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Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 01:02:53 AM

So I recently purchased a smart phone. Should I be tapping into it's single core processor to get some more coins? I'm sure it's not very cost effective, but just out of curiousity, has anyone tried this?

Is there anyone who has used a cell phone to mine one of the cpu mining chains?

Single core processor? What is it? A Google G1? Grin

Some advice. Do not do any mining on a phone, tablet or laptop. They always cut corners on thermal dissipation (they usually have to for size constraints and often to cut $ costs). They just will not survive sustained 100% CPU or GPU activity for any reasonable length of time. The only exception would be maybe an old phone (not single core) - you could use 1 of the cores to keep a blockchain alive that you are rescuing from abandonment or a new one that isn't mined in the wild yet.

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Quote from: Bitcoin_Delivery on October 21, 2016, 09:16:01 AM

At the moment mining isn't worthing from a basic home computer with a good CPU, or with a normal GPU card, how the hell is possible to think that mining BTC can be opossible and worthy from a cell phone?
You should consider how many computational resources the mining process need...
Just for laughing, maybe the people's that had theyr Samsung exploded or burned was ythose that tried to mining BTc with smartphone? Grin

well it's something that is very difficult to do. Since the phone only has a chance or less specification efektiv in conducting mining bitcoin. The computer that has the best specifications not efektiv do mining let alone cell phone that only has a less good specifications in mining bitcoin. rightfully use mining is a good thing

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At the moment mining isn't worthing from a basic home computer with a good CPU, or with a normal GPU card, how the hell is possible to think that mining BTC can be opossible and worthy from a cell phone?
You should consider how many computational resources the mining process need...
Just for laughing, maybe the people's that had theyr Samsung exploded or burned was ythose that tried to mining BTc with smartphone? Grin

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Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 01:36:46 AM

Quote from: tysat on December 05, 2011, 01:35:28 AM

Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 01:02:53 AM

So I recently purchased a smart phone. Should I be tapping into it's single core processor to get some more coins? I'm sure it's not very cost effective, but just out of curiousity, has anyone tried this?

Is there anyone who has used a cell phone to mine one of the cpu mining chains?

If the coin can be mined using a graphics card, then mining on any regular processor is going to be a waste of money.

Agreed, so I'm talking about Litecoins, Tenebrix, or Fairbrix.

I believe Solidcoin now has some way of going through a GPU.

I do agreed with you also, But is there any altcoin in crypto world nowadays who are implementing this mining on a cellphone? I just wanna know because if there is I wanna try it to my mobile, it will be exciting for the mobile users if they will discover that there cellphone will mine bitcoinBTC.

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Quote from: Shiroslullaby on October 20, 2016, 12:08:45 PM

I really don't think any smarphone is going to have a processor that can provide enough hashing power.
You are just going to drain your battery for a couple pennies if you are lucky.

Gridcoin doesn't use hashing algorithms - it's mined through computational science and floating point math is employed most of the time. You run various scientific computations on your PC/Android through 30 different scientific projects (BOINC) and you get rewarded in Gridcoins for your computing efforts. CPU and GPU computations are rewarded proportionally, so you can net some Gridcoins even with your Android, especially if you have a newer and more powerful device. Many people have 5+ different Android smartphones/tablets - all together, their computing power is comparable to an older x86 CPU, so it's not negligible (at least for Gridcoin).

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I really don't think any smarphone is going to have a processor that can provide enough hashing power.
You are just going to drain your battery for a couple pennies if you are lucky.

The best you could hope for would be an app that monitors your ASIC/GPU/CPU miners from your smartphone, probably.

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Quote from: Vortac on October 20, 2016, 05:45:24 AM

Quote from: john63 on October 20, 2016, 04:12:31 AM

Hi
does any body was able to mining with cellphone ?
if yes please share your experience

You can mine Gridcoins with your Android device, by using it for various scientific computations through BOINC. When I charge my smartphones, BOINC kicks in automatically and I am earning a few Gridcoins along the way.

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@gridcoinman/the-4-step-guide-for-mining-gridcoin-by-crunching-boinc-science-projects-with-your-android-usd0-startup-cost

Could you please share your experience and give me details to start android mining ?
hardware and software which is need?
does it profitable ?

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Quote from: john63 on October 20, 2016, 04:12:31 AM

Hi
does any body was able to mining with cellphone ?
if yes please share your experience

You can mine Gridcoins with your Android device, by using it for various scientific computations through BOINC. When I charge my smartphones, BOINC kicks in automatically and I am earning a few Gridcoins along the way.

https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@gridcoinman/the-4-step-guide-for-mining-gridcoin-by-crunching-boinc-science-projects-with-your-android-usd0-startup-cost

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Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 01:02:53 AM

So I recently purchased a smart phone. Should I be tapping into it's single core processor to get some more coins? I'm sure it's not very cost effective, but just out of curiousity, has anyone tried this?

