Why can't my Pixel XL phone get any work

DanNeely
DanNeely
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I've got a new phone, a Pixel XL from Google, it's running Android 7.1 on a snapdragon 821.  The latter is a just a slightly faster version of the 820 which's been used on most high end Android phones this year, so I wouldn't expect any compatibility problems but my attempts to get work are all failing with a report that nothing is available.

 

On the status page, it's just identifying here as "4 processors" without any detail about what the specific CPU type is.  I assume that's somehow related the no work problem.  OTOH Quake Catcher Network has been able to send it work so it can't be completely hosed.  QCN appears to batch up its validation and do 5 days of results at a time though, so I haven't gotten to see if any of my results will validate yet.

 

 https://einsteinathome.org/host/12460714

2016-11-22 03:32:25.7304 [PID=24419]   Request: [USER#xxxxx] [HOST#12460714] [IP xxx.xxx.xxx.96] client 7.4.53
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7720 [PID=24419] [debug]   have_master:1 have_working: 1 have_db: 1
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7720 [PID=24419] [debug]   using working prefs
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7720 [PID=24419] [debug]   have db 1; dbmod 1428384323.000000; global mod 0.000000
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7720 [PID=24419]    [send] effective_ncpus 2 max_jobs_on_host_cpu 999999 max_jobs_on_host 999999
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7721 [PID=24419]    [send] effective_ngpus 0 max_jobs_on_host_gpu 999999
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7721 [PID=24419]    [send] Not using matchmaker scheduling; Not using EDF sim
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7721 [PID=24419]    [send] CPU: req 103680.00 sec, 2.00 instances; est delay 0.00
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7721 [PID=24419]    [send] work_req_seconds: 103680.00 secs
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7721 [PID=24419]    [send] available disk 45.19 GB, work_buf_min 8640
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7721 [PID=24419]    [send] active_frac 0.926022 on_frac 0.847037 DCF 1.022128
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7728 [PID=24419]    [send] [HOST#12460714] is reliable
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7729 [PID=24419]    [send] set_trust: error rate 0.100000 > 0.050000, don't trust
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7729 [PID=24419]    [mixed] sending non-locality work first (0.4801)
2016-11-22 03:32:25.7905 [PID=24419]    [send] [HOST#12460714] will accept beta work.  Scanning for beta work.
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8291 [PID=24419]    [version] no app version available: APP#32 (hsgamma_FGRPB1) PLATFORM#12 (arm-android-linux-gnu) min_version 0
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8292 [PID=24419]    [version] Checking plan class 'NEON'
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8319 [PID=24419]    [version] reading plan classes from file '/BOINC/projects/EinsteinAtHome/plan_class_spec.xml'
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8319 [PID=24419]    [version] CPU [' fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 '] lacks feature ' neon '
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8319 [PID=24419]    [version] Checking plan class 'VFP'
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8319 [PID=24419]    [version] CPU [' fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 '] lacks feature ' vfp '
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8319 [PID=24419]    [version] Checking plan class 'NEONPIE'
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8319 [PID=24419]    [version] CPU [' fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 '] lacks feature ' neon '
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8319 [PID=24419]    [version] no app version available: APP#19 (einsteinbinary_BRP4) PLATFORM#12 (arm-android-linux-gnu) min_version 0
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8320 [PID=24419]    [version] no app version available: APP#25 (einsteinbinary_BRP4G) PLATFORM#12 (arm-android-linux-gnu) min_version 0
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8378 [PID=24419]    [mixed] sending locality work second
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8398 [PID=24419] [debug]   [HOST#12460714] MSG(high) No work sent
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8398 [PID=24419] [debug]   [HOST#12460714] MSG(high) No work is available for Multi-Directed Continuous Gravitational Wave search Tuning run CV
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8398 [PID=24419] [debug]   [HOST#12460714] MSG(high) Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 is not available for your type of computer.
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8398 [PID=24419] [debug]   [HOST#12460714] MSG(high) see scheduler log messages on https://einsteinathome.org/host/12460714/log
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8398 [PID=24419] [debug]   [HOST#12460714] MSG(high) Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo, GPU) is not available for your type of computer.
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8399 [PID=24419]    Sending reply to [HOST#12460714]: 0 results, delay req 60.00
2016-11-22 03:32:25.8400 [PID=24419]    Scheduler ran 0.113 seconds

 

Christian Beer
Christian Beer
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Some Android and Linux

Some Android and Linux kernels report the NEON capability as 'asimd' which doesn't match what we look for ('neon'). We'll see how we can fix this on our end.

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