This Is The Vendor File From UGKG3 Bell's Vibrant, If You Need Anything More Let Me Know... I Figured Its Possible Being A North America Rom
http://www.mediafire.com/?nu6rx2n4lbp5iq4
I Dont Know Anything About Gps, If It Work Good But If It Doesn't Kill Thread...
This might do it... certainly hope so
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i think this will help quite alot
I'll take a look at it and see if there's anything usable for my CM7 fix. But I'm guessing this was pulled from a TouchWiz ROM? From what I can tell at first glance, CM7's gps does not use a lot of the stuff found in the rar you posted. Maybe some stuff can be integrated into CM7 directly, but I don't know enough to incorporate it into a fix after the fact.
Maybe someone else can help take a look, but AFAIK I can't use most of this.
Hopefully it'll help out TW-based ROMs.
aosp 4g rom for sprint that has source http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...urce-code-before-the-phone-even-hits-shelves/ might have something there for, might not. Phone is kinda galaxy s ish
I'd hate to break it to you but, the virgin mobile and the bell vibrant are simply rebranded i9000's using these files would be like using i9000 gps files. We wont be able to get 100% fast and accurate gps until our vibrant (sgh-t959) gets its own leak, if it even exists. We won't ne able to get gps with files from even phones that look identical to our phones (t959d) because of their radio bands. Our vibrants are the only galaxy s models (other than the t959V) that get 3G signals on 1700mhz bands. I think to have the 1700 bands, it requires a slightly different hardware radio, this slight difference allows the i9000 gingerbread gps (from jellete) to work but leaves all other files from the i9000 unusable on 2.3.
philliple97 said:
I'd hate to break it to you but, the virgin mobile and the bell vibrant are simply rebranded i9000's using these files would be like using i9000 gps files. We wont be able to get 100% fast and accurate gps until our vibrant (sgh-t959) gets its own leak, if it even exists.
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I also hate to be negative here but it may be that the T-959 is no longer being supported (evidence being that Sam firmwares source only seen the froyo update in the system)
I think that the obly way we will see a spot on GPS is if someone takes the time to hack, crack, and reverse engineer the files we do have and try to figure out where certain things go.
Maybe ... just maybe since cyanogen got a job at Samsung he may be able to convince them to opensource certain things in the better interest of android.
Just a thought lol
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I think that the obly way we will see a spot on GPS is if someone takes the time to hack, crack, and reverse engineer the files we do have and try to figure out where certain things go.
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If only we knew someone with enough experience
ironlood said:
Maybe ... just maybe since cyanogen got a job at Samsung he may be able to convince them to opensource certain things in the better interest of android.
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Someone better hit him up
Really ikno samsung pays attention to hacker community so they know our problem at least give us GPS files to implement into the roms
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Is there a catch all guide to what has been developed for the Galaxy S platform? I'm curious about the state of CM6 and something akin to Tkirton's apps2sd. Just want to read up on what's going on before my phone arrives this week.
Thanks.
read some of the top threads would be a good start, and the stickies
No custom roms yet, but SRE 1.0 hack is amazing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=751934
CM6 is in the works for the Vibrant, nothing for the captivate yet, but I am sure it wont be to hard to port the vibrant version over.
Unhelpful's 1.2GHz overclocked, sweet, awesome kernel
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=762171
The I9000 roms are pretty smooth compared to a AT&T crapped up roms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=763543
True stock one-click recovery, reverts EVERYTHING so you can hide your rooting and such from AT&T
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
designgears said:
No custom roms yet, but SRE 1.0 hack is amazing
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Not biased at all
(But seriously he did a kickass job)
Its just depressing to see Vibrant listed for future support for cyanogen roms, while the captivate is not. Hopefully the port is easy.
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/home/cyanogenmod-6-0-status-update
Last I heard they where making a universal cm6 for galaxy S. Perhaps working on the vibrant but end goal would make it universal. Oh well...perhaps i was wrong it wouldn't be first and def wouldn't be the last.
Same hardware so I don't see the problem with getting CM6 to work for us. Hell the Vibrant one might work straight across.
