Having issues mounting to the computer to use as a disk drive? - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

I plug the phone in and it opens the 'what do I want to do' screen and then closes it right away. And then just keeps doing this over and over every few seconds. Anyone else notice this?

I've had mixed results. Earlier today at work, on my Win7 machine, I plugged that bad boy up and it immediately found the phone and loaded the drivers. The phone then appeared in Windows Explorer as "EVO" and when clicked on, expanded to show the contents of the memory accessible to the user. There is about 10 gb free on my phone.
At home now, is a different story. I'm running XP Pro and can't seem to get the right drivers installed. I'm tinkering with it now but am not sure what to expect. I've also installed Airdroid, but haven't gotten around to trying it yet.
Update: Still no joy getting MTP to work, so I tried Airdroid and it works beautifully.

Try swapping the cable out. I've had similar results with a cable that would charge fine, but would give dodgy results when trying to use as a disk drive.

luma said:
Try swapping the cable out. I've had similar results with a cable that would charge fine, but would give dodgy results when trying to use as a disk drive.
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I'll give it a shot.
Thanks

it wont let me copy a .apk over to device

luma said:
Try swapping the cable out. I've had similar results with a cable that would charge fine, but would give dodgy results when trying to use as a disk drive.
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This worked for me. I'm using xp pro and it couldn't seem to find the phone with the HTC cable provided so i tried an old BB cable i had lying around and strangely enough it worked

Used the cable that came with it instead of my regular Evo cable and it worked fine. Weird.

did it to me too. I was plugging intop a usb hub. Once i plugged directly into the pc, the issue resolved itself. Dont use Hubs!

Next dumb question of the night. Where do ringtones go on this thing since they don't go on the SD card like with the Evo

thenags said:
Next dumb question of the night. Where do ringtones go on this thing since they don't go on the SD card like with the Evo
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You should see a folder called sdcard. It's the name given to the 10 gigs or so available to us. If you have a physical sd card, I think it's call ext/sdcard or something like that. Anyway, there is a "ringtones" folder in the sdcard folder.

I think HTC stated that file mounting on the evo lte is different than the one x. If you wanna transfer files, im pretty sure you have to use HTC sync. If you have a memory card though, that should be able to mount as a removable device.
hope i helped

Hmmm. I see that in Astro but not when I plug it in

It seems like all I can do is select HTC Sync.

94tbird said:
did it to me too. I was plugging intop a usb hub. Once i plugged directly into the pc, the issue resolved itself. Dont use Hubs!
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It's still a bug and should be reported. I plugged my 3D into the same cable on the same hub and it was able to dump the whole SD card over that connection, so there's something wrong with the E4GLTE if it can't handle the same setup.

I have a 32gb card and mounted as a disk drive just fine. HTC sync is for internal storage maybe?
Sent from my EVO

erikivy said:
You should see a folder called sdcard. It's the name given to the 10 gigs or so available to us. If you have a physical sd card, I think it's call ext/sdcard or something like that. Anyway, there is a "ringtones" folder in the sdcard folder.
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It put it as /sdcard2 in my brothers phone

depending on how you're looking at it, it will either be listed as /sdcard2/ or as ext-sdcard
they both mean the same thing. the /sdcard/ by itself is internal.
any ringtones you want to put in need to be in a /ringtones/ folder, doesn't matter whether you make it in the internal or external available space
same thing goes for /alarms/ and /notifications/

thenags said:
Next dumb question of the night. Where do ringtones go on this thing since they don't go on the SD card like with the Evo
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You can put them on your sd card no problem. I transfered all my music over to my 32GB card on my computer last night and all was fine. Hooked up my 3D and also my LTE and just dragged the folders/files in windows explorer across the two drives fine...
Then to assign the ringtone that's on the extra sdcard(the one I put music on and didn't come with the device), all you have to do is when presented ringtone options click add and you should see the list of songs in there u added.....
Actually now I think of it, I went into HTC music player and got it to see the music before I did that too...
Also had google music sync up and download everything for offline use too but I don't think they showed up after I did that personally....though I could b wrong and its actually pulling the ringtone from my google music copy...
Sent from my EVO using xda premium

