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Hello!
So, I rooted my SGS before and now I have a Note II and I want to root it but I would like to be like 99% sure it won't brick my phone
Which is the safest and easiest way to root the Note II?
Specs:
Android: 4.1.1
Baseband: N7100XXALIH
Build: JRO03C.N7100XXALJ1
All modifications are performed on your own risk. You can be 99% sure, but there are always risks of course...
I used mskip's toolkit which you can find in the development section of the forum. It was extremely easy and painless so I recommend that!
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No it won't and it's always worth rooting.
I can say I have rooted device nearly 200 times myself and helped thousands of note1 user to root, I have never bricked, nor I have reported brick by just rooting.
Find 1st line on my signature and read post #2.
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i rooted mine. it's not stupid anymore like 2 years ago when i had to use a goldcard and such.
today it's sooo simple that afaik unless you yank the cable out during flash, or your pc crashes mid flash or something then you'll be ok.
Rooting usually needs to flash recovery, so even you interrupt in between or something happens that causing it, I don't believe still you can brick it. As long as your bootloader is fine, you are safe. Usually most brick happens due to flashing wrong file particularly pit. And bootloader though hard brick is rare.
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Rooting usually needs to flash recovery, so even you interrupt in between or something happens that causing it, I don't believe still you can brick it. As long as your bootloader is fine, you are safe. Usually most brick happens due to flashing wrong file particularly pit. And bootloader though hard brick is rare.
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I am from Sweden and the PDA/CSC ain't listed I think. Please read my first post with specs, which should I download?
Build is PDA
Baseband is modem (phone)
Csc you can find by dialing *#1234#
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Build is PDA
Baseband is modem (phone)
Csc you can find by dialing *#1234#
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Thank you!
Just a few questions left then.
1. As I said I live in Sweden, when I checked the Build and CSC it found a few on that list, should I choose United Kingdom because it's near Sweden?
2. Found this aswell http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31986738&postcount=7 is the last link if you need a backup or what?
I am confused, for rooting why all info you needs?
It is same for all
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I am confused, for rooting why all info you needs?
It is same for all
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When I used CF-Root to root my SGS I had to find the CORRECT one to download... Isn't it the same with the Note II? And do you think there will be any problems if I download the United Kingdom one even if I didn't bought the phone there?
No here you can root with same recovery to any available rom now.
Though you can flash any rom of any country irrespective of your region.
Rooting method will remain same as described in post#2 of thread you mentioned in previous post.
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dr.ketan said:
No here you can root with same recovery to any available rom now.
Though you can flash any rom of any country irrespective of your region.
Rooting method will remain same as described in post#2 of thread you mentioned in previous post.
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Ah! Downloading the file that was matched with mine PDA and CSC right now... If anything goes wrong, is there a big chance it is bricked or will that result in nothing changed? Nothing brick'd and nothing rooted?
Rom file you are downloading will just change rom(won't root) flashing rom should never brick if you properly flash with odin
Refer to first line on my signature post#1 for flashing rom
Post#2 for rooting
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I havenot rooted my device yet surprisingly. most times I root my phone as soon as root is available but I've not taken the plunge yet.
Reason being it's not required as device is very smooth and responsive. Those who have rooted could you tell me if you have seen any significant improvements?
Would you recommend it, does the s pen lose any functionality?
Personally I think its not worth it to root for once...I also used to root but with this phone I have not convinced myself of a reason before it used to be just for the updates but I have the international version so updates should be painless. ...besides I just bought this $700 babe and im not ready to chance that money yet
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@riz157
Just rooting can't affect performance, nor you lose any functions including s pen.
There are individual indication for all to root device. Only purpose is do root to schedule backup my data with titanium backup and for flashing some mode like calling recording
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dr.ketan said:
@riz157
Just rooting can't affect performance, nor you lose any functions including s pen.
