Hi all,
please tell me there is a way that I can transfer all my contacts from my iPhone to ma Galaxy Note 2 ?
I ve found a link on Droidsoft.fr but the app sync from samsung seems to be KO.
Any ideas ?
For the iPhone there is an app call My Backup Contacts. It used to be free, not sure if it still is (it is doesn't exist any longer you can use iTunes to back up to a CVS file, it just is a bit more involved). But you can backup up your contacts to a CVS file. Put the file that is created on your computer. Then open up your Gmail account and on the upper left where it says Gmail there is a drop down arrow. Hit that and select contacts. Just to the right of that there is a picture of a little guy with a + and a MORE with a drop down arrow. Hit that arrow and select IMPORT. Select the file you put on your computer.
Then you should just need to sync you contacts with your Gmail account from your phone.
I hope this helps. It is how I migrated from the first iPhone to Android (and never looked back)
droidsoft said:
Hi all,
please tell me there is a way that I can transfer all my contacts from my iPhone to ma Galaxy Note 2 ?
I ve found a link on Droidsoft.fr but the app sync from samsung seems to be KO.
Any ideas ?
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use Idrive lite, it backups your contacts online and install it on your android and then restore your contacts.
Hi,
If you are still using iCloud, then this app might work, it sync's your contacts on the note with iCloud.
SmoothSync for Cloud Contacts
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Hi,
If you are still using iCloud, then this app might work, it sync's your contacts on the note with iCloud.
SmoothSync for Cloud Contacts
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Thank you all, I will try it tonight
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Thank you all, I will try it tonight
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On a side note, if you do use the SmoothSync, you also need to install "JB Workaround Cloud Contacts" so on reboot for Jellybean the program is not uninstalled.
I am using it and it works well.
I back up my contacts on Outlook. So all I had to do was export my contacts as a csv file. Opened up gmail, uploaded this file, and voila, all my contacts are synced with my Google account, which I am sure you have if you are using a Note 2.
Did the same thing... had to do a little polishing when it made it to the note but overall got everything there in one piece.
When I had an iphone there was an option to sync your contacts with google instead of outlook or whatever other options. I choose that. Worked perfectly once my android synced with google
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Samsung Kies desktop software has option to transfer all iphone data to Samsung phone.
Make sure to update Kies to latest version.
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I used the icould website to back up the cvs and then import it eith gmail it was pretty easy
I used Google sync to transfer contacts from my iphone to my note 2
I just added my Gmail account as an exchange account on the iPhone, and it backed them all up to Gmail. Then they came down no problem on my android phone.
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The bump app worked for me before. Apple sure does make it a pita to transfer contacts
Just set sync contacts to google in iTunes and sync the device. Once you boot up the Note and add your google account all your contacrs will be there. Easy
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When I had an iphone there was an option to sync your contacts with google instead of outlook or whatever other options. I choose that. Worked perfectly once my android synced with google
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Agree with this and you don't need extra software. I came from the iPhone world and set it up to sync with Google. Setup my gmail on my Note 2 and they all came in perfectly. :good:
I came from an iPhone 3gs recently to the Note II on AT&T, and didn't want to sync my contacts with google for my own reasons.
Researching I found multiple ways to accomplish transfering contacts, including using the Kies software, which didn't want to work on my older, XP-64 computer.
There's free software called "Easy Phone Sync"; an application in the store for the GN2, and one you install on the computer. It worked well for me, by transfered all my contacts, pictures, music, text messages, from an iPhone backup. Some points:
1. backup the iphone first, so you get the most recent data over
2. I actually did it twice; the first time I included text messages, and it seemed to have broken the stock messaging app (it took about 2 hours for it to "sort" the messages and then regardless of a reset or what-not, , I was unable to receive or send text messages). To resolve, I did a factory reset and second time around I did not transfer these over
3. I don't have any music on my phone, so I'm just assuming they would have transfered over without hitch
4. The single-iPhone gallery gets broken up into multiple galleries on the GN2
5. I was surprised to see the GN2 contact system automatically group up a few duplicates, neat!
Hope that's helpful to anyone else searching.
