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Custom ROM question.

I currently have a rooted SGH-T879. I have never installed a custom ROM before but I would like to install CM10.
The problems I am having are
- CMW and TWRP only have i717 (would this work)?
- I cannot boot into recovery mode. (When I do the button combo it's a black screen after the samsung logo and when I use an app to boot into recovery it soft bricks the phone.
- I am getting a installation aborted error when I tried to install it before the recovery mode stopped working.
The files I have are:
[email protected] (file name exactly as typed)
gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip (file name exactly as typed)
I also have USB debugging and Unknown sources checked.
Please help, this is far more complicated than the jailbreak on ios that I was used to. Thanks

Do yoi have a custom recovery installed? If so, which one? Did you root the phone via odin?
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androidmechanic said:
Do yoi have a custom recovery installed? If so, which one? Did you root the phone via odin?
Currently I do not have a custom recovery, I had CWM 5.0 previously but I am trying to install CWM 5.8.4.3 or TWRP 2.3.1.1 which I think are latest for my Note. Those are coming to no avail also.
CWM - the progress bar isn't moving when using the .tar file (used odin 1.85 and 3.04 and 3.07)
TWRP - odin crashes after using the .img.tar.md5 file after it verifies files.
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Maybe need to uninstall odin then reinstall the latest version and reroot. May have a corrupted odin download
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Three fresh downloads, still have the same results.

[Q] Help restoring my rooted Galaxy Note n7000 to stock status.

Hi there,
I have a rooted Galaxy Note N7000 running JellyBean 4.1.2. and I've got a ton of apps/photos/videos/messages... etc.
and I've sensed the phone is getting slow. I've removed all the unnecessary apps and deleted photos/videos etc..
but its still slow.
so anyway I decided to start from scratch, I decided to unroot the phone and install a stock rom. delete all photos/videos/apps.. everything.
so I downloaded the official latest stock rom released from samsung for my region. (N7000JPLSB_N7000OJPLSB_XSG)
and I've looked at many many pages on the internet and some site different methods than other, which got confusing.
finally i decided i'd go with the method mentioned in this page:
rootgalaxynote(dot)com/galaxy-note-unroot/how-to-unroot-galaxy-note-gt-n7000/
(sorry for the link formatting it wouldn't let me post a url)
the problem is, at the end of the page it says to do a “Wipe data/factory reset”. However, I have read on many sites and threads that you should never do a factory reset on stock Rom!
So now i'm confused.
1- is the method mentioned in the page i linked above correct and safe?
2- will the method above delete everything? ie: photos/videos/apps.. etc (which is what i want) if not, how do i achieve that?
3- do i do a Wipe data/factory reset? or not?
Thanks in advance.

What's your current config?

nokiamodeln91 said:
What's your current config?
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sorry i don't understand. i'm really new to this. What do you mean by current config?

What rom are you running and what kernel. Rooted.

1.Download a stock rom for n700
2.Install odin on your pc
3.Go to download mode by pressing the vol + , power button + center button
4.press vol +
You are in odin flash mode for ur mobile.
Open odin on ur pc
Check if ur phone is detected. If the upper box is yellow and it shows a COM usb port.
Browse the stock rom file a .tar.md5 file in the PDA section let everything as it is.
Press flash and wait and note things happen.
The yellow box will turn green with PASS written on it.
Reboot ur phone.
A simple how to
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Right. Here my info:
Baseband Vesion: N7000XXLSO
Kernel Version: 3.0.31-906407 / [email protected] #3 / SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 19 22:05:07 KST 2013
Build Number: JZO54K.N7000JPLSB

Flash Philz kernel and boot into cwm recovery. The go to mounts and storage and format system, data, cache and preload. This will completely erase the trace of old system. Then go back to advanced menu and choose reboot download. Then flash the rom as per reply by above member.
Before doing this just make sure you have a working usb connection because after the steps there won't the any rom on phone to boot till you flash the new now.

nokiamodeln91 said:
Flash Philz kernel and boot into cwm recovery. The go to mounts and storage and format system, data, cache and preload. This will completely erase the trace of old system. Then go back to advanced menu and choose reboot download. Then flash the rom as per reply by above member.
Before doing this just make sure you have a working usb connection because after the steps there won't the any rom on phone to boot till you flash the new now.
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HI, thanks for your reply, i found Philz Kernel, but what is cwm recovery? and how do i boot into it?

