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[RUMOR] Official Motorola ICS for Atrix 4G

I have spoke with some people from motorola and asked some questions related to general business but also for upgrading Atrix with ICS.
I'm pasting here some answers without mentioning names, I think that this may show that motorola is doing more than they are ready to publicly say in this moment. To be on safe side You can think about this as rumor.
On Software upgrades, I wasn't aware of an announcement regarding ICS and ATRIX. Although Motorola tends to announce what it will do, not what it won't do, it doesn't mean it won't happen. You may be right, but I don't know the current status... The challenge we have with ATRIX however is Webtop, the full linux OS which sits within Froyo/Gingerbread... I imagine this has delayed any comment. The ideal scenario would be to upgrade all phones to the latest software, and I see that almost all high-end (non web top) phones have had ICS upgrade confirmed.
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Official ics would probably suck too. Motorola would probably put blur on top of it.
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stumpyz9 said:
Official ics would probably suck too. Motorola would probably put blur on top of it.
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Agreed, but..... If they actually release a version of ICS for the atrix, it can be DEblurred and retain the webtop. So if one carrier actually releases ICS for the atrix we would be set..

nate_benji said:
Agreed, but..... If they actually release a version of ICS for the atrix, it can be DEblurred and retain the webtop. So if one carrier actually releases ICS for the atrix we would be set..
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What we need are drivers, webtop and kernels, and they will give us these if this is true

thats a lie dude ;D
Motorola's problem in releasing ICS is not WebTop's fault, is nvidia's! they will not release ICS drivers and sources, not until motorola pays them some good money.
So, our hope for now is that motorola pays for ics on xoom and then make a "hacked driver" of it to the phones with tegra2....
Please close or more the thread to general.
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Us GB members JUST got the 2.3 update...
If we think optimisticly, then MAYBE 2014 could be a safe bet.
But ONLY if... - If Motorola are faster than usual

Son of a *****. I got really excited.
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somebody should move this thread away from this section and/or append "-RUMOR" to its name . I was having an heart attack.

Its been stated by Nivida that they will be releasing the ics drivers and binarys for there terga 2 and 3 chip sets in the new year. That thread was in the general section awhile ago. So we will get ics through other channels.

drvon said:
Its been stated by Nivida that they will be releasing the ics drivers and binarys for there terga 2 and 3 chip sets in the new year. That thread was in the general section awhile ago. So we will get ics through other channels.
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are we talking about 2011 or 2012 ?
OP,
wrong place dude, but who depends on Moto for ICS when you have some awesome devs in here ..

damn, i almost having a heart attack after reading this thread's title
da fuq

munchy_cool said:
are we talking about 2011 or 2012 ?
OP,
wrong place dude, but who depends on Moto for ICS when you have some awesome devs in here ..
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They had sad early 2012
Here's the post...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371486

I'm not sure that drivers are anymore issue since we saw from google ICS
for xoom which is same platform as atrix.
guidoido004 said:
thats a lie dude ;D
Motorola's problem in releasing ICS is not WebTop's fault, is nvidia's! they will not release ICS drivers and sources, not until motorola pays them some good money.
So, our hope for now is that motorola pays for ics on xoom and then make a "hacked driver" of it to the phones with tegra2....
Please close or more the thread to general.
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What a tease!
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Sorry for tease it was not my intention, I just wanted to share some inside knowledge which I gain trough unofficial channels, anyway I will try to make it up for that

zexbig said:
Sorry for tease it was not my intention, I just wanted to share some inside knowledge which I gain trough unofficial channels, anyway I will try to make it up for that
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Perfectly acceptable titles:
- Unofficial information from Motorla regarding ICS for the Atrix
- I contacted Motorola regarding ICS for the Atrix, here's the answer
- If you were wondering about Motorola's stand on ICS for the Atrix, here it is
- So I decided to contact Motorola about ICS for the Atrix
Do you understand how the title is misleading enough for it to pass as obvious trolling? Don't apologize, just change the god damned title so people won't read it and get excited over some unofficial comments that do not really say ANYTHING at all about current development for the Atrix.
Thank you and have a good one.