There are individual indication for all to root device. Only purpose is do root to schedule backup my data with titanium backup and for flashing some mode like calling recording
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Yes you are right of course you have to flash custom Rom or mods to see improvementd our changes. I should have made myself more clear. Are there any roms out there which significantly improve performance , stability of note 2 without losing core functions of note 2?
read up, test a few out maybe? get custom recovery and backup your rom. then you can try out a few new ones. you might like it - or not. if you dont, go back to your stock rom.
i jumped to wanamlite (used his during the sgs2 days) and i don't see performance diffs. tis tweaks mostly at this point.
as always. ymmv and what i want in a rom, you might not etc. and the reverse of course.
tommo123 said:
read up, test a few out maybe? get custom recovery and backup your rom. then you can try out a few new ones. you might like it - or not. if you dont, go back to your stock rom.
i jumped to wanamlite (used his during the sgs2 days) and i don't see performance diffs. tis tweaks mostly at this point.
as always. ymmv and what i want in a rom, you might not etc. and the reverse of course.
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I'm a flashaholic to be honest every handset I've bought I've flashed daily but this handset works fine as it is.
Wanamlite looks interesting and tempting. Have you noticed any issues with s pen, reading ext card, graphical glitches since flashing this Rom?
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Hello guys
Im new to Samsung, bought my phone a month ago and love it to be honest. The problem is dont know most of things on android and samsung. been looking at the forum hours and hours and learnt most of it from you.
I want to know if rooting is any good? why would you root your device or why wouldnt you? advantages and disadvantages?
Is it easy to do it? (as Im new dont wanna brick my phone) I have seen that if you root your phone your warranty will be avoid. If you unroot will it be still avoided?
Hope my questions are clear.
Hi and welxome to xda. Rooting basically gives you full rights over your phone and breaks most barriers put in place. Hands down the best thing about rooting your phone is that it gives you the ability to install a custom rom which improves on the current rom (the systen you are interacting with)
It is really easy to root a note2, i suggest you read the stickys-they have a guide for it.
Lastly the only downside is that you can brick ur phone if anything is DONE without reading the instructions. Or flashing something that is not in a N7100 forum.
And it voids warantee, but there is a workaround (traingleaway, search it )
Hope i answered your question
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hamzahqaisar1995 said:
Hi and welxome to xda. Rooting basically gives you full rights over your phone and breaks most barriers put in place. Hands down the best thing about rooting your phone is that it gives you the ability to install a custom rom which improves on the current rom (the systen you are interacting with)
It is really easy to root a note2, i suggest you read the stickys-they have a guide for it.
Lastly the only downside is that you can brick ur phone if anything is DONE without reading the instructions. Or flashing something that is not in a N7100 forum.
And it voids warantee, but there is a workaround (traingleaway, search it )
Hope i answered your question
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Thanks for you response mate. Whats the quickest and easiest and safest root ? Like iphone jailbreaks are so easy all you need to do is plug your phone in and press the jailbreak button and after 2 3 minutes all done. Is there any program or software like that?
I suggest you before rooting do a bit of research on why you need to root rather than root it "because you can" as you read rooting has it drawbacks specially for noobs.
If you can live without some specific feature only available through rooting, don't root avoid a headache.
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PiskopatYazar said:
Thanks for you response mate. Whats the quickest and easiest and safest root ? Like iphone jailbreaks are so easy all you need to do is plug your phone in and press the jailbreak button and after 2 3 minutes all done. Is there any program or software like that?
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CF auto root
it will take 10 sec
True, bought Note II yesterday and rooted today in like 2 minutes!
yahyoh said:
CF auto root
it will take 10 sec
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thanks
dalanik said:
True, bought Note II yesterday and rooted today in like 2 minutes!
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what files do I need? where did you download them?
Where can you find instructions to unroot a note 2 which has been rooted using CF-auto-root.
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HypoDest said:
Where can you find instructions to unroot a note 2 which has been rooted using CF-auto-root.
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why do you want to unroot?
PiskopatYazar said:
why do you want to unroot?
