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[Q] One week deep. LOS/Sleepy Radio software or radio based?

I like the hardware but this loss of service thing is annoying.
Has anyone determined if this is a software issue? Sprints network isnt great but my evo 3d fares much better.
Ive read around on the internet and I THOUGHT I read a post that mentioned a user reverting to EG30 which solved his/her problem. Only thing that isnt positive is whether the user reverted to software EG30 or baseband EG30.
Any insight into this issue, how to revert to an earlier software version? Ive tried various radios but not software. I appreciate your time.

I'm having same problem....my evo 3d had no problem with Los but my e4gt is terrible where I live.....I was told to try different modems but I tried FCO7 AND FC14 still the same.
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ScubaSteev said:
I'm having same problem....my evo 3d had no problem with Los but my e4gt is terrible where I live.....I was told to try different modems but I tried FCO7 AND FC14 still the same.
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I'm using eg30 at the moment...it's not horrible. I'm on the stock el29 software.
You flashed the FCxx radios? Which software are you on? Thanks.
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tailsthecat3 said:
I'm using eg30 at the moment...it's not horrible. I'm on the stock el29 software.
You flashed the FCxx radios? Which software are you on? Thanks.
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Flash el29 modem?

nabbed said:
Flash el29 modem?
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Yes I have. That's what the phone came with. Used el13 and el26 too. This is my first run with eg30
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tailsthecat3 said:
I like the hardware but this loss of service thing is annoying.
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Hmm, what do you mean by "loss of service"?
This is a term used specifically to describe losing service while the phone says it has service...

nabbed said:
Hmm, what do you mean by "loss of service"?
This is a term used specifically to describe losing service while the phone says it has service...
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Ok, maybe that is incorrect.
Just using it, for example sending a tweet or an email, one may send immediately. Then if I choose to refresh or send a second tweet/email right after, the transmission arrows dont light up for a while. Its like the radio is going to sleep way too fast and it takes even longer to wake up and complete the transaction. Enabling/disabling fast dormancy doesnt seem to make a difference.
Edit: under these conditions, I never get the "no signal" icon. Just seems the radio is sleepy

Well I asked around because my signal sucks but I called sprint and they said my area has really good service.....but people told me to try FCO4 and FC14 and FCO7 that might help so I did......nothing helped.
I just looked it says I'm using el29 on my kernal and FCO7 under baseband.......not sure if that helps,ill try to find out more and if it helps ill let you know
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ScubaSteev said:
Well I asked around because my signal sucks but I called sprint and they said my area has really good service.....but people told me to try FCO4 and FC14 and FCO7 that might help so I did......nothing helped.
I just looked it says I'm using el29 on my kernal and FCO7 under baseband.......not sure if that helps,ill try to find out more and if it helps ill let you know
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I've been using eg30 all night and so far, knock on wood, its been working pretty well.
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You just downloaded the eg30.zip then flashed it?
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If not then manually install a different PRL, so you can connect to closer towers in your area, and don't forget to update profile and prl in settings>about phone> system updates

ScubaSteev said:
You just downloaded the eg30.zip then flashed it?
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Yeah. I got it from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459529
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xST4T1K said:
If not then manually install a different PRL, so you can connect to closer towers in your area, and don't forget to update profile and prl in settings>about phone> system updates
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The only prl that I think would help is the corporate 11115 prl.
Any other suggestions?
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tailsthecat3 said:
The only prl that I think would help is the corporate 11115 prl.
Any other suggestions?
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Grab a bottle of whiskey, get your 30-30 and have some fun with your Korean paperweight lol jk
Keep trying different modems man, I used to get some ****ty service with EL29 on this phone but on FC18 I get some crazy speeds, with very little reception.

xST4T1K said:
Grab a bottle of whiskey, get your 30-30 and have some fun with your Korean paperweight lol jk
Keep trying different modems man, I used to get some ****ty service with EL29 on this phone but on FC18 I get some crazy speeds, with very little reception.
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Fc18, eh? Thanks.
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Where can I find FC18 at
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ScubaSteev said:
Where can I find FC18 at
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Try here. Not sure if they're flashable. Didn't read the thread. Be careful.
http://forums.acsyndicate.net/showt...-FC07-FC05-FB27-FB15-EL29-EL26-EL13-EG30-EK02
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Los on this phone is when you have a circle with line thru it the only thing that fixed that was reboot sometimes toggle airplane mode but they fixed that long ago . Now some ics had similar problems but had a lot to do with your signal strength...
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Yeah, thanks.
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Has sprint or Samsung Announced a fix?

