1) it is BOINC - not Bionic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing




2) 4 tasks is nothing, you can have many more in wait to be started.
They are 'reserve' for when servers are on expected maintenance/backup (Tuesday) or unexpected offline.
The amount of 'reserve' work that BOINC Downloads depend on the speed of your computer and on the Setting:

Maintain enough tasks to keep busy for at least XX days

Computing preferences


3) Tasks are automatically downloaded, results uploaded and reported.
Leave BOINC for a day unattended and you'll see.

You get 'Credit' (can't be used for anything, it's just as points in a game) only after your task result is compared (validated) with the same task result done by another person's computer.
(this another person is often called 'wingman', it is random chosen)


4) the best BOINC for Android is NativeBOINC
http://nativeboinc.org/site/uncat/start

(I don't have such a device, I speak from what I have read on the forum)
 

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

 
It is very common for BOINC to be mistyped as bionic, bonic, bionc, boing, bonc, ...

;) Even in one sentence like:
"Un-installed Bonic and then re-installed Boinc"
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=75264


I use abbreviations, I just type b` and it becomes BOINC
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=73694

 

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

I used to run SETI@Home on a 90MHz Pentium until it died. The code has not been changed enough since then to not run on a P90. I assume that your current computer is newer than that...

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BOINC WIKI

I will be purchasing an Android Device next week and thus using NativeBOINC in order to utilize SETI@Home.

Do know that NativeBOINC is no longer being developed or updated.

Berkeley does have its own client for Android as well and it is actively being updated and produced. Downloads available through the Google Play Store and through the BOINC download all page.

Any questions about that can be asked on the BOINC Google Test Group listing.

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Hi i wonder why do i get old recordings from 2008 and 2009? :)

Hi i wonder why do i get old recordings from 2008 and 2009? :)

Because that is the tape that is being split.

There are several possible reasons:
1) The first run of the data is pulled in "box sort order" -- Whenever a new tape / disk needs to be pulled to be split, the admin reaches into a box and pulls out the first one that comes to hand.
2) Re-scanning signals that failed the first time because of too much noise. The software is better at dealing with noise now.
3) (unlikely) A WU that has not been completed yet due to non-return of results...

The signal would take 20 to 200 years to get here, why would a few years in the queue make much difference?

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BOINC WIKI

And this have to be "why do we get", not "why do i get"

Look
Server status page

Under 'Splitter status' - 'File name' you'll see which 'tapes' are in processing now
('splitting' - making small WU files to be sent to us from 50 GB big files. Those big files we call 'tapes' for historical reasons)

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

I'm definitely no expert, but try adding Boinc as friendly site in your firewall settings in the control panel.. hope that helps and good luck.