Mine Monero XMR Cryptonight7 PoW7 with Android
The GUI miners are slow on upgrading their mobile apps for Cryptonight7 / pow7. Minergate's will likely be updated in a couple days but If you don't want to miss out on the low difficulty try the Tony Monero app in the Google Play store.
How to mine Monero now on mobile:
- Join an xmr mining pool like Minergate: https://minergate.com/a/7fb471ecc9fc984387f17bb5
- Install Tony Monero: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ethics.path.tonymonero
*Note: I have had some success mining XMR and XDN but only found the Tony Monero App after trying a dozen other Android miners. It seems to be the only one working right now. Use at your own risk.
Is it profitable at all mining XMR with a phone?
Considering many gpu miners are now mining with Monero7 difficulty won't be low for long?
Only if you can find creative ways to save on electricity.
In some countries (Jamaica included) most smart phones get discarded when damaged (cracked screen but still working for example). These phones can be purchased anywhere from $5 to $20. Not to mention tablets.
Now at $5 per 'device', and each avg about 20H/s... you can see where I'm going, for ~$100 bucks you can supplement ~400H/s to your mine.
Problem still lies in electricity cost.
*I build AMD Riggs and supplement with Android devices. I do not recommend mining on your personal/main phone.
You could probably charge them through solar panels and drop them in mineral oil for good cooling :)
But it become many devices to configure and keep online anyhow. I know Samsung said they would come with a special mining software for old smartphones, installing as a new os without any bloatware, but I don't know if they launced it yet..
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STOPHello Donald, thank you for using and recomending our app, we have been supporting Monerov7 since the same hardfork day (with some nights without sleeping to do it, but we did it on time).
We are very focused in providing an updated mining tool so we have just updated Tony Monero with a Coin Menu that autoselects the proper algorithm options to mine a certain coin and makes it easy to mine with the different altcoins that you can mine with Tony.
If you have any suggestion about the app we would be happy if you let us know about it here or at [email protected] :-) .
Tony Monero Team
Hi, thanks for replying. The app definitely gets higher hashrates than the MG app. However, the best aspect of TonyMonero is that I have not received any invalid shares and that can't be said for most mobile mining apps like AA Miner.
One feature that can be added is nightmode to further cut screen brightness on older devices that can't run on a locked screen.
I did like the update today and will continue to spread the good word 😎👍
Hello Donald!
We are happy to anounce you that the nightmode you asked is included in the last version of Tony Monero. If you have more suggestions, please let us know. :-)
Regards,
Tony Monero Team
Nice work!👍👍 Upgrading my Android devices and sharing the info. I will also post a TM review later today.