Deleting Verizon bookmarks - HTC Droid DNA

Has anyone found a working method to remove the Verizon bookmarks on the stock Rom? I used Bookmarks Manager on my Rezound, but it's not compatible with the DNA. Thanks!
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Agreed, that is annoying!
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Anyone find a solution yet?

If someone wants to test this... it "should" remove the stock bookmarks. It MAY reset you Sense setup so you might need to restore it after. I can't test this because I delete those bookmarks from my ROM. That said PROCEED WITH CAUTION until someone test it. Who wants to be the Guinea pig? Should work fine.
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Tested and it DID NOT reset Sense. Checked my bookmarks and I only had google dot com. That is the one I left behind. It looks like it worked like it should.
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Since this did appear to work I removed it. You would probably need to add that in before flashing the ROM.

Awesome! Flash in recovery?
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riot1031 said:
Awesome! Flash in recovery?
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Yes flash in recovery.

Hmmmm.....didn't work for me.
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riot1031 said:
Hmmmm.....didn't work for me.
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I couldn't remember but it maybe that that file is only read when the ROM was flashed.

I've tried editing the database that holds the bookmarks, that didn't work either. I've also tried a few bookmark managers, they haven't worked either. I can't believe that there's no way to get rid of these damn things! !
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riot1031 said:
I've tried editing the database that holds the bookmarks, that didn't work either. I've also tried a few bookmark managers, they haven't worked either. I can't believe that there's no way to get rid of these damn things! !
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What are these bookmarks, can you post a screen shot?

JWhetstone02 said:
What are these bookmarks, can you post a screen shot?
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They're Google, VZW Home Page, and Your Guide Mobile. I've also been unable to get rid of these bookmarks :/

xShin said:
They're Google, VZW Home Page, and Your Guide Mobile. I've also been unable to get rid of these bookmarks :/
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well I don't use the stock browser so I'm not able to see exactly what you mean. I figured it would be as simple as hitting menu go to bookmarks then long press and choose delete.
Chrome is so much bester, faster and cleaner lol

JWhetstone02 said:
well I don't use the stock browser so I'm not able to see exactly what you mean. I figured it would be as simple as hitting menu go to bookmarks then long press and choose delete.
Chrome is so much bester, faster and cleaner lol
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I disagree, I like the stock browser better. My Nexus 7 came with Chrome on it and the first thing I did was load the stock browser. The bookmarks are read-only and can't be deleted in the manner you specified.

You need a writeable kernel to permanently delete them, or s-off.

Thanks for the reply, but that isn't correct. I am both S-OFF and have a writable kernel (elkay 0.95) and the bookmarks still cannot be deleted. They are somehow protected from deletion. I'm ready to offer a bounty to anyone that can get rid of these things!!

The only way I have found to get rid of them is by disabling the stock browser and grabbing a different browser from the store. I know this probably isn't what your looking for but this is the only method I have found to get rid of them.
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Chrome Beta Problem on Amaze only?

