diff --git a/bin/program-release-tbeam.sh b/bin/program-release-tbeam.sh
index 7870680f..615ec66d 100755
--- a/bin/program-release-tbeam.sh
+++ b/bin/program-release-tbeam.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 set -e
 
 VERSION=`bin/buildinfo.py`
+FILENAME=release/latest/bins/universal/firmware-tbeam-$VERSION.bin
 
-echo Installing release/latest/bins/firmware-tbeam-US-$VERSION.bin
-esptool.py --baud 921600 write_flash 0x10000 release/latest/bins/firmware-tbeam-US-$VERSION.bin
+echo Installing $FILENAME
+esptool.py --baud 921600 write_flash 0x10000 $FILENAME
diff --git a/docs/software/TODO.md b/docs/software/TODO.md
index a5924c19..b47fdb95 100644
--- a/docs/software/TODO.md
+++ b/docs/software/TODO.md
@@ -20,21 +20,35 @@ You probably don't care about this section - skip to the next one.
 * DONE fix python data packet receiving (nothing showing in log?)
 * DONE implement 'get channels' Admin plugin operation
 * DONE use get-channels from python
-* use get channels & get settings from android
+* DONE use get channels & get settings from android
 * use set-channel from python
+* DONE make settings changes from python work
+* DONE pthon should stop fetching channels once we've reached our first empty channel definition (hasSettings == true)
+* DONE add check for old devices with new API library
+* DONE release python api
+* DONE release protobufs
+* DONE release to developers
+* fix 1.1.50 android debug panel display
+* add gui in android app for setting region
+* stress test channel download from python, sometimes it seems like we don't get all replies
+* investigate @mc-hamster report of heap corruption
+* use set-channel from android
+* DONE use set-user from android
 * combine acks and responses in a single message if possible (do routing plugin LAST and drop ACK if someone else has already replied)
+* don't send packets we received from the phone BACK TOWARDS THE PHONE (possibly use fromnode 0 for packets the phone sends?)
 * use portuino TCP connection to debug with python API
 * make python tests more exhaustive
 * document the relationship between want_response (indicating remote node received it) and want_ack (indicating that this message should be sent reliably - and also get acks from the first rx node and naks if it is never delivered)
-* test multi channel
+* stress test multi channel
 * pick default random admin key
+* DONE android should stop fetching channels once we've reached our first empty channel definition (hasSettings == true)
+* add channel restrictions for plugins (and restrict routing plugin to the "control" channel)
 * restrict gpio & serial & settings operations to the admin channel (unless local to the current node)
-* add gui in android app for setting region
 * warn in python api if we are too new to talk to the device code
 * make a post warning about 1.2, telling how to stay on old android & python clients.  link to this from the android dialog message and python version warning.
 * DONE "FIXME - move the radioconfig/user/channel READ operations into SettingsMessage as well"
 * DONE scrub protobufs to make sure they are absoloute minimum wiresize (in particular Data, ChannelSets and positions)
-* change syncword
+* DONE change syncword (now ox2b)
 * allow chaning packets in single transmission - to increase airtime efficiency and amortize packet overhead
 * DONE move most parts of meshpacket into the Data packet, so that we can chain multiple Data for sending when they all have a common destination and key.
 * when selecting a MeshPacket for transmit, scan the TX queue for any Data packets we can merge together as a WirePayload.  In the low level send/rx code expand that into multiple MeshPackets as needed (thus 'hiding' from MeshPacket that over the wire we send multiple datapackets
@@ -45,15 +59,14 @@ You probably don't care about this section - skip to the next one.
 * DONE move acks into routing
 * DONE make all subpackets different versions of data
 * DONE move routing control into a data packet
-* have phoneapi done via plugin
+* have phoneapi done via plugin (will allow multiple simultaneous API clients - stop disabling BLE while using phone API)
 * DONE figure out how to add micro_delta to position, make it so that phone apps don't need to understand it?
 * only send battery updates a max of once a minute
 * add python channel selection for sending
 * DONE record recevied channel in meshpacket
 * test remote settings operations (confirm it works 3 hops away)
-* add channel restrictions for plugins (and restrict routing plugin to the "control" channel)
-* make a primaryChannel global and properly maintain it when the phone sends setChannel
-* move setCrypto call into packet send and packet decode code
+* DONE make a primaryChannel global and properly maintain it when the phone sends setChannel
+* DONE move setCrypto call into packet send and packet decode code
 * implement 'small location diffs' change
 * move battery level out of position? 
 * DOUBLE CHECK android app can still upgrade 1.1 and 1.0 loads
diff --git a/proto b/proto
index 7de496ff..94bd0aae 160000
--- a/proto
+++ b/proto
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 7de496ffe941f88e9d99c2ef2c7bc01f79efe11e
+Subproject commit 94bd0aae44e2c16c7776289225c804100c856cd4
diff --git a/src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.h b/src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.h
index 726e81b3..cd46968c 100644
--- a/src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.h
+++ b/src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.h
@@ -80,10 +80,13 @@ class RadioLibInterface : public RadioInterface, protected concurrency::Notified
   protected:
 
     /**
-     * FIXME, use a meshtastic sync word, but hashed with the Channel name.  Currently picking the same default
-     * the RF95 used (0x14). Note: do not use 0x34 - that is reserved for lorawan
+     * We use a meshtastic sync word, but hashed with the Channel name.  For releases before 1.2 we used 0x12 (or for very old loads 0x14)
+     * Note: do not use 0x34 - that is reserved for lorawan
+     * 
+     * We now use 0x2b (so that someday we can possibly use NOT 2b - because that would be funny pun).  We will be staying with this code
+     * for a long time.
      */
-    uint8_t syncWord = SX126X_SYNC_WORD_PRIVATE;
+    const uint8_t syncWord = 0x2b;
 
     float currentLimit = 100;     // FIXME
 
diff --git a/src/mesh/generated/deviceonly.pb.h b/src/mesh/generated/deviceonly.pb.h
index 52420a37..a1e6de3a 100644
--- a/src/mesh/generated/deviceonly.pb.h
+++ b/src/mesh/generated/deviceonly.pb.h
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #define DeviceState_version_tag                  8
 #define DeviceState_no_save_tag                  9
 #define DeviceState_did_gps_reset_tag            11
-#define DeviceState_channels_tag                 12
+#define DeviceState_channels_tag                 13
 
 /* Struct field encoding specification for nanopb */
 #define DeviceState_FIELDLIST(X, a) \
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ X(a, STATIC,   OPTIONAL, MESSAGE,  rx_text_message,   7) \
 X(a, STATIC,   SINGULAR, UINT32,   version,           8) \
 X(a, STATIC,   SINGULAR, BOOL,     no_save,           9) \
 X(a, STATIC,   SINGULAR, BOOL,     did_gps_reset,    11) \
-X(a, STATIC,   REPEATED, MESSAGE,  channels,         12)
+X(a, STATIC,   REPEATED, MESSAGE,  channels,         13)
 #define DeviceState_CALLBACK NULL
 #define DeviceState_DEFAULT NULL
 #define DeviceState_radio_MSGTYPE RadioConfig