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Haven't rooted yet. Found many instructions for the easy cf-auto-root but not much on unrooting, which may be needed for OTA updates or warranty checks.
Anyways you may wanna look into rooting after finding some uses for it. Otherwise it may be an unnecessary risk. There is a lot of customisation and functionality available using the stock rom and market apps alone.
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you can unroot (rooted with cf autoroot) by supeSU (you will get it by rooting)setting menu
OR
by simply flashing stock ROM with odin will unroot device
(In both case you should have to reset counter while you are having root, to claim warranty)
Read post#2 &3 of this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1896696
dr.ketan said:
you can unroot (rooted with cf autoroot) by supeSU (you will get it by rooting)setting menu
OR
by simply flashing stock ROM with odin will unroot device
(In both case you should have to reset counter while you are having root, to claim warranty)
Read post#2 &3 of this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1896696
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Does unrooting using superSU require restoring factory settings or anything? Or does it do it cleanly?
I want to be able to update through OTA.
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factory reset won't need, cosmetically you won't see any rooting sign.
But regarding OTA, really its weired
you never can say surely, i have seen who have unrooted + factory reset, even they fails to install update (though even getting update)
so be prepare to flash using odin, if you don't get OTA.
You need to factory flash via Odin and then use triangle away to reset the flash counter that should allow you to update OTA.
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Hello. I owned a htc sensation before and i liked sticked JB on it, now i have note 2 for 2 month and i can deside to root it or not root... Only what i dont like is that samsung made that you can list your imei in flashing roms, and this SDS little bit scares me, if it happens i cant get warranty... So help little but
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Whether you decide to root or not just make sure the Rom you are flashing is based on 4.1.2 and above if any. And also if you do root and instal a custom recovery, download the latest so you won't get affected when in recovery mode.
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gefilus said:
Hello. I owned a htc sensation before and i liked sticked JB on it, now i have note 2 for 2 month and i can deside to root it or not root... Only what i dont like is that samsung made that you can list your imei in flashing roms, and this SDS little bit scares me, if it happens i cant get warranty... So help little but
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in my opinion you should think it about root or root
if you flash in a correct way,it wont be harmful for your device
So I've been thinking about flashing Paranoid Android 3.6, mostly because of halo and 4.2.2.
What's kept me from root+custom rom for so long is the possibility of a brick, or requiring the warranty and being unable to revert to stock
Had the phone for 6 months now, the longest I've stayed on an official rom on any phone I've had, with the impending release of 4.2.2 in the near future, i'm not sure if now's a good time to root. (Decisions, decisions)
Apart from dropping the phone and have the screen shatter, what could go wrong? Eg. Bricks, sds somehow?
I'm hoping to get a list of things that could go wrong, and the way to get something to go wrong.
Purely so I could avoid just that :good:
Cheers.
csmiler said:
So I've been thinking about flashing Paranoid Android 3.6, mostly because of halo and 4.2.2.
What's kept me from root+custom rom for so long is the possibility of a brick, or requiring the warranty and being unable to revert to stock
Had the phone for 6 months now, the longest I've stayed on an official rom on any phone I've had, with the impending release of 4.2.2 in the near future, i'm not sure if now's a good time to root. (Decisions, decisions)
Apart from dropping the phone and have the screen shatter, what could go wrong? Eg. Bricks, sds somehow?
I'm hoping to get a list of things that could go wrong, and the way to get something to go wrong.
Purely so I could avoid just that :good:
Cheers.
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There is a best toolkit available for rooting and installing Cwm which u can use and will not create any issue out of it
Since note 2 is quite a old and most of the issue which occurs are solved by some or the other user
I would suggest take a proper EFS backup have a nandroid backup safe somewhere on pc etc after rooting and cwm
And after that enjoy flashing ROMS u like the way u want
Most of the thread has a guide to use / install so u won't have any issue I guess
Just follow the guide and u ll just be fine
All the best :thumbup:
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123hiten said:
There is a best toolkit available for rooting and installing Cwm which u can use and will not create any issue out of it
Since note 2 is quite a old and most of the issue which occurs are solved by some or the other user
I would suggest take a proper EFS backup have a nandroid backup safe somewhere on pc etc after rooting and cwm
And after that enjoy flashing ROMS u like the way u want
Most of the thread has a guide to use / install so u won't have any issue I guess
Just follow the guide and u ll just be fine
All the best :thumbup:
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Bangalore ftw, thanks!