hoodlikegaza said:
This does not belong in dev you IDIOT.
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I gave you a thanks for this post for being an outstanding contribution to humanity. If there were only more like you in the world, what a wonderful place it would be.

dicksteele said:
I gave you a thanks for this post for being an outstanding contribution to humanity. If there were only more like you in the world, what a wonderful place it would be.
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Why don't you give me thanks you idiot!?
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Since motorola needs to upgrade RAZR to ICS (they publicly committed that they will do it) it means that webtop will be rewrite for ICS so it's possible that they will
user webtop for RAZR in ICS for atrix.

Only after Google's control.

When are we going to see ICS officially?

I seem to remember MOTO claiming 6 weeks to devices after G releases the source

tomorrow...
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bwcorvus said:
tomorrow...
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LOL!!!!!!!!!

Moto started contacting some device owners asking for their participation in a new Xoom-related project. There's a decent chance this project is actually an ICS betatest program.

I think they did the same thing with the Atix and/or Bionic. Anyone with experience in those devices know how long this beta testing goes for?

roadratx said:
I seem to remember MOTO claiming 6 weeks to devices after G releases the source
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They tweeted that at me anyway. I did tweet asking if there was any news and nothing came back :-(
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bwcorvus said:
tomorrow...
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... bwcorvus?
I gotta admit, I've missed that response!

News is the prime is getting ics ota Jan 12. How long does beta testing last and will we get our ota before Jan 12?

I dont think, that it will be before the 12. january...
Maybe mid february... ASUS is darn quick with updates

double1 said:
News is the prime is getting ics ota Jan 12. How long does beta testing last and will we get our ota before Jan 12?
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Hahahahaha and a double LOL @ this thread. As an early adopter Xoom owner (got it the day it came out), and this really goes for anybody who has owned a Xoom for longer than 6 months, I'm used to software and features (4G anybody?) being implemented by everybody but Motorola first. Hell, with Motorola's track record and commitment to customer satisfaction, you should expect your official ICS to be released about mid August.

But this is a GED.

bwcorvus said:
tomorrow...
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aka "Annie" the new name for ICS...

Screw official ota updates, team eos's rom is more than enough for me =D

double1 said:
But this is a GED.
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I would imagine that the GED Xoom will get ICS before Motorola push it out to non-GED Xooms.
I would also imagine that GED Xoom will get ICS before TP...
Unless Moto are taking full responsibility for the GED Xoom the same as the non-GED xooms - I would have thought they would want the GED to get ICS ASAP really...
Moto can then take their time and make sure stuff works really well with the Moto update for non-GED xooms...

As we have seen Google using ICS xooms at live shows.
It must mean its pretty stable, who would risk a crash on a live show when they could have honeycomb on it ( slow but not much crashes apart from the browser)
So Google having a working ICS for the last few weeks and no sign of sharing it it worrying.
If Asus do get the first ICS tablet out in the market beating the only GED tablet available, what does that say for future of GED tablets? does Google care about the tablet market?
The only reason I want ICS is that there is a slight hope the browser will be stable. So many large websites just crash. Normal websites hang lucky to get more then a few tabs open.

iammodo said:
As we have seen Google using ICS xooms at live shows.
It must mean its pretty stable, who would risk a crash on a live show when they could have honeycomb on it ( slow but not much crashes apart from the browser)
So Google having a working ICS for the last few weeks and no sign of sharing it it worrying.
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It might just have been AOSP, same thing we are already running through Team EOS's ROM.

