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I have a problem. I can not get Market to work, even with the market enabler and the latest market mod from the NotionInkHacks forum. I had it working first, then did the OTA and it was still working. But then I did a full factory reset to clear out my Adam (something I always do after a few days with new units, so I can remove the traces of experimenting. And now I can't get Market working again! I have done the unbricking update with the recovery image dated the 24. of Jan, and I'm pretty sure that will fix it. The problem is that I can't seem to get rid of the OTA update that's on the unit. I have tried to hard reset it with both the reset in Settings and the one in the flash menu (power on + vol up), and still it's there installing itself. And I can't find it with Sniffer or Root Explorer! Any idea how I can remove this thing, so I can get back the Market access?
I also deleted the recovery.zip on the "internal SD card", and still I get "Your Adam is up to date" when I try to check if I'm back to an earlier image, and I have the same problem with Market. Driving me up the wall here! According to my About Adam the build number is NIP20230111.
I finally solved that. I downloaded the 5. of Feb update, and now I can update to the latest. Still market doesn't work, though. Any help on that would be appreciated! Driving me totally crazy...
Mastiff said:
I finally solved that. I downloaded the 5. of Feb update, and now I can update to the latest. Still market doesn't work, though. Any help on that would be appreciated! Driving me totally crazy...
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Did you try force closing market and clearing data?
Sorry, should have posted that I finally got it. I went to Edenx and tried 3-4 full resets with that, and suddenly it worked. I have no idea how and why, but it's there now. It' very slow, but it's there. My son's Nook Color pops into market and makes searches in seconds, this takes at least half a minute. But I can deal with that. I've got Titanium Backup now, so I won't have to download anything more from the market if I don't need new apps.
i have no idea what happened or why but the market now is offically broken for me.
it thinks my 32gb iconia that i got from amazon is from another country and its not.
i installed a COM_GEN1 stock rom, not an EMEA or what ever rom.
i am listed as USA in all settings.
nothing on the market will install as it keeps saying my tab is from another country.
everything was working fine... what the **** is going on.. holy crap i cant tell you how frustrating this is and i will file a complaint with amazon and my local BBB if this stupid company is selling iconia 32gb tabs as usa models when they are not.
someone help please i have searched everywhere and cant find an answer
i did look around on the google support sites and there are alot of people reporting this in the last 2 months and some from the Acer transformer and only 1 guy said he switched google accounts and it went away.
i have tried multiple accounts and even made sure my info on that account was set up for USA.
i live in iowa for pete's sake... it was working damn it.
It's not about the hardware (although you can check the box and you'll see which country it's listed). This is a bug. I also had the same problem and it's up to Google to fix it.
My market results were in everything but English and nothing helped. You'll just have to live with it. The problem disappeared however after a few weeks.
Keep in mind that I flashed a US rom on my tablet (I'm from Europe and the tablet came with German rom) and some descriptions were still in Russian which is nowhere near me.
thank you sir!
and i wont just live with it because nothing installs or updates and i cant even search for anything.
and now because i flashed back to stock i dont even have the ability to root or install recovery.
i am trying to find a link to iconia root and acer recovery installer that i can email my self and download via the tablet so i can atleast read the **** on my sd card.
since there was no file explorer in the stock rom i flashed.
If you need the apk's, Why don't you look in the Iconia Root and Acer Recovery Installer threads, then?
Or better yet, get one of the 3.1 OTA ROMS listed in the dev section, they don't require root or CWM, and install one of those? That should restore your market function.
i got iconia root. i had saved a copy on my PC but the acer recovery program is a market program, not something that is available via threads here
floatingfatman - how will a 3.1 rom fix an issue that is unfixable by hardware or firmware...
please be sure to read my post so you know that i already did that.
this isnt isnt just me there are a good number of posts about it on the google market support threads.... just no fix.
google did respond to my support ticket and tried telling me i have some filter applied on my Iconia market App that is stopping the installs and search results.
my reply was "WRONG" how does a filter make the market think i am not in the USA....
i told the guy to please read my email and my issue before just given me a blanket response that has nothing to do with my issue.
@OP: My problem was fixed after a few weeks. I don't know how much exactly but the thing that messed up my device was that I used a wifi spot in another country while I was on vacation. I didn't even have the list of the apps that were already installed on my device.
It's a serious bug and I even opened a post about it but all my search indicated that it will go away or I'll have to live with it. It sucks I agree but we can't fix it since it something to do with google market.
