I want to clear my phone completely back to bare-bones 2.1. I do want to save my last good set up with froyo, so;
1) Is it a good idea to do a complete restore.
2) Is it better to leave the phone as is (leaving b/u in tact) or can I save the last b/u to my computer? If so how (Tibu, ROM Man???). How would I return this file back to the phone if necessary?
I never do any more backing up than Titanium Backup of apps. I know clockwork recovery can make a nandroid backup. It saves it to a folder on the internal sd card (Clockworkmod I think) and you could copy that to your computer. Then copy it back if you want to restore. The feature is there, I assume it works, but I have never personally done it. You could do all this through clockwork recovery, make the back up, and restore later if you want. You can leave the backup on your phone after you go back to stock, odin will not clear it off unless you do a "Master Clear". Then you would just have to reflash clockwork recovery, and you could restore.
I've transferred both tibu and nandroid (rom manager) backups to my pc and then restored from them after a master clear by copying them back to the phone from the pc. With the nandroid backup, you have to reinstall the rom first, and it must be the same rom you backed up.
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Good advice thanks:
quarlow said:
I never do any more backing up than Titanium Backup of apps. I know clockwork recovery can make a nandroid backup. It saves it to a folder on the internal sd card (Clockworkmod I think) and you could copy that to your computer. Then copy it back if you want to restore. The feature is there, I assume it works, but I have never personally done it. You could do all this through clockwork recovery, make the back up, and restore later if you want. You can leave the backup on your phone after you go back to stock, odin will not clear it off unless you do a "Master Clear". Then you would just have to reflash clockwork recovery, and you could restore.
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creepyncrawly said:
I've transferred both tibu and nandroid (rom manager) backups to my pc and then restored from them after a master clear by copying them back to the phone from the pc. With the nandroid backup, you have to reinstall the rom first, and it must be the same rom you backed up
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I was thinking this was the case. My only concern is on the re-install, would I be correct in my asumption, that not only would I need the rom installed but the theme as well?
tomween1 said:
Good advice thanks:...would I be correct in the thought that not only would I need the rom installed but the theme as well?
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Disclaimer: I've not tried it. A nandroid backup restores everything in the rom plus apps, but not the kernel, so it should restore your theme and your apps. In that case you may not even need the tibu.
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Disclaimer: I've not tried it. A nandroid backup restores everything in the rom plus apps, but not the kernel, so it should restore your theme and your apps. In that case you may not even need the tibu.
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Well it's done, we'll see how it goes when I need it
I think the trick is having a working base rom and it being the same as the backup. Id be curious to try restoring a previous version of the same rom. How bad could it get?
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Want to know about backing up roms and restoring them
I want to know wheter we can backup a rom of one mobile and restore it in other mobile. please answer asap.
Abhishek1008 said:
I want to know wheter we can backup a rom of one mobile and restore it in other mobile. please answer asap.
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That may not be a simple question to answer with any certainty. I would not even consider attempting it unless both phone models are exactly the same, you didn't say for sure that this is what you were meaning. If the models are the same: insure they have the same bootloader and modem installed. Then I still would not do it unless the ROM on the second phone is comparable to the ROM you are moving to it. The reason for this caution is that partitioning schemes are not the same on all ROMs, it can even change in a newer version of the same ROM.
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That may not be a simple question to answer with any certainty. I would not even consider attempting it unless both phone models are exactly the same, you didn't say for sure that this is what you were meaning. If the models are the same: insure they have the same bootloader and modem installed. Then I still would not do it unless the ROM on the second phone is comparable to the ROM you are moving to it. The reason for this caution is that partitioning schemes are not the same on all ROMs, it can even change in a newer version of the same ROM.
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This :good:
can i restore a nandroid backup if i flash some other rom??
app data will also be restored i.e games levels etc..??
Nandroide is a image/snapshot that is stored on your SD card, that you always can flash back to later, after you e.g. have flashed another ROM.
this means i will be back on older rom..for backing data of apps use titanium backup??
There are 2 types of backups.
