According to the 'documentation', running BOINC without battery is on the wish-list. It does as yet not do that, as you found.

For those who're interested in reality numbers, now got over 60 days of daily data on Android, and we're back in contributions to when starting to measure by ruler http://bit.ly/WCGAndroid . It does not seem to last long, at probably a similar percent as for those running the PC client. The fad wears and the daily credit has dropped to it's lowest for active devices since launch. So much for what was yesterday in the news "the most used operating system in the world".

Actually what I meant with not running without the battery was that the phone needs to have the battery place in in order to boot.
I tried connecting to the charger and then removing the battery but it turned off.

Broken keyboard condition (?)

I am wondering if SekeRob's data is reflecting how many people have moved their devices to projects with a smaller memory imprint. I know from my experience, my Bionic was a lot more responsive when I ran Asteroids and had LAIM turned on. My Galaxy S3 hasn't been sluggish with any of the projects so far. However, the S3 has more RAM.

19th of course, and Android now climbed to 18th spot in total contributions for an OS. It will take a long time to 17 as the gap to the next one up is big, plus there's one in between that makes almost equal credit average which is quite a bit ahead.

There is a bit of a rebound in registered devices, but more importantly, the increase in credit from active devices. Hopefully this sets a new trendline upwards into the winter season.

http://bit.ly/WCGAndroid

The key for valid results [surely too many invalid putting volunteers off], does seem to be to not want to run multiple tasks at same time [on duo/quad]. Go back to run 1 to see if results go valid. Much more gratifying.