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My power button at first seemed like it was being affected by the screenshot bug (i.e. one press, the screen would turn off and then back on) but it eventually got to the point where it won't work at all and almost seems stuck. When I take the battery out and put it back in, the phone turns on immediately, as if it's being pressed. Any way I can clean or maybe tinker with the button without hurting it?
Right now I'm using the button remapper and leaving the power button as power, and volume up as power as well. I tried to disable the power button altogether, but then my phone crashes and I have to reflash the rom to get back to working...
See my post in the General forum.
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I had the same problem last week.Phone repaired in HTC service center for free.They changed big flat cable.....Hope this helps you....
Yeah, I went ahead and dug into it some more, got straight down to the power button itself, and I think the ribbon cable or the button itself must have gone bad. So for now I went a head and removed the button so it won't bother me. Now I find out they don't even sell replacements yet Dx haha, opps.
I would send it to HTC but I'd rather take care of this in my own way that way 1. I don't have to flash to stock, etc. and 2. because I don't feel like being without my baby.
Thanks for the help ^.^
EDIT:...opps. Forgot I kinda need the button to you know...turn the phone on. Glad I got adb lol.
It's a hardware problem, not software, so return it to the reseller or let HTC pick it up at home for you so they can repair it
Does anybody know when they're going to be selling replacement power buttons? Like I said, I'd really rather just keep my phone instead of sending it off...too much hassle for me.
aw1974 said:
See my post in the General forum.
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Two thread, same problem, same title but at difference section. Seems like someone did not do searching first >¦[
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okay, so the tittle says it itself. but the normal screen works. :\ is the keys that don't do anything. "home, Back, search and menu" everything works flawlessly, but this keys just wont respond. the light turns on every time i touch the screen but when i touch any of the bottom keys. it just doesn't do anything. any one have any suggestions? that could help me .. ive done factory resets twice and the hard reset also. would flashing a rom fix this problem?
Doesn't hurt to try. Do a backup and re flash rom or a different rom if problem is consistent than it might be hardware
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Thanks for your quick reply tomorrow morning i'll do that. I have to figure out,how to flash a rom. I have not yetrooted the phone or Flashed any rom. If flashing rooms don't work, would replacing the screen, lens or digitizer do anything??
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Forgot to mention, did you try rebooting and/or hard reset?? Well before you start messing with it, is it still under warranty? If so send it in. Wait till tomorrow like you said maybe another person might have a better answer. If you haven't rooted your phone then you should Imo. Best thing a g2x can get is a custom rom! You will be very impressed. It may be
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i think i mentioned it on the first post. yes i have done a hard reset and I've done the "pull out the battery, take the sim card out and the Sd card and just turn it on with just the battery. and i believe is not. this phone has been around for a while and like i said is my friends. I wouldn't know if it is but I'll ask him when i get a chance.
It may be the digitizer I don't know for sure I'll actually do some research cause kinda interesting...
I want to go with you needing a new digitizer.
if not find an ICS launcher type thing it'll put the onscreen keys lol. I couldn't much especially on either the G2X nor European variant O2X... and I got bored reading about people spilling water, so make sure it doesn't have water damage other then that... new digitizer.
any suggestion would be appreciated!! I'm sure this phone is not under warranty, so replacing the digitizer wouldn't be a problem for me. at this moment I'm installing ClockworkMod, do any of you know which Rom is the best, as of in "stable/No Problems/Fast"?
Edit: Just Flashed CM7.1.0.1 to my phone and no luck at all. seems like I'm going to have to buy a new digitizer. Hopefully that solves the problem.
You can use the app, Button Saviour.
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dw9906 said:
You can use the app, Button Saviour.
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I saw after Googling the issue,
that it was for rooted phones only, so I didn't say anything lol.
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my phone is rooted, lol I just installed CM7 on this phone so I will try that app, its only temporary though, until I get the digitizer of course thank you everyone for all your help.
