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[Q] paranoid note user wanting to install paranoid android

if you read my last threads you will know i mashed my other note to pieces....
on my desire i would flash roms 3 each week without messing the phone up, so after messing up my note through formatting through cwm while on ics i am a little/lot scared about doing it again..
so i want a little help if you guys would be so kind :laugh:
i dont have the new phone with me right now, but this time i am going to learn how NOT to brake the phone before i start playing with it.
so could you please walk me through this, explain to me as you would explain to a child LOL
so as i understand it, i need to keep to gingerbread then root it, go into recovery and flash the rom from there? do i use the normal phone recovery to do this or do i have to install cwm?
i am a little worried about using cwm again tbh, or can i use mobile odin?
i want to know the easiest way, the most fool proof....
damn i was never this worried with my desire.
your probably thinking "if you are so scared then why bother" right? its just the phone is so damn laggy, even compared to my desire which was built by cave men
cheers for the help guys, asuming i get some ofcourse :fingers-crossed:

Start from a gingerbread rom, then fully root it and install clockworkmod, next boot into recovery(volume up+power+home button together). First flash paranoid android rom then flash gapps, lastly wipe data, cache partition and dalvik cache. Reboot and enjoy
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My phone just got delivered, I installed ics on it for a mo, I think I can go back to GB pretty easy when I want to can't I?
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Can i not just install franko kernal through cwm in ics and then flash a rom?
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mrcarlxx said:
Can i not just install franko kernal through cwm in ics and then flash a rom?
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Yes, you can flash from one of the supposedly known safe ics kernels to speed the process up BUT if you want to be 100% safe in flashing to any cm9, start with a gingerbread rom.
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Cool thanks, I will just do that when the time comes then, for some reason this phone is no where near as laggy as the last one, and I have all my apps I had on the other device plus more....

Welcome back mate, glad you got it sorted
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Welcome back mate, glad you got it sorted
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Lol yeah...i only had the phone a fortnight......on contract whoops lol
So is it still okay to root through cwm and then use mobile odin? Are there any decent roms out yet that have decent s pen usage?
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I also just received my note from samsung after bricking it with CWM. I am so afraid I might brick it again trying to install paranoid android since I have to wait nearly a month to have my phone back in case anything happen.
Just one question, as long as I'm on paranoid android, can I just format or factory reset my phone through settings or recovery or cwm safely? Thanks a lot.
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mrcarlxx said:
So is it still okay to root through cwm and then use mobile odin? Are there any decent roms out yet that have decent s pen usage?
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If you want to install paranoid, its cm based which means no touchwizz apps will work on it as they need the touchwizz framework. That being said, s pen still works fine and there are plenty of alternatives to the s apps (papyrus, memo etc). Also I've read that one of the devs is working on getting the s apps onto cm9 somehow, but not sure who or how its going. Also the cm9 kernel included for the rom is safe from the superbrick bug as its has the cap wlerase command disabled.
PA has a slightly different installation to other roms. I would highly recommend first installing stock rootable gb, root it and install cwm. Once that's in place perform factory reset.
Then download paranoid and g apps and copy them to external SD card.
Then FROM CWM recovery, you flash pa first by "installing zip from SD card", then do the same for g apps straight afterwards.
If you have any fc's or issues, enter back into cwm recovery and wipe cache and dalvik.
Boom, ready to go for full on paranoia
Its a truly great rom, very customisable and as ics should be.
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Thanks ST, so am I right in thinking if I go the cm route then I don't have to flash the kernel first. It will do it for me? So all I need to do is root it and get a safe kernel?
Is there a free mobile Odin app, I looked on the market but there is only the pro version...
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mrcarlxx said:
Thanks ST, so am I right in thinking if I go the cm route then I don't have to flash the kernel first. It will do it for me? So all I need to do is root it and get a safe kernel?
Is there a free mobile Odin app, I looked on the market but there is only the pro version...
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The safe kernel is included in the pa rom, cm9 kernel. So long as you flash it from cwm in gb you're fine it installs it automatically.
Think mobile Odin is only a paid for app... well worth it though. Check the forum, chainfire usually releases free versions to xda community.
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mrcarlxx said:
Thanks ST, so am I right in thinking if I go the cm route then I don't have to flash the kernel first. It will do it for me? So all I need to do is root it and get a safe kernel?
Is there a free mobile Odin app, I looked on the market but there is only the pro version...
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A lite version of Mobile Odin can be downloaded from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347899
Exclusive to XDA users only.

