It eats 1-2% of 1 core even when boinc is not active. And even if a phone is not charging. Why?

Is it possible to turn it off somehow?

Thank you.

boinc 7.4.41. x86. android 4.4.2. asus zenfone 4.

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It's an Android process that allows one service to run with multiple processes. If this weren't used, a multi-core CPU in an android device would always run one process only.

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Thanks for the answer, Ageless.

I only wanted to ask: why boinc consumes power, instead of sleeping entirely until next recharging?

If you changed your preferences to run always, then that's why.
If you didn't, then in the case of this process it's not BOINC, instead it's the Android process called android:process=":remote" that runs. And as far as I know it'll run always.

I looked on the internet if there's a way to stop the process, but there isn't.
The developers can't do without it either, as then BOINC only runs one thread always, instead of however many threads it can run on the CPU (and next GPU).

Here's what I also found on my searches:

In Android, there's an important distinction between a running service and a running process.

A service follows a carefully defined lifecycle; it begins when onStartCommand() is called and ends after onDestroy() is finished. During that lifetime, the service can be performing tasks or sitting idle, but it is still running.

A process can extend beyond the life of a service. As you've seen, the process can keep running for some time after your service has stopped. Don't worry about it. Android will destroy the process and reclaim any resources exactly when it needs to. It's definitely confusing at first, but once your service has stopped, you don't need to care about the process it was in.

Bottom line: if onDestroy has been called, your service has stopped. Don't worry about the leftover process.

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If you changed your preferences to run always, then that's why.

Do you mean "Power sources for computation" option on Android or some global BOINC options which are controlled from the projects? I'm not quite understand which preferences.

Don't worry about it

I'm worry about battery life, that's all.

Do you mean "Power sources for computation" option on Android

Yes those.

...or some global BOINC options which are controlled from the projects?

BOINC on Android doesn't use the web-based computing preferences, only the local preferences.

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