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I've been wondering about this since I just saw that the Galaxy Ace is a legacy device but how does a phone become legacy? I first thought legacy = old phone but that doesn't appear to be true.
My x10 mini pro is more a legacy than ace, the last update was sometime is last year and it's discontinued at 2.1, and ace just got official 2.3 released. Why can't there be a standalone section dedicated to galaxy ace? The specs are pretty good and potential for developing.
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The XDA admins really have incredibly little clue when it comes to handsets not sold in the US market, hence some really bizarre decisions.
Why the Huawei Ideos lacks its own section when it has 10x the count of released ROMs and more traffic on the misc android section (>50% of the threads there) than the Galaxy 5 and Galaxy Ace sections COMBINED is really beyond me.
Will informing them make a difference? And who governs the section management?
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Does it matter where this forum is placed? Developers know the specs and the phones and so does the users.
Yeah it does because nobody memorizes specs and phones so the placement of the section might play a part in determining its attention. I never knew there was an ace section because I don't browse legacy devices, in the end google brought me here
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consegregate said:
Yeah it does because nobody memorizes specs and phones so the placement of the section might play a part in determining its attention. I never knew there was an ace section because I don't browse legacy devices, in the end google brought me here
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Even if this forum is not in the legacy section, it still wont change a thing. Devs are more interested to phones that are much marketed by manufacturers and telcoms.
Plus, there's a bunch of phones already in the index.
However, just for the sake of argument, Xperia X8 section is in the index and not in legacy even if GAce is much better in terms of specs and firmware but I see more activity here than in there.
Just shows that forumers would rather use the search function above than skim through the list of phones in the forum index.
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Does it matter where this forum is placed? Developers know the specs and the phones and so does the users.
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When people are making changes to their firmware based on what they read here its important to be sure you are definietly looking at the right device section.
I thought there could have been another 'Galaxy Ace' which was now a Legacy phone. It's confusing when you see a new handset listed as Legacy.
True!
I've been thinking about this since I first day I entered the sub-forum.
I mean, how come LG P500 got its own section and SGA doesnt?!
We can compare P500 and SGA side by side in the term of specs and when it comes to dev-support I believe SGA isnt really far behind. (CM7 is currently being developed and SGS' GingerReal ROM will also be available for SGA soon)
So what's the deal with it? :/
Should we contact a moderator about this?
edit: Sorry, rubbish internet connection messed me up.
i guess a mod mistakenly put the sga to the lagacy cat. it's then got indexed by google and now it's too late to move it to the proper place since it will cause a huge amount of page not found from google serp.
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i guess a mod mistakenly put the sga to the lagacy cat. it's then got indexed by google and now it's too late to move it to the proper place since it will cause a huge amount of page not found from google serp.
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Good point. A site will lose ranking if majority if pages are not found. However, an updated sitemap.xml could solve all that when the Google bots crawled xda-developers.com again.
Also, they don't have to worry about serp. xda forums is in vbulletin and the site is in Wordpress. They're using W3-cache and google sitemaps already soooooo... that's probably not the reason for the Galaxy Ace being in the legacy forums.
I'm trying to resolve this issue.
Please be patient.
Cheers
Thanks zecan! Honestly think this can attract more attention to ace in xda.
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it would be so a fresh news ! We need to have a section in the index page ! We're not so old !
http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/where-did-my-forum-go-3/
This is bad news, I think our ace community is quite large and our ace is still fairly new. Anyways lets just keep on doing what we do best and that is makeing our ace the best it can be, we don't have to be on the main forum.
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umm....there is fairly good amount of activity going around ... and it is definitely not old .... sad :-( ...... but if there is again good amount of activity going on will they put us back on main template ????
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umm....there is fairly good amount of activity going around ... and it is definitely not old .... sad :-( ...... but if there is again good amount of activity going on will they put us back on main template ????
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I don't think so.....
What the freaking f***
Very bad
Anyway i visited main page only once when i came first time on xda
then after always use bookmark so not gonna affect much
Hoping same for development
ya i hope same that you all lovely ace devs wont leave us
Hmmmm we maybe low activity,but its not old enough,we'll be biting the dust on the legacy area
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Any solution to get back ace on home?
I want to see our galaxy ace on main home page Any solution for it??
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I want to see our galaxy ace on main home page Any solution for it??
