Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!
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@openart That won't work - you have to do it as a bunch of 1GB files. Try:
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 0 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 4096 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 8192 4096 1 7 /async
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etc.
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@haitch said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@openart That won't work - you have to do it as a bunch of 1GB files. Try:
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 0 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 4096 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 8192 4096 1 7 /async
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etc.ok thank you
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@openart said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@haitch said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@openart That won't work - you have to do it as a bunch of 1GB files. Try:
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 0 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 4096 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 8192 4096 1 7 /async
....
etc.ok thank you
It is Working! :-) Thanks for Help! :-)
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So I have been beta testing this app for a couple of days and have some suggestions.
But first I want to say it's working great, I think yesterday I had about 4% battery drain which is totally manageable. Wasn't even the top of the list. I have ordered a 512gb sd card and will get it in a month(slow post from china). It'l be interesting to see how it works compared to 2gb.
First of all the sound, it goes off on every block which gets a little annoying for my daily phone. I have muted it but that's muting all my media and having an option to turn it off would be great. Now I get this is so you know it's working so as an alternative, could we get a status notification showing that everything is working? (with the option to turn it off) ie. Deadline, timestamp and connected?
Now for some reason my phone likes to crash out when I put it on charge every night, and this isn't anything to do with the app (it did this before). So if possible it would be good to have a start mining on boot feature. I get this might be less secure because you have to login but I didn't think you had to use your passphrase to mine.
1 little nit pick with the UX of the wallet is it says "welcome to your mobile wallet", but it says it in red which looks like an error at first glance. Also when I go into mining it has the "set pool" button over the top of the pool text for a second. This just looks a little unpolished.
One last thing with the pool, (http://mobile.burst-team.us:8080/) it would be nice to have the capacity shown in gb as it may be a more apporpriate measure (for now at least).
All in all I have enjoyed mining on my phone and will continue to beta test. Thank you @IceBurst and the whole BURST team for creating such an amazing coin.
Cheers,
-Slaw
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I'm glad your having a pleasant experience. I can tell you that very soon there will be the next beta for version 2.0, we have identified some problems with SDCard and Permissions (mostly Android 6.0 problems) and have most of them fixed. Time for some secrets, so SHHHH don't tell any one.
SUPER SECRET PROGRAMMERS ROADMAP
v2.1-
New Menu (Tools)
- Contains Options for users (disable chime, set default user to mine as, potential start on power on)
- Set Mining Pool Based on Recommendations
- Calculator for long term mining
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Support for plug-able USB devices like external HDD.
PS> Might do a small crowd fund for the v2.1 features
I'll have a really awesome screen shot for you guys in a couple of days. Expect to be mind blown.
-IceBurst
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Excellent, super excited! :D
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@Slaw I would be careful with high capacity micro sd cards for a cheap price. Sometimes even the Amazon merchants send fakes.
Welcome to your mobile wallet is actually the "You don't have flash" error rebranded. ;) There is much work in front of us.
I made the same experience with the battery drain: Very very low and lower than expected.
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@daWallet Yeah I'm kind of aware that the SD card will fail, but for $12 ill take a punt. Otherwise they will get a bad review on ebay :P
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Here is what my soon to be ex-wife would call one of my hare-brained schemes:
This 10 Micro SD to SATA 22pin converter card is designed to enable 10 TF Cards to be used as a direct replacement for a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive. Once installed, the tf appears as an ordinary SATA hard drive to any OS and can be configured as a bootable device.And 10 of these:
Samsung Evo Plus mc128d 128gb Uhs-i Class 10 Micro SD Card with AdapterFor a total of 1280 GB
Plug this monstrosity into this:
My LG G5 (Unrooted-BTW if there are any Android hackers out there the current bounty on a safe (and I use that term fairly loosely) root for the US carriers model which is currently at roughly $1600.00 US). I will be buying non-LG and non-Samsung models from here on out as the rooting has become next to impossible. On the next generation of Samsung Edge, you'll be able to root the phone, but you'll need to re-root each time the phone is powered off or restarted. Fu@# these assclowns at LG and Samsung. Sorry wrong forum altogether.Price (not including phone-there are SATA to USB 2, 3.0, 3.1 everywhere so should work with a little rooting and customization with any android phone w/ a fair to Midland processor):
MicroSD to SATA 10 Card Converter: $29.97
SATA to USB-C Adapter: $11.99
10 x Samsung Evo Plus mc128d 128gb Uhs-i Class 10 Micro SD Card: $38.86/ea. x 10 = $388.60TOTAL $430.62 for roughly 1.28 TB of Burst Mining From Your PHONE
According to the calculator at burstcoin.biz that would bring in at this moment in time (Network Size of 5877):
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Burst Per Day: 217 Burst ($ 0.16 or 0.00026474 BTC)
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Burst Per Week: 1522 Burst ($ 1.15 or 0.00185684 BTC)
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Burst Per Month: 6523 Burst ($ 4.91 or 0.00795806 BTC)
ROI Period = Roughly 7.3 Years (unless Burst goes "TO MARS!" in the meantime, in this case who knows)
That was fun.....Now, for something more serious, do we have any time frame on the update as I am still unable to plot or mine.....
