Ok, so I have an Evo, rooted it, flashed so many roms I can't even count, my friend gets an Evo, I root it, load a few apps and send him on his way. Today he tells me his Evo reset a few times, so he went to fastboot and it asked him to update, which he did unfortunately. Now his phone wont boot past the HTC splash screen, wont boot to recovery, wont get recognized by HTC sync. I have tried to clear the storage, flash the RUU image, and so far nothing. His battery was pretty much dead when I tried flashing the PC36IMG of the RUU, so I told him to charge his battery and try again.
So is there anything I can do or is he going to have to get a new one at a sprint store?
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Ok, so I have an Evo, rooted it, flashed so many roms I can't even count, my friend gets an Evo, I root it, load a few apps and send him on his way. Today he tells me his Evo reset a few times, so he went to fastboot and it asked him to update, which he did unfortunately. Now his phone wont boot past the HTC splash screen, wont boot to recovery, wont get recognized by HTC sync. I have tried to clear the storage, flash the RUU image, and so far nothing. His battery was pretty much dead when I tried flashing the PC36IMG of the RUU, so I told him to charge his battery and try again.
So is there anything I can do or is he going to have to get a new one at a sprint store?
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What rom was he running when it initially messed up on him. And do you have any idea what the pc36img that he flashed from the bootloader was? Some left over files from when you rooted it maybe? I would try the ruu or pc36img a few more times,once his phone is charged up.
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just to make sure.. your holding down the volume down button and pushing power at the same time? Should be able to get to the bootloader at least doing this.. then recovery..
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Ok, so I have an Evo, rooted it, flashed so many roms I can't even count, my friend gets an Evo, I root it, load a few apps and send him on his way. Today he tells me his Evo reset a few times, so he went to fastboot and it asked him to update, which he did unfortunately. Now his phone wont boot past the HTC splash screen, wont boot to recovery, wont get recognized by HTC sync. I have tried to clear the storage, flash the RUU image, and so far nothing. His battery was pretty much dead when I tried flashing the PC36IMG of the RUU, so I told him to charge his battery and try again.
So is there anything I can do or is he going to have to get a new one at a sprint store?
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Did the phone die in the process of updating, ect, because that could allow it to be bricked. I would recommend to try what the others posted on a full battery. And do you know what was inside the PC36IMG?
Can you get into the bootloader?...cus this happened to me a couple nights ago and I had to wipe all data from bootloader and flash the recovery from the terminal...fixed it for me
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You can do a few things.
One, pull the sdcard, put it in your computer, and put recovery on the root as pc36img.zip.
Since it looks like the phone will go to boot loader, just flash the update and them try recovery. Hopefully, you did a nandroid that you can flash back to.
Or 2, if that doesn't work, put the RUU on the root of the sdcard as pc36img.zip and run the update, re-root, etc and basically start over from scratch.
I have put the recover and ruu images on the SD card and tried both from the bootloader. But like I said the battery was dead.
He didn't have a custom roms, stock rom, just rooted,and the only image he had on there was the recovery image. He had also cleared his storage at some point, not sure before or after.
I have the recovery and ruu images downloaded and I'm going to try those again, should I try the recovery first or just go straight to the ruu?
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Essentially if I do the recovery image, it asks me to update, I update, it asks me to to reboot, do I reboot it go straight to recovery? Same if I do the ruu, do I reboot right away?
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If you flas recovery, when it reboots to hboot, check no for the update this time and go to recovery. Clear your caches and try to reboot.
If you flash the RUU, yo uare restoring the phone to out of the box, stock, so you have to re-root, and then flash your recovery, just like you did when you first got your phone
When I install the ruu, it turns off and then starts over again on the second step, then finishes, is that normal?
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If anyone has the correct ruu is should use, could you post it please, I think that might be my problem.
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If anyone has the correct ruu is should use, could you post it please, I think that might be my problem.
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What happens after you ran the ruu? And yes, its normal for it to reboot, then finish installing. You'll see a black screen with green arrow, that's the radio flash. What happens when it finishes and you reboot? I don't have any links, I'm on my phone. But do a search, there's tons of ruu's around here.
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Tried the ruu, is flashed, the rebooted, was on the HTC screen for about 5 minutes, made the boot sound, but the animation took about a minute to go through, then stopped on 4g, waiting a while longer it go to the lockscreen and wouldn't let me unlock it then brought up a force close that wont let me click it, it just sits there.
The recovery installed, it rebooted, I clicked on recovery and it stayed on the HTC screen for about 5 minutes until I pulled the battery.
Should I maybe try another ruu or recovery?
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You need to use the RUU that is specific for your phone, based on hardware version, radios, etc.
Here's a list of RUU d/l's.
