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Regardless of what I have the brightness to, it seems display always uses the majority of my battery. For example, I recently flashed G-Lite and fully charged one night, set the display to about 30%, and left my phone idle overnight. In the morning (after about 8 hours) the battery was at 40% and display counted for 60%. The screen was definitely off. I had the phone on the stand next to my bed .
The G2s poor battery life really bugs me, especially after finding out how my GFs iPhone 4 lasts 20+ hours with heavy use.
You mean that the display accounted for 60% of the 60% power lost over night, right?
My opinion? Wipe and reflash if you can. Sounds like a weird random error. Are you running G-Lite 2.0.1, the latest version?
captainreynolds said:
You mean that the display accounted for 60% of the 60% power lost over night, right?
My opinion? Wipe and reflash if you can. Sounds like a weird random error. Are you running G-Lite 2.0.1, the latest version?
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Correct. I am indeed running version 2.0.1.
Setting brightness won't mean much when it comes to battery life because our screens, unlike AMOLEDs drain the same amounts of power regardless of how bright or dark colors are displayed.
I'll have to agree with captainreynolds, try to reflash if you can. If that doesn't work you may have issues with the battery. Battery life is not entirely an issue with the G2, but with android itself, which tends to use more battery when compared to other mobile phone OS's.
Although, I still manage to go through a day with the battery with heavy overclocking (1,6GHz) and above-moderate usage.
Superwiped, reflashed, and still the same problem. Today I had the brightness turned down to probably 10% and after unplugging my phone lasted 5 hours. Display was 64% of the drain (40 mins on).
The g2 can have good battery life, first thing is your battery having these issues no matter what rom? Have you tried flashing a diffrent radio? Does you girlfriends iphone allow her to buy a new battery from ebay for a few bucks and install it herself with out any trouble?
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Iphone heavy use for 20+ hours?? With blutooth, wifi, games, txt, videos, web browsing?? Heavy the whole time? I think not. I'm not an android fanboy or anything but that's a lil off.
As far as battery life does it do the same thing on every rom you try no matter what?
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This is so annoying. I call Tmobile and they claim 4.5 hours is normal for the G2. On top of that, I can't get a replacement even though I have insurance because it isn't broken, despite the fact that the display is draining an alarming amount of power from two different batteries, regardless of brightness (yes, I have set it to 0% brightness and it only makes a few percent difference on display consumption).
so do you know what radio your on and have you tried changing to a different one?
try typing *#*#4636#*#* into the dialer change settings to gsm only. i know your problem is with display but just curious what affect this has on your battery
legato89 said:
This is so annoying. I call Tmobile and they claim 4.5 hours is normal for the G2. On top of that, I can't get a replacement even though I have insurance because it isn't broken, despite the fact that the display is draining an alarming amount of power from two different batteries, regardless of brightness (yes, I have set it to 0% brightness and it only makes a few percent difference on display consumption).
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Are you running a custom rom? If so you could try flashing back to stock froyo then see how your battery life pans out, or u could unroot then root again.
If worse comes to worst I can recommend an extended battery for better battery life.
Could re-rooting fix it? I've been rooted since I got the phone in Dec '10
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Setting brightness won't mean much when it comes to battery life because our screens, unlike AMOLEDs drain the same amounts of power regardless of how bright or dark colors are displayed.
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You are confusing the brightness (%) with what colors are displayed. The brightness absolutely affects battery life, as I can get up to 30% more time between charges by going from "Auto" to 35 or 40%.
What you are thinking about is the actual colors displayed, such as black versus white. On an AMOLED screen, displaying lighter colors consumes more power than than darker ones. So having dark wallpapers and interface screens can actually help with battery life. Maybe one of the reasons that the AOSP Android theming uses so much black?
With LCD type screens, the color makes no difference. The same amount of backlighting is being used regardless of whether the screen color is black or white. This is completely independent of the brightness %. So you can be displaying black, and still have the brightness at 100%.
