[Q] Vibrant says usb plugged in when not, boot loop - Vibrant General

Flashed nero v3 fine for a week or two. All of a sudden i get the usb is plugged in when its not. The phone will shut off by itself and the charging screen come on, again its not plugged in. It'll shut off again by itself and go into this charging screen-off loop.
Only by plugging it in will stop. I flashed up to nero v4, if its a rom thing a new flash would take care of it right? Well, no. after re-flashing the usb icon was still on. i forgot to disable voodoo. so i diasbled and re-flashed. The icon went away!
10 hours later, it was back on and boot looping to the off-charge screen again.
Flash back to stock and try that? if it still is on after that i guess it has to go back to t-mobile.....
Open to suggestions.

I had the same problem. The USB port on your phone needs to be cleaned. The crap in there plus the moisture in the air is causing a short. There is a post in another forum explaining this. Be careful while cleaning as to not damage the pins.
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Canned air is your best friend. At least it was mine when it happened to me. I was also stuck in landscape mode. It thought it was docked. Couple of quick blasts and all is good.
Good luck.

Here is a long and detailed thread about this issue:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...otification-stays-after-usb-disconnected.html
It does indeed have to do with cleaning the USB port.

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I have yet to see this issue reported anywhere so was wondering if anyone was having the same problem.
After having the phone charging in the wall my vibrant has started piping up with a notification that usb has connected even though it's not plugged into anything. Rebooting doesn't seem to help.
Any ideas?
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Does that when I charge it in my car. I just ignore it.
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Does that with my wall charger but I suspect it is happening bc my puppy chewed on the cord. Didn't get all the way thru though and it still charges fine
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My phone has been doing the same thing. Says usb connected when nothing is plugged in. stovk firmware, only rooted. Just happened this morning. Apparently many other people have been having the same problem. Can't seem to find a solution yet. Reboot into recovery and wore cache sill no luck. I heard wiping data doesnt work either.
I'm having the same issue but on the Fascinate. I thought that this was do to the Voodoo lagfix so I removed that but it's still happening.
I'm rooted and have CWM loaded but no other modifications.
For me, the USB notifier keeps popping up every second or so. I can't reboot the phone as it still thinks it's connected and shows a battery symbol that isn't charging and then dims. To complete boot I have to either 1) plug in a powered usb cable or 2) pull the battery.
I've had the battery out for 15 minutes and that usually stops this from happening for a day or so. I have no idea what's causing this but I'm leaning towards this being hardware related. Possibly bad battery? I don't know. I have experienced this in my car too.
Some other thoughts, does this phone react differently to different USB cables? I know it's odd, but when I plug into my wall jack using a generic cable I don't get the notifier at all, when I plug into my car with the Samsung cable, sometimes it appears. Of course, it's more of a problem when it appears when no cable it pushed in and it cycles on and off.
Does anyone with this problem have a spare battery they could try?
That happened to me before. I rebooted and that didn't fix it, so I did a master reset and that cleared it up. It was kind of pain to redo everything, but not too bad.
Someone else posted over at Something awful the following:
Stunt Rock posted:
I had a really fun day with my Vibrant yesterday. Interested in seeing if it repeats today. I was on the phone when it just randomly shut down. I was a little surprised, since it was plugged into the car charger and shouldn't have run out of batteries. Then without me pressing any buttons, it boots itself up. Then over the course of the evening it does the following:
* Repeatedly turn itself on then shut itself down while plugged in.
* Repeatedly display the "USB Connected" dialogue while not connected
* Refuse to recognize USB actually IS connected while plugged in to the computer.
* Randomly turn itself off if not connected to USB
* Automatically turn itself on whenever plugged into the USB port.
* Refuse to turn on if the battery cover isn't attached.
Plus some other stuff I'm probably forgetting. I have no idea what started all this.
This continued in more hilarious fashion yesterday when I took it to the T-Mobile store and the rep couldn't get it to boot (it would just give the spinning wheel for a few seconds). The rep called in for a warrant replacement.
I told him it would get past that screen if plugged in. Sadly, I was going out of town and left my USB charger. So I found out if I blew into the USB charging port right as I pushed the power button it would boot.
I charged it overnight and today it continued the errors (repeatedly USB connected while unplugged, etc). T-Mobile tried to push the JI-6 update again. It bricked my phone, again. I went into Odin and restored it to stock, again.
Then I manually applied the JI6 update via ODIN. Phone has been working flawlessly since then.
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Maybe coincidental but I just blew into my USB port and the notifier stopped flashing on and off.
Serveral ways to do it and it is actually all over this thread as it appears to be a pretty major issue lately. I also had it on my phone, called tech support and they said it was a known issue and JI6 had the fix. I couldn't get the fix since i was on a third party ROM but was able to find Bionix 1.9.1 that has the JI6 update built in and flashed it and have been without the USB annoyance since. So, to fix you can flash a ROM with the JI6 update built in OR use Odin to flash the JI6 to your phone. For me using Rom Manager is easier than Odin.
