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How to check ARM and ARM64 of an Android phone

Manual installation of Apps on an Android phone requires you to be familiar with its architecture. The terminologies ARM and ARM64 are basically the architectures. If you don’t know what architecture your Android phone is running on, you will not be able to perform a manual installation of some important applications. Usually, the ARM and ARM64 come into the play when you want to install an app like Google Play Store, Play Service, or any other application that has a role in the core of your Android phone. For ordinary applications, it is not really needed. This guide will show you the steps to determine what architecture your phone supports. You can follow the steps given here to check ARM and ARM64 of an Android phone. Before checking the CPU architecture, let us take a deeper look into it.

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ARM and ARM64

ARM CPU architecture basically refers to the 32-bit system. An Android device with ARM has a 32-bit architecture and it can only support apps built for a 32-bit system. Back in the day, the low-end devices and the mid-range devices used to have the ARM CPUs. Things have changed now and most of the companies add the ARM64 CPU to their phones.

ARM is also known as ARM-v7a.

ARM64, just as the name suggests, is the 64-bit system. The ARM64 system is used in all the high-end Android smartphones. As mentioned earlier, the ARM64 has become a standard now and companies use it in their midrange devices as well.

ARM64 is also known as ARM-v8a.

Companies like Qualcomm and Samsung are focusing on creating ARM64 chipsets for all sorts of devices. The only reason is to support the latest standards of app development.

App installation on ARM and ARM64

These CPUs support backward app installation only. Here is what you can exactly do.

ARM will support ARM or ARM-v7a apps only.
The ARM64 will support ARM, ARM-v7a, and ARM-v8a apps.
ARM will not support ARM-v8a or ARM64 apps.

Check ARM and ARM64 of an Android phone

Download and install Hardware Info application on your phone.
Open the Hardware info application now.
In the Hardware info app, expand the Processor tab.
You will find ARM-v7a or ARM64-v8a written next to your CPU model now.
You have identified the CPU architecture of your Android phone. That’s all.

List of ARM and ARM64 CPUs

The guide above should be good enough to give you the architecture details of your phone, but if you are hesitant to install this application, there is another way. If you know the CPU model of your phone, you can check the list below to find the architecture. If you don’t already know the CPU, you can check CPU using this guide.

CPU Name	ARM or ARM-v7a Chipsets
Samsung Exynos	Exynos 3 Single 3110 Exynos 2 Dual 3250 Exynos 3 Quad 3470 Exynos 3 Quad 3475 Exynos 4 Dual 4210 Exynos 4 Dual 4212 Exynos 4 Dual 4415 Exynos 5 Dual 5250 Exynos 5 Hexa 5260 Exynos 5 Octa 5410 Exynos 5 Octa 5420 Exynos 5 Octa 5800
Qualcomm Snapdragon	Snapdragon S1 MSM7625A to QSD8650 All Snapdragon S2 All Snapdragon S3 Snapdragon S4 All Snapdragon S4 Plus All Snapdragon S4 Pro Snapdragon 200 SEries Snapdragon 205 Snapdragon 208 Snapdragon 210 Snapdragon 212 Snapdragon 400
MediaTek	MT6573 MT6515 MT6575 MT6575M MT6517 MT6517T MT6570 MT6571 MT6572 MT6572A MT6572M MT6577 MT6577T MT6580 MT6582 MT6582M MT6588 MT6589/MT6588 MT6589M MT6589T MT6591 MT6592 MT6592M MT6595 MT6595M MT6595 Turbo

CPU Name	ARM64 or ARM64-v8a Chipsets
Samsung Exynos	Exynos 7 5433 Exynos 7 7420 Exynos 7 7570 Exynos 7 7580 Exynos 7 7870 Exynos 7 7880 Exynos 5 7872 Exynos 7 7874A Exynos 7 7885 Exynos 7 9610 Exynos 7 9611 Exynos 8 8890 Exynos 9 8895 Exynos 9 9110 Exynos 9 9810 Exynos 9 9829 Exynos 9 9820 Exynos 9 9825
Qualcomm Snapdragon	Snapdragon 410 Snapdragon 412 Snapdragon 415 Snapdragon 429 Snapdragon 439 Snapdragon 450 Snapdragon 600 Snapdragon 610 Snapdragon 615 Snapdragon 616 Snapdragon 617 Snapdragon 625 Snapdragon 626 Snapdragon 650 Snapdragon 652 Snapdragon 653 Snapdragon 630 Snapdragon 636 Snapdragon 660 Snapdragon 632 Snapdragon 670 Snapdragon 675 Snapdragon 710 Snapdragon 712 Snapdragon 730 Snapdragon 730G Snapdragon 765 Snapdragon 765G Snapdragon 800 Snapdragon 801 Snapdragon 805 Snapdragon 808 Snapdragon 810 Snapdragon 820 Snapdragon 821 Snapdragon 835 Snapdragon 845 Snapdragon 855 Snapdragon 855+ Snapdragon 865
MediaTek	MT6732 MT6735 MT6737/T MT6738 MT6762M (Helio A22) MT6752 MT6753 MT6750 MT6750T MT6795 (Helio X10) MT6755 (Helio P10) MT6757 (Helio P20) MT6757DT (Helio P25)[87] MT6762 (Helio P22)[96] MT6763 (Helio P23)[98] MT6771 (Helio P60) MT6797 (Helio X20) MT6797T (Helio X25) MT6797X (Helio X27) MT6799 (Helio X30) G90T G70T

Final Words

That’s all folks. If you have any further queries, reach out to me using the comments section below. I will try my best to get back as soon as possible.

Last Updated: 24th December 2019

This post was last modified on December 24, 2019 6:43 pm

Usama M

Usama is a software engineer by profession and at TechBeasts.com he uses his expertise to solve everyday consumer tech problems with his main areas of interest being Android, iOS and Windows.