05-02-2016, 07:04 AM
(05-02-2016, 06:34 AM)hyperlogos Wrote: You should NOT have any trouble downloading a file, because that's a stream, the system is doing little work, and Android should just cache the data until it has enough to be worth writing. That it doesn't is PATHETIC, and Android is exacerbating this problem due to bad design.
True. But please read through the many threads here that claim 'slow download speeds in Android'. I bet most of these are related to 'slow random I/O writes' + 'Android sucks' in reality. And the same is true for some Linux apps (eg. ownCloud) too: A whole thread over 2 pages just to convince a user that his storage media suffers from slow random writes and the only solution is to throw the slow media in the bin and to replace it with something fast enough: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic...etlastpost
Anyway: This is the reason Android devices are normally equipped with NAND or eMMC and the manufacturers take care that random I/O performance of those is high enough. Just to workaround the issues. Therefore combining the Pine64 with Android, RemixOS or a desktop Linux and trying to use any SD card can't work (or let's better say it ends with the symptoms the forums are full of: whining about stuttering). And until this will not be documented and the real reason outlined (it's all about random I/O -- forget about the silly 'speed class' ratings) nothing will change and we'll see a few daily threads complaining about 'all OS images are stuttering'.