iPhone 3g unlock released, anyone have success with it on irish networks?

coadyj · 01-01-2009 4:42pm #1

Would like to build up a list of networks it works on
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w is the list of instructions on how to unlock it

How does it work with
vodafone
meteor
three
and o2

jwcurtin · 01-01-2009 5:16pm

yellowsn0w was only released yesterday so i wouldn't think anyone would have tried it on an irish network. ****It is the only hack that will unlock your iPhone 3G****

lee_baby_simms · 01-01-2009 6:05pm

It was released about an hour ago and it doesn't work on o2 ireland.

coadyj · 01-01-2009 6:24pm

jwcurtin wrote: »

yellowsn0w was only released yesterday so i wouldn't think anyone would have tried it on an irish network. ****It is the only hack that will unlock your iPhone 3G****

Of course they have, a lot of people have been waiting for this and its only installing one program to get it working.

@lee_baby_simms, have you tried all the tips on the site, i heard it was working on o2

theleague · 01-01-2009 6:26pm

hi.. i have an o2 pay as u go 3g updated to firmware 2.2 with the newest baseband have tested this one 100% of my foriegn simcard "Smart-philippines" and now using meteor as my roaming account

the only hazzle is it takes around 2mins to get signal from network for every reboot..

lee_baby_simms · 01-01-2009 6:32pm

coadyj wrote: »

@lee_baby_simms, have you tried all the tips on the site, i heard it was working on o2

Tried everything. Its seems that the unlock only works on sims that have pin lock disabled.

Is there anyway to disable sim pin on o2 ireland?

theleague · 01-01-2009 6:34pm

and yes to add.. i need to disable my pin to my foriegn sim card..

to disable ur pin code on ur sim u need to use that sim into another phone that accepts ur simcard and turn it off from there..

AlmightyCushion · 01-01-2009 6:36pm

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Tried everything. Its seems that the unlock only works on sims that have pin lock disabled.

Is there anyway to disable sim pin on o2 ireland?

Most phones will let you disable the pin for it. Just stick it into another phone and mess about in the settings part.

lee_baby_simms · 01-01-2009 6:42pm

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Most phones will let you disable the pin for it. Just stick it into another phone and mess about in the settings part.

Just did that. Still no joy.

theleague · 01-01-2009 6:49pm

no joy, like u cant disable the pin code or no joy, like it wont work at your iphone to get a signal?

if u can pm me and ill tell u what i did to make my iphone 3g work..

coadyj · 01-01-2009 7:12pm

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Tried everything. Its seems that the unlock only works on sims that have pin lock disabled.

Is there anyway to disable sim pin on o2 ireland?

yeah, pop it into another phone and just go to setting and look for sim password.

coadyj · 01-01-2009 7:15pm

theleague wrote: »

no joy, like u cant disable the pin code or no joy, like it wont work at your iphone to get a signal?

if u can pm me and ill tell u what i did to make my iphone 3g work..

No post detailed steps, would benifit everyone reading

also anyone have any luck with an irish vodafone, that what im waiting for. I read two people on the dev team blog said that it worked for them

Devia · 01-01-2009 7:23pm

Got this working on Meteor no problem.

Dublinstiofán · 01-01-2009 7:24pm

I'd advise anybody doing this to wait for the next version as this is a beta version.
Just to see what Apple do to counteract the unlock.

There were a lot of 'Bricked' iphones after the first unlock and i don't know about you but id prefer another test monkey to end up with a €560 paperweight rather than myself.

And on top of that we haven't got the luxury of an Apple store to go crying to if it all goes tits up. Doubt O2 will have any sympathy.

coadyj · 01-01-2009 7:33pm

Dublinstiofán wrote: »

I'd advise anybody doing this to wait for the next version as this is a beta version.
Just to see what Apple do to counteract the unlock.

There were a lot of 'Bricked' iphones after the first unlock and i don't know about you but id prefer another test monkey to end up with a €560 paperweight rather than myself.

And on top of that we haven't got the luxury of an Apple store to go crying to if it all goes tits up. Doubt O2 will have any sympathy.

Dont mind this post, as long as you are not using a sim proxie having 2.28.00 BB and 2.2 FW will not matter, its the latest update of the iphone firmware.