Syncing your contacts with Google is by far the easiest way
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I just did the contact transfer last night, here is a few things I learned:
1. sync iPhone contact to Outlook first is a BAD way to do it. Because once the contact is in Outloo, it change the format your contact a bit, ie. phone number tracation change, add "catories" field, put people's birthday into "Note" sectio, most importantly, people's first, middle and last name will be mapped differently .. these are a few thing I observed. And when you sync outlook to Google, you will have more manual clean up to do.
2. The easiest without downloading any additional apps is to first turn off iCloud on your iPhone. Setup a google account as your defaul account, and sync your iPhone contact with google. Once it is done, you still have some clean up to do, but very little. Then you just sycn your Andiod with google contact. The whole process is very clean compared to iPhone -> Window Phone transfer.
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I just did the contact transfer last night, here is a few things I learned:
1. sync iPhone contact to Outlook first is a BAD way to do it. Because once the contact is in Outloo, it change the format your contact a bit, ie. phone number tracation change, add "catories" field, put people's birthday into "Note" sectio, most importantly, people's first, middle and last name will be mapped differently .. these are a few thing I observed. And when you sync outlook to Google, you will have more manual clean up to do.
2. The easiest without downloading any additional apps is to first turn off iCloud on your iPhone. Setup a google account as your defaul account, and sync your iPhone contact with google. Once it is done, you still have some clean up to do, but very little. Then you just sycn your Andiod with google contact. The whole process is very clean compared to iPhone -> Window Phone transfer.
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Yup I suggested syncing to google earlier. By far the easiest way.
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I use my work email as a central source for contacts, managing them in Outlook. I sync with my Desire using HTC Sync, which works well and creates them on the phone as contacts with a type 'phone'. I would like to then sync these with gmail, but can't find a way to do it - and yes I've searched everywhere!
So the ideal would be - I add a contact in Outlook, which sync's with the phone using HTC Sync, which then wireless syncs with gmail - shouldn't be too hard, should it?
You could just export the Outlook contacts to a vCard and import that to Gmail.
That's my point - I could do it that way but it's a lot of manual effort. Surely there is some way of automating it?
Google are still working on the sync app, they've released the api to the community, unfortunately the only people working I'm it are corps wanting to make money, so until google pullover socks up. You either buy an app like 4team sync2, or manually update everything. There is a lb app called GO sync contacts, but while its free the dev has open
Sourced it, and gave up. There is an issue with it, so until someone fixes it. You need to buy one of these apps.
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That's my point - I could do it that way but it's a lot of manual effort. Surely there is some way of automating it?
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When I converted my phone contacts to Google contacts I did 3 things:
1. Exported all phone contacts to vcf file.
2. Copied the vcf file to my desktop
3. Imported the vcf file to my Google accounts (via Google contacts web UI).
It took about 1 minute.
I presume exporting all contacts to vcf in Outlook takes about the same time.
But the problem is I update my contacts daily (i'm a sales guy) so I want to keep them updated in all 3 places automatically by just updating Outlook. If either HTC Sync could create them on the phone as 'google' contacts, or I could sync 'phone' contacts to gmail, this would work.
If one of the apps mentioned above does this I'd be happy to pay for it.
Have you tried Companion Link?
chuk
If your willing to pay go for 4team sync2 it works very well, silent operation. And forwards all details you, can set sync times too. From memory its about $25
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Thanks guys, Companion Link, 4team and Soocial may work, I'm going to look at these in more detail.
Shame that all I really need to do is to set the contact type to 'Google' when I sync and it would work, or sync contact type of 'phone' with Gmail.
How about making the PC the central sync point? i.e. use both GO Contact Sync and HTC Sync on the PC running Outlook.
hi, this is recently happen to my Samsung Galaxy S3. earlier i import my contact from my black berry through google sync, then i use it for a couple months and my GS3 become very slow (after installing a lots of apps). after that i decide to reset my GS3 to the factory setting, then i installed the apps that i need and try to import my contact from my blackberry again. but this time i use transfer contact through Bluetooth.
this is where the problem begin... in my contact there is an additional sub labeled "#" and 1 of my friend whose start with alphabetical A get in to that sub. i attach the screen shoot of what happened, please some one help me and tell me how to fix this.
Just write down his number, delete from contacts, and then re add
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when i did that, it will be replace by the next one... in other words i need to re type all contact....
