- Help cure disease while you sleep. It costs you nothing. It helps a lot.
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About Folding@Home
Folding@Home was a tools app developed by Sony Mobile Communications. It was removed from Google Play Dec 29, 2017 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Folding@Home had been downloaded 220 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Folding@Home was rated 4.42 out of 5 stars, based on 7.4 thousand ratings.
App Information
Folding@Home was free to download. The APK download size was 14.62 MB. The last available version was 1.00.61. The last update was on March 22, 2017.
Technical Requirements
Folding@Home required Android 4.4+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play January 2015.
Description
You can take part in the search for groundbreaking cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer and infectious diseases such as Ebola.
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★★★★★
This is great IF you have a Wi-Fi connection. I have unlimited data on my phone, so I use it as a wireless hotspot on the rare occasions I use my computer... Why would I pay over $100 a month to Communist-cast for subpar Wi-Fi that doesn't work half the time!?! I really wish there was a settings menu where you could adjust it to use data, then put a restriction on it to only use up to [blank] amount. I may just uninstall this app to free up space in my phone if I can no longer use it
★★★★★
Great! I wish I could tie it in w/ my main PC F@H stats; on my LITTLE.big phone, only uses my LITTLE cores, leaving my big idle.… Seems wasteful. Also, on my alternate phone, doesn't recognize when charging, so won't function
★★★★★
A great cause to help out with when you are charging your phone.
★★★★★
Great idea, we need the whole world to charge their phones and fight the big health issues we face.
★★☆☆☆
Will not start. Does not recognize that my device is plugged in. Charged 100% and connected to wifi and charger for the last 7 hours. No folding.
★★☆☆☆
Doesn't function AT ALL with Android 7 Nougat on multiple phones!! Only works with 100% battery, NEEDS WIFI constantly to run? Why? You download some work units and the phone shouldn't need any connection for some time. It should not run out of work for at least 24 hours. -- HAS this app heard of the CELLULAR connection?? It has data too....... -Will not use all cores of an 8 core Moto G4 phone! Or very little of each, etc. Phone barely warms up. Compare that to running BOINC, where you can set it to run 8 cores, the phone gets nice and toasty. And BOINC doesn't need a constant WIFI connection, or a full battery. You can set the minimum battery percentage in which it'll number crunch. Even can run on battery power alone if you want to! It will cache work units for many days by default! (sadly no config option for that, but it's at a good medium) So, this app is very restrictive. It needs constant WIFI and 100% battery, even though it loads my pocket computer way less than 100% utilization. -** EVEN in ideal conditions, it would get a lot less work done than BOINC could do running Rosetta@home (if it were compatible with ARM architecture). Try again. I am using it though, along with BOINC. 131K devices are 'helping out' it says.
Technologies used by Folding@Home
Folding@Home is requesting 7 permissions and is using 5 libraries.
Permissions
Network communication
view network connections,
view Wi-Fi connections,
full network access
System tools
change network connectivity,
connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi,
run at startup,
prevent phone from sleeping
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