# Syncthing on Android V 0.12.0?
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032
**Category:** Android
**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032 "2015-11-05T22:55:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@noob](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/noob)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/21 "2015-11-13T11:35:21Z")
This Problem seems to be still persistent, also with version 7.2 . Someone knows a solution? I cannot upgrade through F-Droid.
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### Author:  [@oceanofsolaris](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/oceanofsolaris)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/22 "2015-11-13T11:52:10Z")
There seems to be indeed a new problem the f-sync build encounters: [https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/lastbuild\_77](https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/lastbuild_77)
It seems it has trouble finding the commit it wants to check out!?
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### Author:  [@Nutomic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Nutomic)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/23 "2015-11-13T14:41:12Z")
0.7.3 is coming. Took us 4 releases, but now 0.7 should work š
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### Author:  [@oceanofsolaris](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/oceanofsolaris)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/24 "2015-11-13T15:04:49Z")
Thanks for the swift fixes (and the awesome software alltogether). Itās a pity that f-droid needs so much time to rebuild (it only attempts to do so once a day if I understand correctly).
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### Author:  [@Nutomic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Nutomic)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/25 "2015-11-15T15:13:12Z")
0.7.4 is now on F-Droid!
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### Author:  [@noob](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/noob)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/26 "2015-11-15T16:41:18Z")
Tanks a lot!
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### Author:  [@Diimitrii](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Diimitrii)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/27 "2015-11-30T13:34:20Z")
Why Syncthing updates is not available for Android 2.3? I have Version 0.6.6 installed and see no options in F-Droid for update to latest version š¢
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### Author:  [@Nutomic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Nutomic)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/28 "2015-11-30T13:36:19Z")
2.3 isnāt supported any more. Since 0.7.0, the minimum Android version is 3.0 (Honeycomb).
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### Author:  [@Dancer](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Dancer)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/29 "2015-11-30T17:18:31Z")
so anyone who has no choice in what version Android they are stuck with is SOL :ā(
(personally stranded on 2.2)
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/30 "2015-11-30T17:37:03Z")
Being stranded on a five year old OS seems like an issue with the Android ecosystem in generalā¦ Itās like the Windows XP of the mobile world. š
Speaking not as a representative of the Syncthing Android team here as I have pretty much nothing to do with that part of the development, just as an innocent bystander.
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### Author:  [@Dancer](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Dancer)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/31 "2015-11-30T17:40:59Z")
and the irony there is my device is just over a year oldā¦
as far as I can tell, it is not Android so much as it is device makers and cell phone companies that customize it an in their customization intentionally make it difficult to install anything other than their specially customized version, and then refuse to update it trying to force new device purchases
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### Author:  [@Nutomic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Nutomic)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/32 "2015-11-30T18:07:41Z")
Android 2.2 is 5 years old. There were a lot of changes since that time (including 4 new major versions). It takes a lot of extra work to make a modern app thatās still compatible with Gingerbread. At the same time, Gingerbread was only used by about 1% of our users before we stopped supporting it. Me and the other contributors donāt want to do that (weāre doing this in our free time after all).
If you want to use Syncthing on your phone, I suggest you get a newer phone (I honestly canāt understand how someone could build a Gingerbread device in 2014). It would also be possible for someone to create a ālegacyā Syncthing app by forking our code.
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### Author:  [@Dancer](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Dancer)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/33 "2015-11-30T18:52:45Z")
I understand. If I knew enough about the languages involved, Iād most likely port Cyanogenmod to my phone (already looked, not currently supported, and not likely to happen), and then not have to worry about it.
(I canāt currently afford a newer phone, or Iād have it already)
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### Author:  [@capi](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/capi)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/34 "2015-11-30T20:29:43Z")
@Nutomic, what would actually break if one took the lastes `0.6.x` and just patched the current `syncthing` ARM binary inside? Have there been incompatible changes to the REST API / event API since then?
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### Author:  [@Nutomic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Nutomic)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/35 "2015-12-01T16:27:11Z")
Yes, there were some changes in the Rest API. You can check the changes between 0.7.0-beta1 and 0.7. (final) to see them.
If you want to make a compatibility release, the easiest option would probably be to remove the whole Android GUI, and just leave the WebGuiActivity. Then you could remove almost everything except SyncthingService, SyncthingRunnable and ConfigXml.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-android-v-0-12-0/6032/36 "2017-05-12T13:10:02Z")
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