So I'm having issues with 4.1.2 update.
I was on 4.1.1 rooted with CF-AutoRoot, flashed back to a stock rom, updated OTA, redid CF-AutoRoot.
I don't think CF-AutoRoot is related here, but Im just detailing my steps.
So I noticed that whenever I lock my phone, and then unlock it (even after a few seconds or an hour), the SD card shows as being "remounted" for some reason. Every time. Never used to do this.
So if I'm in camera or playing music, lock the phone, and unlock it - the app will say "Media failed"
In battery, it says Media 49% battery usage.
CPU Total 28m 46s
Stay awake 39m 46s
Includes: Downloads, DRM Protected Content Storage, Media Storage, Downloads, com.sec.android.providers.downloads
Can anyone help? Any recommendations on how to approach the issue? Somehow can I log what apps are using this?
Do you have an app that auto downloads things such as a a podcast app? You can get better battery stats or something to see if it shows you the real culprit.
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I had this issue as well !! I had a 32g SanDisk ultra class 10 and ut was fine until the update! ! I bought a new card and no issue and one of my friends who works att att says that ota can do funky things and mess with sd cards and other files so thats as far as I got but bought a new samsung 32gig class 10 no issues and believe it or not gave my wofe the one that didn't work in my phone anymore and boom worked in her gs3 with no issue
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I had this issue as well !! I had a 32g SanDisk ultra class 10 and ut was fine until the update! ! I bought a new card and no issue and one of my friends who works att att says that ota can do funky things and mess with sd cards and other files so thats as far as I got but bought a new samsung 32gig class 10 no issues and believe it or not gave my wofe the one that didn't work in my phone anymore and boom worked in her gs3 with no issue
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Very interesting. After doing a lot of Google and reading similar issues, I'm going to try reformatting my card when I get home and will report back if this works. If I force close media then the sd card cannot be used, which may infer some kind of corruption or some garbage
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You can probably kiss that card goodbye. The issues you are getting are the issues I was having and many others. I was lucky that I was able to backup stuff to my computer. Within an hour of that, my phone nor my computer would even recognize the card and it was dead at that point. I attempt to reformat the card but it did not work.
I tested the fault by using another Sandisk 16gb ultra that I had and it worked in both devices. Oddly enough I purchased another 32 gb card, same model, and have been trouble free for about a month.
Ever since putting in the new card, the media thing went away. I also froze a DRM process with Titanium Backup but I don't think that had anything to do with the media process taking up a huge chunk of battery.
Test this out by using another card or simply taking the SD card out for a while and see if the media battery sucker is still there.
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Hey guys I have searched and found nothing. The last few days when I wake my phone up, up in the corner it will show sd card unexpectedly removed then a few seconds later it will go to the prepping sd card or whatever it says. A few times I have gone to my music and pictures and nothing is there but I just put it asleep wake it up and its loading up my stuff. I know it's a Samsung think as my S2 did it and my S3 did it once. Anybody else having the same problem? It worked fine up until the last few days
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My phone randomly unmounts the sdcard and I have to rescan my music.
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Was experiencing the same problem and the frequency of seeing "preparing SD card" was beginning to increase over the last few days. I tried formatting in the phone and formatting on the pc but neither helped. In desperation I changed cards from a 32gb Sandisk Ultra UHS-1 card to a 16GB TRanscend Class 6 card and my problems seemed to have stopped (over the last 12 hours or so). Haven't seen "Preparing SD Card" since switching. What types of cards were you guys running? Am wondering if I just go a bum card (works ok in the pc) or if there is a problem with the class of card or a problem with my phone. Don't really know where to go from here besides leaving the 16gb card in it.
I am using a Sandisk Ultramobile 32GB card, and I haven't had any problems with it at all.
I use iSyncr and store about 20GB of music in Alac format on it from my iTunes library, and have iSyncr set to display a notification when the Android media scanner is active, and I haven't seen any unusual scanning, or unmounting/preparing activity.
