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Message 49966 - Posted: 23 Jul 2013, 16:46:26 UTC

The Android app is working perfectly, but I can't load much work because it won't let me choose where to put my BOINC folder. My HTC One SV has three volumes: Internal storage (root), Phone storage (a 4GB store emulating an SD card), and a real SD socket. But BOINC has put everything in root. Can this be fixed?

PS this text I'm typing now appears huge on my Android device and has overrun the input box.
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Message 49967 - Posted: 23 Jul 2013, 16:48:25 UTC

I'm just adding a comment to ensure the thread is working, because it's not appearing in the message list.
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Message 50008 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 13:10:03 UTC

Same here. With gigabytes of space left on my SD card, I still can't run any projects because my internal memory is so limited. Please fix this so we can contribute with our devices.
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Message 50009 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 13:25:11 UTC

Already answered in the official release thread

From Bikeman (Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein):
This version of BOINC on Android can not use space on an SD card.

My understanding is that Android has some restrictions on what an application can put on an SD card, especially if you want to put executable files there. There seem to be ways to get around some of those limitations, e.g. NativeBOINC uses kind of a "hack" (in the words of the author of Native BOINC) to run BOINC almost entirely off an SD card, but I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with this solution. But the BOINC team is looking into this.
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Message 50016 - Posted: 28 Jul 2013, 19:12:08 UTC - in response to Message 50009.  

So the limitation is because BOINC tasks appear as executables? Perhaps it would be possible for the Android version of the BOINC app to store them in a modified form, so that they did not appear as executables.

I think many Android users, especially the more technically adept type of user who is interested in BOINC, will have very little space left on the internal chip and probably several GB on their SD card, so this will be a vital hack.
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