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Is it supposed to work with berkeley software, or only with your Boinc for Android variant?

BoincTasks only works with BOINC for BoincTasks
And with BoincTasks for Android

Do you have any plans to make BoincTasks for Android work with Berkeley BOINC?
It would save me a lot of time by installing it on the rest of android devices (some of them headless) and manage everything from windows

I am a bit confused.
I've downloaded https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.16.3.apk but is not detecting it.
Is it supposed to work with berkeley software, or only with your Boinc for Android variant?

I am using BoincTasks for Android 1.1 Beta, and I was expecting to work with the default BOINC 7.4.53.
Is this on the todo list, or is it suppose to work only with Boinc for Android?

Any e.t.a. on the separate local control? I would more easily test this

Local I'm done now adding remote computers.
It's a lot of work, building a simpler BoincTasks from the ground up.
I hope by the end of year, this time I want a more complete and tested app before release. This one goes into the Google Play Store

Any progress on BoincTasks for Android?
Even some sort of alpha status would be nice to test.

You could still release it earlier and use the beta testing option.
While on google play and updating itself I do not mind testing it on multiple devices

I would suggest to have default settings from the start:
- encryption set based on android OS version
- WiFi ip set directly to first option e.g. 192.168.1.20
- external IP set directly to first option e.g. 192.168.1
and so on in order to have the first experience much smoother

I like the idea of having a separate local control for just the barely minimum.
An additional alternative BOINC would also be nice to implement some features which are not so fast to implement in the default BOINC, thinking of GPU android computing
Any e.t.a. on the separate local control? I would more easily test this

What if you could add some non-intrusive adds on google play, in order to have some revenue, but still make the app free?

Based on 3h+ of testing I found the following below.

Things to add/fix:
- On a mobile phone (w root), the system could not detect the apk and was getting the parse error when trying to install. This is weird since boinc was already running.
- On another mobile phone (w root), apparently everything is working, except that it is running on 4 and not 8 cores. as of v1.4, there is no possibility to change the nr. of cores. Now I see that the phone screen is turned off and user is active and not running. O would be better to add CPU limit % or smth like user active after 3 min
- Please add name for device, bam shows the name as "gui_rpc_unix_domain"
- Please add also battery % and temperature in BT since they are also available in v1.4
- I would add a fail-proof check that the add current WiFi address suggestion is found in one of the 4 IP address  and raise an debug warning if not
- I would add a fail-proof check that each of the external IP address are in the same group as any of the 4 IP WiFi address and raise an debug warning if not

General issues:
- The v1.4 is useful for intermediate debugging purposes, but not in the long term. I still cannot understand how nativeBOINC over 5 years ago managed to work with BT out of the box, but today I would need to install a variation of BOINC to have the desired features enabled.
- My feeling is that either you could do a separate app to provide the remote functionality as a standalone app (not open source) or adding those features in the default BOINC app in a hidden menu smth like "Show BT advanced preferences and control" (open source). Having a standalone app is, for me not desirable, and testing/fixing all of the issues which the default boinc app has is going to take a lot of time and currently I do not plan to change 20+ devices for this

It worked, then I changed the mobile phone name, and it is not working anymore now

Still, can you please add previous apk versions below:
https://efmer.com/download-boinc-for-android/
Maybe they can work on phones with root

ma bad, getting too old for this
so, I did not click on "Allow external ip addresses to connect" in order to add my phone ip

So I have to remove the default BOINC app and just let your v1.4 run?

I added a way that should work on most devices:
https://efmer.com/android-debug/ Basically forcing the App to stop.