Perhaps the GS3 is not reading the data from the Blackberry correctly due to how it's stored or something on that phone. Try importing the BB contacts to some other medium first: i.e., GMAIL, YAHOO MAIL, etc. Then try exporting from email to the GS3 and see if that helps. My GS3 imports flawlessly from GMAIL, and it seems to sync well with installed apps for these mediums.
You could also export to excel and then import to android. Sometimes the fields are different and result in what you have.
at the first time i use google sync and i went ok, but this time i couldn't find google sync for blackberry anymore... i'll try to import my contact using excel...
After moving from Blackberry to Android, I opted to store all my contacts in my Gmail account. This way, regardless of what phone I have, I will always have a backup/sync. Another good option if you don't like the idea of cloud storage of your contacts is Outlook. No, its not free, but it does a great job of contact management and exporting.
Is there an easy way to transfer contacts from my iphone to the OGP?
The ATT store guy said because I had a lot of mail accounts that their little machine would choke on it for several hours. I did a few contacts then froze for like 20 minutes while I was in the store.
I'm not really fond of Google's privacy policies, so I am loathe to use Google contacts....but apparently in 2013, switching contacts between phones is still difficult (sarcasm) for basic office programs like thunderbird or outlook.
I was able to save a vcard file from itunes and export it, but when I imported it into my phone, many of the names were missing and most of the notes fields were non-existant. I have about 200 contacts and manually entering all fo them would be a gigantic pain.
Anyone have any ideas?
Why is this still such a problem?
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Is there an easy way to transfer contacts from my iphone to the OGP?
The ATT store guy said because I had a lot of mail accounts that their little machine would choke on it for several hours. I did a few contacts then froze for like 20 minutes while I was in the store.
I'm not really fond of Google's privacy policies, so I am loathe to use Google contacts....but apparently in 2013, switching contacts between phones is still difficult (sarcasm) for basic office programs like thunderbird or outlook.
I was able to save a vcard file from itunes and export it, but when I imported it into my phone, many of the names were missing and most of the notes fields were non-existant. I have about 200 contacts and manually entering all fo them would be a gigantic pain.
Anyone have any ideas?
Why is this still such a problem?
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Just use bump. Free in the store. I often use it when our machine has troubles.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bumptech.bumpga
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Just use bump. Free in the store. I often use it when our machine has troubles.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bumptech.bumpga
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Actually just tried bump....it imported my contacts, but also left out the note fields....and whats worse....when I try to merge multiple duplicates, In the LG it shows as one contact, but each duplicate info is still retained within the contact (if that makes sense). For instance, my mom now has 3 entries under the one contact. Is there a way to actually merge all of the info and eliminate the duplicate info? WHY IS THIS SO COMPLICATED?
grrrrrr.
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my contact automatically transfer from iphone to g pro when sync with same account using in iphone to g pro !!!
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Is there an easy way to transfer contacts from my iphone to the OGP?
The ATT store guy said because I had a lot of mail accounts that their little machine would choke on it for several hours. I did a few contacts then froze for like 20 minutes while I was in the store.
I'm not really fond of Google's privacy policies, so I am loathe to use Google contacts....but apparently in 2013, switching contacts between phones is still difficult (sarcasm) for basic office programs like thunderbird or outlook.
I was able to save a vcard file from itunes and export it, but when I imported it into my phone, many of the names were missing and most of the notes fields were non-existant. I have about 200 contacts and manually entering all fo them would be a gigantic pain.
Anyone have any ideas?
Why is this still such a problem?
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The easy way is to use google, but you "loathe" them so you are stuck.
Been using google for years and never had an issue with them myself. Plus, it keeps me from the issue you are having now.
Pick your poison...
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Greetings,
I am about to root my Samsung Galaxy S3 after that option was suggested to me by DocHoliday77 to address a problem with my media player on my phone. After looking at the procedure for rooting using "Odin", I feel reasonably confident in attempting to root my phone. Before i take the plunge, I have a few questions:
1. Will a rooted phone still be detected by Samsung Kies?
I sync my files using Samsung Kies.
2. Will Odin work on Windows 8?
I am about to update to windows 8, so I would like to know if should root my phone before or after I update to "8"?
Thanks all in advance.
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1. Will a rooted phone still be detected by Samsung Kies?
