi is faster Wi-Fi should never be faster then Ethernet. Save possibly 802.11ac or n (in 40Mhz Channels when you can get it, and the AP-6181 will never get it!), and that only applies to 10/100 Ethernet. Once again 65(Wi-Fi) < 100 (Ethernet), and, so should be slower then Ethernet. So why I'm only able to get ~20Mbits, as opposed to the 47~49Mbits I get over the WiFi?
I'd still like an answer to that One...
*I know some People have remarked how much of a downgrade 109k4 was to 108k4, but having a Mk² MXIII with the AP-6181 Wi-Fi Chip, and no stock 108k4 to return to I'm kinda stuck with 109k4 as a Base Firmware.
Ok I gather that its been suggested before that the Firmwares of late have been taking a bit of a "hit" in either poor spelling, or worse yet an actual performance hit.
Now that I have the ability of making Nandroid Backups, I've manages to get more of a handle on where things seem to stand. With the Stock Firmwares post 109k4*, and they don't look so great.
1) Let's look at AnTuTu's Video CODEC Benchmark, (Sorry I dodn't bother to count up which Part it was), but where 109k4 would at least attempt to play (IIRC), the WMV2 encoded Clips, 112k4 & 113k4 would just blank these completely out.
2) Its not very likely going to apply to most People here unless you use Simple IPTV on XBMC/Kodi... is the complete audio lag in 112k4 & 113k4 in the HD Channels. Neither OpenELEC, or 109k4 suffer from this, and can render such Streams with no problems at all.
3) That eternal problem of lag... (XBMC / Kodi, Showbox etc...), While 109k4 is hardly "Perfect"... The amount of "lag" on 109k4 seems to be a heck of a lot less then on the newer Firmwares. On 112k4 & 113k4 its basically nothing BUT lag. Where as on 109k4 is almost dare I say lag-free? Certainly nowhere even near as much lag as on these AiO Firmwares of late.
Which makes me wonder if these AiO Firmwares are tweaked for the 2G Units, and just made to work on the 1G Units without such "tweaking". 'cause right now for everything I need my MXIII to do. is being done with 109k4. Heck even PPSSPP is kinda working better, though I guess it could just be the Game ROM, was untouched.
As to the Ethernet.. Something that I also wanted to test... It seems that even 109k4 is extremely slow Ethernet, as opposed to Wi-Fi...
I'd just like to point out Once again that Ethernet is 100Mbit/s whereas Wi-Fi is 65Mbit/s So please save your DUH Comments that Wi-Fi is faster Wi-Fi should never be faster then Ethernet. Save possibly 802.11ac or n (in 40Mhz Channels when you can get it, and the AP-6181 will never get it!), and that only applies to 10/100 Ethernet. Once again 65(Wi-Fi) < 100 (Ethernet), and, so should be slower then Ethernet. So why I'm only able to get ~20Mbits, as opposed to the 47~49Mbits I get over the WiFi?
I'd still like an answer to that One...
*I know some People have remarked how much of a downgrade 109k4 was to 108k4, but having a Mk² MXIII with the AP-6181 Wi-Fi Chip, and no stock 108k4 to return to I'm kinda stuck with 109k4 as a Base Firmware.
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