So as the title states, my Epic has been plagued by random reboots since installing EG22. The unit was a new replacement, not a refurbished replacement that tech support normally gives. I've had it all of four weeks now. It ran EF02 pretty perfectly. I have tried reloading EC05 (with ODIN) then loading EG22, and no dice. Before I flash EG22 I wipe the phone, cache, and dalvik 3 times. I've also redownloaded and hash checked the EG22 update I use (using the stock/deodexed EG22 update.zip from the development forum). Still no improvement, the phone will randomly reboot every 1-2 hours. Any advice on what I could try next is appreciated.
radugb out
UPDATE: also I cannot get into the "SYSTEM UPDATES" menu in the Settings/About Phone menu. Each time I try I get a forced close then a system reboot. Could the phone just not like EG22?
I have experienced reboots on both EE03 and EF02. I haven't tried EG22 as of yet. I hae never had it happen on EC05. I figure I'll just wait until the release because my phone just doesn't like the beta/leaked stuff.
Any test software has a chance that it will not work 100%
All Gingerbread leaks crash and reboot in low signal areas. I am assuming this is one of the reasons official hasn't been released yet.
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Ok, but one I have an airave about 12 ft away from my phone so I get a great signal. And two, I'm still getting FC's when I try to enter the system updates menu. So I still think it could be something wrong with my phone.
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Ok, but one I have an airave about 12 ft away from my phone so I get a great signal. And two, I'm still getting FC's when I try to enter the system updates menu. So I still think it could be something wrong with my phone.
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How did you install EG22? If you did it through CWM it could have just been a bad flash. For the system menu problem. The crashes occur for me too, like above post low signal areas are not a gb leaks friend.
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I have been flashing zip versions thru CMW. I'll look up an ODIN-able EG22 tar or md5 and try it that way. But I will ODIN back to EC05 (with repartition to wipe the phone) then update to EG22. I'll let you all know.
As far a signal goes though, I'm getting full bars right now because my Airrave is so close to me.
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I have been flashing zip versions thru CMW. I'll look up an ODIN-able EG22 tar or md5 and try it that way. But I will ODIN back to EC05 (with repartition to wipe the phone) then update to EG22. I'll let you all know.
As far a signal goes though, I'm getting full bars right now because my Airrave is so close to me.
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You are right, that shouldn't happen with an Airave. A reflash may fix the issues you are having. Also don't use any CPU managers like SetCPU or Voltage Control on GB until source code and custom kernels show up.
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Yup. That was it. Bad flash. This time I d/l'ed a .tar version of EG22 to flash with ODIN. Much better than before. No more FC's from the system menu and its been running 8 hours straight with no reboots. Muchas garcias.
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Glad to help.
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Spoke too soon. I've had two random reboots, one yesterday, one today. So it definitely fits with what all y'all said that leaked GB ROMs tend to crash. Still not as bad as before, and I no longer get the FC's from the system updates menu.
I had one last night and one tonight at my house which I get a crap signal at in what Sprint describes as an "excellent coverage area" No other problems anywhere else.
I've had my first random reboot. Phone was WIFI connected, and forced roaming (Sprint has a tower down in my area, going on 7 days now). It was in the middle of a content update for an application I run, so I'm wondering if there is a memory leak for the network user or kernel space.
Does anyone know of an application that will keep a log of memory usage to track if a process is not releasing its resources?
Yup, same here. About once every two days I get a reboot. I haven't been able to connect anything I'm doing to the reboots, and it usually does it while the phone is just sitting.
Trouble is, Gingerbread is soooo much better than Froyo I don't want to go back
I really think it is the modem crashing.
You may want to try another modem.
also, i realised that on my wife's epic with eg22, it rebooted about 5 times a day, most of the time, it was right after using the slide out keyboard.
i deleted the keyboard counter slide apk thingy, since then, 1 reboot a day.
not great, but definitely better than 5.
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I really think it is the modem crashing.
You may want to try another modem.
also, i realised that on my wife's epic with eg22, it rebooted about 5 times a day, most of the time, it was right after using the slide out keyboard.
i deleted the keyboard counter slide apk thingy, since then, 1 reboot a day.
not great, but definitely better than 5.
