"...it was later discovered that the wicked resellers had discovered this magical incantation previously, and after abusing it with their magical powers of relabeling, had been hawking the cheaper models as the high end models to the peasants for some time..."
Cute! But was that really true (resellers were abusing it), or just conjecture? I know we had some speculation about the possibilities here... but no confirmation.
I've known for quite some time* that there was potential for various abuses (ever since I first did a string dump from the firmware binary, and noticed the commands without "?", implying that S/Ns and Models could be changed
![Shocked :o](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/shocked.gif)
). I was hoping no one would notice those, but I'm not the only one with a string dumper. After I uploaded the 2.02.02 firmware at the RCGroup forum, mxmxmx had pretty sharp eyes, and noticed it right away. As he also pointed out, there are other commands there that adjust various offsets, that could be used for individual unit calibration/compensation purposes. Or, to totally hose up your unit.
- Mark
P.S. *Just to be clear... When did I know about the commands to alter the S/N and Model? Back in November, when I downloaded the July update of the firmware binaries. When did I know that changing them would alter the performance characteristics of the scopes? The day that Andreas reported his findings here.