Read my thread for a fix that worked for me. Its in Q&A
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homerbrew said:
That happened to me before. I rebooted and that didn't fix it, so I did a master reset and that cleared it up. It was kind of pain to redo everything, but not too bad.
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I've done a Factory Reset before when I went back to stock and that didn't help me.
deez1234 said:
Read my thread for a fix that worked for me. Its in Q&A
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I suppose this wouldn't be possible for me as I have the Verizon Fascinate. Our update 2.1 - Update 1, DI01 didn't include a USB fix that I'm aware of.
any body have fix usb connected ?
i've done all which is writes around the internernet after reading 400+ web site threads/posts still not able to solve, Please if anybody have done please share with us
thanks
the vibrant seems to do that when you have a cable that is wired for data transfer, the vibrant sometimes gives you the message even when your not connected to a computer, (I.E. connected to the wall) if you use a cable that does not do data transfer (it will specifically say not for data transfer on the package) then it will never pop up. Rocketfish makes one of these type cables, its usually more convenient to just deal with the notification rather than getting a special cable though. I only got the charging cable cause the data transfer cables were pretty expensive at best buy. the power only cables are a bit cheaper.
@firely
i think you don;t know my all story ;-)
actually without connect charger or usb cable i'm not able to turn on my phone,
after on usb connected message appear at left side top,
i want to trade my phone (its brand new like get before 2 weeks)
that's way i want to solve this problem, Phone Should be on without any power connected like usb and charger,
its my story
USB Issue Perhaps Larger Then It Seems
My update on this, no one seems to have presented a solution. Flashes, kernels, etc don't fix. The problem is it incapacitates your phone, as there is no internal SD card mounted since it thinks USB is plugged in. Can't download songs on SD card, can't power on without it plugged in and seeing battery indicator first. Then last night on top of everything, my market showed downloads that I didn't authorize. Strange behavior, I have put bionix, know how to ODIN, etc, but nothing so far has fixed this USB connected / mounted issue and it seems like I have to return this. I'm worried there is a virus associeted with this behavior. I don't download apps that appear dangerous, (sex related, obscure, not without many downloads or robust developer site). I have a friend who has JI6 but has never rooted or modded and around the same time, Halloween his started this too. Power indicator still indicates charging after unplugged, USB connected constantly flashes off and on, battery life is worse. There is soemthing deeper seemingly happening because rebooting, resetting data, wiping dalvik cache, does not give me the basic ability to turn on phone without USB connection. App settings, I say choose on connect. Finally got computer to recognize again as a drive, but inconsistent, tried to reinstall USB drivers on win7. over all really wonky behavior since it powered down while on charger a week or so ago. Sometimes plugging into wall charger gives error. Only way to get it to stop showing USB message was to unmount phone storage, but now I don't even get options to mount or unmount phone storage. love this screen and have loved modding but frustration is sinking in, will try to get tmo to replace with this, but hoping it's not a larger virus related issue, would be scary deal.
hey said it was a known issue and JI6 had the fix
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I don't think so: I have the rooted JI6 on the phone incl. Clockw.
Yesterday I see also that the USB cable "should" be connected, after I have enable the Debug-Mode, the red Triangle comes too in the status bar.
That's all in the Underground station
A reboot helps on my side.
USB Woes Continue, Phone Meltdown
This is not just a debugging / reboot issue in my case, it is also effecting my friends who doesn't have bionix, just the JI6 build TMO OTA update. THis is a serious bug, perhaps brought on by a virus who knows, but my buddy who has this same problem is now going ballistic and running into the arms of apple. there is no resolution to this issue throughout the forums. Tmo is exchanging with me, and I have installed multiple ROMs, know how to search forums, kernels, ODIN, all that. Now my radio for cellular doesn't turn on and I have to reboot, it just seems pretty hosed at the moment and I find it coincidental that my friends phone (he is a technical design guy) is having the same mounting SD card issue, basically bottom line is, the thing won't turn on without being plugged in and flashing back to stock, different roms, still will not mount the internal SD card, or recognize it in many cases. I have reformatted, cleared davlik cache, most options from recovery, no dice. can't download to SD card, because it always thinks USB is connected, even when the device is turned off. i hope this resent one works fine and I will document the details since this happened for the hard working devs to have details that maybe can be discovered, but the most worrisome part is that it seems like it may be virus related. I hope that's not the case and just odd coincidence. There is no changing USB settings or debugging combinations that will solve this issue in my experience.
sad but hopeful vibrant owner,
jellyculligan
vibrant with stock (after bionix fusion), oc / uv JAC kernel.
I just got this issue as well and nothing has worked for me so i'll be replacing it with a new vibrant but I wont have a phone for about a month! Does anyone know if tmobile rents out phones?
deez1234 said:
Read my thread for a fix that worked for me. Its in Q&A
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would you happen to have a link to said thread?
Mine does it when I plug into the wall charger. I just went ahead and synced with the house. Now I can turn the lamps on/off from anywhere.

