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ONAVO EXTEND: Get up to 5x more out of your data plan!

I have this in my guide post but thought it needed its own post. If you have a capped data plan then you definetely need to check this out.
It has basically turned my 4GB plan into a 20GB plan!
The SuperUser's Guide: How To Extend Your Data Plan
Onavo Extend lets you get more out of your data plan, so you can do more web browsing and apps, consume more music, video and photos on 3G without breaking your data cap.
After you install Onavo Extend you can go back to using your phone or tablet as before. In the background, data usage from all apps and web browsing is compressed so that you do more with your Android’s mobile data month after month. And, if you travel abroad with your phone, the money you save could be substantial.
IF YOU'VE INSTALLED A CUSTOM ROM:
Some ROMs and kernels are missing important networking support that Android 4.0 APIs, and Onavo Extend, rely on.
If you've received a message saying your version of Android is unsupported, or if the application always says "service paused", please contact us via the "Feedback" menu item so we can help.
Trying a different ROM or kernel should help as well

Be sure to post your results! Be sure to include which ROM you are using!

Woow !! i download the app now & i'll report back later
i've only 1GB Data plan & i can't use youtube because it take a lot of my data,, i wish this could save me more money

Sry bro , but i find it hard to belive
i'll wait for feedback

[email protected] said:
Sry bro , but i find it hard to belive
i'll wait for feedback
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no worries, it works though. Look at it this way, what do you have to lose?
I have verified it is working for me with 3rd party data trackers, and Verizon's own data tracker.
The great thing about it is you can turn it on and off. It also turns itself off when you are on wifi.
After running it for a week while I was on vacation and used very little wifi I definitely noticed a difference. I watched a Netflix episode of IT crowd, and few YouTube videos and saved over 1MB of data.
I have used it with news apps, Facebook, twitter, Netflix, YouTube, radarscope, weather bug, instagram, and mms pics.
The only issue I ran into was on the local news 9 app. Some images appeared as black boxes. If I adjust the photo quality to higher the images appear just fine though.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Thanks for bringing this up - looks good, will try it out!
Good review here, showing how it works and stuff:
http://android.appstorm.net/how-to/internet/how-to-double-your-data-plan-for-free-with-onavo-extend/
edit: @Dakota - forgive me if this is the same information in your Superuser guide - I cant check as the guide appears to be blocked on my work comp

may save you data, but I wouldn't trust any app that you have to give full access to your network traffic. Looks like spyware to me.

Dakota0206 said:
I watched a Netflix episode of IT crowd, and few YouTube videos and barely used 1MB of data.
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1 Megabyte?
I'm sorry, but i'm calling bull**** on that. There's no way on this planet that anything would compress a half hour episode down to that little.
I'm sure it probably works to some degree and compresses the data in a similar way to opera mini and skyfire and various other browsers that use proxies to compress stuff, but i think you may have read it wrong to come up with 1MB!

MinecraftZombi.es said:
1 Megabyte?
I'm sorry, but i'm calling bull**** on that. There's no way on this planet that anything would compress a half hour episode down to that little.
I'm sure it probably works to some degree and compresses the data in a similar way to opera mini and skyfire and various other browsers that use proxies to compress stuff, but i think you may have read it wrong to come up with 1MB!
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I agree, and even if it was why would a company provide such powerful servers that can do this sort of compression for free? There are only two ways the company could support themselves. 1. Advertisements 2. Sell user data like google does. I don't care about either so I'm downloading it.

I got a 10GB plan so no need for me but just out of curiosity has this worked for anyone?

JJbdoggg said:
I agree, and even if it was why would a company provide such powerful servers that can do this sort of compression for free? There are only two ways the company could support themselves. 1. Advertisements 2. Sell user data like google does. I don't care about either so I'm downloading it.
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I do agree on this.
As o2 is giving 1GB of allowance, I will give it a try though.

MinecraftZombi.es said:
1 Megabyte?
I'm sorry, but i'm calling bull**** on that. There's no way on this planet that anything would compress a half hour episode down to that little.
I'm sure it probably works to some degree and compresses the data in a similar way to opera mini and skyfire and various other browsers that use proxies to compress stuff, but i think you may have read it wrong to come up with 1MB!
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meant to say saved over 1MB data.

