:confused: What do you have for machine code: v7a or v8a ?

[sintoo]

My rooted XT1641 32GB is from Koodo Canada. Current ROM: Stock 8.1.0 (athene-8.1.0-OPJ28.111-22).

HWInfo app gave me this. Notice: Machine=armv7l. ABI=armeabi-v7a.
But Google says: "The Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 MSM8952 is a mid-range ARMv8-based SoC".
Is that because of my Provider-ROM ? Important though since gApps and apk depend on. Could somebody check with your version please. Thank you.
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SOC
SoC Snapdragon 617
CPU msm8952
Vendor Qualcomm
Cores 8
big.LITTLE 2 clusters
Clusters 4 x 1.52 GHz
4 x 1.21 GHz
Family Cortex-A53
Machine armv7l
ABI armeabi-v7a
Instructions swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 evtstrm
Process technology 28 nm
Revision r0p4
Clock speed 806 - 1516 MHz
Governor interactive
GPU Adreno (TM) 405
Vendor Qualcomm
OpenGL ES 3.2 [email protected] ([email protected], I47556f00c5) (Date:04/30/18)
Clock speed 240 - 550 MHz

 

[echo92]

Though the Snapdragon 617 is 64 bit capable, the stock ROM (including TWRP flashables) is 32 bit in nature (likely a reason for the armv7 architecture shown, which is the same in my G4 Plus). Hence on stock firmware, you'll need 32 bit apps.

If you're wanting to make use of the 64 bit capability, you'll need a 64 bit TWRP and a 64 bit custom ROM, along with 64 bit (ARM-64) GApps.