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Was experiencing the same problem and the frequency of seeing "preparing SD card" was beginning to increase over the last few days. I tried formatting in the phone and formatting on the pc but neither helped. In desperation I changed cards from a 32gb Sandisk Ultra UHS-1 card to a 16GB TRanscend Class 6 card and my problems seemed to have stopped (over the last 12 hours or so). Haven't seen "Preparing SD Card" since switching. What types of cards were you guys running? Am wondering if I just go a bum card (works ok in the pc) or if there is a problem with the class of card or a problem with my phone. Don't really know where to go from here besides leaving the 16gb card in it.
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64gb uhs1 here so far no problems.
For me, that was always a sign of a failing SD card.
Thank you for confirming that the Note 2 works with UHS-1 cards. I figured as much since I have seen a number ofpeople mentioning that these are the cards they are using. A bit miffed at the problems I am having. Guess I'll see if I can exchange.
I'm having a problem with my free space not showing up properly. I have a 32gb class 10 that show ~5gb in one app and ~15gb in another. I had some corrupt files the other day so I backed it up and formatted it. So I think my card is going bad.
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Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying, this caused it to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the media scanning process.
I created an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card (made in Korea), and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
I just published this app in the play store now, this is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor
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Hey guys I have searched and found nothing. The last few days when I wake my phone up, up in the corner it will show sd card unexpectedly removed then a few seconds later it will go to the prepping sd card or whatever it says. A few times I have gone to my music and pictures and nothing is there but I just put it asleep wake it up and its loading up my stuff. I know it's a Samsung think as my S2 did it and my S3 did it once. Anybody else having the same problem? It worked fine up until the last few days
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My phone just started having this problem on Friday... it doesn't let the phone sleep...happens probably 1 out of 4 times when I turn the phone screen on. Went to sleep during the night with 88% on the battery and 6 hours later my phone was at 55% and I had a message saying the SD card might be corrupted. Would you like to format it? Media process woke up my phone for 2 hours, so is it time for a new SD card? I'm gonna check out this SD card app I saw in this thread. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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This seems to now be a "known issue" (as in here on the forum) with specifically the SanDisk 32GB UHS-1 Class 10 red/gray cards and Samsung phones. I had the same problem pop up out nowhere after using the card just fine for a couple of months. I switched this SanDisk card with a Patriot 32GB Class 4 card that was in my Acer A500 tablet, and now both devices are perfectly happy. My Acer A500 has absolutely no problem with the SanDisk card, so it doesn't appear to be a failing SD card issue. I tested it like a dozen times before reformatting it and putting it in the Acer A500.
There's a far more extension discussion about this on the T-Mobile Note 2 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031009
I'm having the dreaded 'SD Card Unexpectedly Removed' issue. The card seems to work fine in other devices, but my Note 2 cannot deal with it. Mine is a SanDisk 32GB Class 4. It was working fine for weeks, and now all of a sudden, it loses the card every time the phone goes to sleep. Once the phone wakes up, it flashes the warning, then says 'Preparing SD Card', and it works fine until the phone goes to sleep.
I noticed that many Verizon Note 2 users are having the same issue...
http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-note-2/231647-sd-card-unexpectedly-removed.html
Is anyone else seeing this problem?
It did happen to me with my sandisk 32GB class 4 card. I swapped it with a 16 GB card from a 2 year old
moto droid unused in my basement dump and it worked. It has been over 3 wks now and no issues. I dont think it is a device fault but sense that many note 2 users have bumped into this issue lately..something fishy.
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Hi guys.. I've same issue last night.. All data missing.. Cannot open on computer also.. Any solution?
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I had this problem also. I had 32 gb class 10 sandisk sdcard 1st time I bought this phone. It was working fine for the 1st 3 weeks but after that I got that dreaded message everytime I wake my phone. I thought its my phones hardware but when my brother and I swapped cards, that message never appeared again. I currently have a 16 gb class 10 sd. My brother has tmobile galaxy s2, that message showed after 2 days of using that card. I reformatted that card and checked it for errors multiple times. There was no problem. I dont know probably some samsung phobes have issues about sdcard 32 gb and above. I have read it in galaxy s3 forums also.