Everything that the unlock does is stored in RAM and is deleted when the phone is rebooted, what causes it to restart is a setting on the iphone memory partition and not on the baseband chip. In the previous iphone they manipulated code on the baseband because it was not signed, this iphone they use overflow injection attacks to run their code, the baseband firmware has not been changed in any way, so there is no chance of bricking.

Everything that cydia or pwnage tool or quickpwn does to the iphone can be completly removed and never detected by performing a simple restore with the official apple firmware. So please dont listen to people who are not in the know about this. Test it away, the last few months of this project have been dedicated to making it safe, the only problem is that it might not work. This should only concern you if you are on a non official carrier, like me

If I upgrade to 2.28.00 BB firmware I will lost the ability to use the iphone if it doesnt work with vodafone, which would suck, i got calls to be makin'

lotas · 01-01-2009 7:50pm

So, can anyone confirm that a NI O2 PAYG iPhone can be unlocked and used in the south? Given the price difference between UK and Ireland (8gb = 480, 16gb = 569 in ROI, 8gb is 360 and 410 for 16gb in NI) it might be worth a trip... anyone know if its easy to buy up there? and "issues"?

coadyj · 01-01-2009 8:06pm

lotas wrote: »

So, can anyone confirm that a NI O2 PAYG iPhone can be unlocked and used in the south? Given the price difference between UK and Ireland (8gb = 480, 16gb = 569 in ROI, 8gb is 360 and 410 for 16gb in NI) it might be worth a trip... anyone know if its easy to buy up there? and "issues"?

Pretty much, I think if you were going to use o2 you could do that anyway

Eoin Macollamh · 01-01-2009 8:25pm

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Tried everything. Its seems that the unlock only works on sims that have pin lock disabled.

Is there anyway to disable sim pin on o2 ireland?

On the iPhone there is.

Go to Settings-->Phone-->SIM PIN. From there you can turn the SIM PIN off (you'll need to enter the current pin once to do this, though).

coadyj · 01-01-2009 8:44pm

Eoin Macollamh wrote: »

On the iPhone there is.

Go to Settings-->Phone-->SIM PIN. From there you can turn the SIM PIN off (you'll need to enter the current pin once to do this, though).

you cant do it on a non activated sim

Dublinstiofán · 01-01-2009 8:47pm

I agree with some of what your saying but the rest is just jibberish.
It clearly states on the iphone dev team website that this is a BETA version and that the kinks are still being worked out. And it also says that any user used the tool at their own risk.

It's taken the Dev team 6 months to crack the unlock and as soon as Apple do an update to eliminate the vunerability theres no telling what can happen to iphones. You can't see into the future and neither can i so theres no way for any of us to tell what will happen after an Apple update.

The point is that people have waited months and months for this. Another few days for an apple update wouldn't hurt for the peace of mind that the phone wont be f**cked at the end of the day.

You guys can decide for yourself. Just make sure you know what your doing before you do it.
Is this really the voice of reason:

coadyj wrote: »

Test it away, the last few months of this project have been dedicated to making it safe, the only problem is that it might not work.

If I upgrade to 2.28.00 BB firmware I will lost the ability to use the iphone if it doesnt work with vodafone, which would suck, i got calls to be makin'

Sighface · 01-01-2009 9:18pm

I got my iphone 3g in derry in the north i used the unlock and unlocked it and i am now using it on three ireland and have put my o2 payg sim in and it worked grand. both sims are not pin locked.

coadyj · 01-01-2009 9:24pm

Dublinstiofán wrote: »

I agree with some of what your saying but the rest is just jibberish.
It clearly states on the iphone dev team website that this is a BETA version and that the kinks are still being worked out. And it also says that any user used the tool at their own risk.

It's taken the Dev team 6 months to crack the unlock and as soon as Apple do an update to eliminate the vunerability theres no telling what can happen to iphones. You can't see into the future and neither can i so theres no way for any of us to tell what will happen after an Apple update.

The point is that people have waited months and months for this. Another few days for an apple update wouldn't hurt for the peace of mind that the phone wont be f**cked at the end of the day.

