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fervent nebula Jun 18, 2025, 1:02 AM

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I use an older phone (Android 10) with no intention of updating, and I'd like to install an older version of Forge to play on the go. The Github releases page has desktop versions going back a couple years, but all the mobile releases that were in the Snapshot entry are seemingly gone.

Is there any archive or way to find previous mobile releases? If not, how could one go about building from an older source file? From what I can tell the minimum version was raised around 2.0.00 FDN, so I assume I need the build just before that.

vagrant oriole Jun 18, 2025, 2:22 AM

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How much ram does this device have?

fervent nebula Jun 18, 2025, 8:19 PM

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~3.5 Gb

vagrant oriole Jun 19, 2025, 1:40 AM

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You’re likely not going to be able to run even old versions if you could get them.

fervent nebula Jun 19, 2025, 4:04 AM

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Even if that's the case I'd like to see for myself

sour finch Jun 19, 2025, 6:20 AM

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vagrant oriole How much ram does this device have?

The problem isn't the Ram but the Android version

vagrant oriole Jun 19, 2025, 10:00 PM

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sour finch The problem isn't the Ram but the Android version

I thought it just crash without the 🐏?

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Also if they find an old version the resource file is not available anymore, and using a new resource file will probably make the old app hate existence…

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Oldest version i find is 1.6.40
https://web.archive.org/web/20210408115849/https://downloads.cardforge.org/dailysnapshots/
Which might work on android 10...

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but android 12 was out by that time...

fervent nebula Jun 21, 2025, 5:30 AM

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So that link doesn't work, but I found other apks on the Wayback machine that install and open fine. On first launch it downloads the resource files and asks to restart, but then every time after it gets stuck on "Checking for updates" and does nothing. Another post here says to delete the version.txt, but that just makes it redownload the resource files again

Also the Forge folder is in storage/emulated/0/ instead of 0/Android/obb/ which makes me think it's not reading the directories properly. My next experiment is to install the app in an Android 12 emulator and copy the data files over to my phone in both directories

sour finch Jun 21, 2025, 5:33 AM

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fervent nebula So that link doesn't work, but I found other apks on the Wayback machine that in...

That's exactly the problem
We changed hosts, and now you are stuck on an old version pointing to the old host

vagrant oriole Jun 21, 2025, 3:28 PM

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fervent nebula So that link doesn't work, but I found other apks on the Wayback machine that in...

You can try to download the resources file and extract it for the version you downloaded, the asset zip, on the same page… you need the same date release otherwise you will have a bad time.
But it’s not worth wasting your time… go get a used phone thats better than what you have.

fervent nebula Jun 22, 2025, 1:11 AM

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I found a solution, I installed the latest version on an emulator and transferred over the files and it works great so far! It auto updates and runs with no issues other than one quick warning on launch. I haven't done any app development in a long time but it really seems like one little change in the file handling is all it would take to be fully compatible with Android 10.

#Previous mobile releases?