Nandroid is created using CWM recovery, which is an image file of everything you have got on ur phone. This backup is useful if u flashed another rom and for some reason you want to go back to original/stock rom. This is like recovery disc for ur windows computer, used for to go back to factory settings. Dont ever flash something else on ur phone without creating a nandroid backup. This is also useful in case of warranty repairs.
Second is app and data backup through titanium or such applications. This is more used if you want to backup all the apps u have installed on ur phone, so that for example, i have 200 + apps installed, i flash 3 different roms in 1 week, i dont want to spend time keep installing those apps again and again each time i flash a different rom, i will use titanium to backup all those apps n just restore those apps once i flash a new rom.
Hope this clears any doubts.
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There are 2 types of backups.
Nandroid is created using CWM recovery, which is an image file of everything you have got on ur phone. This backup is useful if u flashed another rom and for some reason you want to go back to original/stock rom. This is like recovery disc for ur windows computer, used for to go back to factory settings. Dont ever flash something else on ur phone without creating a nandroid backup. This is also useful in case of warranty repairs.
Second is app and data backup through titanium or such applications. This is more used if you want to backup all the apps u have installed on ur phone, so that for example, i have 200 + apps installed, i flash 3 different roms in 1 week, i dont want to spend time keep installing those apps again and again each time i flash a different rom, i will use titanium to backup all those apps n just restore those apps once i flash a new rom.
Hope this clears any doubts.
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thanks.got it now.wish i asked it earlier before losing data :-(
mandeep294 said:
thanks.got it now.wish i asked it earlier before losing data :-(
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What do you mean by "before losing data"? Did you do nandroid? If so, you still have everything on you.
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What do you mean by "before losing data"? Did you do nandroid? If so, you still have everything on you.
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no didn't for my first flash
mandeep294 said:
no didn't for my first flash
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Oh oh... Thats not a good news.
Well, just in case, take a look at this thread... it has got a collection of Factory shipped ROMs, may be your version of IS is one of them and so if you want to go Stock, you can probably get back to Stock without not much of hassle.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033922
And also, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1287111
Take a look at this link also, it has got a plenty of information about pretty much everything and also as per OP, its been updated weekly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136463
Besides, I don't think there are much complications if you don't have Nandroid. Nandroid is basically a tool to go back to stock mostly in case of warranty repairs, but if your phone is not crapping out on you, as long as it works, you don't probably need Stock.
Hope you will not run into too many troubles.
Good Luck
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already downloaded d stock one.actually quite easy to get back to stock..
one more q after i restored from nandroid, do i still need to resore apps from titanium??
and do i need to backup apps on sd card as card remains untouched during flash?
mandeep294 said:
already downloaded d stock one.actually quite easy to get back to stock..
one more q after i restored from nandroid, do i still need to resore apps from titanium??
and do i need to backup apps on sd card as card remains untouched during flash?
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After restore from nandroid, you do not need to restore apps from titanium.
It will keep a snapshot of your current rom, hence include your apps. It didn't include radio though, it is separate entity.
Your backup through titanium is save in sd card though.
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There are 2 types of backups.
Nandroid is created using CWM recovery, which is an image file of everything you have got on ur phone. This backup is useful if u flashed another rom and for some reason you want to go back to original/stock rom. This is like recovery disc for ur windows computer, used for to go back to factory settings. Dont ever flash something else on ur phone without creating a nandroid backup. This is also useful in case of warranty repairs.
Second is app and data backup through titanium or such applications. This is more used if you want to backup all the apps u have installed on ur phone, so that for example, i have 200 + apps installed, i flash 3 different roms in 1 week, i dont want to spend time keep installing those apps again and again each time i flash a different rom, i will use titanium to backup all those apps n just restore those apps once i flash a new rom.
Hope this clears any doubts.
Cheers!!!
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I think this answers my question: I backed up my stock ROM before I S-OFF and rooted so, if I needed to go back to stock ROM for say warrenty issues, I should just be able to restore this backup, rather than have to download and flash a stock RUU? This will put me back to S-ON and unrooted? If so, pretty glad I did that
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already downloaded d stock one.actually quite easy to get back to stock..
one more q after i restored from nandroid, do i still need to resore apps from titanium??
and do i need to backup apps on sd card as card remains untouched during flash?