Side question, has anyone tried flashing a captivate with a vibrant kernel?
pretty good chance that CM6 should work as is, I'm running Vibrant6 at the moment with no issues other than the TMO stuff but that is nothing to worry about
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gunnyman said:
Is there a catch all guide to what has been developed for the Galaxy S platform? I'm curious about the state of CM6 and something akin to Tkirton's apps2sd. Just want to read up on what's going on before my phone arrives this week.
Thanks.
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Just out curiosity why didn't you stay with sprint to get the epic cause im switching to them?
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Side question, has anyone tried flashing a captivate with a vibrant kernel?
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I'm actually using the Vibrant source release to build my Captivate kernels. They're about the same but many things are missing from the Captivate sources. The compiled kernels are quite different though - the two version are built with different configurations and have different files in initramfs.
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mykenyc said:
Just out curiosity why didn't you stay with sprint to get the epic cause im switching to them?
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A couple of reasons
1) there isn't any 4 G coverage where I live and refuse to pay an extra 10 dollars for a service I'll never use. I'm in agreement with the folks behind explainthefee.com on that subject.
2) EVDO sucks here as well. 90% of the time I am on 1x instead of full EVDO.
Thanks for the answers so far by the way. Has Samsung finally gone along with the rest of the Open Handset Alliance and standardized on their file system layout or is it still as screwy as the one on the Moment?
gunnyman said:
A couple of reasons
1) there isn't any 4 G coverage where I live and refuse to pay an extra 10 dollars for a service I'll never use. I'm in agreement with the folks behind explainthefee.com on that subject.
2) EVDO sucks here as well. 90% of the time I am on 1x instead of full EVDO.
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Oh okay i completely understand you, i got screwed by ATT thats why i'm switching, i thought sprint and verizon share towers virtually. i guess everyone have different experience i hope you have good one with ATT, but i'm sure you will .
mykenyc said:
Oh okay i completely understand you, i got screwed by ATT thats why i'm switching, i thought sprint and verizon share towers virtually. i guess everyone have different experience i hope you have good one with ATT, but i'm sure you will .
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They don't share towers, BUT you can install a VZW PRL file which force a sprint phone to use VZW towers. That helped me a little.
The main reason I moved to AT&T was Sprint's decision to not include Froyo on any of their older Android phones. The Hero, which now runs CM6 and the Moment, which has the same CPU as the moto droid, will get no further enhancements. I hated that. I was ready to jump to T-Mob and the Vibrant but the Amazon deal for a penny on the Captivate got me here.
AT&T is great here. I'm not in a major metro area, and that seems to be where AT&T fares the worst.
Hi all...
I dont even know how this will work but I wanted to see if there are any devs here that could and are interested in making specific roms for the i9000M for us Canadians?
I would be willing to pay a bounty and im sure others would be willing to pitch in as well for something made with the i9000M specific kernal (and other works) to help us poor Canadians from bricking our devices when we seem to flash to international firmware.
I have come to the conclusion that there must be something different in our devices which is causing all the havok of dead sd cards etc. Perhaps I am wrong but from the polls it seems that the most dead sd cards are due to the lagfix and flashing new roms.
Anyone have an opinion? Anyone willing to try?
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I would be willing to bounty for this aswell i've been monkeying around trying to get things to work.
The only big difference i think is that our band for cell network is different.
Viper717 said:
I would be willing to bounty for this aswell i've been monkeying around trying to get things to work.
The only big difference i think is that our band for cell network is different.
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Well thats 2 of us... Come on people. If we get enough interest we could maybe get some good Canadian goodies for our SGS!!!
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What's wrong ruth the Doc/kalpik roms? Many of us i9000m owners are using them without issue
GT-i9000m on Doc/kalpik v 6
terranq said:
What's wrong ruth the Doc/kalpik roms? Many of us i9000m owners are using them without issue
GT-i9000m on Doc/kalpik v 6
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I dont know much about those roms at all but i do know that lits of us Canadians that flash international firmware, mods, etc end up with a corrupt internal sd card and i think if there were some roms made with i9000m specific software that it would be safer to flash.