Dakota0206 said:
meant to say saved over 1MB data.
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Well, if you meant to say that you saved over 1 MB, that calls to question how you know this. Did the Onavo app tell you? Did you check the size of the netflix episode and compare your usage? Or some other way?
Also, a netflix episode could range from like 50 (if cropped for small screens/resolutions) to several hundred megs. Saving 1 MB in such a setting is hardly 5x the data, and shouldn't really be worth your time.
Now, I've come across this app before, and there are always people who like it and claim it works. What these people fail to ask themselves is HOW (the hell) it could work. If you think about it, about the only stuff on the web that isn't already pretty heavily compressed are html/text files. And they make up a really tiny part of your overall usage.
Also, compressing stuff is very cpu intensive. Unless ONAVO has a huge server farm somewhere, which processes every bit sent to and from every one of its users (not likely), the compression happens on the fly on each device. Even if that would work, it would really strain the cpu and drain the battery in no time.
Therefore, to quote a wise man, I wouldn't touch this app with a ten foot pole.
Sorry for the long post/rant.

No ones forcing you to try it. But its actually using amazons EC2 stack. Opera browser uses this same thing to save data usage.
Lol do you think this is some conspiracy theory? Onavo doesn't save any data, except if you want email compressed and then its asks for your permission.
Ya on video it didn't save a ton. But it didnt slow down the streaming either. Where I have noticed the most saving is text based apps like tapatalk and news apps.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

Will effect does this have on battery life?
Better? Worsen? No difference?

Dakota0206 said:
No ones forcing you to try it. But its actually using amazons EC2 stack. Opera browser uses this same thing to save data usage.
Lol do you think this is some conspiracy theory? Onavo doesn't save any data, except if you want email compressed and then its asks for your permission.
Ya on video it didn't save a ton. But it didnt slow down the streaming either. Where I have noticed the most saving is text based apps like tapatalk and news apps.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Well, I should have checked how it actually says it works, mea culpa. Still, the fact holds that 5x savings is a pipe dream in real usage and savings are marginal at best. But if you wanna use it, knock yourself out.

http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/
use opera instead.

guys..this app is really saved data..it's saved me over 150mb in just a view days !"
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2

twistedh said:
http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/
use opera instead.
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Last I checked opera only compresses data for one app..... opera.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

-juanito- said:
guys..this app is really saved data..it's saved me over 150mb in just a view days !"
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
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How much data would you have used? .. to get an idea on percentage savings.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using Tapatalk 2

[Q] Cog Wheel Flashing/Texting Flicker

There's a picture of a blue cog wheel flashing in the top right corner everytime I press the power button and view my home screen. Anyone have this issue?
Also, does anyone else have the bug where you try to open a thread (texting) and it just goes back to your page of contacts like 5 times before you can view your thread?

Here are the solutions!
chevymeister said:
There's a picture of a blue cog wheel flashing in the top right corner everytime I press the power button and view my home screen. Anyone have this issue?
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Have you rooted your phone? It has not happened to anyone in this world in Stock ROM.
Look, the Amazing Spiderman 3D Live Wallpaper has a sign in the top right corner when we switch between homescreens. So, I think it might be something with the wallpaper you're using..
OR
It may be some app you downloaded that runs all the time (like a battery saver app) which shows some sort of sign when the screen is turned On and the phone is Awake.
chevymeister said:
Also, does anyone else have the bug where you try to open a thread (texting) and it just goes back to your page of contacts like 5 times before you can view your thread?
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Yes, it happened to me. Not 5 times, but I must say that the Stock Messages app is bad! Very, Very, Very bad!
It'll go away by itself.. At least now it doesn't happen with me... Actually its because HTC One V hasn't loaded all the threads and we command it to open a thread. So, after 1 second when all the threads (the whole messages app is loaded) it takes us back to show the full messages app loaded.

Ah great explanation, thanks man. Any new messaging apps that you would recommend? The phone is actually my mothers with that issue that has been not sending texts at random intervals and wanting htc error reports as well. It has a 3d wallpaper, not rooted and I don't think either of those have to do with the wheel. It's pretty much stock.

