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Not trying to brag or anything, but when I see reviews for this phone I see people saying it gives random reboots, locks up, crashes, overheating, and that It's just so problematic..however I never witnessed any of that, my phone never froze once on me and never had any problems like that. I've had this phone for about a month and a couple weeks and no issues
Yeah. Not every phone is built the same. I've had mine since day one. Still runs like a champ.
Don't know what all the fuss is about it's an excellent phone in fact I couldn't be happier
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Hmm Unless you don't follow proper procedures with flashing roms and kernels there shouldn't by any instability.
Also make sure u follow the devs suggestions for specific kernels and mods
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Been using this since it launched in the UK. No problems whatsoever. My phones running default, had nothing done to it and It's smooth as butter.
The happy users won't complain or sing praises on forums much as we are satisfied with our product, while those that aren't happy will make themselves heard everywhere.
The only issue I have had is w/the touch screen freezing during calls --- although since I went on a flashoholic binge over the past week jumping between Sense based ROMs, CM7, CM9, and MIUI it seems to have fixed itself. I haven't had any issues all week.
All in all, I love it! Couldn't be happier!
I only really have four problems with this phone.
1 - The battery cover doesn't go on tightly in the top left corner.
2 - There is some dust under the screen.
3 - the phone gets quite hot under use occasionally.
4 - Having a PG86100.zip on the SD card makes it so that you can't boot to recovery through bootloader. Sure, it's easy to just remove it, but sometimes I forget to delete it and experiment too much. When I need to get into recovery in those cases, I can't because of the zip file. On my OG Evo if I didn't want to install the file, I could just say no and then tell the phone not to reboot. With this phone, if I say no, I HAVE to reboot.
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Great phone, like it alot, also got an Sensation XE but I prefer my Evo 3D, don't know why, it's magic for me.
It gets very warm next to the camera(s) when I play graphics intensive games and the default music player is cruel, but I got PowerAmp and all in all I'm verry satisfied. Seriously, now the 3D-features aren't used for many times...but it's great to amaze people!
Here in Germany it's just 269€, means ca. 350$, cheap for the given value.
Yep, I never have any stability issues either, stock or rooted. This thing is a very stable beast!
I bought this phone on the release day for my dad's birthday. He had so many problems he had to get a replacement. I swear one day he was doing something on it and out of nowhere he had a reboot. He said it would happen all the time. I took possession of this phone about six weeks ago and have had not one problem at all. Maybe it didn't like him. But overall, this phone is awesome. Wouldn't give it up for anything in the world.
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I only really have four problems with this phone.
1 - The battery cover doesn't go on tightly in the top left corner.
2 - There is some dust under the screen.
3 - the phone gets quite hot under use occasionally.
4 - Having a PG86100.zip on the SD card makes it so that you can't boot to recovery through bootloader. Sure, it's easy to just remove it, but sometimes I forget to delete it and experiment too much. When I need to get into recovery in those cases, I can't because of the zip file. On my OG Evo if I didn't want to install the file, I could just say no and then tell the phone not to reboot. With this phone, if I say no, I HAVE to reboot.
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Do a search for 7in1 mod it allows you to boot into recovery without going.through the boot loader
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The problems seems to be in the CD a versions
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Got 2 E3D's in June, no problems with either one. I'm lovin HTC!!
Mine reboots like it won't go more than 20 minutes of use and it powers of and reboots,is their anything I can try to fix that? Or should I just get a replacement
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Do a search for 7in1 mod it allows you to boot into recovery without going.through the boot loader
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I do that usually, but when you can't boot the phone because of a ROM issue you can't exactly choose that option...
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I do that usually, but when you can't boot the phone because of a ROM issue you can't exactly choose that option...
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Yes, I've owned this phone for almost a year note and haven't had a problem since. I luv it. I'm currently running viperrom on it and its great.no complaints....:thumbup:
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Jonathan 9969 said:
Yes, I've owned this phone for almost a year note and haven't had a problem since. I luv it. I'm currently running viperrom on it and its great.no complaints....:thumbup:
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yeah buddy I have used viper and only viper on this phone for roms.
lbxmobbin_1 said:
Mine reboots like it won't go more than 20 minutes of use and it powers of and reboots,is their anything I can try to fix that? Or should I just get a replacement
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That needs a replacement if it is stock...
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This is an incredible phone I also had since launch day zero issues...
The metal frame makes it feel more sturdy compared to other phones.
