# Updating Brave on Android 8.1

**URL:** <https://community.brave.app/t/updating-brave-on-android-8-1/563091>\
**Category:** Mobile Support\
**Tags:** android, browser\
**Created:** [August 13, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/updating-brave-on-android-8-1/563091 "2024-08-13T19:59:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Halbour](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/halbour/32/195600_2.png) [@Halbour](https://community.brave.app/u/Halbour)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/updating-brave-on-android-8-1/563091/1 "2024-08-13T19:59:26Z")

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**Description of the issue:**  
Any version above my current installed version is supposedly available to install for Android 9.0 and up only.  
**How can this issue be reproduced?**

1.Download the latest version from APKMirror, etc.  
2.Try to install  
3.N/A

**Expected result:**  
Brave updates successfully  
**Brave Version (check `About Brave`):**  
1.64.122 - Latest version available for my Android version  
**Mobile Device details**  
Generic Android 8.1 device, with no support for Google Play  
**Additional Information:**  
Can I just update it by lowering the SDK version in an APK editor? do I need to uninstall it and install the armabi-7a? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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**Author:** ![Saoiray](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/saoiray/32/212354_2.png) [@Saoiray](https://community.brave.app/u/Saoiray)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/updating-brave-on-android-8-1/563091/2 "2024-08-13T20:06:13Z")

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@Halbour I may be misunderstanding your question, but the answer is Android 8 and older is no longer supported. As such you can’t do any updates beyond whatever the last working version had been (I forget which version, would have to look through notes).

As you mentioned, you can find APK by looking through the Changelog at [https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/CHANGELOG\_ANDROID.md](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/CHANGELOG_ANDROID.md) and navigating to the version that works. At that point they would have the APK that could be downloaded. Such as if you needed 1.64.11 it would be [https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.65.122](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.65.122) where you’d find the appropriate file that works for you.

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**Author:** ![Halbour](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/halbour/32/195600_2.png) [@Halbour](https://community.brave.app/u/Halbour)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/updating-brave-on-android-8-1/563091/3 "2024-08-14T07:54:08Z")

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Turns out, downloading the `BraveMonoarm.apk` from the latest stable release is OK, and it installed just fine. I guess It’s solved!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/updating-brave-on-android-8-1/563091/4 "2024-09-13T07:54:47Z")

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Closed on September 13, 2024, 7:54am UTC

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