You guys can decide for yourself. Just make sure you know what your doing before you do it.
Is this really the voice of reason:

Here listen mate, don't comment on what you don't know about, Its clear you know nothing about reverse engineering so stop trying to be the wise one when you know crap

Ill break it down for you in the most basic language I can think of

The original iPhone didn't have a signature check on the baseband chip. The baseband chip is the chip that controls the phones functions like making a call, text messaging etc. A signature check is when you use a very powerful mathematical algorithm to verify weather something is genuine or not, Might i suggest you try looking up "RSA encryption and signing" in wikipedia. Because the original iphone had no way of confirming that the correct baseband firmware it was replaced by a compromised version of the baseband firmware which was told to ignore the carrier lock. The reason that bricking occurred was because the new firmware sent the chip into deadlock, (stuck in a while loop, for example)

The unlock of the iPhone 3g is done by way of a buffer overflow attacks, this if you knew anything about pointers is a very common problem where a variable is expecting a word or information of certin lenght but instead people overflow the variable to overwrite the buffer which allows them to run unauthorized code, this however is done in RAM, The code of the baseband is never change, just manipulated to do the unlock. As it is done in RAM whenever you reboot the iPhone it drops all the settings, just like when you reboot you computer it forgets that you are running a program, but just like in window you have programs that start when the computer starts "start up" folder for example, you have something that calls yellowsn0w at the start again. There is no change in the baseband at all, therefore a simple official restore will fix everything.

To everyone else, please don't mind this person, all this information can be confirmed by going to blog.iphone-dev.org and finding a post by musclenerd and viewing all his previous posts. I have been following the progress of this everyday since June and have kept up to date on the whole process. Dublinstiofán is obviously only an armature where as I program for a living and spend most of my free time doing reverse engineering.

And apple can update all the want, as long as you use pwnage tool and chose not to update the baseband this solution will be with us for life

and when it says all the kinks are being worked out they do not mean that there is potential to brick someone iphone they mean to get all solutions unlocked.

coadyj · 01-01-2009 9:25pm

Sighface wrote: »

I got my iphone 3g in derry in the north i used the unlock and unlocked it and i am now using it on three ireland and have put my o2 payg sim in and it worked grand. both sims are not pin locked.

Do you think you could try a vodafone sim card?

Devia · 01-01-2009 9:32pm

coadyj wrote: »

Do you think you could try a vodafone sim card?

I think I have one around somewhere, ill try it.

scottyboy · 01-01-2009 9:35pm

Sighface wrote: »

I got my iphone 3g in derry in the north i used the unlock and unlocked it and i am now using it on three ireland and have put my o2 payg sim in and it worked grand. both sims are not pin locked.

you wouldn't be kind enough to provide some more info.

i have at&t 3g iphone that i used successfully with meteor on fw 2.1 with a gevey sim.

i have completely wiped my iphone, updated to fw 2.2, bb 2.28.00, jailbroke with quickpwn 2.2 and activated. added yellowsn0w and placed a 3 ireland and meteor sim in tray with no luck!

hope you can help

Dublinstiofán · 01-01-2009 9:39pm

Cody i can comment on anything i like and to be honest i don't care what you say. My OPINION holds firm. I never claimed to be an expert at any of it.
Me thinks you have some anger management issues need resolving, I'm not personally attacking you which you seem to think i am. TBH i couldn't care less about any of it. Your king of the Thread congratulations. And your right i'm not a software engineer wouldn't waste my time on that one. I'm a different type of engineer, a better one.

Good luck with your unlocks everybody

Devia · 01-01-2009 10:04pm

coadyj wrote: »

Do you think you could try a vodafone sim card?

Ok, tried PAYG Vodafone SIM. Seems to work fine.

scottyboy wrote: »

you wouldn't be kind enough to provide some more info.

i have at&t 3g iphone that i used successfully with meteor on fw 2.1 with a gevey sim.

i have completely wiped my iphone, updated to fw 2.2, bb 2.28.00, jailbroke with quickpwn 2.2 and activated. added yellowsn0w and placed a 3 ireland and meteor sim in tray with no luck!

hope you can help

I assume you disabled your security pin?

Install yellowsn0w with the sim already in the tray, don't add it after. Also try turning off 3G temporarily if the above doesn't solve the problem.