So, if anyone have tried Chrome Beta for ICS rom, do you guys have the display problem with it? I often got the display to stutter/mixed up and make the page really bad. Sometimes, when I want to type the URL, my keyboard just seems to be a block of image and I have to guess where the letter is located (the keyboard still function but the image just went crazy).
Is this problem on Amaze only? I have been using the Chrome Beta on my HP Touchpad and I have never gotten this problem at all.... So, I am just wondering if this is just my Amaze, or is it a common problem? If someone can tell me how to fix it, that'd be great
I love Chrome Beta since it sync all the bookmarks and the page that I open on my tablet/desktop/laptop all at once.... But, the crazy stutter/mixed images just drive me crazy; especially when I can't see where the letters are when I need to type...
I thought that was only my phone, or the Rom I was running. I also have that problem, distortion, stuttering, and it just goes bonkers on me
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Same here, no clue why it does that, never really looked into it though, will do a log next time I use it.
Sent from an Amaaaaaazing place :-D
Hmm, so it sounds like that It's a problem for amaze only. I have tried using three different roms on amaze and still got the same problem; while the chrome on my touchpad has no problem. Thanks for the confirmation
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Same here, I uninstalled it...
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Maybe it's the drivers we're using? Anyone using stock ICS drivers have the same problem?
Dark Nightmare said:
Maybe it's the drivers we're using? Anyone using stock ICS drivers have the same problem?
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I'm on stock ics and had same issues. Plus other graphical glitches as well. I also uninstalled. The AOSP ICS browser is the best IMO
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glacierguy said:
I'm on stock ics and had same issues. Plus other graphical glitches as well. I also uninstalled. The AOSP ICS browser is the best IMO
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I use the stock browser, so it doesn't bother me a bit.
Dark Nightmare said:
I use the stock browser, so it doesn't bother me a bit.
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Have you tried aosp browser? CapRomCE has it and it's pretty nice.
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Try this...thank me later
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beansoft.browserplus&hl=en
mrmako777 said:
Try this...thank me later
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beansoft.browserplus&hl=en
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Tried it before and it had some issues I didn't like... But I will try again
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mrmako777 said:
Try this...thank me later
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beansoft.browserplus&hl=en
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Just set it to install from the browser, gonna check it out when I go look for my phone.
Works better now. It had user agent issues before, but seems pretty solid. Thanks man
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Whats the all around best browser period to download anyway for the amaze?
ITALIANNYC said:
Whats the all around best browser period to download anyway for the amaze?
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Dolphin or the ics browser + are pretty close. I love dolphin... Never let's me down
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glacierguy said:
Have you tried aosp browser? CapRomCE has it and it's pretty nice.
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I love the aosp browser.
But here are the two things I love about chrome beta:
1. Sync all bookmarks on my pc/laptop browser
2. Sync all webpage that I currently open on my pc/laptop/tablet etc. So I can switch between any device and still access the website that I open easily.
Are there any add on or apps that can do those things?
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shuvarts said:
I love the aosp browser.
But here are the two things I love about chrome beta:
1. Sync all bookmarks on my pc/laptop browser
2. Sync all webpage that I currently open on my pc/laptop/tablet etc. So I can switch between any device and still access the website that I open easily.
Are there any add on or apps that can do those things?
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Not that I'm aware of. I use Firefox at home and am not much if a bookmark guy so I'm no help
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shuvarts said:
I love the aosp browser.
But here are the two things I love about chrome beta:
1. Sync all bookmarks on my pc/laptop browser
2. Sync all webpage that I currently open on my pc/laptop/tablet etc. So I can switch between any device and still access the website that I open easily.
Are there any add on or apps that can do those things?
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Dolphin can sync your Google bookmarks
mrmako777 said:
Dolphin can sync your Google bookmarks
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That's good to know. But I guess chrome is the only one that can sync currently opened website at the moment...
Thanks for the answers though. I really appreciate it
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shuvarts said:
That's good to know. But I guess chrome is the only one that can sync currently opened website at the moment...
Thanks for the answers though. I really appreciate it
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Firefox does that as well.

Disabling htclinkifydispatcher.apk

So I've removed the app but run into problems opening youtube links in 3 apps. They are stock browser stock messaging and Google Talk. Google Talk crashes after removing htclinkifydispatcher stock messaging just won't open links period. Anyone know which rom to copy these apps from or a way to modify these apps so we can get the normal android "how to process these links" action?
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Be sure to go into manage apps, select browser, and hit clear defaults. Then, for good measure I restarted my phone. After that, you will get the option to select what program opens the links from then on.
jdogg836 said:
Be sure to go into manage apps, select browser, and hit clear defaults. Then, for good measure I restarted my phone. After that, you will get the option to select what program opens the links from then on.
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I have and can open youtube links from email but nothing from messages and Google talk still crashes.
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Breaks Phone Numbers
This appears to break the ability to click phone numbers in e-mails. No apps open when clicked a phone number. I also don't see Dialer or Phone having an option to clear defaults.
Argh, this is annoying. HTC should really make sure the stock linkifier app is really detailed with its options and settings. It sounds like netierh the stock app nor root and removing it provides a good experience for linking. The only option is to load a custom ROM?
It seems like you'd have to replace any app that HTC modified to depend on htclinkifydispatcher.
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donatom3 said:
It seems like you'd have to replace any app that HTC modified to depend on htclinkifydispatcher.
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Can't we just get the international version of htclinkifydispatcher.apk??
Would an older, working HtcLinkifyDispatcher.apk from Sense 3.0 be compatible?
Nevermind, that apk doesn't even exist below sense 3.6
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iconeo said:
Can't we just get the international version of htclinkifydispatcher.apk??
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I'm pretty sure only the us versions have this.
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[Q] Getting YouTube links to open in App