Some people also reported that disabling the location settings (the settings that determines your location via wifi or GPS you'll find it) and wiping Market cache afterwards would fix it but that didn't work for me.
ok finally got recovery installer downloaded and installed and doing a back up now, then will restore my last backup which had everything in it that i currently was trying to download.
thanks for the help guys.
but unfortunately this still doesnt fix the market issue i am having so we will see what happens.
@bpivk - yeah i did all that and nothing happened. even a complete format and flashing of a stock unrooted rom didnt help.
its all on google, its nothign to do with me, acer or anything.
i think it started when they started rolling out the new market to all the phones.
this issue started for me before my Samsung PHONE got the new market but anyways. just something i realized.
Try this:
Settings-Applications
Google Service Framework - Force Stop and clear data
Market - Force stop and clear cache
Reboot and give it a shot.
I just got the VZW 7.7 update but it was only 29.3 mb, but it was not ICS. Did anyone else get the 29mb update today? :cyclops:
After it downloaded the update and rebooted I got the Android with gear logo then an Android with an exclamation mark in the middle. It then rebooted and came back up. It's no longer offering me the update so I don't know if it was applied correctly or not. The Android with an exclamation mark looked like something I would get if the update had failed. Not sure what it is?
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After it downloaded the update and rebooted I got the Android with gear logo then an Android with an exclamation mark in the middle. It then rebooted and came back up. It's no longer offering me the update so I don't know if it was applied correctly or not. The Android with an exclamation mark looked like something I would get if the update had failed. Not sure what it is?
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I had the same happen as well as other people on the Verizon forum. 29.3MB update and an android with exclamation mark after install. No changes in the About device screen.
thanks just a little excited!
Try rebooting into the boot loader. Power + down volume. It will boot to Odin and start the real download.
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The update we are looking for is LP10 (ICS 4.0.4).
Received the ics update last night after the 29.3mb update. I had to clear Google Services to get it. Clear the cache, force quit then check for the update again under settings, about device, software updates.
dailong said:
Received the ics update last night after the 29.3mb update. I had to clear Google Services to get it. Clear the cache, force quit then check for the update again under settings, about device, software updates.
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Just tried this...no luck. I see the last check date change to 1969, but a recheck just says no updates available.
Did the FH01 29-meg "pre-update" work on yours (without an exclamation mark and actually showing FH01 in About prior to ICS)?
Rodney
rhester72 said:
Just tried this...no luck. I see the last check date change to 1969, but a recheck just says no updates available.
Did the FH01 29-meg "pre-update" work on yours (without an exclamation mark and actually showing FH01 in About prior to ICS)?
Rodney
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Yes the 29.3 update worked with no exclamation mark. I was stock. Initially I forced quit google services, cleared the cache and restarted the device. That didn't work so I cleared the google services cache first, forced quit then checked for updates. Hit the check now button couple of times and it showed up.
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Yes the 29.3 update worked with no exclamation mark. I was stock. Initially I forced quit google services, cleared the cache and restarted the device. That didn't work so I cleared the google services cache first, forced quit then checked for updates. Hit the check now button couple of times and it showed up.
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I tried Clear Data first, then Force Stop on Google Services, but always get the exclamation mark while trying to apply the 29.3MB update. I guess this is stopping the ICS update from coming through. Anyone have any ideas on how to get around this? I was rooted, but I used the Gingerbreak method to unroot and it seemed to work just fine. I am also on the stock recovery.
Has anyone been able to do it if they had installed CWM Recovery? I got an error that it wasn't signed properly and it asked if I wanted to install anyway, so I did and it failed there too.
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Do you have to be back to stock recovery for this update to work?
This has turned into a very special event. I've talked to Verizon support a couple times (meaning on hold for hours) and this is what seems to be happening.
There is a problem with the update coming from Samsung. I found a forum entry on Verizon reporting the very same problem with the GT 10.1 update a few months ago. Bottom line this isn't the first time this problem has been seen and it's up to Samsung to fix it.
That said as of a couple hours ago Verizon has no record of the problem. I take it most people in this forum don't report errors to Verizon. It has now been reported and is being escalated. If you have a chance to report the problem to Verizon or Samsung it might help speed up the fix.
During my customer support outing Verizon has been very nice but total useless. They routed me to Samsung level 1 who told me no update was taking place and they contacted Samsung level 2 support for me which hung up the phone on me and on the Verizon rep. It was interesting.
