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[Q] Phone Storage inaccessible after encryption

So I was in the process of encrypting my phone storage after setting a PIN. The 'Internal Storage' encrypted fine, but when I encrypted the 'Phone storage', it encrypted REALLY fast, much too fast for being almost 50% full, and it never required a restart, which I thought was odd. But I did a restart anyways, and now I can't access the phone storage at all. In the Storage menu in Settings it just says 'Unavailable' for both Total Space and Available. I can't even back up the phone to do a factory reset, because I can't access the "external" SD card from anywhere, please help!

Hey,
I have exactly the same problem. Did you ever fix it? I'd rather not have to do a factory reset!
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Check this out as well, seems like it could be a bug from a recent OTA update.
http://support.t-mobile.com/message/157195
Not looking good.

Just out of curiosity, as I saw this on the Galaxy Nexus forums a lot, why encrypt? Unless you're a businessman or similar, and not just need to encrypt pictures of your dog, why do it?
If you read more about it, you'd know the risks.
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theking_13 said:
Just out of curiosity, as I saw this on the Galaxy Nexus forums a lot, why encrypt? Unless you're a businessman or similar, and not just need to encrypt pictures of your dog, why do it?
If you read more about it, you'd know the risks.
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Why encrypt? Because it's really the only way to prevent someone from accessing your data if they come across your phone. Even if you set up a PIN, a person who's moderately knowledgeable about Android phones will be able to connect it to a computer and bypass the PIN in any number of ways. Plus, I know receive company e-mail on my phone and they're now pushing for all Android phones to be encrypted.
yazooo said:
Hey,
I have exactly the same problem. Did you ever fix it? I'd rather not have to do a factory reset!
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Check this out as well, seems like it could be a bug from a recent OTA update.
http://support.t-mobile.com/message/157195
Not looking good.
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No, I never did fix it, I ended up grabbing the 1.85 RUU and wiping EVERYTHING off the phone (luckily, I had made a fairly recent backup before I encrypted). I see in the T-Mobile forums that one guy seems to have a way of encrypting the phone storage that might work...but I'm not sure I wanna risk it...

theking_13 said:
Just out of curiosity, as I saw this on the Galaxy Nexus forums a lot, why encrypt? Unless you're a businessman or similar, and not just need to encrypt pictures of your dog, why do it?
If you read more about it, you'd know the risks.
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Yep, I have to encrypt as part of policies if I want to connect to work's exchange server. My work has used an app that monitors the compliance and if I don't get encryption working they can wipe my phone.
What a pain!

S6 RAM Management (Possible Fix)

No idea if this works, just came across it and figured I'd point people to the discussion thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s6/general/s6-ram-management-discussion-t3128229

Saw this as well. Wanted to see if this worked on the VZW S6 as well before taking the plunge.

Squintz said:
Saw this as well. Wanted to see if this worked on the VZW S6 as well before taking the plunge.
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I looked into making the changes to the build.prop but ours is pretty different than the tmobile version. The instructions state that not all S6's will have the same lines to delete but they also mention that leaving duplicates will cause a bootloop. I don't feel like having to odin and wipe my phone if it doesn't work and at this point I cannot nandroid. I will wait for someone braver than I to post their results here :fingers-crossed:

Natef53 said:
I looked into making the changes to the build.prop but ours is pretty different than the tmobile version. The instructions state that not all S6's will have the same lines to delete but they also mention that leaving duplicates will cause a bootloop. I don't feel like having to odin and wipe my phone if it doesn't work and at this point I cannot nandroid. I will wait for someone braver than I to post their results here :fingers-crossed:
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I did this on my s6 Edge Verizon running oe2... I didn't add the duplicate lines, I edited the existing code, and added the required additional lines. It has improve memory issue
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2swizzle said:
I did this on my s6 Edge Verizon running oe2... I didn't add the duplicate lines, I edited the existing code, and added the required additional lines. It has improve memory issue
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I added the lines and deleted the duplicate lines (was about 3 or 4 lines)
Did seem to do the trick.
**These are the lines i used and**
#MultiTasking Tweaks
ro.config.dha_cached_max=15 - duplicate line
ro.config.dha_empty_max=42 - duplicate line
ro.config.dha_empty_init=42 -duplicate line
ro.config.dha_th_rate=2.3 -duplicate line (maybe cant remember)
ro.config.dha_lmk_scale=0.545
ro.config.sdha_apps_bg_max=70
ro.config.oomminfree_high=7628,9768,11909,14515,16655,20469