RMerlin said:
It might just have been AOSP, same thing we are already running through Team EOS's ROM.
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HDMI was working in the french show.
Also think camera was used in one.
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I dont think that the 3G and 4G Xooms can really be considered GED's since VZW has to tinker with the software and are responsible for pushing it out
The WiFi Xoom is, in my opinion, the only GED
Wish I had the WiFi version instead of my non-activated 3G version

And yet the Verizon Xoom is actually running the latest version of Honeycomb (3.2.4) while the WiFi Xoom is stuck on 3.2.1. haha

oldblue910 said:
And yet the Verizon Xoom is actually running the latest version of Honeycomb (3.2.4) while the WiFi Xoom is stuck on 3.2.1. haha
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The differences in the versions have to do with fixes and features that are specific to those devices, ergo, the 3G/4G's 3.2.4 isn't any better than the wifi's 3.2.1.

4.1.1 Jelly Bean is unlikely until Samsung releases new binaries

Seeing as the comment made by Codeworkx was made in the development forum, I thought the discussion over CM10 and Jelly Bean should be handled over here.
The statement in question: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28610881&postcount=1871
Incompatible binarys.
Will result in no audio, no camera, no hwcomposer, no video codecs...
Enough said?
Let's wait for samsung
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It looks like we'll have quite the wait before CM10 or Jelly Bean is available for the S3.

ijeff said:
Seeing as the comment made by Codeworkx was made in the development forum, I thought the discussion over CM10 and Jelly Bean should be handled over here.
The statement in question: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28610881&postcount=1871
It looks like we'll have quite the wait before CM10 or Jelly Bean is available for the S3.
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same story with cm9 and android 4.0 update for sgs2 few months back...

Sounds good to me. By the time we get it most apps should be stable on jellybean. At the moment I'm having a lot of compatibility issues on the gnex.
Anyway this phone is already smooth as butter and Google now sucks.
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dr.m0x said:
Sounds good to me. By the time we get it most apps should be stable on jellybean. At the moment I'm having a lot of compatibility issues on the gnex.
Anyway this phone is already smooth as butter and Google now sucks.
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You're like the only person that's said Google Now sucks that I've seen so far!
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dr.m0x said:
Sounds good to me. By the time we get it most apps should be stable on jellybean. At the moment I'm having a lot of compatibility issues on the gnex.
Anyway this phone is already smooth as butter and Google now sucks.
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I wouldn't say Google Now sucks, I'm looking forward to it.
As for smoothness, I've only had the device running extremely smoothly while on CM9. On stock and modded TW, it is quick but nowhere near your average Jelly Bean device. CM9 still has issues with camera quality but I've been running it due to the improvements in performance elsewhere.

You'd have to have been living under a rock to even contemplate the idea of Samsung releasing Jellybean within the next 2 months given their history.

Maybe I'm also the only one in the world who can find their way home without a map.
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Zing!
Seriously though, I think Google Now is very interesting. I've been hearing about it's behaviour for a week or two on my friend's Nexus. It seems to me that the more this gets worked on, the more intuitive it can become while it's "watching" where you're at regularly.
Already he's noticed it prompting him about traffic around the times he leaves for work in the morning and for home in the afternoon, to tell him about traffic conditions & ETAs.
Pretty amazing possibilities if you can get the phone to passively offer helpful information without asking if you ask me...

copycutter said:
Zing!
Seriously though, I think Google Now is very interesting. I've been hearing about it's behaviour for a week or two on my friend's Nexus. It seems to me that the more this gets worked on, the more intuitive it can become while it's "watching" where you're at regularly.
Already he's noticed it prompting him about traffic around the times he leaves for work in the morning and for home in the afternoon, to tell him about traffic conditions & ETAs.
Pretty amazing possibilities if you can get the phone to passively offer helpful information without asking if you ask me...
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Orly? Never knew it learns. Then again I only played with it for a short while. Don't use the gnex as a daily driver because it has no fm radio.
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I would rather have late released but stable version than a quick release beta version...

maxreni said:
I would rather have late released but stable version than a quick release beta version...
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Then luckily you represent less than 1/4500000 of XDA. :silly:

maxreni said:
I would rather have late released but stable version than a quick release beta version...
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I would rather have quick beta to play with now, and stable for daily when ready

It certainly sounds like it's been learning from what he's telling me. Certainly unique idea from Google anyways.

