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Message 51519 - Posted: 25 Nov 2013, 5:41:48 UTC

I installed BOINC Android and got some credit on Enigma@HOME (bce00b762bb7fa1daf247b8d8eb8935d).
But unfortunately it cannot handle BAM, so I switched to NativeBoinc.
Now I can see my device on BAM, but my stat is orphaned as 3641b0000001179cb2e64f32e053afe0.

Since I still have Titanium backup of Official client, I'll be able to recover whole stuff if I can use BAM. Or could I change "android_030d5379" name so that I can merge the CPID to NativeBoinc one?
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Message 51543 - Posted: 26 Nov 2013, 2:50:15 UTC - in response to Message 51519.  

So, since official Android boinc isn't useful for heavy users, I wrote an article how to switch to NativeBoinc.

http://qiita.com/cielavenir/items/fe6bfa592c39493dce28
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Message 51544 - Posted: 26 Nov 2013, 4:04:03 UTC - in response to Message 51543.  

Wrong conclusion. Just because you didn't manage to get it to work, does not mean that BOINC for Android does not support BOINC Account Manager or any other account manager.

So simply said, you are either doing it wrong, or you found a bug.
The screenshots from the developer show how to add BAM and a project. If you think you found a bug, please report it to the Android Google email list. Instructions for how to become a member of that list can be found here.

Do know if you think it's worthless to report this, I ain't going to do it either.
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Message 52228 - Posted: 30 Jan 2014, 18:33:34 UTC

This is an old post but I am new to boinc on android and would like to add my 2c and then some.

I brought up play store and downloaded "boinc" on my galaxy IIIs and got "nativeboinc" which I assume is the official boinc.

The status screen displayed
"suspended until battery is over %90: currently %100"

and "waiting project initialization" on the project page even though the task (asteroids) had been running for many hours.

Event log showed the task had been running for several hours and check pointing about ever 60 seconds so obviously the status page is incorrect.

I tried suspending the project to see if the dialog button would change to "resume" but it didn't and boinc is currently stuck "reading projects" and a full reset failed to fix the problem. After restarting, the status page now no longer shows anything other than "reading". The event log shows null pointers when accessing the status page and I will be uninstalling the app as it seems too many problems too soon for my android which has 2 cores and 2gb memory (the sprint version of the IIIs).
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Message 52229 - Posted: 30 Jan 2014, 18:39:54 UTC - in response to Message 52228.  
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and got "nativeboinc" which I assume is the official boinc.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc is official BOINC.

Native BOINC (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.boinc.nativeboinc) is not.

See the difference in address?
Also, NativeBOINC states in its disclaimer:
Main site of the project available at http://nativeboinc.org/. Site of the publisher is http://www.boincpolska.org.


Official BOINC is numbered 7.2.xx just as the versions for PC are.
NativeBOINC seems to be numbered 0.4.4.2.3
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Message 52230 - Posted: 30 Jan 2014, 19:46:26 UTC - in response to Message 52229.  

Thanks Jord!

I don't know what it was I downloaded as the play store showed several "boinc" apps. I have since uninstalled.

I suspect tablets are better for this app than cell phones. Asteroidsathome seems to be one of the apps that runs better on cpu than on gpu so I was wondering if my android would be useful. I leave it plugged in over night so I thought I would try it out. I suspect it is too soon, and the software is not ready yet for my phone.

I looked at my media player "pivos aios" which runs a version of android but it is only 500mhz and not an ARM.

Hmm..... I just reviewed the AIOS specs and the company seems to have picked up an injunction to prevent selling it as the AIOS allows playing ISO BluRay images. That is what I got it for, didn't know it was illegal! I will not chance burning it out with boinc 24/7.
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