Yesterday I was lucky enough to stumble upon a ported version of BOINC for Android. You know, BOINC will solve all problems in the world through distributed computing..
I really think it's a great idea since we have so much processing power in our mobile devices that's unused during the night. Of course it would not work to run it during the day because of the extreme battery drain, but it works perfectly as long as the charger is connected and the phone is not used anyway. It's also a great use for all old, unused Android devices out there!
The port for Android is developed by a guy called matszpk, but I have not been able to find him on XDA forums yet. You can find more information and download links to the app here: https://github.com/matszpk/native-boinc-for-android/wiki
I'm currently running it on both ICS, Honeycomb and Gingerbread devices and it works great on all.
Now get your devices up and running and thank matszpk!
frelle218 said:
Yesterday I was lucky enough to stumble upon a ported version of BOINC for Android. You know, BOINC will solve all problems in the world through distributed computing..
I really think it's a great idea since we have so much processing power in our mobile devices that's unused during the night. Of course it would not work to run it during the day because of the extreme battery drain, but it works perfectly as long as the charger is connected and the phone is not used anyway. It's also a great use for all old, unused Android devices out there!
The port for Android is developed by a guy called matszpk, but I have not been able to find him on XDA forums yet. You can find more information and download links to the app here: https://github.com/matszpk/native-boinc-for-android/wiki
I'm currently running it on both ICS, Honeycomb and Gingerbread devices and it works great on all.
Now get your devices up and running and thank matszpk!
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Caught this online today so I'm curious how many people may be running it these days and how their devices do on heat? My S4 is OC'd and can get warm during games and other stuff. I'm a little scared to let it run like mad all night while I'm asleep and not awake to notice the heat build up and have something die.
So can anyone comment on how their phone handles the load and if it gets crazy hot?
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Hey guys,
i have recently ported android onto my htc hd2, because it just was a piece of poo running windows mobile.
its gr8.
though I do have a few issues. the one I am mainly posting about now is my issue of charging and battery life on my HD2 running Froyo desire rom 2.2.
my phone wont charge! the only way to charge the device is to turn it off or to switch back to win mo, otherwise it will continue to consume battery life, and at a normal pace that it would running normally! ??? when the phone is not connected to the AC power, or usb power, the battery drains at an exponential rate! like my phone goes from 100% to dead in 5-7 hours just sitting there..doing nothing!!!! today it was on charge all day and still chewed through my battery life done to 14% over like 8-10 hours......
i cant seem to fix this issue and its a pretty big one...
so yeah please help me, because this is going to be a big problem if i cant fix it. charging and using my phone is an issue because it doesnt ever have battery :\
thanc in advance guys
ryan
You want to much from a Port ^^ I think to post this in the HD2 Section is better!
A port is a Port and cant run good as the orginal! You have to life with some issues if they are big or not! We have issues,too and we dont have Ports^^ Ourt battery life is still not the best so how can u think u can have a simmilar Battery life to the desire..... It cant be good as the Desire! Its build with Windows not with Android!
Logcat and a huge amount more of infos should help you this thread will never help you without infos!
Logcat while plugin in etc.
As your device is a non-native android device you should post questions about the hd2 android port in its respective section, also what your using is a port, meaning 'work in progress" it will never be the same as using a native android device, lots of stuff are missing for example drivers etc, and other functions(idle sleep,battery driver etc), if you want a perfect android expirience you should buy a native android device.
Go to the HD2 Android Development forum section and read all the tips that are posted there. Also, make sure you use a build with the latest kernel, as this improves batt life significally.
its always unbelievable to me how ppl can take credit for other ppls work... this guy ported nothing.. he s a troll.. If he WAS a porter he would be familiar with the issues of the hd2 android ports.. and the bat live of the hd2 android ports is comparable to the native android phones.. that is to say.. its not that great..
but being a user myself I can say, and a lot of ppl agree, that my bat live is comparable or even better than when running wm natively..
all the bs post of ppl that do NOTHING but irritate the devs... within an incredible short period of time they have created ports that can be used for daily use..
SHUT UP OR MOVE AWAY!!!
I have no trouble charging my hd2 battery goes quicker than normal but charges fine
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Or maybe, what he meant, was that he installed Android and used teh word "ported" because that's the word he saw being used on all the tech blogs that mentioned the port finally happening?
