--- a/mobile/android/base/java/org/mozilla/gecko/telemetry/pingbuilders/TelemetryCorePingBuilder.java
+++ b/mobile/android/base/java/org/mozilla/gecko/telemetry/pingbuilders/TelemetryCorePingBuilder.java
@@ -20,16 +20,17 @@ import org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoProfile;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoSharedPrefs;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.Locales;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.search.SearchEngine;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.sync.ExtendedJSONObject;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.telemetry.TelemetryOutgoingPing;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.util.DateUtil;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.Experiments;
+import org.mozilla.gecko.util.HardwareUtils;
 import org.mozilla.gecko.util.StringUtils;
 
 import java.text.DateFormat;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.util.Calendar;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
@@ -81,17 +82,17 @@ public class TelemetryCorePingBuilder ex
         // manufacturer because we're less likely to have manufacturers with similar names than we are for a
         // manufacturer to have two devices with the similar names (e.g. Galaxy S6 vs. Galaxy Note 6).
         final String deviceDescriptor =
                 StringUtils.safeSubstring(Build.MANUFACTURER, 0, 12) + '-' + StringUtils.safeSubstring(Build.MODEL, 0, 19);
 
         final Calendar nowCalendar = Calendar.getInstance();
         final DateFormat pingCreationDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd", Locale.US);
 
-        payload.put(ARCHITECTURE, Build.CPU_ABI);
+        payload.put(ARCHITECTURE, HardwareUtils.getRealAbi());
         payload.put(DEVICE, deviceDescriptor);
         payload.put(LOCALE, Locales.getLanguageTag(Locale.getDefault()));
         payload.put(OS_VERSION, Integer.toString(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT)); // A String for cross-platform reasons.
         payload.put(PING_CREATION_DATE, pingCreationDateFormat.format(nowCalendar.getTime()));
         payload.put(TIMEZONE_OFFSET, DateUtil.getTimezoneOffsetInMinutesForGivenDate(nowCalendar));
         payload.putArray(EXPERIMENTS, Experiments.getActiveExperiments(context));
         synchronized (this) {
             SharedPreferences prefs = GeckoSharedPrefs.forApp(context);

--- a/mobile/android/geckoview/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/util/HardwareUtils.java
+++ b/mobile/android/geckoview/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/util/HardwareUtils.java
@@ -74,17 +74,17 @@ public final class HardwareUtils {
     public static boolean isTelevision() {
         return sIsTelevision;
     }
 
     public static int getMemSize() {
         return SysInfo.getMemSize();
     }
 
-    private static String getPreferredAbi() {
+    public static String getPreferredAbi() {
         String abi = null;
         if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21) {
             abi = Build.SUPPORTED_ABIS[0];
         }
         if (abi == null) {
             abi = Build.CPU_ABI;
         }
         return abi;