As best I can tell that version of NDK will support Android at API level 16+ (Android 4.1 and later). This is consistent with the versions you say the application works on.
NDK r18 removed support for API level 14 and 15 (Android 4.0+)

https://developer.android.com/ndk/do...vision_history
https://developer.android.com/ndk/gu...able_apis.html


There is no information in your post that indicates why the application will not run (it seems to install) on some unspecified hardware/Android versions etc. Consequently, the foregoing points may have nothing to do with the problem.