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New droid owner

Ok Ive been a long time iphone owner since they came out and ive never owned an android product. Im tired of the crappy service I get with att anywhere outside of large cities and the iphone in general so me and my wife are switching over to verizon. We both ordered the droid x two days ago and somehow we are getting them tomarrow despite the aug 4th ship date that they said. The more I review about android OS and the droid x the more I think I will love it compared to the iphone. My question is which meathod of rooting should I take. Ive never rooted before of course so should I use the one click method or the list of instructions method. Im real tech savvy so if the list instructions way to root it is the best im comfortable with that. My next questions is on updates. Do i need to have the phone unrooted everytime that I preform an update or is that unnessisary? Also if I delete or rename some basic bloat ware do I need to make sure it is all back the same before I update? Thanks for any help and I look forward to be on the droid side

Ok i have my phone. Any answers to my post? Is this the wrong site to be asking this?
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I rooted mine using better terminal emulator right on my phone. Took all of 15 mins maybe. I've never done the one click thing but have heard great things about it. I guess its really what you're comfortable with. Just make sure you take your time and don't miss any steps!
Good luck & welcome to DROID!
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Thanks for your reply. If i root now will it conflict with future updates?
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It shouldn't. At least it hasn't yet. Just be careful with what bloat you delete. Make sure you keep anything that is blur related and verizons backup assistant. Its been said you will brick if you delete any of those.
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I've rooted several phones and the one click was so easy. Once I extracted the files & installed the drivers it took less than a minute.
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+1 for the one-click method!! it worked flawlessly!

Stock phone, root and OC???

I can have this right, I'm getting my 4th replacement this following week and just holding out on all this but, don't really wanna flash recovery..
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noodles2224 said:
I can have this right, I'm getting my 4th replacement this following week and just holding out on all this but, don't really wanna flash recovery..
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4th replacement? WTF are you doing to them?

Gezzz, I am thinking of having them send me another brand new phone. Screw this whole referb thing.
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He's probably another user complaining about the design of the hinge.
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noodles2224 said:
I can have this right, I'm getting my 4th replacement this following week and just holding out on all this but, don't really wanna flash recovery..
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If your sending your phone back cause of the hinge then.. WOW.. its a hinge its not like the G1 its supposed to drop loosely when tilted thats what a hinge does when held upside down..

Haha, no morons.. first one had gps and lag issues some how, didn't use temp root as it was pointless, second had dead pixels and now this keeps on shutting off randomly.. so yeah, fourth.. did I even say anything about hinges??? Just asked a simple question, just to keep root and OC, as everything is so buggy to most phones...
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noodles2224 said:
Haha, no morons.. first one had gps and lag issues some how, didn't use temp root as it was pointless, second had dead pixels and now this keeps on shutting off randomly.. so yeah, fourth.. did I even say anything about hinges??? Just asked a simple question, just to keep root and OC, as everything is so buggy to most phones...
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I'm not sure about OC, but i do know that you can have stock and root. Just use the guide for temp root to perm root and that should be it. As for OC, you probably still have the option of getting temp root and OC with the temp root o.o if I recall correctly, I flashed my OC, so not much of a help for you there.
If I were you, I would just go with temp root for a week or so though, since you don't seem to be having that much luck with your G2s and after that, go to perm root if you feel that your phone is without problems.

noodles2224 said:
I can have this right, I'm getting my 4th replacement this following week and just holding out on all this but, don't really wanna flash recovery..
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Yes you can. So long as you don't flash any roms. Just root your phone and oc using the gscript method.
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[Q] EVO hotspot hack?

I don't know if any one has found this but the incredible has been able to do it by changing the system software without rooting it. My friend did this and he was able to use the tether on/off switch on the settings menu without ever having to pay the extra amount. Does anyone know of a method like this for the EVO? I believe its called dun hack.

