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Quote from: jmigdlc99 on August 26, 2017, 11:56:12 AM

1st hand experience trying. I installed minergate on my S7 phone and was mining monero. Was thinking of installing this on my entire family's phones but after a week i noticed my phone was getting slower and battery life was shorter. I was making less than a dollar a day. Not worth it. You will lose your phone and end up with less money.

You should try playing game instead:

http://lordmancer2.com/

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1st hand experience trying. I installed minergate on my S7 phone and was mining monero. Was thinking of installing this on my entire family's phones but after a week i noticed my phone was getting slower and battery life was shorter. I was making less than a dollar a day. Not worth it. You will lose your phone and end up with less money.

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Would it be possible to mine CPU coins on phones nowadays? They have many cores and are getting more and more powerful.

No

But you can play games

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Would it be possible to mine CPU coins on phones nowadays? They have many cores and are getting more and more powerful.

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i would not recommended for mining on a cell phone because your cell phone will become so hot and maybe gets hang soon and finally the cell phone will be damage. better use your computer with graphic card rather than cell phone.

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Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 12:02:53 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?

I believe that minergate has its own app where you can mine using your mobile phone. You can download it via Google Play Store given that your phone is Android running operated system.

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to be able to mine using mobile phone the coin must be like getting upload reward in private torrent sites other than that if you start mining it will burn you mobile and that will be the reward

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Quote from: anonbit992 on October 23, 2016, 10:47:10 AM

I wouldn't recommend mining coins on your laptop or cell phone unless you don't mind them getting burnt at the end of the day. But mining BRUST and folding@home on laptop is alright. I have been mining for sometime and it is going without any problems. Recently, a friend of mine suggested me to fold@home for PEPECASH. PEPECASH has been appreciating for a while. I took got 5000 PEPECASH as a giveaway 3 weeks ago worth $0.48 and now it is 2$.

Interested users please check out the links below:
http://rarepepenews.com/pepecash-merged-folding-announcement/

To join RAREPEPE telegram group:
https://telegram.me/rarepepetradergroup

https://www.facebook.com/groups/rarepepeblockchain

Your phone will get burnt and draw lots of power off the battery and damage it but with a laptop it won't so long as you habe enough cooling you are just fine.
Is pepecash better then burst ?

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I wouldn't recommend mining coins on your laptop or cell phone unless you don't mind them getting burnt at the end of the day. But mining BRUST and folding@home on laptop is alright. I have been mining for sometime and it is going without any problems. Recently, a friend of mine suggested me to fold@home for PEPECASH. PEPECASH has been appreciating for a while. I took got 5000 PEPECASH as a giveaway 3 weeks ago worth $0.48 and now it is 2$.

Interested users please check out the links below:
http://rarepepenews.com/pepecash-merged-folding-announcement/

To join RAREPEPE telegram group:
https://telegram.me/rarepepetradergroup

https://www.facebook.com/groups/rarepepeblockchain

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BURSTcoin will have an app to mine you can use on your phone very soon. Check out their site:

http://web.burst-team.us

In general it is a different type of where you use hard space on your HDD to mine. Very green/eco friendly/low power consumption. It may take some time to plot space on your hard drive but after that you can mine using very little resources...should be the same with a smart phone.

Price of Burst has also been going up substantially the last few months.

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Quote from: glerant on October 21, 2016, 10:22:36 AM

Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 12:02:53 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.

What the fuck about that, if you're wanna trying for blaming the cell phone of the op(already retire from here) you should gonna be seeing about the date of the post are made by him. the single processor phone already be a best phone in their golden centuries. Angry

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Quote from: milewilda on October 21, 2016, 09:29:41 PM

Im thinking the same thing too on which these mining on mobile phone would be possible though but its not worth it because your mobile phone would be worn up or even blown up and you already mined a very small amount which is really bad and we should not think regarding on doing this thing though,

I've tried it on my android phone before. but I think you are correct here. Not wort it,and besides when your phone got damage you got more problems. Using phone,you got only minimal satoshis better to join signature campaign IMHO.