The title sys it. I was curious if they had said anything in regards of a patch or fix for the Ics ota update. I went stock ota for a few days and went to sprint to see what they would say. The tech handed me the phone back and said root it.
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juggalo1300 said:
The title sys it. I was curious if they had said anything in regards of a patch or fix for the Ics ota update. I went stock ota for a few days and went to sprint to see what they would say. The tech handed me the phone back and said root it.
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I know this isn't an answer for you.. But damnnnnn when the tech tells you to root your phone, you know the situation bad lol
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I agree it would be nice if the internal message for out of office in exchange worked and double bonus if it could properly close apps instead of cooking battery until it dies
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I told him I was rooted after he said that. but I wanted to see if the ota was as bad as it sounds. I wanted to see if they knew of why it seemed like the radio was bad and getting reversed results when it came to DL and ul
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They should give up on Ics and focus on jb
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They are working on jelly bean for the e4gt they have confirmed it
http://www.mobilenapps.com/articles/3231/20120722/samsung-galaxy-s3-s2-note-android-jelly.htm
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juggalo1300 said:
The title sys it. I was curious if they had said anything in regards of a patch or fix for the Ics ota update. I went stock ota for a few days and went to sprint to see what they would say. The tech handed me the phone back and said root it.
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not entirely sure what is wrong with the new OTA but I have also have problems with the new update and when I took it to sprint, the tech said the same thing "you should root it". I told them I should but it's not my fault of hardware or software issues and after some talk (I know the guys at the store), they helped me get a replacement. Hopefully the replacement doesn't have any problems too.

Darkfire963 said:
not entirely sure what is wrong with the new OTA but I have also have problems with the new update and when I took it to sprint, the tech said the same thing "you should root it". I told them I should but it's not my fault of hardware or software issues and after some talk (I know the guys at the store), they helped me get a replacement. Hopefully the replacement doesn't have any problems too.
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It will it is all software, i have to say that i haven't had anything other than the usual, except the battery problem when it gets under forty percent is a mud slide on the juice.
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After the update did you do a factory reset? This helped me more then I thought it would
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jonapunk said:
After the update did you do a factory reset? This helped me more then I thought it would
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I haven't heard of any of the other SGSII phones having issues.. Only sprint.... Seriously, I hope they are working on fixing everything and releasing a jeallybean update.. Cuase for them to push out a buggy 2 month old FF18 as the final product is pretty sad.