If you asked me. I like the stock firmware not cm9 paranoid. Because you will lose your S-Memo, S-Note and S-Planner and also your myfiles and also the MHL. All of this features are important for me. Paranoid is cool firmware but you will loose this apps...
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SpyderTracks said:
The safe kernel is included in the pa rom, cm9 kernel. So long as you flash it from cwm in gb you're fine it installs it automatically.
Think mobile Odin is only a paid for app... well worth it though. Check the forum, chainfire usually releases free versions to xda community.
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Brilliant thanks
arifhanid said:
A lite version of Mobile Odin can be downloaded from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347899
Exclusive to XDA users only.
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Epic Good Lad
ryn888 said:
If you asked me. I like the stock firmware not cm9 paranoid. Because you will lose your S-Memo, S-Note and S-Planner and also your myfiles and also the MHL. All of this features are important for me. Paranoid is cool firmware but you will loose this apps...
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I hear you loose some of the accuracy of the pen too, tbh I don't really use though apps much but I do use the pen fairly often.
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Twrp rom backup Q

I use Twrp and I have 2 back ups so far. One being the stock TW rom and another being my customized debloated TW rom. I went to create a back up and it failed due to lack of space. I have it set to back up to the 16gb SD card which has plenty of space but then I saw it was going to back up the data(okay that's fine) but it states theres 18635mb of data. Where is all that data!? And where can I remove whatever is taking up that much space. I'm assuming it's from my 2 backups but I can't seem to find it (due to I swear they are on the SD card already) so I'm confused to how it's trying to backup that much data . Thanks in advance!
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Get away from twrp its garbage for this device. I've always loved twrp on other devices but not this one. My advice would be restore you stock stable ROM. Format your internal & external SD card. Flash cwm touch 6.2 or philz custom cwm . backup with cwm . then that should fix your issues. Make sure your on the stock ROM before deleting any files though.
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I'm confused when you say format the internal and external SD. Wouldn't that delete everything off of both? Not sure if maybe I misunderstand what it means to format
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godschildren said:
I'm confused when you say format the internal and external SD. Wouldn't that delete everything off of both? Not sure if maybe I misunderstand what it means to format
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Yes that is what he means so back up your files
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Okay thank you romantic and thank you for your reply on the wicked thread
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TWRP. WORKS just fine. Use the 2.5.0.2 version cause the other versions do have many issues. Been using 2.5.0.2,since the very beginning, snd have had no issues what so ever. So I wouldn't call it garbage.
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mattie_49 said:
Get away from twrp its garbage for this device. I've always loved twrp on other devices but not this one. My advice would be restore you stock stable ROM. Format your internal & external SD card. Flash cwm touch 6.2 or philz custom cwm . backup with cwm . then that should fix your issues. Make sure your on the stock ROM before deleting any files though.
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TWRP 2.5.0.2 is rock solid. Just avoid 2.6.0.0 and you'll be fine.
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Maybe that was my problem then I used the latest that goo-im installs and it was 2.6 . Don't get it twisted like my post says I love twrp. Above and beyond any cwm or custom recovery its quick and does the job perfect. Does anyone have a flashable 2.5.0.2 handy?
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Updated twrp to 2.6.1.0.. Very nice so far no more staying on blue welcome screen for 20 min.
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mattie_49 said:
Updated twrp to 2.6.1.0.. Very nice so far no more staying on blue welcome screen for 20 min.
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The blue screen Lol scared me the first time downloading a nightly then I'll update ..fingers crossed

Backup and restore works as you would expect it to work fast. Gonna try and see if the format data still makes data unmountable. As it did before . Gonna wait till I get home near PC with Odin first just in case .
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mattie_49 said:
Backup and restore works as you would expect it to work fast. Gonna try and see if the format data still makes data unmountable. As it did before . Gonna wait till I get home near PC with Odin first just in case .
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Well back up and restore work awesome for me, so glad to have that team win screen go away after a couple seconds! Haven't formatted data once yet, I'm glad I haven't, all my old back ups are on my PC

Just got back up and running after formatting data and having to odin back shhheessshhh. Damn I wish they would get this running correctly. To do a clean wipe and install in my book is formatting data. Doing even with newest 2.6.1.0 bonks data partion. Thank god cwm touch is stable ( slow as molases to back up and restore) but stable.
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Not sure what's wrong...