And finally I'll ask around for some guidance, but I am thinking of putting together an asset that involves: the 150 MH/s ETH mining rig I already own with my electricity costs low ($0.05/kWh) for 18 hr/d M-F and 24 hr/d S-S and Holidays, purchase of second hand servers on e-bay, craigslist, etc. with enough processing power to mine Burst (purchase of roughly 80TB of HDDs) on one, and HODL and BURST on the others....Anyone steer me in the right direction?
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@Feltersnatch will it be able to support the upcoming 1tb sd cards?
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@socalguy Not yet. The manufacturer has it capped at 128GB per microSD card -- in a RAID 0 configuration....One Fail, All Fail...But he says he's working on a 16 card x 1TB microSD to SATA adapter....No time frame given though. Still not cost effective. Unless the price of SD cards falls dramatically, I'll buy a Western Digital 6TB BLACK Performance Hard Drive WD 128mb WD6001FZWX WD6001FFWX on ebay for $199.00 (roughly $0.031/GB).
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@Feltersnatch Great adapter you found there. It is clear that sd cards are not cost effective today but at some point flash memory will be cheaper than mechanic drives. We are preparing now for this situation and looking some steps ahead.
Also ARM devices will dominate the consumer market in some years. I want Burst to be ready then.
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New Beta version will be available tonight. I just published it and the Google Store has to process it, the new version is 2.04Beta. If you do upgrade, DELETE ALL OLD PLOTS FIRST. I know this is annoying and I apologize but I had to move the location of the plots due to new security restricts. Items that are addressed include:
- Android 6.0 Permission requests at runtime
- Proper sandboxing of the PLOT files to the application directory
- Removed the Power Manager in the plotter until it's resolved
- Corrected the "IOException OUTPUTSTREAM ERROR"
Enjoy,
-IceBurst
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@IceBurst after the latest push of the update I'm still getting an error saying ERROR: Require access to power management, I have a 32 GB SD card and a droid RAZR m xt907 running Android 6.0
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@darkshadow97056 said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
7 running Android 6.0
Have you checked to see that you have version 2.0.4 installed? There is no power manager in 2.0.4 which leads me to believe you are on 2.0.1 which has the Android 6.0 problems.
-IceBurst
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@IceBurst I just checked and I am running the latest version
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@darkshadow97056 said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@IceBurst I just checked and I am running the latest version
Never mind. I guess the wallet did not update correctly but a reinstall seemed to fix the issue
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I'm still getting the "ERROR: Require access to power management" when trying to plot. And I am on 2.0.4 and reinstalling doesn't seem to be fixing the issue.
On a side note it seems if I turn off battery optimisation for burst it gets a better share rate and doesnt seem to be asleep half the time (watching the pool it would not submit or submit minutes after a new block). However my battery drain goes up to 20-30%.
Hope this helps.
-Slaw
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@IceBurst I'm having the same problems as Slaw (and I am running update 2.0.4)...i.e. now when I attempt to plot, I get a different, but simiar, error message:
ERROR: require access to power managementOn the brighter side of life, you can see that the app is actually recognizing my external SD card. To combat my plotting problems, I prepared a couple of 1GB plots on my PC and transfered them to my external SD. I've tried copying the plots everywhere, the root of the SD card both internal and external, and to:
android/data/burstcoin.com.burstandandroid/data/burstcoin.com.burst/filesNone of these locations worked.....So where do the magic unicorns run free? (i.e. Where do I put my 1GB configured plots on my G5 now running Marshmallow 6.0.1. Again, this very nice phone cannot be rooted ATM,; however, on my G$, I have unfettered access to everything, and just enough knowledge to turn it into a doorstop if I am not careful. Just point me to the promised land.
Another "Bright Spot" in all of this is that I've fired up Google's Android SDK and am well on my way to getting off the couch and becoming someone who is steps away from thinking about becoming an Android App Developer.
"So I've got that going for me, which is nice." --Bill Murray as Carl the greenskeeper in Caddyshack
Seriously, thank you very much for all your hard work (and the hard work of @daWallet and others I have no clue who they are), I really do appreciate all of the effort that has gone into this project and am excited about its very promising future--not just as an app, but for the whole of the BURST platform....even if I still have been unable to mine on any of my Android devices. As the famous coach one said:
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. --Vince Lombardi
Thanks Again,