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Have had mine since day one. Only problem ive had are restarts but only happens while using htcs task manager.
Stock unrooted
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Ok, I got this bad boy yesterday and it has already done about 7 random reboots. What the heck is up with it?
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thats way weird.. did you isntall something or root it? factory reset i think!
Do u have a case on it? I have the platinum surface case from best buy and the top button was getting pushed in by my holster & pocket.
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Nope, not rooted yet and no case yet, waiting on otter box.
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Check and see if your power button is sticking, mine was the first day it kept rebooting. seems better now
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Check and see if your power button is sticking, mine was the first day it kept rebooting. seems better now
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i had that happen too, it kept rebooting in my pocket glad to know im not the only one i suspected the power button being pushed
Same here thought it was pt holster also but now I wonder.
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I just picked up my EVO 4G LTE last night, and it rebooted twice last night and at least four times today. It seems to happen most often when I'm on 3G, and I haven't noticed it happen yet while I've been on Wifi. Sometimes it happens when it's in my pocket, and other times it happens while I'm using it.
I tried restarting the phone and doing a factory reset, but neither resolved the problem.
My wife and I both got the phone at the same time, have all of the same apps installed, and her's has not rebooted once...
I plan to contact Best Buy tomorrow and see what I can do about exchanging the phone. I'm not very optimistic about being able to exchange it anytime soon, but I at least want to have this documented so that I can get an exchange when one is available. I feel that I shouldn't have to go through having the phone serviced or giving me a refurbished one, when this one is clearly defective from the start.
These reboots are making me mad. I have noticed that just before the reboot, the phone freezes up theen comes the reboot. I'm guessing the reboot is a feature that HTC has put in to restart a frozen phone. Maybe I'm wrong but I will be at best buy Monday. Not wasting my weekend at bb so I will wait till tomorrow lol. It's not like they have any replacements yet.
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jamesjeter1 said:
These reboots are making me mad. I have noticed that just before the reboot, the phone freezes up theen comes the reboot. I'm guessing the reboot is a feature that HTC has put in to restart a frozen phone. Maybe I'm wrong but I will be at best buy Monday. Not wasting my weekend at bb so I will wait till tomorrow lol. It's not like they have any replacements yet.
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I wouldn't count on bb having any replacements for at least a week, maybe longer.
Yea I just called them and they said another shipment is due in around June 3rd. Damn what I wait. Atleast he said it would be like an exchange and no sending it off.
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My random reboots only happen in my pocket they don't happen when I am using the phone or anywhere else
I haven't had any reboots since my first day I'm wondering if its some sort of automatic update process Prl profile etc..
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I was getting reboots and shut downs but it was with the pt case from BB I took it off and no problem since.
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I've seen a couple of reboots myself, but it's been when the phone had been in my old phone case. It seems that my case hits the power button because of where it is located. Looks like it's time for a new case.
I hope they are related because other than the reboots, I am loving this phone.
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I have no case on mine, and it happens when the phone is just sitting on a table, so it has nothing to do with the power button being pressed in.
It seems to happen almost once every hour or so...
I've already contacted Best Buy, and they're supposed to be holding the first non-preordered EVO that comes in so that I can exchange mine... they didn't provide me with an ETA for when that would be...
I honesty don't think its a problem with the phone its day 4 and phone is flawless still using my pt clip and case and no issues since first day.
I'm sure its some kind of settling in thing.
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Ok its day four and mine is still doing it a lot. I woke up and there's the tell HTC crap in the notification bad again, so it had to reboot while I was asleep.
There is something going on for sure because I don't even have a case on it. It seems to do it about every hour or two.
I will be at best buy as soon as they open.
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Ok, I got lucky and best buy had 1 that someone cancelled and BB swapped mine. The new one has not rebooted at all. Definitely a problem with the phone. Thank got they had a replacement.
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Ok, I got lucky and best buy had 1 that someone cancelled and BB swapped mine. The new one has not rebooted at all. Definitely a problem with the phone. Thank got they had a replacement.
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That's great. My best buy doesn't have any available, so I need to wait. They tried to tell me that it was a software issue, and Sprint/HTC were planning an update, but I pretty much told them I don't buy that, and I want an exchange.
If it was a software issue, a much higher percentage of us would be having the issue...
Does anyone else's phone actually work? Just seems like there are a lot of problems going around.
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DJ1994 said:
Does anyone else's phone actually work? Just seems like there are a lot of problems going around.