kennwoodkenn said:
They are working on jelly bean for the e4gt they have confirmed it
http://www.mobilenapps.com/articles/3231/20120722/samsung-galaxy-s3-s2-note-android-jelly.htm
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The story is coming from Samsung directly. You think sprint is going quick to get jb out to us when we were the last to get ics? I'll be very surprised if they update us at all.
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a fix for what? If you don't like the ota run one of the fine, bug free ff18 based roms like blue kuban or goodness. Try cm9 or aokp you don't like those. The only reason you have a "buggy" ics build is because you choose to. That said we didn't see all of these complaints when people were running the ff18 leak, the only thing that has changed is the people running it... furthermore why are you posting on xda asking for a patch? Go to sprint users or sprint forums if that's all you're concerned with and want to complain, they'll listen to you there, I thought this was the place where we solved our own problems... not that I think there's anything wrong with ff18.... now flame away instead of spending the time to search and figure out why you're having the issues you're having when plenty of people are running ff18/ff18 based builds without difficulty or issue
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cp320703 said:
a fix for what? If you don't like the ota run one of the fine, bug free ff18 based roms like blue kuban or goodness. Try cm9 or aokp you don't like those. The only reason you have a "buggy" ics build is because you choose to. That said we didn't see all of these complaints when people were running the ff18 leak, the only thing that has changed is the people running it... furthermore why are you posting on xda asking for a patch? Go to sprint users or sprint forums if that's all you're concerned with and want to complain, they'll listen to you there, I thought this was the place where we solved our own problems... not that I think there's anything wrong with ff18.... now flame away instead of spending the time to search and figure out why you're having the issues you're having when plenty of people are running ff18/ff18 based builds without difficulty or issue
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I've ran all ics ROMs my phone just don't get the bandwidth with any of the modems released. I went to ota so I could see if they had an answer for why I got **** download and upload speeds. I can't go in there rocking rujs blu Kuban saying hey my phone won't get a signal anywhere here's my phone and fix it. I miss the roms but I can't get any signal I tried different kernels modems scripts and even garbage off of the app market to improve my signal. Sprint is well aware of it. I posted on xda because people seen to get answers and everything else before people find out. Im not asking a question for devs to fix it im asking the community in the xda q&a section. And it's for our phone correct? So that's why im in the xda forum asking the question.
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juggalo1300 said:
I've ran all ics ROMs my phone just don't get the bandwidth with any of the modems released. I went to ota so I could see if they had an answer for why I got **** download and upload speeds. I can't go in there rocking rujs blu Kuban saying hey my phone won't get a signal anywhere here's my phone and fix it. I miss the roms but I can't get any signal I tried different kernels modems scripts and even garbage off of the app market to improve my signal. Sprint is well aware of it. I posted on xda because people seen to get answers and everything else before people find out. Im not asking a question for devs to fix it im asking the community in the xda q&a section. And it's for our phone correct? So that's why im in the xda forum asking the question.
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if the modem is the problem don't flash the ics ones, stay on el29 modem or whatever works for you, you can use the older modems without issue on ics
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cp320703 said:
if the modem is the problem don't flash the ics ones, stay on el29 modem or whatever works for you, you can use the older modems without issue on ics
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I know. Don't work
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no more 4g

I rooted my tmobile S3 today and it worked fine. Later I installed a cyanogen nightly sang noticed it was only getting 3g, so I did a restore to the stock rooted firmware through ROM manger. With that I got just bars, no indication of 4g or 3g. The phone wouldnt go to the internet, it said no connection available. I had to restore back to cyangen to get the phone just to work... but regardless of which settings I chose the phone is stuck in 3g. What is the fix? I'm going crazy here

Did you check your imei? Did you back it up?
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Warrior1975 said:
Did you check your imei? Did you back it up?
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No clue what you are talking about... so I guess no, lol

I don't know much more than you sorry. I know imei can get corrupted when flashing and it causes problems like that.
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3G on cm is the same as 4G on tmo stock rom.
Try checking your apn settings on the stock rom since I think your imei is fine, without it you wouldn't have gotten 3G at all, even on cm.
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Wait, are you just looking at the icon without it doing anything. Many aftermarket ROMs will show 3G when the phone is doing nothing. It will show 4G or H when you make it work.

Don_Perrignon said:
Wait, are you just looking at the icon without it doing anything. Many aftermarket ROMs will show 3G when the phone is doing nothing. It will show 4G or H when you make it work.
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+1
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T-Mobile 3G and "4G" are basically the same technology.

Did you fix permissions clear both caches?
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Epicrean said:
No clue what you are talking about... so I guess no, lol
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It is not an LOL deal, if you have no clue that means you didn't bother reading anything about flashing a rom IMEI is mentioned all over, IMO you deserve no help what so ever since you think LOL is a proper response to not reading how to do the job the right way, enjoy your slow data speeds maybe if you learn to read it will work again

ionic7 said:
It is not an LOL deal, if you have no clue that means you didn't bother reading anything about flashing a rom IMEI is mentioned all over, IMO you deserve no help what so ever since you think LOL is a proper response to not reading how to do the job the right way, enjoy your slow data speeds maybe if you learn to read it will work again
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Really? Who pissed in your cherrios? Oh, your one of those guys.
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mrbmg said:
Really? Who pissed in your cherrios? Oh, your one of those guys.
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there are threads all over this forum that could have prevented his problem he chose to ignore them ignore the stickies then come post asking for help for a problem that was caused by pure laziness

GPS fix

I found this through a post on Google plus and wanted to share it, make sure to thank the original ok mal posters in other thread if it helps. Tested on my I747 and it worked wonders. I just wanted to share the knowledge for those not wanting to jump through to many hoops.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2211690
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Can be fixed by a simple EFS restore I believe. Did you not do a backup of it in the first place?