Eoin Macollamh · 01-01-2009 10:09pm

Two reasons I'm waiting for a few days or weeks to install this:

1) I want a version that works out the bugs with SIM cards (like the O2 one) that have SIM toolkit application menus.
2) There's talk (from MuscleNerd of the dev team) that they might provide a tool to allow an upgrade of the 2.1 baseband for those who followed the original instructions and used Pwnage to leave that baseband in place. This might allow us to install yellowsn0w without having to lose all our SMS, app settings, etc. (which is what will happen if we just Restore to 2.2, then Quickpwn).

Sighface · 01-01-2009 10:12pm

you wouldn't be kind enough to provide some more info.

i have at&t 3g iphone that i used successfully with meteor on fw 2.1 with a gevey sim.

i have completely wiped my iphone, updated to fw 2.2, bb 2.28.00, jailbroke with quickpwn 2.2 and activated. added yellowsn0w and placed a 3 ireland and meteor sim in tray with no luck!

hope you can help

ok it might have took my phone two reboots and removing and replacing the sim try a few times, but now i can change between a 3 ireland sim o2 uk and o2 irl , all of which will work

Maybe try the following update us on how it works
1. Download and install BossPrefs and Yellowsn0w via Cydia
2. Disable all Functions with BossPrefs (don´t worry if you can´t disable EDGE)
3. Reboot ypur Phone with BossPrefs (not in the normally way - important !)
4. Wait 1.30 min when you see the Lockscreen
5. Take out your Sim and insert it. (for a second was information about invalid sim)
6. Wait a moment ans..

scottyboy · 01-01-2009 10:34pm

thanks for the replies

i have disabled my pin request on another phone but may change them to 0000 to be 100% safe!

am restoring my iphone again to 2.2 and will try all suggestions. give me 30 mins to perform "magic"

scottyboy · 01-01-2009 11:28pm

scottyboy wrote: »

thanks for the replies

i have disabled my pin request on another phone but may change them to 0000 to be 100% safe!

am restoring my iphone again to 2.2 and will try all suggestions. give me 30 mins to perform "magic"

1. Install BossPrefs and Yellowsn0w from Cydia

2. Disable everything in BossPrefs

3. Reboot your iPhone using BossPrefs

4. Wait 1.30 min when you see lockscreen

5. Take your sim out and insert it

6. Wait a moment

7. In settings turn on Fly Mode

8. Turn off Fly Mode

9. Your iPhone 3G should be working now!

Nothing!!

followed instructions precisely and still get no signal for 3 Irl, Vodafone and Meteor. Left Meteor SIM in phone during iTunes restore and QuickPwn.

My only thought during the process is: did you update Cydia when first opening as requested by Cydia?

thanks!

coadyj · 01-01-2009 11:30pm

Eoin Macollamh wrote: »

Two reasons I'm waiting for a few days or weeks to install this:

1) I want a version that works out the bugs with SIM cards (like the O2 one) that have SIM toolkit application menus.
2) There's talk (from MuscleNerd of the dev team) that they might provide a tool to allow an upgrade of the 2.1 baseband for those who followed the original instructions and used Pwnage to leave that baseband in place. This might allow us to install yellowsn0w without having to lose all our SMS, app settings, etc. (which is what will happen if we just Restore to 2.2, then Quickpwn).

Yeah, i can understand that. I think thought that it only involves removing and reinserting sim whenever you switch on

Devia · 01-01-2009 11:38pm

scottyboy wrote: »

My only thought during the process is: did you update Cydia when first opening as requested by Cydia?

thanks!

I did.

Have you got the installer app aswell? Maybe try installing yellowsn0w through that.

scottyboy · 01-01-2009 11:42pm

Now this is weird!

Is appears the time left in Airplane Mode is critical. Leave in this mode for more than 10 secs after inserting new SIM and getting No Service then remove from mode and success.