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No different than any other device the first few weeks it is released.
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No different than any other device the first few weeks it is released.
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Yeah pretty much repeats a lot of them....
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DJ1994 said:
Does anyone else's phone actually work? Just seems like there are a lot of problems going around.
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Of course,
Early adopter effect, every phone forum has it.
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Maybe placebo from mine being less than 48 hours old, but I've got 0 issues with the exception of Google wallet being retarded.
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I figured it was just cause its new. It just gets tiresome.....ah well at least there is only on gsIII thread.
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True that to gsiii thread
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You should have seen the transformer prime forums when that launched. Damn that was bad and not even a phone..
I just avoid the problem threads. I have no issues that i notice so i figure why go looking for them. If they are pointed out to me I'll be annoyed even if it previously didn't affect me.
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You should have seen the transformer prime forums when that launched. Damn that was bad and not even a phone..
I just avoid the problem threads. I have no issues that i notice so i figure why go looking for them. If they are pointed out to me I'll be annoyed even if it previously didn't affect me.
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Exactly. Put me down in the zero-issues column. If I notice something, I'll search for a solution, but I won't go chasing after device hypochondria.
Agreed. I've had mine since May 24th and have had 0 issues.
The sad thing is is everyone will jump on board in a problem thread, but then again, those that are enjoying there new toy and have 0 issues won't post a thread just to say this is awesome.
With that being said, we are still within the first 2 weeks of launch, and only 2 days past the official launch date. The dev community is getting geared up, and there are still a lot of great dev's waiting to get their devices.
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No different than any other device the first few weeks it is released.
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Exactly.
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Evryone wants a perfect phone I been thru a lot release from the OG evo, to the 3d, iPhone 4s, and galaxy nexus, and man they all the same... Do you have dust under screen? Is your screen warm or blue? Do you see lines? Does your speaker does this?, people going over 3 iPhone or Evos and there still no happy, I seriously don't know if I'm just lucky or I really don't noticed anything cause I never had a problem like that, for example when the 3d came out they said the screen was tilted, I don't freaking now how much time you need to have to noticed that cause to me it was normal, or the "screengate" on the iPhone forums, idk man my phone is good best reception since og evo and talking and browsing the Web is amazing when you use it so I'm happy evo owner
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People who are OCD and look for problems will always find them. Mine is perfect.
sent from my Evo LTE, usually.
No-one likes change.....at first.
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No-one likes change.....at first.
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I dunno man I love this phone
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No issues really took a little getting used to the no search key but remaps helped .
Other than that no issues love this phone
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No issues here cept the ones I cause
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Yet another useless thread...why oh why lord?!?
I know I shouldn't have even bothered with my useless reply...my apologies...
Mine would spontaneously reboot, maybe 5-10x in the first 24 hours I had it. Yes I did factory wipe. No I didn't restore any apps, root, or even install an SD card.
So I exchanged it, and this one seems solid, not a single reboot. I'm convinced there was something wrong with the first one.
With that being said, I love this phone.
I think I have a bum phone.
The stock browser disappears quite a bit. Text wrapping for the browser, gmail app and others isn't right. I have to swipe left and right to read.
Sense launcher has long reload times when exiting apps.
My screen is slightly protruded at the top right corner and the battery life for me yesterday off a full charge only lasted eight hours. Normal work day of checking emails, a few phone calls, browser look ups etc. No games or heavy use.
I'm going to exchange it as soon as I have time.
Stock not rooted or anything.
I miss the search button but have mostly got used to the dots.
Well my phone died today, rebooted and would not turn on.. held down power button, power vol dn, etc.
Sprint is ordering me a new phone. My question is, hopefully the phone will not have the latest OTA installed. Is there a way to stop the OTA when I go to activate the new phone? Hopefully it wont just install no matter what.
Thanks
It's possible that the newest version will already be put on there before you even get it.
Otherwise if it's not on there, when you get the ota, let it download and the just don't install it when it ask. Simple as that.
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Make sure the sales person doesn't activate it in store, if u are going to a store to get it.
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Anthonicia said:
Make sure the sales person doesn't activate it in store, if u are going to a store to get it.
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Had my Sprint HTC EV 4G LTe for 5 weeks. Rooted phone after week 1. No problems until week 5 when I had left it in my windshield mount for 2 hours in the sun. After that there were several unexpected re-boots then after executing a "Mirror" app it froze. Any attempt to reboot phone gave continuous white HTC screen with vibrate or boot loop. Bestbuy junked it out replacing the phone. New phone is now updated with new OTA update waiting for new root code... No indication that Bestbuy detected "tampered" screen with root.