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No, if u restore it from nandroid, you dont have to restore any app data. Thats the benefit of nandroid. Its got everything as is including the background, the way you had it set up.
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I think this answers my question: I backed up my stock ROM before I S-OFF and rooted so, if I needed to go back to stock ROM for say warrenty issues, I should just be able to restore this backup, rather than have to download and flash a stock RUU? This will put me back to S-ON and unrooted? If so, pretty glad I did that
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Wait, how did u manage a backup before s-off?
The steps are,
Get s-off
Get root access
Install clockworkmod or any other recovery program
Boot into recovery
Backup ur current rom - aka nandroid
Enjoy flashing - for some reason if flashing goes bad, you will be safe and can restore and bring back ur phone to life with nandroid
To get back s-on for warranty repair, nandroid wont help. There are a couple of threads which explains how to do so. Check the links i have posted in one of my previous comments.
Good luck.
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Wait, how did u manage a backup before s-off?
The steps are,
Get s-off
Get root access
Install clockworkmod or any other recovery program
Boot into recovery
Backup ur current rom - aka nandroid
Enjoy flashing - for some reason if flashing goes bad, you will be safe and can restore and bring back ur phone to life with nandroid
To get back s-on for warranty repair, nandroid wont help. There are a couple of threads which explains how to do so. Check the links i have posted in one of my previous comments.
Good luck.
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Bloody good point! Getting way too confused with alot of this...need to take a break Don't need to go back to S-ON anyways, but have read around that some people are having problems showing S-ON once they have flashed back to stock RUU.
Thanks for putting me straight
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There are 2 types of backups.
Nandroid is created using CWM recovery, which is an image file of everything you have got on ur phone. This backup is useful if u flashed another rom and for some reason you want to go back to original/stock rom. This is like recovery disc for ur windows computer, used for to go back to factory settings. Dont ever flash something else on ur phone without creating a nandroid backup. This is also useful in case of warranty repairs.
Second is app and data backup through titanium or such applications. This is more used if you want to backup all the apps u have installed on ur phone, so that for example, i have 200 + apps installed, i flash 3 different roms in 1 week, i dont want to spend time keep installing those apps again and again each time i flash a different rom, i will use titanium to backup all those apps n just restore those apps once i flash a new rom.
Hope this clears any doubts.
Cheers!!!
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Where is the thanks-button?
Just to clarify it more in a question.
Nandroid takes an image of your active OS with all the programs/settings/phonebook/calendar/facebookcontactlinks saved into it. So if you restore that image, your phone is back like nothing happened with all your hours of settings and apps included at point of image taking? Not even a factory reset?
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Where is the thanks-button?
Just to clarify it more in a question.
Nandroid takes an image of your active OS with all the programs/settings/phonebook/calendar/facebookcontactlinks saved into it. So if you restore that image, your phone is back like nothing happened with all your hours of settings and apps included at point of image taking? Not even a factory reset?
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Thanks button is right below my post. Lol.
Anyways, answer to your question is, yes, it does back up everything as you have set on your phone.
It includes things like your wallpaper, your wireless passwords, your images and settings in camera, your games and game progress data, your contacts, your messages, even your emails, your notes... anything and everything you can think of, which is done by you on your phone, nandroid will create an image of everything as of the moment you create a backup.
For example, if you created a backup on 1st, then your flashed another rom, you didn't like the custom rom you flashed, so now you want to go back to the factory rom, you restore your phone from nandroid on the 10th, once the restoration is finished, you will be same as it is as you were on the 1st when you created a backup.
Hope this clears out any of the doubts.
Nandroid Backup is really powerful.
Good Luck.
Cheers!!!
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VaderXI said:
Bloody good point! Getting way too confused with alot of this...need to take a break Don't need to go back to S-ON anyways, but have read around that some people are having problems showing S-ON once they have flashed back to stock RUU.
Thanks for putting me straight
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Thing is, you will never need to go back to S-On until and unless your phone is legitimately broken and you have warranty and needed it fixed.
