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Reachability is the old feature that would pull the entire screen down when you touched the TouchID ring twice. Is 'reachibility' the 'New!' NON-Feature?

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How do you 'double click' on the 'home' button to switch apps? (alt-tab) in Windows equivalent?Įdit: Oh, maybe I sort of get it now. Both files were identical therefore I am pretty sure all is well again with the TL866.Īt the end of the day this is absolutely excellent work from Radioman-a genuine example of what the old hardware modding and hacking scene used to be like. Finally I compared the two images, the original and that I wrote and re-read from the SST39F040 using 'Hex Workshop'. I saved these contents into the same folder as the original U1MB dump.

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After an allegedly successful operation I zeroed out the firmware buffer in the client software and then commanded the TL866A to read the newly written flash chip. When all was in place I told it to write the 512kB's of firmware upon the chip.

Next I erased the flash ROM and loaded the firmware dump into the client software. I then slotted an spare SST39F040 flash chip into a PLCC32-to-DI元2 adapter and latched the whole into the TL866. In order to run a realistic test I dumped the entire 512kB contents of my U1MB using uFlash and RespeQt to store it within a PCLink'ed folder via my repaired SIO2PC-USB. I have made a note of them for future safe-keeping just in case. The key thing seems to be to retain your original 'Device ID' and 'Serial number' values. The official client software now also works properly without any annoying pop-ups or more importantly without flat-out refusing to work at all. My device is now safely updated to v6.82 for the TL866A version. So, all's well that ends better-as someone once wrote!Īfter following Radioman's direction in the post I linked above I can confirm his new firmware flasher works exactly as described.

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As a last step I re-cased the device, reconnected it to my PC and ran a few successful read/write/erase tests with a handy AT29C256 EEPROM.

It is important to do this as otherwise the device would remain in 'boot' mode every time it was powered up!

I disconnected the TL866 from USB and then desoldered the pull-up resistor from its PCB.

On selecting this option the old, known-good firmware is written in to TL866 micro-controller. The TL866 hardware was recognized and within the 'Tools(V)' menu the 'Reflash firmware' item was finally available.

I plugged the bare PCB back in to my PC via USB and started the MiniPro v6.71 software.

It goes without saying you need to ensure no part of the resistor's legs short any track or component on the PCB.

I soldered a 200ohm pull-up resistor between a source of 3.3volts and the RC1 leg of the TL866's micro controller-as pictured in the *.PDF above.

I again dismantled the TL866 and extracted its PCB assembly.

I installed the known-good MiniPro v6.71 distribution which kheller2 provided a link for above-making sure I permitted it to re-install the USB driver.

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While perhaps unnecessary, I also removed the USB driver when I was given that option.

First of all, since I had installed the booby-trapped v6.80 MiniPro software I made sure to uninstall it.

It is worth mentioning this process would work to reinstall any version of the firmware. I found this document made fascinating reading and more importantly I could properly follow his explanation of the method to reset the microprocessor inside the TL866 and thereby enable re-flashing. However, the same topic is illustrated in far more detail by 'radioman' from the EEVBlog forum in the documents that accompany his open-source flashing software. However I found the site rather confusing and I was unable to use the very brief directions it gave. Basically the material linked to by kheller2 above does indeed cover the necessary ground.

A little more reading on the matter has turned up a successful workaround.