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Message 1798931 - Posted: 27 Jun 2016, 1:28:26 UTC
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I rebooted my phone 7615058 in the past hour, and noticed Google Play updated BOINC from 7.4.43 to 7.4.51. Looking at BOINC.berkeley.edu says x.41 is "stable" and x.43 is, essentially, a test version...

Where could I find info on x.51?
Does the BOINC page need an update?

(As far as I know I'm not signed up for alpha or beta BOINC testing.)
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Message 1798939 - Posted: 27 Jun 2016, 2:55:11 UTC - in response to Message 1798931.  
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I rebooted my phone 7615058 in the past hour, and noticed Google Play updated BOINC from 7.4.43 to 7.4.51. Looking at BOINC.berkeley.edu says x.41 is "stable" and x.43 is, essentially, a test version...

Where could I find info on x.51?
Does the BOINC page need an update?

(As far as I know I'm not signed up for alpha or beta BOINC testing.)

I would expect the primary release mechanism for BOINC on Android to be via Google Play. Rather than the BOINC website.
As the BOINC site states "We recommend that, rather than downloading BOINC from here, you get it from the Google Play Store or the Amazon app store (for Kindle Fire)"

You can find the release notes for the posted version of BOINC for Android
under the section What's New section for the app in the Play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc
New to 7.4.51:
* Add support for new processor types.
* Update support libraries.

The "new processor types" likely refers to the added support for aarch64 ARM CPUs.

EDIT:
Looking in the BOINC download directory versions 7.4.44 to 7.4.52 have been made available for test recently.
It looks like BOINC v7.4.51 was built on Friday. Then likely given a test over the weekend before being deployed to the app stores for release Monday.

Additionally you may find this post helpful
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11065&postid=70443#70443
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Message 1799001 - Posted: 27 Jun 2016, 15:57:31 UTC - in response to Message 1798939.  

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Message 1799024 - Posted: 27 Jun 2016, 19:00:12 UTC - in response to Message 1798939.  

Thanks HAL, Didn't know Amazon Fire could crunch.

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Amazon Fire tablet crunching.

Ok!

I set the battery temp max & CPU usage a little lower than default. Har!!

She knows but, if I smoke the Wife's tab I'm 'toast!!!

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Message 1799035 - Posted: 27 Jun 2016, 19:44:43 UTC - in response to Message 1799024.  

Wish Amazon and the BOINC developers would coordinate better on the released apps for Amazon Fire tablets. Last version that will work on my Fire HDX is 7.4.14. Any newer release tries to install but fails with an incompatible version error message.
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Message 1799141 - Posted: 28 Jun 2016, 3:48:43 UTC - in response to Message 1799035.  

Wish Amazon and the BOINC developers would coordinate better on the released apps for Amazon Fire tablets. Last version that will work on my Fire HDX is 7.4.14. Any newer release tries to install but fails with an incompatible version error message.

Is your Kindle Fire a 2nd generation one? The OS for that version of Kindle looks to only go to 4.0.3 & the current release of BOINC requires Android 4.1 or higher.
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Message 1799320 - Posted: 29 Jun 2016, 6:56:05 UTC - in response to Message 1799141.  

Wish Amazon and the BOINC developers would coordinate better on the released apps for Amazon Fire tablets. Last version that will work on my Fire HDX is 7.4.14. Any newer release tries to install but fails with an incompatible version error message.

Is your Kindle Fire a 2nd generation one? The OS for that version of Kindle looks to only go to 4.0.3 & the current release of BOINC requires Android 4.1 or higher.

My Kindle Fire HDX is the 3rd Generation running Fire OS 4.5.5.1 which is a fork of Android Kit Kat 4.4.3. That should be high enough to run the current BOINC Android release ..... except it isn't. ;(-
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Message 1799836 - Posted: 1 Jul 2016, 2:37:23 UTC - in response to Message 1799320.  

Depends on what the changes were....
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Message 1800654 - Posted: 4 Jul 2016, 13:40:10 UTC

I just downloaded and installed the newest release (7.4.53) this morning and still no go on my Galaxy S6. Still not downloading tasks and still showing an incomplete CPU type on my computer list for the phone......
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Message 1800714 - Posted: 4 Jul 2016, 16:26:50 UTC

Just added an Intel x86_64 as a cruncher, and so far it can't run 7.4.51 or 7.4.53, but it will run 7.4.43. The other two are running 53 just fine so far.
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