PocketOrca-LLM v1.3.8

PocketOrca-LLM v1.3.8 Release Notes

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Compatibility

• Minimum requirement lowered from Android 13 to Android 10: devices that previously reported "package parse error" — including Huawei HarmonyOS 4.x — now install normally (verified on Mate 70 Pro)
• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 GPU garbled-output fix: the GPU engine is usable again on 8 Gen 2 devices (CPU still recommended)
• NPU: fixed support for IQ4_NL models (verified: Samsung S25 running Qwen3-8B-IQ4_NL.GGUF on the NPU engine)

New

• Qwen3 family NPU restriction removed: the old hang was an upstream llama.cpp bug, fixed by the upgrade (verified on S25 with Qwen3-8B)
• New notification-bar status display: idle / starting / running; the running card shows IP:port, RAM and temperature
• Advanced NPU tuning hook: Download/npullm-htp-env.json injects environment variables into the NPU engine; takes effect after restarting the service

Fixes & Improvements

• Android 15 long-session crash fix: foreground service type dataSync → specialUse, removing the 6-hour background quota so all-day sessions are no longer interrupted by the system
• Chat default max generation tokens 512 → 1024
• llama.cpp upgrade (0905 → 0915, 172 commits)

Install

• Download PocketOrca-LLM-v1.3.8-vc72-release.apk (~45 MB, md5 d2d8f96a)
• Requires Android 10+, arm64
• Same signing certificate as v1.3.5 — install directly over the old version

Building from source (notes)

• The NPU/GPU inference runtime ocl-libs.tar (~210 MB, md5 aaba86b0) is attached to this release; on Gitee it is split into 3 parts (100 MB per-file limit):

cat ocl-libs.tar.part.00 ocl-libs.tar.part.01 ocl-libs.tar.part.02 > ocl-libs.tar
md5sum ocl-libs.tar   # expect aaba86b0e99fe3f92b4383b3ba8f2377
tar xf ocl-libs.tar

• On GitHub the attachment is a single ocl-libs.tar.