Google Now is awesome. And the 4.1.1 OTA that dropped for the GNex has been running like butter for me all day!
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Michael_P said:
You'd have to have been living under a rock to even contemplate the idea of Samsung releasing Jellybean within the next 2 months given their history.
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I was genuinely unaware that Samsung's official release was necessary for CM10 to be ported over.

kobz1973 said:
A lot of progress was made today. We got it to boot but it was crashing, we know the solution and tomorrow hopefully get the #GalaxyS3 #JB. -- Faryaab Sheikh (@Faryaab)
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Not to mention he has been talking about my build I kept him tuned on IRC.
Now don't get your hopes too high, there's still a lot of things to sort out.
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Michael_P said:
You'd have to have been living under a rock to even contemplate the idea of Samsung releasing Jellybean within the next 2 months given their history.
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Why? ICS was released in November, Samsung leaked the ICS-based stock ROMs in December already, and in February I received an OTA.
---------- Post added at 01:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:25 AM ----------
Faryaab Sheikh ‏@Faryaab
AOSP JellyBean for the #GalaxyS2, #GalaxNote & #GalaxyS3 coming tomorrow! Retweet this tweet! #JellyBean #Samsung
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Yay!

tbh i do not want samsung to release jelly bean until later in the year, as the ics and s2 / s3 is still kind of new. I would like samsung to fix and make their current rom solid for x months before moving on.

A|ex said:
tbh i do not want samsung to release jelly bean until later in the year, as the ics and s2 / s3 is still kind of new. I would like samsung to fix and make their current rom solid for x months before moving on.
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That's fine just release jb for everyone else but you.
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Any news on the official ICS update?

They said it was to be released in Q3 of this year and we're already in Q4. Are they skipping ICS and updating us to JB?

:facepalm: what calendar are you looking at...q3 is still 2 weeks from ending, also why open a new thread when you could have just posted in one of the others...
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Tuesday
and if you go to wal-mart right around midnight you might catch the girl putting it on the new release racks

KulDrive said:
They said it was to be released in Q3 of this year and we're already in Q4. Are they skipping ICS and updating us to JB?
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It's delayed and will be released in Q5.

quetzalcoatl2435 said:
It's delayed and will be released in Q5.
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Finally, a voice of reason.

Actually it's already out, but it only came in cookies and cream and I'm going to hold out for neopolitan.

againareku said:
Actually it's already out, but it only came in cookies and cream and I'm going to hold out for neopolitan.
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I think I'll hold out for strawberry cheesecake.

pre4speed said:
I think I'll hold out for strawberry cheesecake.
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http://www.turkeyhill.com/products/ice-cream-sandwiches-flavors.aspx?pID=271
it's out, hurry before they pull the plug on the OTA update

againareku said:
http://www.turkeyhill.com/products/ice-cream-sandwiches-flavors.aspx?pID=271
it's out, hurry before they pull the plug on the OTA update
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I got it!

Nope. I think Motorola is skipping ICS and JB. They are waiting to update our Atrix to Key Lime Pie. Please be patient. :highfive:

A source close to Moto informed me a WP7 firmware is about to roll out. Stay tuned.

I'm pretty sure that the Motorola Service Centre guy I talked to promised a Q4 release of BlackBerry 10 for the Atrix...
He said that the Blur version for that update would be 4.5.199 and that the update would bring LTE to our Atrixes The update is so magical, that guy said that our capacitive buttons will dissapear and the gesture pad along with the BlackBerry branding will take its place!
Sent from that Atrix... Motorola, where's my ICS?!

