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The Real Weasle
Cruncher Italy Joined: Nov 14, 2007 Post Count: 27 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Here is a knowledgeable (I think) answer I received on the BOINC forums. It might be of help to others:
----------------------------------------*** It's either to do with an illegal system call done by the science app (and you should report this to the project), see https://android-developers.googleblog.com/201...ter-in-android-o.html?m=1. Or it's to do with your CPU being 64bit and your OS being 64bit, but the science applications being 32bit. To be able to run 32bit applications on 64 bit Linux-derived OSes you must install 32bit versions of certain shared libraries and that's impossible on Android and Chrome OS. The fix here is to ask the project to update their science applications. Aside from all that, the 7.4.53 version of BOINC is now so old that it's got several security problems. The developers are in high gear rewriting it from the ground up so it works from Android 4.4 to any next new update, but no ETA on when they're done. ***  |
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hwierzbicki
Advanced Cruncher Joined: May 1, 2016 Post Count: 55 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Doesn't the issue also have to do with the Chromebook's x86 processor? AFAIK no projects (WCG or otherwise) support Android on x86, only Android on ARM.
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Jord
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AFAIK no projects (WCG or otherwise) support Android on x86, only Android on ARM. If it didn't work here, then he wouldn't get a science application and tasks that can fail. I don't think Chrome OS is recognized as Android, but as a Linux derivative. Is there a list of applications we can look at, just as there is with other BOINC projects (with the default back-end)?Funny, I just see that of the advice I gave him I got the first part out of this same thread. 
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3265 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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AFAIK no projects (WCG or otherwise) support Android on x86, only Android on ARM. If it didn't work here, then he wouldn't get a science application and tasks that can fail. I don't think Chrome OS is recognized as Android, but as a Linux derivative. Is there a list of applications we can look at, just as there is with other BOINC projects (with the default back-end)?Funny, I just see that of the advice I gave him I got the first part out of this same thread. This - https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=minimumreq AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 4C/8T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W Intel Z3740 4C/4T 1.8 GHz - 6W |
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hwierzbicki
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AFAIK no projects (WCG or otherwise) support Android on x86, only Android on ARM. If it didn't work here, then he wouldn't get a science application and tasks that can fail. I don't think Chrome OS is recognized as Android, but as a Linux derivative. Is there a list of applications we can look at, just as there is with other BOINC projects (with the default back-end)?Funny, I just see that of the advice I gave him I got the first part out of this same thread. My Samsung Chromebook Pro: https://i.ibb.co/Ss3WBF4/Screenshot-2020-06-21-at-10-02-36-PM.png BOINC will download WCG Android tasks but all fail to execute. No issues when run in Crouton. [Edit 1 times, last edit by cwierzbicki at Jun 22, 2020 2:08:05 AM] |
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hchc
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Doesn't Chrome OS support Linux in some capacity now? Maybe "Linux Beta"? If so, this means regular Linux BOINC on amd64 might be better than messing with the Android BOINC.
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hwierzbicki
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Not all of them, but most of them.
----------------------------------------Any Chromebook with an ARM processor can use either BOINC for Android or BOINC for Linux (though they'd be limited to just OPN on Linux. Most Chromebooks with an x86 processor can use BOINC for Linux via Crostini. BOINC for Android will not work for Chromebooks with an x86 processor. For x86 Chromebooks that don't support Crostini (specifically, those with a Skylake processor), Crouton is the recommended method. Though support for Crostini should be coming "soon" with kernel 4.19. |
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jackielan2000
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If I were you, I'd just make it a dual boot system and install a Windows, 8,10 whatever and run BOINC under Windows. BOINC was probably made to work under Android with ARM in mind, not x86. Or you can install Linux.
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KAMasud
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Or you can run Linux inside a Virtual Box.
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