* Temporary fix, use the vignette camera application *
I love the SGS2 but it sucks extremely that you are pretty much forced to take pictures in landscape mode as any pictures taken in portrait mode are send upside down in landscape... This appears to be a Samsung issue with most devices.
Does this bug anyone else but me? Me having a major OCD for this.. makes me miss my old EVO 4G
Any fix to this other than having to try and edit the pictures or taking pictures in landscape.
Here is a link to further describe the issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ure-always-returns-1-for-exifinterface-tag-or
EDIT: For anyone who wants to attempt and fix this.. Found this old thread form 2010. They used a custom patch/fix to save the correct orientation.
http://forum.samdroid.net/f55/samsungcamera-orientation-saving-fix-2435/
Never had this problem...
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Febby said:
I love the SGS2 but it sucks extremely that you are pretty much forced to take pictures in landscape mode as any pictures taken in portrait mode are send upside down in landscape... This appears to be a Samsung issue with most devices.
Does this bug anyone else but me? Me having a major OCD for this.. makes me miss my old EVO 4G
Any fix to this other than having to try and edit the pictures or taking pictures in landscape.
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Same here,first notice it with my wife's og epic now this one.. So annoying..
Bobby O'S Epic Touch....
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Never had this problem...
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So what are you doing different? It happens to me too.
Oh wah, Go to your gallery, long press said picture, more > Rotate left, or right.
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So what are you doing different? It happens to me too.
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Nothing really just regular setup. I remember some sensor aided setting under location but I'm not sure that affects this issue.
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Oh wah, Go to your gallery, long press said picture, more > Rotate left, or right.
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You can't do that when it only rotates the pictures when you try to send them via MMS.
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Oh wah, Go to your gallery, long press said picture, more > Rotate left, or right.
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I wish it was that simple but that makes me look more foolish attempting to rotate it then sending it. Only to end up finding out the picture is once again being send wrong lol...
rob97ss said:
Same here,first notice it with my wife's og epic now this one.. So annoying..
Bobby O'S Epic Touch....
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Yeah I noticed this on my samsung captivate and thought oh well It is maybe a software issue. I flashed CM7 and CM9 to my epic touch just now to test out if it was the way software is coded but no... Same results. Must be the way hardware is setup.
have the same issue. my girlfriend and i both have the epic touch, and the mms pics are never sent in a straight orientation. therefore, we just use dropbox.
Is this actually unique to our phone? I'd be surprised if so. See, most phones and cameras handle rotation not by actually taking the photo in portrait, but via EXIF metadata that notes the orientation in which the photo's supposed to be displayed. I'm guessing the MMS software is merely ignoring this EXIF data. The photos display fine in everything else that supports it, but the MMS app doesn't. If that's the case, I would assume this is more common than on merely our phone.
That said, I rarely if ever use MMS anyway. If I can email the photo at a much higher quality, I normally prefer to do so.
If anyone is a dev that happens to read this... In an older samsung model they fixed this annoying bug with a custom package. I'll attach them to the OP in case anyone wants to try and compared the fixes to try making us one.
http://forum.samdroid.net/f55/samsungcamera-orientation-saving-fix-2435/
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Neither have I that I know of. I just tried it to make sure I was not just over looking the issue.
Either orientation saves the way I took the pic, and sends that way as well using GOSMS.
I think when I send a portrait picture with the stock messaging app its fine but when you use handcent it turns it sideways.
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sweets55 said:
I think when I send a portrait picture with the stock messaging app its fine but when you use handcent it turns it sideways.
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That's odd, trying emailing yourself the picture. I encounter this issue while using a skype sharing conference with ex co workers. I also have it when trying to send pictures via MMS. I even encounter it when sharing pictures on simple chatting applications. I'm convinced it's a samsung issue that they choose to over look lol =(
Using Vignette camera application... I'm able to successfully share pictures I take in portrait position with it! I thought I'd let others know. =)
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I think when I send a portrait picture with the stock messaging app its fine but when you use handcent it turns it sideways.
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Thats exactly what happens to me. It seems Samsung has a weird way of determining orientation and their messaging app is built to send them correctly. However sending thru third party apps, uploading to fb, or even xda app you get them sideways. This is very annoying and stupid and is a Samsung problem on all their phones.
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Why wouldn't you take a pic in landscape? It has only been since the iPhone era that people have really started taking photos and videos vertically, and personally, I can't stand it.
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I usually always take pictures in landscape now just because I don't want my friends to have to keep turning their phone to view it. If I take a picture of someones face then I might take a portrait picture. I emailed Handcent about the issue a few times but they never replied back.
