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Renaming functions in IDA Pro for MIPS

I am working on a mipsel binary in IDA Pro and I'm having some issues with renaming functions.

I have the function "system" at 0x739644. I renamed this using the N hotkey.

Function renamed as system

Now if I hit X, some of the xrefs have been replaced:

JALR is fine

All of the JALR instructions are fine.

However, sometimes functions are called like so:

Alternative call

In this case, sometimes the reference has been renamed and sometimes it hasn't. They all show up in xrefs though:

Some work, some don't

Why is this? Can I rename them all?

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