What's the toolkit called?
Could I just follow step 2 onthis page ? It's similar to what I've done on my old phone.
Still a bit jittery, if I follow the guide to the letter, what are the chances of a brick?
Cheers :good:
csmiler said:
Bangalore ftw, thanks!
What's the toolkit called?
Could I just follow step 2 onthis page ? It's similar to what I've done on my old phone.
Still a bit jittery, if I follow the guide to the letter, what are the chances of a brick?
Cheers :good:
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Yes u can use Dr ketan guide he is best at what he does and will support also
Dont worry u won't brick it
I have flashed so many rom the second day I get a new phone and all is well as long as I follow it properly
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123hiten said:
Yes u can use Dr ketan guide he is best at what he does and will support also
Dont worry u won't brick it
I have flashed so many rom the second day I get a new phone and all is well as long as I follow it properly
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Assuming I install the custom rom, and then decide to install official 4.2.2 when it releases, what would I do?
Can I install through kies instead of reverting back to stock and having to deal with the system modified issue?
csmiler said:
Assuming I install the custom rom, and then decide to install official 4.2.2 when it releases, what would I do?
Can I install through kies instead of reverting back to stock and having to deal with the system modified issue?
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Incase in the future u wanna come back to normal or stock u have to flash the firmware unroot and then u can get update from kies
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123hiten said:
Incase in the future u wanna come back to normal or stock u have to flash the firmware unroot and then u can get update from kies
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Thanks!
I guess I'll just have to get over the jitters by convincing myself there isn't a risk. :banghead:
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Today took a nandroid back up installed paranoid android halo is not at all amazing infact found irritating and restored the rom to sammy custom my personal view
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The most important thing to do before flashing any rom is to create a backup of the EFS partition. I cannot stress it enough how many threads I keep seeing with people crying about losing their imei number and unable to retrieve them. Very important!
Besides that, don't use any rom released before 4.2.1 to minimize the risk of SDS. There's always a risk with rooting and flashing unofficial rom, however, only thing you can do is minimize the risk as much as possible. Good luck.
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Will do, I'm going to go for it
Is it flashing the Recovery or flashing the rom that carries the risk of erasing the efs?
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Will do, I'm going to go for it
Is it flashing the Recovery or flashing the rom that carries the risk of erasing the efs?
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That is a risk associated with flashing the rom not the recovery. I have never lost my imei from flashing recovery, it usually happens after flashing a custom rom. Fortunately I always have a permanent spot on my PC for my phone EFS backup.
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bushako said:
That is a risk associated with flashing the rom not the recovery. I have never lost my imei from flashing recovery, it usually happens after flashing a custom rom. Fortunately I always have a permanent spot on my PC for my phone EFS backup.
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This is a frequent occurrence? In the event that it gets wiped, is restoring the EFS a sure thing, it is there a possibility it won't restore?
bushako said:
That is a risk associated with flashing the rom not the recovery. I have never lost my imei from flashing recovery, it usually happens after flashing a custom rom. Fortunately I always have a permanent spot on my PC for my phone EFS backup.
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Also, if i needed to restore a nandroid backup, would I need to flash a stock kernel? Or just a restore?
Edit- I just read the Mobile Odin thread, and saw "While in theory Mobile ODIN can repartition and flash EFS and bootloaders, it will cowardly refuse to do so, for your own safety."
So, is mobile odin better than flashing from recovery?