Yep just run the mikfroyo Rom and its already built in.
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swaze said:
Yep just run the mikfroyo Rom and its already built in.
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exactly how would you do this? can someone provide a step by step guide?
Thanks!

@Swaze - he says without rooting the phone. Installing a ROM would require rooting.
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If you would like a good step by step guide go to WWW.androidforums.com and go to the EVO section then look in the 'All about Root' section. There will be a 'Rooting guide for Dummies' at the very top. Follow this guide and they will help u with any problems or concerns
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Thanks for your input all. But my primary goal is to enable wifi for free without rooting the phone at all, just re programming the setting do that using wifi would use my data plan.

How do you know whether or not he's rooted?

p0rkguy said:
How do you know whether or not he's rooted?
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He's not rooted cuz all he did was turn on the tether on the phone from the setting menu and I was able to connect my evo on the verizon network. He has actually done this for two months already without verizon knowing our an increase in his bill.

sounds like he's rooted, that's how you do it on a rooted phone. some reason you don't want to root?
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I installed new roms almost weekly when I used Windows Mobile devices, but I'm a little shy about trying it with my Evo. Other than this hot spot stuff, I don't even see a benefit. Should I just suck it up and do it?
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Speed, storage space, getting rid of all the sprint crap apps,more memory, custom themes to pretty much anything you can think of! Better battery!

Not rooting an evo is like... buying a Ferrari and the dealer told you, no faster than 20mph.
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aray92 said:
Not rooting an evo is like... buying a Ferrari and the dealer told you, no faster than 20mph.
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More like "keep it under the speed limit"

skeene85 said:
I installed new roms almost weekly when I used Windows Mobile devices, but I'm a little shy about trying it with my Evo. Other than this hot spot stuff, I don't even see a benefit. Should I just suck it up and do it?
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Yes. Just go to unrevoked.com and do it, simple, easy peasy...
Then flash a rom, they all have free tether..
I just did this yesterday, took 10 mins. DONE.

Easiest Root Method Ever

Hi guys. I am looking for the easiest perm root method ever. I've tried many methods and failed all. Please help.
Thanks in advance
P.S. take it easy on me. I'm only 13
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longhorn24 said:
Hi guys. I am looking for the easiest perm root method ever. I've tried many methods and failed all. Please help.
Thanks in advance
P.S. take it easy on me. I'm only 13
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I think you should just stop and not root your phone just from looking at how you've asked this question twice in the same section as well as in the dev section.
Having a rooted phone doesn't make you cooler or give you special powers no matter what your friends told you, trust me.
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h22aboi said:
I think you should just stop and not root your phone just from looking at how you've asked this question twice in the same section as well as in the dev section.
Having a rooted phone doesn't make you cooler or give you special powers no matter what your friends told you, trust me.
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hahahaahaa yes i totally agree
your other thread was answered so either do the research yourself or take the advice you were already given...

h22aboi said:
I think you should just stop and not root your phone just from looking at how you've asked this question twice in the same section as well as in the dev section.
Having a rooted phone doesn't make you cooler or give you special powers no matter what your friends told you, trust me.
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Well seeing how I'm 15 and (and starting football and powerlifting camp today) building my own roms and a tester for TeamRoyal it can't be too hard but really to the OP you can't post multiple times, its a good way to get your question dismissed by the community. But to actually answer your question, the easiest would probably be the gfree method which is stickied in the development page.
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smatthew45 said:
hahahaahaa yes i totally agree
your other thread was answered so either do the research yourself or take the advice you were already given...
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I agree the same. At least try to keep the thing in only one post.
To root my MyTouch 4G took me over a week, of reading extensive posts here on XDA. Until i got it with the Link that i Posted on your last Discussion.
So every step, from the beginning, slowly. When you see that something is not going right, stop, and tell us Exactly what is happening
And yes, PERMROOT Wont give you special powers to show offf to your friends. Most likely if you do something wrong, say bye to that phone or have ready 100 $ to pay someone to fix it for you.