To boot in CWM, you shut down your Note. And then you press Vol-, Home and Power for recovery Mode.

bakkouz said:
HI, thanks for your reply, i found Philz Kernel, but what is cwm recovery? and how do i boot into it?
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Recovery mode is a mode in which you have control on Android file systems, internal and external SD cards. It run without Android.

Thanks, about the Kernel though.. as I said I found the page regarding Philz kernel, but there are so many of them i really don't know which one to download. there are so many threads intertwined it get really confusing.
is it the one in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31911682&postcount=3
should i download the JPLSB one? will this root my phone (again?) cause i don't want it rooted.
should i even download the kernel? i mean do i really need to? is it because my current kernel will cause problems?

bakkouz said:
HI, thanks for your reply, i found Philz Kernel, but what is cwm recovery? and how do i boot into it?
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1 - Flash Philz kernel
2 - Go to Recovery Mode
3 - Go on "Mount & Storage"
3 - Format ALL ! (Data, Cache, System, Emmc etc ...) Save whant you want to save before.
4 - Go in Advanced, Format Dalv. cache.
5 - Shut down your phone (remove your battery)
6 - Turn on your note in Odin Mode (Vol+, Home & Power)
7 - Flash your last Touchwizz stock rom with Odin.
I'm French, I've do this manip, I'm on XXLT4 full stock. Fast & Economic. (2,5 days)

KalamiGeek said:
1 - Flash Philz kernel
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Ok. great. but:
1- i have no idea how to flash a kernel.
2- which kernel to chose?
- PhilZ-cwm6-JPLSB-UAE-5.00.5.tar.md5
or
- PhilZ-cwm6-JPLSB-UAE-5.00.5-signed.zip
cause in the thread it says the zip will root the phone, and i don't want to root the phone, can i flash using the tar.md5 one?

bakkouz said:
Ok. great. but:
1- i have no idea how to flash a kernel.
2- which kernel to chose?
- PhilZ-cwm6-JPLSB-UAE-5.00.5.tar.md5
or
- PhilZ-cwm6-JPLSB-UAE-5.00.5-signed.zip
cause in the thread it says the zip will root the phone, and i don't want to root the phone, can i flash using the tar.md5 one?
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Check .tar.md5
Find Odin v3.04. Put philz kernel .tar.md5 on Pda case. And flash it

bakkouz said:
Ok. great. but:
1- i have no idea how to flash a kernel.
2- which kernel to chose?
- PhilZ-cwm6-JPLSB-UAE-5.00.5.tar.md5
or
- PhilZ-cwm6-JPLSB-UAE-5.00.5-signed.zip
cause in the thread it says the zip will root the phone, and i don't want to root the phone, can i flash using the tar.md5 one?
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Yes, use tar.md5 file with Odin PC as previously shown.
That file is Philz kernel and add ROOT by default. To avoid root add, use philz_installer.cfg as indicated in the Philz thread.

Ok great, thank you for all the help.
i just hope i don't brick the phone

HI just one last fast question please...
as for philz_installer.cfg it says to put it in /sdcard/clockworkmod/philz_installer.cfg
but i don't have a clockworkmod folder.
should i create it? or put on directly on /sdcard main folder?

Don't use the tar file. It will cause a yellow triangle. Use the zip version. Place it on external sd card. Don't worry about cfg file for now. Boot into recovery and choose apply update from external storage. Choose the zip and flash. After it completes, click on reboot system. The again boot into recovery and you should see cwm

nokiamodeln91 said:
Don't use the tar file. It will cause a yellow triangle. Use the zip version. Place it on external sd card. Don't worry about cfg file for now. Boot into recovery and choose apply update from external storage. Choose the zip and flash. After it completes, click on reboot system. The again boot into recovery and you should see cwm
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I've often used Odin PC to flash new ROM's, for example Stock LT4 and Stock LT5, no problem, no yellow triangle. To avoid it in the future, please explain when and why we get the trouble triangle yellow. Thanks.:good:

you will get a yellow triangle if you flash anything else that stock roms using PC odin. you will also get an increased counter. nothing to worry if you are out of warranty though

HELP!! Phone bricked!

