diff --git a/osu.Android.props b/osu.Android.props
index 07bb54aff5ef..575166194fab 100644
--- a/osu.Android.props
+++ b/osu.Android.props
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="ppy.osu.Framework.Android" Version="2026.502.3" />
+    <PackageReference Include="ppy.osu.Framework.Android" Version="2026.502.4" />
     <!-- `ppy.osu.Framework.NativeLibs` is a transitive dependency of `ppy.osu.Framework`
          that ships desktop-only natives (Linux/macOS/Windows) under `runtimes/<rid>/native/`
          — including a bare Linux `libbass.so`/`libbass_fx.so`/`libbassmix.so` for linux-arm64.
diff --git a/osu.Android/CrashDiagnostics.cs b/osu.Android/CrashDiagnostics.cs
index 8097fe8a14fc..489e94f86e48 100644
--- a/osu.Android/CrashDiagnostics.cs
+++ b/osu.Android/CrashDiagnostics.cs
@@ -485,11 +485,21 @@ public DrawThreadNativeCrashInfo(string fingerprint, string signal, string threa
             }
         }
 
-        // Bound the read used by DetectPreviousDrawThreadNativeCrash. The native crash
-        // block + register dump + backtrace is ~2 KB; 256 KiB easily covers the most
-        // recent block even when the file also contains many ALIVE markers and a
-        // HangWatchdog dump from the previous process.
-        private const long crash_log_scan_byte_cap = 256L * 1024;
+        // Bound the read used by DetectPreviousDrawThreadNativeCrash.
+        //
+        // Footer path (new, fast): crash_handler.cpp appends a compact
+        // "=== CRASH FOOTER ===" line AFTER the /proc/self/maps dump, so it
+        // always lands in the last ~1 KiB of the log. We scan only the last
+        // crash_log_footer_scan_byte_cap bytes to find it quickly.
+        //
+        // Header-block fallback (legacy): older builds without the footer
+        // require scanning far enough back to reach the "[osu!] NATIVE CRASH"
+        // marker, which can be hundreds of KiB from the end because the
+        // /proc/self/maps section is typically 400–500 KiB on Android. The
+        // log is bounded at ~3 MiB by the rotation logic, so 4 MiB covers
+        // the entire file in the worst case.
+        private const long crash_log_footer_scan_byte_cap = 32L * 1024;
+        private const long crash_log_scan_byte_cap = 4L * 1024 * 1024;
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Inspect the on-disk <c>native_crash.log</c> for the most recent
@@ -534,6 +544,25 @@ public DrawThreadNativeCrashInfo(string fingerprint, string signal, string threa
                 string path = Path.Combine(dir, CRASH_LOG_NAME);
                 if (!File.Exists(path)) return null;
 
+                // --- Fast path: look for the compact footer line appended by
+                // crash_handler.cpp after the /proc/self/maps dump.  It is
+                // always in the last few KiB of the log, so a small read is
+                // enough.  Falls through to the legacy full-header scan if the
+                // footer is absent (older native builds).
+                using (var fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))
+                {
+                    long footerStart = Math.Max(0, fs.Length - crash_log_footer_scan_byte_cap);
+                    fs.Seek(footerStart, SeekOrigin.Begin);
+                    using var sr = new StreamReader(fs);
+                    string footerTail = sr.ReadToEnd();
+
+                    var fromFooter = tryParseFooter(footerTail);
+                    if (fromFooter != null) return fromFooter;
+                }
+
+                // --- Legacy path: the full-header "[osu!] NATIVE CRASH" block.
+                // The /proc/self/maps section can be 400–500 KiB, so we scan
+                // the last 4 MiB (the log rotation cap) to guarantee we reach it.
                 string tail;
 
                 using (var fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))
@@ -598,6 +627,68 @@ public DrawThreadNativeCrashInfo(string fingerprint, string signal, string threa
             }
         }
 
