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Boinctasks is highlighting its taskbar button in orange for no reason.  Not sure why it wants attention, nothing in particular has happened, but often the taskbar is lit in orange, like an app does when it needs my attention.

Ah, disabling AVG antivirus let it install.  Strange, since AVG has no record of blocking anything.  That program is a pest sometimes.

I get the same error message, either downloading from the website in a browser, or using the update as you said.  Can you tell me what temporary directory it's trying to use and I'll check what's going on.  I've not had problems installing any other software.

When i try to install that version, i get

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Error
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Unable to execute file in the temporary directory. Setup aborted.
Error 5: Access is denied.

Ok, fixed that, it was set to USB debug mode as I'd been adjusting the OS earlier.

So now i can get into android/data, and in there is a list of folders and only one looks like boinc, it's "edu.berkeley.boinc", but it only contains one empty folder called "files".  Boinc is running, i can see it on the phone running tasks.

That same folder also shows as empty using the Android file manager.

Something weird going on here, I can access the folder tree, but everything appears empty, even though I can tell form the computer the phone has 6GB of files, I cannot see them!  I'll ask in an Android help forum.

Yes, I know that but it's unintuitive, if I've selected one computer I'm working on anyway, I expect the projects dialog to use that information :-P

I put in the config 60/3600 like you suggested, but the log is reporting 600/3600.  Is there a hard coded minimum?

Well that didn't go as planned.

Yesterday I reinstalled Android 9 phone's Boinc.  Success.
Reinstalled Android 7 phone's Boinc.  Success, but the Android 9 failed again.  Decided to leave it till today.
Reinstalled Android 4 phone's Boinc.  I got very angry with the rubbish phone I'd bought from China for £20 5 years ago (and got a full refund as it's a fake, was advertised as Android 6).  After failing to download Boinc through a browser and also finding the bluetooth receiver was busted, I put Boinc on an SD card and shoved that in it.  But although the phone is on the internet and I can browse websites, Boinc insists there's no internet connection.  The OS says Boinc has full network permission.  I threw it in the recycling box.  It's only a 2 core CPU anyway.
Today I tried the Android 9 again, and it worked, allowed me to set up the projects, then promptly disappeared.

Do you have any idea how to do some tracing on this?

This is really annoying, i just tried to add 10 projects to my phone, then find it's trying to add them to a completely different machine.

I decided to get violent.  I uninstalled Boinc from a phone, deleted it from the Boinctasks list, then started from scratch.  I can see that phone now.  Who knows what happened.

Boinc on my androids doesn't look like that.  I see things like:

28 Aug 2022 21:16:42
Universe@Home
Project requested delay of 11 seconds

And many more three line paragraphs, all project related, nothing to do with Boinctasks connecting.


In Boinctasks, I assume you mean the "show" menu, followed by "log"?  I can't see any debug logging to enable there, although the dialog box is a bit odd, there are two buttons at the bottom which are blank, one seems to clear the log and one closes the window.

That doesn't seem to do anything either.  Is there a way I can see if Boinctasks accepts the config file, in the same way Boinc objects if I get an app name wrong in the config?

Or can you test it yourself?  Disconnect your internet while there's a download in progress, then see if it keeps trying.

I copied the file just leaving
<config>
   <refresh>
      <auto>   60   </auto>
   </refresh>
</config>
(And the notes)
And restarted Boinctasks, but after 60 seconds it hadn't triggered a download for the local or any of 5 remote computers with things waiting.

P.S. You should accept gridcoins for donations - it's what many of us earn for running Boinc projects.

The client messages list on the phones just shows the usual project communications.  The gui message list is empty.  Can I turn on some kind of debugging logging?

Is there a log in Boinctasks on Windows of connection attempts?

I'm not aware of any updates, I know Google tends to do that itself, but there's usually a notice.  And I don't think they updated all three at once since they're Android 4, 7, and 9.  I doubt they even update 4 any more.

Only the Android 4 phone has a firewall, but it's switched off.