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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I ordered a Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 for €90+points. It has 8 cores at 1.0 Ghz (4) and 1.5 Ghz(4), 11 GB of usable disk space and 2 GB of RAM. While I won't run it for sure on BOINC, I will surely install BOINC to check the benchmarks.
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I have an old HTC Flyer tablet gathering dust in a drawer. It has Android 3.something (Honeycomb). A long time ago I was able to run BOINC on that, but right now the app is not supported on that version of Android.
Is there a way to use it for WCG? |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hey bono_vox
----------------------------------------https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.boinc.nativeboinc https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.boinc.androboinc Those two are supposed to work at and above 1.5 (andro) and 2.2 (native). They haven't been updated in years but give it a try anyway. AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Its been a while since I've seen here in the forums bono_vox :)
----------------------------------------Welcome back :D AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have an old HTC Flyer tablet gathering dust in a drawer. It has Android 3.something (Honeycomb). A long time ago I was able to run BOINC on that, but right now the app is not supported on that version of Android. Is there a way to use it for WCG? it can run the Jellybean...u have to Google a little & port it on a device! ;) but it's not 4 a novice user... |
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Thanks Falconet for the info and welcome
 Yes it's been a while since my last post, but I've been visiting the site and forums regularly. For the description on google play, it seems that androboinc is just a program to check progress on other devices, not really to do computation. But the Nativeboinc app seems the way to go. I'll try it. Thanks for the suggestion KLiK, maybe I'll try that if the nativeboinc option fails. |
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Falconet
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Haha I guess you are right. I just knew about Androboinc but I didn't know it was just a monitoring tool.
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I have an old HTC Flyer tablet gathering dust in a drawer. It has Android 3.something (Honeycomb). A long time ago I was able to run BOINC on that, but right now the app is not supported on that version of Android. Is there a way to use it for WCG? Did not see this pertinent info mentioned, but as per the System requirement page , the minimum requirement for WCG science apps is now Android 4.1. This is because only >= 4.1 understands PIE application management [Position Independent Executable] for enhanced security, which is what the WCG apps are compiled with. NativeBOINC will not load on Lollipop 5.0 and above because as of 5.0 Android understands only PIE compliant apps. Sadly, no recompile where BoA is a highly stripped client which has sole purpose of KISS computing. Like to be able to remote in and out, which is what can be done with NB. |
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Former Member
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Yes, after trying -and failing- to run some OET WUs on my Flyer, I saw the minimum system requirements for Android. So I guess I'm out of luck for the time being, unless I try to install a newer (most likely unsupported) Android version on my tablet. I guess it's not worth the effort since this is a very ancient single-core ARM SoC anyway.
BTW, sorry for kind of hi-jacking this thread  |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I also have to port newer Android on SONY X8 I found @ my mother:
----------------------------------------http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-x8/orig-development she has switched to iPhones right now...actually all of us use iPhones! ;) |
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