I guess it's time to take a break and let it shake out.
dailong said:
Received the ics update last night after the 29.3mb update. I had to clear Google Services to get it. Clear the cache, force quit then check for the update again under settings, about device, software updates.
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If you have the LP10 update can you post it for everyone else? or is it now gone from your cache folder? What about a Nandroid or have you already started to tinker in the ROM?
Here is the youtube video of ICS on the Verizon Galaxy Tab 7.7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg9egFXi9FA&feature=plcp
so your update was for FH01 to LP10?
We need to make a thread organizing all this information with updating issues and figure out what people who got the update to work have in common.
Also, someone with the update please post the file from your cache or make a "as stock as possible" nandroid and post that.
"This video does not exist"
fixed
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fixed
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This is getting ridiculous. I also called Verizon, of course tech support is clueless. They didn't even know about any update for our tab since May 2012. Their answer was to Wipe Data/Factory Reset, then try the update..... of course, didn't work. Unrooted, stock recovery... Couldn't be more stock than I am right now. Update will not install. What gives?
Anyone have ANY suggestions on how to kick this thing off? Starting to think I should have stuck with my OG galaxy tab..... Which has Jelly Bean running on it by the way....
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Here is the youtube video of ICS on the Verizon Galaxy Tab 7.7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg9egFXi9FA&feature=plcp
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Very interesting news. Do you have it rooted yet? Is there any way to root the sucker? Because then it's super easy to grab the rom and make it available for everyone here!
I am on stock rooted MK2 with TWRP recovery installed. I woke up this morning to see that my phone had automatically downloaded the new system sfotware(i assume 4.4.2). The notification cant be removed from the notification bar and just says click to install. i dont want 4.4.2. My wife updated her s4 and it caused all sorts of minor issues with it. She was not rooted however. How can I get rid of the downloaded update and the notification? Also, is there a setting I can change so it wont try to automatically download updates in the future?
thanks
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I am on stock rooted MK2 with TWRP recovery installed. I woke up this morning to see that my phone had automatically downloaded the new system sfotware(i assume 4.4.2). The notification cant be removed from the notification bar and just says click to install. i dont want 4.4.2. My wife updated her s4 and it caused all sorts of minor issues with it. She was not rooted however. How can I get rid of the downloaded update and the notification? Also, is there a setting I can change so it wont try to automatically download updates in the future?
thanks
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Im sure I will be needing the same information as I am still on 4.3 and want to stay here also, I can tell you I had the same thing with my Galaxy S2 and I remember I had to do something in Titanium backup to stop the update process, but I cant remember the exact steps.
I will be watching this thread closely, Thanks for asking the question!
Search fellas. On the notification . press and hold it. Then you should get a popup of "app info" select it and uncheck "show notification". This will get rid of the annoying update notifications. You can also delete the file from system although I am forgetting right now where.
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Search fellas. On the notification . press and hold it. Then you should get a popup of "app info" select it and uncheck "show notification". This will get rid of the annoying update notifications. You can also delete the file from system although I am forgetting right now where.
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Did that and deleted the file! It downloads it back and the notifications resurrects again.
I froze Configupdater, Sprint Installer, System Update
Disabled System Update on start up.
Dunno what else can stop this OTA notification!!
For me it's even more dangerous because I have the 720T running sacs for 720, hence the update that the system is trying to intsall is the NAE not NAF.
To be on safe side I'm thinking unroot and get to stock MK5 then upgrade to NAF then flash sacs again. This way the update notification will go away. Tedious but thats the only way I think I can get rid of this annoying notification.
Any thoughts?? Keep in mind I'm on 720T
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Did that and deleted the file! It downloads it back and the notifications resurrects again.
I froze Configupdater, Sprint Installer, System Update
Disabled System Update on start up.
Dunno what else can stop this OTA notification!!
For me it's even more dangerous because I have the 720T running sacs for 720, hence the update that the system is trying to intsall is the NAE not NAF.
To be on safe side I'm thinking unroot and get to stock MK5 then upgrade to NAF then flash sacs again. This way the update notification will go away. Tedious but thats the only way I think I can get rid of this annoying notification.