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Are you sure it is not a loose battery connection? My phone would do that with the extended battery and case. Had to put a little piece of thick paper in there to hold it tighter.
Definitely was the modem. I flashed the EE02 modem & now no random reboots. Signal(s) & battery life have gotten better too. I would have flashed the EF02/EF10 modem but that downgrade notice is oh so damn annoying!
Me and my friend have the same issue on our Epics OP, Its annoying but Im dealing with it cause these roms are so much better than pre eg22.
I dont have any random reboots but I get a random double vibrate. I have no idea where that is coming from
I've had two random boots since I've odin'd from EC05.. though I feel it was memory leak,and the phone just shutdown without sufficcient ram.
SchizioPunk's Epic Experience 2.1 Eclair -> Odin to EC05 Froyo. Rooted. Bloatware Removed. Voodoo Sound V9 Module Loaded. TouchWiz4. Enjoying my Customized Stock Experience.
Yeah well I tried the EH06 modem and it broke the 4G (amongst other things). So I got ol' reliable EE03 to fall back on.
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About once a day while texting, a message gets stuck "sending" and I have to reboot the phone for the message to send. I am running stock DK28 with the ACS-dk28-signed ROM. I have seen some people having this issue on Quantum ROM too. Is anyone else having this issue and on which ROMs. Has anyone had it and found a fix? I have done the wipes and resinstalls so thinking it is some cache clearing problem. Will a different Mms.apk fix it?
Thanks.
I had that poblem with viperrom. since going with Nebula, I have not had that issue, however, I hav onl had it on my phone for four days
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I had Nebula for a minute this weekend but had trouble getting Sprint Nav back on and needed it Saturday morning for a job so had a massive wipefest and odin'd back to DK28 and put ACS back on so hope that cleared it up. Will see today. Still looking for a ROM with a Sprint and Samsung package included to save the hunt for all the apps.
It's a DK28 feature. I never found any pattern to what caused it, at worst I got it every 20-30 texts (or every 3-4 days for me).
Tried multiple roms and stock DK28, all do it eventually, it is just a matter of time. For some reason early Bonsai roms *seemed* to go longer before the problem appeared (weeks).
DI18 and back don't have the issue, so it is likely the modem... never tried DG27 long enough to see if it was affected.
J had that too and use update prl e everywhere I go it seems when change location its getting stock. Now it went away for now fingers cross.
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Hmm, i'm not having this issue! Interesting.
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Hmm, i'm not having this issue! Interesting.
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What ROM are you running? Anything special on your install? Wipes? Odin?
Update: After a major wipefest, 3X each and 1X Dalvik, Odin to DK28, then wipefest, then flash ACS-signed-DK28 I am going on day 3 without this issue....keeping fingers crossed. (oops hard to txt that way)
I had this issue even on my stock phone. It seems to happen less since I flashed to sfr, but it is still annoying as hell and extremely hard on my battery life.
Anyone know of any solutions?
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I had this issue even on my stock phone. It seems to happen less since I flashed to sfr, but it is still annoying as hell and extremely hard on my battery life.
Anyone know of any solutions?
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I found out that clearing level 2 RaM was causing it. Stopped using Program Monitor widget.
Do you BONSAI?
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I found out that clearing level 2 RaM was causing it. Stopped using Program Monitor widget.
Do you BONSAI?
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I have been clearing at level 2.
Ill switch to just level 1. Thanks
So I've had this issue for a long time now where my 3g radio will reset randomly (i think). What happens is that i lose 3g and the icon will disappear from the top bar. The phone makes a small sound (sounds like when you first power up the phone and it connects to the cell tower / 3g). Then about one second later it makes the same noise and then 3g turns back on. It takes it a few seconds to regain signal and then its usually fine. I know its the 3g because the problem stop when data is turned off, and also when wifi is on.
I've tried reflashing roms, reflashing my modem via odin, and even a factory reset. I can't seem to get this issue to go away. The only thing i can think of how i may have caused this issue was when upgrading to EC05 i forgot to include the pit file one time when flashing the modem with odin.
