"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> You can, yes. The tar.gz file is a gzipped tar file. So you would need the tar
> and gzip programs to uncompress it. Non-rooted phones don't generally have these
> utilities. I'll upload another program into misc, busybox, that does encapsulate
> all these utilities into one binary. Here's how you would use it:
>
> 1) make sure busybox and the tar.gz file are in the same directory
> 2) ./busybox tar zxf *tar.gz
> 3) Now you can run the povray benchmark as such: ./povray benchmark
> 4) Unfortunately, since your phone isn't rooted, you can't change the
> clockspeed, so your phone's results will be low because it's thermally throttled
> (which is something I found out recently).

D'oh! The site renamed busybox to busybox.dat. Also permissions aren't set
correctly. Anyway, after downloading busybox.dat do the following:

1) mv busybox.dat busbox
2) chmod 755 busybox

Now you can follow the remaining instructions.

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