[HarshalR8]

Problem

read_device_versions() reads the Android version from the GKI KMI tag embedded in uname -r (e.g. 5.4.218-android11-9-...). On devices that received major Android OS upgrades without a new kernel — common on Samsung and MediaTek — this tag reflects the kernel interface version frozen at build time, not the running OS version.

Example: Galaxy S21 Ultra Snapdragon, kernel 5.4, running Android 15. uname -r contains android11, so the app reports "Unsupported kernel 5.4 android 11" instead of the accurate "android 15".

The existing getprop fallback only fires when "android" is absent from the kernel string, so it never helped these devices.

Fix

Read ro.build.version.release via getprop first, which always returns the actual running OS version. Fall back to parsing the kernel string only if getprop returns nothing useful.

Testing

Verified on Android 15 device with a 5.4 Samsung kernel — now correctly detects Android 15 instead of Android 11.

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[diabl0w]

was it not working as-is?

[HarshalR8]

was it not working as-is?

It was detecting the kernel version properly but the android version didnt work, this is after failing to root btw, so a fail error shows kernel 5.4 android 11 failed, but at the start of the log it showed properly, this is due to it picking up the android version from GKI KMI tag embedded in uname -r, my phone started on android 11 and got updates till 15 but that tag didnt change, kernel stayed same.