If everything is running smooth without any hiccups, you are better off with S-Off forever as long as you use your phone.
But, because you are now S-Off, first thing you want to do is to have a nandroid, which is your savior at the end.
So, my 2 cents worth suggestion would be, get S-Off, get root access, install CWM, boot into CWM and create a nandroid. Mount your SD Card, go to /ClockworkMod folder and copy that backup file from your SD Card to somewhere safe, probably on your computer. Once you did this much, do whatever you want to do with your phone. You can flash any ROM you want... Play with it... etc...
Good Luck
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going back to stock dosent do s-on back
creativedevil said:
Thanks button is right below my post. Lol.
Anyways, answer to your question is, yes, it does back up everything as you have set on your phone.
It includes things like your wallpaper, your wireless passwords, your images and settings in camera, your games and game progress data, your contacts, your messages, even your emails, your notes... anything and everything you can think of, which is done by you on your phone, nandroid will create an image of everything as of the moment you create a backup.
For example, if you created a backup on 1st, then your flashed another rom, you didn't like the custom rom you flashed, so now you want to go back to the factory rom, you restore your phone from nandroid on the 10th, once the restoration is finished, you will be same as it is as you were on the 1st when you created a backup.
Hope this clears out any of the doubts.
Nandroid Backup is really powerful.
Good Luck.
Cheers!!!
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Thing is, you will never need to go back to S-On until and unless your phone is legitimately broken and you have warranty and needed it fixed.
If everything is running smooth without any hiccups, you are better off with S-Off forever as long as you use your phone.
But, because you are now S-Off, first thing you want to do is to have a nandroid, which is your savior at the end.
So, my 2 cents worth suggestion would be, get S-Off, get root access, install CWM, boot into CWM and create a nandroid. Mount your SD Card, go to /ClockworkMod folder and copy that backup file from your SD Card to somewhere safe, probably on your computer. Once you did this much, do whatever you want to do with your phone. You can flash any ROM you want... Play with it... etc...
Good Luck
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Yup, had all this for a while now, just had that original question about restoring a backup and thinking it would put me back to S-ON, not that I need to or have any intentions to do so.
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going back to stock dosent do s-on back
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You got it mate, no it doesn't bring S-ON back. Its a different procedure all together.
Read my other posts in this forum and you will know what I mean.
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I've 20b Singapore version which loaded with quite a few personal data in it. What's the recommended method to back it up so I can return to the exact state as it now?
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Exact state?
To back up: root, nandroid backup, unroot.
To restore: root, restore nandroid backup, unroot.
Sorry, but I don't know of a way to do an exact backup/restore unless you have root. I doubt anyone has. I'd be glad to be proven wrong on this one.
Thought so. Just trying my luck.
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No, but you can still backup all apps on your phone. (using special app, like Astro, App Backup and restore)
Also you can use the LG suite to backup things like contacts, sms and so on, I am sure there is a way to back it all up, but it's way more complicated, then doing it with Titanium Backup...
i have been lurking these forums for a while. but made an account for this. i have been flashing roms and what not for about 6 months. as i was fed up with waiting for updates. anyway straight to the question.
my IMEI has changed recently to the 004999010640000 generic one. does that mean is corrupted. what are the risks/problems that i will face if i leave it or try to restore? should i re flash stock and work my way back to custom roms again? or are there other methods that i can do? do these methods restore the original IMEI or a new one. is there a problem with that?
its been like that for about 2 months. i have no backups. it also makes my phone show up twice on marketplace on a desktop. i guess google can see the difference.
i found my old imei . fair sure i shouldn't tell you what it is. is there a way to change it back to that code? without to much hassle? i really dont want to flash back to froyo and start again. i would settle with a factory wipe and some instructions on preventing this from happening again
Please follow instructions at own risk. I am fairly new to all of this but below is what work for me.
If you have a backup, which I did, then you should have an efs folder inside your backup folder. This contains the files you need. (nv_data.bin.md5 & nv_data.bin)
The easiest is to place these to files in the root folder of your internal sd card. Then with something like Root Explorer copy these files & then go to the actual efs folder of your phone and paste them of the existing files in this folder.