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my phone is rooted, lol I just installed CM7 on this phone so I will try that app, its only temporary though, until I get the digitizer of course thank you everyone for all your help.
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Let us know if after the digitizer if it fixed it.
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Well the manufacturer I bought it from is in china and I live in the states so its going to take a few weeks to get here. But as soon as I replace the old digitizer with the new one I will post the results here.
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Well the manufacturer I bought it from is in china and I live in the states so its going to take a few weeks to get here. But as soon as I replace the old digitizer with the new one I will post the results here.
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While you're at it, may as well make a video/pic tutorial.
I know the aokp ICS rom has a navigation bar that puts a Home, Back, and Menu button on the screen for people that don't have physical buttons. I'm not sure if other ICS roms for the g2x keep this feature. This may work as a temp solution until your new digitiser arrives.
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While you're at it, may as well make a video/pic tutorial.
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There are plenty of videos/tutorials how to open the phone and replace the digitizer on YouTube.
@linelock, Thanks for your suggestion. but sadly the phone's digitizer/screen got cracked somehow while it was in my backpack, :\ so now I'm just waiting for the one I ordered since the touchscreen doesn't work at all... For now I'm just using this defy..
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As far as I know, manufacturer warranties is 1 year, depending on when the phone was first sold...don't know if you'd go that way. I don't think it applies to secondhand phones, but some have tried it and it worked.
As far as tutorials on youtube, I found this was the most comprehensive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rXX7Rm4gnA
Tempted to make a white g2x...
digitizer came in just a few hours ago, i managed to replace it and now everything works!!! I AM HAPPY!!!. so to answer some Users questions, yes replacing the digitizer did fix the Issue!!
Hello, I have an HTC inspire and been rooted for a few months. The volume+ has been very glitchy most of the time not working. Even tried a custom Rom and still bad issue. This noting I re locked the phone and put it back to the way it was when I got it. So far today the volume button has worked every time with no problem. My question when rooting the phone is their a chance that rooting caused the hardware issue, that it corrupted the software enlighten to make it glitchy in that way. Is their a way to confirm that. Just wondering because I hate haveing this un-rooted phone lol.
Custom ROMs would not affect your hardware buttons unless you installed an app that messed with the volume.
I really didn't think it was the Rom I was wondering more about the rooting its self. thanks for the reply.
Rooting the phone doesnt affect the volume rocker...you can not break physically the phone from software...
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glevitan said:
...you can not break physically the phone from software...
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Not directly, but I have used some apps that make me want to throw my phone at the wall.
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Not directly, but I have used some apps that make me want to throw my phone at the wall.
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Haha...that's true.
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Guys I didn't not mean physical damage. I meant software get corrupted some how, by the rooting process. Phone has been relocked for past two days. I have shut off phone twice in a row, tried everything I could think of to get the vol+ button not to work and it works every time. No matter how hard I push on it. No I didn't try to smash it bit still no matter what it works.
Well volume is messing up now again and its un-rooted. So its def a hardware issue. Sucks because now I have to send it it to be repaired but good because I can re-root it when I get it back lol.
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Well volume is messing up now again and its un-rooted. So its def a hardware issue. Sucks because now I have to send it it to be repaired but good because I can re-root it when I get it back lol.
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Congrats on tracking down the problem. Just think, it should be like new when you get it back.
I'm having some strange, but serious issues with my device. It started a week ago, I started it up, it somehow didn't show the boot animation anymore(!), and when I reached the lockscreen, the device just freezes. I can turn the screen off/on, and it can register one touch (ex. on the unlock slider, so it vibrates), but further it just doesn't respond anymore, till I turn the screen off and on again.
Then I went to recovery, and instead of loading the whole menu, it only displays the text "build: " at the left bottom of the screen, the rest just doesn't show up, neither does it respond to anything.
My device is currently useless, and I find it a very strange problem, so if anyone can help me, maybe has an idea of what's wrong, had something similar, or knows how to fix it, you would be my hero!
Btw, I can connect through both ADB and Fastboot normally.
