Please upgrade to Bitcoin 0.8 and help Android/MultiBit users!

[cypherdoc]

And yes, if it is throwing away data that does not affect the own address and it just generated the first own address, it should be instantly ready.

It is for me, so if you see something different let me know and we can investigate.

Well, I just installed it and it ran into several ANR and out of battery and did not catch up the block chain in hours … ok, so it might get the balance straight from the start but still would have to check if the chain is a chain leading back to the genesis block, right?

Oh, funny. With the ANRs I had I put it to a charger and it ran out of battery despite the fact it was connected and switched off. Now when I click on the bitcoin wallet button I get a toast saying App isn't installed.

yes.  i have a Samsung galaxy s3 and it sucked my battery down fast.  not sure i can deal with that.

[ThiagoCMC]

Ubuntu is great! Just update/upgrade my system and Bitcoin 0.8 is up and running!

[notme]

Ubuntu is great! Just update/upgrade my system and Bitcoin 0.8 is up and running!

Arch linux is great.  I had bitcoin 0.8 five days ago .

[Mike Hearn]

Well, I just installed it and it ran into several ANR and out of battery and did not catch up the block chain in hours … ok, so it might get the balance straight from the start but still would have to check if the chain is a chain leading back to the genesis block, right?

It does at the moment but that's what we're going to fix next.

That experience was pretty disastrous. Did you report the ANRs with the crash reporter?

Oh, funny. With the ANRs I had I put it to a charger and it ran out of battery despite the fact it was connected and switched off. Now when I click on the bitcoin wallet button I get a toast saying App isn't installed.

The app isn't there at all? I don't know how that can happen unless you uninstalled it. What phone/version of Android is this?

[ThiagoCMC]

Ubuntu is great! Just update/upgrade my system and Bitcoin 0.8 is up and running!

Arch linux is great.  I had bitcoin 0.8 five days ago .

Sure it is!   

[cypherdoc]

Ubuntu is great! Just update/upgrade my system and Bitcoin 0.8 is up and running!

You using the ppa?

[giszmo]

Well, I just installed it and it ran into several ANR and out of battery and did not catch up the block chain in hours … ok, so it might get the balance straight from the start but still would have to check if the chain is a chain leading back to the genesis block, right?

It does at the moment but that's what we're going to fix next.

That experience was pretty disastrous. Did you report the ANRs with the crash reporter?

I reported it twice I guess. At least once.

Oh, funny. With the ANRs I had I put it to a charger and it ran out of battery despite the fact it was connected and switched off. Now when I click on the bitcoin wallet button I get a toast saying App isn't installed.

The app isn't there at all? I don't know how that can happen unless you uninstalled it. What phone/version of Android is this?

Well, I'm an Android dev, too, so yeah, I'm pretty surprised as well to say the least. If I uninstall an app, the app icon disappears from the launcher but that did not happen. The market told me it was uninstalled and when I clicked the launcher icon, it toasted the same. After istalling it again it was back with all the ANRs.

I have a Defy that had Android 2.1 installed so I (ok, it was my brothers that almost bricked and finally did it after 10h) upgraded it to 4.1 AOKP.

Also the blockchain is still 6 months behind despite the phone having been at the charger for hours.

[Mike Hearn]

It seems that there are some serious issues catching up with the chain that didn't used to exist. I was able to reproduce some problems where getheaders wasn't working well. I'll be working on an improvement to block chain handling this week so it's faster and uses less disk space.

[ThiagoCMC]

Ubuntu is great! Just update/upgrade my system and Bitcoin 0.8 is up and running!

You using the ppa?

Yes.

[grue]

I love how someone made a forum ad to advertise 0.8

[cypherdoc]

Ubuntu is great! Just update/upgrade my system and Bitcoin 0.8 is up and running!

You using the ppa?

Yes.

oh man, finally!  just got it downloaded and running.  very fast reindexing!

best of all, i can now see the wallet menus in Unity 12.04!  i can't tell you how much a pain that was not to be able to see it.

[giszmo]

Oh, funny. With the ANRs I had I put it to a charger and it ran out of battery despite the fact it was connected and switched off. Now when I click on the bitcoin wallet button I get a toast saying App isn't installed.

The app isn't there at all? I don't know how that can happen unless you uninstalled it. What phone/version of Android is this?

Well, I'm an Android dev, too, so yeah, I'm pretty surprised as well to say the least. If I uninstall an app, the app icon disappears from the launcher but that did not happen. The market told me it was uninstalled and when I clicked the launcher icon, it toasted the same. After istalling it again it was back with all the ANRs.