[Q]Voodoo causing "battery is not connected" error?

Alright, so i sat down and did my first ROM flash (the clean update based off the DI01), then immediately downloaded ROM manager, and flashed the voodoo v0.2 with stock clock and voltage. Now every time I plug in the USB cable, I get the "battery is not connected" error. I have tried:
turning off phone, unplugging cable, pulling batt. then turning on, then plugging in cable
unplugging cable, pulling batt. while on, putting batt. in, turning on, then plugging in cable
... and every other possible configuration. I have left the battery out for 10 minutes now, and still no luck when I put it in.
suggestions?
EDIT:
waited a while longer, and it randomly worked. mods, feel welcome to delete this thread
It's been known to be related to phone being too hot.
hey..
That's what exactly what happened to me, so i actually flashed back to the stock rom
through the odin and wipe everything and started all over man..
I don't know..
Something is gotta be wrong with Voodoo kernel..
But in this way, i fixed it..
So i think im gonna stick with the lagfix for now..
and i guess when Dev comes out a different fixed verison, i'll take it again..
Good luck man
My phone was running at a fine temp to the touch, and I think the Battstat widget said it was at 30c, which should be fine. I think today i will flash over to a 1.1 or 1.2 Ghz voodoo kernel
Aidman...try this unplug the usb cord and shutdown pull the battery , then replace battery fire it up and charge....
post back results....
Voodoo busted my phone too. I could get the battery disconnected message to go away if I took the battery out and let it sit for a few minutes, but then it would come back later. It's a pain in the ass getting the message every time I try to charge my phone. Went back to stock until a fix can be found. My battery is nowhere near being hot when this happens, and I have only seen the message when using voodoo. I think I'll just wait for a later release. Too buggy for now...
Alright: for those of you who never read the full first post: THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED, thanks for everyone who decided to chip in. I had to try the battery pull about 10 times before it worked
Edit: I feel like an asshole after rereading my own post. I am sincerely sorry for my incredible stupidity.
aidman said:
Alright: for those of you who never read the full first post: THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED, thanks for everyone who decided to chip in. I had to try the battery pull about 10 times before it worked
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I did read your post and understand the the problem wa solved for you, but not for me. I wanted to include my experience in case others are having the same issue. I was unable to fix the problem.
SnrSuave said:
Voodoo busted my phone too. I could get the battery disconnected message to go away if I took the battery out and let it sit for a few minutes, but then it would come back later. It's a pain in the ass getting the message every time I try to charge my phone. Went back to stock until a fix can be found. My battery is nowhere near being hot when this happens, and I have only seen the message when using voodoo. I think I'll just wait for a later release. Too buggy for now...
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Not a lot of people get that error. I never did. And it never appeared either.
I had this issue too with the "no battery" indicator, and so did another individual in the lagfix release thread. No our phones were not hot, my own battery was nowhere near being hot, and we tried battery pulls, but that never worked. What worked for me was reflashing the voodoo 0.2 kernel on top of itself, the other guy tried that and had success with that too. You may give that a try, but I must say, that was only a temporary fix because after a while I got that annoying message back again.
I seem to have gotten rid of it for good, backed up all my apps in titanium, re-removed voodoo (be sure to get rid of "remove_lagfix" file when it's no longer needed), did a factory wipe, reflashed the stock Odin Kernel, did another factory wipe for the heck of it, then applied Voodoo, then reinstalled my data + app data using titanium backup (keep in mind I never wiped, restored, or returned system back to stock). Been running for a while, and I have yet to have the "no battery" annoyance and to be honest my phone boots quicker. So up to you, worked for me if you wanna give it a try.
Just wanted to update this thread. I have noticed that after flashing the voodoo kernel I too am getting the battery not connected error. However, I ONLY get this error when I have the usb cable plugged in when shutting down and starting back up again. If there is no usb cable plugged in when powering the device on, I have no problems with battery errors.
2 things stick out for me...
1. I had USB debugging on when doing the fix.
2. I removed the battery to go into initial Odin flash...PDA, etc.
The guide said my phone would reboot on its own, but it just sat at a blank screen. I had to unplug the cord and turn the power on. So do we have a fix for this yet?
i know earlier today my battery reading according tot he widget for setCPU said 66 degrees F.......which is kinda hard to believe seeing as the outside air temp is 80 degrees F outside and the inside air temp is 73 degrees F and my phone, although it had been sitting untouched for hours pluggen in inside, it was still on.....i cant believe the battery was running the best part of 10 degrees below ambient...even in idle state
Just flash the 1200 voodoo kernal u won't have that problem
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[Q] Phone shuts off in sleep mode