Whenever I click a YouTube link it opens in the browser instead of the App.
Is this pertaining to the "data tapping" patent that Apple somehow was awarded and does anyone have any idea how to make it work as previously intended and open in the YouTube app.
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was wondering the same thing
Yeah it is driving me insane...its like oh hey...let's totally change the way something has been for years.
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Thank Apple for this. It's part of the patent that had these phones held up in customs. It's the same on any US based Sense 3.6 rom and Sense 4.0 rom such as the HTC One X. The app that does this is htclinkifydispatcher.apk.
donatom3 said:
Thank Apple for this. It's part of the patent that had these phones held up in customs. It's the same on any US based Sense 3.6 rom and Sense 4.0 rom such as the HTC One X. The app that does this is htclinkifydispatcher.apk.
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Is there a way to get it working on our phone again?
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Ep3n3wp said:
Is there a way to get it working on our phone again?
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If you have root you can use a file explorer and rename htclinkifydispatcher.apk to something like htclinkifydispatcher.apkBAK. This will break a few things. You won't be able to open any links from the default text app, google talk will crash everytime you try to open a link, and you won't get youtube links to work in stock browser, but all other programs work fine.
donatom3 said:
If you have root you can use a file explorer and rename htclinkifydispatcher.apk to something like htclinkifydispatcher.apkBAK. This will break a few things. You won't be able to open any links from the default text app, google talk will crash everytime you try to open a link, and you won't get youtube links to work in stock browser, but all other programs work fine.
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Jesus Christ...I froze mine with titanium but YouTube still opens in browser. I will try it your way and see if I can live with it.
Why must Apple mess with HTC. I have had a Samsung Galaxy S and GS2 since the first Epic launched and this is seriously the one thing I hate about the EVO. Esp if I have 6 tabs open when I try to click a link.
On Viper also not that that matters.
Does any devs or anyone have any thoughts about reverting it back and having it be stable?
I would pay for the old way...I didn't always wanna use a certain app when hitting things and now I'm forced to set defaults.
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randomrobbi said:
Jesus Christ...I froze mine with titanium but YouTube still opens in browser. I will try it your way and see if I can live with it.
Why must Apple mess with HTC. I have had a Samsung Galaxy S and GS2 since the first Epic launched and this is seriously the one thing I hate about the EVO. Esp if I have 6 tabs open when I try to click a link.
On Viper also not that that matters.
Does any devs or anyone have any thoughts about reverting it back and having it be stable?
I would pay for the old way...I didn't always wanna use a certain app when hitting things and now I'm forced to set defaults.
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Freezing doesn't work, I forgot to mention after renaming the file you have to reboot. Also make sure to clear defaults for the stock browser, and while you're at it, I suggest downloading ICS Browser+
Def going to, just haven't gotten around to it yet.
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donatom3 said:
If you have root you can use a file explorer and rename htclinkifydispatcher.apk to something like htclinkifydispatcher.apkBAK. This will break a few things. You won't be able to open any links from the default text app, google talk will crash everytime you try to open a link, and you won't get youtube links to work in stock browser, but all other programs work fine.
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The irony there would be if you did that, so you could open links to YouTube with YouTube app, then somebody texted you a link to a YouTube video. Lol
But yeah, this infuriates me The way apple screwed us!! I mean, it used to work beautifully. It was genius. Can't wait for some AOSP ROMs, as they won't suffer from this. Everyone should smash apples
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scottspa74 said:
The irony there would be if you did that, so you could open links to YouTube with YouTube app, then somebody texted you a link to a YouTube video. Lol
But yeah, this infuriates me The way apple screwed us!! I mean, it used to work beautifully. It was genius. Can't wait for some AOSP ROMs, as they won't suffer from this. Everyone should smash apples
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If you use a third party messaging app it's fine. Honestly HTC just needs to add more options to their app associations. Sense ROMs from other countries don't have this problem so a custom sense rom using their apks would solve this problem.
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even clicking youtube links from a google search in the stock browser opens them in the browser rather than the youtube app
so stupid... my evo shift did it just fine
Kujila said:
even clicking youtube links from a google search in the stock browser opens them in the browser rather than the youtube app
so stupid... my evo shift did it just fine
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Yes is you remove htclinkifydispatcher you have to use a different browser.
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What's funny is that my Tegra 3 One X opens links right into the YouTube app, but my S4 one will not.
Funny that YouTube is owned by google yet they have to defend rights to use it
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Funny that YouTube is owned by google yet they have to defend rights to use it
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Its not the right to use it that has them in trouble its the method of opening links that apple claims they have the patent. Well not claim they do have it. Its sad they would give a patent for such a common function.
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And next up will be the patent war for the power button, hell Nokia may have that
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Frag x 3 said:
What's funny is that my Tegra 3 One X opens links right into the YouTube app, but my S4 one will not.
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Can you please extract your htclinkifydispatcher.apk from your international one x and post it so that we can install it over our american version.
That would be most helpful.
iconeo said:
Can you please extract your htclinkifydispatcher.apk from your international one x and post it so that we can install it over our american version.
That would be most helpful.
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that might be awesome actually
randomrobbi said:
that might be awesome actually
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That's assuming it even exists in the international version.
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Can we use tasker to work around this?