EDIT: problem solved

teodor79 said:
hi everyone, i installed thewhisp cyanogenmod 10.1 , then I decided to revert to stock. after i flashed the stock firmware, I tried to boot into recovery to wipe data (if i don't do this i get into bootloop) but when i pressed all buttons, it won't boot in recovery
now i am stuck in bootloop and can't recover it, please help me!
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Does the phone boot to the galaxy mini 2 screen? If it boots then its not hard bricked
Put the phone in ODIN mode and reflash again the stock firmware. If it still does not boot and you cant get into recovery, flash again the firmware but this time check re partition. You will need the jena or jenad pit. NOTE: THIS WILL WIPE ALL YOUR DATA!!!!!

only wipe data/factory reset & install stock again

No no always when you want to back to the stock ROM you must flash cwm and wipe data/factory and wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache and go to the mounts and storage and wipe everything then go downlaod mode and flash stock then trust me it will be ok
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this is probably Samsung bootloader bug, I don't know what's causing that, but you must wipe data before you flash back to stock via Odin

Porobu said:
Does the phone boot to the galaxy mini 2 screen? If it boots then its not hard bricked
Put the phone in ODIN mode and reflash again the stock firmware. If it still does not boot and you cant get into recovery, flash again the firmware but this time check re partition. You will need the jena or jenad pit. NOTE: THIS WILL WIPE ALL YOUR DATA!!!!!
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i tried to repartition (i also have jena NON-nfc pit), the same result, it boots only in download mode, or android (i got bootloop and vibrate something like beep.........beep beep beep)
TheWhisp said:
this is probably Samsung bootloader bug, I don't know what's causing that, but you must wipe data before you flash back to stock via Odin
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yeah, it may be
btw, is there anyway to recover? (without samsung center)

I've had the same problem, sometimes it just boots into recovery

TheWhisp said:
I've had the same problem, sometimes it just boots into recovery
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my last idea is: after flashing stock firmware, it boots into recovery, then into system. It is possible to replace the original "recovery.img" with cwm "recovery.img" in the original system package?

teodor79 said:
i tried to repartition (i also have jena NON-nfc pit), the same result, it boots only in download mode, or android (i got bootloop and vibrate something like beep.........beep beep beep)
yeah, it may be
btw, is there anyway to recover? (without samsung center)
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Try:
Install stock rom with odin
After installing install CWM or TWRP with odin
When the rom boots connect ur phone to pc and in adb do: adb reboot recovery
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Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2227982

TheWhisp said:
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2227982
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thanks alot! it worked! you're a life saver!

Had the same problem, connected the phone to the charger and then I was able to enter CWM Recovery, I wiped data and it worked.

Help?

Right, to cut a lonnnnng first post story short, basically, rooted my phone yesterday, went well, installed some rooted apps and was having fun, one app, 3D something, from Google Play. it asked me to restart my phone after setting superuser (i thought this was quite weird) anyway i boot locked my phone - got the typical "Samsung GALAXY Note GT-N7000" and the phone woundnt move from there, i can gt into vol+ home and power and vol- home and power still. so after some research i found i had to flash therelivant stock ROM using odin - so i did. and it worked. then at somepoint today my phone got stuck in a boot loop consisting of the GT-N7000 screen then the samsung spash screen. when i do vol+ home power, i get in red text "E:/error%20in%20/data/recovery_last_kernal_log.txt" - what does this mean? and how(if at all) do i fix it?
i have curently re-flashed stock ROM and vol+ home power & "wipedata/factory reset" and so far so good......
any help or shed light would be a great help
Phone is Samsung GALAXY Note GT-N7000

Flashing the stock rom won't change anything if you have not wiped data. It just restores the system. What rom are you on? JB or ICS? To get everything to factory standards, install philz kernel.
Then boot into Cwm and choose wipe data,-clean before new rom flash.
Once it's done, choose reboot download and flash the rom again with odin. This way anything that the "3d something" might have done will go.
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nokiamodeln91 said:
Flashing the stock rom won't change anything if you have not wiped data. It just restores the system. What rom are you on? JB or ICS? To get everything to factory standards, install philz kernel.
Then boot into Cwm and choose wipe data,-clean before new rom flash.
Once it's done, choose reboot download and flash the rom again with odin. This way anything that the "3d something" might have done will go.
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it was called "Chainfire3d" and could you write the bove in steps?
i currently have flashed stock JB rom... and its working for now, but i dont want to turn it off incase it loops again. so what should i do from here, its currently un-rooted...
thanks a million for your reply

