Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!



  • @Feltersnatch will it be able to support the upcoming 1tb sd cards?



  • @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.



  • 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



  • @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



  • @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



  • @IceBurst I just checked and I am running the latest version



  • @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



  • 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



  • @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 management

    0_1475503466668_Burst Android Error.png

    On 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.burst and android/data/burstcoin.com.burst/files

    None 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,

    @Feltersnatch



  • @Feltersnatch @IceBurst I created a new wallet and logged in and it has seemed to fix the error, something is staying in the cache I guess.

    P.S. And if I rotate my screen plotting stops.



  • @Slaw Didn't see rotating the screen coming, I cant rotate my TV :) I'll look into that and lock the orientation. I spoke to Slaw over private chat and his seems to be good to go, Try full delete and then reinstall of the App, this is why we do Betas :) I'll also double check your error message and look into that, I'm glad it's different at least. Those screen shots are HUGELY helpful, I can debug to the line with those.

    Thanks to everyone for the continued debugging

    -IceBurst

    PS> The answer to where do the magic unicorns live is.....
    android/data/burstcoin.com.burst/files The plots need to be <userid>_<startingnone>_4096_1 here is a screen shot from mine...

    0_1475535942546_upload-de224d2b-04f6-4a0e-ae03-2cf1aff5549e



  • @Feltersnatch - Caught your error this morning.

    I was right and wrong, I was correct that there is no power manager, which means the error was misleading. It's a number issue. Not sure why this one just started showing up.

    java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid long: "13761314052363570931"

    Per the Android Java Rules Maximum value is : 9223372036854775807, yes we exceed that, this is the Users numeric ID. Going to have address this.

    @luxe & @Blago - Might be something you have to check for other pieces of code

    It's caught by the Power Wrapper I wrote, so it's being caught just not by the correct section of code. Time to look at primatives and see if I exceeded the value for a long which could show up in others code as well as Long is used in a bunch of other tools.

    Good News is this should be a quick fix, probably later today.

    -IceBurst



  • Good! Now it's work on my Android. Thank you.



  • been testing mpool and having a blast. I seem to be winning many deadlines best dead line first miner or a reasonable amount to giggle every time my phone goes off. But for three days I've been mining successfully but no coins into my wallet. Is the transfer not 24 hours like in the pc mining version. you can see me there I'm snorklepuss1 . my computer is plotting as we speak so until I figure out how to run both miners without conflicting I'll likely just be on the pc. But would lilke to figure out if I am actually making any burst( yes I understand it will be a small amount but that small amount would be larger than right now.

    snorklepuss1



  • @snorklepuss1 said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:

    been testing mpool and having a blast. I seem to be winning many deadlines best dead line first miner or a reasonable amount to giggle every time my phone goes off. But for three days I've been mining successfully but no coins into my wallet. Is the transfer not 24 hours like in the pc mining version. you can see me there I'm snorklepuss1 . my computer is plotting as we speak so until I figure out how to run both miners without conflicting I'll likely just be on the pc. But would lilke to figure out if I am actually making any burst( yes I understand it will be a small amount but that small amount would be larger than right now.
    snorklepuss1

    So it's interesting, the mpool is so small that only a single block has been hit in recent times and that was when there was a 50TB miner in there to help us. I can tell you I have tried many things, I had the Android miner on the EU pool and I made between .1 and 1 burst a day. On the Mobile pool if we hit a block you payouts will be huge. My one payout just for being the pool was 389 Burst. It will happen, the mpool today is more like playing the lottery at no cost instead of mining in a pool. As more Android units join in on the fun and games the average will spread out but the chance of the pool finding a block will grow.

    Hope this explains it.

    -IceBurst



  • @IceBurst yup perfect reply. Your a patient gaffer that's for sure. Thanks for your help AGAIN :)



  • Something that has happened twice now, even though I have turned the media volume down if I'm on a call that sound effect still comes through. Awkward silence ensues... :S



  • @Burstde Good News, the latest wallet update as of 10-5
    I was able to create a plot using the android 4.4.4
    Moto G working now thankyou


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