Ok so 3 days ago I took my phone off the charger and it flashes "Usb connected" now everytime I take my vibrant off the charger. I have disabled usb debugging.
Now I have a new problem...since last night..if my phone is nt on the charger and goes into sleep mode it will turn off and I cannot even get it to turn on without removing the battery and then I have to plug it in or it just stays black. if I don't plug the charger in after removing the battery it just makes this little circle loading then does nothing.
I tried my battery in a old vibrant and it worked perfect.
I have rooted master final rom and I think it may b after using setcpu but idk.
I'veFlashed my rom twice and an about to try another rom now but I've been using this final for months no problem till now
Help if you can tyvm.
ODIN back to stock. What you are having is a Kernel Panic that causes the Sleep of Death.
ODIN should fix it for you, or flashing a different kernel.
spot on reply. Odin back and it will work. I had the same exact issue using a Froyo stock build. Once I went back to stock, the issue was resolved.

Guys read this and give thoughts please!!!!

Ok this will be a bit lengthy but please bare with me and read...
Ive been running Darkyy 10.1 EE for months now and every has been fine.
Easily a couple of days battery, no force close issues of any sorts... Everything has been perfect.
Then the other day i noticed my battery started dropping fast. NO THIS IS NOT A BATTERY DRAIN THREAD SO PLEASE READ ON.
I took my phone off charge the other night within seconds of hearing the beep for battery full and the fully charged icon in the top right of the bar stayed there for a few seconds ( like maybe 10 ) and then the battery level dropped to 80%.
I thought hhmmm thats not right but left it and went to bed.
6 hours later i woke up to 31% battery.
I thought something must be running killing my battery so i did a reboot...
Now this is where it gets weird. Read on my friends...
after i rebooted the phone it kept rebooting itself every 2 minutes or so.
I pulled the battery of for 30 minutes and put it back but i had the same problem.
When i got home i did a factory rest and wipe cache partition and decided to flash Darkyy 10.2...
I had the same problems as above only now when my phone rebooted the battery lvl would drop by 20% then next time raise by 5% etc etc
NOW THIS BIT IS SCARY BUT READ ON!!!
I decided to flash back to froyo with ezbase using repartition to see if that would help.
I plugged my phone into the computer and nothing happened!!!! My computer wouldnt recognise my phone at all neither would my phone start charging whilst plugged into the computer.
I managed to get my computer to see my phone by booting into recovery and and then download mode and flashed ezbase.
Again same problems. So i thought OK this might be an insurance job so i flashed it back to stock JPY from samfirmware.com. I plugged it back into my computer and my PC says "the USB device you have connected has malfunctioned and windows cannot recognise..."
I have had my phone unplugged over night but the icon on the bar is still there showing USB connected, and in the pull down shade there is still the option to connect USB to copy files.
I have plugged it in this morning and it started charging but windows didnt even recognise that there was anything attached at all! No beep no fault deviced attached message... Nothing!
Oh i would also like to mention that when i flashed ezbase and tryied to do a reboot i would get the battery icon for a second like if you charged while the phone was off and then it would power down again... The only way i could get the phone to boot back up was to flash EZbase again with auto reboot ticked!
Yes that was very long sorry and thankyou to those who took the time to read it.
If anyone has any thoughts on why this would have happened please post.
Do you think this is something caused by the custom rom or is this a hardware issue completely out of my hands?
Thank you again for reading!
Have you tried another battery?
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First, I would try to check if its a hardware problem.
For that burn a stock rom and see how it is doing. If its working fine with stock, without any problem, then obviously its ROM issue.
Else if the stock also gives you the same problem, then I would say its a hardware problem.
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Have you tried another battery?
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I dont think its a battery issue because the battery wouldnt prevent the computer from seeing the device would it?
mammenj said:
First, I would try to check if its a hardware problem.
For that burn a stock rom and see how it is doing. If its working fine with stock, without any problem, then obviously its ROM issue.
Else if the stock also gives you the same problem, then I would say its a hardware problem.
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Im running stock JPY right now and have the same problem
Could it be a damaged usb port, so that it doesn't always charge properly, and doesn't always detect the phone correctly when connected to the computer? That might explain the problems... Especially if that port is getting worse all the time.
Can you get it to detect on the computer if you wiggle the usb plug to the phone? Have you tried a replacement usb lead?
It does sound weird. Hope you manage to sort it out.
Mike
Garbled meaning induced by swype!
don wadte time if ur phone dosnt work on stock then its the port tht got damaged and the hardware,,,,something wrong .....better go to a service center..don expirement ,cause it might damage it more
I have just dropped it off at the shop i bought it from and they are sending it away for repair.
2 weeks of nokia 3210 magic for me!
Thanks for replies guys.