Like I said in the original post... I may be wrong but it would be nice to see...
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Is no one interested in this at all? Hmmm... Perhaps once Canada gets the official FROYO update then maybe?
Are there any experts / devs that can confirm or deny that the i9000M is the exact same as the international i9000?
i am interested in this as i am i9000m user who has bricked his phone with jpm. however, i did voice my opinion before and got people bashing me and saying the hardware is identical between the international i9000's and our i9000m. so i don't think you'll get much love for us, especially considering we represent a small portion of the sgs owners. i had suggested that if the hardware IS identical, and obviously the firmware is identical (if we're both flashing jpm/o), then all that is left is the bootloaders, or something else that isn't flashed with the firmware. but no one is interested, so i dunno. i was thinking maybe dumping the bml1-9 and comparing with that of an international phone, but i don't have the intellect to understand the differences. personally, i think we're boned.
terranq said:
What's wrong ruth the Doc/kalpik roms? Many of us i9000m owners are using them without issue
GT-i9000m on Doc/kalpik v 6
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+1
Working great here....
Sent from a Bell I9000m running Froyo.
yiannisthegreek said:
Is no one interested in this at all? Hmmm... Perhaps once Canada gets the official FROYO update then maybe?
Are there any experts / devs that can confirm or deny that the i9000M is the exact same as the international i9000?
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AFIK the m is exactly the same other than the actual modem hardware. In respect to the polls, the m is at about a 28% failure and the international is at 14%. Too close imo to say that the m troubled.
The only thing the m really needs is a froyo modem file. The rest is working great. If froyo never came out for the m I would be just fine.
Flash through clockwork as it seems to be less harsh and limit your odin use.
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My real question is how do we flash one of these roms without losing our cell signal? I've flashed a rom previously and my phone would not connect back to the bell network at all. Took me a little while to figure out how-to odin back the stock modem file which in turn fixed it for me
So this may be a legally touchy subject, but I'm sure it's possible to unlock the personal hotspot feature on the captivate without shelling out $20 a month to "the providers". A jailbroken iPhone can do it so I'm pretty sure my android is capable of the same thing.
Let me know of it's out there and I just haven't researched deep enough.
Samsung Captivate Froyo 2.2 (official)
All of the custom roms have mobile AP for free.
Try searching next time. PLENTY of threads on this. Install titanium backup and figure it out from there. As it being not legal I'm not saying exactly how its done, but I will say its easy.
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So this may be a legally touchy subject, but I'm sure it's possible to unlock the personal hotspot feature on the captivate without shelling out $20 a month to "the providers". A jailbroken iPhone can do it so if the devs here haven't done it yet, I'm hoping they will rise to the challenge.
Let me know of it's out there and I just haven't researched deep enough.
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The last post hinted at the solution when you are on stock Froyo. If you flash to a custom rom, they all have the mobile hotspot feature, functional and free. I am volunteering in a place with no internet access, and I have used the phone for a couple months to give us spot access to download files and check email and do light surfing. I upped my plan to 2 GB while I was doing that, just to be safe, and have had no issues either with the phone or with AT&T.
poor poor att peeps...
Still gonna need some help with this. I wasn't looking to flash a custom rom. Just wanted access and i'm not finding any posts pertaining to such. I don't know why I'm so nervous about custom roms (maybe because there are do many I can't tell the difference between them). Can anyone point me towards the right post?
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n311.dunkle said:
Still gonna need some help with this. I wasn't looking to flash a custom rom. Just wanted access and i'm not finding any posts pertaining to such. I don't know why I'm so nervous about custom roms (maybe because there are do many I can't tell the difference between them). Can anyone point me towards the right post?
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try reading this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=993642&highlight=mobile+uckb1
Thanks pirateghost. And the rest of you guys. Y'all are awesome! Got it working... a little slow but it works!
