diff --git a/tools/recovery_l10n/res/values/strings.xml b/tools/recovery_l10n/res/values/strings.xml
index f6193ab..971e038 100644
--- a/tools/recovery_l10n/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/tools/recovery_l10n/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@
 
   <!-- Displayed on the screen beneath the animated android while the
        system is installing an update. [CHAR LIMIT=60] -->
-  <string name="recovery_installing">Installing system update\u2026</string>
+  <string name="recovery_installing">Installing system update</string>
 
   <!-- Displayed on the screen beneath the animated android while the
        system is erasing a partition (either a data wipe aka "factory
        reset", or a cache wipe). [CHAR LIMIT=60] -->
-  <string name="recovery_erasing">Erasing\u2026</string>
+  <string name="recovery_erasing">Erasing</string>
 
   <!-- Displayed on the screen when the user has gotten into recovery
        mode without a command to run.  Will not normally happen, but
        users (especially developers) may boot into recovery mode
        manually via special key combinations.  [CHAR LIMIT=60] -->
-  <string name="recovery_no_command">No command.</string>
+  <string name="recovery_no_command">No command</string>
 
   <!-- Displayed on the triangle-! screen when a system update
        installation or data wipe procedure encounters an error.  [CHAR
@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@
 
   <!-- Displayed on the screen beneath the animation while the
        system is installing a security update. [CHAR LIMIT=60] -->
-  <string name="recovery_installing_security">Installing security update\u2026</string>
+  <string name="recovery_installing_security">Installing security update</string>
 
 </resources>
diff --git a/verifier.cpp b/verifier.cpp
index 4004b02..f5299b4 100644
--- a/verifier.cpp
+++ b/verifier.cpp
@@ -206,10 +206,10 @@
     double frac = -1.0;
     size_t so_far = 0;
     while (so_far < signed_len) {
-        // On a Nexus 9, experiment didn't show any performance improvement with
-        // larger sizes past 1MiB, and they reduce the granularity of the progress
-        // bar. http://b/28135231.
-        size_t size = std::min(signed_len - so_far, 1 * MiB);
+        // On a Nexus 5X, experiment showed 16MiB beat 1MiB by 6% faster for a
+        // 1196MiB full OTA and 60% for an 89MiB incremental OTA.
+        // http://b/28135231.
+        size_t size = std::min(signed_len - so_far, 16 * MiB);
 
         if (need_sha1) SHA1_Update(&sha1_ctx, addr + so_far, size);
         if (need_sha256) SHA256_Update(&sha256_ctx, addr + so_far, size);