Yep. I did the same thing, and I'm not getting as many redrawn at all. Apps are definitely staying in the state I left them instead if restarting. Very happy.
Scrub that.
My phone was sitting in my pocket for 10 minutes, and when I went back to the apps, they all restarted. I hadn't noticed this much before now, but it's annoying me now.

dknow101 said:
I added the lines and deleted the duplicate lines (was about 3 or 4 lines)
Did seem to do the trick.
**These are the lines i used and**
#MultiTasking Tweaks
ro.config.dha_cached_max=15 - duplicate line
ro.config.dha_empty_max=42 - duplicate line
ro.config.dha_empty_init=42 -duplicate line
ro.config.dha_th_rate=2.3 -duplicate line (maybe cant remember)
ro.config.dha_lmk_scale=0.545
ro.config.sdha_apps_bg_max=70
ro.config.oomminfree_high=7628,9768,11909,14515,16655,20469
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Eh. I went for it. Just a heads up to others, there was only 1 duplicate value for me to delete, not the 3 or 4 that most people are reporting.
Not sure why the differences but my phone didn't get stuck in a boot loop :good:. I will try to remember to post back after using the phone for a bit to see if there is a noticeable difference.

Natef53 said:
Eh. I went for it. Just a heads up to others, there was only 1 duplicate value for me to delete, not the 3 or 4 that most people are reporting.
Not sure why the differences but my phone didn't get stuck in a boot loop :good:. I will try to remember to post back after using the phone for a bit to see if there is a noticeable difference.
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Any update?

Squintz said:
Any update?
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Thanks for the reminder!
Overall, switching back and forth between apps does seem faster. I haven't noticed any slow-downs after extended periods of time (2+ days without restarts). The phone doesn't run any hotter, battery life seems the same. Apps still reset after a while though, relay for reddit is something I use quite often but if I don't use it for a few hours it reloads.
I was hoping this would solve a slow-down issue that I am having where I am running spotify, waze, and textra's pop-up response (as a passenger of course). It didn't, the phone still slows down in this situation.
Overall, I don't see any downside to the tweak, so go for it.

Just a thought. Has anyone thought about using an apps2sd type of app to free up memory space? I remember having to do this years ago on an older phone (probably an older nexus)
Admittedly we shouldn't have to be doing this, but needs must.

grifforama said:
Just a thought. Has anyone thought about using an apps2sd type of app to free up memory space? I remember having to do this years ago on an older phone (probably an older nexus)
Admittedly we shouldn't have to be doing this, but needs must.
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This doesn't make sense to me. How does installing the app on sd card effect ram?
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I think I've confused myself. I give up. This phone is an enigma. I wish it didn't have TouchWiz.

grifforama said:
I wish it didn't have TouchWiz.
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Why did you buy it then or better, why didn't you return it?

grifforama said:
Just a thought. Has anyone thought about using an apps2sd type of app to free up memory space? I remember having to do this years ago on an older phone (probably an older nexus)
Admittedly we shouldn't have to be doing this, but needs must.
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This literally has NOTHING to do with RAM. RAM does not equal storage space. What you are referring to is freeing up storage space -- again nothing to do with RAM. Secondly, there is no SD card space, so this does not even make sense to do on the GS6.
Now, I have a question for those who have edited the build.prop. Has anyone used Root Explorer to do so? Secondly, to avoid bootlooping, did anyone change permissions of the build.prop file? To quote someone from a different forum:
-Mr. X- said:
after editing make sure permissions are 0644 on it or you will boot loop.
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Have you guys changed permissions to this? I want to mess around with my build.prop but don't want to boot loop because I'd have to Odin and it'd just be a hassle / annoying.