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Man, if only every cell phone in the world was mining 1MHs of sha256 completely transparent to the user...we'd have something ridiculous...

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Quote from: rapazev on October 21, 2016, 03:24:09 PM

well, i'm pretty sure it is possible (but it wont be easy).
the main question should be: Does it worth? you will be screwing up your phone for what? 0.01$/month?

Im thinking the same thing too on which these mining on mobile phone would be possible though but its not worth it because your mobile phone would be worn up or even blown up and you already mined a very small amount which is really bad and we should not think regarding on doing this thing though,

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Quote from: leowonderful on October 21, 2016, 03:35:58 PM

Even the best phones don't have extremely good heat dissipation, even those that claim to have some sort of heatpipes and liquid cooling- for the most part, phones are made to much lower quality standards than computers, even with their chips. I've mined for a good 2 months straight on my phone and nothing terrible has happened yet, so if you'd like to, you're welcome to take the risk. I personally think it's pretty interesting, but if you actually use your phone for a good purpose and store data on it, don't. Don't risk your data.

good to hear that you used to mine using you phone and i would like to know which phone you are using to mine and how would you manage the heating issues and final thing i want to know is which coin have you mined and how much profit have you earned with it.

A Galaxy Grand Prime. I mined Dogecoin for the most part, and it's gotten me around 20 for the time I used it; I ran on one thread and it mined shares pretty slowly. Not much happened with such low power and core usage, but I still don't recommend doing it if you have precious data held on the phone or if it's expensive. My phone was practically free.

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Quote from: leowonderful on October 21, 2016, 03:35:58 PM

Even the best phones don't have extremely good heat dissipation, even those that claim to have some sort of heatpipes and liquid cooling- for the most part, phones are made to much lower quality standards than computers, even with their chips. I've mined for a good 2 months straight on my phone and nothing terrible has happened yet, so if you'd like to, you're welcome to take the risk. I personally think it's pretty interesting, but if you actually use your phone for a good purpose and store data on it, don't. Don't risk your data.

good to hear that you used to mine using you phone and i would like to know which phone you are using to mine and how would you manage the heating issues and final thing i want to know is which coin have you mined and how much profit have you earned with it.

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Even the best phones don't have extremely good heat dissipation, even those that claim to have some sort of heatpipes and liquid cooling- for the most part, phones are made to much lower quality standards than computers, even with their chips. I've mined for a good 2 months straight on my phone and nothing terrible has happened yet, so if you'd like to, you're welcome to take the risk. I personally think it's pretty interesting, but if you actually use your phone for a good purpose and store data on it, don't. Don't risk your data.

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well, i'm pretty sure it is possible (but it wont be easy).
the main question should be: Does it worth? you will be screwing up your phone for what? 0.01$/month?

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Quote from: Marma Kalari on October 21, 2016, 10:30:17 AM

Quote from: pooler on December 06, 2011, 04:00:57 AM

Yep, I live in a hot climate and I keep my laptop's (li-ion) battery in the fridge most of the time.

keeping the battery in fridge is a very good idea Grin

so hows it working now ,try keeping the laptop too to avoid over heating Cheesy

is it really possible to mine coins with the use of a cell phone or is it just a joke. even when i tried to mine using my laptop it is becoming red hot and usually shuts down automatically after a couple of hours and how is it possible to mine with a mobile Huh

That's the same observation that i posed some posts before...
For me isn't reasonable to do mining with a cell phone, because system resources needed are too much for a phone.
As we already know, laptop haven't enough computational power to find blocks, it's a silly idea think that a cell phone can do
The only result you can get is that you will end with burn the phone just for mining less satoshis than a bad faucet.
I think didn't worth the risk Wink

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Quote from: pooler on December 06, 2011, 04:00:57 AM

Yep, I live in a hot climate and I keep my laptop's (li-ion) battery in the fridge most of the time.

keeping the battery in fridge is a very good idea Grin

so hows it working now ,try keeping the laptop too to avoid over heating Cheesy

is it really possible to mine coins with the use of a cell phone or is it just a joke. even when i tried to mine using my laptop it is becoming red hot and usually shuts down automatically after a couple of hours and how is it possible to mine with a mobile Huh