+        // Parse the compact "=== CRASH FOOTER ===" line appended by crash_handler.cpp
+        // after the /proc/self/maps section.  Format:
+        //   === CRASH FOOTER sig=<SIGNAL> pid=<PID> uptime_ns=<NS> thread=<NAME> ===
+        // Returns null if no valid footer line is found or the crash is not a
+        // fatal Draw-thread event.
+        private static DrawThreadNativeCrashInfo? tryParseFooter(string tail)
+        {
+            const string footer_marker = "=== CRASH FOOTER ";
+            int last = tail.LastIndexOf(footer_marker, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+            if (last < 0) return null;
+
+            int lineEnd = tail.IndexOf('\n', last);
+            if (lineEnd < 0) lineEnd = tail.Length;
+            string line = tail.Substring(last, lineEnd - last);
+
+            string? signal = extractFooterField(line, " sig=", " ");
+            string? pid = extractFooterField(line, " pid=", " ");
+            string? uptime = extractFooterField(line, " uptime_ns=", " ");
+            string? thread = extractFooterField(line, " thread=", " ===");
+
+            if (signal == null || thread == null) return null;
+
+            bool isFatalSignal = signal.StartsWith("SIGSEGV", StringComparison.Ordinal)
+                                 || signal.StartsWith("SIGBUS", StringComparison.Ordinal)
+                                 || signal.StartsWith("SIGABRT", StringComparison.Ordinal);
+            if (!isFatalSignal) return null;
+
+            if (!thread.StartsWith("Draw", StringComparison.Ordinal)) return null;
+
+            string fingerprint = (uptime != null && pid != null)
+                ? $"u{uptime}-p{pid}"
+                : "footer:" + ((uint)line.GetHashCode()).ToString("x");
+
+            // The footer does not carry a top-frame symbol — report it as such.
+            return new DrawThreadNativeCrashInfo(fingerprint, signal, thread, "(footer — no top frame)");
+        }
+
+        // Extract a field value from a single footer line.
+        // Reads from after `key` to either the first occurrence of `stopBefore`
+        // or the end of the line (whichever comes first).
+        private static string? extractFooterField(string line, string key, string? stopBefore)
+        {
+            int idx = line.IndexOf(key, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+            if (idx < 0) return null;
+
+            int start = idx + key.Length;
+            int end;
+
+            if (stopBefore != null)
+            {
+                end = line.IndexOf(stopBefore, start, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+                if (end < 0) end = line.Length;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                end = line.IndexOf(' ', start);
+                if (end < 0) end = line.Length;
+            }
+
+            return line.Substring(start, end - start);
+        }
+
         private static string? extractField(string block, string keyWithEquals)
         {
             int idx = block.IndexOf(keyWithEquals, StringComparison.Ordinal);
diff --git a/osu.Android/Native/crash_handler.cpp b/osu.Android/Native/crash_handler.cpp
index 7b84e40636a7..28fdb4d19a57 100644
--- a/osu.Android/Native/crash_handler.cpp
+++ b/osu.Android/Native/crash_handler.cpp
@@ -1013,6 +1013,21 @@ static void crashHandler(int sig, siginfo_t* info, void* ucontext) {
     }
     g_dumpWritten = 1;
 
+    // Capture crash metadata once so both the header block and the compact
+    // footer written after /proc/self/maps use identical values.  The footer
+    // is what CrashDiagnostics.scanForDrawThreadCrash now looks for first —
+    // it always lands in the last few KB of the log even when the memory-map
+    // section is several hundred KB long.
+    long long crash_uptime_ns;
+    {
+        struct timespec ts{};
+        clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, &ts);
+        crash_uptime_ns = (long long)ts.tv_sec * 1000000000LL + (long long)ts.tv_nsec;
+    }
+    const long long crash_pid = (long long)getpid();
+    char crash_thread_name[32] = {};
+    (void)pthread_getname_np(pthread_self(), crash_thread_name, sizeof(crash_thread_name));
+
     // Open the dump file (append).  If g_logPath is empty we still log to logcat.
     //
     // Pre-rotate runaway: if the existing log is more than 4× the soft cap
@@ -1051,21 +1066,9 @@ static void crashHandler(int sig, siginfo_t* info, void* ucontext) {
     writeStr(fd, "\n  pid         = ");
     writeDec(fd, (long long)getpid());
     writeStr(fd, "\n  uptime_ns   = ");
-    {
-        struct timespec ts;
-        clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, &ts);
-        writeDec(fd, (long long)ts.tv_sec * 1000000000LL + (long long)ts.tv_nsec);
-    }
+    writeDec(fd, crash_uptime_ns);
     writeStr(fd, "\n  thread_name = ");
-    {
-        char name[32] = {};
-        // pthread_getname_np is signal-safe in bionic (it's a thin wrapper
-        // over a /proc/self/task/<tid>/comm read).
-        if (pthread_getname_np(pthread_self(), name, sizeof(name)) == 0)
-            writeStr(fd, name);
-        else
-            writeStr(fd, "?");
-    }
+    writeStr(fd, crash_thread_name[0] ? crash_thread_name : "?");
     writeStr(fd, "\n");
 
