BitCoin miner for Android? - page 4.

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Quote from: film2240 on October 29, 2011, 04:08:36 PM

Quote from: BitcoinSuite on August 17, 2011, 01:50:10 PM

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).

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 !

Fluttershy

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I think you'd be better off pawning your phone and buying another video card.

film2240

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Quote from: BitcoinSuite on August 17, 2011, 01:50:10 PM

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).

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

helloworld

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Yeah so that would seriously cut short your battery life.

Sohcahtoa

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Quote from: helloworld on August 18, 2011, 02:32:22 AM

I don't think it would be worth it because even if your phone is on the charger it might drastically affect it's battery life.

(Not sure - Does the battery form part of the circuit at all when the charger is plugged in, or is it completely bypassed?)

Once the battery is charged, it just stops charging and any power usage will come from the battery. It'll recharge again after it drops a bit. Somewhere a graph where someone showed the power usage of his charger over time. Once it was fully charged, the charger stopped using power for like 30 minutes, then came back on for a minute to top the battery off again.

helloworld

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I don't think it would be worth it because even if your phone is on the charger it might drastically affect it's battery life.

(Not sure - Does the battery form part of the circuit at all when the charger is plugged in, or is it completely bypassed?)

BitcoinSuite

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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).

ollie0108

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Nope, I won't do this.
It'll probably might break up my phone way before it mined a share Shocked

Sohcahtoa

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So in the name of just using every possible resource for mining I thought...why not your Android phone?

Obviously, it should only run while sitting on the charger and at a nearly full charge because it would just absolutely suck your battery dry in less than 2 hours, but if you're at home, your phone is living on the charger anyways, just sitting idle!

The other caveat is that it is going to have horrible performance. My 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Quad CPU only performs about 1.6 MH/s per core. So my Droid's 550 Mhz CPU will probably only perform about 0.35 MH/s at a MAXIMUM.

Is it worth it at all? Would anybody be interested in this?

EDIT: I didn't mention it specifically, but I'm a newbie Java/Android developer, but have some experience with C/C++ so I'm learning the language quickly. If there's sufficient interest (And perhaps someone paying me), I will develop this.

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