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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Think the decision to not continue pre-PIE supporting going forward was posted somewhere [look for tech posts]... PIE certainly improved the success rate for my device.
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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No argument there. The issue at hand is whether it would be worth it to tweak the server to look for compatible devices rather than just sending work to fail. I have a lot of Android devices. It makes it difficult to keep track of every one and figure out which one is erroring out at times. I think I've gotten mine lined out, but how many others just keep wasting resources?
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
"The issue at hand is whether it would be worth it to tweak the server to look for compatible devices rather than just sending work to fail."
My reading was that no effort would be taken... just let it ride it's natural course [WCG does not strike me as an 'attention for detail' org in particular areas, everything seems to fall on effort-cost-resource-weighting]. Test detach a non-PIE device and see if the re-adding succeeds (possibly you'd have to uninstall BOINC and clean to remove prior account info it could otherwise remember to not get a welcome back). BTW, saw that there's speculation that the biggest smartphone seller, Samsung, was going to switch to it's own Tizen [which is what's on mine]. For conscious BOINCers that's a decision killer, but over time... I've used the WCG API and some what I think nifty coding in my hunting tool that's running against a very large account to easily identify and name a half dozen androids [The API provides the internal 7 digit unique ID as well], so for instance my tablet is named Tabled-01 based on the 1234567, not this Android-abacadabra. Maybe worth looking into with you having a fleet of them. |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Older versions of Android put you and others at risk: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/android-b...what-you-havent-been-told
Anything before Android 5.0 is not getting key updates to the web accessing parts, when used for that purpose. The problem with Android's bundled WebKit is that for older versions, it is never updated, which is not well known. Android 5.0 Lollipop is the first release where the bundled WebKit can be patched. |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Too bad not all devices can be easily rooted or upgraded. It would be really nice to be able to update some of them. :(
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