BOINC on Android - current status and experience

[kasdashd]

On my Samsung Galsxy S25, with the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, I've found that only 3 projects currently work:

 

Asteroids@Home

 

Einstein@Home

 

World Community Grid

 

Also, the annoying battery percentage issue is present for the first couple of minutes after I've added the projects, but then after disabling "pause when screen is on, setting the minimum battery percentage setting to the lowest 10%, and Android has asked me to disabled battery optimization for the app, after a couple of more minutes, the app starts working on Works Units.

 

So now, for me at least, on this device, BOINC on Android works fine for me.

 

Just remember to enable "battery protection" or 80% charging limit, if your phone supports this, and in BOINC, not to run while om battery, and you're good to go.

 

Anybody who've still got issues with BOINC on Android, please comment below

 

P.s. There's an Android Adreno GPU option you can enable in your profile project settings on the Einstein@Home website, but are there actually works units available for the GPU, or is it not working?

 

 

[Fallguye]

My experience with boinc on Android has been mixed to say the least.

 

Aside from the software bugs you mentioned you need to be extremely careful about the battery temperature you run at - Android devices aren't built to run at full power for long durations.

 

I left a bunch of older expendable phones running 24/7, and the batteries bulged on 3 of them - a Oneplus Nord CE, a Motorola G9 Play, and a Motorola Macro.

 

Given I don't fancy burning my house down I have stopped using Android devices for crunching - the only phone that seemed to handle crunching was a Razer Phone, but it was slow enough to not be worth the risk.

[kasdashd]

On 4/19/2025 at 8:36 AM, Fallguye said:

My experience with boinc on Android has been mixed to say the least.

 

Aside from the software bugs you mentioned you need to be extremely careful about the battery temperature you run at - Android devices aren't built to run at full power for long durations.

 

I left a bunch of older expendable phones running 24/7, and the batteries bulged on 3 of them - a Oneplus Nord CE, a Motorola G9 Play, and a Motorola Macro.

 

Given I don't fancy burning my house down I have stopped using Android devices for crunching - the only phone that seemed to handle crunching was a Razer Phone, but it was slow enough to not be worth the risk.

My S25 with the snapdragon 8 Elite chip has no issues with overheating. It doesn't even get remotely warm, despite me changing the CPU core utilization from the default 4 to 8, and it has CPU performance comparable to many mid range desktop CPU's, so definitely worth it for the latest flagship phones with this chip, just set the battery charging limit to 80%, and disable fast charging, and you're fine.