Well, this designer will keep using FTDI parts.
They still have trademark and copyright litigation or did they try that already? Possibly this move by FTDI will push them in that direction. The slightly puzzling thing is that if the Chinese hackers have the skill and resources to implement the FTDI API on a custom microcontroller, they could quite easily create an original USB-232 chip and flood the market with those. So we will still see a lot of people having trouble with clone devices not working.
FTDI FT232R DRIVER DRIVERS
I wonder how far back FTDI were planning this?Īnyhoo, the new FTDI drivers will not brick clones, but they will still not work with the FTDI driver. They seem to have caused more damage to their reputation than they stood to lose from counterfeits.Īpparently the clones are detected because they follow the FTDI protocol correctly, but most genuine chips have a "bug" which can be detected, but some older FTDIs do not have the "bug". I can see that FTDI might be pissed off with counterfeiters stealing their business, but they must be pretty stupid if they didn't realise disabling clones would cause a stink. Hmm, FTDI kicked up a storm with that misguided and possibly illegal move, and Microsoft have pulled their dodgy drivers.
PS I have no attachment with MGBank at-all.Īll complaints I have made to Banggood have fallen on deaf ears. So forget china and saving a few shillings, very definitely forget Banggood at least for their FTDI goods and order from MGBank.
FTDI FT232R DRIVER FREE
mgbank who have 66,643 product sales to their UK eBay account are very definitely to be trusted' Following the ordering of the FT232R it arrived by second class free postage just 1.5 days later and worked straight out the box. Within 2 seconds of my connecting to an USB outlet it was, without any action from me, installing the drivers. This information indicates that the FT232R device is not a Genuine FTDI product.Īs this device is not genuine it will not operate with FTDI`s certified drivers.Ĭan you please send details of the supplier of this device so that we can investigate the source of these counterfeit products?įTDI Chip Counterfeit Statement // these were links to those statementsįollowing all this I bought a further 'on card FT232R chip' from " mgbank" currently to be found on eBay at the link:. We have investigated the device information that you submitted. I then forwarded the resulting *.jpg to 'Support8, FTDI' who said to be precise: I ran the program, screen dumped the contents to Photoshop, recorded the screenshot as as *.jpg the principle item I saw as incorect was that the chips own ID was said to be #0000 where the true ID is #6001.
FTDI FT232R DRIVER INSTALL
Having complained to FTDI., that I could not install their drivers to their chip, (I had worked very hard at the installation for 2 whole days), they asked me to use the Microsoft program "Microsoft® Windows(TM) USB Device Viewer" to read the chips statistics, the viewer reads all the information that is burnt/written to the chip as Windows uses these particulars to decide whether the programs/drivers that it is about to write to the chip are correct for the chip and if they are incorrect then to divert away from installing the drivers. I'm not too sure just how many like me on the Arduino learning Trek have bought the FTDI FT232R and made the TRAGIC mistake of ordering from BANGGOOD-direct located in China but if you haven't and are contemplating doing so, do:ĭO NOT.THE FT232R (chip on a pcb.,) IS OF FRAUDULENT MANUFACTURE
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