Help, Losing My Mind, PLEASE, HELP - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

Tonight I was coming out of the casino, I didnt win so I cant buy a new phone... Anyway, I noticed my 3g wasnt on, so I decided to power off then on, bc thats what I would normally do to get the 3g to work. So I hold the power button and the power options come up, normally I would hit power off, however, here I decided to press reboot. The phone made its normal power off sounds and then it was off, However, I noticed the led light on the left of the earpiece speaker lite up light blue. So I held the power button and the device never booted back up. I then did a battery pull, 1min later put it back in and still nothing. No recovery mode, download mode, connection to the pc, NOTHING...Does anyone have any advice,
It did not get wet, or dropped, or anything else thats device threatening... Im stumped, Its a I545 flashed to cricket, running 4.2.2 me7 bootstrapped 3.62, running cleanrom 1.6 incase the info will help... THANX IN ADVANCE TO ANY HELP...

please help me
Im really lost for words here. Everything checks out, and the battery is good, I ran a volt test on it, besides I have a second battery and problem is still current. Im trying to find out what besides the battery would cause the s4 not to power up, Circuit board wise, I have it apart and I dont see any problems. I could really use a hand, I have to run to work, be down at 9pm... I hope someone can lend a halping hand... Thanx

I have no insight as to why this happened to you but unfortunately you may just have to use your insurance and get another one, or have a service center check into it. It seems like you're pretty good with troubleshooting this... Not sure what else to say
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[Q] Could it be hard bricked?

I know many have gone on saying, oh I hard bricked my phone, etc, but turns out it was soft bricked. So let me say, I've soft bricked my phone many times and recovered it using Odin trying out different ROMs.
So what happened tonight is I was using my phone, browsing the internet when it locked up, screen stayed on, no response. - Sure, no prob, just restart, it's happened before. I held down the power button and shut it off. But now it won't turn on again. Battery is fine, I tried it in another phone and swapped the other phone's battery into this one.
Plugging in a charger doesn't do anything. I can't check Odin, cause it there is absolutely no response from plugging it in, removing battery, plugging it in again, holding down power buttons while plugging in and inserting battery, etc. I've tried many ways of getting it to power up, nothing seems to be happening.
I was running Bionix 1.1, with no problems for a couple months, so I really don't think the ROM did anything to it. Think my hardware just took a dive? It's really strange, and I'm sad. This phone is just about to hit 6 months old.
Do you guys have any other ideas of something I could try? Maybe I'll even open it up and take a multimeter to it to see if power is at least going through the phone.
Help!
Thanks.
Hmmm... Maybe Try the jig and see if it responds (check the sticky on that)
If not, Then check with a multi-meter and check continuity check the usb, check if there is voltage passing through battery contact (continuity). this all fails, then i would dis-assemble and check components,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908211
here is a link on how to do that. The nice thing is you can check easier when all assembled. Also, If you do figure it is a component then Globaldirect.com does sell the pieces so you can replace.
Not much help but without really seeing the phone it is just guess work (and even seeing the phone it usually is guesswork as well )
Thanks Oka1.
I don't think the Jig is going to help in my situation. I'm not having an issue getting into Download mode. The phone won't power on at all. If I saw an image on the screen at all, I'll feel alot more confident. But nothing at all is showing.
I'll figure something out. I'll probably call up Samsung when I get to work tomorrow and pull the phone apart.
Thanks.
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I've been in this spot before. Try, pull the battery, plug in the phone, hold the three buttons and at the same time push the battery back in. Should do the trick. It's been a long time since i've had to do it but I think those are the steps.
pull the battery and only hold down the volume keys, plug the usb in and put the battery back in...download mode..
Well... it's working again.
I did nothing other than pulled battery, sim, memory card and left it all apart overnight. I don't know what this causes, but after 8 hours, I put it back together again and it started working.
I had tried this over a 3 hour period before going to sleep and it hadn't worked, but somehow overnight worked..... sooooooooooo strange!
But thanks so much for the suggestion guys!