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You can't do that when it only rotates the pictures when you try to send them via MMS.
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Rotate it once the wrong way, then rotate it back, and it will save as the correct orientation when you go to send the MMS.
Annoying, but not the end of the world.
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So when I take pictures with my phones camera upright, the gallery shows the picture correctly... but now when I send that same picture via MMS (from either build in messenger or Handcent) it rotates the photo 90 degrees.
Now if I send a photo taken by my DSLR, that was copied to the SD, or a screen shot by drocap2, this does not happen.
Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone know how to fix this?
Does anyone else have this problem??
yes I've noticed this too. Don't know what the fix is except to take photos sideways (for texting)...anyone?
This annoys the crap outta me. I haven't figured out a way to fix this other than taking pictures in landscape.
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So when I take pictures with my phones camera upright, the gallery shows the picture correctly... but now when I send that same picture via MMS (from either build in messenger or Handcent) it rotates the photo 90 degrees.
Now if I send a photo taken by my DSLR, that was copied to the SD, or a screen shot by drocap2, this does not happen.
Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone know how to fix this?
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This is caused by the camera app, and how it tags the orientation. You can install a different app such as Pro Zoom 5X or something, and that should fix it. It sucks I know, but installing a different camera app should fix it (just try a free one first).
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This is caused by the camera app, and how it tags the orientation. You can install a different app such as Pro Zoom 5X or something, and that should fix it. It sucks I know, but installing a different camera app should fix it (just try a free one first).
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I thought maybe it was something when it compressed the image, but guess not.
The odd thing is, that in the gallery it is fine, just MMS is effected.
Is this something that can be addressed by developers?
nathan951 said:
I thought maybe it was something when it compressed the image, but guess not.
The odd thing is, that in the gallery it is fine, just MMS is effected.
Is this something that can be addressed by developers?
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Unfortunately not. The only fix is a different camera app.
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Sorry , not trying to beat a dead horse.. but are you saying that the stock camera APK can not be fixed/tweaked?
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Unfortunately not. The only fix is a different camera app.
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nathan951 said:
Sorry , not trying to beat a dead horse.. but are you saying that the stock camera APK can not be fixed/tweaked?
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I'm sorry, I thought you meant the Rom/Kernel developers fixing the problem in the Rom/Kernel itself. Yeah, the actual camera app probably could be fixed, but the problem is getting someone to do it. Not sure if anyone here wants to take the time to look at it when there are other camera apps that do not have this issue.
You could also try this camera. Its the MIUI camera. Just place it in system/app, might have to reboot.
http://db.tt/CIeT1DT
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I pushed theis to the system/app, Loaded it, but it still sends MMS image wrong
(Its only when sending MMS, with stock camera, or this camera)
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You could also try this camera. Its the MIUI camera. Just place it in system/app, might have to reboot.
http://db.tt/CIeT1DT
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I pushed theis to the system/app, Loaded it, but it still sends MMS image wrong
(Its only when sending MMS, with stock camera, or this camera)
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So you used this camera, took a picture in portrait mode, sent it va mms, and its still messed up. Darn.
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So you used this camera, took a picture in portrait mode, sent it va mms, and its still messed up. Darn.
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Yeah, Didnt help...
Try GoSMS.
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The workaround I use to fix this is to crop the picture. Even just slightly in any gallery program. Then it orients correctly when attached. ^_^
Problem is the froyo epic ota. A Ginger leak corrects this issue. No way around it as far as I know. Start taking pics in landscape :-\
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So when I take pictures with my phones camera upright, the gallery shows the picture correctly... but now when I send that same picture via MMS (from either build in messenger or Handcent) it rotates the photo 90 degrees.
Now if I send a photo taken by my DSLR, that was copied to the SD, or a screen shot by drocap2, this does not happen.
Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone know how to fix this?
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This was addressed many months ago. The simple answer is, yes, it could be fixed. But the fix is more complicated than the matter is worth. Recent digital cameras employ an accelerometer to determine how the camera is being held and thus dictate how computers and devices should orient the resultant picture. It does this via some sort of digital tag in the pictures coding that an application then reads. For some reason, the tag the Epic camera creates is then not properly read by the same phones messaging app. Frustrating? Sure. But is an mms that will be looked at for a matter of seconds before being discarded worth hours of effort to correct? The majority of developers have apparently decided it's not worth the effort, and this would greatly exceed my own knowledge.
Simple fix? Another messaging or camera app as suggested.
I came upon this save issue, but I have the Epic Touch 4G.
I take the pic, and with Handcent, the image is rotated 90° counter clockwise.
But with the Native message app, the picture is fine, and not rotated.
Would appear to be an app issue, but with the EVO 4G, the pic was not rotated using Handcent.