Give the guy a break, sheesh. He obviously didn't "port" it and he's just using the wrong word.
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Or maybe, what he meant, was that he installed Android and used teh word "ported" because that's the word he saw being used on all the tech blogs that mentioned the port finally happening?
Give the guy a break, sheesh. He obviously didn't "port" it and he's just using the wrong word.
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I believe you're right. Maybe he should deport and depart?
Thanks for your painstaking work, all guys!
Hi all,
I recently upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S, and I am wondering if you guys would know anything fun to do with a Samsung Jet S8000.
I installed Android from a project called JetDroid, and its pretty nice to have it on the phone, even if it isnt functional as a phone while in Android mode. I'm just wondering if there are any other similar projects out there.
I did a search for similar topics, but it seems that the Jet was a really unpopular phone as I cant find much info about it online.
Well, it was very limited (just a basic phone that happened to run Java2E). Not as smart as its advertising considering it was advertised as "Smater than a smartphone". But the base hardware is pretty nice.
Thank in advance for any replies
Nice to see other s8000 user here.
I still use my Jet today and im still waiting for usable Jetdroid version.
This device was very good for its time and the SoC plus RAM it as can run Android better than the current low end Android devices out there. Its a shame that Samsung dind at least upgrade the OS on the Jet to Bada OS.
Also samy drop support (updates) for it too soon imo.
As a multimedia device it is still pretty usefull...
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Hey. Yeah I still use my jet as my second phone when abroad.
I saw a lower end android device ( vodafone smart -comparing 2008 hardware to 2011) and even thought the jet has a hugely unoptimised android install, still ran more smoothly in terms of gui compared to the vodafone smart... but also crashes a lot and was hard to install.
Pity Samsung rarely support their devices which are more than 2 years old. Even now my sgs is not going to get an official ICS update. (Not concerned as I have not used a stock Samsung firmware on a ling time).
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Samy drop the suport for theyr products too soon
The Jet as a better SoC than my wife Ideos X3 (huawei) and a longuer battery life (running the stock OS).
Also the Jet does video call out of the box and the low end Android devices do not (and i cant understand why because many of them have front cameras).
i've tried Jetdroid but its not a viable option yet... :'(
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I just got an email claiming a vast improvement to jetdroid based on cm7. I haven't tested it yet but I am very excited!
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I just got an email claiming a vast improvement to jetdroid based on cm7. I haven't tested it yet but I am very excited!
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Going to try it. thks for the info.
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Hi Folks
I've just been given a broken s8000,
The digitizer has failed (screen still works fine). I've not physically opened it up yet so It could of just come loose, either way they're about £5 off ebay so It will be functioning again and
it does look like a very promising device to have a play around with. like has been mentioned, better than some current low end devices.
For anyone who's interested I've just done spent an hour get up to speed on development of the JetDroid project, because lets be honest, That's where the fun's at.
I first found http://code.google.com/p/jetdroid/ which made it looks like the project has been abandoned. This google code project yielded better results.
There's probably an "executive" overview of the project some that I've missed I did also notice that HTC Sense had been ported to It, I don't know whether they ported the bloat with it as well. Lol
Still no sim access from what I can gather as of they Status update on 2012-01-24 Is that correct?
Yes that's right. It works OK as an android device but no phone function at all yet.
When I get home, I will link the jetdroid forums. From what I can tell, everything is happening behind the scenes so there isn't much on the lines of public updates.
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Ay, I found the forums and gathered that myself, The activity is intermittent but the lastest kernel was released in April so it's still current.
Although I keep reading that JetDroid isn't finished, they've been at it 2 years.
I think i'll ask the devs the technicalities of the sim issue. I'll at least have a stab at it. I'll probably fail and fail hard but I could do with knowing a bit more about simcard internals.
I guess it has something to do with how the jet handles the sim card. From my reading about it, its done in a propriety way, which makes sense cause the whole system was written around a touch wizard complete os.
So its likely going to need lots of reverse engineering. Much like the ril module on an i9000 was reverse engineered in order to get ril functions to work due to lack of sources.
I personally have no ability when it comes to this type if hardware coding. If the jet has more users interested in installing android, I think it would have already happened.
I definitely look forward for whatever breakthrough might happen.
