diff --git a/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/SMSService.java b/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/SMSService.java
index 4805622f7..deea62721 100644
--- a/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/SMSService.java
+++ b/xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/SMSService.java
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public class SMSService extends XWService {
 
     private static final int SMS_PROTO_VERSION_ORIG = 0;
     private static final int SMS_PROTO_VERSION_WITHPORT = 1;
-    private static final int SMS_PROTO_VERSION = SMS_PROTO_VERSION_WITHPORT;
+    private static final int SMS_PROTO_VERSION = SMS_PROTO_VERSION_ORIG;
     private static final int MAX_LEN_TEXT = 100;
     private static final int MAX_LEN_BINARY = 100;
     private static final int MAX_MSG_COUNT = 16; // 1.6K enough? Should be....
@@ -452,7 +452,9 @@ public class SMSService extends XWService {
         ByteArrayOutputStream bas = new ByteArrayOutputStream( 128 );
         DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream( bas );
         dos.writeByte( SMS_PROTO_VERSION );
-        dos.writeShort( getNBSPort() );
+        if ( SMS_PROTO_VERSION_WITHPORT <= SMS_PROTO_VERSION ) {
+            dos.writeShort( getNBSPort() );
+        }
         dos.writeByte( cmd.ordinal() );
         dos.write( bytes, 0, bytes.length );
         dos.flush();
@@ -607,19 +609,19 @@ public class SMSService extends XWService {
         try {
             byte proto = dis.readByte();
             short myPort = getNBSPort();
-            short sentPort;
+            short gotPort;
             if ( SMS_PROTO_VERSION_WITHPORT > proto ) {
-                sentPort = myPort;
+                gotPort = myPort;
             } else {
-                sentPort = dis.readShort();
+                gotPort = dis.readShort();
             }
             if ( SMS_PROTO_VERSION < proto ) {
                 DbgUtils.logf( "SMSService.disAssemble: bad proto %d from %s;"
                                + " dropping", proto, senderPhone );
                 sendResult( MultiEvent.BAD_PROTO_SMS, senderPhone );
-            } else if ( sentPort != myPort ) {
+            } else if ( gotPort != myPort ) {
                 DbgUtils.logdf( "SMSService.disAssemble(): received on port %d"
-                                + " but expected %d", sentPort, myPort );
+                                + " but expected %d", gotPort, myPort );
             } else {
                 SMS_CMD cmd = SMS_CMD.values()[dis.readByte()];
                 byte[] rest = new byte[dis.available()];
diff --git a/xwords4/android/scripts/common_targets.xml b/xwords4/android/scripts/common_targets.xml
index 83a1c640b..624c77927 100644
--- a/xwords4/android/scripts/common_targets.xml
+++ b/xwords4/android/scripts/common_targets.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
             <arg value="CHAT_ENABLED=${CHAT_ENABLED}" />
             <arg value="THUMBNAIL_ENABLED=${THUMBNAIL_ENABLED}" />
             <arg value="VARIANT=${VARIANT_NAME}" />
+            <arg value="V=1" />
         </exec>
 
         <exec dir="." executable="../scripts/mkimages.sh" 
diff --git a/xwords4/android/scripts/copy-xlations.sh b/xwords4/android/scripts/copy-xlations.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..847db8970
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xwords4/android/scripts/copy-xlations.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+usage() {
+	[ $# -eq 0 ] || echo "ERROR: $1"
+	echo "usage: $0"
+	echo "  git-copies all strings.xml translations from android_translate"
+	echo "  branch to the current one. DOES NOT COMMIT nor consider history etc."
+	exit 1
+}
+
+[ $# -eq 0 ] || usage "unexpected paramater $1"
+
+for LANGDIR in res_src/values-??; do
+	echo "copying from $LANGDIR"
+	git show android_translate:xwords4/android/XWords4/${LANGDIR}/strings.xml > ${LANGDIR}/strings.xml
+done
diff --git a/xwords4/android/scripts/mkvariant.sh b/xwords4/android/scripts/mkvariant.sh
index 9333862fd..b781f6d6d 100755
--- a/xwords4/android/scripts/mkvariant.sh
+++ b/xwords4/android/scripts/mkvariant.sh
@@ -40,9 +40,7 @@ do_dir() {
     for FILE in $SRC_PATH/*; do
         if [ -d $FILE ]; then
             do_dir $SRC_PATH $DEST_PATH $(basename $FILE)
-		elif [ ! -e $FILE ]; then
-			:
-        else
+        elif [ -e $FILE ]; then
             FILE=${FILE/$SRC_PATH/$DEST_PATH}
             if git ls-files $FILE --error-unmatch 2>/dev/null; then
                 echo "skipping $FILE; it's under version control within this variant"
diff --git a/xwords4/common/board.c b/xwords4/common/board.c
index 5e95c6f1f..a600442a3 100644
--- a/xwords4/common/board.c
+++ b/xwords4/common/board.c
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ hideMiniWindow( BoardCtxt* board, XP_Bool destroy, MiniWindowType winType )
 #endif
 #endif
 