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I'm actually having a similar problem with my sn2 not reading my 32gb SanDisk card, I'm going to try to reformat it and see what happens. Just got the phone two days ago.
I fixed my problem by installing the new twrp 2.3.2.3 recovery using goo manager. I followed these instructions from the twrp website.
In goo manager tap menu on your phone and hit install openRecoveryScript, tap yes, verify filename displays your devices name and hit yes. The file will download and install on your device, now reboot.
Hopefully this helps people
I have a sandisk 64gb class 10 I havent had this problem as of yet...
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I'm just gonna throw this out there... It kinda seems like the latest Samsung phones are happily corrupting SD cards right and left. Now, maybe some cards are more susceptible to this, but the fact remains that this is not just anecdotal anymore. We need to get the various phone groups that are seeing this issue to band together and contact Samsung for a fix.
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My Sandisk class 10 32gb card died on me too. Went to best buy exchanged for another one, reformat it. ... so far so good.
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Mine worked fine for a while, too. I'm not sure what triggered it, but I think the phone did something to it. The reason I think this is simple. I have had many devices with SD cards in them, and never have I had one go bad. This phone was using a card that I had used for months before in another phone, and within a month the card was bad. When I looked online, I found hundreds of cases of the same issue, mostly with Samsung S3 and GN2 phones. It seems too much to be a coincidence.
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I have a sandisk 64gb class 10 I havent had this problem as of yet...
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I am having the same issue. It is with all SD-Cards I try after some time. I have 2 32gb Sandisk class 10 that I tried and a handful of 2 and 4 gb class 4 and class 6 cards. After sometime, 20 minutes to a couple of hours I starting getting the "SD Card unexpectedly removed" Then a quick scanning s Card message. I tried formatting the cards with different computers and even using my Linux machine to see if it would fix it.
Has anyone come up with a solution yet? Should I swap the phone out for another one since I have ruled out the SD-Card as being the problem.
My 14 days hits this weekend and it is easier to get things done at T-Mobile before that time frame expires.
How about card format? All fat32? Exfat?
All fat32 for me. Phone is stock, holding out on root for awhile so I can learn why Touchwiz is so hated.
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Maybe format on your computer in exfat, maybe make a difference?
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Maybe format on your computer in exfat, maybe make a difference?
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curious about this as well.
you guys not having problems, you format exfat??/ what is the difference between exfat and fat32?
I tried ExFAT, but the phone did not recognize it at all.
I wonder if anyone has had this issue with a Samsung brand card?
Swyped from a hand-held Galaxy.
Im getting the same problem with my 32 gb sandisk sd card but luckily amazon is still willing to exchange it out for me
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I formatted mine to exfat to see what would happen. I checked online and this phone supports exfat natively. I moved my files back on to the card after the format and then tossed it in the phone and it worked. It has been over an hour and still has not removed itself unexpectedly.
Will report back in tomorrow after I give it some time to settle.
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It is still removing itself almost everytime the phone goes to sleep. The last time it actually unmounted and tols me it was safe to remove the sd card when I woke the phone up.
What cards are people running? I have 2 I am testing this with:
SanDisk ultra 32GB SD-HC U1 (comparable to class 10), 1 is formatted to exfat and is half filled with mp3's, the other is fat32 and half filed with mp3's.
The mp3's are different on each card, I have a folder of music that I always throw back on the card but thought it might be corrupted so last night I made a new folder and added fresh music to see if that was the issue.
I found the official sd formatter program from the SD Alliance to try. I just formatted 1 of the cards with it and am moving the music back now. It will be a while though. From sd to computer the speeds are 12 to 30 MB/s but from computer to sd it is 2 to 5 MB/s?
Hope to have this figured out by the end of the day.
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So I just got my tmobile note 2 as a small upgrade from my s3 just over 2 weeks ago and I've been having this issue ever since I took it out of the box brand new.. But I'll go to wake the phone from sleep and I'll get a "SD card removed unexpectedly" error immediately followed by "SD card blank" although I have 14GB of just music and pictures stored on there. I think I've tried everything now to fix it and I just haven't gotten any solution as of yet.