Any way i can make chrome like my stock browser?

I have Covenant Eyes on my Sensation, and it only monitors the stock browser... But the problem is that the stock browser sux... So i wanted to know is there is anyway i can make chrome like my stock browser (my phone is rooted so i can uninstall the original stock browser, but when doing that and moving chrome to system/app it still didnt help...)
Thx,
Aryeh
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aryehzev said:
I have Covenant Eyes on my Sensation, and it only monitors the stock browser... But the problem is that the stock browser sux... So i wanted to know is there is anyway i can make chrome like my stock browser (my phone is rooted so i can uninstall the original stock browser, but when doing that and moving chrome to system/app it still didnt help...)
Thx,
Aryeh
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The easiest way to do this is to go into settings, then manage applications, then find the stock browser and select clear defaults. Then the next time you open a link or browse a web page it should give the option to use either chrome or the stock browser for these actions, click the box that says use this by default. Then click on chrome and you should be good to go
That dont help.... I need Covenant eyes to think chrome came on my phone and not the stock browser....
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aryehzev said:
That dont help.... I need Covenant eyes to think chrome came on my phone and not the stock browser....
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This seems like a harder work around than its worth if you haven't figured it out yet.. Why not just install a different app that's does the similar thing however actually allows chrome to be monitored?

Stock browser

Is there any way someone could pull the stock browser.apk so I can side load it on my S5. The new s5 comes with chrome but I kinda like the S4 stock browser for certain things. I know there is at least one other member with an s5 that would like it too. I searched Google but couldn't find it.
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Enjoy
Mr. bird said:
Is there any way someone could pull the stock browser.apk so I can side load it on my S5. The new s5 comes with chrome but I kinda like the S4 stock browser for certain things. I know there is at least one other member with an s5 that would like it too. I searched Google but couldn't find it.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6lneep8qtsi8ao/com.sec.android.app.sbrowser.apk
There you go buddy.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6lneep8qtsi8ao/com.sec.android.app.sbrowser.apk
There you go buddy.
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Thank you. I tried to install it but it failed. It goes through the process of installing but then says "app now installed". I guess it won't work for whatever reason. Do you know how I could possibly get it to work? I don't have any clue to what I can try if there is anything..
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Thank you. I tried to install it but it failed. It goes through the process of installing but then says "app now installed". I guess it won't work for whatever reason. Do you know how I could possibly get it to work? I don't have any clue to what I can try if there is anything..
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Are you rooted? I haven't looked to see if there is root for the S5 yet... if so, you'd have to push it to system and change permissions to rw r r with a root explorer.
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Are you rooted? I haven't looked to see if there is root for the S5 yet... if so, you'd have to push it to system and change permissions to rw r r with a root explorer.
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Yeah that's what I was thinking might work but there isn't root for the Verizon s5 yet. And I'm not sure if I could get away with rooting with Knox and being on the edge program. I don't think they would like the Knox counter marked when they get the phone back. I'll play with other Web browsers till I find one that suits my needs. Thanks for your help
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No problem. I used https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.easyweb.browser this one before, it's pretty good. But I decided I liked Chrome better.
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No problem. I used https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.easyweb.browser this one before, it's pretty good. But I decided I liked Chrome better.
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My only problem with chrome is that it has problems with embedded youtube videos. Sometimes there isn't sound and other times the sound comes out of the ear speaker instead of the back. If it wasn't for that I would be happy with chrome
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