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legato89 said:
Could re-rooting fix it? I've been rooted since I got the phone in Dec '10
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Rooting is just giving SU permissions. Just giving yourself SU permissions again shouldn't change anything.
i too have this problem. i have read somewhere, a topic on xda, saying that its the connectors and flex cables in the phone. something about wear spots on the flex cable makes the plastic rub off and you end up seeing bare metal on the cables.
try sliding out your keyboard half way, and look at the flex cable. do you see any of the metal hanging out?
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Bigger capacity doesn't always mean better performance and battery life. I've read many opinions that custom batteries are in 99% of cases are worse than original even if they have 500 or more Mah than stock. So it would be great if someone shares his opinion about this model but I don't think anyone will want mess with opening phone etc.
Believe me or not, You'll never find a battery better that LG original one. LG 800 charge cycle itself makes a big difference.
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Believe me or not, You'll never find a battery better that LG original one. LG 800 charge cycle itself makes a big difference.
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yeah maybe you are right but the battery is a big problem so i want a bigger battery capacity and stock battery is not the best.
spytgm said:
yeah maybe you are right but the battery is a big problem so i want a bigger battery capacity and stock battery is not the best.
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as you wish. But I suggest you to do a factory reset and with a bit of simple settings you can have a battery as great as mine. I've had calls, text messages, wireless connection, taking about 50 photos in a party, sending over 100 megabytes via bluetooth, calculator and... with 63% of screen brightness. Eco mode was first off for a day and on after.
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as you wish. But I suggest you to do a factory reset and with a bit of simple settings you can have a battery as great as mine. I've had calls, text messages, wireless connection, taking about 50 photos in a party, sending over 100 megabytes via bluetooth, calculator and... with 63% of screen brightness. Eco mode was first off for a day and on after.
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Screen time..hours?
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Screen time..hours?
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with 2 hours and 10 minutes screen on. That's what normal use is.
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with 2 hours and 10 minutes screen on. That's what normal use is.
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I get about 4,30h screen time,charging every night
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well, gaming and watching videos can easily drain the battery. This is true about every phone. considering the hardware, LGOG benefits from a OK battery. With similar specifications, Xperia ZR has a 2300 mah which doesn't make that much difference although it has a 0.1.5 inch smaller screen.
Yeah I would also like to have a better battery in this phone, I'm regularly killing the battery at the end of the day even though I charge it every night. Granted I work in a bad reception area which cranks up my radio and drains the battery, but still I think it should last the day...
If there is a third party battery that last longer I would love to know about it.
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Yeah I would also like to have a better battery in this phone, I'm regularly killing the battery at the end of the day even though I charge it every night. Granted I work in a bad reception area which cranks up my radio and drains the battery, but still I think it should last the day...
If there is a third party battery that last longer I would love to know about it.
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There can be but the one introduced here in the OP is not of high quality and may be dangerous for the device. Besides, it may not provide a better battery life. The best you could do is to request the mugen team to provide an alternative battery fo LGOG. They're really expert in their job.
For about the first 4 days I was getting terrible battery life. It took me that long just to have it specifically set up and I didn't want to restore. About 2 weeks ago I watched a reviewer on YouTube say he significantly increased his battery life by using a dark near black wallpaper. I was using the stock purple wallpaper and changed it to a hi res jet black one. The increase was substantial. I wasnt even getting a full day and now I'm up to 2 days. The theory was since amoled screens have the ability to turn black pixels off, the screen isn't consuming as much battery. Well it works
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I'll quick charge my phone once in a while rather than have a boring phone with a qhd screen.
Thank. I will give it try
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Noticed a definite 20-25% improvement ) with a black deep space wallpaper. Thanks
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Galaxy Note 4 using AMOLED screens. The screens don’t have a solid backlight. Each pixel on an OLED screen is an “organic light emitting diode” that produces its own light. When the pixel is black, it isn’t producing any light. When the pixel is white, it’s producing light.