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Get us a CM9 port, that would boost the activity here
bad news... I don't know what coolya said about definately having an official version, but after that I really doubt it boys. Honestly so far CM7.2 by vo-1 is a very good rom, in my opinion is the most complete and stable and something tells me that it won't get any better than this.
I mean even if we won't get official, our ACE is still one hell of phone with this version of cyanogenmod on. And afterall, it's just a phone!!!!
In my opinion the thing is, all ROM cookers are separately working instead all collecting under the same roof and starting a big project (pointing at MIUI). Most of the phones which have CynogenMod or MIUI are on the main index, bacause? Its because those ROMs are made collectively by many developers at the same time.
It goes like this:
The bigger the project is - the more bugs spawn - more suggestions come - more mods come for them - more fixes - more themes - which ultimately leads to more activity in that particullar forum.
So as a viewpoint from a user, I'd like if all our developers come together no matter how much education he has about Android but they can contribute to the bigger goals. Make an official ROM for our Ace with widest possibilities of modding in it. I think we would gain our position back on the main index.
So what do you guys think?
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In my opinion the thing is, all ROM cookers are separately working instead all collecting under the same roof and starting a big project (pointing at MIUI). Most of the phones which have CynogenMod or MIUI are on the main index, bacause? Its because those ROMs are made collectively by many developers at the same time.
It goes like this:
The bigger the project is - the more bugs spawn - more suggestions come - more mods come for them - more fixes - more themes - which ultimately leads to more activity in that particullar forum.
So as a viewpoint from a user, I'd like if all our developers come together no matter how much education he has about Android but they can contribute to the bigger goals. Make an official ROM for our Ace with widest possibilities of modding in it. I think we would gain our position back on the main index.
So what do you guys think?
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I talk about it exactly as you said in the very recent past and never got an answer for that. I absolutely agree with you.
The bottom line is this... mobile phone market as every electronics market is moving so fast that our ACE is now cosidered an old device. Keeping that in mind along with the fact that ACE happens to be a mid range phone then game is over. So if we haven't got an official CyanogenMod by now that means that will never gonna get one. Actually if we haven't got anything by late January 2012 GAME IS OVER!!!
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I talk about it exactly as you said in the very recent past and never got an answer for that. I absolutely agree with you.
The bottom line is this... mobile phone market as every electronics market is moving so fast that our ACE is now cosidered an old device. Keeping that in mind along with the fact that ACE happens to be a mid range phone then game is over. So if we haven't got an official CyanogenMod by now that means that will never gonna get one. Actually if we haven't got anything by late January 2012 GAME IS OVER!!!
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Copy that. But the device never gets older till it gets updates from the dedicated dev's who constantly develop for it, making those phones accomplish bigger tasks than the newer phones. Samsung Galaxy S is the biggest instance, which's still on the index.
Couldnt care less
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itasoulas said:
I talk about it exactly as you said in the very recent past and never got an answer for that. I absolutely agree with you.
The bottom line is this... mobile phone market as every electronics market is moving so fast that our ACE is now cosidered an old device. Keeping that in mind along with the fact that ACE happens to be a mid range phone then game is over. So if we haven't got an official CyanogenMod by now that means that will never gonna get one. Actually if we haven't got anything by late January 2012 GAME IS OVER!!!
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What about LG optimus and optimus one and optimus v There are many devices far older than ACE, but the only problem is that Ace was never released in USA and hence we got lesser devs than those devices, hence classified as low activity
Well I dont know about the rest of the world But in the uk ace is very alive. Its still advertised on tv. 3, vodafone and carphone warehouse all use it in there adverts. Before the ace I had my ace I had an iphone and a gt540. Both ipressive devices for the time, but my ace is special. I havent loved a phone like this since my old w550. I love this phone, I adore it. And with the new software coming out its just as fast and stable as the old galaxy s. It not just a phone, its art! All who read this. . . Stop, look at your phone. Give the finger prints a wipe away. Hold it to the light and look. Now tell me its not stunning. Who cares where they put it. We love it!