I'm a little confused on this one.
am i high or is this phone not quite bright enough to determine photograph orientation when uploaded to an app? if i take a shot in portrait mode, it'll upload to facebook, twitter, etc. in landscape. as far as i can tell (at least in twitter) there is no way to rotate that. any one else had this issue? are we forced to always shoot in landscape?
Rotate your phone 180 degrees when taking pic
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quest4fire said:
Rotate your phone 180 degrees when taking pic
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180 degrees is just upside down resulting in the same issue. i can 'rotate' the phone 90 degres and that puts it in "landscape" and it'll work fine. that said it seems ridiculous that i can't take a shot in portrait mode and it'll just work. pretty big miss by samsung.
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180 degrees is just upside down resulting in the same issue. i can 'rotate' the phone 90 degres and that puts it in "landscape" and it'll work fine. that said it seems ridiculous that i can't take a shot in portrait mode and it'll just work. pretty big miss by samsung.
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Thanks. I meant 90 degrees. My brain not working good in the morning. LOL!
Yeah its a miss by Samsung. Later when we get new ROMs (you will need to be rooted), Im sure there will be a camera app ported from another device (maybe HTC Amaze) that addresses this issue.
quest4fire said:
Later when we get new ROMs (you will need to be rooted), Im sure there will be a camera app ported from another device (maybe HTC Amaze) that addresses this issue.
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already on the juggernaut bandwagon!
Idk why, but when I take a screenshot of my screen, whatever it may be, and I text it to someone, the screenshot is super blurry and distorted, but when I email it it's fine? My cousin's iPhone does not do this, and it's bugging me. Is it a compression issue?
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Idk why, but when I take a screenshot of my screen, whatever it may be, and I text it to someone, the screenshot is super blurry and distorted, but when I email it it's fine? My cousin's iPhone does not do this, and it's bugging me. Is it a compression issue?
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Yes. Stock MMS application compresses picture mail.
barnacles10 said:
Yes. Stock MMS application compresses picture mail.
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Well, it sucks. I feel embarrassed sending these screenshots to people!
Does resolution factor into this?
galaxytabevo said:
Well, it sucks. I feel embarrassed sending these screenshots to people!
Does resolution factor into this?
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Its purely application controlled. The mms apk compresses images before they are sent. If you check out a custom rom such as calkulins i believe he raises the compression limit allowing you to send larger file sizes. Alternately if you're not rooted and dont want to you might want to look into a 3rd party mms application such as gosms or handcent. I can't guarantee these to be different as i don't use them, but lots of people seem to have success.
I agree though. Stock mms is quite shades mcgee in this respect.
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Its purely application controlled. The mms apk compresses images before they are sent. If you check out a custom rom such as calkulins i believe he raises the compression limit allowing you to send larger file sizes. Alternately if you're not rooted and dont want to you might want to look into a 3rd party mms application such as gosms or handcent. I can't guarantee these to be different as i don't use them, but lots of people seem to have success.
I agree though. Stock mms is quite shades mcgee in this respect.
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Thanks for your informative reply, I will try a 3rd party app
Hey guys, just wondering if you guys know how to disable the side zoom in Browser?
I noticed this first on JB roms based on leaks, but I don't remember if it was in ICS.
If you don't know what I mean, basically when you're using browser and navigating horizontally through a webpage, the very side of the device, left or right, will initiate a zoom function. I can only imagine it's a test to get around any possible pinch to zoom lawsuits.
However, it's really annoying! Couldn't find a setting.
hmm, now that I think about it i'll try about::config or one of those. I'll report back, please let me know if you all know how to disable! TY
No, it's on ICS too. It's in the Setting/Emotion.
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Hey guys, just wondering if you guys know how to disable the side zoom in Browser?
I noticed this first on JB roms based on leaks, but I don't remember if it was in ICS.
If you don't know what I mean, basically when you're using browser and navigating horizontally through a webpage, the very side of the device, left or right, will initiate a zoom function. I can only imagine it's a test to get around any possible pinch to zoom lawsuits.
However, it's really annoying! Couldn't find a setting.
hmm, now that I think about it i'll try about::config or one of those. I'll report back, please let me know if you all know how to disable! TY
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No, it's on ICS too. It's in the Setting/Emotion.
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How odd, I don't see it in the settings motion area.
Just bringing this thread back to see if anyone has a solution. I can't find a way to disable this in Settings/Motion either, and entirely turning motion off doesn't fix it. Really annoying to be happily scrolling around and suddenly have the page start resizing for no reason.
Nope, this is a new "feature"!
Will require decompiling and modding.