Otherwise very happy with phone!
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Micro Maniac said:
Had my Sprint HTC EV 4G LTe for 5 weeks. Rooted phone after week 1. No problems until week 5 when I had left it in my windshield mount for 2 hours in the sun. After that there were several unexpected re-boots then after executing a "Mirror" app it froze. Any attempt to reboot phone gave continuous white HTC screen with vibrate or boot loop. Bestbuy junked it out replacing the phone. New phone is now updated with new OTA update waiting for new root code... No indication that Bestbuy detected "tampered" screen with root.
Otherwise very happy with phone!
Micro Maniac
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Rooted my exchanged EVO as well. Had no trouble w the exchange at best buy either, but was before ota update. The girl doing my activation didn't turn over my new phone until after all the updates had been performed when the phone is first powered on. Snatch it from them before they accept HTC update is all I'm saying.
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If you get the OTA, it is not that big of a deal. You can still root using this method: http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-4g-l...tc-evo-4g-lte-unlock-bootloadertwrp-recovery/ Did it yesterday and it worked like a charm.
Anthonicia said:
Make sure the sales person doesn't activate it in store, if u are going to a store to get it.
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^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^
I always tell them not to accept it. Cause they won't ask of course. But like the first guy said, it may already be in there.
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^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^
I always tell them not to accept it. Cause they won't ask of course. But like the first guy said, it may already be in there.
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Yeah I dont trust them. Worst case if it comes with the new OTA I'll just do the HTCdev unlock and root. From everything I read it puts me back pretty much where I was with root and s-off.
Just pisses me off quite a few people are having the same issue the phone dies for no apparent reason.
I'm on my wifes og EVO because last night, I plugged in to charge and this morning when I woke up, phone was dead... No button combination worked and I gotta assume its a paperweight... Off to the Sprint store I go, maybe tomorrow... I just hope I don't get shafted with a newer version... Prolly will...
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drob311 said:
I'm on my wifes og EVO because last night, I plugged in to charge and this morning when I woke up, phone was dead... No button combination worked and I gotta assume its a paperweight... Off to the Sprint store I go, maybe tomorrow... I just hope I don't get shafted with a newer version... Prolly will...
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Thats how mine died. Plugged in to charge, and it died. Were you using the charger that came with the LTE or a different one. I was using a charger from my EVO OG. I wonder if that has something to do wih it.
R u sure the charger isn't broken and it just died from being on all nite? Try a different charger
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R u sure the charger isn't broken and it just died from being on all nite? Try a different charger
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Mine still had a 40 percent charge and was only on the charger for 5 mins. I am seeing a trend, from others that this has happened to. Most if not all were not using the charger that came with the phone.
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Mine was at 50%... I was using one of the numerous HTC chargers I have, but probably not the one that came with EVO LTE. I'll have my replacement on Tuesday, just sucks it will prolly be updated... No soff is a bummer...
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Just brought my white evo that had a manufacturer defect with the vibration function. And got it exchanged for another one and it came outta the box with hboot 1.12! I'm a very happy camper considering the first one I got came with hboot 1.15 outta the box. Now I just gotta root it and unlock the bootloader. Can somebody point me in the right direction?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645890
You want to LazyPanda s-off while you still can
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Thanks guys been a while since I had time to "play" around with my phone so I'm gonna have to get reacquainted with it
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My phone had a defective vibrator function as well.
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My phone had a defective vibrator function as well.
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The guys at the Sprint store tried factory restoring my phone like 5 times before they decided to accept the fact that it was defective lol
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Define broken
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Congrats. I went and returned my black one today because of issues it having with autofocus and so far so good!
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Define broken
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Well not so much broken as it was defective, had the phone vibration and haptic feedback turned on but it would never vibrate so I tried doing a factory reset and it didn't help. Took it in and sprint thought that a reset would do the trick but it didn't work. Either way I'm glad my phone wasn't working properly cuz now I have one with hboot 1.12
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Congrats. I went and returned my black one today because of issues it having with autofocus and so far so good!
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That's awesome were paying top dollar for our mobile devices so it's damn important for them to take care of us lol. I always drop the "if u guys aren't going to change out my phone them I'll take my business else where" haha
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