Here you are! Messages app- SOLVED !
chevymeister said:
Any new messaging apps that you would recommend? The phone is actually my mothers with that issue that has been not sending texts at random intervals and wanting htc error reports as well.
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No. I won't recommend any 'cause I've never seen any! Also, it's not needed! You know... My memory RAM was too low (always 30-40MB free). But when I uninstalled many apps that I never used, with the phone getting faster, the messages app has also got smoother. :laugh:
Now why did this affect the Messages app? --Because I uninstalled apps that took a lot of RAM, my RAM got released much after they got uninstalled. Now I have 70-80MB of RAM free and indirectly this helps the Messages app by allowing it to take RAM and store cache. Now I dont have any problem with Messages app..
Perform the following steps-
Clear the data and cache in Settings-Apps-Messages.
Open the messages app and use it.
Go to Settings-Apps.
Under the Running tab, gently tap on the green area at the bottom right (which indicates your free RAM).
The Running tab will then show the cached processes.
The more the memory is used by the Messages app, the more it gets smoother.
If no memory is used, let me and eveeyone on XDA know.
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It has a 3d wallpaper, not rooted and I don't think either of those have to do with the wheel. It's pretty much stock.
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WHICH 3D Wallpaper?

Paresh Kalinani said:
No. I won't recommend any 'cause I've never seen any! Also, it's not needed! You know... My memory RAM was too low (always 30-40MB free). But when I uninstalled many apps that I never used, with the phone getting faster, the messages app has also got smoother. :laugh:
Now why did this affect the Messages app? --Because I uninstalled apps that took a lot of RAM, my RAM got released much after they got uninstalled. Now I have 70-80MB of RAM free and indirectly this helps the Messages app by allowing it to take RAM and store cache. Now I dont have any problem with Messages app..
Perform the following steps-
Clear the data and cache in Settings-Apps-Messages.
Open the messages app and use it.
Go to Settings-Apps.
Under the Running tab, gently tap on the green area at the bottom right (which indicates your free RAM).
The Running tab will then show the cached processes.
The more the memory is used by the Messages app, the more it gets smoother.
If no memory is used, let me and eveeyone on XDA know.
WHICH 3D Wallpaper?
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I'll have to ask next time I see her. Thanks for the help so far.

Well, after looking at it today (it was the wallpaper with that stupid cog!!)
I've determined it's only issue now is she can't send texts with pictures attached or it fails. Any ideas on this?

chevymeister said:
I've determined it's only issue now is she can't send texts with pictures attached or it fails. Any ideas on this?
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This happens even with my One V...
This used to happen even with my old phone...
Thank God that cog problem is solved...

chevymeister said:
Well, after looking at it today (it was the wallpaper with that stupid cog!!)
I've determined it's only issue now is she can't send texts with pictures attached or it fails. Any ideas on this?
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Factory reset
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That's the solution I was hoping it would not be. Lmao. Ok I'll give it a shot later, thanks.
Did it work for you Paresh?

I don't want that problem to get solved!
chevymeister said:
That's the solution I was hoping it would not be. Lmao. Ok I'll give it a shot later, thanks.
Did it work for you Paresh?
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I've not tried a Factory Reset... anyways..., I don't need that problem to get solved... 'cause I don't send pics!
I just upload them on Facebook!

[Q] Anyone else notice some lag after the first few days? need help if you have!

So i've only had the phone for a few days and started noticing lag mainly in the settings yesterday.
It was buttery smooth the first few days until yesterday. I'll try to create a clear description of what is happening.
Everything in terms of hitting applications, sliding/switching pages, and browsers seems smooth but I'm getting doubts since settings have started lagging. So as of now, the settings menu is where I really notice the problem. What happens is I would press any of the choices such as display, sound, storage, etc and it would light up blue as a sign that I pressed it. Basically, the blue lighting stutters/lags as it turns into a deeper color and fades away proving that there is some lag. That itself is very irritating on such a powerful phone. The page also lags a bit as it's opening so it's obvious that it does lag. I don't understand why something as simple as settings might be causing this?
have any of you guys noticed this? I tried clearing ram, restarting phone, messing with dev options by changing animation and something else to .5x while enabling "force GPU rendering." I'm running stock touchwiz on baseband T889UVALJ1 if that helps. Keep in mind i'm not really tech savvy so try to suggest things in an easy to understand way please.
Any help is greatly appreciated and I hope you guys can help me fix my problem!

Been using it for the past 1 month plus and I do not have any lagging issues. I am on stock rom as well.

No lag either, been using the Note 2 for 2 months now. Check your apps with BetterBatteryStatts (too many backgroundservices runing).