Any input or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm still learning when it comes to android so if I haven't tried it yet its because I either don't know about it or don't know how.
Running Syndicate rom frozen EC05
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So I've had this issue for a long time now where my 3g radio will reset randomly (i think). What happens is that i lose 3g and the icon will disappear from the top bar. The phone makes a small sound (sounds like when you first power up the phone and it connects to the cell tower / 3g). Then about one second later it makes the same noise and then 3g turns back on. It takes it a few seconds to regain signal and then its usually fine. I know its the 3g because the problem stop when data is turned off, and also when wifi is on.
I've tried reflashing roms, reflashing my modem via odin, and even a factory reset. I can't seem to get this issue to go away. The only thing i can think of how i may have caused this issue was when upgrading to EC05 i forgot to include the pit file one time when flashing the modem.
Any input or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm still learning when it comes to android so if I haven't tried it yet its because I either don't know about it or don't know how.
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It may be a Sprint issue...happened to me last week then cleared up.
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It may be a Sprint issue...happened to me last week then cleared up.
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Its been happening to my phone for easily over a month now. And a friend of mine also has an epic that runs the exact same rom. Its also very annoying when playing music and videos cause it cuts out the sound to play the tone when it losses/gains 3g.
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Its been happening to my phone for easily over a month now. And a friend of mine also has an epic that runs the exact same rom. Its also very annoying when playing music and videos cause it cuts out the sound to play the tone when it losses/gains 3g.
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Try updating PRL and Profile.
Just tried updating the prl and profile and i still have the issue : /
after i updated both i restarted the phone and let it sit. After about 10 mins the 3g reset.
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Just tried updating the prl and profile and i still have the issue : /
after i updated both i restarted the phone and let it sit. After about 10 mins the 3g reset.
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Does your friend's epic with the same ROM also.do this?
Do you BONSAI?
Actually I used to use bonsai. This problem started when I upgraded to i want to say 3.0. When the problem first started it also had a terrible battery glitch (when i restarted the phone i lost 50% battery. but a restore fixed this but left the 3g problem). I upgraded to 4.0 and the problem still hadn't been fixed. So thinking maybe it had something to do with the rom, I switched to Syndicate Rom Frozen and thats what I'm using now. My friend still has a DK28 Bonsai on his phone because I'd rather not somehow give him this annoying issue. But as of now his phone does not have this issue, so think it has to be my phone and not sprint.
Could flashing the modem .tar in odin without selecting the .pit file do this? I feel like it might have changed something it shouldn't. From what i recall it completed successfully without the .pit.
Edit: also thanks a lot for your help so far kenny
Very happy i got a quick response and that my thread wasnt just ignored.
Have you ever Odin'd back to stock DI18? Do that and let it update OTA to EC05 and see if that fixes it. Then flash your ROM and see if your issue returns.
Do you BONSAI?
When I switched from Bonsai to SRF I odin'd back to DI18/stock and it still didnt fix the issue. However I didn't let it update OTA and just odin'd from DI18 to EC05 then installed SRF. When i get the time to do all that ill give it a try doing the OTA and get back to you.
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When I switched from Bonsai to SRF I odin'd back to DI18/stock and it still didnt fix the issue. However I didn't let it update OTA and just odin'd from DI18 to EC05 then installed SRF. When i get the time to do all that ill give it a try doing the OTA and get back to you.
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If you got the same issue with stock DI18 then you may have a flaky 3G radio in that phone. When you OTA maybe you should let Sprint look at it. You may get a new phone.