sgt. slaughter said:
You can put them on your sd card no problem. I transfered all my music over to my 32GB card on my computer last night and all was fine. Hooked up my 3D and also my LTE and just dragged the folders/files in windows explorer across the two drives fine...
Then to assign the ringtone that's on the extra sdcard(the one I put music on and didn't come with the device), all you have to do is when presented ringtone options click add and you should see the list of songs in there u added.....
Actually now I think of it, I went into HTC music player and got it to see the music before I did that too...
Also had google music sync up and download everything for offline use too but I don't think they showed up after I did that personally....though I could b wrong and its actually pulling the ringtone from my google music copy...
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
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I see what you mean. I didn't see the 'Add' button at first. However that just seems to list ALL music on the device which is a bit of a pain due to the amount of music on my card. I ended up moving the ringtones to my SD card then just Astro to move them over to the internal storage. Not the quickest method, but seems to be better for keeping everything organized.

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BPHusker said:
It seems like all I can do is select HTC Sync.
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It's really dumb, but don't pick one of the two big choices at the top. Pick "Media Sync" in the smaller text options below those. As long as your pc is up to date, you should see "Evo" show up under my computer.

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avatar problem

when i click on avatar it says "file not found". Is anyone else having this problem or is there a specific way to play it? thanks.
Did you remove or format the 2gb SD card that came with the phone? It was on there.
Do you have USB debugging enabled? Make sure that is disabled and try it. If that doesn't work reseat your micro sd card and you should be able to play avatar again...
Yes you were right. I removed the SD card and put my 16 gb one from my G1. I would've figured the avatar movie was on the phone. Thanks for the info
Avatar is the ONLY thing not on the phone's internal memory.
Which, IMO, is how it should be. What a waste of a gig and a half.
Wait, so after you swapped the memory cards the Avatar icon still shows up on the applications list even though there is no movie anymore. That's rather silly an a bit annoying. That movie is a fun thing to showcase the screen but who wants to keep it around forever. I was hoping that after I swap the card for a bigger one the phone would recognize that it is gone and the shortcut to it would be gone too. Is there a way to uninstall it?
I'm pretty sure you can just drop the shortcut into the garbage. I'm not sure if there is a way to uninstall it yet as I haven't done that.
rbtady said:
I'm pretty sure you can just drop the shortcut into the garbage. I'm not sure if there is a way to uninstall it yet as I haven't done that.
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1. Root
2. rm -r /system/app/Avatar.apk
3. rm -r /system/app/Avatar.odex
4. Enjoy.
I had the same issue. Called Tmo and they couldnt help. Called Samsung, and they said that if you remove the SD card, it will remove the file. Rep said he was going to send a new Memory card with it installed. Oh and yeah the Avatar Icon stays even if the file is gone. I'm not done showing off the screen yet, the movie looks so sick on it haha.
Avatar
Just pull out the 2 gig card, put your 16 gig in the phone, hook them both up to your pc and drag the entire "movie" folder to your 16 gig card. I did this and it plays with no problem . Still can't find a player that will support the dcf file format on my pc though...
venom6608 said:
Just pull out the 2 gig card, put your 16 gig in the phone, hook them both up to your pc and drag the entire "movie" folder to your 16 gig card. I did this and it plays with no problem . Still can't find a player that will support the dcf file format on my pc though...
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Have you tried RealPlayer? I have not tried it but I heard that it'll play .dcf files.

[SOLVED] Can't display pics transferred into TP via USB

In usb drive mode, I click and drag jpgs into the TP.
on the photo app, u can see the folder name, but 0 images. What can cause this?
thanks in advance.
anyone?
this sounds like a simple thing to do. If it worked for you, did you just drag and drop anywhere in the usb drive, or you must make a folder?
is there a limit to the file size?
did you eject the TP from windows?
unlike most removable devices, the TP does not enjoy being ripped out without being ejected first.
ejecting from within windows explorer seems to work better than stopping it from the removable device icon.
looktall said:
did you eject the TP from windows?
unlike most removable devices, the TP does not enjoy being ripped out without being ejected first.
ejecting from within windows explorer seems to work better than stopping it from the removable device icon.
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it's working now. not sure if that was the key step.
what i did was to remove the old pics and folders, and made a new folder within "wallpaper" folder that was there at factory default.
I'm having this same problem and nothing I do differently works. It's quite frustrating that I can't even use this for a photo frame!
The music I transfered works, but only with the Audiophile app.
Hah! I figured it out, I simply did the opposite of what looktall suggested and ejected it from Windows instead of the file explorer and that worked, but it displayed the message "OWW That hurt. Next time eject.. etc etc.".

