Posts by Brian Lynn

1) Message boards : BOINC client : Android BOINC - bad battery management problem (Message 50834)
Posted 12 Oct 2013 by Brian Lynn
Post:
The BOINC app for Android is great except for one thing... my device only processes in like .01 second chunks!

The problem is the "battery level" setting. Its too simple. I can only chose to set processing to run "above" a certain point. The default is 90.

What happens is this:
As soon as my device hits 90% battery BOINC starts. Which immediately drops my battery to below 90% and BOINC stops. The battery begins to charge again hitting 90% and BOINC starts. Almost immediately the device drops below 90% and BOINC stops. I can sit here and watch my brand new Nexus 7 tablet do this all day long. It can't be good for the battery or the tablet.

A more intelligent system would yield longer processing times and less strain on hardware.

High setting 99%
Low setting 80%

On a full battery BOINC would run until the battery hits 80% and stop like normal.
BOINC would restart again when the battery hit 99% and drain the battery to 80% before its stopped again.

This would stop the super-short processing times that my devices are suffering from and I believe it would help with the over all life of the device.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC broke Windows screen saver timer? (Message 35728)
Posted 14 Nov 2010 by Brian Lynn
Post:
I've been at work all day today messing around with this trying to figure it out (dont tell my boss!) and I think I fixed it... I still don't know what caused it other than the timely relationship to installing and running BOINC but here is what I did to fix it:

(">" = Next, or Next Select)

Right Click Desktop and select Personalize (Windows 7) >
Screen Saver >
Change Power Settings >
Next to the "Plan" you are using select Change Plan Settings >
Change Advanced Power Settings >

Hit the + next to Sleep, change ALL settings to something other than NONE, 0, or OFF, and do the same with anything and everything you can find dealing with the Display. Hit Apply.

Now, reset it all back to OFF, NONE, or 0...

And hopefully you're done!

I don't know what happened... And I don't know why the fix worked. I can theorize that something got stuck in the registry somehow, set to my previously selected screen saver, and by altering and resetting the saved settings I forced the registry to update its bug and eliminated it.

Thanks for taking a look at my post and for the ideas on help! Much appreciated.

And I apologize for making this post as simple as possible... I am hoping if anyone else runs into this problem that this post may help them so I wanted my method of fixing to be as clear and easy to recreate as possible.

Thanks again for the help!
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC broke Windows screen saver timer? (Message 35727)
Posted 14 Nov 2010 by Brian Lynn
Post:
I don't believe the BIOS is the issue. If I set the Windows 7 screen saver to 10 minutes, and then select NONE it turns on in 10 minutes.

If I set the Windows 7 timer to 1 minute (and NONE) it goes on in one minute. 20 minutes, same thing.

I set the timer by selecting a screen saver, then set the timer, and then set the screen saver to NONE.

I will have to check but I believe that Windows will start which ever screen saver I have selected last... i.e. if BOINC saver was last then BOINC will start, Blank as last will blank the screen, and 3D text will activate 3D text, all while set to NONE.

I have never accessed the BIOS on this laptop. So unless BOINC can alter the BIOS (which if it CAN I will immediately abandon participation) then I don't believe the BIOS could be the issue.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC broke Windows screen saver timer? (Message 35723)
Posted 14 Nov 2010 by Brian Lynn
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My Advanced Power Settings are as follows:

Sleep=
Sleep After:
On Battery = NEVER
Plugged In = NEVER

Allow Hybrid Sleep:
On Battery = OFF
Plugged In = OFF

Hibernate After:
On Battery = NEVER
Plugged In = NEVER

Allow Wake Timers:
On Battery = Disable
Plugged In = Disable

Display=
Dim display after:
On Battery = 0 minutes (no NEVER for this one)
Plugged In = 0 Minutes

Turn Off Display After:
On Battery = Never
Plugged In = Never

And I still get screen saver activation no matter what I do.

Thanks for the help!!
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC broke Windows screen saver timer? (Message 35721)
Posted 14 Nov 2010 by Brian Lynn
Post:
I have checked all power options and everything I can... No sleep, no hibernation, no screen savers, no power save settings. I have a High Performance Profile custom made with everything OFF for on battery and on AC, and every other power save trick I can find is set to off or never or is disabled but I still can't make the screen saver stop activating. I am sure after 9999 minutes my screen saver would activate even when having chosen NONE!
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC broke Windows screen saver timer? (Message 35716)
Posted 14 Nov 2010 by Brian Lynn
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ver 6.10.58, running on and HP ENVY laptop...

Since I installed BOINC I can't tell Windows 7 to set my screen saver to "NONE".

The only way to prevent the screen saver from activating is to set the timer to 9999. If I set the timer to 1 minute, and then set the screen saver to "NONE" it still loads what seems to be the "Blank" screen saver.

This behavior started with the install and running of BOINC.

I've even checked through the Advanced section that Windows 7 provides for tweaking management of sleep times, screen saver times, those are all set to 0 or NONE and yet the screen saver still activates after the set time I've chosen.

Any ideas on how to fix this?



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