I just want root to install custom roms. I had a Samsung vibrant before and it was so easy to root.
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You people are funny with the whole root giving power thing, but I swear root gave me +100hp and eng hboot gave +100mp extra. But ya rooting is easy and you don't even need a PC. Story behind it...
I lost my HD2 (Leo1024) as it was my first dev-phone so I heavily modded it and few had personal things I never even released to public so now some prick walking around with it. When this happened dual core based phone the LG-Opt2x and Moto-Atrix (dual core) was still 4months behind and I couldn't wait for it so next best thing I got was MT4G (spec wise DHD-US model), so week before I got MT4G I did total run down from known issues with MT4G to root, ect. So I walk in to the TMoStore and the rep try to "sell" me MT4G so I told the guy save yourself some trouble I already know about the device and so we can skip all this BS and wanted to for it direct.
So I told him to open the box so I can verify it was superior display (by then we already knew about inferior SH model). So he started asking other silly questions how hard it was rooting and back then the meth was lil weird as you needed battery pull. Since I lost my phone they verified my account and gave me a new simcard free and provisioned my line on the spot. So I downloaded all the files needed from my phone for TheUnlockr meth to SDCard and rooted it in front of him using TempROOT (VISIONary+) and PermROOT (root.sh).

So what exactly is the easiest way?
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longhorn24 said:
So what exactly is the easiest way?
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Follow the TheUnlockr meth which takes 1min to root using VISIONary+ to obtain TempROOT and when you have it you can get PermROOT by running root.sh script.

longhorn24 said:
So what exactly is the easiest way?
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OMG. IM NOT kidding this time. I GAVE YOU THE D*$%N link dude!.
Use that one. IS the easiest and asured way!!! One more time;.. you dont ned to ADB files, you barely need a PC only to transfer like ONE file to your SD card, y even told you what App to use instead the PAID app ( root Explorer).
Why better not ask to send your phone to someone and root it for free?!
Send it to me and ill do it, but Stop asking the same question if you are not even trying to READ the post that i gave you.
Dont want to go back to your older post and finde the link, ill paste it again for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995549
I DID THIS and i already have used 3 Roms, in the last 3 days. Im only asking you to read. If you Fail one Step, Let us know, and we will HELP.

PD150000 said:
Follow the TheUnlockr meth which takes 1min to root using VISIONary+ to obtain TempROOT and when you have it you can get PermROOT by running root.sh script.
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The Unlockr Method does not work on all MyTouch 4G FYI. I tried doing it that way, and it failed all the time, unitl i found this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995549

I tried ur method 1 more time and it said error reading input
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When does it says that?
longhorn24 said:
I tried ur method 1 more time and it said error reading input
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Nicgraner said:
Well seeing how I'm 15 and (and starting football and powerlifting camp today) building my own roms and a tester for TeamRoyal it can't be too hard but really to the OP you can't post multiple times, its a good way to get your question dismissed by the community. But to actually answer your question, the easiest would probably be the gfree method which is stickied in the development page.
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You really had to mention teh football, and powerlifting camp thing? All it really says is you don't do either of those and the only connection to the football team you have is when they are beating you up and down your highschools hallways

DANCCS said:
OMG. IM NOT kidding this time. I GAVE YOU THE D*$%N link dude!.
Use that one. IS the easiest and asured way!!! One more time;.. you dont ned to ADB files, you barely need a PC only to transfer like ONE file to your SD card, y even told you what App to use instead the PAID app ( root Explorer).
Why better not ask to send your phone to someone and root it for free?!
Send it to me and ill do it, but Stop asking the same question if you are not even trying to READ the post that i gave you.
Dont want to go back to your older post and finde the link, ill paste it again for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995549
I DID THIS and i already have used 3 Roms, in the last 3 days. Im only asking you to read. If you Fail one Step, Let us know, and we will HELP.
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Hey Longhorn, Im a complete NOOB and I used this method and it worked. I dont think theres an easier way than this. No PC needed, Love it.