Is my Samsung GS 2 been hacked?

First time happened was back in about a month ago. One day I noticed some of my pictures were gone ( may be 15 to 20 of them ) I could not find them in any where such as SD card internal/external the strange thing was some pictures still there until today so the defective SD card is ruled out and I was still using the stock firmware 2.3.3 then I also noticed there are other pictures ( almost 100 of them ) not actual pictures they just blank but all with different file names like: My piano, A day in Hollywood etc, etc.
No body has been messing up my phones because it stays with me at all times. The question is who deleted my pictures and put a bunch of files back? Could it be happened remotely like some one using Bluetooth to mess around if the person is happened to be near by? later on I upgraded my phone to 2.3.4 through KIES and hope it will help me to solve the mystery but it did not. By now I know those pictures are long gone...
Two or three days later I upgraded my phone to 2.3.5 until I found the official FW XWKL1 here in XDA, again, upgraded.
So some days later I decided to change song for my ringtone I found out all of them have been replaced by some files with number names. 41203,41204 the list go on...When I use Astro to look for my songs and they are all there ( inside the music folder ) I went back & click one of the number file to see what kind of song and the player pops up a message saying the file format is not supported. It took me almost 30 min to figure out and delete all the number files under MUSIC then I see all my songs back.
My question is has my phone been hacked or infected by viruses/spyware? Or software glitch? I don't have data plan. To go online I use my home wifi all the time.
If some one can help I'll be really appreciated.
Sounds like a problem with the sd card or phone itself.
Sent from my Sensation on CM7 Alpha#10
vabeachfc3s said:
Sounds like a problem with the sd card or phone itself.
Sent from my Sensation on CM7 Alpha#10
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But most of the pictures and songs are still there that was why I think the problem is not in SD card other than these problems the phone is functioning good in all aspect.
Highly doubt someones in ur phone.
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Sounds like the card is corrupted. Just make a backup of everything on the card, and do a full format (not quick format) of it from your computer. That should fix it. I had a similar problem too recently. New files I transferred would get deleted and old deleted files would reappear. Maybe the file table is messed or something, I don't know, but a full format fixed it for me.
Note: Preferably use a card reader, or if you mount it as mass storage from your phone, do it from recovery if you're rooted. Otherwise just mount it as you would normally and proceed.
Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium
sashank said:
Sounds like the card is corrupted. Just make a backup of everything on the card, and do a full format (not quick format) of it from your computer. That should fix it. I had a similar problem too recently. New files I transferred would get deleted and old deleted files would reappear. Maybe the file table is messed or something, I don't know, but a full format fixed it for me.
Note: Preferably use a card reader, or if you mount it as mass storage from your phone, do it from recovery if you're rooted. Otherwise just mount it as you would normally and proceed.
Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium
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Thanks for the suggestion. I am gonna try it & see what's going on then.
Update?
sent from my Sensation on CM7 Alpha#10
I had the same problem.
I had the same problem.
The solution was format SD card , after Back up some things i wanted from the card.