[Q] HTC Flyer Best Buy Needs Brick Repairman

Is there anybody in the community that repairs a unit that is bricked.
HTC Flyer Best Buy wi-fi version. Has revolutionary software on it.
Unit will not turn on.
Yesterday, I saw a video on YouTube about it. Is a method to back to Download mode, but I think the way to do this is not a same for all phones. There's a lot of videos on YouTube about it, and on ebay you can buy the cables or the accessories to do the job.
Hope this info help you.
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Unit will not turn on
This is not a phone. It is the Best Buy tablet version. It won't even turn on.
Needs a good repairman
What did you do to it?
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I wish I knew
I do NOT want to fix this myself. I have tried everything but am new to this and do not want to make things worse than they are. If I press the up and down volume at the same time, it vibrates 5 times then I get a green steady light. If I press just the up volume and hold it. It will vibrate 3 times and I get a flashing yellow or orange light. If I hold the power button for about 15 seconds it turns the light off. You can hear this connect and disconnect from the computer through the speakers. But the display never goes on. Hopefully someone knows how to fix this.
TOMAS3896 said:
I do NOT want to fix this myself. I have tried everything but am new to this and do not want to make things worse than they are. If I press the up and down volume at the same time, it vibrates 5 times then I get a green steady light. If I press just the up volume and hold it. It will vibrate 3 times and I get a flashing yellow or orange light. If I hold the power button for about 15 seconds it turns the light off. You can hear this connect and disconnect from the computer through the speakers. But the display never goes on. Hopefully someone knows how to fix this.
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Try booting into hboot by doing holding down the volume down and power button at the same time for like 10 seconds
So many ways to boot, does not recognize them.
I described above what happens, the vol down and power do not work anymore. The power only for 60 seconds does not work anymore. I personally think the battery is dead, or the unit is in a deep sleep, or the battery charge system is disabled. But it still vibrates 5 times when I hit the vol up and down at the same time, Like I said I have spoken with HTC they do not know, (they can't tell you anything on the phone, because this has revolutionary on it) but they tell me I can get help here. So here I am. They want $290.00 to fix it. I just hope someone here can help.
TOMAS3896 said:
I described above what happens, the vol down and power do not work anymore. The power only for 60 seconds does not work anymore. I personally think the battery is dead, or the unit is in a deep sleep, or the battery charge system is disabled. But it still vibrates 5 times when I hit the vol up and down at the same time, Like I said I have spoken with HTC they do not know, (they can't tell you anything on the phone, because this has revolutionary on it) but they tell me I can get help here. So here I am. They want $290.00 to fix it. I just hope someone here can help.
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Well what exactly happened to it in the first place? Were you flashing a ROM and something went wrong?
Unit turns off
Sure: I was having problems with the unit turning itself off for no reason at all.
Most of the times it would make it through the boot process to the home screen, wait about 30 seconds then shut down. If the unit stayed on for longer than 30 seconds it might last 1 to 5 minutes. Then out of nowhere just shut down. I could turn it on, it might do the same thing, or not even boot completely. Then I would let it charge for hours and try again. With the same results as above. So now I figure the battery is not charging. But like I said it is beyond me. For software it has HTC HC on it with revolutionary. I have reset it to factory software a few times. I hope this helps you figure what's up.
HTC said they heard of some way to turn battery charging back on, but would not give me that information. Do you think that might be the problem?
Thanks so much for the reply's. I sure am confused....
Smells like a hardware problem to me.
TOMAS3896 said:
Sure: I was having problems with the unit turning itself off for no reason at all.
Most of the times it would make it through the boot process to the home screen, wait about 30 seconds then shut down. If the unit stayed on for longer than 30 seconds it might last 1 to 5 minutes. Then out of nowhere just shut down. I could turn it on, it might do the same thing, or not even boot completely. Then I would let it charge for hours and try again. With the same results as above. So now I figure the battery is not charging. But like I said it is beyond me. For software it has HTC HC on it with revolutionary. I have reset it to factory software a few times. I hope this helps you figure what's up.
HTC said they heard of some way to turn battery charging back on, but would not give me that information. Do you think that might be the problem?
Thanks so much for the reply's. I sure am confused....
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Just to be sure, you didn't take the HC update while running GB revolutionary s-off right? Cuz that could be a problem. But really it just sounds like a hardware issue to me. You might just have to get it fixed or get a new one :/
Found problem
Took case off using an online site that shows you how to take apart a flyer.
I wanted to get to the battery so I could "disconnect it" then connect. Hoping that would reset the circuit board and cpu. I did that but had the same issues. I then looked at the battery connector, and I noticed it was crooked. I took it off again and put it on completely straight. The minute I turned the power on it started to work like designed. The battery connection is not well designed. The wires to the connector just make it to the circuit board. So that any wire movement, and a slight drop might and probably would loosen this connection. However my connection was clearly put on slightly crooked. It worked until it needed more connection from the battery connector to the circuit board connector. The battery connector was on an angle so as not to make 100 percent connection. I would say it had about 75 percent connection. This connector has more than a positive and negative wire. There were about 5 wires on this. Probably why this unit still had life to it. It is charging much easier than it did. And it is working good so far. Thank you very much for the reply's, from the people that tried to help.