That is reason why if you use a black background on an AMOLED display, your display will produce less light. This will help save battery power, squeezing more battery life out of your device.
Unbelievable battery life!!
I just can't believe the amazing battery life the Note 4 has...
with the Note 3 (and 2 too), even with screen off and on a call, I would most likely take a 30%+ hit on battery life within 45 minutes to an hour.
but with the Note 4 it's a completely different story. Effectively I can weather a 5 hour call and maybe, just maybe hit the 80% remaining mark.
Now, fairly, in all models I've owned I have rooted, DE bloated, and prevented apps from starting up - so, my comments here are all fairly traded in the sense I treated all situations alike..
By far, I'm sensing a 5 times greater experience - depending on usage..
and the fast charge is just amazing too
Sometimes, just sometimes, (blame it on software and factory calibration), when the pixel is black, light can still emitted when it shouldn't (depends on particular situations); this is the light produced from a transistor nearby, could very well be by a GPU instruction in the vicinity.
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Galaxy Note 4 using AMOLED screens. The screens don’t have a solid backlight. Each pixel on an OLED screen is an “organic light emitting diode” that produces its own light. When the pixel is black, it isn’t producing any light. When the pixel is white, it’s producing light.
That is reason why if you use a black background on an AMOLED display, your display will produce less light. This will help save battery power, squeezing more battery life out of your device.
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Not inclined using the fast charging anytime soon since I don't want to shell out another $15-$20 for a new battery from Samsung. Also, the phone can get relatively hot when using the fast-charging setting. There's a trade-off for everything, it seems.
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I just can't believe the amazing battery life the Note 4 has...
with the Note 3 (and 2 too), even with screen off and on a call, I would most likely take a 30%+ hit on battery life within 45 minutes to an hour.
but with the Note 4 it's a completely different story. Effectively I can weather a 5 hour call and maybe, just maybe hit the 80% remaining mark.
Now, fairly, in all models I've owned I have rooted, DE bloated, and prevented apps from starting up - so, my comments here are all fairly traded in the sense I treated all situations alike..
By far, I'm sensing a 5 times greater experience - depending on usage..
and the fast charge is just amazing too
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funny you should say that...
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Sometimes, just sometimes, (blame it on software and factory calibration), when the pixel is black, light can still emitted when it shouldn't (depends on particular situations); this is the light produced from a transistor nearby, could very well be by a GPU instruction in the vicinity.
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Not inclined using the fast charging anytime soon since I don't want to shell out another $15-$20 for a new battery from Samsung. Also, the phone can get relatively hot when using the fast-charging setting. There's a trade-off for everything, it seems.
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Yes, at first I did have an experience with the phone heating up; first few days, yet now it does not, not at all... but, I will say this, I do notice it heat up with the note 3 charger - using micro usb cord only, right? yet the fast charger does not seem to heat up, nor the phone...
i have heard the fast charger / battery has a short life, but do have 2 spare note 4 batteries, was out of habit / reaction to buy extra up front...
The micro-USB cable matters too. Using the included micro-USB cable that came with the Note 4 will allow the fast-charging, that's where the device will become warm when charging. I haven't tried fast charging myself, but was able to experience first-hand with a demo at a T-Mobile Corporate store.
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Yes, at first I did have an experience with the phone heating up; first few days, yet now it does not, not at all... but, I will say this, I do notice it heat up with the note 3 charger - using micro usb cord only, right? yet the fast charger does not seem to heat up, nor the phone...
i have heard the fast charger / battery has a short life, but do have 2 spare note 4 batteries, was out of habit / reaction to buy extra up front...
