Constant crashing issues have returned in older Androids.

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  uup115 · Member · July 26, 2026 at 7:42 pm

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  after several days of flawless play the problem has returned. I’ll Supply you a link to the original complaint.

  
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  staff-joey8 · Staff · July 27, 2026 at 11:57 am

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  Hi there, @uup115

  Thanks for flagging this. We have narrowed down the cause, as we re-enabled a feature in 8.16 which caused the problem to come back. We have a fix being tested that should resolve it.

  Just to make sure our analysis is correct, are you using an older Huawei device, or a device with a Kirin chip? So far, those were the only devices we noticed the issue on.

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  uup115 · Member · July 27, 2026 at 1:13 pm

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  I’m using a unihertz jelly pro and it says it uses a MediaTek MT6737. Runs android 8.1

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  staff-joey8 · Staff · July 28, 2026 at 8:16 am

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  Thanks for sharing! I’ve notified our developers, but a fix is in the works.

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  uup115 · Member · July 28, 2026 at 3:28 pm

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  Please update when able, tyia.

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  staff-joey8 · Staff · July 31, 2026 at 6:57 am

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  Hi @uup115

  We have a fix for it under review: https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/pull/5677

  In the meantime, you could also consider sideloading Pocket Casts v8.15 until the fix is out and make sure not to update until the fix is released https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/releases/download/8.15/app-8.15.apk