Message boards : Android : Android version won't join on older phone?
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Send message Joined: 8 Nov 19 Posts: 718 ![]() |
I have two Android phones, one is Android 7, one is Android 6. The Android 7 phone joined 10 projects, and runs them all fine. The Android 6 phone had trouble finding any projects at all, and eventually I got 6 attached from the master list within the standard Boinc client (same version on both phones - 7.4.53). The other 4 (Universe, World Community Grid, Enigma, and Einstein) do not appear in the list to join, and if I try to join by URL, nothing happens. No failure notice, nothing, it just doesn't add the project. Any ideas? I have currently 3 cellphones crunching. 2 of them get tasks non-stop. The last one, running Android 4.4.4, didn't. It appeared that all I needed to do, was log out of my network, and log in again. It then loaded projects from Einstein. I did get a notice from World Community Grid, having their servers offline, however, I never get any projects from them on my cell anyway. |
![]() Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1389 ![]() |
Enigma has not had ANY tasks for any platform for months now. World Community Grid (WCG) has not had any Android tasks for about 1 month now and in past week sent Android users an email indicating that it will be an undetermined amount of time before any work for the platform will be available. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 19 Posts: 718 ![]() |
Enigma also doesn't allow new users to register. They should update their servers to a 'down' status. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 19 Posts: 718 ![]() |
I have no issues running Boinc on Android 4.4.4, 4.4.1, 6.0.1, 7.1, 9.0 and 9.1. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 19 Posts: 718 ![]() |
I have no issues running Boinc on Android 4.4.4, 4.4.1, 6.0.1, 7.1, 9.0 and 9.1. In my case, I uninstall all software, because most Android 4 phones have only 500MB of RAM, thus are very spare on resources. Especially browsers. I take the background picture away, and replace it with plain black (or a 1pix or 4x4 pix image of any color I prefer, and stretch the image over the screen, just to save a few bytes of memory). CPUZ does show ads on Android 4, but Android 9 I don't see as many. I also disable notifications for all programs (a tedious process). |
![]() Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15531 ![]() |
Under Android 9 you can set which apps are allowed to use Wifi or Data. Of course default everything is on. A lot of apps on my phone I disallowed having WiFi or Data access for, which killed their ads. Doesn't work on all apps, some use a different technique. For older Android versions you can use firewall apps, such as Netguard - which has the added upside that it doesn't need root either. |
![]() Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15531 ![]() |
That's why I said, use a firewall app. For instance, Netguard is ad-free and doesn't require you to root your phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard&hl=en, although it may require Android 5.1 and later. Ad-blockers usually only work on browsers, not as stand-alone apps. |
![]() Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15531 ![]() |
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts.firewall&hl=en Requires Android 4.0 and upElse check through https://techviral.net/firewall-apps-for-android/ |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 19 Posts: 718 ![]() |
I wonder if your router can block ad related websites? |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 19 Posts: 718 ![]() |
Sidenote: Android 10 is now supported by Universe@home. Hope that more projects will follow. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 19 Posts: 718 ![]() |
Sidenote: Android 10 is now supported by Universe@home. Android 10 came out around November to January, for Google Pixel phones only. In February, my Essential phone had received the update, and newer Samsung phones had the update in March/April. You're not missing much. Android 8 and 9 never really was a thing. Most phones with these operating systems, got the free Android 10 upgrade, which I'm hoping is an LTS release. |
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