Encryption Unsucessful - Prime Bricked Itself

I've had this thing for a good month or two and its ran like a champ. Never had issues really. Never Rooted, its basically stock and its been nothing but great to me.
This brings me to this evening. I decided to record my 2 year old dance and really havnt used the camcorder before. Gave it a go, recorded him, and as soon as I hit the STOP button on the camcorder, the tablet basically froze on me. Couldn't do **** for whatever reason.
So I figured ok, I'll shutdown by holding the power button. As soon as I fired it back up, I get a Encryption Unsuccessful message. It basically tells me my data is corrupt, can't be restored unless I do a factory reset. It gives me a button to reset and I push it.
It basically reboots and comes back to the same dam screen. I have no idea what the hell to do. I'm so screwed....
press and hold volume down and power. When the tablet reboots, keep holding both buttons until you see writing in upper left corner of boot screen, let go of buttons. Now press volume down and it should bring you to a menu with some options. Press volume down( I believe) to select factory reset/wipe date, then press volume up to select it.
If this doesn't work, and your boot loader is still locked, try to manually update the tablet(put factory Asus update on external SD). If that don't work, you may be screwed.
Its fixable with an unlocked boot loader.
I can try to help you. But first, lets document some things.
Where you on the latest version of ICS? (.15)
What were you doing when this happened: Already stated that
Do you have an SD card in your Prime:
Also, let's accept right now your data is lost, and is most likely not recoverable. Basically, this screwed up the /data and /sdcard folder. If you RMA the Prime, you will most likely get a new device, as it is not bricked, but beyond software fixing it. Someone please tell me I'm wrong, but I have gotten this before, I had no way of recovering, and had to get a new Galaxy Nexus.
But try these steps:
Turn the Prime off. Hold down both the Power and Volume Down.
Once you see text in the top cornor of the screen, press volume down.
Select Factory Data Rest, and hit the Volume Up confirm the change.
Let me know if that works.
Good luck!
I was still on the .13 build. I dont have an SD card either. Like I said, this **** happened outta nowhere and I'm dumbfounded right now.
Please tell me I don't have to F'in factory reset and wipe? UGH!
chugger93 said:
I was still on the .13 build. I dont have an SD card either. Like I said, this **** happened outta nowhere and I'm dumbfounded right now.
Please tell me I don't have to F'in factory reset and wipe? UGH!
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Try these steps for me
Turn the Prime off. Hold down both the Power and Volume Down.
Once you see text in the top cornor of the screen, press volume down.
Select Factory Data Rest, and hit the Volume Up confirm the change.
Let me know if that works.
Losing all your data right now, unfortunately, is the least of your worries. This is also something that needs to be reported to ASUS ASAP.
If you are getting to a screen, you are most definitely NOT bricked. If you see a light on, if you plug it on and the light comes on...you are not bricked.
Try the steps mentioned to get you into the menu where you manually select the options.
Good luck
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chugger93 said:
I was still on the .13 build. I dont have an SD card either. Like I said, this **** happened outta nowhere and I'm dumbfounded right now.
Please tell me I don't have to F'in factory reset and wipe? UGH!
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Oh yea, least of your worries for sure. Hopefully most of your important stuff syncs to the cloud or you have a recent backup. Resetting your personal settings, screens, etc will be a huge relief when/if you get it up and going.
chugger93 said:
Please tell me I don't have to F'in factory reset and wipe? UGH!
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I know what you mean..lol hate having to set everything up again. but its needed though to bring back your tablet. once it gets back to normal I'd suggest updating to latest update .15. has most of old bugs fixed and more stable. plus you might get an updated camera firmware also.
good luck n post back how things went.
Well I would love to try all these steps guys, but now the F**cker wont turn on. Just vibrates. Tried plugging the charger in, same thing. Wont even turn on.... !
chugger93 said:
