Can you run a storagenode on an Android smartphone?
I don’t think T&C forbids this.
I imagine 2 usecases:
A. Standard storagenodes on retired smartphones with 1TB storage or more, pluged in chargers, and on wifi, or hooked on PCs, sharing their wired internet connection, or just on 4-5G.
B. A big pool of shared space between smartphones, ones that have unused storage and others that don’t have enough, or just want backups to their data, and are willing to pay for space from others. This would be safer maybe(?) than a cloud storage.
Of course, both usecases would need unlimited data plans.
I’m not familiar with Android phones, but I imagine that, beeing derived from Linux, they can run a Linux node, or maybe there are VMs or Docker-like apps?
Personally I would exchange them for better phones than risk putting them to work. I suspect the battery of such phones would not keep up with continuous usage and may die or overheat or in worst case explode.
I would rather recommend using Raspberry Pi instead. Phones aren’t meant for continuous usage like Storj needs.
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Maybe there are models that run without a battery, just being pluged in. And even with battery, it will not be overcharged. Laptops run the same way, and they not explode.
But ofcourse, this is not a reliable way to run a storage node. I was just thinking how small a storagenode can get, what small devices are there with good storage, not USB or SD cards?
Only smartphones poped up.
running on charger only is an rare feature, knowing only one tablet so far.
You can run storagenode on a router and there are SNOs that do that iIRC
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Sure you can, it’ll run after some tweaks, but I don’t like the idea to run it as a production unit. Too many problems to troubleshoot. 
I had one node running on OpenWrt just for fun.
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