No lag either. Did u install some crappy apps that run backstage
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Thanks for the replies so far and before I spend some money on apps or what not, is there any way I can post a 5 second animation of what is happening? Kind of like a 5 second gif of my screen? A mix of a screenshot and video so like a screen vid? Are there are any apps that can do that(preferably free). I'll try to find an app that can do that in the meantime and will edit if I find something useful.
Edit: No idea what this is or how it ended up on my phone but could this be the culprit? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tgrape.android.radar
People say it's bloatware and s-suggest from samsung but i'm not sure why it would be shown as an app on the play store website

I have noticed the phone can lag a bit if you have a heavy live wallpaper running.
Just sharing my thoughts on this

did you modify anything? no lags on my N2.

normally i'd say if you leave your phone on for a few days in a row, clear the memory every once in a while (press and hold home, go task manager, ram tab, clear memory) or reboot it, just so you dont have anything residual in your ram.
when android sees that you have 2gb of ram, it doesnt auto kill as many apps as it would if you were to have only 1gb of ram (my note 1 autokilled sooooooo frequently that it was annoying), so your ram ends up getting filled with some apps that you only used once in a while.

SquirtingCherry said:
I have noticed the phone can lag a bit if you have a heavy live wallpaper running.
Just sharing my thoughts on this
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I did have a live news wallpaper before but I disabled it and switched to one of the stock wallpapers and the problem persists..
parrotlarch said:
did you modify anything? no lags on my N2.
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No I didn't modify anything, were you referring to anything specific or some kind of setting?
Souai said:
normally i'd say if you leave your phone on for a few days in a row, clear the memory every once in a while (press and hold home, go task manager, ram tab, clear memory) or reboot it, just so you dont have anything residual in your ram.
when android sees that you have 2gb of ram, it doesnt auto kill as many apps as it would if you were to have only 1gb of ram (my note 1 autokilled sooooooo frequently that it was annoying), so your ram ends up getting filled with some apps that you only used once in a while.
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I wrote that I tried clearing ram and restarting phone but it didn't help. Thanks for trying though

Yeah, I get a bit of lag here and there, specially if I haven't cleared running/background apps in a while.
I just do it from the task manager, and also check out what apps are using the most battery, and possibly therefore are some of the likely culprits.
I actually use this app called Carat, which is an "Energy bug detector app" (whatever that means), but it helps identify apps that are draining the battery, and incidentally, partially contributing to the lag.
Also obvious thing like live wallpapers or touchwiz in general (including all the 'special' Samsung features like smart rotate, smart stay, smart motion) probably add to it to. Nova launcher and a static wallpaper might help.

I'll try to post a video sometime soon showing the lag. It's not serious lag, but it does stutter and lag a decent amount compared to my first few days which is what sucks.

mitchillen said:
I'll try to post a video sometime soon showing the lag. It's not serious lag, but it does stutter and lag a decent amount compared to my first few days which is what sucks.
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Make sure that power saving is turned totally off in settings to avoid UI lag.

ItzMar said:
Make sure that power saving is turned totally off in settings to avoid UI lag.
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Yeah that was one of the first things I tried, didn't help.

This happen to me..If surf net lag this could help..check your network setting.
if your SIM card is 3G,set it to "GSM/WCDMA AUTO MODE" instead of LTE..
Hope it help

william1974 said:
This happen to me..If surf net lag this could help..check your network setting.
if your SIM card is 3G,set it to "GSM/WCDMA AUTO MODE" instead of LTE..
Hope it help
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Well I have a T-mobile Galaxy note II. It should be the 4g LTE variant but lte is not available yet. I think it is the n7105
Under the settings, I only have gsm/wcdma, gsm only, and wcdma only.
I'm not sure what I have to do

Anybody experience lagging on the xda app. Im getting some stuttering when scrolling. Mine's running on full stock rom even when I clear the memory...
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DroidPH said:
Anybody experience lagging on the xda app. Im getting some stuttering when scrolling. Mine's running on full stock rom even when I clear the memory...
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You can try enabling Force GPU rendering in developers options. That usually helps with that, or at least it seemed to in my case. Report back if it actually helped

quick update:
I found a vid and my lag basically looks like this http://youtu.be/0qyijcTeHcU?t=2m27s
Look at when he clicks on display, there is clearly some lag even if it is half a second - 1 second. I'm almost certain that my lag is even worse than that, but not by too much. It's just a pain in the ass after the first few days. Would flashing a custom rom like jedi X 7.2 help out with this since it's running a bravia engine?