Meteor, Vodafone Irl and 3 Irl all working for Out/In Calls. 3 tested for data too!

russelljames · 02-01-2009 12:01am

I'm having major trouble right now with this

Got my iPhone tother day from Northern Ireland, and now im trying to unlock it.
I downloaded quickpwn 22-1, and when i try to jailbreak it, it just sticks onto trying to connect with "wait for your iPhone to connect with recovery mode" or something like that

any ideas? just dying for my iphone to be unlocked

ta

coadyj · 02-01-2009 12:20am

russelljames wrote: »

I'm having major trouble right now with this

Got my iPhone tother day from Northern Ireland, and now im trying to unlock it.
I downloaded quickpwn 22-1, and when i try to jailbreak it, it just sticks onto trying to connect with "wait for your iPhone to connect with recovery mode" or something like that

any ideas? just dying for my iphone to be unlocked ta

sounds like your having trouble getting it into dfu mode, try this tutorial
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1881

it will work, dont worry

let us know how the unlock work out and what carrier you are with, if you have any problems post them to this board

coadyj · 02-01-2009 12:33am

scottyboy wrote: »

Now this is weird!

Is appears the time left in Airplane Mode is critical. Leave in this mode for more than 10 secs after inserting new SIM and getting No Service then remove from mode and success.

Meteor, Vodafone Irl and 3 Irl all working for Out/In Calls. 3 tested for data too!

how about the warned problem with sim application?

Eoin Macollamh · 02-01-2009 12:46am

russelljames wrote: »

I'm having major trouble right now with this

Got my iPhone tother day from Northern Ireland, and now im trying to unlock it.
I downloaded quickpwn 22-1, and when i try to jailbreak it, it just sticks onto trying to connect with "wait for your iPhone to connect with recovery mode" or something like that

any ideas? just dying for my iphone to be unlocked ta

Are you on a mac? If so, connect the iPhone through a USB hub and it should work.

If not, I don't know what the problem is.

CivilEx · 02-01-2009 12:55am

I had been unsuccessful until about 10 mins ago with a Vodafone Sim in my O2 IRL contract phone. I tried this from the http://blog.iphone-dev.org website and my iPhone now works with Vodafone IE

"This tutorial assumes you have already updated your baseband to 2.28, pwned ur device, installed cydia and yellowsn0w.

1. After reboot with your O2 sim, wait as least a minute
2. Go to settings > carriers > wait for the search to complete and "automatic" to be selected ( you should get a error message saying that unable to load list, just click Ok.)
3. While still in the carriers menu, remove the O2 sim and insert your non O2 sim into the Iphone (Extremely important that you don't exit from the carriers sub menu or not this method will not work)
4. When you insert the new sim, you should get a status message as "NO SERVICE". If you get status message with no bars or invalid sim, THIS METHOD HASN'T WORKED ! Start from the beginning and follow this tutorial to the TEE !!
5. follow this method from step 2 onwards to change between sim cards"

If you turn off the phone, you will need to repeat the above steps, but it's a workaround for anyone stuck for a while until the next version of yellowsn0w is released

russelljames · 02-01-2009 1:07am

Eoin Macollamh wrote: »

Are you on a mac? If so, connect the iPhone through a USB hub and it should work.

If not, I don't know what the problem is.

thanks for your help but somehow, i actually got it sorted
i have now yellowsn0w installed and all

except now im just getting invalid sim when i insert my meteor sim into the iphone

that above technique doesnt seem to work for me either
tried it once or twice

scottyboy · 02-01-2009 2:06am

coadyj wrote: »

how about the warned problem with sim application?

I'm not 100% sure if any of these networks have apps built into their sims as suggested by dev team. I think the Irish networks prefer to vandalize your phone with branded firmware instead.

Saying that, the sims don't work straight off, you do need to remove the sim to activate the unlock.

Thanks for all the advice!

lee_baby_simms · 02-01-2009 5:53am

Got it working on a AT&T iphone with o2 following this:

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=61827

Eoin Macollamh · 02-01-2009 1:14pm

Judging from the conversations on the hackint0sh forums, this solution is not ready for prime time. There seems to be a lot of voodoo (i.e., step-by-step lists of instructions that have nothing to do with the way the software is supposed to work) involved in getting the thing to work on some configurations.

I'll wait until it's out of beta.

coadyj · 02-01-2009 2:08pm

Eoin Macollamh wrote: »

Judging from the conversations on the hackint0sh forums, this solution is not ready for prime time. There seems to be a lot of voodoo (i.e., step-by-step lists of instructions that have nothing to do with the way the software is supposed to work) involved in getting the thing to work on some configurations.