Any thoughts?? Keep in mind I'm on 720T
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interesting... I had recently ODIN'd back to stock and saferoot'd before calling it a day and woke up in the morning to an update. I also know that the update only downloads if you're on wi-fi. I know before I ODIN'd I was already saferoot'd with a whole bunch of crapware "frozen" by TiBackup and I never got the update. not exactly sure which crapware I froze, but I did it again this time around and I still haven't seen an update message for the past week. below is a list of what I froze... if you have the time to weed out the exact crapware needed to disable the update, please let me know! would be nice to uninstall the crapware that wont affect the update from happening while cleaning up the rest of the crapware.
1Weather
ANT HAL Service
ANT Radio Service
ANT+ Plugins
BaconReader
BlurbCheckout
Bubbles
CBS Sports
com.sec.enterprise.knox.attestation
com.sec.knox.eventsmanager
eBay
EpsonPrintService
Flipboard
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Magazines
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music
Group Play
HP Print Service Plugin
KLMS Agent
KNOX
KNOX Store
Lookout Security
Lumen Toolbar
Messaging+
Mobeam Service Application
Mobile Print
MobilePrintSvc_CUPS
MobilePrintSvc_CUPS_Backend
Phase Beam
Samsung Apps Widget
Samsung Books
Samsung Games
Samsung Hub
Samsung Music
Samsung Print Service
Samsung Video
Samsung WatchON
Samsung WatchON Video
SamsungHub Updater
Share music
Share video
Smart Device Manager
SNS
Sprint - Discover Apps
Sprint Music Plus
Sprint TV & Movies
Story Album
Story Album Widget
TalkBack
Weather Widget
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! News
looks like the inevitable just happened... with all the above items turned off/frozen, I still got the OTA download last night! I'm rooted with the hotspot mod and despite all of that, the OTA still came through. the update is located in /cache.
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looks like the inevitable just happened... with all the above items turned off/frozen, I still got the OTA download last night! I'm rooted with the hotspot mod and despite all of that, the OTA still came through. the update is located in /cache.
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Indeed! I gave up on OTA block. The only way I can think of if you stop all framework notifications, but I dont want to do that. Got to NAF and CF rooted. Waiting for stable KK before trying it on 720T. I don't care for sparks.
As of last night I hadn't received the OTA update yet, so I decided to try to fend it off buy freezing the system update in titanium backup... I swear I'm at 10 minutes went by and I can I receive the OTA notification! So now it looks like I'm in the same boat right next to you...lol
As I said earlier back in my S2 days I remember having to freeze the "System Update" with Titanium, but I think I also remember having to boot into recovery and Wipe a cache or something, because something is placed in the cache that looks to see if the update was downloaded and installed, and if not just keeps downloading until it is. So the steps that I do remember are;
1) Freeze system update with titanium.
2) Delete downloaded system files (I'm not sure where they are located, so please help me out with this one)
3) Boot into recovery and wipe a cache or two (I can't recall if it was one or more then one, and/or which one) so maybe someone could help with that?
I am going to do some searching for the S2 instructions to see if I can find them, maybe they will help with this.... Not sure if the update process is still the same though.
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As of last night I hadn't received the OTA update yet, so I decided to try to fend it off buy freezing the system update in titanium backup... I swear I'm at 10 minutes went by and I can I receive the OTA notification! So now it looks like I'm in the same boat right next to you...lol
As I said earlier back in my S2 days I remember having to freeze the "System Update" with Titanium, but I think I also remember having to boot into recovery and Wipe a cache or something, because something is placed in the cache that looks to see if the update was downloaded and installed, and if not just keeps downloading until it is. So the steps that I do remember are;
1) Freeze system update with titanium.
2) Delete downloaded system files (I'm not sure where they are located, so please help me out with this one)
3) Boot into recovery and wipe a cache or two (I can't recall if it was one or more then one, and/or which one) so maybe someone could help with that?
I am going to do some searching for the S2 instructions to see if I can find them, maybe they will help with this.... Not sure if the update process is still the same though.
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as I stated in my last post, the downloaded update file is located in /cache. for the time being I've deleted that file and created a zero-byte file with the same name and its permissions set to read only. not sure what's going to happen if I try to update with an empty file or if I reboot, but I have it this way to hopefukky assure me that if I accidentally press update that it won't update successfully. I doubt cleaning up the OTA downloads will prevent it from downloading again unless you can somehow fake your version number.
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as I stated in my last post, the downloaded update file is located in /cache. for the time being I've deleted that file and created a zero-byte file with the same name and its permissions set to read only. not sure what's going to happen if I try to update with an empty file or if I reboot, but I have it this way to hopefukky assure me that if I accidentally press update that it won't update successfully. I doubt cleaning up the OTA downloads will prevent it from downloading again unless you can somehow fake your version number.