Thank you.
should be in q&a thread
flash orange.nbh through hboot, start fresh... if this won't work there will be lots more things to test
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demkantor said:
flash orange.nbh through hboot, start fresh... if this won't work there will be lots more things to test
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Thanks for the reply!
Just did it, went without problems, only it still hangs at recovery, and at the lockscreen.
Only now I've also lost my ability to use adb...
What more would you suggest to test?
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Thanks for the reply!
Just did it, went without problems, only it still hangs at recovery, and at the lockscreen.
Only now I've also lost my ability to use adb...
What more would you suggest to test?
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I don't know much about programing, but i would suggest you restore to stock like you did then re-root, and try other recoveries. like amonra or different versions of Clockwork mod.
well the orange.nbh will change your radio/spl/recovery. from this point fastboot should work fine (so long as your emmc/motherboard isn't fried)
so can you get into fastboot? if so flash amonra recovery here then reboot into recovery
if that works then you may want to update your radio/spl before flashing a new rom
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It's definitely the screen flex cable inside the G1. Happened to my old screen. You can't do anything other than get a new screen.
Before flashing the .nbh I could fully use my fastboot, but now it gives me the "remote: not allow" (btw i'm on 1.33.0006 now).
So I can't flash the amonra recovery, and I must note, that when this trouble started, I Was already using AmonRa1.7, which had the freezing.
sound like the motherboard is nearly dead, fastboot works with that spl... you might look for a cheap g1 on ebay
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As I said, its not the motherboard. Its the screen.
I had the exact problem with my G1. Down to the tiniest detail. Swapping in a new screen fixed it.
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As I said, its not the motherboard. Its the screen.
I had the exact problem with my G1. Down to the tiniest detail. Swapping in a new screen fixed it.
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I don't think it's the screen, since when I boot it up, (even tough I don't get a boot animation) the lockscreen I get is displayed perfectly normal, and even detects touch. Also my fastboot, etc display normal...
I think rather that there is something with the motherboard/cpu or something. But I don't see how it could give the symptoms i'm having right now. Since if for example the cpu would be fryed, I'd guess nothing would work at all.
as you describe it, it sounds unlikely it is the screen or flex, it shouldn't freeze but rather not respond to touch (could be intermediate) or won't show picture etc.
the motherboard may not fully be fried rather it is partitioned out to diffrent blocks, data, system, radio, spl, recovery, etc
some of those blocks can get corrupt, resulting in a similar "freeze" so when I say motherboard is fried it could just mean your emmc has corrupter blocks of memory
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*sigh*
My 1st G1 froze exactly like that. I could touch the unlock slider, and it vibrated, but it froze the screen.
Recovery also froze at "Build:". Anything froze half a second after starting to render or at a touch. The only way I could temporarily fix it was to slide the screen into positions in the middle and place something there to hold it. But that didn't last long.
Later I got a new G1. But then I bricked it. So I took the motherboard from the old (freezing) one, and put it in the new one. I can assure you that it works beautifully and I am posting from it right now.
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fair enough, flex is only $5~10 so it may be worth a shot
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fair enough, flex is only $5~10 so it may be worth a shot
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Then again, I don't want to be yelled at if it still doesn't work. :S
Also, the flex is hecka hard to replace. I don't recommend it. I say grab a new G1. They're really cheap. Or grab a new phone.
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well I doubt you'll get banned from xda
they're cheap and if you even slightly mechanicaly inclined its not too bad, basically you'll need to strip the phone down almost completley to replace it, I've done this many times so my time frame maybe quicker than yours so id estimate an hour of your time to do it
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If its anything like my magic you need the right screwdriver or you'll knacker the screws, plus you need a plastic wedge thing to pry apart things like the flex. Also make sure you don't loose any bits or forget where things go. For instance a tiny bent piece of plastic fell out and I carried on after I couldn't find it.....turns out it transfers the notification light from the back of the phone to the front. Could I find a replacement - no chance! Apart from all that its a breeze.