Im planning to look into it but not right away. If I get time this weekend ill see what I can do with it.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Nope, this is a new "feature"!
Will require decompiling and modding.
Im planning to look into it but not right away. If I get time this weekend ill see what I can do with it.
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Was this ever done?
Anyone figure this out yet? This crap started with jellybean. Stock browser and Dolphin both do this stupid side zoom crap. Firefox and Opera don't. It's so annoying I actually might switch to Opera instead. Dolphin was the greatest but this 'feature' is radically annoying.
Im a huge Instagram user and I've been having a problem when snapping photos using Instagram.
Whenever I snap a picture, the photo will be cropped off 1/2 in on each sides thus ruining the composition. There are no issues on video though/
I'm currently on Omega v18 (stock rom based) and Im not sure if it's a ROM-specific problem or just issues of IG with the Note 2.
Can anyone else try this and see if after snapping a photo the final photo will get smaller or like zoomed in than whats showing in the viewfinder prior to snapping.
Thanks.
4.1 update doesny fix it.
Anyone kind enough to check? Im pretty sure most of you have Instagrams :/
No one has instagram to test this out?
No issues here, see.
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Hi Chobie,
I have the same problem as you example. I took a pic of an apple, fit it into the whole pic and then when i snap, the end result is not what was seen before i snap. It sort of zoom in/cropped the photo such that you dont see the whole apple & the sides have been cut off. I'm also using Note 2 & i dont know when did this problem occurs. I searched all over the internet but it seems that no one is having that problem. My sister is using S4 but she doesnt have this problem.
Did you manage to fix it? I uninstall and install back the app, no help at all
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Hi Chobie,
I have the same problem as you example. I took a pic of an apple, fit it into the whole pic and then when i snap, the end result is not what was seen before i snap. It sort of zoom in/cropped the photo such that you dont see the whole apple & the sides have been cut off. I'm also using Note 2 & i dont know when did this problem occurs. I searched all over the internet but it seems that no one is having that problem. My sister is using S4 but she doesnt have this problem.
Did you manage to fix it? I uninstall and install back the app, no help at all
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Thanks. Nope still no fix for it. I even reverted back to stock ROM to see if it's a ROM problem but it produces the same problem.
I've reported bug to instagram's website so you can probably report it as well to escalate the problem.
Hi,
Yup. I emailed instagram. Hopefully they can advise..
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No issues here, see.
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Is that the exact composition and frame of the photo before you took it?
oreeox_x said:
Hi Chobie,
I have the same problem as you example. I took a pic of an apple, fit it into the whole pic and then when i snap, the end result is not what was seen before i snap. It sort of zoom in/cropped the photo such that you dont see the whole apple & the sides have been cut off. I'm also using Note 2 & i dont know when did this problem occurs. I searched all over the internet but it seems that no one is having that problem. My sister is using S4 but she doesnt have this problem.
Did you manage to fix it? I uninstall and install back the app, no help at all
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No response and solutions yet
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Is that the exact composition and frame of the photo before you took it?
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Yes, no cropping
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Yes, no cropping
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Do you have the international version n7100?
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Do you have the international version n7100?
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Yes man
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Ugh. That's weird. I wonder what's wrong...
Happening to me as well. The only solution I could find was to disable the option to "Use Instagram's advanced camera" under "Advanced features". This way it uses the phones camera and then asks you to crop the photo on your own.
I hope they fix it soon.
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I have the same problem. Samsung note 4. Stock Android OS. Instagram and an app called "paper camera" both have this issue.
I have the same problem too. I take a pic & it comes out all zoomed. I emailed IG but still no response. Anyone know how to fix camera zoom bug? I have S5
I have the same problem. Picture is zoomed after a picture is taken. Very frustrating. Clearing app data repairs the issued for just a while. Reported a problem to Instagram via in app feature. No response. I'm using Sony Z5, Android 7.0
9 Aug: Updated to Android 7.1.1. The problem still exists in Instagram. Very dissapointed. What's interesting - problem does not exist with a front camera. Has anybody found a solution?
Hey
The same things happening to my phone (Smasung S6) and I came to Google hoping to find a solution. It hasn't always been like this but now it won't go back and it only happens to instagram :/
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The same things happening to my phone (Smasung S6) and I came to Google hoping to find a solution. It hasn't always been like this but now it won't go back and it only happens to instagram :/
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Same issue with my Samsung S8, from day 1. Still not found a solution.
bebemleigh said:
Same issue with my Samsung S8, from day 1. Still not found a solution.
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I'm having this problem with Samsung Note8. Contacted Instagram, but these guys are not responding. That's a shame because I used Instagram frequently in the past.