Reinstalled BOINC, tried it and it is still not working

I've uninstalled BOINC and now it seams a bit better but still cannot connect (I've updated to 1.83):
12:59:56:Start app
12:59:56:MainActivity:Ignore Battery Optimizations, permission granted
12:59:56:MainActivity:doBindService
13:38:40:MainActivity:Ignore Battery Optimizations, permission granted
13:38:40:MainActivity:doBindService
13:40:25:ERROR:RpcClient:sendRequest:java.io.IOException: Broken pipe
13:40:25:ERROR:RpcClient:sendRequest:java.io.IOException: Broken pipe
13:40:26:ERROR:RpcClient:sendRequest:java.io.IOException: Broken pipe
13:41:14:Service:timerRun:restartBoinc:Restart OnAcPower
13:41:14:Service:restartBoinc
13:41:58:ERROR:RpcClient:sendRequest:java.io.IOException: Broken pipe
13:42:01:ERROR:RpcClient:openjava.io.IOException: Connection refused
13:42:11:Boinc:clientSetup: Starting the BOINC client
13:42:24:reporting hostinfo model name: LGE LG-H930 - SDK: 28 ABI: arm64-v8a, os name: Android, os version: 9
13:43:01:ERROR:RpcClient:sendRequest:java.io.IOException: Broken pipe
13:43:01:ERROR:RpcClient:sendRequest:java.io.IOException: Broken pipe
13:43:01:ERROR:RpcClient:sendRequest:java.io.IOException: Broken pipe
13:43:06:MainActivity:Ignore Battery Optimizations, permission granted
13:43:06:MainActivity:doBindService
13:43:07:Service:timerRun:restartBoinc:Restart OnAcPower
13:43:07:Service:restartBoinc
13:43:07:ERROR:RpcClient:sendRequest:java.io.IOException: Broken pipe
13:43:10:ERROR:RpcClient:openjava.io.IOException: Connection refused
13:43:10:Boinc:clientSetup: Starting the BOINC client
13:43:11:reporting hostinfo model name: LGE LG-H930 - SDK: 28 ABI: arm64-v8a, os name: Android, os version: 9
13:43:57:MainActivity:doUnbindService
13:44:03:Service:onDestroy
13:44:06:MainActivity:doBindService
13:44:06:Service: onCreate
13:44:06:Service:onStartCommand:Service Started
13:44:06:ERROR:RpcClient:openjava.io.IOException: Connection refused
13:44:06:Boinc:clientSetup: Starting the BOINC client
13:44:07:reporting hostinfo model name: LGE LG-H930 - SDK: 28 ABI: arm64-v8a, os name: Android, os version: 9
13:45:49:MainActivity:doUnbindService
13:45:54:Service:onDestroy
13:45:56:MainActivity:doBindService
13:45:56:Service: onCreate
13:45:56:Service:onStartCommand:Service Started
13:45:56:ERROR:RpcClient:openjava.io.IOException: Connection refused
13:45:56:Boinc:clientSetup: Starting the BOINC client
13:45:57:reporting hostinfo model name: LGE LG-H930 - SDK: 28 ABI: arm64-v8a, os name: Android, os version: 9
13:47:18:MainActivity:doUnbindService
13:47:25:Service:onDestroy
13:47:28:MainActivity:doBindService
13:47:28:Service: onCreate
13:47:28:Service:onStartCommand:Service Started
13:47:28:ERROR:RpcClient:openjava.io.IOException: Connection refused
13:47:28:Boinc:clientSetup: Starting the BOINC client
13:47:29:reporting hostinfo model name: LGE LG-H930 - SDK: 28 ABI: arm64-v8a, os name: Android, os version: 9
13:48:41:MainActivity:Ignore Battery Optimizations, permission granted
13:48:41:MainActivity:doBindService
13:51:05:MainActivity:Ignore Battery Optimizations, permission granted
13:51:05:MainActivity:doBindService
13:52:45:MainActivity:doUnbindService
13:52:47:Service:onDestroy
13:52:49:MainActivity:doBindService
13:52:49:Service: onCreate
13:52:49:Service:onStartCommand:Service Started
13:52:49:ERROR:RpcClient:openjava.io.IOException: Connection refused
13:52:49:Boinc:clientSetup: Starting the BOINC client
13:52:51:reporting hostinfo model name: LGE LG-H930 - SDK: 28 ABI: arm64-v8a, os name: Android, os version: 9
13:54:12:MainActivity:Ignore Battery Optimizations, permission granted
13:54:12:MainActivity:doBindService
13:55:24:MainActivity:Ignore Battery Optimizations, permission granted
13:55:24:MainActivity:doBindService
13:56:06:MainActivity:Ignore Battery Optimizations, permission granted
13:56:06:MainActivity:doBindService

[Only the default BOINC app 7.4.53]

Only the default BOINC app 7.4.53

That's the reason. Only one active BOINC Client allowed.
One of these days I have to build a new BOINC Client.

So I have to remove the default BOINC app and just let your v1.4 run?

[On both of them]

Sorry for the late reply, I am getting now On 6.0.1 with root:
Parse error
There was a problem parsing the package

On Android 9 it is not working again, but also the app is very slow, at least in comparison with v1.2 or v1.1

Did you install 1.4?
On both of them
I there another BOINC app active?
Only the default BOINC app 7.4.53
The connection is refused, so something is blocking the connection.
How could I debug the cause? I remember getting this error also with v1.2


The BOINC client is restarting and that sure slows things down.