Everything I've read had involved going back to stock to get it to reset. I didn't even think GPS had anything to do with efs I thought that was just the imei and other info related to it. Plus this is still simpler doesn't even need a pc or any other apps just access to the stock dialer and a minute or two.
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There's a sticky thread in q and a already. Same instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995347
[READ] How to get your GPS back! (No GPS showing/GPS giving general location)
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Hmm missed that somehow oh well. Guess it was the the thought that counts.
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Man.. THANK YOU! I was about to do the whole Odin back to stock today and these instructions fixed it. Instant GPS lock!
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mymusicathome said:
There's a sticky thread in q and a already. Same instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995347
[READ] How to get your GPS back! (No GPS showing/GPS giving general location)
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No it's not the same instructions at all. The one in the stickies factory resets the phone. I used it to fix my gps about a month ago after flashing Liquid Smooth broke mine. They both do seem to work pretty well.
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Nothing fixed the issue for me, still constantly disconnects GPS for me

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2211690
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I tried it all, clear maps, factory reset, nv rebuild, nothing helped. Gps well randomly disconnect and would not come back until reboot
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The reason this fix isn't in my stickie thread is because it temporarily fixes the problem. Too many users reported it was amazing one day and then the next its gone.
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egyptshun said:
The reason this fix isn't in my stickie thread is because it temporarily fixes the problem. Too many users reported it was amazing one day and then the next its gone.
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I don't understand though, is it affecting only people who upgraded their ics device to jb or it affects all jb devices there of gs3
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artisticcheese said:
Nothing fixed the issue for me, still constantly disconnects GPS for me
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That sounds more like a hardware issue. My problem was that it would do nothing when the GPS was on in maps or anything else. No icon no nothing. After doing this it went back to normal.
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artisticcheese said:
I don't understand though, is it affecting only people who upgraded their ics device to jb or it affects all jb devices there of gs3
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Seems to be jellybean
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artisticcheese said:
I tried it all, clear maps, factory reset, nv rebuild, nothing helped. Gps well randomly disconnect and would not come back until reboot
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Did you trying tightening the back of the phone, as mentioned in one of the GPS fixes?
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Yes, I tried it all, it still happening. I'm on CM 10.1 and it did not happen once so far
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Nope i had the same issues in ICS
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Seems to be jellybean
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Same here. It only happened when I switched to JB. Reverted back to ICS and it went away
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Unrooting

Just got my t999L today, and almost done pulling all the data off the internal card. Would like to unroot it before I send it in the return sleeve but i want to ask what exactly is a Flash Counter? I see a few threads saying how to reset or avoid tripping it, but nothing quite explains what it is. Should I bother resetting it for a simple warranty exchange? And I assume I could simply do an Odin stock flash and that will take care of my unrooting issue?

Triangle Away will reset it.
THEN odin the stock firmware.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Triangle Away will reset it.
THEN odin the stock firmware.
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Are you stalking me? :X
On a side note, ty.

Lol. I just answer lots of questions on here. You just happen to be asking lots of questions! I could stop giving you answers if you prefer....
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Naturesretard said:
Are you stalking me? :X
On a side note, ty.
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Imagine if doc weren't answering your questions.
By the way, how's the t999l? Notice any big differences in download and upload speeds?
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No no doc, please keep the answers coming! Wasnt compaining XP
And yes actually I have noticed great increase in speeds. Certain areas getting as much as 30up and 15down. Others are about the same down wise but the up speed has greatly increased.
Even if the speeds were in fact the same, I love that only select few roms work and there are bugs aplenty. I grew somewhat bored of everything working perfectly on the standard t999. Its like having the evo 4g all over again! Time to be a test mule
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Naturesretard said:
No no doc, please keep the answers coming! Wasnt compaining XP
And yes actually I have noticed great increase in speeds. Certain areas getting as much as 30up and 15down. Others are about the same down wise but the up speed has greatly increased.
Even if the speeds were in fact the same, I love that only select few roms work and there are bugs aplenty. I grew somewhat bored of everything working perfectly on the standard t999. Its like having the evo 4g all over again! Time to be a test mule
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I've been having that same feeling lately. Maybe I'll try to get my hands on a lte version once there's a way to unbrick it.
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