MohJee said:
You can try enabling Force GPU rendering in developers options. That usually helps with that, or at least it seemed to in my case. Report back if it actually helped
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Actually it did :good: Unfortunately I've lost 10% battery within minutes of using the XDA App. Unticked...I clicked thanks for your help mate.

[Q] How to make default SMS More smooth

Hi,
I have some problems with my s3 mini, samsung sms app is not scrolling smoothly btw i don't wanna use 3rd sms apps or push some different apps into system.
How can we fix this? I've seen other sms programs scrolling smoothly in sms view.
I have to keep hundreds of sms ,it's being a big problem when i wanna see old conversations.
It's laggin like 1 fps , like a graphics card driver not installed..
Any ideas ?

wacd said:
samsung sms app is not scrolling smoothly
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Nobody's app does.

Yea, i know that but my question is how can we fix that thing.
Can we edit/modify stock mms app?
Like pull secMms.apk from system , modify and push into system again?
I know, there is some experienced people can do that in here.
Who can help with that?

No lag here..totally smooth for me.
That's scrolling lots of messages from different contacts and a conversation with 200 messages in it.

how is this possible
my list scrolling like 2 fps,
it's killing me.. i guess i have to install some mms-sms apk like go sms, etc. but it has to be a way to fix that thing..
plase help! :banghead:
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I've noticed that using battery saving mode causes a bit lag, but that's expected, cause when you enter battery saving mode it says it will limit proc functions

Yes it does limit the CPU to 800MHz but still not completely smooth with power saving off.

Yep...But it' less laggy
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wacd said:
Hi,
I have some problems with my s3 mini, samsung sms app is not scrolling smoothly btw i don't wanna use 3rd sms apps or push some different apps into system.
How can we fix this? I've seen other sms programs scrolling smoothly in sms view.
I have to keep hundreds of sms ,it's being a big problem when i wanna see old conversations.
It's laggin like 1 fps , like a graphics card driver not installed..
Any ideas ?
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Go through and delete anything you don't need. I know it seems like a bit of a noobish thing to say but it's all I could think of
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firstly
what rom are you using?
this will help with providing suggestions so always let people know what rom you are running
secondly
how much space have you got on the phone's internal memory?
how many applications do you have running at any given time?

Text Messing is lagging???

Hello all been a min since I've posted last, but here goes. My text messaging is the only "app" that lags when I use it. Every other app is running fine and is smooth to navigate through. When I goto text someone it starts lagging and is behind quite abit. Itl take sometimes 5 6 seconds to type the word I just swiped. It is the stock messaging app and I have already ran it into safe mode. It does not lag nearly as much there and is pretty fluent. I can only assume its a bad app or something but idk what it could be. I'm rooted stock and every mod I have came from drippler like the multi tasking so I can have every app in the multi tasker, I have xposed frame work titanium back up, Nova launcher and some others. Whats my best hing to do here?
-Paint pb Balla-

You might have too many messages. Try deleting messages.

Paint pb Balla said:
Hello all been a min since I've posted last, but here goes. My text messaging is the only "app" that lags when I use it. Every other app is running fine and is smooth to navigate through. When I goto text someone it starts lagging and is behind quite abit. Itl take sometimes 5 6 seconds to type the word I just swiped. It is the stock messaging app and I have already ran it into safe mode. It does not lag nearly as much there and is pretty fluent. I can only assume its a bad app or something but idk what it could be. I'm rooted stock and every mod I have came from drippler like the multi tasking so I can have every app in the multi tasker, I have xposed frame work titanium back up, Nova launcher and some others. Whats my best hing to do here?
-Paint pb Balla-
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try backing up the data for your messaging app with TiBu then going into your system settings and clearing the data for your messaging app. how long have you had the issue. was it like that when you bought it? after you rooted it? after using some of drippler's tweaks?
always post as much info as possible when asking for help.

Thanks guys and no its has just been happening in the last 2 months maybe 3 it wasn't doing it after I rooted, I slowly started to notice the decline in performance after a couple of the tweaks from drippler. I've uninstalled a few apps and cleared cache but not for messaging. I need to back the data up like you said. Ill try that. it will not delete my txts I have saved will it? They are very very important to me and can be used in court so its that kind of importance lol. Ole baby momma drama. Thanks again guys. This forum s always so helpful.
-Paint pb Balla-

ChompSms
Thank me later. :thumbup:
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