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Ever since I got my G4 in December the battery usage tab has always shown the Screen using 50% of Battery or more. I don't know if this is a normal amount it should be using, can someone confirm if this is normal? Here's the battery usage tab of my G4. I usually get less than 5 hours of screen on time with it imgur com/D6B28yg (Just made my account I can't post links yet)
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Ever since I got my G4 in December the battery usage tab has always shown the Screen using 50% of Battery or more. I don't know if this is a normal amount it should be using, can someone confirm if this is normal? Here's the battery usage tab of my G4. I usually get less than 5 hours of screen on time with it imgur com/D6B28yg (Just made my account I can't post links yet)
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You could try turning down the brightness or setting the brightness to auto.
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You could try turning down the brightness or setting the brightness to auto.
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Completely normal mine uses about 65% followed by the million other apps i got. The quad hd screens are power hogs turn briteness down and shut off auto brite. Helps but if u got anything else coming close to using what the screen does then theres a issue.
Next highest usage i got is chrome coming in at 8% followed by os. At 6. I get about 3 hours of sot which is horrible. Id rather see the screen use the battery power than anything else.
So like i was saying your good its normal
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You could try turning down the brightness or setting the brightness to auto.
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Auto btrite uses more power seeing that the light sensor is also active is better to have it set. Off
i think thats normal screen always on top.
How is the batter life for you guys? . I seem to be losing 60% in 6 hours with 30 mins Google navigation and some texting and browsing.
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This is what I've been getting for battery life on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 7. I've cut the bloat apps I don't want, almost all of my data connection was on wifi, web browsing, sending and checking emails, no gaming, had to turn it off twice (applying and reapplying a screen protector), used Bluetooth once for about an hour listening to music in the car, made a few calls and received a few calls. I turned battery saver on right around 85% battery life from 100%. The battery saver was custom and I left the screen resolution at 2k just only enabled limit performance and max brightness to 90%. Just over 9 hrs screen on time works for me.
Yeah mine hasn't been great. Think I'm gonna run it until Wednesday and if it's still not good I'm returning it and going back to my s7e in the meantime.
Mine has been doing very well, better than my note 4 did by a good percentage. The other day I tried to use Google maps for navigation but I was apparently in a dead area. Later that night I was checking battery stats and I saw that maps used 11% for a matter of minutes while the next non-system app was like 3%. There might be something wrong with the app on note 7 then maybe.
Mine has been really good. Usually when I leave work I'm at around 40% (on my S6 edge). Today I'm at 79% (on the Note 7).
So far, my best has been down to 14% in almost 16 hours, with about 5 hours of SoT.
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Mine has been really good. Usually when I leave work I'm at around 40% (on my S6 edge). Today I'm at 79% (on the Note 7).
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Same experience here. Almost exactly the same actually, haha. Weird!
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Justinphxaz said:
This is what I've been getting for battery life on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 7. I've cut the bloat apps I don't want, almost all of my data connection was on wifi, web browsing, sending and checking emails, no gaming, had to turn it off twice (applying and reapplying a screen protector), used Bluetooth once for about an hour listening to music in the car, made a few calls and received a few calls. I turned battery saver on right around 85% battery life from 100%. The battery saver was custom and I left the screen resolution at 2k just only enabled limit performance and max brightness to 90%. Just over 9 hrs screen on time works for me.
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Seriously, if you are getting 9 hours of screen on time, you have to have disabled so much of the functionality of the phone that I don't know why you would buy a Note. With every reviewer and average person getting 4.5-5.5 hours SOT, it just seems ridiculous..
I think it's satisfactory.
I find myself actually using it a lot more than the S7E AND the battery is better to boot.
Personally, if I couldn't use the Note 7 any more, I'd go back to using my iphone 6S+ before I'd use the S7E...
Or the Note 5 / 6S+.
From ergonomics, the S7E is just awful. It reminds me of using a Windows 8 PC for the first time! Mainly because of the horrible, horrible touch sensitivity of the screen and edge.
Perhaps the battery life is better because I've never charged wirelessly? I've heard that if you charge with the cord your battery life, particularly idle, is far better. I don't mind plugging in. USB-C connector is long overdue. No more fumbling in the dark trying to plug it in, scratching the bottom around the connector in the process!