ok so my phone hates me

Had Build 5 of the team hacksung ICS. i went to turn my screen on and nothing, I figure ok, pulll the battery, it will be fine. NOT. I pulled the battery, put it back in, tried to turn the phone on and all I got was the battery charging screen (with a grey battery with the loading symbol in it) and it kept turning off and coming back on over and over. I threw it on the charger for shi*s and giggles and it booted into recovery, nothing I tried made it boot past recovery (while plugged in) or past the half charging screen (when not plugged in)
I managed to go home and odin back to stock (full DL09 w/ atlas 2.2 pit) but if I turn the damn thing off and then try to start it again, same damn thing! idk what the hell to do or even what happened. no amount of odin is helping.
Anyone have any idea what the heck happened here?
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Had Build 5 of the team hacksung ICS. i went to turn my screen on and nothing, I figure ok, pulll the battery, it will be fine. NOT. I pulled the battery, put it back in, tried to turn the phone on and all I got was the battery charging screen (with a grey battery with the loading symbol in it) and it kept turning off and coming back on over and over. I threw it on the charger for shi*s and giggles and it booted into recovery, nothing I tried made it boot past recovery (while plugged in) or past the half charging screen (when not plugged in)
I managed to go home and odin back to stock (full DL09 w/ atlas 2.2 pit) but if I turn the damn thing off and then try to start it again, same damn thing! idk what the hell to do or even what happened. no amount of odin is helping.
Anyone have any idea what the heck happened here?
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Are your volume buttons stuck?
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Nope but I'm thinking I'm going to try some electronics cleaner just in case. My phone is my music when I lift so I change songs often meaning its a distinct possibility that's its gummed up a bit in there lol
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Neuman.Tim said:
Had Build 5 of the team hacksung ICS. i went to turn my screen on and nothing, I figure ok, pulll the battery, it will be fine. NOT. I pulled the battery, put it back in, tried to turn the phone on and all I got was the battery charging screen (with a grey battery with the loading symbol in it) and it kept turning off and coming back on over and over. I threw it on the charger for shi*s and giggles and it booted into recovery, nothing I tried made it boot past recovery (while plugged in) or past the half charging screen (when not plugged in)
I managed to go home and odin back to stock (full DL09 w/ atlas 2.2 pit) but if I turn the damn thing off and then try to start it again, same damn thing! idk what the hell to do or even what happened. no amount of odin is helping.
Anyone have any idea what the heck happened here?
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I kinda have the same issue. When I have the phone unplugged and off, I cannot turn it on. When I push the power button I get a blank battery charging image. However, when I plug the phone in and wait for the battery charging icon to appear , then push the power button the phone will start. Also, when on and not plugged in, the notification area intermittently presents "USB connected". I have chalked this all up to being an issue with my USB port on the phone being damaged and learned to ignore the notification. I have tried several ROMs and have the same issues across the board (GM and ICS ROMs)
truckinpaul said:
I kinda have the same issue. When I have the phone unplugged and off, I cannot turn it on. When I push the power button I get a blank battery charging image. However, when I plug the phone in and wait for the battery charging icon to appear , then push the power button the phone will start. Also, when on and not plugged in, the notification area intermittently presents "USB connected". I have chalked this all up to being an issue with my USB port on the phone being damaged and learned to ignore the notification. I have tried several ROMs and have the same issues across the board (GM and ICS ROMs)
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Try a different battery
That was my next step once I get home. Half afraid to turn the dang thing off at risk of having to start over..again
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Ok so I finally got around to some testing. If I power off the phone and power it back on its fine, if I reboot, its fine, if I take the battery out (like when I flashed the ec09 radio earlier) then it does the same crap as before. If I plug the charger in and try again its good. I tried my buddys battery and all was well so its my battery.
Hope this helps anyone who runs into this problem!
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