It's not the best one, but I Can't find the thread with all the RUU's on it that's here on XDA.
http://shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Supersonic
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Tried the ruu, is flashed, the rebooted, was on the HTC screen for about 5 minutes, made the boot sound, but the animation took about a minute to go through, then stopped on 4g, waiting a while longer it go to the lockscreen and wouldn't let me unlock it then brought up a force close that wont let me click it, it just sits there.
The recovery installed, it rebooted, I clicked on recovery and it stayed on the HTC screen for about 5 minutes until I pulled the battery.
Should I maybe try another ruu or recovery?
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That's weird that you were able to boot up, but it froze up on ya. Trying a different ruu wont hurt, but Im surprised the one that just succeeded for you wont run. What ruu did you run? What software? Maybe try clearing storage from the bootloader, and try to boot up again.
What hardware is your phone? What hboot version?
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Cleared storage and ran the most up to date ruu because he had everything updated on his Evo. Is there anyway to get s-on?
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Cleared storage and ran the most up to date ruu because he had everything updated on his Evo. Is there anyway to get s-on?
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Not without having recovery, to flash the s-on tool, unfortunately. I've seen reports of running the ruu a few times turned s on. Did you try running any older ruu, just to test?
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I flashed the latest version, nothing. Just gets stuck at the white htcinc screen.
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Look in the android development forum for "the ultimate back to stock thread". download the "PB31IMGxxxxx" file there, rename it to just PB31IMG.zip and put it on the root of your sd card. Go into the bootloader and let it run the update. This will bring you back to a 2.2 stock. From there you can re-root and do whatever else you like. Just be careful with what you flash, just cause there is an update, doesn't mean you need to flash. I know it's hard but I learned that the hard way lol.
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How do you manually get into recovery? I've only done it from rom manager. Im running evervolvs gingerbread 1.0.1b3 if that might be affecting cwr
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So my whole problem is getting into the bootloader. I just need to flash a rom with working GPS =/. Anyone?
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Edit: Weird, i just checked cwr version and it wasn't 3.0.whatever. all good now. =)
to manually get into recovery turn phone off hold volume down and power....
Hey guys,
I used the AlpharevX Windows beta to S-OFF my Inc 2, then rooted using CWM (still on stock rom). I can see the OTA, and can download it, but it won't install.
The progress bar gets about 1/3 the way full then comes up with the triangle with the !.
I've tried it two or three times, did factory reset, have no idea what to do. Do I have to S-ON for it to install? If so, how exactly do I do that?
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Hey guys,
I used the AlpharevX Windows beta to S-OFF my Inc 2, then rooted using CWM (still on stock rom). I can see the OTA, and can download it, but it won't install.
The progress bar gets about 1/3 the way full then comes up with the triangle with the !.
I've tried it two or three times, did factory reset, have no idea what to do. Do I have to S-ON for it to install? If so, how exactly do I do that?
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First, you cannot install an OTA when you have a custom recovery such as CWM installed. You at least need to install the original recovery image for your particular ROM before you try again.
Since the OTA in now available and official, why don't you just wait a few hours and someone will have a fully rooted version of the ROM that you can flash using CWM and not worry about losing S-OFF?
Let me give you a fair warning though, I'm not positive how Alpha set up their root, as I used XTC. BUT I know if you install the OTA with replacing CWM with regular recovery, you MAY be turned back to S-ON WITHOUT an option to get root back, UNLESS using the XTC clip. Enjoy.
Okay, I was afraid of that. I'm used to not even being able to see OTA's at all with CWM (came from Droid X), so it kind of threw me off.
Do you have any idea if the OTA is really any different from the leaked Inc S GB rom that's floating around? If, for some reason, it takes forever to get the ota rooted and they're not that different I may just install the leaked one I have.
Not trying to be a pain, just curious.
Thanks,
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parkwoodsuks said:
Okay, I was afraid of that. I'm used to not even being able to see OTA's at all with CWM (came from Droid X), so it kind of threw me off.
Do you have any idea if the OTA is really any different from the leaked Inc S GB rom that's floating around? If, for some reason, it takes forever to get the ota rooted and they're not that different I may just install the leaked one I have.
Not trying to be a pain, just curious.
Thanks,
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Check the Dev section. It looks like there is already a rooted, debloated version available.
I just created a PG32IMG.zip containing. Android-info text file and CWM recovery img renamed to recovery.img and placed it on root of sdcard
Booted into hboot and flashed it ...
Then I replaced the recovery with the stock recovery from the froyo ruu and flashed the stock recovery back....
Then flashed right back to CWM..
Never used any commands via windows or linux
I am going to install the ota and try to go back to cwm recovery and see what I can do from there.
I'll keep you guys informed
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This way we will know if the s-off is similar to.unrevoked for the incredible 1. I could do this all day long with theirs.