-static XP_Bool
+static void
 warnBadWords( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool isLegal, 
               const DictionaryCtxt* XP_UNUSED(dict),
 #ifdef XWFEATURE_BOARDWORDS
@@ -970,7 +970,6 @@ warnBadWords( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool isLegal,
             && util_warnIllegalWord( board->util, &bwi, turn, XP_FALSE );
         board->badWordRejected = !ok || board->badWordRejected;
     }
-    return ok;
 } /* warnBadWords */
 
 static XP_Bool
diff --git a/xwords4/common/engine.c b/xwords4/common/engine.c
index 334c69342..18a513696 100644
--- a/xwords4/common/engine.c
+++ b/xwords4/common/engine.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* -*- compile-command: "cd ../linux && make -j3 MEMDEBUG=TRUE"; -*- */
 /* 
- * Copyright 1997 - 2012 by Eric House (xwords@eehouse.org).  All rights
+ * Copyright 1997 - 2015 by Eric House (xwords@eehouse.org).  All rights
  * reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -39,11 +39,10 @@ typedef struct BlankTuple {
 } BlankTuple;
 
 typedef struct PossibleMove {
-    XP_U16 score; /* Because I'm doing a memcmp to sort these things,
-                     the comparison must be done differently on
-                           little-endian platforms. */
+    XP_U16 score; /* Because I'm doing a memcmp to sort these things, the
+                     comparison must be done differently on little-endian
+                     platforms. */
     MoveInfo moveInfo;
-    //XP_U16 whichBlanks; /* flags */
     Tile blankVals[MAX_COLS]; /* the faces for which we've substituted
                                  blanks */
 } PossibleMove;
@@ -1088,12 +1087,26 @@ considerMove( EngineCtxt* engine, Tile* tiles, XP_S16 tileLength,
         posmove.moveInfo.isHorizontal = engine->searchHorizontal;
         posmove.moveInfo.commonCoord = (XP_U8)lastRow;
 
-
         considerScoreWordHasBlanks( engine, engine->blankCount, &posmove, 
                                     lastRow, blankTuples, 0 );
     }
 } /* considerMove */
 
+static XP_Bool
+countWords( const XP_UCHAR* XP_UNUSED(word), XP_Bool isLegal, 
+            const DictionaryCtxt* XP_UNUSED(dict),
+#ifdef XWFEATURE_BOARDWORDS
+            const MoveInfo* movei, XP_U16 start, 
+            XP_U16 end,
+#endif
+            void* closure )
+{
+    XP_U16* wcp = (XP_U16*)closure;
+    if ( isLegal ) {
+        ++*wcp;
+    }
+}
+
 static void
 considerScoreWordHasBlanks( EngineCtxt* engine, XP_U16 blanksLeft,
                             PossibleMove* posmove,
@@ -1104,11 +1117,19 @@ considerScoreWordHasBlanks( EngineCtxt* engine, XP_U16 blanksLeft,
 
     if ( blanksLeft == 0 ) {
         XP_U16 score;
+        XP_U16 nTiles = posmove->moveInfo.nTiles;
+        WordNotifierInfo* wiip = NULL;
+        WordNotifierInfo wii;
+        XP_U16 wordCount = 0;
+        if ( 1 == nTiles ) {
+            wii.proc = countWords;
+            wii.closure = &wordCount;
+            wiip = &wii;
+        }
 