krelvinaz said:
Why did you buy it then or better, why didn't you return it?
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Because there's no viable alternative.

grifforama said:
Because there's no viable alternative.
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Sadly I agree with you. It sucks that on vzw we have to pick between choices that imo each have very negative things about them.
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droidfan1 said:
This literally has NOTHING to do with RAM. RAM does not equal storage space. What you are referring to is freeing up storage space -- again nothing to do with RAM. Secondly, there is no SD card space, so this does not even make sense to do on the GS6.
Now, I have a question for those who have edited the build.prop. Has anyone used Root Explorer to do so? Secondly, to avoid bootlooping, did anyone change permissions of the build.prop file? To quote someone from a different forum:
Have you guys changed permissions to this? I want to mess around with my build.prop but don't want to boot loop because I'd have to Odin and it'd just be a hassle / annoying.
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I changed my build.prop file using root explorer (long click and edit in text editor)
When I saved it, it gave it the right permissions as far as I could see. It also backs up the original file as well.
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krelvinaz said:
Why did you buy it then or better, why didn't you return it?
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Also, I trusted Samsung to have given some thought to memory management themselves, and not have us figure it the f**k out. I thought I was done with this years ago.
My retired moto x on Kit Kat is far superior to this phone in many regards.
i'm just frustrated. This is an expensive-assed phone, and it looks like we are being treated as guinea pigs. Not a pleasant feeling.

Just did this and restarted, phone seems to be a little snappier though my RAM still shows pretty low. System is taking up 1.3gb down from 1.4gb and my free is hovering around 800 mb. still not ideal but not terrible.

falcon589 said:
... though my RAM still shows pretty low. System is taking up 1.3gb down from 1.4gb and my free is hovering around 800 mb. still not ideal but not terrible.
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Curious, what is your idea of ideal?

krelvinaz said:
Curious, what is your idea of ideal?
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Over 1gb free would be ideal. I dont have a lot of apps running besides a few email clients and messaging apps, and I'm running CleanROM as well.

ATT S2 Software update r730aucu2bpd4

This morning I was presented with an update, now running software version r730aucu2bpd4
Anyone else see this? No information on ATT website or anywhere else on the web, except for a mention on a vietnam facebook webpage, that I cant read lol.
I didnt manage to catch a screenshot of the update popup, noting the changes.
Attached is a picture

My Gear communicates way better now with my Note 5 but I'm still unable to send messages from watch while using numbersync.
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Thanks. I really hope they fix the number sync instability. . I am constantly getting "numbersync has been disabled" error and when I try to re-enable it I need to reboot my device. I also receive messages in bulk, days later often times.

simbill said:
Thanks. I really hope they fix the number sync instability. . I am constantly getting "numbersync has been disabled" error and when I try to re-enable it I need to reboot my device. I also receive messages in bulk, days later often times.
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Yea I think its the way they make you use that message back up and sync app. I constantly get people not getting my texts and it's a battery hog.
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What was your prior version? I currently have R730AUCU1AOL3, which appears to be earlier then yours. I wonder if I will get the update as well. Speak of the devil & he shows up. Downloading now.
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Spoke to soon. It downloaded but failed to copy to watch. Well it took three tries to copy to the watch but it is installing.

roger25118 said:
What was your prior version? I currently have R730AUCU1AOL3, which appears to be earlier then yours. I wonder if I will get the update as well. Speak of the devil & he shows up. Downloading now.
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Yes, prior to waking up this morning I was on AOL3. ATT website as of this morning still listed AOL3 as the latest. Seems to be working well so far, and walking in Manhattan today the "auto walking" feature of s-health started much smoother and quicker than previously. (for the first time the vibration notified me that it was automatically recoding "walking")

roger25118 said:
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Spoke to soon. It downloaded but failed to copy to watch. Well it took three tries to copy to the watch but it is installing.
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Mine froze at 99% and 100% for about 15 mins, I got nervous but let it sit there and it finally finished.