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Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 12:02:53 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, 08:16:01 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, 12:36:46 AM

Quote from: tysat on December 05, 2011, 12:35:28 AM

Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 12:02:53 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, 11:08:45 AM

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, 04:45:24 AM

Quote from: john63 on October 20, 2016, 03:12:31 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, 03:12:31 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, 12:02:53 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, 09:27:54 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, 11:52:51 AM

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, 07:00:47 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, 07:00:47 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, 04:32:03 PM

Quote from: crazy_rabbit on December 05, 2011, 03:59:52 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, 01:23:41 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, 07:40:17 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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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

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The Android Bitcoin client works perfectly for me and all of the people I've heard of... maybe your friend's android is too old or basic?

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Just tried loading the Android Bitcoin client on my friends Droid and couldn't even get that to work properly (just to send him some BTC). But now all of a sudden you want us to mine ?LOL

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I have a Motorola Xoom tablet with a dual core 1ghz processor that runs 24/7 so if there was an android app for litecoin mining I would gladly use it, if anybody makes one I'll gladly test it

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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!

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Android includes most of the standard Java classes in its SDK, so all you need to do is port the litecoinpool source to an app and run it.

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Quote from: 714 on December 05, 2011, 11:17:31 PM

The lithium ion batteries common in cell phones, cameras, and laptops ( the 18650 cell is most common in laptop batteries ) have rated lifetimes in terms of the number of charge/discharge cycles and actually benefit from fewer "deep" discharge cycles. Leaving them on charge with an intelligent charger ( as most are ) shouldn't be an issue if heating is not a problem.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

Yep, I live in a hot climate and I keep my laptop's (li-ion) battery in the fridge most of the time.

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Quote from: Vanderbleek on December 05, 2011, 10:53:45 PM

Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 10:27:15 PM

Quote from: Vanderbleek on December 05, 2011, 12:59:23 AM

Once pooler releases the source, assuming your smartphone is android, it shouldn't be TOO difficult to port it into an android app (android is coded in Java, primarily). By kill the battery I didn't mean drain it, but wear it out -- IIRC that's why you're supposed to remove the battery from you laptop when plugged in and at 100%.

Gotcha, the megadrain on the processor hurts the ultimate battery life? I'll remember that if I'm using a laptop. Thanks!

I think it more has to do with the fact that the battery is discharging/recharging at the same time. There may be newer designs that fix this -- it's just a habit I've gotten into. The heat produced by the processor is also not good for battery chemistries.

"Wearing out" due to being kept at full charge constantly and not being discharged thoroughly will cause the older nickel-cadmium cells to no longer release their full charge, hence the advice to avoid leaving them charging all the time makes sense. Full discharges followed by a charge to capacity are good for such batteries.

The lithium ion batteries common in cell phones, cameras, and laptops ( the 18650 cell is most common in laptop batteries ) have rated lifetimes in terms of the number of charge/discharge cycles and actually benefit from fewer "deep" discharge cycles. Leaving them on charge with an intelligent charger ( as most are ) shouldn't be an issue if heating is not a problem.

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

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Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 10:27:15 PM

Quote from: Vanderbleek on December 05, 2011, 12:59:23 AM

Once pooler releases the source, assuming your smartphone is android, it shouldn't be TOO difficult to port it into an android app (android is coded in Java, primarily). By kill the battery I didn't mean drain it, but wear it out -- IIRC that's why you're supposed to remove the battery from you laptop when plugged in and at 100%.

Gotcha, the megadrain on the processor hurts the ultimate battery life? I'll remember that if I'm using a laptop. Thanks!

I think it more has to do with the fact that the battery is discharging/recharging at the same time. There may be newer designs that fix this -- it's just a habit I've gotten into. The heat produced by the processor is also not good for battery chemistries.