The built in battery monitor is bad. I ran antutu benchmark once and it tonight it took up the equivalent of my whole battery. 5 minutes of app time and only 3% in real life. I have done a couple of full battery cycles to just make sure the software learns the top and bottom ends of my battery. Slowly figuring out what is killing battery and what not. If I have extra drain it's because something is glitching. I have been unplugged since 1 am last night. Still at 10% with almost 5 hours of screen on time.
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This is what I've been getting for battery life on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 7. I've cut the bloat apps I don't want, almost all of my data connection was on wifi, web browsing, sending and checking emails, no gaming, had to turn it off twice (applying and reapplying a screen protector), used Bluetooth once for about an hour listening to music in the car, made a few calls and received a few calls. I turned battery saver on right around 85% battery life from 100%. The battery saver was custom and I left the screen resolution at 2k just only enabled limit performance and max brightness to 90%. Just over 9 hrs screen on time works for me.
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What is that dark theme?
nikonx said:
Seriously, if you are getting 9 hours of screen on time, you have to have disabled so much of the functionality of the phone that I don't know why you would buy a Note. With every reviewer and average person getting 4.5-5.5 hours SOT, it just seems ridiculous..
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I don't feel I disabled much of the phone, all I did was disable approximately 12 apps that I don't and or won't use, and at around 85% battery left, I turned on a custom mid power saving feature and used the phone a good amount over a 34+ hour span. This whole setup took me less than 15 minutes, so I'm not sure why you seem to have an issue with my choice in phone. It's not like I went in, rooted the thing and froze an incredible amount of apps, slapped in a custom kernel and messed with voltage and loaded some slim lightweight custom ROM. I simply used power saver and disabled some apps. This took no effort at all, simply sharing what I'd been getting, as others didn't seem to get as much out of their battery.
I got a note because I can pull serious hours SOT, multi task like a boss and enjoy multimedia on this gorgeous screen. I've had Notes since the Note 2.
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What is that dark theme?
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It's sd-black from the theme store.
I agree with the disappointing battery life. I had a galaxy 7 active and after a full day of work doing the same thing I had about 75% after my day ended ,with my note 7 I had about mid 60%. Keep in mind I dont use my phone except a little before work and on my breaks.i also turn my Data off when I'm not using my phone and yes all my bloatware is shut off. If we had root I'm sure I would be happy since I get a lot more out of my battery because of my root setup .
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Im getting great battery life and i can usually find a place to plug in for a short time which refuels me quickly. I had to manually set a few apps to be quiet which is fine otherwise im happy so far.
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It's sd-black from the theme store.
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Thanks. These white settings pages are blinding me.
Could you please share what apps you disabled and what power settings you are using so I can give it a try? Thank you.
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It's sd-black from the theme store.
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I use that one also.. I just can't settle on an icon theme so far...
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sleevester said:
Thanks. These white settings pages are blinding me.
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lol no problem! I always try and black out as much of the UI as possible!
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MatroxD said:
I use that one also.. I just can't settle on an icon theme so far...
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I use Nova Launcher Pro for my icons (out of the playstore) mixed with the themes from the theme store, I'm enjoying it!
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Could you please share what apps you disabled and what power settings you are using so I can give it a try? Thank you.
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Yeah, sure. I've got a couple things to do first but I'll list the apps I disabled and show you the power saving setup I am using in just a bit.
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lol no problem! I always try and black out as much of the UI as possible!
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I use Nova Launcher Pro for my icons (out of the playstore) mixed with the themes from the theme store, I'm enjoying it!
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Yeah, sure. I've got a couple things to do first but I'll list the apps I disabled and show you the power saving setup I am using in just a bit.
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Lol, I'm trying to not bring nova in just yet.. It is tempting though, as that's normally what I use..
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