I'll wait until it's out of beta.

if your on a sim proxie i would agree

CivilEx · 02-01-2009 3:03pm

Yellowsn0w beta 0.94 now getting signal ok after normal reboot on Vodafone. Outgoing calls not working though yet. It's nearly there....

damo2006 · 02-01-2009 3:14pm

I'm trying to do this now, I am trying to Jailbreak the phone first.

I have downloaded Quickpwn 22-1, I open the application on my laptop, the iphone is connect via the USB, the stage it brings me to is to Browse my laptop for the firmware i am running, it won't let me type it in, it requires me to browse my lap top for it, but I' can't find the file it wants...

I am on Vista on Pc

Also i am running v2.1, do i need to update to v.2.2 before or after i Jailbreak the phone, if so how do i update it, can't see it on itunes

Any help appreciated

Eoin Macollamh · 02-01-2009 3:18pm

damo2006 wrote: »

I'm trying to do this now, I am trying to Jailbreak the phone first.

I have downloaded Quickpwn 22-1, I open the application on my laptop, the iphone is connect via the USB, the stage it brings me to is to Browse my laptop for the firmware i am running, it won't let me type it in, it requires me to browse my lap top for it, but I' can't find the file it wants...

Any help appreciated

You'll have a better chance of getting an answer if you specify whether you're on a mac or a PC.

damo2006 · 02-01-2009 3:21pm

Eoin Macollamh wrote: »

You'll have a better chance of getting an answer if you specify whether you're on a mac or a PC.

post edited

godskitchen · 02-01-2009 3:33pm

Its working fine for me with 3Ireland and Vodafone Ireland and 02 Ireland in a UK iphone locked to UK o2.

It did not work until I downloaded the latest yellowsn0w 0.9.1? via Installer, not cydia.

I followed the instructions on a few sites, which all mostly seem to be the same, apart from a few things. I think its just a case of trial and error. It finds signal pretty much instantly when I put a new sim in, the only thing is with 3Ireland I have to enter the APN for data ever time

Referring back to the first page of this post, I have to 100% agree with Cody, there is no risk in doing this, even if Apple could (which they cant) bring out an update to brick the phones, just dont get the update, its that simple.....but thats not the way this hack works.

willymcgonagle · 02-01-2009 3:51pm

Godskitchen, I'm trying to unlock a O2 iPhone from the North so I can use my Vodafone prepaid sim but I cant get it to work. Would you be able to talk me through exactly what you did? Cheers

godskitchen · 02-01-2009 4:00pm

I uninstalled yellowsn0w, rebooted and reinstalled it via Installer but the 0.9.1 (I now read thet 0.9.4 is out, seems to be working best for USA people)

I did this all this with the 3ireland sim installed, once yellowsn0w was installed I went back to the home screen and still nothing was showing on the signal icon, just like when the phone is locked.

I then turned off everything, 3g, wifi, edge, mail accounts (I dont think you need to turn off more than 3G but to be safe I did it all)

I then rebooted via Bosspreffs, this step seems to be crucial, just turning off the phone in the normal way did nothing.

Once rebooted, leave the phone for a minute on the lock screen, then unlock and for me at least 3IRL showed up. Some people have said you need to put it in to flight mode and then out of it to get it to kick in. It just worked for me without needing to do that. I can make calls, texts and use the data on voda and three.

Hope this helps.

It seems to be hit and miss in a lot of places, stick with it, it took me a few goes all in all.

willymcgonagle wrote: »

Godskitchen, I'm trying to unlock a O2 iPhone from the North so I can use my Vodafone prepaid sim but I cant get it to work. Would you be able to talk me through exactly what you did? Cheers

This also seems to be working for a few people

1. removed the yellowsn0w beta 0.9.1 program with cydia
2. removed the yellowsn0w source from cydia
3. added the yellowsn0w source in cydia
4. installed the yellowsn0w beta 0.9.4 with cydia
5 reboted the iphone with bospreffs, i dont think that bosspreffs way of reboting is anydifferent than the normal way of just turning it of and on again.
6 airplane mode on and off.
now it worked, i turned 3g on, and edge, lost signal and the bars went to zero signal, so i reboted, and swiched airplane mode on and off. hmm
excecuted yellowsnow -r
and now it works, edge and caling and sms but not 3g

iPhone 3g unlock released, anyone have success with it on irish networks?

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