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Doesn't sound like a bad idea! But I can't believe there isn't a fix for this out there though. In my research I found a file for the S2 called fota-killer, you would think something like that wild be available for the S4.
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As of last night I hadn't received the OTA update yet, so I decided to try to fend it off buy freezing the system update in titanium backup... I swear I'm at 10 minutes went by and I can I receive the OTA notification! So now it looks like I'm in the same boat right next to you...lol
As I said earlier back in my S2 days I remember having to freeze the "System Update" with Titanium, but I think I also remember having to boot into recovery and Wipe a cache or something, because something is placed in the cache that looks to see if the update was downloaded and installed, and if not just keeps downloading until it is. So the steps that I do remember are;
1) Freeze system update with titanium.
2) Delete downloaded system files (I'm not sure where they are located, so please help me out with this one)
3) Boot into recovery and wipe a cache or two (I can't recall if it was one or more then one, and/or which one) so maybe someone could help with that?
I am going to do some searching for the S2 instructions to see if I can find them, maybe they will help with this.... Not sure if the update process is still the same though.
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OK I tried the fotakill.apk method and so far I have not received the notification like I was eveytime I rebooted earlier go to here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30205683&postcount=1 for the instructions I used and a link to the file.... I used the manual method rather then installing the zip thru recovery because they said the zip method is device specific..... I'll stop back in a couple days to update how it's working or b4 that if it doesn't!
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OK I tried the fotakill.apk method and so far I have not received the notification like I was eveytime I rebooted earlier go to here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30205683&postcount=1 for the instructions I used and a link to the file.... I used the manual method rather then installing the zip thru recovery because they said the zip method is device specific..... I'll stop back in a couple days to update how it's working or b4 that if it doesn't!
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24 hours and still no update message!
OK it's been 4 or do days and this fix worked for me, we have not heard anything from the thread starter so I assume he has also fixed his, thanks for the help guys!
Ive just rebooted my fire tablet after installing some minecraft mods, when I turnt it back on it came up with a promt saying it was installing the latest software or what ever it does when doing the ota, I knew this from upgrading to 5.0.1.
is it possible it was just doing what happens when normal android optimises apps on boot. is there a app to check the installed software version as im not near my pc to unhide and go in and check what firmware im on. I put this in general as it wasnt a question but just to inform that my tablet possibly had a update despite the proper steps taken to hide the ota and updates.
Saw Same Message But No Update (whew)!
For a split second I saw that same message too when first starting the Fire up. But nothing happened and nothing updated. So I think it's still blocked. Even checking for updates still fails.
So I think we're OK!
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For a split second I saw that same message too when first starting the Fire up. But nothing happened and nothing updated. So I think it's still blocked. Even checking for updates still fails.
So I think we're OK!
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Have you tried unhiding to see the software version
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I didn't unhide it, but it says I'm still on 5.0.1. There was no update.
I saw the same thing but it didn't seem to update. I know the method i provided works for 5.0.0 to 5.0.1. Until there is a bump to 5.0.2 or whatever we don't know for sure if the "fix" works under 5.0.1.
Same thing happened to me but it was 3 days ago. I had been trying all day to install my adb drivers without success and switched off the device. When I restarted it immediately went into an update and I went into a panic that the new update would block the ability to access google play but immediately after the assumed "update" I successfully installed the adb drivers and google play without problem. I also checked the version and it still showed 5.0.1 so I wondered if my initial update on switching on the fire for the 1st time had somehow been unsuccessful and that had been what had been causing the inability to load the adb drivers although the tablet hadn't seemed to have any other problems and I had already downloaded and used several apps from Amazon.
I let it update upon first booting my Fire to 5.0.1. I was still successful in installing Google Playstore and hiding ads on lockscreen.
I'm not sure but i think that 'installing the latest software' screen is the android OS updating the dalvik runtime files after rebooting when an apk is modified. nothing to do with an ota.
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I'm not sure but i think that 'installing the latest software' screen is the android OS updating the dalvik files after rebooting when an apk is modified. nothing to do with an ota.
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That is my conclusion also.
I had this happen to me also. Considering amazon patched a root method I made sure to root and nuke any chance of a future OTA unless I wanted it too. That was a cheap move, Amazon.