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iv got a Jet recently and its running the oldest firmware version on it:
<SW VER>
S8000XXIG1
<CSC VER>
S8000OXAIG1(ED002)
<FFS VER>
XEU
how do i go about updating it to the latest one? i read the newer firmware has lots of changes. and fixes.
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iv got a Jet recently and its running the oldest firmware version on it:
<SW VER>
S8000XXIG1
<CSC VER>
S8000OXAIG1(ED002)
<FFS VER>
XEU
how do i go about updating it to the latest one? i read the newer firmware has lots of changes. and fixes.
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I recently updated the firmware on my Jet. I used a guide here http://darkforestgroup.com/forum/index.php/topic,7464.0.html
I installed the Firmware using the guide there and a program called Multiloader_V5.62 which I downloaded from the site.
I had to google to find the correct firmware because many of the download links on the site no longer work and a couple I tried kept forcing shutting the phone down when on a call I'm now using version S8000XPJA1 which is working fine. I found it by googling for it. Beware of 'dodgy' down load sites though
Also I'm in the UK and I think the country you are in affects which firmware you should use so check first.
Goodluck
I got a gift from a bud and it's a Android Tablet. It's the enTourage eDGe.
I KNOW the company went under and that it's a dumb device. But before the company went under they released a BETA Android 2.2. Now I'm thankful for that because it used to have 1.6 on it. The OS is a lot nicer then 1.6 but not a lot of apps run on it and it seems to be more unstable then 1.6.
I know XDA forums doesn't have an eDGe section but I figured I'd post it here. What will it take for somebody from XDA to make a more stable 2.2 release? I'll pitch in 50 bucks if that's not enough then maybe I can get some other users in on it.
I want the device for modifying PDF's and the e-reader mostly but the concept is good enough to web browse/search the terms and things. I don't except to play any epic games on it, but would like it to run smoother. I have the "big one" Not the Pocket version, so it's the 10 inch screens.
I'd like the ability to install/use the Android Market on it. (not a deal breaker)
Some way to modify the CPU. It has a 1.2GHz CPU but for some reason the software limits it to 800MHz. I have the device rooted but setcpu doesn't seem to work on it as it always does a force close.
I just want it running faster/smoother and maybe a bit more battery life?
I'm not picky.
Thanks for listening and hopefully something will come out of this!
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I Followed this thread on XDA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1099282.html
And I was able to get the gapps installed, however the market never worked for me. I went through many google searchs and tried everything I could fine but it never seemed to work.
On top of it though I'd rather have a more stable OS like I said the release is a BETA 2.2. It works fine for the most part but does have it's issues.
If somebody has a different way to install the market, that'll help just the above didn't seem to work for me.
Thanks for the reply!
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Open Etna has basiclly dropped the developing for this phone.
Do you know any other developers?
I'm currently using GB 2.3.5, but it's not that smooth.
Thanks!
Hello,
Are you still lurking arround here?
My GW620 is running Cyanogenmod 7, and is doing great with CPU max ~620 Mhz or something. This actualy made me change my mind about buying another handset.
When I saw someone was working on a ICS mod for our old EVE, it brought me joy and hope that we might still use it for some longer time.
Also, he/those who were working on ICS for this hanset also succeded, but dropped the port in a Beta version that has some issues (camera, signal, partial networking). I have also tried to read/undestand/fix issues. Unfortunately I am but a noob in this.
Maybe we could ask the good guys to take another look at this port, now that the driver sources are available. It would be great to use a stable ICS on this device, would bring EVE back to every-day life for many.
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Sssooo.... According to what I read last night, KitKat is supposed to be able to be usable on pretty much all Android phones, all the way down to those with 512mb of RAM.
Any thoughts as to whether the Charge is gonna get some love with this (certainly, I know, NOT from Big Red)?
"I've got a revolution behind my eyes..."
--Battle Flag
There will be peace in the middle east first. :banghead:
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Just because they say it could run on lower end phones doesn't mean it will run w/o lag and so on. I heard the chez won't be getting kit Kat so what does that tell you about the older phones.
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The only thing that will run on lower end devices is the new launcher and Google apps. The new ui is supposed to be included in the new launcher and make lower end devices feel and look more like newer ones.