1. Install philz kernel from recovery.
2. Boot into Cwm recovery and choose clean before new rom install.
3. Choose reboot download.
4. Connect to pc and flash rom using odin.
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nokiamodeln91 said:
1. Install philz kernel from recovery.
2. Boot into Cwm recovery and choose clean before new rom install.
3. Choose reboot download.
4. Connect to pc and flash rom using odin.
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so put philz kernel on the ext sdcard
vol+ home power - and install
boot into cwm and choose clean before new rom install
reboot into download
and then flash stock rom?
one last question... will the lastest philz kernel work?
thanks again

i currently have PhilZ-cwm6-XXLT4-OXA-4.93.6-signed on my external sd.... will this do?

yeah any kernel will do as you just need recovery... once the kernel is installed, boot into recovery.. You should see CWM based recovery.

nokiamodeln91 said:
yeah any kernel will do as you just need recovery... once the kernel is installed, boot into recovery.. You should see CWM based recovery.
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and then clean before new rom install?

xDEADFAMOUSx said:
and then clean before new rom install?
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yes if you got the philz recovery installed.

[Q] How to UnBrick galaxy n7000

Hi,
other day I was playing game on my note 1 and then battery ran out and now my phone wont boot up and it is stuck at animated samsung logo.
It was running on stock rom and it was never rooted.
Now when i go in recovery mode it gives this error:
failed to mount /efs
I tried installing the stock rom but with no luck.
I am newbie into this all, so can you please guide how to fix this ..
Regards

ahmedmasu said:
Hi,
other day I was playing game on my note 1 and then battery ran out and now my phone wont boot up and it is stuck at animated samsung logo.
It was running on stock rom and it was never rooted.
Now when i go in recovery mode it gives this error:
failed to mount /efs
I tried installing the stock rom but with no luck.
I am newbie into this all, so can you please guide how to fix this ..
Regards
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You should try to put your Note in download mode and flash a stock rom with Odin.
You must flash the PIT file to repartition your phone's storage, chose the right one (16 or 32 Gb).
I am almost sure that your phone is soft bricked and it is recoverable.
If it don't work, thant mean that your have bad blocks in your phone's storage. Have you wiped your note while under ICS android ?

what rom were you on? if JB, try a factory reset.

nokiamodeln91 said:
what rom were you on? if JB, try a factory reset.
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I was on latest stock rom which is ICS.
Btw I tried to reset it to factory but with no luck

lionelia said:
You should try to put your Note in download mode and flash a stock rom with Odin.
You must flash the PIT file to repartition your phone's storage, chose the right one (16 or 32 Gb).
I am almost sure that your phone is soft bricked and it is recoverable.
If it don't work, thant mean that your have bad blocks in your phone's storage. Have you wiped your note while under ICS android ?
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Thank for your reply.
I tried flashing the stock rom with Odin but the error remained there
Can you please give me a link from where I can get PIT file?

ahmedmasu said:
I was on latest stock rom which is ICS.
Btw I tried to reset it to factory but with no luck
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You shouldn't be doing a reset on ICS stock at all.. Install Philz kernel for ICS and wipe data and cache.. When flashing a stock rom using odin, is it a success?

nokiamodeln91 said:
You shouldn't be doing a reset on ICS stock at all.. Install Philz kernel for ICS and wipe data and cache.. When flashing a stock rom using odin, is it a success?
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Is there any guide\link to do this ?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1901191

nokiamodeln91 said:
You shouldn't be doing a reset on ICS stock at all.. Install Philz kernel for ICS and wipe data and cache.. When flashing a stock rom using odin, is it a success?
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I have successfully flashed rom on my phone which is : N7000ZSLPF_N7000OZSLPF_OZS
My phone is now out of bootloop but now I face a different issue that I cant get my sim card work, it gives no signal and I noticed one more thing that IMEI of my phone is blank.
I went into recovery mode and it is still showing that efs error as it was showing before...
Any suggestion what should I try to fix this ?