     // Logcat header (so users with logcat access also see something useful).
@@ -1137,6 +1140,25 @@ static void crashHandler(int sig, siginfo_t* info, void* ucontext) {
     writeStr(fd, "=========================================================\n");
     writeStr(fd, "=== END OF CRASH DUMP ===\n");
 
+    // Compact one-line footer, written AFTER the /proc/self/maps section.
+    // The C# scanner (CrashDiagnostics.scanForDrawThreadCrash) looks for this
+    // footer FIRST in the last 32 KiB of the log.  Without it the scanner
+    // would need to scan hundreds of KiB backwards past the memory map just to
+    // reach the "[osu!] NATIVE CRASH" header — causing safe-mode detection to
+    // silently fail and the app to keep relaunching into the same Vulkan crash.
+    // The uptime_ns and pid values here MATCH the header block exactly (both
+    // were captured at handler entry above) so the fingerprint computed by the
+    // C# scanner is identical regardless of which block it reads.
+    writeStr(fd, "=== CRASH FOOTER sig=");
+    writeStr(fd, signalName(sig));
+    writeStr(fd, " pid=");
+    writeDec(fd, crash_pid);
+    writeStr(fd, " uptime_ns=");
+    writeDec(fd, crash_uptime_ns);
+    writeStr(fd, " thread=");
+    writeStr(fd, crash_thread_name[0] ? crash_thread_name : "?");
+    writeStr(fd, " ===\n");
+
     if (fd >= 0) {
         fsync(fd);
         close(fd);
diff --git a/osu.Android/OsuGameActivity.cs b/osu.Android/OsuGameActivity.cs
index 2379938cf85b..89d3941afc4f 100644
--- a/osu.Android/OsuGameActivity.cs
+++ b/osu.Android/OsuGameActivity.cs
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ protected override void OnCreate(Bundle? savedInstanceState)
                         }
                         else
                         {
-                            Logger.Log("[osu!] SurfaceHolder.SetFormat skipped (OpenGL/Auto renderer — SDL3 handles format).", LoggingTarget.Runtime, LogLevel.Important);
+                            Logger.Log("[osu!] SurfaceHolder.SetFormat skipped (OpenGL/Auto renderer — SDL3 handles format).", LoggingTarget.Runtime, LogLevel.Debug);
                         }
 
                         holder.AddCallback(this);
diff --git a/osu.Game/osu.Game.csproj b/osu.Game/osu.Game.csproj
index 37bc51af9b3f..f6c46639a48e 100644
--- a/osu.Game/osu.Game.csproj
+++ b/osu.Game/osu.Game.csproj
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@
       <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
     </PackageReference>
     <PackageReference Include="Realm" Version="20.1.0" />
-    <PackageReference Include="ppy.osu.Framework" Version="2026.502.3" />
+    <PackageReference Include="ppy.osu.Framework" Version="2026.502.4" />
     <!--
       Explicitly pin `ppy.Veldrid.SPIRV` to the winnerspiros fork build that
-      `ppy.osu.Framework 2026.502.3` was compiled against. This version is the only
+      `ppy.osu.Framework 2026.502.4` was compiled against.This version is the only
       one whose `runtimes/android-arm64/native/libveldrid-spirv.so` is aligned to 16 KB
       pages (required by Android 16+). It lives only as a release asset on
       <https://github.com/winnerspiros/veldrid-spirv/releases/tag/1.0> and is vendored
diff --git a/osu.iOS.props b/osu.iOS.props
index f3ec8f79ffd8..a3b5dea873ad 100644
--- a/osu.iOS.props
+++ b/osu.iOS.props
@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@
     <SuppressTrimAnalysisWarnings>true</SuppressTrimAnalysisWarnings>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="ppy.osu.Framework.iOS" Version="2026.502.3" />
+    <PackageReference Include="ppy.osu.Framework.iOS" Version="2026.502.4" />
   </ItemGroup>
 </Project>