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Message 92143 - Posted: 13 Jul 2019, 17:37:48 UTC

Hello friends, forgive my bad english, I am from Russia. After updating my phone on Android 9, a strange anomaly occurs: current tasks are not displayed in the program menu and in statistics, but are visible in the notification blind. Screenshots attached. I reconnected to the tasks and reinstalled Boinc, this does not help.
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Message 92144 - Posted: 13 Jul 2019, 18:01:00 UTC - in response to Message 92143.  
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Could be a phone specific problem. It works fine on my Huawei P20 lite that updated to Android 9 a couple of weeks ago.

A newer version of the Android BOINC app is going to be released in a couple of weeks time. Perhaps that that will fix it, but in the meantime, you best make an issue out of it at BOINC its GitHub pages: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues
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Message 92182 - Posted: 16 Jul 2019, 11:18:01 UTC

Hi, I wrote on Github. This problem is known. Thank you very much.
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Message 92184 - Posted: 16 Jul 2019, 12:27:54 UTC - in response to Message 92182.  

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/2467 is a different problem though. Your problem, as far as I can see, is that the Tasks menu-overlay doesn't show the number of tasks you have, it always shows zero tasks, even when you have a full compliment and they run fine. That's not the same as is said in 2467, where BOINC just stops computing the tasks after a while. It also always shows the correct number of tasks in the menu-overlay.
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Message 92193 - Posted: 16 Jul 2019, 15:49:56 UTC - in response to Message 92184.  

The specialist told me that this is the same problem. This is described in detail in this post: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/2467#issuecomment-491751234
Also almost every time I see that if application was in background for a big amount of time and was stopped by Android core, it could never start working by itself and could show 0 Projects, 0 Tasks etc. As I understand it is because BOINC applications didn't restart its native binaries. But it is a separate issue. For now there is a workaround to force close and restart BOINC application to let it reinitialize in a proper way. THis behavior could be fixed, I believe.
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Message 92202 - Posted: 16 Jul 2019, 21:00:02 UTC - in response to Message 92193.  

But do your tasks progress as normal, or do they get stuck at any time?
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