ionic7 said:
You really had to mention teh football, and powerlifting camp thing? All it really says is you don't do either of those and the only connection to the football team you have is when they are beating you up and down your highschools hallways
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Hahaha ok whatever you want to think bro, because I'm pretty sure I'm center on my jv team number 57. So yea and trying to make me look bad doesn't really solve the problem just changes the subject.
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DANCCS said:
The Unlockr Method does not work on all MyTouch 4G FYI. I tried doing it that way, and it failed all the time, unitl i found this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995549
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If the root.sh method doesn't work chance are you have a bad eMMC and you will permanently brick your phone
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[Q] suggestions on how to unroot w/s-on on a rooted MT4G 2.3.4/s-off w/ new radio?

Had my mytouch 4g for like 3 weeks now, rooted the first day i got it and tired a whole lot of roms soon to find out i had the bad emmc chip AND bad screen fml. So now i don't want risk my phone on getting bricked or anything. I rooted my MT4g using the form "TRUE PermaRoot and the ULTIMATE S=Off!!!" now i figured out how to unroot by using the form "Automated way to unroot your myTouch 4G (difficulty level 1)" but my question is it safe to use this after flashing "TMOUS MT4G 2.3.4 ROOTED with new radio" I still want to have the new ota update but unrooted with s-on? any suggestions on how? PLEZ and Thank you for your time
-links of the forms i used
(TRUE PermaRoot)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
(TMOUS MT4G 2.3.4 ROOTED with new radio)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1175536

Did you read the thread till it says "Procedure to revert"?
And remember - once you unroot and S-ON back, you can't root again unless you downgrade and wipe everything.

Yea but i also want to have the new update and I'm wondering if there is a way to revert and keep the same update get me? Haha
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Reverting doesn't reflash the ROM, just restores the security flag and removes root.
But there is absolutely no reason to.
The best would be just to run Gfree to restore S-ON, and leave it as is. If the phone is to be bricked - the ROM won't boot anyway, and the bootloader will be S-ON, so there won't be anything suspicious visible on the phone.

Well try this.. but if I do this well I get the manual updates? Or should I just download the offical 2.3.4 pd15img file and put it on the sd card so I can flash on hboot ? I know this loses root (just what I want ) but well it get s-on that why or should I get s-on first like how yoy told me and then do this?? And well this br safe since the radio changed on the rooted version?
sorry for my noobish quesitons.
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j0e_ahm said:
Well try this.. but if I do this well I get the manual updates? Or should I just download the offical 2.3.4 pd15img file and put it on the sd card so I can flash on hboot ? I know this loses root (just what I want ) but well it get s-on that why or should I get s-on first like how yoy told me and then do this?? And well this br safe since the radio changed on the rooted version?
sorry for my noobish quesitons.
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I want to do this as well, so when you find out pm me cause no one will help me on my post about this. But anyways, i think you have to be on stock radio in order to flash the gingerbread update pd15img.zip file. I'm not for sure, i think i saw it somewhere on these forums.

There is a good reason nobody posts - because all the info has been posted and you have been pointed to it, and most people don't want to post the same thing 15 times again and again. The rooting thread contains the procedure to unroot. You want to unroot? Follow it.

