BitCoin miner for Android?

[astrayred]

I would like to try it as well. Plus I have a wattmeter, so I will try to do some empirical measurements of the cost-benefits.

kr105, would love to try your android miner. 

[Yuhfhrh]

I would like to try it as well. Plus I have a wattmeter, so I will try to do some empirical measurements of the cost-benefits.

kr105, would love to try your android miner. 

I'm pretty sure it won't be cost effective 

The only benefit of this would be possible further exposure of bitcoins

[astrayred]

I would like to try it as well. Plus I have a wattmeter, so I will try to do some empirical measurements of the cost-benefits.

kr105, would love to try your android miner. 

I'm pretty sure it won't be cost effective 

The only benefit of this would be possible further exposure of bitcoins

Well... Since kr105 says that he has one in development, might as well try it right? Otherwise all those man-hours of development would be for naught.

[arby]

I do not think this would be profitable, and it may damage your phone, as phones are not designed to operate at that intensity.

Basically, this project would be interesting only, as an experiment, and spreading the news about the bitcoin (as someone mentioned above).

[Yuhfhrh]

I would like to try it as well. Plus I have a wattmeter, so I will try to do some empirical measurements of the cost-benefits.

kr105, would love to try your android miner. 

I'm pretty sure it won't be cost effective 

The only benefit of this would be possible further exposure of bitcoins

Well... Since kr105 says that he has one in development, might as well try it right? Otherwise all those man-hours of development would be for naught.

Well of course

[sergio]

Not a good idea to mine on a phone.
I have the n900 running a very old version of bitcoind, it is very difficult to get to compile bitcoind in arm hardware.
One good thing about software running on n900 is that it will also run on the guruplug, and the openmoko, but none of this platforms are good for mining, might be good for a mining pool where the shares are done by other computers in the case of the guruplug.
In the case of the n900 just by running the bitcoind daemon, the phone gets very hot and drains the battery very quickly, that is running the daemon without any mining gets the phone very hot.
The only reason the daemon was run, was to use the phone as a portable wallet, but it was not a good idea, since it is exactly the same command line daemon that you have on a pc, but on the phone cut and paste from the command line or to the command line can no be done, and typing the bitcoin address with a stylus or keyboard is difficult but not imposible, good for emergencies however.
Also the phone can barely run bitcoind, it lacks resources to run bitcoind properly.

[Wicked.M]

I already have a hard time getting my Android phone through a whole day. Can't imagine battery life with a mining app!

Well today you have phones that can solar charge themself

[Joshwaa]

Did he release the apk for the Galaxy S II yet?  Im dying.. I know its not profitable but what a conversation piece!!

[nyan.kitty1024]

Yeah, the only benefit of doing this I could think of would be as a conversation peice. I mean, you may be able to get say, 500 KHashes/sec(and that's being extremely optimistic- the mining hardware page says only about 200 is to be expected), but still, that's unbelievably slow all things considered. But hey, I'm not going to stop you. It'd be entertaining in the sense of a 'screw it, we're doing this' sense.

[Slushpuppy]

I want to mine litecoins on my nook just for the fuck of it

[wario666]

I found a nice bitcoin miner for android with UI app on playstore, the name is CGDROID, some screens
This tool support SSL connections and threaded CPU mode, the cost is low and this very nice..

http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1597217&d=1356664050 http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1597216&d=1356664050 http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1597218&d=1356664050

[soldier24]

Looks good! 
maybe I'm gonna try it.

[BitcoinSuite]

Doesn't BFL have an android miner now?

[MaxLAMF]

Not wanna hijack this thread,
but does anybody know the hashrates for whatever crypto-currency of the Raspberries or the AllWinner A10 board?
Wanna know it since a few days but can´t really find something...
THX!

[blakbeard]

cgdroid says it requires root access.  I'll give it a shot if I end up rooting my phone (which I might end up doing if my carrier doesnt update my HTC one x to jellybean soon.)

[John (John K.)]

I'm sure this has been stated before, but you're killing the phone and the battery quickly when you mine on it...

[Xnives99]

I can't get cgdroid to connect to btcguild server. I get the invalid username and password data error.

[anzy]

Interesting concept... then again it usually always was easier to buy low sell high than it was to work for the currency itself : P

[shivansps]

There are Android devices with OpenCL support right now...

[j05h]

I don't think it would be worth it because even if your phone is on the charger it might drastically affect it's battery life.

(Not sure - Does the battery form part of the circuit at all when the charger is plugged in, or is it completely bypassed?)

Once the battery is charged, it just stops charging and any power usage will come from the battery.  It'll recharge again after it drops a bit.  Somewhere a graph where someone showed the power usage of his charger over time.  Once it was fully charged, the charger stopped using power for like 30 minutes, then came back on for a minute to top the battery off again.

Why would this be?
My android phones run fine when theyre plugged without a battery in at all.  So it doesnt make sense that theyed use battery while plugged in.