DEVICE REQUIREMENTS

Effective Date: September 1, 2021.

Devices must meet some minimum requirements to be able to earn money with PhonePaycheck. Those requirements are:

Linux Kernel >= 3.8 Number of Cores >= 2 Minimum Clock Frequency >= 1GHz RAM >= 3.5 GB Free Memory >= 2.5 GB Device Performance Rating >= 38

You can find out if your device meets the minimum requirements by installing PhonePaycheck on your device and checking the Device Properties page within the app. If it does meet the requirements, your device will be automatically place on our Waiting List. You can also find out from the Device Properties page within the app which earnings category your device is in (Gold, Silver, or Bronze).

For reference, here is a list of device models which have met these requirements for at least some devices, along with their Device Performance Rating (DPR) and Device Performance Category (DPC). By popular request, we give a table of just the Gold devices, just the Silver devices, just the Bronze devices, and then a table of devices which have failed to meet our requirements, and the reasons why they failed.

CAVEATS and DISCLAIMERS: These lists of devices are for your convenience and general reference only. We are not endorsing any particular brand or device model.

These are our genuine observations based on about 65,000 devices, and we hope that these observations will be useful to you. But they are not guarantees of performance or payment. Some individual devices with a given Model name may have different performance or properties than listed here (for example, some devices have different power-saving options in which they shut down some of their CPU cores, or throttle their clock rates, which can temporarily or permanently affect their DPR and DPC ratings; some devices may have different Linux Kernels or Memory sizes than the ones we have observed; some devices mis-report their CPU information, or report it inconsistently). We are sorry that we cannot assume any liability for any device that you may own or purchase. Our thresholds for Gold, Silver and Bronze, and Minimum Requirements may be changed without notice, and our algorithm for computing Device Performance Rating may be changed without notice.

To help you judge the uncertainty about any particular device model, we are providing the Count (the number of devices we have seen with the Most Common Rating), and the Number of Contradictions (the number of devices we have seen that received a different rating that pushed it into a different Category). Devices with a high Count and zero Contradictions are reliably reporting their CPU characteristics to us, and we have high confidence in their ratings. Devices with a low Count means we just haven't seen many of those devices, so we have lower confidence in their ratings. Devices with a low Count and high Number of Contradictions are highly unreliable in their reporting, and we advise caution if you are considering using those devices with PhonePaycheck.

For reference, here is a list of device models in the Gold category which have met these requirements for at least some devices, along with their Device Performance Rating (DPR) and Device Performance Category (DPC):

All Gold Models Seen That Have Met Minimum Requirements, With Their Most Common DPR and DPC, and Number of Contradictions

For reference, here is a list of device models in the Silver category which have met these requirements for at least some devices, along with their Device Performance Rating (DPR) and Device Performance Category (DPC):

All Silver Models Seen That Have Met Minimum Requirements, With Their Most Common DPR and DPC, and Number of Contradictions

For reference, here is a list of device models in the Bronze category which have met these requirements for at least some devices, along with their Device Performance Rating (DPR) and Device Performance Category (DPC):

All Bronze Models Seen That Have Met Minimum Requirements, With Their Most Common DPR and DPC, and Number of Contradictions

For reference, here is a list of device models which have failed to meet these requirements for at least some devices, and the reason(s) why they failed:

All Models Seen That Have Failed To Meet Minimum Requirements