All of this was happening on a 32 GB class 10 sandisk extreme card that came from my s3 working perfectly and formatted then reloaded with backup data when it was moved to my note. After the first day I thought the card had died after I couldn't get it to work at all anymore so I went out and bought another brand new class 10 card except this time 64gb and I'm getting the same issues so I know its not the card. Ive tried restarting the phone which works from time to time. then I'll be playing music and it'll freeze on my and remove as soon as I unlock the screen. I even went from stock ROM with numerous kernels.. To numerous other ROMs on numerous kernels and no changes there.. I've also tried a completely formatted SD card and I still get the issue upon unlock after thinking it may just be corrupted files..
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Im in a similar situation I got to w0rk after formating to fat32 but now im missing 4gb of storeage from my 64gb sdxc
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So I just got my tmobile note 2 as a small upgrade from my s3 just over 2 weeks ago and I've been having this issue ever since I took it out of the box brand new.. But I'll go to wake the phone from sleep and I'll get a "SD card removed unexpectedly" error immediately followed by "SD card blank" although I have 14GB of just music and pictures stored on there. I think I've tried everything now to fix it and I just haven't gotten any solution as of yet.
All of this was happening on a 32 GB class 10 sandisk extreme card that came from my s3 working perfectly and formatted then reloaded with backup data when it was moved to my note. After the first day I thought the card had died after I couldn't get it to work at all anymore so I went out and bought another brand new class 10 card except this time 64gb and I'm getting the same issues so I know its not the card. Ive tried restarting the phone which works from time to time. then I'll be playing music and it'll freeze on my and remove as soon as I unlock the screen. I even went from stock ROM with numerous kernels.. To numerous other ROMs on numerous kernels and no changes there.. I've also tried a completely formatted SD card and I still get the issue upon unlock after thinking it may just be corrupted files..
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That's probably because it's been beaten to death already. If you would have used the search, you would have found this thread ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031009&highlight=sd+card+removed+unexpectedly
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That's probably because it's been beaten to death already. If you would have used the search, you would have found this thread ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031009&highlight=sd+card+removed+unexpectedly
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I actually did use search.. But results are limited when you do it using tapatalk since there wasn't a computer around me at the time.. But thanks for the smart*ss reply budd
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In short, the issue is the card.
Sandisk sucks, that's about the gist of it.
Morning,
Purchased a second Lexmark 16gb SD card for my Note approx 2 weeks. Randomly picked my phone up yesterday and noticed there was some kind of warning on my status bar, went to check it out and it related to some kind of memory card issue or failure. I don't recall exactly what it said, but I do know it pointed to an issue with the card.
Now the reason for my post, I'm not sure what the odds are on two SD card failures in a three week time frame, but that's what I've just encountered and was interested in finding out if it's a more widespread issue, or just plain bad luck on my part
I had one 16gb card for my Note 2 with zero issues, now I've gone through two on my Note three in just over 3 months. Yes the card is fried as my desktop doesn't even see it when I plug it in via USB adapter.. Just in case you're wondering if I checked it elsewhere..
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Try formatting it via your phone. This should always be the first step b4 using it on anything. Could just be a faulty usb adapter too try another card reader and or different pc/adapter.
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after my S3 having problems with micro sd cards, i have stopped using memory cards entirely for any samsung products. They tend to fry the sd card every few months.
I've had a 64 Gig SanDisk since I bought my S3 zero problems. It's made it thru my s3 note 2 and now the n3 So I guess it's just hit or miss. Sorry Steve that sux dude
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I had the same problem you've described with a 32GB SanDisk card, my phone kept saying the card was unexpectedly removed, then it would re-mount the card. The most annoying side effect of this issue was it caused a lag with turning the screen on, it would literally take 3-4 seconds for the screen to come on after you pushed the button. Replacing the card solved this immediately. We'll see how long the 2nd card lasts.