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If its anything like my magic you need the right screwdriver or you'll knacker the screws, plus you need a plastic wedge thing to pry apart things like the flex. Also make sure you don't loose any bits or forget where things go. For instance a tiny bent piece of plastic fell out and I carried on after I couldn't find it.....turns out it transfers the notification light from the back of the phone to the front. Could I find a replacement - no chance! Apart from all that its a breeze.
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The G1 flex cable is in a really weird set up to allow the screen to slide out. Which is why I'm saying its gonna be hecka hard. You need to take apart the whole sliding mechanism.
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Ok, I guess my fellow adventurer has just reached it's final state. :angel:
I don't think it had wanted to be repaired, we must leave it rest now.
Even tough replacing the cable might fix it, I don't think it's worth the trouble. It's probably time for me to get a device from this decenium.
Probably something with a good camera and good processing power.
Probably it's going to be a Galaxy Nexus that's going to replace the spot in my pocket, but nothing will replace the spot in my heart, where this phone will remain!
Anyway, thanks for the help, and insight in what might have been the problem.
well if your truly done with your g1 maybe consider a g2 (vision) it doesn't have as good of a keyboard as the g1 but has great specs for a phone that is two years old and still lots of development (fully working ics + jellybean almost to daily driver point) and they have gotten cheap on ebay, 100 range for a used one
also consider picking up another g1, it is the best backup phone possible and will probably always have developmet, I have a g2 but I use my g1 almost as much still
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Out of nowhere my power button magically no longer works. Kind of a huge deal since I use my phone for work a TON. At first I thought it was the ROM but then I rebooted into recovery and discovered it doesn't work in there either...... but by some sort of miracle though my phone magically boots itself up when I swap batteries in it....
I am rooted and running Beans 20.
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated!!
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You can get an app called button savior from Google play that allows you to create on screen keys to turn off your screen.
Various xposed modules allow you to remap your physical keys. If you don't know about the xposed framework I highly suggest looking into it.
Furthermore I believe some custom roms have key mapping built in.
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ImUnderTheBed said:
You can get an app called button savior from Google play that allows you to create on screen keys to turn off your screen.
Various xposed modules allow you to remap your physical keys. If you don't know about the xposed framework I highly suggest looking into it.
Furthermore I believe some custom roms have key mapping built in.
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Yes I already got an app that will shut my screen off and lock it but what happens when my phone stops magically booting up all by itself??
Then I'm screwed.
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flooritnfly said:
Yes I already got an app that will shut my screen off and lock it but what happens when my phone stops magically booting up all by itself??
Then I'm screwed.
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Mine started doing the same thing.
flooritnfly said:
Out of nowhere my power button magically no longer works. Kind of a huge deal since I use my phone for work a TON. At first I thought it was the ROM but then I rebooted into recovery and discovered it doesn't work in there either...... but by some sort of miracle though my phone magically boots itself up when I swap batteries in it....
I am rooted and running Beans 20.
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated!!
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My power button just started malfunctioning too. I'm on Odin barebones 4.1.2 stock and the problem persists.
It sounds like a lot of people are getting this problem. If you use that knowledge to your advantage, I've heard people convince Samsung it's a manufacturing problem and got it repaired outside of Warranty. The power button itself is sautered onto the motherboard, so unless you really trust a mobile repair company, best option is work directly with Samsung.
That being said, I'm going to look for an Xposed Framework module that can remap the power button.
I looked for one, didn't really find what I was looking for... selling mine on ebay now to pay for my new phone...
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Wow. My power button just stopped working also.
My phone is stock.
I did replace the glass myself a couple months ago and it's been working fine until about a week ago. Was wondering if that had anything to do with it.
Interesting to see I'm not the only one having issues.
Kind of timely now that the S5 is coming out this week.
usho said:
Wow. My power button just stopped working also.
My phone is stock.
I did replace the glass myself a couple months ago and it's been working fine until about a week ago. Was wondering if that had anything to do with it.
Interesting to see I'm not the only one having issues.