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I'm pretty sure that the Motorola Service Centre guy I talked to promised a Q4 release of BlackBerry 10 for the Atrix...
He said that the Blur version for that update would be 4.5.199 and that the update would bring LTE to our Atrixes The update is so magical, that guy said that our capacitive buttons will dissapear and the gesture pad along with the BlackBerry branding will take its place!
Sent from that Atrix... Motorola, where's my ICS?!
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Wow I like that idea! Hey I heard that they are gonna give us ios 5 with the buttons also disappearing and one button with thumb scanner will control everything. Not sure about that one tho, might be moto pulling our leg.

The lines on Motocheck said it will be tomorrow for the leak
1. butters.nightly.0.0.400
2. simpsons went down yesterday and up now
3. Tuesday
4. Bionic got new leak
5. They need time(10-14 days) for atrix soak
6. Birthday of Mark Shuttleworth (we must get Ubuntu for Android in new leak)

Vazay said:
The lines on Motocheck said it will be tomorrow for the leak
1. butters.nightly.0.0.400
2. simpsons went down yesterday and up now
3. Tuesday
4. Bionic got new leak
5. They need time(10-14 days) for atrix soak
6. Birthday of Mark Shuttleworth (we must get Ubuntu for Android in new leak)
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Keep searching, people!
Sent from that Atrix... Motorola, where's my ICS?!

I read that Moto will now use WebOS instead of Android
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In before thread close.

Nope, you are all wrong Motorola will give us Windows Mobile 98. And their slogan is: "The world's most powerful phone is now world's first phone with WM98"

Annnnnnnnnnnd, this is why you use the search button everyone.

The OP didn't even have to use the search button. There are at least 2 ICS threads on the first page alone... But, hey, why not create more and fill the first page of the General section all about ICS.
At least, that's what I get from seeing another new member with mad necromancy skills bringing ancient ICS threads back from the dead.

Motorola Software Update. 1/15/13

Motorola just sent me an email asking to participate in a soak test on 4G.
I no longer have my 4G having switched to ATRIX 2 but thought someone would be interested to know there is an update coming. Hopefully ICS for which I unsuccessfully waited so long as well...

What???? Maybe yiu can say YES! And see what they want... but I think its a mistake.
I hope to be wrong.
from the (M)ATRIX...

huh? wtf? is this real?
edit: can you pls copy & paste the email contents?

There are already 3 other threads about this in the general section, along with a copy of the e-mail contents.

be possible? hopefully make it happen! thank you very much for sharing the news with us!

Thanks.. looks like I can now abandon my kernel porting project!
now.. how do i return the phone to stock... hmm.

toyota86 said:
Thanks.. looks like I can now abandon my kernel porting project!
now.. how do i return the phone to stock... hmm.
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If you're not too skittish about RSD Lite, this is how I do it and it works like a charm (about 3 or 4 times now) but make for freakin' sure you grab the right SBF or you're screwed.
http://androidforums.com/atrix-4g-all-things-root/510778-flashing-back-stock.html

Cocolopes said:
What???? Maybe yiu can say YES! And see what they want... but I think its a mistake.
I hope to be wrong.
from the (M)ATRIX...
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No mistake but I can't participate since they want the imei of the phone I don't have. I am letting you know cause I really appreciate ATRIX 4G community on xda.
If the bill or other us developers (I don't think they will allow a participant from abroad) wants to take my place - PM me.
I believe every email link they sent is unique and allows just one participant.

for real?? u gotta b kidding me.

Moved to General, and closing. There are already threads with this same information

Yes it's for real! They want to SOAK Test! Most probably it's going to be 2.3.7! Maybe some minor battery fix, wifi improvements. So pretty sure it's not ICS. Anyways, good to SOAK test. I've applied to SOAK test. I hope they'll roll out the update soon.

2.3.7?
4.0.4 or 4.1.2 you mean!

andreskafe said:
2.3.7?
4.0.4 or 4.1.2 you mean!
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Lol.. You expected so much! I meant GINGERBREAD 2.3.7

I don't see any reason to get excited if its yet another minor update to GB...
THough I sincerely hope we finally get ICS, which was promised to us long back!!

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2.3.7?
4.0.4 or 4.1.2 you mean!
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