I'm loving the update very much so far, especially the screen timeout feature. Now Samsung just needs to activate Samsung Pay!
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The new update brings the connection to the iphone?

Just got the update here too. Cool!!

Well after a few days my battery is getting hit hard so as my phone not sure why but after the update my gear s2 is draining fast with my same old settings. On my phone the bluetooth seems to be active more times now than before. Is anyone having same problem?
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sinichi21 said:
Well after a few days my battery is getting hit hard so as my phone not sure why but after the update my gear s2 is draining fast with my same old settings. On my phone the bluetooth seems to be active more times now than before. Is anyone having same problem?
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I haven't noticed anything strange with my battery life aside from my usual drain

Same here, no difference in battery life on the watch or the phone (GS7E).
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optimummind said:
Same here, no difference in battery life on the watch or the phone (GS7E).
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Hmm well thats sad that means something is wrong with my phone or my gear.. I guess I will try factory resetting my gear and see. Thank you for the reply
simbill said:
I haven't noticed anything strange with my battery life aside from my usual drain
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Can I downgrade from Marshmallow without rooting?

Hello...
Can I downgrade my G3 from Android 6 Marshmallow to Android 5 without having to root it?
I got the update but I really didn't like it. There are a lot of things missing.
Thank you

What specifically is missing?
As for your first question you can flash back to KitKat and then update to 5.. there is a thread for that.
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To expand on the OP a little bit /Thread jack?/...
I'm having the strangest problem - The lower third of my screen acts like every swipe is just a touch. So when I try to scroll, it registers it as a click. I'm on Turbo ROM right now, but this problem has persisted across RR and AICP. Someone suggested that I go back to factory. Would it not be a good idea to just go back to LP?
I'm hesitant since I remember with my S3 going back to KK (I believe...) caused a brick since you couldn't return to the earlier bootloader. I may be remembering some of the details there wrong, but I'm still concerned about going back. Has anyone done this successfully?
Thanks in advance

Hi...I haven't done it yet, but I think I will...Marshmallow slowed my WiFi connection (have no idea why).
One very important thing is missing. The option to block a phone #.
The themes option and the live wallpapers are also missing.
I am also having battery issues, I have to charge earlier. The battery used to last longer with 5. Please notice that now I'm not even using a live wallpaper!
There are some positive things about 6 like the improved roll down menu/shortcuts. There is a flashlight and screen light regulation bar.
I'll try to downgrade to kit Kat and then to 5. I'll post what happens.
 @autosurgeon do you know where the thread for the downgrade to kk is? Could you post it for me please? I am new here and kind off having a hard time finding things! Thank b you so much!

Blocking a phone call is not missing. Wifi slow is usually the DNS server your provider uses I run an app called DNS pro it keeps me on Google DNS servers.
The themes are missing on the lg home launcher I don't use it so I don't care.. Nova is so far superior.
Battery discharge is caused by a an app misbehaving or because you didn't do a factory reset after the upgrade.
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To block a call stock dialer.
In the dialer hit the three dots top right.
Hit call settings
Hit call reject
Use the plus sign in the top right to add numbers either from your recent calls list or manually.
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Remember all your apps have to be setup as on push settings and when they can wake up the phone as after the upgrade many will update to the 6.0 version and some of those settings will change to default. Facebook did this as did Google now and both are battery hogs when in default. They wake the phone up 20 plus times per hour to phone home.
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Awesome! I found the call reject! Thank you!
It's just a pain...you know...I'm getting old....I'm 38, female and I try my best to keep myself updated with technology, but I must say that I don't have patience anymore to get used to the new looks and features!
Please be patient with me...I have some more questions. Lol
So...if I do a hard reset now, what will I lose on the phone? Any apps? Contacts? Messages? Configurations? I am always afraid of hard resets. I had bad experiences with Samsung.
Running the apps on push settings....how do I do that?
And what is exactly NOVA? Why is it better? What can I do with it? Is it free?
I'll try the dns pro!
Thank you!