Jack_R1 said:
There is a good reason nobody posts - because all the info has been posted and you have been pointed to it, and most people don't want to post the same thing 15 times again and again. The rooting thread contains the procedure to unroot. You want to unroot? Follow it.
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The **** didn't work for me smartass.
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I2IEAILiiTY said:
The **** didn't work for me smartass.
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You don't need to get nasty about it. He was only trying to help
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truckerdewd said:
You don't need to get nasty about it. He was only trying to help
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Nah, he wasn't trying to help. He thought this would be his big cool opportunity to put in his two cents and make himself feel smart. I'm tired of all you smart asses in these forums. People can ask a simple question or say one thing and then they get **** from someone else cause it was covered before or whatever. Instead of trying to look big and bad and posting your little comments you guys could at least post a link or something, damn.
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I2IEAILiiTY said:
Nah, he wasn't trying to help. He thought this would be his big cool opportunity to put in his two cents and make himself feel smart. I'm tired of all you smart asses in these forums. People can ask a simple question or say one thing and then they get **** from someone else cause it was covered before or whatever. Instead of trying to look big and bad and posting your little comments you guys could at least post a link or something, damn.
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Links were posted and you've been pointed in the right direction. What more do you want, someone to do it for you?
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If you're dumb enough not to know, what kind of damage repeating questions cause to the forum - go educate yourself, or make your brain work and answer one simple question - why didn't you get your answers yet? And I guess you're not only dumb, but also blind, since the link is above your post and there are at least 5 threads in Development forum that talk about unrooting, and most probably 2 or 3 of them are in the first pages of the forum.
One would probably look at my status and think that "thanks" didn't arrive from nowhere, and definitely not from "little talk". I guess this is too much to ask, since it assumes the ability to think.
Your attitude is disgusting.

laziness and not enough reading of the forums lead to these types of threads.
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Like I said, the **** didn't work, smartasses. But you know what, instead of carrying on about it, screw you guys, I'm gonna be the bigger man here and leave cause there still must be some misunderstanding about the part it didn't work for me and the fact you guys on this forum are assholes for still trying to give people **** after what I said. I thought forums like these are supposed to help others, not ridicule people and make them look stupid just because they don't read the other 50,000,000 posts about a stupid phone they'll probably only have for a year. I apologize that I have a life and don't have time to do that, but I'd like to thank you guys for your 'help' anyways jerks.
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I2IEAILiiTY said:
Like I said, the **** didn't work, smartasses. But you know what, instead of carrying on about it, screw you guys, I'm gonna be the bigger man here and leave cause there still must be some misunderstanding about the part it didn't work for me and the fact you guys on this forum are assholes for still trying to give people **** after what I said. I thought forums like these are supposed to help others, not ridicule people and make them look stupid just because they don't read the other 50,000,000 posts about a stupid phone they'll probably only have for a year. I apologize that I have a life and don't have time to do that, but I'd like to thank you guys for your 'help' anyways jerks.
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So because we read and understand how to perform an unroot we have no lives?

Ok first of all I would like to thanks you guys for helping trying to answer my question. Technically I got my answer but it's not the answer I'm looking for... pretty much I would like to change my answer a little bit. By my understanding you can't just flash the new gingerbread update 2.3.4 if your rooted and have s-off (unless it's the rooted/detoxed one which I currently have and also I included THE NEW RADIO) you need to be unrooted with s-off right? So what I'm thinking now is I'm just going to unroot my phone using the automated way (for the gfree root) so now my question is it safe to do this with the rom I have? Because I have read forms that once you update to the new ginger bread you cant downgrade? Or that it's just a little more difficult to do right? ( I don't know if has to do anything with the rooted one I have btw) so if I unroot using that method well it root since I'm technically going to downgrade right? Since the unroot process says I have to flash the PD15IMG.zip which I think it would be an older version. So that being said can I just unroot using that method but insted of using the PD15IMG.zip they give you can I used the new gingerbreed PD15IMG.zip file well that work?!?!?!
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I2IEAILiiTY said:
Like I said, the **** didn't work, smartasses. But you know what, instead of carrying on about it, screw you guys, I'm gonna be the bigger man here and leave cause there still must be some misunderstanding about the part it didn't work for me and the fact you guys on this forum are assholes for still trying to give people **** after what I said. I thought forums like these are supposed to help others, not ridicule people and make them look stupid just because they don't read the other 50,000,000 posts about a stupid phone they'll probably only have for a year. I apologize that I have a life and don't have time to do that, but I'd like to thank you guys for your 'help' anyways jerks.
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[Q] Answered, too much bull****.