Sorry for the pestering, after 5 years on these forums from my iMate days, i'd be expected to be less of a frightened noob when it comes to a new phone
did some reading but didnt really find what i was looking for in this section.
i have the Note 2. v 4.1.2 but i want to downgrade to 4.1.1 so that i can unlock my device so i can use any carrier.
but then i would want to do the 4.1.2 update again completely stock from the OTA or whatever its called. and still have it permanently unlocked from the previous 4.1.1
should i use odin and a stock 4.1.1tar file for the PDA to flash it or would this be the wrong way of doing this and possibly voiding my warrenty
Well there's a few ways of doing that. The way you mentioned!
But you can also just downgrade your modem to the J2, and you can perform the unlock that way... But if unsure about what your doing, do some research..
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Bajanman said:
Well there's a few ways of doing that. The way you mentioned!
But you can also just downgrade your modem to the J2, and you can perform the unlock that way... But if unsure about what your doing, do some research..
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so are you saying to only flash the modem with the I317MVLALJ2 modem and thats it... because i do know how to flash with odin. i did it with my first galaxy and for some reason the micro sd slot stopped working. so i was thinking this method would screw up my note 2. i just want to downgrade to unlock it then re update
this was the method i was going to go with. what would you say?!
androidromupdate .com/2012/11/22/samsung-galaxy-note-2-sgh-i317m-canada-original-stock-romfirmware/
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so are you saying to only flash the modem with the I317MVLALJ2 modem and thats it... because i do know how to flash with odin. i did it with my first galaxy and for some reason the micro sd slot stopped working. so i was thinking this method would screw up my note 2. i just want to downgrade to unlock it then re update
this was the method i was going to go with. what would you say?!
http://androidromupdate.com/2012/11...-sgh-i317m-canada-original-stock-romfirmware/
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Yes! :thumbup:Looks like any regular Rom flash using Odin. But I usually use Odin when flashing back to completely stock...
Another method if your rooted, like I said you can flash just the modem thru the recovery...
But I think you should do some reading on all this. Imho
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Exessive yetypor
Bajanman said:
Yes! :thumbup:Looks like any regular Rom flash using Odin. But I usually use Odin when flashing back to completely stock...
Another method if your rooted, like I said you can flash just the modem thru the recovery...
But I think you should do some reading on all this. Imho
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well i am not rooted and i want to go back to COMPLETE stock. so i will go with ODIN. I haven't figured out the benefits of a rooted device. other then screen recording and a few little things here. then again i havent gotten deep into it to see what the benefits are.
but if you know some awesome things that benefit having a rooted device do share
**Did the Odin Stock restore to a 4.1.1 worked without any problems. and got my unlock going. very pleased. now to think about possible rooting hmmm.*****
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well i am not rooted and i want to go back to COMPLETE stock. so i will go with ODIN. I haven't figured out the benefits of a rooted device. other then screen recording and a few little things here. then again i havent gotten deep into it to see what the benefits are.
but if you know some awesome things that benefit having a rooted device do share
**Did the Odin Stock restore to a 4.1.1 worked without any problems. and got my unlock going. very pleased. now to think about possible rooting hmmm.*****
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I root to freeze a bunch of useless system apps. That alone is enough for me.
Rooting is only 1 part of a very large puzzle when you are talking about modification ...
Root is only a tool ...
And the real fun starts when you can build and theme or modify any number of parts inside your device ...
You don't own it unless it's rooted ...and you'll never fully enjoy it until you make the changes that unleash what these devices are capable of ...
And that starts by reading and learning ...then reading and learning more...
Then you will be on your way to making the phone truly yours ....g
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Rooting is only 1 part of a very large puzzle when you are talking about modification ...
Root is only a tool ...
And the real fun starts when you can build and theme or modify any number of parts inside your device ...
You don't own it unless it's rooted ...and you'll never fully enjoy it until you make the changes that unleash what these devices are capable of ...
And that starts by reading and learning ...then reading and learning more...
Then you will be on your way to making the phone truly yours ....g
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This^^^^^^^^^100% Correct:thumbup:
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