So today I decided to fire up my old continuum and it wouldn't boot. Naturally I went into cwm and tried to restore my old backup. Looks like it didn't want to after it said it was complete I rebooted system and the phone sits on the Samsung splash screen and vibrates.
I pulled the battery and then went back into cwm and wiped data, cache, and dalvik cache. Tried to boot again and it did the same thing.
So I just want to get the phone back up and running. I don't plan on activating it. I just need it to boot to run some apps daily.
I was thinking of ways to do this and I think if I flash the stock 2.2 rom in recovery it might work. Or should I Odin back?
I don't really remember how to use Odin since it's been so long. Nor do I have any of the files on my pc.
Any suggestions on what I should do to get it back up?
Thanks.
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Honestly I would just go back in and use Odin. I have deleted most of my old files. but they should all still be on the forum. Some of the links may be broken. I can always check for you and repost files if links are broken and I have still have them. (I can't remember if I wiped that hard drive or not, the laptop was misbehaving and I think I did a clean install). I will try and check tonight. You might want to try reinstalling the base file in CWM depending on which version you are running, I have had some backups go corrupt if I changed the wrong thing...
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So today I decided to fire up my old continuum and it wouldn't boot. Naturally I went into cwm and tried to restore my old backup. Looks like it didn't want to after it said it was complete I rebooted system and the phone sits on the Samsung splash screen and vibrates.
I pulled the battery and then went back into cwm and wiped data, cache, and dalvik cache. Tried to boot again and it did the same thing.
So I just want to get the phone back up and running. I don't plan on activating it. I just need it to boot to run some apps daily.
I was thinking of ways to do this and I think if I flash the stock 2.2 rom in recovery it might work. Or should I Odin back?
I don't really remember how to use Odin since it's been so long. Nor do I have any of the files on my pc.
Any suggestions on what I should do to get it back up?
Thanks.
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jaycush said:
Honestly I would just go back in and use Odin. I have deleted most of my old files. but they should all still be on the forum. Some of the links may be broken. I can always check for you and repost files if links are broken and I have still have them. (I can't remember if I wiped that hard drive or not, the laptop was misbehaving and I think I did a clean install). I will try and check tonight. You might want to try reinstalling the base file in CWM depending on which version you are running, I have had some backups go corrupt if I changed the wrong thing...
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When I get around to it I will probably just Odin back I guess. We will see. Maybe tonight I will try to flash the eg04 deodex rom since last I can recall I was on 2.3.3
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Most links are broken however I was able to pull an image from my brothers stock continuum he didn't use root it and get my phone to boot, so I'm good now. I'm on 2.1 but that's all I need to run my app so I'm good. Thanks for your insight.
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Jaggar345 said:
Most links are broken however I was able to pull an image from my brothers stock continuum he didn't use root it and get my phone to boot, so I'm good now. I'm on 2.1 but that's all I need to run my app so I'm good. Thanks for your insight.
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WOW...Surprised to see some activity on this forum!! It's been a long time! I still mess with the old Continuum once in a while just to try stuff out. I have the EG04 files still if you need them. Still have some of TB101's mods too.

Nah I'm just running 2.1 I found some files and got it back. I'm not using it as a phone just a money making machine. Thanks though. I moved on to the droid dna like 8 months ago.
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Yeah, I went with the S3. My son uses the continuum as a wifi only device. I still jump on it once in awhile just to play around.
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What rom are you running on your s3?
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Jaggar345 said:
What rom are you running on your s3?
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Just stock, rooted. I actually use some of the TW features like multi Window. 4.3 should be rolling out to us soon, so I'm check it out and then decide if I want to go with a custom rom.
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I run Viper dna on mine. Sense 5 with Android 4.2.2.
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Ssfestrap help

Of topic I would like to thank a lot for this amazing development I was going to destroy my phone to the wall if not your app
One quick question, when you have rom slot activated can I delete all from stock room? Obviously I can't delete the stock room byitself but what is safe to remove from it? It eats a lot of storage and with 2n rom I have only 2 gb free on 2 nd one.
And following question am I able to flash what every I want for room slot (for 4.2.2)?
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nomikSqash said:
Of topic I would like to thank a lot for this amazing development I was going to destroy my phone to the wall if not your app
One quick question, when you have rom slot activated can I delete all from stock room? Obviously I can't delete the stock room byitself but what is safe to remove from it? It eats a lot of storage and with 2n rom I have only 2 gb free on 2 nd one.
And following question am I able to flash what every I want for room slot (for 4.2.2)?
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You can delete the stock ROM if you choose and flash the custom ROM over stock because we have the Odin files now to return your phone to stock in case something happens. Questions like this should go in the safestrap thread not make a new thread.
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There I'd no option to delete the stock room only the room slots

nomikSqash said:
There I'd no option to delete the stock room only the room slots
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If you can't find the option, it's probably best you leave it alone. Considering the instructions explicitly explain how to delete the stock slot.
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Safe strap question

