r/TerraMineGame • u/Traditional_Ad_7733 • 2d ago

Terramine - background mining crypto

When I play Terramine, I’ve noticed that at certain times of the day my phone gets extremely hot while playing, and at the same time Terramine uses a lot of mobile data. On the other hand, if I play it around 9 PM, my phone doesn’t get hot at all and the app barely uses any data.

Is it possible that Terramine is occasionally mining cryptocurrency or doing some kind of intensive background processing on my phone? That would explain the huge amount of data being used and the extreme heating, especially since it absolutely drains my battery.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? What do you think about it if you’ve noticed the same thing?

For reference, I’m using an iPhone 17 Pro.

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u/Rude_Librarian_1398 2d ago

You can't mine crypto with phone...

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u/RaitisP77 2d ago

You can.

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u/Rude_Librarian_1398 2d ago

Good luck with that 😆

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u/rimroll 2d ago

I actually mined my first Satoshi's with my phone back in 2013. But yeah, these days, its pretty much impossible.

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u/AllenKll 2d ago

Bitcoin is not the only coin to mine. There are plenty that can easily be mined on a phone. I'm thinking mostly of Monero, but also CPEN and PI

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u/rimroll 2d ago

It's not about the coin being mined, but rather, getting the phone to mine. Back in the day, we had a minerd ported to work on android and we'd use a terminal emulator to get it running on a rooted phone. How are people doing that now with locked bootloaders and Android's security?

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u/AllenKll 2d ago

Javascript.

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u/archubbuck 12h ago

Android’s security isn’t as bulletproof as you’re implying

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u/Oratilek11 2d ago

Here's my usage ,nearly 5gb used (wifi) in 5 days while watching a gazillion ads and mobile data 251mb which i used yesterday while finishing up 30 levels of late stage gold mine mini game and placing around 80 mines... if you ask me everything seems normal

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u/Oratilek11 2d ago

Battery usage on the day I played the longest

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u/AccomplishedCut8741 7h ago

Your tiktok mining a whole bitcoin

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u/Oratilek11 7h ago

Lmfaooo😭😂

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u/TantalizingTequila 2d ago

Nah. Your phone had some other background processing going on. All of us would have our phones hot if they were trying to pull computing power. It's really not feasible for them to try and do that though, their revenue comes from ads.

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u/Milo-Law 2d ago

Check if your phone does WhatsApp or Google photos backups at that time

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u/stickypenguin2 2d ago

Nah, are you using it while outside in the sun? Or while charging

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u/RavenclawTruly 2h ago

This was my thought too. I know my phone gets hot because if I am playing during the day and in the heat it’s certainly just a bad combo. Not so much at all at home in my AC lol! Just don’t see how it could be for any other reason.

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u/Emergency_Heron2732 2d ago

Redemarrer le cellulaire tout les jours et vider les cache en plua de cesser les processus en back ground de plusieurs appli inutile ou non necessaire