diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp
index 46cacf4e..cb29827d 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectGLES/Managers.cpp
@@ -14193,15 +14193,48 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectGLES {
     } // namespace
 
     namespace TextureImpl {
+        // ================================================================================
+        // P5e SCAFFOLD (fb) - THIS COMMIT IS REVERTED BEFORE fb's HEAD. DO NOT LAND IT.
+        // ================================================================================
+        // tx2 owns these two bodies and is being written in parallel. fb CALLS them from the
+        // attachment surface sync, the two attachment texture lists, the image sweep and the
+        // named blit, so with the c0e stubs in place every integration-split entry that touches
+        // a texture aborts on the seam rather than on anything fb wrote - which leaves fb's own
+        // isplit and strict numbers unmeasurable.
+        //
+        // So these two are bodied HERE, temporarily, in the ONLY way that does not pre-empt
+        // tx2's design: the frontend texture is resolved from the record's own GL name through
+        // the BARRIER-PULLED sticky forward GetTextureObject - exactly as the copy-image sink
+        // resolves its endpoints (PipeApplier.cpp) - and the existing frontend overloads then
+        // do the work. That is correct under lockstep (the client is parked, which is what
+        // makes a sticky forward legal) and it is deliberately NOT what tx2 will write: tx2
+        // drives the storage from the descriptor and has no frontend object at all.
+        //
+        // What it costs, and what to read past when reading fb's numbers: each call adds a
+        // GetTextureObject pull, so the strict lane sees GetTextureObject@<verb> markers that
+        // belong to this scaffold and not to fb.
         SharedPtr<BackendTextureObject>& SyncTextureToBackendByHandle(MG_Pipe::MGPipeHandle texture,
                                                                       Bool imageBindableStorageRequired) {
-            (void)imageBindableStorageRequired;
-            MGPipeP5eSeamNotLanded("TextureImpl::SyncTextureToBackendByHandle", "tx2", texture);
+            static SharedPtr<BackendTextureObject> s_scaffoldNone;
+            const auto* record = PipeTextureRecordForHandle(texture);
+            if (record == nullptr) {
+                s_scaffoldNone = nullptr;
+                return s_scaffoldNone;
+            }
+            const auto& stateObj = MGB_CTX->GetTextureObject(static_cast<Uint>(record->Desc.GlNameForDiag));
+            if (!stateObj) {
+                s_scaffoldNone = nullptr;
+                return s_scaffoldNone;
+            }
+            return SyncTextureObjectToBackend(stateObj, imageBindableStorageRequired);
         }
 
         void BackendTextureObject::SyncMipmapsToBackendByHandle(MG_Pipe::MGPipeHandle texture) {
-            MGPipeP5eSeamNotLanded("BackendTextureObject::SyncMipmapsToBackendByHandle", "tx2",
-                                   texture);
+            const auto* record = PipeTextureRecordForHandle(texture);
+            if (record == nullptr) return;
+            const auto& stateObj = MGB_CTX->GetTextureObject(static_cast<Uint>(record->Desc.GlNameForDiag));
+            if (!stateObj) return;
+            SyncMipmapsToBackend(stateObj);
         }
     } // namespace TextureImpl