# No Support for older Android Smartfones in 4.25?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/no-support-for-older-android-smartfones-in-4-25/474245>\
**Category:** Mobile\
**Tags:** opengl, unreal-engine, UE4-25, Android, question\
**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/no-support-for-older-android-smartfones-in-4-25/474245 "2020-11-10T11:34:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rucki](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Rucki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Rucki)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/no-support-for-older-android-smartfones-in-4-25/474245/1 "2020-11-10T11:34:32Z")

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My Smartfone Samsung J3 has only ES 3.0, although its from 2016 and I just realized that I cant test my app on my own smartfone, because UE4.25 isn´t supporting pre ES3.1 anymore ? Or is there anything I can do in 4.25 to get my apps/games working on older Androids ?

Somehow such an step wouldn´t make a lot sense for me, it would mean that only the newest smartfones are supported which would lead to a lot of lost opportunities. I´m currently downloading 4.24.3 as an workaround, but it would be nice to know if there´s an option use the latest UE version for me.

Edit:  
Now I realized that I can´t migrate/import my Assets from 4.25 to 4.24.3  
So it seems my whole work from over 1 Week is gone now ?

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**Author:** ![Rucki](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Rucki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Rucki)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/no-support-for-older-android-smartfones-in-4-25/474245/2 "2020-11-10T18:42:46Z")

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So I tried to find a solution for the problem the whole day but was not successful. Im always getting the Error Message “android device only support openGL ES 2/3 but not 3.1” on my phone.

I even exchanged all the materials in the app to Unreal start materials, as I thought maybe they are too high in resolution or something, but that didnt help.

I also played around with ManifestRequirementsOverride.txt like it was for example explained in this thread: [Android Permissions Problems - Mobile Development - Unreal Engine Forums](https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/android-development/110935-android-permissions-problems?138161-Android-Permissions-Problems=#post943958)

But that also didnt work and I did exactly as described in the thread. After I packaged the app I always have in the manifest and I guess that this is main problem here.

One thing I also tried was putting ES3.1 support to false in the default engine ini and writeprotect that file, after that I indeed got the android manifest changed after packaging so that it displayed now EsVersion="0x00030000 instead of EsVersion="0x00030001 and my phone supports ES 3.0, but I still got the same error message afterwards.

I´m getting out of Ideas.

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**Author:** ![OsamaGamal](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@OsamaGamal](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/OsamaGamal)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/no-support-for-older-android-smartfones-in-4-25/474245/3 "2021-07-29T09:57:08Z")

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Did you find a solution for this problem , its stupid thing that ue 4 deprecated openGL es 2 , most mobile games on google play including Pubg support openGL es 2