Well I would love to try all these steps guys, but now the F**cker wont turn on. Just vibrates. Tried plugging the charger in, same thing. Wont even turn on.... !
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try plugging your prime up to t.v. through HDMI connection. see if prime might actually still be on but the screen is off. if you can see prime screen then if it lets you, try a factory reset that way by going into settings then backup/factory reset.
demandarin said:
try plugging your prime up to t.v. through HDMI connection. see if prime might actually still be on but the screen is off. if you can see prime screen then if it lets you, try a factory reset that way by going into settings then backup/factory reset.
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Well I wouldn't be able to go to settings and factory reset, because I can't get into ICS...we've established that. When I get home, I'll try my hdmi cable I guess.
chugger93 said:
Well I wouldn't be able to go to settings and factory reset, because I can't get into ICS...we've established that. When I get home, I'll try my hdmi cable I guess.
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that was when your prime was on and you could see the screen. could be possible the reboots stopped but now the screen doesn't want to come on..worth a shot.
No matter what screen your prime is on, whether the prime is turned off or on, press and hold volume down and power. What does that do? Keep holding it until something happens.
Tried the HDMI cable, nothing came up either.
When I hold down volume and power, it vibrates after about 8-10 seconds. Then nothing. I havn't held it down much longer than that.
tried holding it down for a minute after that...still black screen.
How does a friggin tablet BRICK itself, STOCK? Please enlighten me!
Guess I'll leave it on the charger all night just for hells sake
I've seen this situation here before. your best bet might be to keep doing what you doing to make it vibrate and drain the battery somehow. once its dead or doesn't vibrate anymore, let it charge up till the led light is green at full capacity. then try cutting it on. that has worked for a few members who seemed tl have same issue as you.
The led light doesn't come on tho at all when plugged in. Should it? Or only when it's fully charged?
it should at least be on and be a red color to indicate it's charging. a green color to indicate its fully charged.
is it still vibrating when you attempt to put it in recovery mode? if not then the power might be drained already. sometimes when battery is really dead, indicator light will not cut on until it has a decent enough charge. like some people who received their prime couldn't get it to cut on even plugged up. their battery was that dead and needed to charge for a while before it finally cut on.
constantly rebooting tablet does drain battery. maybe you already drained it, especially if it no longer vibrates anymore.
Naw it still vibrates just no led indication whatsoever. Holding down the power button only makes it vibrate and that's it, no display. I coulda swore I had like 50 percent right before I used my camcorder...weird.
I'll let it sit on a charge for a bit and see what happens. If I get this fired up I need to decide on rmaing it or not. Argh.
Thanks for the help....and to all...
chugger93 said:
Naw it still vibrates just no led indication whatsoever. Holding down the power button only makes it vibrate and that's it, no display. I coulda swore I had like 50 percent right before I used my camcorder...weird.
I'll let it sit on a charge for a bit and see what happens. If I get this fired up I need to decide on rmaing it or not. Argh.
Thanks for the help....and to all...
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no problem. it might be best just to RMA it anyways. so you won't have to deal with the risk of this happening again. plus chances are good they will send a replacement unit if they can't fix it. good luck!
chugger93 said:
Naw it still vibrates just no led indication whatsoever. Holding down the power button only makes it vibrate and that's it, no display. I coulda swore I had like 50 percent right before I used my camcorder...weird.
I'll let it sit on a charge for a bit and see what happens. If I get this fired up I need to decide on rmaing it or not. Argh.
Thanks for the help....and to all...
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No big deal, you were just out of battery and your charger is not working. Put you charger in a freezer for 2 hours and recharge your ATP 2 hours with It. problem will be solved after that.