I sync my files using Samsung Kies.
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Stop. The only thing worse than Kies is iTunes. If you tell us what you are syncing, I'm sure we can provide a better way,
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2. Will Odin work on Windows 8?
I am about to update to windows 8, so I would like to know if should root my phone before or after I update to "8"?
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Don't see why it wouldn't, but I have no intention of ever "upgrading" to it, so am currently, and for the foreseeable future, unable to test this.
Also, Odin will not work with Kies running. Either you need to force it to stop, or better yet, ax it!
There is almost no one here who likes kies and uses it by choice! To each his own, but imo kies is a horrible piece of s...oftware!
I cannot attest to win 8 either. (My upgrade was to format Windows 8 and install Win 7!)
But Odin should work. Try using win7 compatibility mode if it gives you trouble. Id just do what you need to do before you move to 8 though.
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Stop. The only thing worse than Kies is iTunes. If you tell us what you are syncing, I'm sure we can provide a better way,
Don't see why it wouldn't, but I have no intention of ever "upgrading" to it, so am currently, and for the foreseeable future, unable to test this.
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I was never an apple fan so I am in your corner on that one. I have had very few issues with Kies. The primary items I sync with are:
Outlook Calendar and tasks,
Contacts,
podcast.
I would especially like to find a way to sync "S memo" (which I have to admit I have not found a way to do even with kies). I also will mention that kies did not back up my files and info, so I lost much of the fine details with my contacts and calendars (sucks trying to match the pictures with my contacts). I attribute that to most of my info being stored on my SD card instead of the internal memory of my phone. I am fortunate in that much of my info was stored on outlook and my Google account (as well as Advance Mobile care).
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Opinions seem to vary with Win 8, but I am reasonably comfortable taking the plunge with that upgrade as well. I had a chance to play with 8 on some display models @ Micro center and Tiger Direct. I have been assured that any software running on 7 will work with 8. As far as I know, there is no compatibility mode in win 8. I was hoping that There is someone with some hands on using "Odin" on a Win 8 OS.
Thank you for your speedy response and input.
I'm not sure about a syncing tool that'll sync smemo. But ill look around.
For contacts, regardless of how you backup everything else, I find exporting to a .vcf is a wise thing to do. Importing the .vcf is just as easy.
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Stop. The only thing worse than Kies is iTunes. If you tell us what you are syncing, I'm sure we can provide a better way,
Don't see why it wouldn't, but I have no intention of ever "upgrading" to it, so am currently, and for the foreseeable future, unable to test this.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Also, Odin will not work with Kies running. Either you need to force it to stop, or better yet, ax it!
There is almost no one here who likes kies and uses it by choice! To each his own, but imo kies is a horrible piece of s...oftware!
I cannot attest to win 8 either. (My upgrade was to format Windows 8 and install Win 7!)
But Odin should work. Try using win7 compatibility mode if it gives you trouble. Id just do what you need to do before you move to 8 though.
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Greetings DocHoliday77,
My win 7 was corrupted when I was downloading some files to the point that I had to format my Hard Drive, and reinstall Win 7. Unfortunately, the only copy of win 7 for my laptop was on a flash drive and the flies on that have been corrupted as well. My decision came down to another win 7 Ultimate, or Win 8. If I am not mistaken, 7 went through its share of growing pains as well. Right now I am using another copy of Win 7 home premium that has been activated on another PC. I have 30 day to activate it, so now i am down to about a week. As I have mentioned on a previous post, I don't think win 8 has a compatibility mode, but right I don't have any applications that need to be installed or running in compatibility mode. I was assured that anything that is running on 7 will work on 8.
I only run Kies when I want to sync information that I stored on my laptop, otherwise kies is not running. I would be interested in some alternative software that will sync my GS3 with outlook 2007, contacts, podcast, and especially S memo. I have not had the misfortunes that others have had using kies, but then again that maybe due to my using it only when I need to sync my phone.
I am probably going to do as you suggested and root my phone under Win 7, then install Win 8.
Thanks much for your quick response and input.
response.
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I'm not sure about a syncing tool that'll sync smemo. But ill look around.
For contacts, regardless of how you backup everything else, I find exporting to a .vcf is a wise thing to do. Importing the .vcf is just as easy.