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Sssooo.... According to what I read last night, KitKat is supposed to be able to be usable on pretty much all Android phones, all the way down to those with 512mb of RAM.
Any thoughts as to whether the Charge is gonna get some love with this (certainly, I know, NOT from Big Red)?
"I've got a revolution behind my eyes..."
--Battle Flag
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The problem with an upgrade to any newer OS on the Charge is the radios. I don't see KitKat and an exception.:crying::crying:
Interesting how they had it where you could use Hangouts as your default SMS App with all the Emoji smileys on phones with Gingerbread including the Charge on the leaked version from the Nexus 5. It was fully working and I tried it. However, now that it's released to everybody through the Play Store, the SMS option is for Android 4.0 Only.
just got kitkat on my razr.... wish I knew how to port, b/c then I would attempt to port this great ROM over to the old Charge....
I'm interested in doing a CM11 build for the Charge or atleast a CM 10.2 build. I have a Galaxy S4 now but I would love to get some use out of the charge. I just want to turn it into a kickass media player since the RIL situation is never going to get solved. If anyone knows what is involved to make this happen it would help me greatly. I've never built CM before. I've read the CM developer wiki. A lot is over my head. I am trying to learn though
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I'm interested in doing a CM11 build for the Charge or atleast a CM 10.2 build. I have a Galaxy S4 now but I would love to get some use out of the charge. I just want to turn it into a kickass media player since the RIL situation is never going to get solved. If anyone knows what is involved to make this happen it would help me greatly. I've never built CM before. I've read the CM developer wiki. A lot is over my head. I am trying to learn though
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2284985
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_porting_intro
pyroman512 said:
I'm interested in doing a CM11 build for the Charge or atleast a CM 10.2 build. I have a Galaxy S4 now but I would love to get some use out of the charge. I just want to turn it into a kickass media player since the RIL situation is never going to get solved. If anyone knows what is involved to make this happen it would help me greatly. I've never built CM before. I've read the CM developer wiki. A lot is over my head. I am trying to learn though
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I think you're on the right track, though I think I'd stick with CM11 rather than CM10.2.
Well I am really interested in learning how to build. So I think I will run a few builds for the Fascinate and then see what I can do for the Charge. My programming experience is intermediate. I feel confident I can learn the process and at least get a semi functional kitkat build up and running and then maybe others could help work out the bugs
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Well I am really interested in learning how to build. So I think I will run a few builds for the Fascinate and then see what I can do for the Charge. My programming experience is intermediate. I feel confident I can learn the process and at least get a semi functional kitkat build up and running and then maybe others could help work out the bugs
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good luck brother... i'd be glad to test for ya.
some tips that you may/may not already know:
my understanding is that OS 4+ require EXT4 rather than RFS, so it might help to start with a kernel that allows this conversion. there are a few floating around that work.
someone (JT) has successfully (and I guess relatively easily) ported ICS and JB to the charge, the key aspects not working though were mobile data and camera.
I'm told the key road block is the RIL for the kernel in order to get those aspects functioning properly.
as for me, I'd be happy with just a working camera, as the Charge is used by my son as a WiFi-only media player/gaming device. he likes to take pictures/videos, so this is the only thing preventing me from converting it the latest JB port.
again, good luck, and let us know how the progress goes!
Well I just started a new job and am settling into that so time will be scarce for a bit. I wouldn't even know how to start with the RIL. I would definitely want to get the camera working provided I can even successfully build CM11. I want to make it clear that I am new to this so it is a big undertaking for me and I have a lot to learn. Once I get a build enviroment set up I will see if I can make some fascinate builds for practice since it is very similar to the charge. Then i will reach out to sbrissen or jt1134 and see if they can give me any pointers. I forked their code on github already.
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Well I just started a new job and am settling into that so time will be scarce for a bit. I wouldn't even know how to start with the RIL. I would definitely want to get the camera working provided I can even successfully build CM11. I want to make it clear that I am new to this so it is a big undertaking for me and I have a lot to learn. Once I get a build enviroment set up I will see if I can make some fascinate builds for practice since it is very similar to the charge. Then i will reach out to sbrissen or jt1134 and see if they can give me any pointers. I forked their code on github already.
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As a previous owner of a droid charge, I honestly hope I can squeeze some use out of it as a media device.