I have a Defy that had Android 2.1 installed so I (ok, it was my brothers that almost bricked and finally did it after 10h) upgraded it to 4.1 AOKP.

Also the blockchain is still 6 months behind despite the phone having been at the charger for hours.

Uhm, now I'm really slightly pissed. It disappeared again. I have no clue how it does so.

Code:

$ adb shell
# cd data/data/de.schildbach.wallet/files/
# cat key-backup-base58
# KEEP YOUR PRIVATE KEYS SAFE! Anyone who can read this can spend your Bitcoins.
ToPsEcReTToPsEcReTToPsEcReTToPsEcReT 2013-02-24T15:06:10Z

… slightly relieved but still … will try to get my 0.2Ƀ to a working wallet and wait for the schildbach wallet to mature some more.
Unfortunately Spinner just today told me its server was not responding neither. This is not good

Edit: Successfully imported the key to my desktop wallet.

[Mike Hearn]

An adb log from around the time it vanished might help us figure that out.

BTW we have an experimental version that does the initial sync much faster. It still needs some more work, but once it's done would you be willing to test it again?

[giszmo]

An adb log from around the time it vanished might help us figure that out.

BTW we have an experimental version that does the initial sync much faster. It still needs some more work, but once it's done would you be willing to test it again?

logcat. Good point. Check this out:

Code:

I/ActivityManager( 2492): START {act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 pkg=de.schildbach.wallet cmp=de.schildbach.wallet/.WalletActivity bnds=[192,467][288,610] u=0} from pid 2726
E/Nova.Launcher( 2726): Unable to launch. tag=ShortcutInfo(title=Bitcoin intent=Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 pkg=de.schildbach.wallet cmp=de.schildbach.wallet/.WalletActivity bnds=[192,467][288,610] }id=91 type=1 container=-100 screen=4 cellX=2 cellY=3 spanX=1 spanY=1 dropPos=null modelGeneration=2) intent=Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 pkg=de.schildbach.wallet cmp=de.schildbach.wallet/.WalletActivity bnds=[192,467][288,610] }
E/Nova.Launcher( 2726): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class {de.schildbach.wallet/de.schildbach.wallet.WalletActivity}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?

I would guess I should not be the only one to have this problem. I have no clue how this ever can have worked but it tries to start de.schildbach.wallet.WalletActivity which according to this repository should be de.schildbach.wallet.ui.WalletActivity.
Hmm… on the other hand the Manifest defines an activity-alias … never used that.

It is not a nova launcher issue neither as the play market also states it is not installed.

When it happens again, I will check if the apk is here or not. The data was here. I pressed reboot and while it was shutting down I noticed it mentioned no bitcoins received yet although it showed me 0.2BTC, so it must have been reusing the old data.
After the reboot the transaction history was correct with the correct label as given before the install.

Ok I just uninstalled and installed again and that wiped the data as expected from a normal uninstall.

[Mike Hearn]

That message just means it tried to start it and it was gone. I was hoping for a log around the time that it vanished.

Could you check the application manager if it happens again and see if it's in the list of installed apps? I wonder if it is somehow becoming disabled or unregistered with the activity manager but is actually still installed.

[Dice]

Done!

I can see faster speeds. I am on a laptop (relatively old). I get 1 block every 2 seconds which isn't too bad, faster then before thats for sure.

Thank you bitcoin devs!

EDIT: i noticed some people said they could see how many nodes were running on 0.8 is there a website that provides this data?

[jim618]

Done!

I can see faster speeds. I am on a laptop (relatively old). I get 1 block every 2 seconds which isn't too bad, faster then before thats for sure.

Thank you bitcoin devs!

EDIT: i noticed some people said they could see how many nodes were running on 0.8 is there a website that provides this data?

http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/branches.html

[Sukrim]

I ran 0.3.x until the release of 0.8.x now, there were no real new features I needed and if really somebody would do a DoS attack on older clients I could have upgraded anyways. Since there's a bunch of security advisories now released (+ fixed) and as I wanted to try out the QT interface, I upgraded.

Maybe the remaining 0.3.x clients are on web servers or not really maintained by their owners ("Oh this Bitcoin stuff sounds iteresting, let's install it, get a few coins from the faucet and play a bit..." - 1 year later: "What's this 10 GB 'block chain file' here?!"), or even more lazy/conservative with upgrades than I am.

[Mike Hearn]

Actually running old versions can cause problems even if you don't think you need any of the new features. Old versions just generally cause problems for the network. It's best to stay up to date if you can.