One way to find out right.
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Mr1070 said:
I just created a PG32IMG.zip containing. Android-info text file and CWM recovery img renamed to recovery.img and placed it on root of sdcard
Booted into hboot and flashed it ...
Then I replaced the recovery with the stock recovery from the froyo ruu and flashed the stock recovery back....
Then flashed right back to CWM..
Never used any commands via windows or linux
I am going to install the ota and try to go back to cwm recovery and see what I can do from there.
I'll keep you guys informed
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You will recieve the OTA update and get Gingerbread. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED BY MANY that you will NOT be able to -reroot. if you can that's because of the hboot alpha gave you. but if it changes ur hboot you need XTC clip to re-root. RMK already posted a ROOTED ROM of the current OTA. SAME THING, why chance root for OTA. THEY ARE THE EXACT SAME FILES. BUT WITH ROOT! just use his ROM. my 2 cents. do as you please
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Hey, Instead of Don't do this, do that, do this, don't update that, If you want the release and don't want to lose root, install from this link. This guy(rmk40) spent some time to get this out to us. Awesome work! You won't lose root, everything works.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161411
Be sure to "Thanks" him for this
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Looking at the zip it appears theirs reflashes hboot, which will break s off as far as i know.
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I got RMK's rooted rom and it's awesome. Thanks for the help guys.
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My daughter's EVO is constantly rebooting every 15-30 seconds. I can't get it to stay on long enough to run any RUU to get it back to stock to bring into Sprint. Any suggestions?
It reboots in bootloader too?
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Bootloader is ok, but I can't find an IMG to flash to get back to stock recovery and stock ROM, with s-on to go into a Sprint store...Google is sick of me today!
Only helpful things I can find are the RUUs which need me to get booted and stay up and running...
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Bootloader is ok, but I can't find an IMG to flash to get back to stock recovery and stock ROM, with s-on to go into a Sprint store...Google is sick of me today!
Only helpful things I can find are the RUUs which need me to get booted and stay up and running...
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If your rooted,go to recovery and wipe cache and delvik,then go to advanced and fix permissions,if that doesnt help,wipe everything,but sd card and start over,this can probably be fixed without returning it.If your having problems with getting to recovery,then go through the bootloader,the old way,power off the phone then power on holding the volume rocker in the down position.
Just get latest ota from the rom page rename to ph36img.zip and put on root of sd card and let it install. That will put it back to stock. Will still be s off but sprint doesn't usually check bootloader for security status in my experiences especially since it's a hardware issue
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Evocm7 said:
Just get latest ota from the rom page rename to ph36img.zip and put on root of sd card and let it install. That will put it back to stock. Will still be s off but sprint doesn't usually check bootloader for security status in my experiences especially since it's a hardware issue
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Its not ph36img.zip,its PC36IMG.zip.
It will stay on in recovery, I wiped everything, fixed permissions, and did a factory reset, but after booting, it won't even stay on long enough for boot animation to finish...It's acting like a hardware problem, but I think not since it's staying up in recovery...
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Its not ph36img.zip,its PC36IMG.zip.
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Oh ya. Couldn't remember. Haven't had my evo for a few months. My rezound is phxximg
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Doesn't sprint work with root privileges now? Well where I'm at they do and I keep my warranty
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So this is kind of a unique issue i'm having. I have the I-747 on AT&T and flashed AOKP rom (it was taking too long to get JB). It worked for about 3 days and then got stuck in the android boot screen (used the rom feature to get rid of the pink unicorns). after that, I booted into recovery and reset my phone, and it worked again for a few more days, then it wouldnt boot again (I dont believe I changed any settings between the boots). After this time, it wouldnt let me boot into recovery and would only boot to the android start screen and stop. I used odin to flash the stock rom, which only took me to the 2nd samsung boot screen and stopped (after the AT&T splash shows up). I looked online and saw someone say try CF-root using odin, tried that and it didnt help. Then tried using a custom kernel siyah s3, and now it will only show the initial samsung splash screen before turning off again. Any suggestions here? I figured I'd stop researching since i dont want to really mess up my phone worse than it already is
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So this is kind of a unique issue i'm having. I have the I-747 on AT&T and flashed AOKP rom (it was taking too long to get JB). It worked for about 3 days and then got stuck in the android boot screen (used the rom feature to get rid of the pink unicorns). after that, I booted into recovery and reset my phone, and it worked again for a few more days, then it wouldnt boot again (I dont believe I changed any settings between the boots). After this time, it wouldnt let me boot into recovery and would only boot to the android start screen and stop. I used odin to flash the stock rom, which only took me to the 2nd samsung boot screen and stopped (after the AT&T splash shows up). I looked online and saw someone say try CF-root using odin, tried that and it didnt help. Then tried using a custom kernel siyah s3, and now it will only show the initial samsung splash screen before turning off again. Any suggestions here? I figured I'd stop researching since i dont want to really mess up my phone worse than it already is
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I have a similar issue, someone please help
Your main issue now is that you flashed siyah. We don't have one. If you can get to download mode, you will want to flash back to stock.
