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Message 1481649 - Posted: 25 Feb 2014, 15:28:40 UTC
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Looks like HTC teamed up With Dr. Anderson to get a customized version of BOINC.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/24/htc-power-to-give/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4edMJo85us
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Message 1481669 - Posted: 25 Feb 2014, 21:01:29 UTC - in response to Message 1481649.  
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And if anyone of you didn't notice, Five Androids apps were released Sat Night/Sun Morning here too:

Setiathome Applications

Already completed two Wu's on my 2012 Nexus 7, and got my first inconclusive too.

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Message 1481714 - Posted: 25 Feb 2014, 22:56:39 UTC
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Just for fun, I installed Bluestacks on my PC again, then installed the BOINC client for Android, to see what it would do:

Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Starting BOINC client version 7.3.5 for
x86-android-linux-gnu
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Libraries: libcurl/7.28.1 OpenSSL/1.0.1c zlib/1.2.5
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Running as a daemon
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Data directory: /data/data/edu.berkeley.boinc/client
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||No usable GPUs found
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Creating new client state file
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Host name: android_fe2c659f
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R)
Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7]
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes avx lahf_lm ida arat epb pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||OS: Android: 3.0.36-android-bst+
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Memory: 739.20 MB physical, 0 bytes virtual
Tue Feb 25 23:40:31 CET 2014||Disk: 7.87 GB total, 7.45 GB free

Fun. :)
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Message 1481913 - Posted: 26 Feb 2014, 14:51:22 UTC

Now I have to ask myself a philosophical question: do I add my phone to Seti Main, or just keep it on Beta? I put it on Einstein, but just so it would have something to do after it got limited on the number of errors on 7.25 and 7.26.

Well, I still have at least a couple more days to decide. That's how long it will take to finish its first pair of 7.27s.

7.21 worked like a charm for me at Beta, so it should be fine here.
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Message 1481921 - Posted: 26 Feb 2014, 15:09:51 UTC - in response to Message 1481913.  

Now I have to ask myself a philosophical question: do I add my phone to Seti Main, or just keep it on Beta? I put it on Einstein, but just so it would have something to do after it got limited on the number of errors on 7.25 and 7.26.

Well, I still have at least a couple more days to decide. That's how long it will take to finish its first pair of 7.27s.

7.21 worked like a charm for me at Beta, so it should be fine here.

Figured I might as run it to generate some APR numbers. Rather impressed with how fast the Galaxy S4 is.
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Message 1482173 - Posted: 27 Feb 2014, 3:16:48 UTC

I have been running the NativeBOINC app on my not so powerful android phone for a few months now. The app seems to be doing a good job in crunching, so far.
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Message 1482307 - Posted: 27 Feb 2014, 15:11:50 UTC

Well, I added Seti main to my phone, and the silly thing immediately went out and downloaded a task and started running it, pausing one of its Beta tasks. I hit the pause button on it at 47 seconds and it went back to running the Beta. I expect the Betas to finish sometime on Saturday. Then I'll turn it loose to run according to resource shares.
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Message 1484377 - Posted: 4 Mar 2014, 11:28:04 UTC

i'm having issues with the android app
on my note 3 i have yet to finish a wu since it errors out when i take it off the charger and it suspends, even hitting suspend button kills the wu

same on my tv stick

only android iot runs great on is my nvidia shield with tegra 4
I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap
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Message 1484379 - Posted: 4 Mar 2014, 12:01:17 UTC - in response to Message 1484377.  
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i'm having issues with the android app
on my note 3 i have yet to finish a wu since it errors out when i take it off the charger and it suspends, even hitting suspend button kills the wu

Android apps (plural), there are five different ARM Android apps released here, your host has managed to run all five of them so far, and each one has managed to complete at least one task:

Application details for host 7223176

Of the tasks in your task list, each finished task (whether they errored or not) has had a SIGSEGV: segmentation violation, one even complete afterwards:

All tasks for computer 7223176

Eric is still actively developing the apps, expect updated apps over time as he and the other developers get a better handle on the problems, be it app or api.

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Message 1484413 - Posted: 4 Mar 2014, 15:26:10 UTC - in response to Message 1484377.  

i'm having issues with the android app
on my note 3 i have yet to finish a wu since it errors out when i take it off the charger and it suspends, even hitting suspend button kills the wu

same on my tv stick

only android iot runs great on is my nvidia shield with tegra 4

Hmmm. My Note 2 liked 7.21 just fine on Beta.

It did one 7.21 here on main in between marathon 7.27s at Beta and came up with an extra triplet, but it validated anyway. I'm trying to remember if 7.21 was the version that had that problem frequently at Beta.
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Message 1487552 - Posted: 11 Mar 2014, 23:12:45 UTC

I've been looking into both SETI and distributed computing for quite some time, and the Android app made me take the first step towards becoming a SETIzen.
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Message 1487612 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 2:27:15 UTC
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Samsung has the powersleep app also, which is subset of BOINC (I was told). Sometimes these announcement are more for publicity than anything else, otherwise they will promote BOINC long ago. It is when the phone manufacturer are involve they feel like they need to let the world know they are doing good for humanity, lol.

My old ONDA tablet is running Android 4.02 with Allwinner A10 (cortex-A8, vfp+NEON). This is the only device that keep giving SIGSEGV and yet it often complete its task.

My phone and TV sticks are running Android 4.2.x and I never seen SIGSEGV on them.
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Message 1488000 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 20:22:27 UTC - in response to Message 1487612.  

Samsung has the powersleep app also, which is subset of BOINC (I was told).


If "subset of BOINC" is codespeak for what us plain-Jane folk call "100% BOINC, but will only run SIMAP"... then yeah:)

http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/

Oh, and welcome to Seti Roy! I think you'll like it here:)
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Message 1488008 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 20:38:53 UTC - in response to Message 1488000.  
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If "subset of BOINC" is codespeak for what us plain-Jane folk call "100% BOINC, but will only run SIMAP"... then yeah:)

http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/

Oh, and welcome to Seti Roy! I think you'll like it here:)


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Message 1488054 - Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 21:42:07 UTC - in response to Message 1488000.  

Oh, and welcome to Seti Roy! I think you'll like it here:)


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Message 1488580 - Posted: 13 Mar 2014, 20:37:26 UTC
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My phone just finished a task and sure enough, it has an extra triplet and got marked inconclusive.

My next one is at 100% now, so it should finish and report in the next few minutes. We'll see what happens with it.

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The next one has finished and uploaded, but its wingmate hasn't yet.
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Message 1488699 - Posted: 14 Mar 2014, 1:56:06 UTC - in response to Message 1488580.  
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My phone just finished a task and sure enough, it has an extra triplet and got marked inconclusive.

My next one is at 100% now, so it should finish and report in the next few minutes. We'll see what happens with it.

[edit]
The next one has finished and uploaded, but its wingmate hasn't yet.

I saw a few of those as well, but I did not see enough to keep track of which app had them. However I currently have one from the armv6-vfp app like yours.
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Message 1488820 - Posted: 14 Mar 2014, 13:58:39 UTC - in response to Message 1488580.  

My phone just finished a task and sure enough, it has an extra triplet and got marked inconclusive.

My next one is at 100% now, so it should finish and report in the next few minutes. We'll see what happens with it.

[edit]
The next one has finished and uploaded, but its wingmate hasn't yet.

Update:

The WU where I got the extra triplet came back from a third host without the triplet, but I got credit anyway.

The other one is still pending.

My next pair are charging right along and could be done by the end of the day, if I keep it plugged in most of the time.
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