So my Epic is doing someting strange. Whenever I leave my house and any other place where I connect to wifi, my Epic partially crashes. I get the "buzz...buzz, buzz, buzz" which indicates an FC, but my screen goes black and I hear the startup sound and my phone will reset to the home screen within a few seconds. It will continue to do this while I'm out of wifi range, unless I turn off the wifi radio. I can turn the wifi radio back on right after I turn it off and not have a problem. Its like the phone crashes because I move outside wifi coverage. The steps I have taken to solve the issue include:
flashing from EC05 (which I was on) to EF02 - no effect
re-flashing to EC05 - no effect
wiping the phone through CWM and flashing EF02 Plus - no effect
flashing the radio from EC05 to EF02 (no effect), then to EF10 no effect
Currently I am on EF02 stock with the EC05 radio. I've had this Epic for 8 days as my last one I dropped to the ground and that killed it so Sprint gave me this new one, and I do mean NEW ONE because the repair center was out of the refurbished replacements they give for phone repair exchanges. Any advice, tricks, omens, or portents are welcome as I am tired of my Epic crashing.
radugb out
When you say you flashed to EC05, do you mean you Odin'd in a stock EC05 and ran that for awhile? And you still had this issue? Try this thread to get back to stock and see if you still have the issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
If anything your phone would just be roaming all the time if it was searching for that and not finding it. I know nothing about tower boosters or how they work sorry.
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I've had his replacement Epic for 7 days now. The first evening I brought it back from the Sprint store, no problems. When I left the house the next day I had only driven about 2 blocks from my house before I started getting the Forced Close vibrations/crashes & partial restarts. That was with EC05 stock, no modifications. Since then I have flashed EC05 Plus, EF02, and EF02 Plus, trying each version with each of the EC05, EF02, and EF10 modems. Each time I flashed I went into CWM and wiped the cache 3 times, as well as the cache partition and dalvik cache. There were no problems or errors when flashing (at least none that Odin reported) so I can only assume its a new conflict with something the ROM's don't change/update or this new phone's hardware is faulty.
If it did this right out of the box when you brought it home, it is a bad phone.
Muchas garcias. I figured it was probably a bad phone, just needed confirmation. So if I Odin back to EC05 and use the PIT file to repartition, will that eliminate all evidence that I rooted my phone (or at least any that the repair techs could see)?
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Muchas garcias. I figured it was probably a bad phone, just needed confirmation. So if I Odin back to EC05 and use the PIT file to repartition, will that eliminate all evidence that I rooted my phone (or at least any that the repair techs could see)?
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Wait, did you root and put a custom ROM on your phone? You said the night you got it the issues happened. I was wondering your setup at the time because I have had random issues similar to yours.
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No, this problem started with stock EC05. I rooted and flashed custom ROM (EC05+, EF02) in hopes it would correct the problem. But it has not. The night I recieved this replacement the phone did not act up. It was the next day when I drove away from my house that it started to behave weird. The phone was still on EC05 ROM at that time with no rooting.
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No, this problem started with stock EC05. I rooted and flashed custom ROM (EC05+, EF02) in hopes it would correct the problem. But it has not. The night I recieved this replacement the phone did not act up. It was the next day when I drove away from my house that it started to behave weird. The phone was still on EC05 ROM at that time with no rooting.
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Ok, then that does sound like a bad phone. If the phone is doing the multiple vibrate thing, something is wrong. Especially if it does that on stock setup
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So then my final question: if I Odin back to EC05 and use the PIT file to repartition, will that eliminate all evidence that I rooted my phone (or at least any that the repair techs could see)?
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So then my final question: if I Odin back to EC05 and use the PIT file to repartition, will that eliminate all evidence that I rooted my phone (or at least any that the repair techs could see)?
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Yes. You will be good to go. Shouldn't even be a question since you just got it.
Hello xda community. I have a pretty large issue that affects my Epic. I recently had my Epic broken by blunt impact to the screen. So I sent it in and they sent a replacement in less than a day. I had Frozen 1.2 on my old Epic, and I had zero issues. But since I got my replacement, its been nothing but a hassle.
It doesnt get nearly as good battery life, it randomly reboots to the ACS logo, then endlessly cycles until the battery is pulled. Then when its turned back on, everything force closes, rendering the phone un-usable. The only remedy is to go to Clockwork and repair permissions. This will fix it for half the day.
Any advice?
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Hello xda community. I have a pretty large issue that affects my Epic. I recently had my Epic broken by blunt impact to the screen. So I sent it in and they sent a replacement in less than a day. I had Frozen 1.2 on my old Epic, and I had zero issues. But since I got my replacement, its been nothing but a hassle.