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Well I dont know about the rest of the world But in the uk ace is very alive. Its still advertised on tv. 3, vodafone and carphone warehouse all use it in there adverts. Before the ace I had my ace I had an iphone and a gt540. Both ipressive devices for the time, but my ace is special. I havent loved a phone like this since my old w550. I love this phone, I adore it. And with the new software coming out its just as fast and stable as the old galaxy s. It not just a phone, its art! All who read this. . . Stop, look at your phone. Give the finger prints a wipe away. Hold it to the light and look. Now tell me its not stunning. Who cares where they put it. We love it!
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+1
Seems that some users feel less of a man (or woman) when their phone is not on the main thread. Couldnt agree with you more. Who cares where the thread is.
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well said!!
still a fantastic phone with genius devs like yourself releasing roms for it... who cares where the thread is, the ace devs being around is trillion times more important then where the thread is, for me its bookmarked, and even if it aint bookmarked can still find it in the drop-down list so whats the problem?
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Seems that some users feel less of a man (or woman) when their phone is not on the main thread. Couldnt agree with you more. Who cares where the thread is.
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The whole point is about activity, not the place where we are at the moment. No offence; but with people like your opinion won't even care if the whole board is removed.
So it should be here in a few days....I got it off contract, in case anyone is curious.
So what should I do first? I would like my interface to be as stock as possible. When I use stock devices, or one's that are close to stock (moto razr), I have a set up that I love. My Nexus 7 is perfectly tailored to my preferences.
So do I root and unlock immediately or would a launcher satisfy my crave for a stock experience? I also have read the auto wifi on/off feature kills battery....so should I NOT set that up (it's a feature I'd like to have)?
Also, I'm coming from a Verizon droid razr (not maxx hd pro 4 M...stupid moto). I loved Motorola's Smart Actions App and the ability to have multiple triggers for an action vs. just one. Will Tasker perform in a similar manner or is there a better app now?
While I'm sorry I don't have answers to most of your questions, I would suggest rooting and bootloader unlocking (assuming you get the phone on the older firmware that is still rootable). Right now there are no stock (I'm assuming you mean stock Android/AOSP) ROMs you can install, but really, the LG interface isn't far off and is really pleasant in my opinion.
Installing a launcher like Apex or Nova should do the trick though.
The reason I suggest unlocking though, as there have been devs who said they are working on AOSP Roms, and we will hopefully also see some N4 ports.
I don't recall setting up the smart WiFi feature... pretty sure WiFi stays on even with the screen off and I am happy with the battery.
First thing you should do is put a nice, protective case on it!
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A week or so ago, I was in your position. I'd suggest first reading the stickied topics in the "General" and "Q&A" sub forums. That will provide answers to many of your questions as well as informing you of what's possible with the OG right now. Armed with that knowledge, I was able to easily unlock and root my phone as well as install TheBase 0.7.3 ROM which, among other things, removed nearly all the LG and AT&T bloatware. I was then able to improve the phone's camera with another tweak, and now have Google Now installed too thanks to xsMagical and the Nocturnal dev team.
If you poke around, you'll see that there's all kinds of things you can do, and the directions are pretty straigh forward and explained in plain language. It all depends on what you want, and how much time and effort you're willing to spend. As time goes on, we'll be getting more and more ROMs, inluding (hopefully) a stock JB one. Don't be afraid to use the "Search" feature. Good luck and happy hunting.
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First thing you should do is put a nice, protective case on it!
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lol... Agreed. Although, I haven't done so...
I'm using Nova Launcher with the animations slowed down and aosp like screen transitions. I really get that aosp home screen feel out of it. Also, trying out status bar +. Really, not in a rush for an aosp rom at the moment with this setup.
If you're sure about keeping the phone I would root and unlock right away. Both are extremely easy. Unlocking is even a one click step if you use the $1 FreeGee app! On that note do not do any At&t updates, since it's been noted that the latest one patches the root exploit. Also, both rooms we have now are working great. I'm on Nocturnal's rom and loving it.
Good luck.
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eh I think I might have updated yesterday can I factory reset and then try to root. I a hoping to do right by this phone don't want to end up bricking it my first week
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as someone in this forum said...i think they got it wrong, project butter is supposed to be on the inside not the outside"
this device is damn slippery. get something for that...Zagg or Clearshield help a bit. perhaps a bumper case. perhaps some double sided tape.
Hi All,
Just got my GS3 32g on verizon today..Bought mine privately so I could keep my unlimited data!