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Sorry to bug you guys again. Is all wifi tether this slow or is it the process I used (titanium backup freeze)? I have my daughters iPod air hooked to my 3g, and updating the apps is taking forever. I'm opening up to the idea of roms if I can enhance the performance. I want some bragging rights!
My ears (or eyes) are open to your best suggestions for custom roms. Or another update to what I am apparently clueless about... wifi tethering.
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n311.dunkle said:
Sorry to bug you guys again. Is all wifi tether this slow or is it the process I used (titanium backup freeze)? I have my daughters iPod air hooked to my 3g, and updating the apps is taking forever. I'm opening up to the idea of roms if I can enhance the performance. I want some bragging rights!
My ears (or eyes) are open to your best suggestions for custom roms. Or another update to what I am apparently clueless about... wifi tethering.
Samsung Captivate Froyo 2.2 (official)
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I don't understand what you're talking about. However, I do know that the official Android MobileAP app is found in all custom ROMs on this forum and it's BLAZING fast if you get 3g/H signal where you live.
You should really try a custom ROM. A really refined one is Cezar's v4 Continuum. You'll have to do some reading, but it's not so bad. Use MyBackup Root to save/restore your apps, it's free and works just as well as Titanium Backup.
Hdspa is only noticeable faster for uploads in my experience. With tethering my speed is never great its usable but not at a level I would want to do much work through.you might see some improvement with a custom rom but nothing mind blowing
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crystalhand said:
Hdspa is only noticeable faster for uploads in my experience. With tethering my speed is never great its usable but not at a level I would want to do much work through.you might see some improvement with a custom rom but nothing mind blowing
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I guess we've had varied experience. I can load several webpages and be syncing my dropbox and I do not notice the slightest bit of lag.
Make sure you're using a very fast modem like XXJVK. Shoman has a great test of the speed of various modems here.
so i have a captivate, i love it. however my carrier has limited service where i live. i have seen people say they get better download and upload speed with different modems and i myself have flashed different modems and used speedtest app to see these differences. my question(s) are really as follows
can a modem give you better reception?
is it possible to make your antenna in your phone work harder to pick up better signal strength?
in general is there a way i can learn how modems work?
thanks smart peeps!
Gorship
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Gorship said:
so i have a captivate, i love it. however my carrier has limited service where i live. i have seen people say they get better download and upload speed with different modems and i myself have flashed different modems and used speedtest app to see these differences. my question(s) are really as follows
can a modem give you better reception?
is it possible to make your antenna in your phone work harder to pick up better signal strength?
in general is there a way i can learn how modems work?
thanks smart peeps!
Gorship
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First, a modem us the binary file that runs the antenna. So if we were able to control and edit the binary (which we can't) you could potentially make the antenna "work harder".
so a modem works by controlling, software wise, the frequencies the antenna uses. For example, I9000 modems tell the antenna to also pick up hsupa, and that is why I9000 based roms have faster data. The modem needs to also be compatible with the kernel so it can run properly. This is why e can't use modems like JK4 on captivate based Roms.
flashing a modem can increase signal. It is all about where you are though. JK4, which is a great modem in Boston, might not be a great modem in San Francisco, or Detroit.
there is a sticky thread in the development section for this with a website that will help you pick out a new modem. Make sure it is compatible with your kernel first.
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There is not an easy answer to this (I don't think) but here is an interesting read that may be of some help (or at least an interesting read )...
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.modem.html
4-2ndtwin said:
There is not an easy answer to this (I don't think) but here is an interesting read that may be of some help (or at least an interesting read )...
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.modem.html
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as detailed as it can get..thanks for the read...
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as detailed as it can get..thanks for the read...
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True... Detailed.. However, mostly irrelevant..
When you flash a modem, you're flashing an operating system for the communications chip. It's an entire stand-alone operating system designed to minimalistically receive and transmit data. The communications chip is capable of running an entire device. This is evidant when you examine the binary. It contains keyboard, mouse and display drivers.
When the Captivate was released, it was released as a 3G device, not H, so its communications chip was configured to work as a 3G modem. This was likely a marketing decision as "3G" was all the rave at the time.