Disk drive mode

BASICALLY INTERNAL DRIVE READS AS CD-ROM AND NOT AS A PARTITION - HOW DO I FIX THIS?
Hey
Disk drive mode is killing me
I was one of the first to get this phone - I like HTC products
But ever since I received this phone I cannot access my internal storage when I plug it into disk drive mode. Why is this and how can I fix it?
I thought both internal and external are plug and play ready (meaning no driver needed to access to info), But for some strange reason my internal 9 gbs will not come up, my external is fine.
I would like to fix this issue today (searching all over the web for the answer) but I am trying to set up a wireless syncing with my phone and I am going to be using my external sd as my media and files and my internal for android system stuff.
I am thinking about formatting my internal memory but I need to first take the info out of it.
BASICALLY INTERNAL DRIVE READS AS CD-ROM AND NOT AS A PARTITION - HOW DO I FIX THIS?
thesssfactor said:
Hey
Disk drive mode is killing me
I was one of the first to get this phone - I like HTC products
But ever since I received this phone I cannot access my internal storage when I plug it into disk drive mode. Why is this and how can I fix it?
I thought both internal and external are plug and play ready (meaning no driver needed to access to info), But for some strange reason my internal 9 gbs will not come up, my external is fine.
I would like to fix this issue today (searching all over the web for the answer) but I am trying to set up a wireless syncing with my phone and I am going to be using my external sd as my media and files and my internal for android system stuff.
I am thinking about formatting my internal memory but I need to first take the info out of it.
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Choose media sync and choose the drive that pops up and choose the phone I believe
almost got it to work
THIS DID NOT WORK
this link helped (http://www.xda-developers.com/android/replace-virtual-cd-on-the-htc-evo-4g-lte/)
it says
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Replace Virtual CD on the HTC EVO 4G LTE
Posted August 6, 2012 at 10:30 pm by PoorCollegeGuy
Difficulty:
1
Replace Virtual CD on the HTC EVO 4G LTE
Every now and then, a mod so unique pops up that it bears closer examination. For HTC EVO 4G LTE owners, a mod such as this has appeared. When booted into a Sense ROM and connected to a PC, one will notice that the device mounts as two drives. One is the internal storage, and the other is a CD-ROM. Yes, a CD-ROM. Naturally, upon discovering this, the first step is to see if it can be used for something else. As it turns out, it can be.
XDA Recognized Contributor closeone has discovered that there is a file on the EVO LTE called PCTOOL.ISO, which is what causes the EVO LTE to show up as a CD-ROM when it’s plugged into a PC. Closeone explains why it is there and what can be done about it:
There is a file named PCTOOL.ISO inside the /system/etc directory that normally contains the HTC Sync Manager Software. By replacing that ISO with another, it’ll mount that one instead. Because there isn’t too much room to spare in the /system partition, the file should probably be kept relatively small.
There are a number of things users can put in place of the HTC Sync Manager Software, although not a whole lot of things have been tested yet. In theory, though, quite a few useful tools can be placed here, as closeone says:
1. ROM Developers can include a package that contains a copy of the ADB and Fastboot executables within their ROM. ADB would be useful while the device is on; Fastboot would probably have to be copied to the computer.
2. Because the ISO is mounted as Read-Only media, it could be incredibly useful for field technicians who need to run portable software, without the risk of being infected with a virus on the host machine.
Being able to run portable software without thread of virus is definitely something anyone could benefit from. Aside from being one of the more unique mods on XDA, having functionality like this on the EVO LTE can lead to various possibilities.
To learn more, check out the original thread."
THIS DID NOT WORK
bigdaddy619 said:
Choose media sync and choose the drive that pops up and choose the phone I believe
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Yeah I tired that already, its not plug and play ready.
I believe in TWRP there is and option to mount internal storage so you can access it from a pc
detcup4evr said:
I believe in TWRP there is and option to mount internal storage so you can access it from a pc
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Yeah that works but I don't want to put my phone in recovery mode every time I want to access my internal.
thesssfactor said:
Yeah I tired that already, its not plug and play ready.
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If your looking for wireless adb try Jelly Bomb Domination it has it
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bigdaddy619 said:
If your looking for wireless adb try Jelly Bomb Domination it has it
Sent from my MB855 using xda app-developers app
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No I am just looking to get my internal Memory in my phone to open up like a disk drive without the use of any drivers. (Basically have my my internal memory work just like how my external memory works)
Did you install anything to mount internal as a live cd? When I plug my USB and set to media sync I can now copy anything I want even if its over the 4gb max file limit.
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slowfncar said:
Did you install anything to mount internal as a live cd? When I plug my USB and set to media sync I can now copy anything I want even if its over the 4gb max file limit.
Sent from my EVO using xda premium
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Not that I know of, I only unlock, turned s off and flashed 2 roms on it. My current rom is recent meanrom
Got media sync to work.
I had to delete everything inside of the internal memory to get it to work

[Q] Files disappeared (mostly pictures)