It doesnt get nearly as good battery life, it randomly reboots to the ACS logo, then endlessly cycles until the battery is pulled. Then when its turned back on, everything force closes, rendering the phone un-usable. The only remedy is to go to Clockwork and repair permissions. This will fix it for half the day.
Any advice?
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The force closing is probably due to not having Journaling on.
I believe in the SRF 1.2 OP, there is a JournalingOn.zip, flash that (no wipes) and that should stop the force closing.
If it still is unstable for you, I recommend just reflashing the ROM.
Hope this helps.
Follow Acer's directions. If for some reason you still have an issue, then I'd recommend redownloading the rom.
You may also want to try a different kernel.
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Follow Acer's directions. If for some reason you still have an issue, then I'd recommend redownloading the rom.
You may also want to try a different kernel.
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Exactly right
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I had friend who had the same issue. He went back to SFR1.1.1
then installed ACS updater and flashed SFR 1.2. That fixed his problem. I did it that way too and have not had any issues. Calibrate battery after flashing.
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That sort of worked. It made it take longer for things to get hosed over again.So I tried resetting it to stock then flashing EG22, but each time I flash EG22, it doesnt do anything.The version stays at 2.2.1. What am I doing wrong?
What did you flash that is EG22?
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In order to better assist you, can you give us a step-by-step listing of everything you are doing? The files you are using with version #'s and your computer OS (with bit version).
I would recommend a full wipe of the phone, to remove any corrupted data
then do a clean install of SRF 1.2
then install the zip to turn on journaling
note: DO NOT use the reboot option until AFTER you have turned on journaling
What I did last night was returned it to factory stock EC05.
Im working with Windows 7 Home x64 on a Mac Pro, because for some reason neither Epic I've ever had will work with my custom built computer.
I flashed the EG22modem.bin with Odin 1.61. That didnt seem to do anything.
So later today, I am going to try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184134
The modem only changes the baseband..
regardless, imo it sounds like the problems you are having are due to restoring backups.. is that the case?
I installed this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205024
and everything is hunky dory in the hood. Thanks for all the help
As you can see in my Sig, I'm on EH17 Deodexed (Deca's version)
When I was on EG22 Deodexed, I would get 2-3 reboots, then it came to the point where if my phone was being used, it'd reboot. Lmao. -_- I tolerated crap like that for like 2 weeks I think? Anyway, I finally decided to upgrade to EH17 once it got Deodexed, thing is, I'm still on EG22 Modem and after cwm flashing EH17, my reboots are now 1-2 a day. But without fail, it DOES reboot. Almost like there's a timer setup for a reboot. Anyway to get to the point. I believe I've always been on stock Kernel, I don't think its ever changed since EC05.
My concern is to lessen or perhaps STOP the reboot..
Should I: Switch to EH17 modem?
Flash a kernel? I don't want extra crap in a kernel that overclocks or hogs battery, or is in any way less stable than stock.
Thoughts?
P.S. I'm not interested in Custom Roms, I love stock and prefer to modify my rom to my liking.
Did you try flashing Juwe's RAM script or installing the V6 supercharger and Script Manager? CompKid baked in Juwe's RAM script on Urban Decay and I didn't get reboots on that ROM. I don't think you will eliminate reboots my changing modems. Everyone is getting them regardless of modem or version of leaked ROM.
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Hm...ok. funny thing I noticed is that it NEVER reboots while in use. Every single reboot has been when the phone is idle..
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Hm...ok. funny thing I noticed is that it NEVER reboots while in use. Every single reboot has been when the phone is idle..
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That sounds like the RAM leak where those apps that open on their own get you to that point where it reboots. I started keeping Maps and Google+ either frozen or uninstalled while on a GB ROM
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Yeah Same here. Roms, Rooting, Leaks, nothing has been perfect no matter what Phone I have had.
The More you do or apps you have put stress on your phone, even keeping it on certain programs to equal out and keeping up with the phone. Sooner or later it will decide to completely shut down and restart on its own or go black and flash back to screen and reload and scan everything.
This is what we get for playing with leaks. Even if we fix it. Everything has its issues. Some smaller than others, usually nothing to worry about.
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