A modem won't improve your reception unless your old modem was configured incorrectly
As far as signal strength, it won't improve unless your old modem was configured incorrectly.
There are several tweaks which are applied in each version of modem firmware for different devices. Unfortunately, the communications chip is locked down/Closed-source Qualcrap.. So, we will never fully understand what configurations are available, nor can we do anything other than test and see which one works more effectively.
hey thank you so much guys, this is really interesting, sadly a little depressing but interesting. i have one last question then, since i am running my i897 captivate... with the ICS rom, does this mean i should use i9000 or i897 modems? i heard that i9000 modems were just better then i897 so i am using them... but if the above is true, i shoud be using i897 to get proper configuration of my device.
you guys are all awesome and ill be mashing the thanks button!
<3 Gorship
U have to use the specific modems for ICS... See here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16843698&postcount=1
And more specifically...See this page... http://soggycashew.weebly.com/cm7miui--ics-modems.html
yea im flashing a few of the ics i897 vs the i9000 i was using... still though... i have full bars with my old blackberry bold 9000 compared to my cappy which has 1 or 2... i dont understand why.
Why does this phone make slower progress in compared to others? I wonder if it is a misconception that we can just take a normal s3 rom and add 4g band? Even low end phone have official CM and this phone doesnt? Can someone answer my queries? Thanks.
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Why does this phone make slower progress in compared to others? I wonder if it is a misconception that we can just take a normal s3 rom and add 4g band? Even low end phone have official CM and this phone doesnt? Can someone answer my queries? Thanks.
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It isn't, this phone is basically an S3 with a different radio or a Note 2 with a different screen. Same progress can mostly be applied across all 3 devices, it just requires someone that knows how to do it. Just look at how much codeworkx has done on CM 10.1 for I9305 in the past week or so, he doesn't even have the device yet he was able to more or less bring it up to speed with the aforementioned devices due to it being so very similar.
Unfortunately, since it is so similar it will also suffer the same problems as the other devices. Such as graphics glitches and worsened battery performance (than compared to official) due to badly documented RIL from Samsungs part.
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It isn't, this phone is basically an S3 with a different radio or a Note 2 with a different screen. Same progress can mostly be applied across all 3 devices, it just requires someone that knows how to do it. Just look at how much codeworkx has done on CM 10.1 for I9305 in the past week or so, he doesn't even have the device yet he was able to more or less bring it up to speed with the aforementioned devices due to it being so very similar.
Unfortunately, since it is so similar it will also suffer the same problems as the other devices. Such as graphics glitches and worsened battery performance (than compared to official) due to badly documented RIL from Samsungs part.
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I have also been following codeworkx cm 10.1 progression over the past few weeks, and I was curious as to know how it would make it faster/easier to build if we have the "source code" from Samsung. Is it a similar process with changing chips in cars where certain values and percentages are needed to make particular parts work instead of trying to experiment??
Thank you in advance
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I have also been following codeworkx cm 10.1 progression over the past few weeks, and I was curious as to know how it would make it faster/easier to build if we have the "source code" from Samsung. Is it a similar process with changing chips in cars where certain values and percentages are needed to make particular parts work instead of trying to experiment??
Thank you in advance
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Partially, it's more like trying to install a new engine into a completely invisible car where you can only barely feel the parts and the only way of knowing if you've done it correctly is if the car works.
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Partially, it's more like trying to install a new engine into a completely invisible car where you can only barely feel the parts and the only way of knowing if you've done it correctly is if the car works.
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Ok that sorta makes sense, but I would think there would be some way to like "reverse engineer" a rom from a stock standard one? Or is that just a silly assumption??
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Ok that sorta makes sense, but I would think there would be some way to like "reverse engineer" a rom from a stock standard one? Or is that just a silly assumption??
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The people with those skills are few and hard to find. Besides, it takes way too much time for something that legally has to be provided to us anyway.
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The people with those skills are few and hard to find. Besides, it takes way too much time for something that legally has to be provided to us anyway.
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Umm what do you mean it "legally has to be provided to us"
Is this the source code or is it something else??
http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=9305
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