So you never installed any rom or a custom kernel?
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Look for a file on your storage named efs.autobackup.img. If nothing like that, check on this site http://www.cvxcvx.pl/en/podstrona-0/naprawa-efs-w-i9100-n7000/ for some instructions. Read carefully and proceed.

nokiamodeln91 said:
So you never installed any rom or a custom kernel?
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Look for a file on your storage named efs.autobackup.img. If nothing like that, check on this site http://www.cvxcvx.pl/en/podstrona-0/naprawa-efs-w-i9100-n7000/ for some instructions. Read carefully and proceed.
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I followed the instructions provided by the manual ... after step 2 I get imei but after step 3 it get empty again.
Signals do come after step 2 but when I try to make some call it says "Not registered on network".
Looking forward to your reply.

i cannot help you in this case if there is no efs backup.. so.. you on your own..

nokiamodeln91 said:
i cannot help you in this case if there is no efs backup.. so.. you on your own..
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Thanks for your help so far...
I currently have an imei but it is some random number starting with "004999" and I do get signals but cant make a call .. Do you know if there is some hope for me or not .. and what else I can try.

This is the developer imei. You may be able to make calls of you try a GB rom. Or there is one rom by ThaiDai which had some work around built into it. I don't know which one.
Else the site I mentioned earlier has contact info of cvxcvx. He can fix your phone remotely but by charging about 10 euros.

Need help for a bricked N7000
Hi guys,Im a complete newbie to the whole custom rom scenario. Yet, after being fed up of touchwiz on my N7000 i decided i wanted to taste some KitKat on my phone. After seeing many videos with positive reviews I thought it would be a rather easy process. But somehow I seem to have made a mistake and now my phone is stuck on Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 logo. I cant get into recovery mode as suggested on most places. As of now I only have access to the download mode but dont know what to do with it.
Here's what I tried doing :
1) I was on stock OS, and these are my specifics : Galaxy Note N-7000 running JB 4.1.2
Baseband version : N7000DDLS6
Kernel version: 3.3.31-906407
BUild number:JZO54K.N7000DDLSC
2) As I was following the procedure from Omnirom's official website, I first rooted my phone using Framaroot's single click root app. This gave me SuperSU app.
3) Then I tried installing TWRP recovery (recommended by Omni) but they dont support the N7000. I read a few other tutorials where it was stated the CWM recovery and that too Philz CWM recovery is the best to go with. Apparently it is just stock kernel with CWM recovery. Since the latest one(philz_touch_6.07.9-n7000) was not being installed, I installed the one before that which worked (PhilZ-cwm6-DDLSC-ODD-5.11.2-signed).
4) I even installed the ROM Manager as per the tutorial. However, uptil now I could access recovery mode ( Vol UP+Home+Power) and i saw the touch enabled philz recovery mode once. Then i did system reboot.
5)After reboot, this is where I did a mistake in my opinion. I opened ROM Manger and clicked on "open in recovery mode" option. Since then the phone is stuck on the Galaxy Note N7000 logo. Please help me revive the phone. Thanks in advance. Again, Im doing this for the first time and most terms are new to me. So please explain the procedure as other tutorials are not very clear.

You missed on reading the most important instructions.
Rom manager will not work with note. Recovery is built into the kernel on note and not as a separate partition.
Try harder to get into recovery mode. If you still can't, get the ddlsc Philz kernel tar version. Flash it using Odin. Then power off the device and boot into recovery. Then flash raw kernel. Reboot recovery. Flash omni and other required zips.

nokiamodeln91 said:
You missed on reading the most important instructions.
Rom manager will not work with note. Recovery is built into the kernel on note and not as a separate partition.
Try harder to get into recovery mode. If you still can't, get the ddlsc Philz kernel tar version. Flash it using Odin. Then power off the device and boot into recovery. Then flash raw kernel. Reboot recovery. Flash omni and other required zips.
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How do I do i install the kernel using ODIN? I can only access download mode and nothing else. I cant access recovery mode. Please help.

PhilZ kernel has two versions, zip and tar. Use the tar version to flash via odin.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2

forest1971 said:
PhilZ kernel has two versions, zip and tar. Use the tar version to flash via odin.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
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Bro can i ask for the link of philz kernel and raw kernel. I'm new here. Thanks in advance.

ANDROID-000 said:
Bro can i ask for the link of philz kernel and raw kernel. I'm new here. Thanks in advance.
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http://www.mediafire.com/?ep82ku4c6...o6dtlx8lbc3xz,ob3q9g36b9b3w22,d3v1gys7cbckiet