         score = figureMoveScore( engine->model, engine->turn,
                                  &posmove->moveInfo,
-                                 engine, (XWStreamCtxt*)NULL,
-                                 (WordNotifierInfo*)NULL );
+                                 engine, (XWStreamCtxt*)NULL, wiip );
 #ifdef XWFEATURE_BONUSALL
         if ( 0 != engine->allTilesBonus && 0 == engine->nTilesMax ) {
             XP_LOGF( "%s: adding bonus: %d becoming %d", __func__, score ,
@@ -1119,7 +1140,9 @@ considerScoreWordHasBlanks( EngineCtxt* engine, XP_U16 blanksLeft,
         /* First, check that the score is even what we're interested in.  If
            it is, then go to the expense of filling in a PossibleMove to be
            compared in full */
-        if ( scoreQualifies( engine, score ) ) {
+        if ( 1 == nTiles && 1 < wordCount && !engine->searchHorizontal ) {
+            XP_LOGF( "%s(): dropping", __func__ );
+        } else if ( scoreQualifies( engine, score ) ) {
             posmove->score = score;
             XP_MEMSET( &posmove->blankVals, 0, sizeof(posmove->blankVals) );
             for ( ii = 0; ii < usedBlanksCount; ++ii ) {
diff --git a/xwords4/common/model.c b/xwords4/common/model.c
index 122d8b3ee..a2818113a 100644
--- a/xwords4/common/model.c
+++ b/xwords4/common/model.c
@@ -78,13 +78,13 @@ static void loadPlayerCtxt( const ModelCtxt* model, XWStreamCtxt* stream,
 static void writePlayerCtxt( const ModelCtxt* model, XWStreamCtxt* stream, 
                              const PlayerCtxt* pc );
 static XP_U16 model_getRecentPassCount( ModelCtxt* model );
-static XP_Bool recordWord( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool isLegal, 
-                           const DictionaryCtxt* dict,
+static void recordWord( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool isLegal, 
+                        const DictionaryCtxt* dict,
 
 #ifdef XWFEATURE_BOARDWORDS
-                           const MoveInfo* movei, XP_U16 start, XP_U16 end,
+                        const MoveInfo* movei, XP_U16 start, XP_U16 end,
 #endif
-                           void* clsur );
+                        void* clsur );
 #ifdef DEBUG 
 typedef struct _DiffTurnState {
     XP_S16 lastPlayerNum;
@@ -2281,7 +2281,7 @@ appendWithCR( XWStreamCtxt* stream, const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_U16* counter )
     stream_catString( stream, word );
 }
 
-static XP_Bool 
+static void
 recordWord( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool XP_UNUSED(isLegal), 
             const DictionaryCtxt* XP_UNUSED(dict),
 #ifdef XWFEATURE_BOARDWORDS
@@ -2293,7 +2293,6 @@ recordWord( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool XP_UNUSED(isLegal),
 {
     RecordWordsInfo* info = (RecordWordsInfo*)closure;
     appendWithCR( info->stream, word, &info->nWords );
-    return XP_TRUE;
 }
 
 WordNotifierInfo* 
diff --git a/xwords4/common/model.h b/xwords4/common/model.h
index cfaf0b27f..c58f95ded 100644
--- a/xwords4/common/model.h
+++ b/xwords4/common/model.h
@@ -256,13 +256,13 @@ void model_countAllTrayTiles( ModelCtxt* model, XP_U16* counts,
 
 /********************* scoring ********************/
 
-typedef XP_Bool (*WordNotifierProc)( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool isLegal, 
-                                     const DictionaryCtxt* dict,
+typedef void (*WordNotifierProc)( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool isLegal, 
+                                  const DictionaryCtxt* dict,
 #ifdef XWFEATURE_BOARDWORDS
-                                     const MoveInfo* movei, XP_U16 start, 
-                                     XP_U16 end,
+                                  const MoveInfo* movei, XP_U16 start, 
+                                  XP_U16 end,
 #endif
-                                     void* closure );
+                                  void* closure );
 typedef struct WordNotifierInfo {
     WordNotifierProc proc;
     void* closure;
diff --git a/xwords4/common/server.c b/xwords4/common/server.c
index ae66ddf6f..c7e424db0 100644
--- a/xwords4/common/server.c
+++ b/xwords4/common/server.c
@@ -1975,7 +1975,7 @@ server_setGameOverListener( ServerCtxt* server, GameOverListener gol,
     server->vol.gameOverData = data;
 } /* server_setGameOverListener */
 
-static XP_Bool
+static void
 storeBadWords( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool isLegal,
                const DictionaryCtxt* dict,
 #ifdef XWFEATURE_BOARDWORDS
@@ -1995,7 +1995,6 @@ storeBadWords( const XP_UCHAR* word, XP_Bool isLegal,
         server->illegalWordInfo.words[server->illegalWordInfo.nWords++]
             = copyString( server->mpool, word );
     }
-    return XP_TRUE;
 } /* storeBadWords */
 
 static XP_Bool