Sounds nice. Mine was not optimized at all.
I'm curious to see the code. Mostly wondering how you solved the problem I was encountering, updating the UI from native threads.
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I'm developing an Android Bitcoin miner that i'll be uploading soon, currently it does around 450khash/s per core on my Galaxy S2, i optimized it a lot as it was giving about 230khash/s using the original cpuminer 'c' algo. I'm looking to optimize it to give at least 500khash/s per core, so i can get 1mh/s on my phone. Yes, all of this is just for fun, not profitable at all. I will let you know when it is ready 
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use GPU and some old computer
use GPU and some old computer
I would think so, as long as it as an ARM CPU. And you can manually configure the number of threads to take advantage of multiple cores.
would this work on a quad core Android ?
I ported cpuminer to Android over the weekend, mostly as an exercise for learning Android development.
I haven't fully worked out a UI solution. Currently you can only view the status output through the debug console. Having issues with Java callbacks from a native environment.
Perhaps when I get it a bit more polished I'll share if anyone is interested.
Of course it would be impractical to actually mine with it. Although you never know, perhaps one day someone in some remote village with a solar powered phone, will download an app and run it for an hour or so to earn a few satoshis with which to play. I'd like to integrate p2ppool and a wallet to make it an easy one-click solution. Also sooner or later Android is bound to support openCL.
I haven't fully worked out a UI solution. Currently you can only view the status output through the debug console. Having issues with Java callbacks from a native environment.
Perhaps when I get it a bit more polished I'll share if anyone is interested.
Of course it would be impractical to actually mine with it. Although you never know, perhaps one day someone in some remote village with a solar powered phone, will download an app and run it for an hour or so to earn a few satoshis with which to play. I'd like to integrate p2ppool and a wallet to make it an easy one-click solution. Also sooner or later Android is bound to support openCL.
I already have a hard time getting my Android phone through a whole day. Can't imagine battery life with a mining app!
Anyone know of just an arm mining app? Maybeh the arm a8 that the beagle
Bone has it would be interesting to see a machine code miner just to get some extra cpu cycles in there.
Bone has it would be interesting to see a machine code miner just to get some extra cpu cycles in there.
There's a Litecoin mining app for the android (search for "andltc miner"), which according to pooler is a port of the java miner to dalvik.
Don't think there's a miner for bitcoin for android yet, nor one that works on the GPUs.
Also there's this CuBox : http://www.solid-run.com/
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Anyone know of just an arm mining app? Maybeh the arm a8 that the beagle
Bone has it would be interesting to see a machine code miner just to get some extra cpu cycles in there.
Bone has it would be interesting to see a machine code miner just to get some extra cpu cycles in there.
While it might not be worth doing it on the CPU of the phone I would be really curious of benchmarks on a typical Android GPU.
They are powerful for being integrated in a phone[/b], and their power usage is low probably.
They are powerful for being integrated in a phone[/b], and their power usage is low probably.
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Maybe look at litecoin, but I think you are wasting your time.
Dont think this would be good, maybe for litecoin.
While it might not be worth doing it on the CPU of the phone I would be really curious of benchmarks on a typical Android GPU.
They are powerful for being integrated in a phone, and their power usage is low probably.
They are powerful for being integrated in a phone, and their power usage is low probably.
I'm close to buying an Rpi (they are about 45mins away from me) and I have a ZTE blade running cyanogenmod. I'm thinking of doing this, particularly as there has been an opensource gpu driver release for certain Mali cores, and so there could be opencl capable systems.
Just need to find out further what the blade and rpi gpu cores are based on. I think the blade is an adreno200. Also it might be worth it just to get a miner running, and see what a bramble can do (multiple rpi's in a cluster).
If I could get 10btc together I would definitely do it. Anybody interested?
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While it might not be worth doing it on the CPU of the phone I would be really curious of benchmarks on a typical Android GPU.
They are powerful for being integrated in a phone, and their power usage is low probably.
They are powerful for being integrated in a phone, and their power usage is low probably.
dude, its not even worth it. come on how crazy can you get?
the test with arm hardware was based on a cross-compiles cpuminer, is not optimised for arm.
Has anyone tried this with some stats to tell us? I think it might take some years to get anything from it.
Actually develoment of native and optimised ARM miner is a must for various reasons.
1) Raspberry PI at $25
2) Rhombus-Tech will be offering a AllWinner A10 board for $15 (easily twice as fast as Raspberry)
3) Mali is already supporting Directx11, OpenCL and DC on its new gpus for mobile cpus.
1) Raspberry PI at $25
2) Rhombus-Tech will be offering a AllWinner A10 board for $15 (easily twice as fast as Raspberry)
3) Mali is already supporting Directx11, OpenCL and DC on its new gpus for mobile cpus.
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Actually develoment of native and optimised ARM miner is a must for various reasons.
1) Raspberry PI at $25
2) Rhombus-Tech will be offering a AllWinner A10 board for $15 (easily twice as fast as Raspberry)
3) Mali is already supporting Directx11, OpenCL and DC on its new gpus for mobile cpus.
1) Raspberry PI at $25
2) Rhombus-Tech will be offering a AllWinner A10 board for $15 (easily twice as fast as Raspberry)
3) Mali is already supporting Directx11, OpenCL and DC on its new gpus for mobile cpus.
Check out 'ARM' section of this site, Motorola devices for example are running on ARM processors (as are many others)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
there is limited stats there but Nokia N900 running on ARM for example is getting less than 0.36 Mhash per Joule, which is not at all efficient, let alone cost effective (yes, I know, it's not android).
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
there is limited stats there but Nokia N900 running on ARM for example is getting less than 0.36 Mhash per Joule, which is not at all efficient, let alone cost effective (yes, I know, it's not android).
Speaking of mining on an N900,can somebody please provide me a download link to the mining program for the N900 phone along with setup instructions please as I really want to gte it started asap now for my experiments.Even if it's CPU only,I want the link to it.While I'm on the subject can someone please build a GPU miner on that phone and also an overclocking tool for N900s GPU.Thinsg for people to know:I know that overclocking is risky to the N900,I know that mining is probably worthless on N900.All I care about is that I can carry out my experiments involving multiple devices form multiple platforms in addition to my 2 computers.
Thank you
Hope you are joking right ? I don't even dare OC my laptop and you want to OC a phone GPU lol good luck !
I've OCed every android phone I've owned for development and quadrant testing, never any problems. Battery life is key in development of new phones, so they are essentially extremely underclocked from the factory. Bumping .2-.4 GHz typically will not damage a phone, but they do get hot with a battery sitting on them.
Edit: I'm not saying you should mine on your phone though. You will seriously depreciate the life expectancy of your device! You may get 2 months out of your phone. It's designed to be small and portable, not for constant use and heat dissipation.
Yeah I don't think such a miner would work on a telephone 
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