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I had the same problem you've described with a 32GB SanDisk card, my phone kept saying the card was unexpectedly removed, then it would re-mount the card. The most annoying side effect of this issue was it caused a lag with turning the screen on, it would literally take 3-4 seconds for the screen to come on after you pushed the button. Replacing the card solved this immediately. We'll see how long the 2nd card lasts.
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Yeah, that pretty much describes exactly what was going on. After I seen the original sd card warning my phone got really laggy and wouldn't even boot into recovery. Remove it and everything is fine..
Every now and then I like to completely format, which is why I like having the Ext SD card, but not if I keep having to toss 30-40 bones down the tube every couple of months..Kinda lame, should have kept the damn receipt.. lol
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I've had a 64 Gig SanDisk since I bought my S3 zero problems. It's made it thru my s3 note 2 and now the n3 So I guess it's just hit or miss. Sorry Steve that sux dude
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Lucky bashterd....
The one I pick up today is going to be my lucky one, I can feel it... The memories we'll share together..
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Just had this happen to me today on a Verizon Note 3.
SD card completely dead. I wasn't even using it...AT ALL! Will not recognize on my laptop using the SD card slot.
Battery was heating up & draining too. Crazy! Over a 3 minute period I watched the battery percentage drop 4%-5%
Oh well. Why do these devices "eat" SD cards?
I encountered the same problem a year ago with my Note 2. Fortunately it wasn't the card. I was using a custom kernel that didn't recognize the FAT 32 I had the card formated to. SInce going back the stock kernel, I've had zero problems with the SD on my N2 or N3. Anyone using a custom kernel?
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I've had a 64 Gig SanDisk since I bought my S3 zero problems. It's made it thru my s3 note 2 and now the n3 So I guess it's just hit or miss. Sorry Steve that sux dude
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Same here. Mine went thru Samsung tablets as well. S3, S4, N2, N3, Galaxy Tab 3 8.0
Lol 4th one. SanDisk sucks. But lifetime warranty. They keep replacing.
TWEAKED N3
Lexmark isn't the greatest brand of SD cards. I generally only use sandisk or Lexar and I've never had a problem.
Mentioned below is the link of the post related to my battery issues lately.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2679057
Since the issue was ever persistent i took my phone to service centre today. He told me to charge the phone after removing memory card (strontium - class 4, 8GB). i don't get it. How can memory card suddenly become incompatible (i can sense a 4-8% speed up in charge since i removed memory card)
And if in real it has become incompatible, which one shall i use for my phone? :banghead:
P.s. (using oem charger of 1.2A output)
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Help please? Anyone?
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I've always stuck with SanDisk. Got a class 10 64gb card formatted in FAT32 and it has worked on every ROM available.
I have noticed that some ROMs don't support ExFAT while the stock ROM didn't work with my 64gb card while it was in FAT32.
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I could be wrong here, but don't these new phones with all their 720p, 1080p vids, pics, and cameras support the NTFS file system?
I appreciate your responses, but i am on stock rom, unrooted e988 with class 4 8G exfat MMC.
Sure it would cause battery drain?
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The only time I have ever seen problems with an sd card is from a custom Rom, which you don't have. And the card going bad. I have never seen a card cause battery issues. Certain apps cause battery issues. If you recently installed anything new, remove it and see if your battery drain slows down. As far as the card goes, just get a good quality card. Like Neroga, I have never gone wrong with Sandisc cards.
I agree with Cougar
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The only time I have ever seen problems with an sd card is from a custom Rom, which you don't have. And the card going bad. I have never seen a card cause battery issues. Certain apps cause battery issues. If you recently installed anything new, remove it and see if your battery drain slows down. As far as the card goes, just get a good quality card. Like Neroga, I have never gone wrong with Sandisc cards.
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I fear it might be the issue. Have to factory reset but can't do since i got what's app registered on my lost phonr number (that means i cannot register it back on same number once i reinstall it. Not much of a problem except doing a lot of work prior to it, like registering a new number on roaming, etc)
Got to root to install titanium backup but have to get my laptop repaired for that lot of mess i guess. Still finding an app for app's backup and restore for what's app and then will reset my phone to see about it
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