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Thread: Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini keeps rebooting when BOINC running |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello,
----------------------------------------Well my modest S3 Mini is not my main crunching device (my other one is a Core i7 920 desktop PC), anyway I installed Android BOINC yesterday to give it a test run with WCG. I had no trouble installing BOINC, then attaching to my WCG account. Task downloading was OK (OET application), and crunching started after all required conditions were met. (I just tuned a few parameters in the Preferences screen. Notably, I tried to instruct BOINC to use both cores, before reverting this option.) Just a few minutes after starting, the whole system crashes (sometimes with screen corruption, if turned on at that time) and the phone reboots. And this keeps on and on... Of course I was enable to complete a single task. I get such crashes even when the WCG project is suspended!  The only cure I found was to completely uninstall BOINC; I tried to reinstall it 3 times, but even with unchanged stock parameters I couldn't get it working. My phone is not rooted. Note: problably nothing to do with that, but Cerberus anti-theft protection is installed on my phone. Could it be interfering with BOINC?... BOINC version is current one: 7.4.14 Full tech specs for my Galaxy S3 Mini are here: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i8190_galaxy_s_iii_mini-5033.php OS is Android 4.1.2 Jellybean Thanks for any help, best regards. Xavier [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jun 30, 2015 5:53:46 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello Xavier,
I myself will probably not be able to help you but maybe someone else. Could you please describe the last writings on the screen during the crash? What exactly happens during the crash? This might help solving the problem. Thank you and all the best, keep your humour up and keep an crunching! Greetings MS |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello Martin,
----------------------------------------Just before auto-rebooting I can see the screen starting to fill up with some garbage of horizontal pixel lines. (My guess is that something running wild is erratically writing in the video memory, in a way it should not be...) I was advised to give up, and uninstall (that's what I did) the BOINC app from my phone, by Eric J. Korpela in the BOINC-Android-Testing Google group . He told me the S3 Mini was probably a "borderline"(sic) device for BOINC. Please note I've seen similar things happening later not only with BOINC, but also with other apps, recently once when trying to use the generic Samsung Music Player as the phone was still connected to my PC with USB cable, with the battery full. So maybe some hardware-related issue, something to do with the battery perhaps?... (Anyway my laughable S3 Mini phone is not a potential major contributor in terms of crunching power; some orders of magnitude below my desktop PC, especially since I upgraded the CPU from Core i7 920 to Core i7 990X, three weeks ago! It really _doubled_ the crunching power... And 100% CPU usage is still granted to BOINC/WCG, which sometimes makes the system less responsive, but I don't mind so much.  )Cheers, Xavier [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 6, 2015 11:19:45 PM] |
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