Have a couple of general questions. I am upgrading from an HTC rezound..While I liked the sense overlay on my rezound (don't hate me for it)
I was wondering if there was a way to live weather screens that I had with HTC (ie: clock..)
I have been looking at "true weather" on the google play store, but was wondering what everyone else has been doing...
Also, my GS3 came with swype but I seem to have had a different (newer) beta version on my rezound that seemed better... Can I switch to that version without too much trouble?
Also, been thinking about rooting, but was gonna wait a bit.
Thanks in advance,
drumrjoe
Not sure about the weather thing, but Swype beta works fine, just go to the website and download the installer
Sense analog clock dark widget?
drumrjoe said:
Hi All,
Just got my GS3 32g on verizon today..Bought mine privately so I could keep my unlimited data!
Have a couple of general questions. I am upgrading from an HTC rezound..While I liked the sense overlay on my rezound (don't hate me for it)
I was wondering if there was a way to live weather screens that I had with HTC (ie: clock..)
I have been looking at "true weather" on the google play store, but was wondering what everyone else has been doing...
Also, my GS3 came with swype but I seem to have had a different (newer) beta version on my rezound that seemed better... Can I switch to that version without too much trouble?
Also, been thinking about rooting, but was gonna wait a bit.
Thanks in advance,
drumrjoe
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may be you can try beautiful widgets app from play store
may be you can try beautiful widgets app from playstore
Thanks
Hey,
Just wanted to give a sincere thanks for the help
I'm starting to get the hang of the phone, and I am extremely happy I switched to the GS3. I have been using the true weather LWP and some sense style widget for the clock.
I am attaching a screenshot of my main screen.
Also, I remember seeing posts about other phones where people have ripped sounds/wallpapers, etc...
Was wondering if I can possibly use a theme from another phone/ let's say an HTC on the GS3???
Rock on,
drumrjoe
I9300 forum .
You say Just got my GS3 32g on verizon today
does that mean it is an I9300 if not see sticky top of page .
jje
Go for beautiful widgets, hd widgets, battery widgwt reborn, accuweather platinum widget. You can also go for uccw dor custom widget.
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I use true weather and i must say i love it.
I thought i wouldn't miss it, so i changed my theme to Nexus Life (WOW Theme - spent days trying to get it right) after a few days with out it I had to put it back on...well worth the ££
Hi guys,
Just wanted to make sure i am not wrong, after playing with Launcher on my SGS 3 i came to the conclusion that it's just another Launcher.
I was expecting it to change all the phones themes including dial phone book and so forth, it was a big disappointment especially after waiting 7 days for it to open for the first time.
am i wrong, or what ?
thanks
predatorftp said:
Hi guys,
Just wanted to make sure i am not wrong, after playing with Launcher on my SGS 3 i came to the conclusion that it's just another Launcher.
I was expecting it to change all the phones themes including dial phone book and so forth, it was a big disappointment especially after waiting 7 days for it to open for the first time.
am i wrong, or what ?
thanks
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This is your opinion!
But let's be honest to get your hopes up that high to think an app that don't need root permission can change the look/theme of your whole phone. I think that's the disappointing thing.
If you don't like why not just uninstall job done.
I don't get the point in putting down the app due to your own ignorance. I mean why not take your know how and be the creator of an app that does all that you want it to without root. What's that you can't! That right to do all the things you want you would need root.
I'm sick of seeing posts like this no one say you have to use this or any other app.
Get over it! Uninstall! And walk away!
JOB DONE❇
all the best
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I agree.
It can't even make coffee!
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Sounds like the OP just didn't read the description of what Themer is before installing it.
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chrisrozon said:
Sounds like the OP just didn't read the description of what Themer is before installing it.
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yep sounds like it
dj_mol3y_x8 said:
This is your opinion!
But let's be honest to get your hopes up that high to think an app that don't need root permission can change the look/theme of your whole phone. I think that's the disappointing thing.
If you don't like why not just uninstall job done.
I don't get the point in putting down the app due to your own ignorance. I mean why not take your know how and be the creator of an app that does all that you want it to without root. What's that you can't! That right to do all the things you want you would need root.
I'm sick of seeing posts like this no one say you have to use this or any other app.
Get over it! Uninstall! And walk away!