Kind of timely now that the S5 is coming out this week.
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This is happening to a lot of people. I'm sure the s4 will start having this problem followed by the s5 after a year and some months. Im done with samsung phones until they start using different parts. Actually thinking about the next nexus phone and hack a msata drive into it with a custom vacume formed case. The only reason I haven't owned one is because of the storage limitation. I think a 200+ gigabyte msata strapped to the back would fix that problem.
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Mine started doing the same thing.
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sweeds said:
My power button just started malfunctioning too. I'm on Odin barebones 4.1.2 stock and the problem persists.
It sounds like a lot of people are getting this problem. If you use that knowledge to your advantage, I've heard people convince Samsung it's a manufacturing problem and got it repaired outside of Warranty. The power button itself is sautered onto the motherboard, so unless you really trust a mobile repair company, best option is work directly with Samsung.
That being said, I'm going to look for an Xposed Framework module that can remap the power button.
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usho said:
Wow. My power button just stopped working also.
My phone is stock.
I did replace the glass myself a couple months ago and it's been working fine until about a week ago. Was wondering if that had anything to do with it.
Interesting to see I'm not the only one having issues.
Kind of timely now that the S5 is coming out this week.
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Hey guys, mine originally starting messing up on Saturday, and then Sat night and all day Sun is was fine, and now it is doing it again. I even installed a new rom and it is still doing it so now I am convinced it is purely physical and not rom-related. What are you guys going to do?
I have the Wireless Phone Protection for my phone and am thinking about using that to my advantage to get a new device....question is I've never done it before. If I say I have a physical problem with my phone then won't Verizon want it returned? That will make me have to unroot it and bring it back to out of box state which is a big headache. What if I just say I lost it or it got stolen? Am I better off going that route?
EDIT: Also forgot to mention that along with these power button issues my S3 also will not reboot on its own. If I select Reboot (be it from the power button menu, notification pulldown, etc) it will just shut off and not reboot.....but if I yank the battery and put it back in it will then reboot to recovery. Same deal if I do a normal reboot, haven to yank and replace battery. You guys having these issues too?
So a couple of days ago my power button started acting wonkie as well. I would push it and it basically acted sticky. I would push once but it would register twice or as a long press. Either turning the screen on and off or bring up the reboot menu. So I did the xposed button remapping. Worked pretty well, but if I restarted the phone it would do a weird haptic feedback thing every couple of seconds before finally booting up.
So I wasn't satisfied with just living with it being a hardware issue. So I downloaded latest cleanrom to flash from cm11. I rebooted recovery and now it just vibrates every couple of seconds. Would not make it to twrp. It will get to cm Samsung boot screen but then just goes back to vibrating black screen. I took out battery and popped out power button but same results.
Any suggestions? Think power button can be fixed by repair shop or is it time to go back to my trusty droid incredible until I can upgrade.
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luland said:
So a couple of days ago my power button started acting wonkie as well. I would push it and it basically acted sticky. I would push once but it would register twice or as a long press. Either turning the screen on and off or bring up the reboot menu. So I did the xposed button remapping. Worked pretty well, but if I restarted the phone it would do a weird haptic feedback thing every couple of seconds before finally booting up.
So I wasn't satisfied with just living with it being a hardware issue. So I downloaded latest cleanrom to flash from cm11. I rebooted recovery and now it just vibrates every couple of seconds. Would not make it to twrp. It will get to cm Samsung boot screen but then just goes back to vibrating black screen. I took out battery and popped out power button but same results.
Any suggestions? Think power button can be fixed by repair shop or is it time to go back to my trusty droid incredible until I can upgrade.
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It can be fixed. There is also a way of temporarily making the power button work but I don't feel like explaining it again. If you do some searching there are at least 20 threads that have the temp fix in it.
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It can be fixed. There is also a way of temporarily making the power button work but I don't feel like explaining it again. If you do some searching there are at least 20 threads that have the temp fix in it.
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Link to the temp fix please?
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