kmanmx
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GearVR Consumer for my Note 5 ! I was lucky actually, someone found a hidden link before the actual page went live to the masses. I ordered before 7pm yesterday, it was dispatched and delivered today. Great. Except..
I have a canadian Note 5 which does not yet have the update including the GearVR system apps and services. I tried extracting them from the USA Note 5 T Mobile CJ05 update, but it just said APK Install failed. In the end I had to wipe my device, flash the phone with a T-Mobile N920T firmware with the latest update including the GearVR files. Then re-flash a modified but stock ROM. Perf on GearVR requires the stock rom as Oculus/Samsung made changes to it just for GearVR. Otherwise you get super bad laggy performance. This took me about 5 hours (of work time
) because every step was a PITA, the flash went wrong and kept failing, so it was just a bricked phone with no OS, and I had to do some crazy fast button mashing to even boot into TRWP Recovery. Fortunately I had the forsight to load another ROM in ZIP format onto the phones storage so I just tried flashing it from inside TRWP rather than Odin. Thank god it worked, i'd be royally ****ed if it didn't. Also I have no real idea how my phone is fully operational, I wiped the modem.img and it's now using the T-Mobile modem.img which is for a completely different model of Note 5 with different radio bands and crap...
Anyway after that massive PITA and panic of me ruining my phone, GearVR works and perf is great ! And it's actually really surprisingly good. FOV is below PC based VR headsets but still okay. 2560x1440 is much better than the 1080P one in DK2, but at the same time it's still glaringly obvious that it actually needs to be more like 25600 x 14400 (seriously). Netflix app is cool, 360 photos are cool, the VR Internet Browser is even surprisingly good as it just uses Google Voice text input and you get a native 360 video view. Overall, if you have a S6 or Note 5 it's absolutely worth $99. Dat 100" Netfllix screen doe.
I have a canadian Note 5 which does not yet have the update including the GearVR system apps and services. I tried extracting them from the USA Note 5 T Mobile CJ05 update, but it just said APK Install failed. In the end I had to wipe my device, flash the phone with a T-Mobile N920T firmware with the latest update including the GearVR files. Then re-flash a modified but stock ROM. Perf on GearVR requires the stock rom as Oculus/Samsung made changes to it just for GearVR. Otherwise you get super bad laggy performance. This took me about 5 hours (of work time
) because every step was a PITA, the flash went wrong and kept failing, so it was just a bricked phone with no OS, and I had to do some crazy fast button mashing to even boot into TRWP Recovery. Fortunately I had the forsight to load another ROM in ZIP format onto the phones storage so I just tried flashing it from inside TRWP rather than Odin. Thank god it worked, i'd be royally ****ed if it didn't. Also I have no real idea how my phone is fully operational, I wiped the modem.img and it's now using the T-Mobile modem.img which is for a completely different model of Note 5 with different radio bands and crap... Anyway after that massive PITA and panic of me ruining my phone, GearVR works and perf is great ! And it's actually really surprisingly good. FOV is below PC based VR headsets but still okay. 2560x1440 is much better than the 1080P one in DK2, but at the same time it's still glaringly obvious that it actually needs to be more like 25600 x 14400 (seriously). Netflix app is cool, 360 photos are cool, the VR Internet Browser is even surprisingly good as it just uses Google Voice text input and you get a native 360 video view. Overall, if you have a S6 or Note 5 it's absolutely worth $99. Dat 100" Netfllix screen doe.
