diff --git a/mobile/app/(tabs)/import.tsx b/mobile/app/(tabs)/import.tsx
index 324e2f0..38f5bba 100644
--- a/mobile/app/(tabs)/import.tsx
+++ b/mobile/app/(tabs)/import.tsx
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
 import { AppState, PermissionsAndroid, Platform, Pressable, ScrollView, StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native';
 import { insertActivity, isSourcePathImported, getSetting } from '@/db/queries';
 import { PyodideWebView } from '@/extraction/PyodideWebView';
-import { extractFile } from '@/extraction/extractActivity';
+import { extractFile, waitForEngine } from '@/extraction/extractActivity';
 import { useTheme } from '@/ThemeContext';
 
 const FIT_EXTENSIONS   = ['.fit', '.fit.gz'];
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ export default function ImportScreen() {
     const path = await getSetting(db, 'auto_import_path');
     if (!path) return;
     const instanceUrl = await getSetting(db, 'instance_url');
-    if (!instanceUrl) return; // silently skip — engine can't be downloaded without an instance
+    if (!instanceUrl) return;
+
+    // Wait for the extraction engine — but don't block forever on auto-scan.
+    try { await waitForEngine(120_000); } catch { return; }
 
     const newFiles = await discoverNewFiles(db, path);
     if (newFiles.length === 0) return;
@@ -77,6 +80,14 @@ export default function ImportScreen() {
       return;
     }
 
+    setState({ status: 'loading', msg: 'Preparing extraction engine…', current: 0, total: 0 });
+    try {
+      await waitForEngine();
+    } catch (e: unknown) {
+      setState({ status: 'error', message: e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e) });
+      return;
+    }
+
     setState({ status: 'loading', msg: 'Scanning…', current: 0, total: 0 });
     const newFiles = await discoverNewFiles(db, path);
     if (newFiles.length === 0) {
diff --git a/mobile/extraction/PyodideWebView.tsx b/mobile/extraction/PyodideWebView.tsx
index 856d337..7b18f45 100644
--- a/mobile/extraction/PyodideWebView.tsx
+++ b/mobile/extraction/PyodideWebView.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ import { StyleSheet } from 'react-native';
 import WebView from 'react-native-webview';
 import { handleWebViewMessage, pyodideRef } from './extractActivity';
 
-const CDN = 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/pyodide/v0.26.4/full/';
+// v0.18.1: newest version whose pyodide.js is ES2017-compatible (no ??, no ?.)
+// Chrome 61 (Karoo WebView) throws SyntaxError on 0.19+ which uses nullish-coalescing.
+const CDN = 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/pyodide/v0.18.1/full/';
 
 // Python snippets embedded as JSON strings to avoid any JS/TS escaping issues.
 const PY_INSTALL_PACKAGES = [
@@ -74,10 +76,39 @@ var initError     = null;
 (async function init() {
   try {
     _post({ type: 'progress', msg: 'Loading Python runtime…' });
+
+    // Chrome <63 (e.g. Karoo WebView 61) cannot parse the dynamic import()
+    // syntax that Pyodide uses to load pyodide.asm.js.  The parser rejects
+    // the whole file before it runs, so loadPyodide is never defined.
+    //
+    // Fix: fetch pyodide.js as text, replace every "import(" with a
+    // script-tag–based loader that Chrome 61 can execute, then inject the
+    // patched code via a Blob URL.  The Blob script is never parsed by the
+    // module-aware pre-scanner, so the import keyword is invisible to it.
+    window.__loadScript = function(url) {
+      return new Promise(function(res, rej) {
+        var s = document.createElement('script');
+        s.src = url;
+        s.onload = res;
+        s.onerror = function() { rej(new Error('Failed to load ' + url)); };
+        document.head.appendChild(s);
+      });
+    };
+
+    var pyResp = await fetch(_CDN + 'pyodide.js');
+    if (!pyResp.ok) throw new Error('Could not fetch pyodide.js (' + pyResp.status + ')');
+    var pyCode = await pyResp.text();
+    // Replace all dynamic import() calls.  Node.js-only paths (importing
+    // "path", "fs", etc.) are guarded by IN_NODE and never run in WebView.
+    pyCode = pyCode.replace(/\bimport\(/g, '__loadScript(');
+
     await new Promise(function(res, rej) {
+      var blob = new Blob([pyCode], { type: 'application/javascript' });
+      var blobUrl = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
       var s = document.createElement('script');
-      s.src = _CDN + 'pyodide.js';
-      s.onload = res; s.onerror = rej;
+      s.src = blobUrl;
+      s.onload = function() { URL.revokeObjectURL(blobUrl); res(); };
+      s.onerror = function() { URL.revokeObjectURL(blobUrl); rej(new Error('Failed to execute patched pyodide.js')); };
       document.head.appendChild(s);
     });
 
diff --git a/mobile/extraction/extractActivity.ts b/mobile/extraction/extractActivity.ts
index 9e1c121..cf8cc56 100644
--- a/mobile/extraction/extractActivity.ts
+++ b/mobile/extraction/extractActivity.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,24 @@ const pending = new Map<string, Pending>();
 let reqCounter = 0;
 let isExtracting = false;
 
+// Engine readiness — tracked so callers can wait before batching files.
+let _engineReady = false;
+let _engineError: string | null = null;
+const _engineResolvers: Array<() => void> = [];
+const _engineRejecters: Array<(e: Error) => void> = [];
+
+export function waitForEngine(timeoutMs = 300_000): Promise<void> {
+  if (_engineReady) return Promise.resolve();
+  if (_engineError) return Promise.reject(new Error(_engineError));
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+      reject(new Error('Extraction engine timed out — check network and Bincio instance URL'));
+    }, timeoutMs);
+    _engineResolvers.push(() => { clearTimeout(timer); resolve(); });
+    _engineRejecters.push((e) => { clearTimeout(timer); reject(e); });
+  });
+}
+
 export function handleWebViewMessage(e: WebViewMessageEvent): void {
   let msg: Record<string, unknown>;
   try { msg = JSON.parse(e.nativeEvent.data); } catch { return; }
@@ -30,6 +48,14 @@ export function handleWebViewMessage(e: WebViewMessageEvent): void {
   const p = reqId ? pending.get(reqId) : undefined;
 
   switch (msg.type) {
+    case 'pyodide_ready':
+      _engineReady = true;
+      _engineResolvers.splice(0).forEach(fn => fn());
+      break;
+    case 'init_error':
+      _engineError = msg.message as string;
+      _engineRejecters.splice(0).forEach(fn => fn(new Error(_engineError!)));
+      break;
     case 'result':
       if (p) {
         pending.delete(reqId!);