Once you have done this delete the nv_data.bak.md5, nv_data.bak and nv_log files.
If you don't have a backup others have said the best is to flash a stock rom which should then restore your original IMEI number. I have not personally done this but it is mentioned a lot.
I don't know how to change the IMEI number any other way.
i was hoping there was an easyer way. i dont have a baack up but i guess i will have to make one when i get it back. ill try it when i get some free time. would any stock rom work or do i have to get a build thats froyo or ginger. would this idea work?
first make back up of files i need. and do a titanium backup and nand
second flash back to stock. check for restored imei
3rd make backup of efs.
4th follow steps to get custom rom working again
5th restore nand backup
6th if imei is lost again use backup.
I just wish there was an easy way to do it other than going back to old firmware
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There is if you had made a backup. Unfortunately without a back, which you should always make, you need to take the long route...
I read that the app called Galaxy_S Unlock by Helroz can fix your problem. You need rooted phone.
I have flashed alot of roms and hav alot of efs backups bt all these are just logs. R they useful?
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Sys81 said:
I have flashed alot of roms and hav alot of efs backups bt all these are just logs. R they useful?
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if i had made some im sure i wouldnt be having a hassle right now lol. just need one working one
i think i just did find a backup. from one of the installs it actualy was in the tutorial
going to try it now.
scubadude said:
Please follow instructions at own risk. I am fairly new to all of this but below is what work for me.
If you have a backup, which I did, then you should have an efs folder inside your backup folder. This contains the files you need. (nv_data.bin.md5 & nv_data.bin)
The easiest is to place these to files in the root folder of your internal sd card. Then with something like Root Explorer copy these files & then go to the actual efs folder of your phone and paste them of the existing files in this folder.
Once you have done this delete the nv_data.bak.md5, nv_data.bak and nv_log files.
If you don't have a backup others have said the best is to flash a stock rom which should then restore your original IMEI number. I have not personally done this but it is mentioned a lot.
I don't know how to change the IMEI number any other way.
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is there anything else i should do? like change permitions? wipe or restart anything????
ended up just flashing samfirmware 2.3.6 stock. then reflashed cm9. i have my imei back. is there an easy way to back it up and restore it around. most things i se involve some terminal or adb. terminal im a bit iffy with and adb i wont be able to do
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ended up just flashing samfirmware 2.3.6 stock. then reflashed cm9. i have my imei back. is there an easy way to back it up and restore it around. most things i se involve some terminal or adb. terminal im a bit iffy with and adb i wont be able to do
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Nitrality app.
I don't think that app works with ics/cm9. Its unusually fast for. Backup. Almost like it didn't do anything at all. At backup and restore. It says done as soon. As I click backup or restore.
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Look at your sdcard insanity/backup
just go to any CWM recovery and in backup and restore option, backup efs or vice-versa !
Sorry for the noob question have searched but not happy with results, so,
Have backed up via cwm and want to back up the backup to pc, can i just copy and paste the backup to windows 7 pc ?, will this alter the backup in anyway ? preventing correct restore ?.:silly::silly:
thku
sorry for duplicating thread, posted in wrong area first.
mr_dell_boy said:
Sorry for the noob question have searched but not happy with results, so,
Have backed up via cwm and want to back up the backup to pc, can i just copy and paste the backup to windows 7 pc ?, will this alter the backup in anyway ? preventing correct restore ?.:silly::silly:
thku
sorry for duplicating thread, posted in wrong area first.
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This should not damage or alter your backup, but sometimes flashing certain custom rom prevent a correct restore when rolling back or restoring to your backed up rom
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salahmed said:
This should not damage or alter your backup, but sometimes flashing certain custom rom prevent a correct restore when rolling back or restoring to your backed up rom
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Thats usually just caused by difference in kernel/cwm. If you reflash the previous kernel you should be able to restore the backup.
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Thats usually just caused by difference in kernel/cwm. If you reflash the previous kernel you should be able to restore the backup.
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Yes for sure, always keeping the same kernel in cwm flashable zip or tar to be flashed via Odin is the safest way if I want to restore my backup.
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