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As DeathSdoor said...flash stock.
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d3athsd00r said:
Your main issue now is that you flashed siyah. We don't have one. If you can get to download mode, you will want to flash back to stock.
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Thanks guys! So I used odin to flash the stock boot loader and stock rom, but it is still hanging up on the 2nd samsung screen like it initially did (the one after the AT&T boot animation). Any other ideas on what could be the cause?
How long is the hang? Sure is just not the 1st initial boot of the new rom?
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How long is the hang? Sure is just not the 1st initial boot of the new rom?
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The first boot can take as long as 5 minutes sometimes. So, if you haven't waited that long, then try out some patience. Otherwise, try booting into recovery (stock now) and factory reset.
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I have this same issue. I have restored to stock rom and it does the Samsung boot, then AT&T, then it goes to Samsung pulsating with a blue pulsating LED.
I have left it in that mode for at least 15 minutes and it never boots.
I can still get into download mode.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Has anyone tried booting into recovery after flashing the stock ROM and wiping caches then rebooting?
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Has anyone tried booting into recovery after flashing the stock ROM and wiping caches then rebooting?
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I let it run for 2 hours (left the house came back and i was still on. And phone wont boot into recovery at all ( i tried many times, but it just boots normally and skips recovery until it gets to the 2nd samsung screen, then stops there).
I dont know if this is relevant, but while the phone is off and plugged in, i can still see the battery meter and the Green LED (so i'm guessing it's still working, it just wont boot)
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And phone wont boot into recovery at all ( i tried many times, but it just boots normally and skips recovery until it gets to the 2nd samsung screen, then stops there).
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Same here!!!
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Has anyone tried booting into recovery after flashing the stock ROM and wiping caches then rebooting?
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As Jethro said clean everything and factory format in recovery. Your just not doing the buttons right to get in to recovery
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As Jethro said clean everything and factory format in recovery. Your just not doing the buttons right to get in to recovery
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I went into recovery many times before, I'm definitely hitting the buttons right but it still wont go into recovery, it just tries booting like normal. I can go into download mode easily, but that's it.
jbizz, did you start getting this error after flashing AOKP rom also? trying to figure out what could have caused the issue in the first place
I'm not really skilled on these things, but I once had a similar issue with my phone not booting and had to end up using Kies to emergency restore it. Odin wouldn't recognize my phone but kies would.
Although I think my issue with odin may be stemming from my computers usb ports...
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I actually flashed a bad kernel and the phone wouldn't boot after that.
What is the proper way to boot into Stock Recovery?
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Fixed it! What I did was go into Kies software and did a firmware upgrade instead of trying to flash from odin, then put it in download mode instead of recovery, but it still worked. Thanks for all the help, guys! guess it's time to move to a CM based rom?
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Fixed it! What I did was go into Kies software and did a firmware upgrade instead of trying to flash from odin, then put it in download mode instead of recovery, but it still worked. Thanks for all the help, guys! guess it's time to move to a CM based rom?
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Thats bad badassness! I will try that when I get home!
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mrneilix:
Please give me step by step what you did! Kies is being a bastard!
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mrneilix:
Please give me step by step what you did! Kies is being a bastard!
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Sure, I'm doing this largely from memory since I mostly figured it out by throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.
Open Kies->tools->firmware upgrade and initialization->enter model name then serial number (they're behind the battery) -> put the phone in download mode and plug it in. it should take care of the rest.
Fair warning, this will fully wipe your phone, i lost all my pics (thank you google+'s instant upload or i'd be PISSED) and titanium backup (there goes my 3 stars on every level in angry birds and great scores in temple run), but at least you get a phone that can function as more than a paper weight, right?
mrneilix:
You're my new best friend and I don't even know you!!!
Thanks for the help, you're a legend!
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i cant believe this! i got the phone to go into recovery(very nice PHILZ!) then i downloaded the HD rom. after all the installation i rebooted and it went back to bootloader!!!! a little history: i rooted and accidently deleted some vital htc files and it totally messed this phone up. it wouldnt charge, stuck in bootloader, wouldnt go into recovery. now that i go into recovery and up load mike's hd rom, it goes back to bootloader. what am i doing wrong here? do i have to relock and upload stock htc rom? i really need my phone for work and family. dont know what else to do :crying:
Don't open a new thread when you already are discussing your issues here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2589090
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