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Thread: Old or broken smartphones/tablets for BOINC and BOINC only |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello Smartphone/Tablet Users,
Could you please post in this thread, why your last device was broken and why you had to buy a new one? Was it the screen that had scraches? Was the keyboard of the device broken? Did the software have an severe error? And the most important point: Did BOIC still work when the device was broken, yes or no? I want to find out, whether it makes sense to buy broken, old smarphones/tablets and use them for BOINC and BOINC only. Thank you. MS |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
@Admin: Think this belongs in the Android forum, at least not S&F.
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ErikaT
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Post Count: 912 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This thread is being moved to the Android support forum.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Well, thank you for moving the post.
I my view, it is important that those fellowcrunchers who use old smartphones lying somwhere in the corner just for crunching, are able to switch them form the "do just only one workunit at night and reload, do nothing during the day" (let's call it powersleep mode, mabe) to the "work for BOINC nonstop" mode. Which steps are necessary to do this? Sorry, but I cannot find out myself, I have only a desktop PC. So, again: How to change the preferences form "powersleep mode" to "full workload mode? Thank you for your answer. MS |
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Eric_Kaiser
Veteran Cruncher Germany (Hessen) Joined: May 7, 2013 Post Count: 1047 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, I didn't bought a defect device in the past and not goong to do so. I had a new Samsung S4 mini crunching 24/7 until the akku was close to blow up.
----------------------------------------In a couple of month I will replace my S4. Perhaps I'm going to add it to boinc too and carefully watch the akku. From the experience so far I personally can recommend only android devices that run with a seperate power supply. To bad that a Smartphone doesn't run with power supply only.  |
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Former Member
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From the experience so far I personally can recommend only android devices that run with a seperate power supply. To bad that a Smartphone doesn't run with power supply only. I crunch with a three year old Samsung Galaxy S3 (broken screen). I run 24/7 on only one of the two cores. No problems yet. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thank you for the posts.
More posts are most welcome. All the best. MS |
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ravenigma
Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 3, 2012 Post Count: 46 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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From the experience so far I personally can recommend only android devices that run with a seperate power supply. To bad that a Smartphone doesn't run with power supply only. I crunch with a three year old Samsung Galaxy S3 (broken screen). I run 24/7 on only one of the two cores. No problems yet. Same here. Galaxy S2 crucnhing 24/7 on both cores for over a year with no problems.  |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I pick up dual core cell phones often for ~$10 USD. So, I find it not worth the $$ to buy broken ones...YMMV I have over a dozen right now that primarily run BOINC and a few money making apps. They have never been activated on actual phone service. They just run off my wifi.
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supdood
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 6, 2015 Post Count: 333 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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@Coleslaw--what did you look for on the cheap phones to make sure they could run boinc and wcg before you bought them? Did you just have to check if it was an ARM processor?
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