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Quote from: Vanderbleek on December 05, 2011, 12:59:23 AM

Once pooler releases the source, assuming your smartphone is android, it shouldn't be TOO difficult to port it into an android app (android is coded in Java, primarily). By kill the battery I didn't mean drain it, but wear it out -- IIRC that's why you're supposed to remove the battery from you laptop when plugged in and at 100%.

Gotcha, the megadrain on the processor hurts the ultimate battery life? I'll remember that if I'm using a laptop. Thanks!

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Quote from: Coinbuck @ BTCLot on December 05, 2011, 04:20:20 PM

Quote from: crazy_rabbit on December 05, 2011, 03:59:52 PM

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

It would be interesting to know how many k/hashes that device could do.

FWIW, there is a single line in the Mining Hardware Comparison mentioning a single core ARM processor. At current rates, a fraction of a megahash per second will take a long time to add up to much. The ARM architecture went for energy efficiency vs. raw speed a long time ago, it's a different animal for a different purpose.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

Model Mhash/s Mhash/J Mhash/s/$ ACP [W] Clock Version Comment
ARM 0.187 ? ? ? 1200 MHz cpuminer Seagate Dockstar ArchLinux

A mining effort that could utilize such small devices as cell phones might avoid the seemingly entropic decay of the return on mining as mining computing power has increased. Weighting the return based on the computing power of the source, such as is done with some projects using the BOINC distributed computing client, would make the game much more interesting.

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If I had to guess, you'd earn approximately $0.01 USD worth of litecoin per year, as well as wear out your battery and processor a lot faster than with normal use.

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Quote from: crazy_rabbit on December 05, 2011, 03:59:52 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

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Quote from: crazy_rabbit on December 05, 2011, 03:59:52 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. :-)

It would be interesting to know how many k/hashes that device could do.

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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. :-)

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can't android just run binary compiled for armel architecture?

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Quote from: doublec on December 05, 2011, 01:32:37 AM

Quote from: boonies4u on December 05, 2011, 01:27:17 AM

We need a Dalvik miner. Seriously.

Or a native C miner and call it using the Android NDK.

Last I checked, we had one.

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Quote from: boonies4u on December 05, 2011, 01:27:17 AM

We need a Dalvik miner. Seriously.

Or a native C miner and call it using the Android NDK.

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Quote from: Vanderbleek on December 05, 2011, 12:59:23 AM

Once pooler releases the source, assuming your smartphone is android, it shouldn't be TOO difficult to port it into an android app (android is coded in Java, primarily). By kill the battery I didn't mean drain it, but wear it out -- IIRC that's why you're supposed to remove the battery from you laptop when plugged in and at 100%.

We need a Dalvik miner. Seriously.

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Once pooler releases the source, assuming your smartphone is android, it shouldn't be TOO difficult to port it into an android app (android is coded in Java, primarily). By kill the battery I didn't mean drain it, but wear it out -- IIRC that's why you're supposed to remove the battery from you laptop when plugged in and at 100%.

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Quote from: Vanderbleek on December 05, 2011, 12:37:36 AM

You would have to write a custom miner to do it, I think. Unless it runs java, in which case you could try pooler's online one. I don't think it would be worth it though -- from my experience phone heatsinks leave something to be desired, not to mention it would kill your battery. To top it all off, those little ARMs don't have all that much muscle.

But if you try it, please post results =)

Gotcha, it seems like Java doesn't exist on android phones.

I agree that it would kill the battery, but if I had a charger at work, in the car and at home, I'm not too concerned about that.

My phone's only a single core processor though, which is more my concern.

Pooler's online miner doesn't work on my phone, I already tried that and posted in that forum.

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You would have to write a custom miner to do it, I think. Unless it runs java, in which case you could try pooler's online one. I don't think it would be worth it though -- from my experience phone heatsinks leave something to be desired, not to mention it would kill your battery. To top it all off, those little ARMs don't have all that much muscle.

But if you try it, please post results =)

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Quote from: tysat on December 05, 2011, 12:35:28 AM

Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 12:02:53 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.

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Quote from: kjlimo on December 05, 2011, 12:02:53 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.

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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?

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