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A recent, peculiar experience:

After replacing a damaged Moto with a (presumably) identical one, several months later, before leaving for work, I invoke my trusty old VPN for its maiden journey on my new device. But it won't connect. Because 'Why?', I'm not certain, but the permission dialogue for initial use wasn't appearing, while the VPN was requesting that I grant it permission... but I couldn't manually do so, because...

I then examine my network settings, and a queer surprise rears its absence -- The VPN setting/option is simply missing. Not there. AWOL.

I tuck in to hasty research (what's watching?) and find that I'm not alone. But I've insufficient time to troubleshoot. I go to work.

After work I resume, though find that the VPN now works and the options under network settings now includes 'VPN'.

Automagically fixed. Although I had rebooted the device several times that morning, it had not rebooted since - I know this do to examining Running Services, some of which I manually stop after every reboot, and were still inactive.

I connect to ADB and peruse the logs. Not knowing exactly where to look, I find nothing relevant.

I




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