48 hours to release the original firmware? Very odd! Thank God the upgrade was pulled before I looked for it!
Something tells me that the problem is more to do with the chips ability to change its firmware. I have my doubts about whether it is truly reprogrammable via a PC and I suspect they are struggling to even find a way to get it back to square one. Hence the delay.
Almost right. I just posted this in another thread...
So here's the latest that I can gather after a few emails back and forth with "Maggie" at Cloupor. From what I gather (it's kinda difficult understanding with the language barrier) the firmware they originally had worked fine in their testing. However, I don't know exactly what happened, maybe they didn't test the updater properly or what, but apparently that's where the breakdown occurs. When it flashes the chip it's corrupting the code. So the issue isn't really in the firmware itself, but rather the update process.
That's why they haven't just slapped the "old" firmware back up and instructed everyone to downgrade back to the original firmware. Because that would fail as well and who knows what the results of that would be. You'd have to use the same firmware update software (the Cloupor Elve) to do the update, and it would just corrupt the update just like it did the new one.
Again, that's what I can gather if I'm understanding her correctly. So at this point it sounds like they are trying to get the update software to work correctly so that those who still have a working unit can go "fix" their chip by flashing the proper firmware (probably either new or old) and get the unit working the way it's supposed to.
But the bottom line is, the upgraded units, even if they are still working (as is mine) they are NOT functioning the way they are supposed to, and in many cases has resulted in catastrophic ends. Cloupor says you should stop using your T5 immediately if you've upgraded, until they release their fix... EVEN if it appears to be currently working.