So I decided to install safe strap , love it it works amazingly.question I had is I want to basically have to toms on phone one with as much memory as possible as well as stock with a decent amount of storage. So can I achieve that by deleting most apps on stock slot and creating another slot with the memory maxed out,? What's best way to do this? I want baja to be my daily use slot th Most storage but still have stock on the side...
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SdRasta said:
So I decided to install safe strap , love it it works amazingly.question I had is I want to basically have to toms on phone one with as much memory as possible as well as stock with a decent amount of storage. So can I achieve that by deleting most apps on stock slot and creating another slot with the memory maxed out,? What's best way to do this? I want baja to be my daily use slot th Most storage but still have stock on the side...
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Once you create a rom slot in safe strap you specify how much space each section gets, storage, system.... you have the option of deleting stock but if you dont touch it then it stays the same. You can activate your baja rom slot and it will stay on that even if you reboot or what not, then when you feel like stock you simply load up safestrap and activate the stock slot and youre back to stock

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Once you create a rom slot in safe strap you specify how much space each section gets, storage, system.... you have the option of deleting stock but if you dont touch it then it stays the same. You can activate your baja rom slot and it will stay on that even if you reboot or what not, then when you feel like stock you simply load up safestrap and activate the stock slot and youre back to stock
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Right.well i made one already can I add more storage to the slot I created or do I have to create another one and do over?
Edit:better yet when I make a slot and set max size there is still a lot of remaining space.so when I'm in let's say slot 1 will I run out of space when I reach the space limit I I set on the slot or will the remains space available be used on that slot that I didn't add when I made the slot
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Does the new rom run off of ext sd card memory or internal sd card memory?
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recDNA said:
Does the new rom run off of ext sd card memory or internal sd card memory?
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Well I have the Rom stored to my ext sd. .I then flashed from safe strap with it on ext. Does that mean it stores on ext?
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I wonder if any of the custom roms incorporate the spelling error underline mod?
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recDNA said:
I wonder if any of the custom roms incorporate the spelling error underline mod?
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I don't know what the he** that is. Ha
So will that storage(memory) be in a sense wasted?
Or will it be used once the space I made available in slot one is maxed. I'm using slot 1 by the way
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SdRasta said:
I don't know what the he** that is. Ha
So will that storage(memory) be in a sense wasted?
Or will it be used once the space I made available in slot one is maxed. I'm using slot 1 by the way
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Gladyscoleman said:
Dont delete your all app for this . Just make backup of your app in your SD Card or move all application in your SD card. Then you will got the space for this.
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Well I have a back up on my external.. But deleting the apps on stick slit which I won't be using much will give me more space for my slot 1 yes? Obviously......?...
Can someone get to my question about the free/available space please.
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See how it says I only have 1.7 gb space...? I set the slots to max memory on all settings when I made the slot.
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See how it says I only have 1.7 gb space...? I set the slots to max memory on all settings when I made the slot.
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only way to do this is install your custom rom in the STOCK rom slot in safestrap. I was told not to do this but it worked for me and allowed me to have access to all the internal memory. As a backup I put a stock rom into one of the other slots, in this reversed order everything worked fine for me.
I have seen people here say not to do that, but it was the only way I could figure out that would not waste my sd card space. I prefer to have apps on my phone and misc. files on my sd card.

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only way to do this is install your custom rom in the STOCK rom slot in safestrap. I was told not to do this but it worked for me and allowed me to have access to all the internal memory. As a backup I put a stock rom into one of the other slots, in this reversed order everything worked fine for me.
I have seen people here say not to do that, but it was the only way I could figure out that would not waste my sd card space. I prefer to have apps on my phone and misc. files on my sd card.
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Can someone give me a link to the best thread with a complete explanation of the installation of safestrap 3.65, backing up stock rom, installing custom rom? Thanks

MAsterOSkillio said:
only way to do this is install your custom rom in the STOCK rom slot in safestrap. I was told not to do this but it worked for me and allowed me to have access to all the internal memory. As a backup I put a stock rom into one of the other slots, in this reversed order everything worked fine for me.
I have seen people here say not to do that, but it was the only way I could figure out that would not waste my sd card space. I prefer to have apps on my phone and misc. files on my sd card.
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So do you know of a guide on how to do so with steps? And can you possibly post a link where I can get the stock rom?
recDNA said:
Can someone give me a link to the best thread with a complete explanation of the installation of safestrap 3.65, backing up stock rom, installing custom rom? Thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2543386
All your answer should be there...
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