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Calm down. There's no need to get upset over a simple question. OP obviously hadn't understood what the app was for. You could have just answered him politely or ignored the thread. He was only asking a question.
predatorftp said:
Hi guys,
Just wanted to make sure i am not wrong, after playing with Launcher on my SGS 3 i came to the conclusion that it's just another Launcher.
I was expecting it to change all the phones themes including dial phone book and so forth, it was a big disappointment especially after waiting 7 days for it to open for the first time.
am i wrong, or what ?
thanks
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Such an app would require root. Seeing as probably a minority root their phones and mess around with it, I don't think it would be with MyColourScreen's time to produce such an app if they wanted to theme everything. Too much code, too many zips to flash, too much theming in general and whatnot.
This app is good for people that want a good luck on their phone. That being said, half the themes on the themer catalogue looks like crap. A lot of it isn't really special in too many ways. Most of them are just cheap with wallpaper doing too much of the work and not the actual feeling of cleanliness. I also don't find these themes to be functional at all in anyway but you either have simplicity or functionality. It's pretty difficult to have both and that, my friends, is why Aviate launcher exists. :good:
Just my 2 cents.
OP: if you want to try the launcher but don't have it currently installed, I can give you a code for it. PM me if you want it. :highfive:
predatorftp said:
Hi guys,
Just wanted to make sure i am not wrong, after playing with Launcher on my SGS 3 i came to the conclusion that it's just another Launcher.
I was expecting it to change all the phones themes including dial phone book and so forth, it was a big disappointment especially after waiting 7 days for it to open for the first time.
am i wrong, or what ?
thanks
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I can understand where you are coming from, I was let down as well...not so much of the things you are opinionating about. What you are asking will require root It is impossible to change dialers and such without a root. Even with root, will be hard to do unless you are running themer found on CM/AOkP and things of that nature.
I personally expected better themes...I knew themer limitation, just didn't think it will be so limited in themes. But hey, it is just beta
im actually looking forward to the time when "My Colorscreen" type themes are available on Themer. Currently everything is a bit simple - not really my taste. I check new themes every few days and a bit underwhelmed.
Again - it is a beta.
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im actually looking forward to the time when "My Colorscreen" type themes are available on Themer. Currently everything is a bit simple - not really my taste. I check new themes every few days and a bit underwhelmed.
Again - it is a beta.
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I totally agree
themer actually is good for those looking for laucher with simplicity in mind. I do enjoyed changing the themes everyday if i feel bored. The customization options have been added from times to time. Since this is BETA, it will changes periodically. Nothing much should you expected from the BETA release. If it's doesn't suit you then go for others final release
I see that there's some fighting here... I'll tell my opinion about Themer then hehe...
It's just another launcher? Yes it is! However it's an innovative, yet simple, launcher, which requires you one click to have a completely reborn homescreen. I downloaded it with higher expectations, so indeed I got disappointed, but I believe with more time more themes will come and one will really attend my necessities. Also I really like to customize my things, so using Themer limited it, as I wasn't able to change anything after installed the theme, all I could do was select a new one.
I have a fully customized 5 screen HS on my S4 using NOVA, why did I do this? Simple: I enjoy doing this. Although I know that there are many people out there who says Android is difficult to use/manage, what I saw is that most of them get "scared" of the homescreen, Themer is a great option for those people, click here and there, done it's simple and the way I can use without any problems .
I still see a WIP though, I am not following it too much to tell further, but I imagine it's not complete, one thing that made me stop using a theme that I liked (other than I preferring my current NOVA customization) was that when you try sliding to the extreme while on the last page will happen just like a normal launcher, the same with the app drawer, it's not customized like it is in the homescreen. I used plenty themes, they were all beautifully designed, but this app drawer thing got me in my nerves , sure, I have the same app drawer in my NOVA Launcher, but I customized my homescreen in a way that it still fits!
My 2¢ to this discussion...
And @predatorftp I'll speak again what everyone already said: What you're wanting requires root access and I think the developer isn't interested in losing a huge part of it's users because of it. Maybe someday they can add a special root feature, but for now I believe they are still busy with the developing of app basis.
tl;dr:
Pros:
Simple and beautiful, anyone can use.
Cons:
Limited functionality, themes "half-baked".
Opinion:
I prefer customizing, so I go for customizable launcher for sure.
The app description on Google clearly states what the app is...
As that threads like this will only bring flaming
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