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As far as syncing my contacts is concerned, I seem to be having good luck using outlook 2007. My info is also backed up on Advanced Mobile care as well. The drawback is that no pictures associated with the contacts are saved. I have saved some of my contacts using ".vcf" cards. Is there a way to save groups of contacts using vcf cards?
What is a good app to use to sync outlook to Google Calendar? Now that calendar sync has been changed, I am looking for an alternative, especially to sync outlook to Google. I am thinking about syncing outlook to google, then google to my phone.
Thanks much for your help so far...
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As far as syncing my contacts is concerned, I seem to be having good luck using outlook 2007. My info is also backed up on Advanced Mobile care as well. The drawback is that no pictures associated with the contacts are saved. I have saved some of my contacts using ".vcf" cards. Is there a way to save groups of contacts using vcf cards?
What is a good app to use to sync outlook to Google Calendar? Now that calendar sync has been changed, I am looking for an alternative, especially to sync outlook to Google. I am thinking about syncing outlook to google, then google to my phone.
Thanks much for your help so far...
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You need to let Google do the work for you. You are doing everything manually.
Use Keep instead of S Memo (there are literally an uncountable number of apps like this that automatically sync), use the Google calendars instead of Outlook, merge all of your contacts into your Google account (should be an option in the Contacts app). As far as calendars, I'm not sure if there is an app that can directly transfer them, but a Google search could yield some answers.
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You need to let Google do the work for you. You are doing everything manually.
Use Keep instead of S Memo (there are literally an uncountable number of apps like this that automatically sync), use the Google calendars instead of Outlook, merge all of your contacts into your Google account (should be an option in the Contacts app). As far as calendars, I'm not sure if there is an app that can directly transfer them, but a Google search could yield some answers.
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Greetings Aerowinder,
Thank you for your input. My Phone Explorer is a very good Software Application to sync Outlook to my phone. The only problem is that it doesn't sync outlook task. What is nice about Outlook is that everything I needed is integrated into outlook. Google Sync was the one app that linked outlook to my google account. My phone explorer is very close in that it sync outlook to my phone, but doesn't sync outlook task. I could attach S memo to my task and/or Calendar for my SIII. I may (reluctantly) re install Kies so I will be able to sync all of Outlook to my phone. I am open to any suggestions to address my issues and request. Thank you for your request and suggestions to date.
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I descovered that the app that I use to sync my phone to outlook (MyPhoneExplorer) does have task sync function. The task sync function is different from the task function that is intergrated into outlook. The task feature for "MyPhoneExplorer" behaves more like a pop up reminder that doesn't allow the option to edit from the phone. The task can be seen, but not accessed from the phone, and is not integrated into outlook. Any changes that need to be made to the task will have to be done from the PC.
It looks like my new contacts that I add on my note sync's with google sometimes. I'm not sure why but it seems like some contacts will sync with no issues and be on my google account with no issues then some of them only syncs to my phone. Anyone have any idea why this is happening?
for whatever reason, new contacts get stored on the phone, I had made a post a while back about this.
added new contacts to the phone, and expected them to go to exchange, found out they were stored on the phone, on my old S2 I had the option to change where the contact was stored, directly from the phone.
that is not an option on this phone currently.
my workaround was to create the contact in outlook, so it would go to exchange, then it will sync to phone. in your case, probably just create the contact at the google website, then let it sync to you phone.
Yeah, that's what I started to do but it's just annoying because I grab a friends number on the fly and not remember to do that. I just find it weird that it only works sometimes.
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for whatever reason, new contacts get stored on the phone, I had made a post a while back about this.
added new contacts to the phone, and expected them to go to exchange, found out they were stored on the phone, on my old S2 I had the option to change where the contact was stored, directly from the phone.
that is not an option on this phone currently.
my workaround was to create the contact in outlook, so it would go to exchange, then it will sync to phone. in your case, probably just create the contact at the google website, then let it sync to you phone.
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Are you selecting Google contact as your option as it seems to default to device if you do not specify.
When I add a contact, it always gives me a choice where to store it. I always choose Google.
You know sometimes it's the simple things that get overlooked.. I totally missed that option when creating a new contact. I was trying to find a way to change where it was stored after it was created.
Thanks for the helpful info.
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