Nova is a launcher app. And yes it has a free non pro version you can try. Try it it's better if you like the features I do. It has a ton of features (;
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Make sure you have at least one Google account setup on your phone and all things are set to backup. As for text messages if on att they have a backup app for that if not you can use a text messaging backup app from the play store and back them up on your micro SD card.
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Your apps will reinstall once you add your Google account back to the phone after the reset.
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autosurgeon said:
As for your first question you can flash back to KitKat and then update to 5.. there is a thread for that.
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Just for reference, which thread are you speaking of that shows the proper way to achieve this?
I am not finding it...
Thanks!

@tmoca .it's hyelton guide to go back to stock kit Kat.just use search.

taticc said:
Hello...
Can I downgrade my G3 from Android 6 Marshmallow to Android 5 without having to root it?
I got the update but I really didn't like it. There are a lot of things missing.
Thank you
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I [just] downgraded my wife's last night from MM (6.0) to Kit Kat 4.4.2...Marshamallow KILLED my wife's D850. Burning battery, dropped calls, re-boots even after factory reset. I did what was in post #3 ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64624353&postcount=3 )
After downloading KK and .Dll it took a total of 10 minutes and was one of the easiest flashes I did. After flashing back to KK, I took the OTA to Lollipop. She called me today and we talked for 15 minutes with no dropped calls and NO over heating. my question is stay on 5.01 or go to 5.1.1? I will probably go to 5.1.1 now i know how easy i can do this again if it doesn't work out.

Peterbluez said:
I'm having the strangest problem - The lower third of my screen acts like every swipe is just a touch. So when I try to scroll, it registers it as a click. I'm on Turbo ROM right now, but this problem has persisted across RR and AICP. Someone suggested that I go back to factory. Would it not be a good idea to just go back to LP?
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on the g2 phones, this would indicate a broken digitizer, and since the digitizer is fused with the screen, you need to replace your screen

Truth Snooper.

Hi. Someone installed a spying app called Truth Snooper on my friend's unrooted Note 3. How can we remove or access it without login/account information?
I can't tell you how creepy this feels.

SevenSiren said:
Hi. Someone installed a spying app called Truth Snooper on my friend's unrooted Note 3. How can we remove or access it without login/account information?
I can't tell you how creepy this feels.
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I can imagine this is quite annoying. I'd say factor reset... But that would undo everything mind you what's worse lol:/. And not being rooted might be annoying lol. Tbh I can't find any information out about this app. It's called Truth Snooper?
I shall do some searching and thinking.
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What ever you do! Don't login to anything on it. Most spying apps have keyloggers!
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Hello . So I've done some. Digging and honestly can't find anything about this. Assuming this app doesn't have a hook. As it's not a rooted phone I don't imagine it's possible it will have hooked itself into system files. Unless the guy managed to root, install then. Hide everything? Lol. I'm just guessing.
Give root checker a whirl? Worth a try.
Apparently this app works: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antispycell.free&hl=en
But in all honesty if that doesn't work factory reset and full wipe of internal storage is your only choice :/ as your not rooted you can't go into folders and start removing stuff. I'm really sorry this has happened and it is horrible. But in future I'd suggest your friend doesn't leave his/her phone lying around.
I'm sorry . For every good intentioned app (assuming you think spying on your kisds doesn't sound like a gross invasion of their privacy) there is 4 bad intentions it can be used for :/.
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Also my suggestion is reset all your passwords. Make sure nothing can be taken.

Thank you for your advice.
Factory reset it is.

SevenSiren said:
Thank you for your advice.
Factory reset it is.
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That should probably do the job but be aware that it may not if the malware has rooted the phone or compromised it via some other exploit. So you should check with several root checking apps. If rooted then you need to reflash ROM as factory reset does not touch many of the partitions. Also the external SD card is not touched (normally) by either method so that may be a potential route to be reinfected, so too open ports on your wifi. The phone may not even have to be "fully rooted" to be infected if some security vulnerability has been exploited to escalate privileges.
Also you should submit the suspect file to virustotal and scan phone with some decent anti malware app before and after cleaning. If it was me I'd also install an app like AFwall to check and see if there were any attempts being made to connect to suspect servers.

Factory resetting may remove the app.
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