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Message 1412237 - Posted: 6 Sep 2013, 18:03:14 UTC
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Hello !

I'm Network admin of team name Brigade du Cosmos {BDC}.

I found an annoying bug, in native Boinc, this bug cause computation error for World community grid project running on a phone that lack of ram.

When the RAM is Full, android stop World community grid application and nativeboinc looks for the file containing the results of the calculation, but it don't find this results file and cause computation error.

Please fix this bug.

2 solution:

Increase the process priority of World community grid apps.
Or suspend computation when RAM is full.

This bug affect Native Boinc and official Boinc client !

Thanx for your future replie :)

Sorry for my english, I do not speak much English...
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Message 1412256 - Posted: 6 Sep 2013, 18:39:37 UTC - in response to Message 1412237.  

I found an annoying bug, in native Boinc, this bug cause computation error for World community grid project running on a phone that lack of ram.

When the RAM is Full, android stop World community grid application and nativeboinc looks for the file containing the results of the calculation, but it don't find this results file and cause computation error.

Please fix this bug.

This is the Setiathome forum, it is neither the World community grid, Boinc or Native Boinc Forum, your best cause of action is to report the problem at each of those and supply some corroborating info.

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Message 1412277 - Posted: 6 Sep 2013, 19:29:55 UTC - in response to Message 1412102.  


The HTC ONE has returned 10 tasks in a few minutes, all with "Computation error" :-(


That's one of the reasons we need beta testers, so I can figure out things like this. Hope to have new versions out early next week that, even if they don't fix the problem will at least give me more info on why it's happening.
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Message 1412278 - Posted: 6 Sep 2013, 19:33:46 UTC - in response to Message 1412237.  


When the RAM is Full, android stop World community grid application and nativeboinc looks for the file containing the results of the calculation, but it don't find this results file and cause computation error.


There's something projected dependent about this. When SETI@home gets stopped for the same reason, it just restarts. (Sometimes over and over and over again without doing much of anything). So there's something about the way that the WCG app quits that BOINC recognizes as an error. Maybe it is lack of the output file, which is the first thing SETI@home creates.

I'll bring it to the attention of the BOINC developers. You should mention it to the WCG developers.

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Message 1412287 - Posted: 6 Sep 2013, 19:39:26 UTC - in response to Message 1412103.  

Congratulations to this idea, unfortunately, appears after the start of the app only STARTING on the screen and over and over again
my smartphone is a motorola razr i ; with intel inside ;-)
Android is 4.1.2


Hmmm. Did you install from one of the app stores, if so, which one? They're supposed to limit it to ARM processors at this point unless your phone/pad has an ARM emulator. (The Intel version hasn't been released yet).
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Message 1412306 - Posted: 6 Sep 2013, 20:22:07 UTC - in response to Message 1411576.  

Thanks!!!
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Message 1412604 - Posted: 7 Sep 2013, 15:03:39 UTC - in response to Message 1412278.  

Thanks Eric Korpela !

Sorry for inconvenience :(
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Message 1412849 - Posted: 8 Sep 2013, 9:40:55 UTC

Hello.

I install it on my samsung galaxy s3 and runs very well.
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Message 1413101 - Posted: 9 Sep 2013, 1:01:14 UTC

I followed the instructions, created a new account and Seti@Home is running just fine on my Kindle. I am very excited, I was disappointed when I couldn't contribute to the project from my Kindle. This is great!
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Message 1413243 - Posted: 9 Sep 2013, 12:24:15 UTC

Successfully signed up :)
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Message 1413247 - Posted: 9 Sep 2013, 12:40:23 UTC

Already crunching in my Freelander PD10 Dual Core, Cortex A9
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Message 1413375 - Posted: 9 Sep 2013, 19:20:10 UTC

Up & running on my SG4 (samsung GT-I9505 - SDK:17 ABI: armeabi-v7a).

Only got computing errors under following conditions

Error while computing 0.00 0.00 --- SETI@home v7 v7.09 (armv6)

Example unit

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/workunit.php?wuid=5559092

My host = 65276

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=65276

Does it mean there is a general problem with the v7 v7.09 (armv6) on my type of phone?

Kind regards ALL ;)
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Message 1413386 - Posted: 9 Sep 2013, 19:42:13 UTC - in response to Message 1413375.  
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We're still working on why this is happening. It seems restricted to specific phones that don't like the armv6 version. I'll be releasing new versions this week that may be able to correct the problem. Till then you should do fine with the armv7 version.
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Message 1413408 - Posted: 9 Sep 2013, 20:03:04 UTC

I've been running this Beta program for just over 1 week on my Galaxy_N8010, I'm finding on my Samsung Exynos 4412 4 x 1.4Ghz cpus it takes about 70 hours to grind through a work unit. This seems really long to me. Anyone else have benchmarks? Is this normal? Curious.
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Message 1413506 - Posted: 9 Sep 2013, 23:22:29 UTC - in response to Message 1413408.  

That's not unusual for portable devices. The FPUs on phones and tablets typically process at 1/10th the speed of a desktop computer of the same clock rate. That's how they get away with using so little power. Imagine trying to run your desktop on your phone's battery. :)
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Message 1413696 - Posted: 10 Sep 2013, 12:19:31 UTC - in response to Message 1413506.  

That's not unusual for portable devices. The FPUs on phones and tablets typically process at 1/10th the speed of a desktop computer of the same clock rate.


When seeing the Android beta message, this was the very first thing that popped up in my head - considering the low-power -> low crunch rate of mobile phones, why make an ARM version to begin with? Is crunching on your mobile really going to contribute to the grand scale of SETI and other BOINC projects, or is it just going to drain your battery faster without making much of a difference at all?
Especially considering a single desktop GPU will probably be equivalent to 100 phones or so, if not more :P
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Message 1413704 - Posted: 10 Sep 2013, 13:30:54 UTC

Okay, I finally signed up for Beta and installed it on my Samsung Galaxy Note II. We'll see what happens.

If nothing else, at least I'll have access to the Beta forums.

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Message 1413711 - Posted: 10 Sep 2013, 13:58:54 UTC - in response to Message 1413704.  

Okay, I finally signed up for Beta and installed it on my Samsung Galaxy Note II. We'll see what happens.

If nothing else, at least I'll have access to the Beta forums.

Huh? On my Beta account page, it says the phone's OS is Android
3.0.31-1098177, but the phone itself says it's running Android 4.1.2. What's going on?

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Message 1413719 - Posted: 10 Sep 2013, 14:18:15 UTC

Added the project on my Photon Q which has been running Einstein@Home successfully for some time. I previously participated in testing for POGS, which had a huge number of segmentation errors, and which I think was released, but on this phone it errors out frequently, so I've stuck with Einstein.

First task errored out with segmentation error. Task 14706093

Just updated and got 2 new tasks.
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Message 1413728 - Posted: 10 Sep 2013, 15:00:49 UTC - in response to Message 1413711.  

Huh? On my Beta account page, it says the phone's OS is Android
3.0.31-1098177, but the phone itself says it's running Android 4.1.2. What's going on?

That's the kernel version, not the actual Android version, it's the same with Linux, on my T8100 Laptop running Ubuntu:

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3.5.0-36-generic


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