Hi guys,
I have a galaxy s2 with the latest AOKP rom installed. It's been working fine (except for GPS which got fixed once i swapped out the SIM card). I just came back from overseas and had a bunch of pictures on the phone. None of the pictures show up anymore. The SD Card had some pictures but they were old, and I should have a lot of pictures stored on the internal device.
I tried running recuva on just the sd card but they didn't come up. I only noticed that I had to reinstall 1 application so far because it wasn't working. Also, when I browse my phone using my computer, it seems like the root directory is missing a bunch of folders (I have hidden files to show).
Any ideas?
Not sure what had happen to your device. But the best course of action is to pull out your external microSD card and connect it to your computer directly to see if you can see the contents in that card. If yes, download them to your computer and back them up. Then format your microSD card with the phone, the phone should be able to read after that.
Once you have done that, if you can see all the rest of the pictures on your phone, transfer them to the external microSD and do the same thing and back those picture up.
Once the backup is done (if you are able to), then you can start working on fixing your GS2. Even if you have to reflash the ROM then you will have the data backup.
BeenAndroidized said:
Not sure what had happen to your device. But the best course of action is to pull out your external microSD card and connect it to your computer directly to see if you can see the contents in that card. If yes, download them to your computer and back them up. Then format your microSD card with the phone, the phone should be able to read after that.
Once you have done that, if you can see all the rest of the pictures on your phone, transfer them to the external microSD and do the same thing and back those picture up.
Once the backup is done (if you are able to), then you can start working on fixing your GS2. Even if you have to reflash the ROM then you will have the data backup.
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Thanks. I actually tried just that before I posted. Took out the card, put it in a usb adapter and plugged it into the computer. Ran recuva, pulled everything out, and formatted it. Still nothing =/
Have you tried plugging the phone into the computer?
Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
BeenAndroidized said:
Not sure what had happen to your device. But the best course of action is to pull out your external microSD card and connect it to your computer directly to see if you can see the contents in that card. If yes, download them to your computer and back them up. Then format your microSD card with the phone, the phone should be able to read after that.
Once you have done that, if you can see all the rest of the pictures on your phone, transfer them to the external microSD and do the same thing and back those picture up.
Once the backup is done (if you are able to), then you can start working on fixing your GS2. Even if you have to reflash the ROM then you will have the data backup.
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122ninjas said:
Have you tried plugging the phone into the computer?
Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
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Yeah, when i plug it in and browse internal storage, only about 5 folders are showing up.
Bascotie said:
Yeah, when i plug it in and browse internal storage, only about 5 folders are showing up.
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When was the last time you see everything before this happen? And what did you do prior of this happending?
BeenAndroidized said:
When was the last time you see everything before this happen? And what did you do prior of this happending?
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Went on a trip overseas, saw the photos either before the plane ride home, or during.
Just had this happen to my gs3. Phone and sdcard in pc reader showed dcim and a couple other folders as empty that should not have been. When plugged into pc using mtp and/or usb by enabling/disabling usb debugging finally showed two sets of each folder. Seems like it couldnt read sdcard at some point so the apps created new folders when they shouldnt have. Copied dcim folder to my desktop but still cant read the files even though it shows them as large files like pics/videos would be.
Bascotie said:
Went on a trip overseas, saw the photos either before the plane ride home, or during.
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Hmm, go into your setting and see if you can mount the microSD card.
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Hmm, go into your setting and see if you can mount the microSD card.
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That part is grayed out, looks like its mounted already I see two different sets of storage
This happened to me too. I rebooted my phone for some reason and when it booted up all my pics/images were gone. All the folders were still there but were empty. I managed to get everything back by taking out the SD card and putting it in my computer then used Recuva. Strange that Recuva didn't help you.
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bswann said:
This happened to me too. I rebooted my phone for some reason and when it booted up all my pics/images were gone. All the folders were still there but were empty. I managed to get everything back by taking out the SD card and putting it in my computer then used Recuva. Strange that Recuva didn't help you.
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Well Recuva did find a bunch of pictures on the sd card but it turns out they weren't the ones I took overseas. A weird situation..
Bascotie said:
That part is grayed out, looks like its mounted already I see two different sets of storage
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Unmount then mount it again.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda app-developers app
BeenAndroidized said:
Unmount then mount it again.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda app-developers app
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I don't see an unmount option. Also when I did the recuva, I formatted the SD card so that part should be empty. I think the pics are somewhere on internal storage
We need a map. And Indiana Jones.
Phalanx7621 said:
We need a map. And Indiana Jones.
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I was looking for some way to scan the phone's internal storage with recuva but Recuva doesn't see the phone as a 'drive' =/
Bascotie said:
I was looking for some way to scan the phone's internal storage with recuva but Recuva doesn't see the phone as a 'drive' =/
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It should see it if it is set to mass storage but, if it is set to mtp then no it will not see it.
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