Stock device won't boot - possible power issue - PLEASE HELP!

So I have a STOCK (no nothing) Verizon Galaxy S4 that is/was up to date as of 6/23/14. I think the last OTA push was a month or so ago.
A few days ago the device rebooted on its own a few times and I had no clue what was going on, but it stabilized for a day or so. Then yesterday it shut off and would not turn back on - the battery level was at least 80%. I removed the battery and reinserted it. I did not press the power button, but the device vibrates and displays the initial boot screen for about 3 seconds before it powers back off. At least I assume it is powered off - the screen goes black and there is no sign of life. The buttons do nothing to stir its slumber. I can remove and reinsert the battery for the same results.
I've tried POWER+HOME+VOLUME UP once inserting the battery - the blue text appears at the top but again the device shuts off after about 3 seconds.
Charger plugged in shows no light. However, when plugged in, the top part of the device does becomes warm on the screen and on the back with the cover off. - It actually becomes quite warm so I removed the battery but kept it plugged in just to test and it remained very warm. Unplugged now. Also it appears that inserting the battery does nothing now - maybe it's drained.
I'm pretty certain it's a hardware problem at this point, but I have no clue where to start. Has anyone ever had this issue or come across someone that has? I can take the device apart - does anyone know where and what I should be looking for as far as a loose connection or damaged component goes? Is there an electrical component diagram out there somewhere?
Any help is much appreciated!!
Have you tried getting into download mode at all?! I know you say that it won't go into stock recovery... But if somehow it got bricked then recovery corrupt be borked as well. Least if you can get into download mode you could try a no wipe image....
Also could just be hardware related in such case I don't have experience with that so much..
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Mistertac said:
Have you tried getting into download mode at all?!
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Yes. Same deal - it comes up for about 3 seconds... Must be a hardware issue.
tloth01 said:
So I have a STOCK (no nothing) Verizon Galaxy S4 that is/was up to date as of 6/23/14. I think the last OTA push was a month or so ago.
A few days ago the device rebooted on its own a few times and I had no clue what was going on, but it stabilized for a day or so. Then yesterday it shut off and would not turn back on - the battery level was at least 80%. I removed the battery and reinserted it. I did not press the power button, but the device vibrates and displays the initial boot screen for about 3 seconds before it powers back off. At least I assume it is powered off - the screen goes black and there is no sign of life. The buttons do nothing to stir its slumber. I can remove and reinsert the battery for the same results.
I've tried POWER+HOME+VOLUME UP once inserting the battery - the blue text appears at the top but again the device shuts off after about 3 seconds.
Charger plugged in shows no light. However, when plugged in, the top part of the device does becomes warm on the screen and on the back with the cover off. - It actually becomes quite warm so I removed the battery but kept it plugged in just to test and it remained very warm. Unplugged now. Also it appears that inserting the battery does nothing now - maybe it's drained.
I'm pretty certain it's a hardware problem at this point, but I have no clue where to start. Has anyone ever had this issue or come across someone that has? I can take the device apart - does anyone know where and what I should be looking for as far as a loose connection or damaged component goes? Is there an electrical component diagram out there somewhere?
Any help is much appreciated!!
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If this is 100% stock phone u are looking at hardware issue of some type...
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If this is 100% stock phone u are looking at hardware issue of some type...
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It is and I agree. Just hoping someone on here might've seen this before and know how to fix it. I may try replacing the charging port hardware to see if that solves it.
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tloth01 said:
I've tried POWER+HOME+VOLUME UP once inserting the battery - the blue text appears at the top but again the device shuts off after about 3 seconds.
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To boot into recovery you only need to hold the VOL UP+POWER. Once the phone vibrates let go of power but keep holding the up button. I let go once the blue text appears for about 2 seconds.
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To boot into recovery you only need to hold the VOL UP+POWER. Once the phone vibrates let go of power but keep holding the up button. I let go once the blue text appears for about 2 seconds.
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Thanks... but then it turns off after that 3rd second...
If you can't get into download mode only option left is jtag
If you don't have a warranty there are places that will jtag it. I would recommend using someone that has done it before but I would be happy to try if you want to send it to me. I have the equipment but have yet to use it. I had a hard brick and thought I was going to have to try and Jtag mine but the warranty company decided they would go ahead and replace it. Like any place else, there would be no guarantee it will work. Of course if it is a hardware issue, jtag wouldn't work.
Some repair places will test it for free. I took one in for a sound problem and wanted to check out the loud speaker. The loud speaker was fine and they didn't charge me anything.
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If you don't have a warranty there are places that will jtag it. I would recommend using someone that has done it before but I would be happy to try if you want to send it to me. I have the equipment but have yet to use it. I had a hard brick and thought I was going to have to try and Jtag mine but the warranty company decided they would go ahead and replace it. Like any place else, there would be no guarantee it will work. Of course if it is a hardware issue, jtag wouldn't work.
Some repair places will test it for free. I took one in for a sound problem and wanted to check out the loud speaker. The loud speaker was fine and they didn't charge me anything.
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Okay thanks! Yea, I'll see if I can figure out if it's a hardware problem or not. If not, then I may take you up on your offer.

Trying to recover data from this phone.. not turning on.

Hey guys, I realize I may be asking for a miracle here. My cousin gave me this phone to try and recover some pictures off of.. they are sentimental photos of his mother that passed away recently. He's not a very big tech guy so they weren't backed up. (I know.)
So I am trying to do all I can to help here. I have no idea what happened to it, but when I plug the phone in I get nothing, no lights, no boot up, nothing. I am by no means any tech genius here either but I know enough to know that recovering anything from this phone is going to be a long shot.
Just putting it out there and wondering if anyone has any ideas, or if anyone runs a type of business that would specialize in pulling information from devices like this?
Thanks everyone.
First of all, you'll need to get it to power up. This is done by plugging in a known good charger and pressing the power button on top multiple times until the orange light begins to flash.
Once it does start flashing, leave it plugged in, this means it's beginning it's charge cycle. It will go from orange to green when complete.
If you can't get the orange light to flash, then idk what else to tell you.
Good luck!
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Aside from using a good charger, I've also seen where people have had success in reviving a dead phone by holding down both volume buttons and the power button for 2 minutes. Might give that a shot.

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