Is there anyone who has used a cell phone to mine one of the cpu mining chains?

So far in my experience I never encounter that things to be happen in my mobile actually, Just what I encountered is earning bitcoin in my cellphone through playing the game in the androids which is bitcoin floppy by that time. But that would be nice if there is a chance to mine bitcoin in the mobile phone.

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Hi
does any body was able to mining with cellphone ?
if yes please share your experience

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Quote from: film2240 on March 04, 2012, 10:27:54 AM

Count me in.I want my Nokia N900 to start pulling it's weight. Doe that phone support Java/Java script?

You can run the actual bitcoind binary on the n900: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoind-running-on-the-n900-smartphone-2125

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Quote from: mc_lovin on December 15, 2011, 12:52:51 PM

I think the phone would burn out before making 1% of it's value back in mining power, but if someone had some spare smartphones it wouldn't really be a waste of electricity if the miner was available. I have a Nokia 6600 here that could use some abuse!

Count me in.I want my Nokia N900 to start pulling it's weight. Doe that phone support Java/Java script? So I can use a browser based miner.I tried installing Java (like prompted) but this didn't work.
Can someone create a GUI miner app that uses CPU and GPU (assuming its OpenCl or WebCL based chip) for my Nokia N900? As i keep hearing of solutions yet they're not easy to use/install/run like GUIMiner is.
Does Maemo 5 have a JVM built in (N900s OS)? or can it be installed? If so where from and how to install it?

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Quote from: PinkBatman on February 28, 2012, 08:00:47 PM

I have been following this thread for a while. Someone recently released a client, although it is very beta.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22811604#post22811604

I'm stoked to see this out there although I haven't been able to get more than a miner started message out of it.

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Quote from: PinkBatman on February 28, 2012, 08:00:47 PM

I have been following this thread for a while. Someone recently released a client, although it is very beta.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22811604#post22811604

I talked to the author on IRC, this is a port of the Java miner. I guess it is so slow because the Android JVM is not as powerful as the one available for PC.

It would be nice to see a port of the C miner. p2k managed to compile it for the iPad 2, and got about 0.85 khash/s on two cores.

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I have been following this thread for a while. Someone recently released a client, although it is very beta.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22811604#post22811604

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I hate to see this die, an android miner for anything would be awesome just to play with.

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Quote from: pooler on December 05, 2011, 05:32:03 PM

Quote from: crazy_rabbit on December 05, 2011, 04:59:52 PM

I would be curious to know if we could mine LTC on a Raspberry PI. http://www.raspberrypi.org/ It's only $25 and really low power. And runs linux. :-)

Sadly the $25 model has no Ethernet controller... but it has a HD GPU Cool

The $35 model have ethernet controller

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Quote from: juggalodarkclow on January 01, 2012, 02:23:41 AM

Are you able to compile it for Android 3.2? My Motorola Xoom tablet sports a Nvidia Tegra2 1ghz dual core processor and runs 24/7 so if I could pull a few extra Kh/s out of it I would be happy.

Unfortunately I don't have an Android device, so the answer is no, sorry. Sad

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so 100 hashes for an iPhone? wouldn't it be some luck to get a block discovery solo mining with your cell phone.

so, keep up the good work and let's get cellphone mining!!!!!!

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Quote from: pooler on December 31, 2011, 08:40:17 AM

Just out of curiosity I tried compiling cpuminer on my iPhone 3G, which (according to Wikipedia) sports a 412-MHz ARM1176 processor. Here's the result:

Code:

[2011-12-31 12:28:14] Long-polling activated for http://litecoinpool.org:9332/LP
[2011-12-31 12:28:15] 1 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2011-12-31 12:29:02] thread 0: 4845 hashes, 0.10 khash/s
[2011-12-31 12:29:02] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 0.10 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2011-12-31 12:30:02] thread 0: 6007 hashes, 0.10 khash/s
[2011-12-31 12:31:03] thread 0: 6012 hashes, 0.10 khash/s
[2011-12-31 12:31:04] LONGPOLL detected new block
[2011-12-31 12:32:04] thread 0: 5987 hashes, 0.10 khash/s

Are you able to compile it for Android 3.2? My Motorola Xoom tablet sports a Nvidia Tegra2 1ghz dual core processor and runs 24/7 so if I could pull a few extra Kh/s out of it I would be happy.

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