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[mb300sd]

Makes sense , a lot .

I am far from being an expert , but my thinking is as follows : when a cpu is bricked what is
broken exactely : is it the ''brain'' that refuses to listen\read the instructions or it is
the hardware that cut communication .

If i was designer of such : i would have a secret backdoor that could only be open
with a dedicated code \ so as to open the comm between the hardware & the firmware \
This code would only be supplied thru email after proper identification by the seller.

As my dash experience : the manufacturer Qrontech sent me a debugging file
that i wrote on the sd and put in the cam ...it was supposed to fix it ...but
nothing happened . I supposed the system locked him-self and nothing would make
him listen ....

Those things are almost human...

I'm 99.99% sure that the "bricked" CPUs can easily be repaired with any ICSP tool (pic programmer). I highly doubt that ALP would release a .hex file for you to use though, so it'd probably have to be sent back.

[radargeek]

I'm 99.99% sure that the "bricked" CPUs can easily be repaired with any ICSP tool (pic programmer). I highly doubt that ALP would release a .hex file for you to use though, so it'd probably have to be sent back.

That's probably true, but it would be nice if they could provide a bootloader-only .hex file for unbricking a CPU, after which you'd load the real firmware via a thumb drive. At least make it available to dealers like BRD so they can fix bricked CPUs without having to send them back to Antilaser.