Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 250. (Read 710164 times)

+ 100000000 IYFTech very well said

It boggles the mind how a company can blatantly ignore the law and the fact they would have no cgminer if not for CK and Kano, not to mention the fact that the existing 3.12 cgminer in its present BITMAIN state has some glaring security holes which NEED to be fixed, including other bugs that have been mentioned... network access needs to be locked down for starters... the redirect issue is a big problem (not for bitmain....are they the ones redirecting everyones miners??? hmmmmm why not fix this otherwise and ignore it)
The S2 software has been all but abandoned...the lack of quality firmware speaks for itself...how long did it take bitmain to fix the miner password issue ...and none of the issues Kano mentioned were ever addressed  

 Sorry but from a logical standpoint WHY IS BITMAIN IGNORING THESE ISSUES....hmmmmmmm I for one have become very suspicious in light of all of this
This makes absolutely no sense especially considering how much the cgminer devs have gone out of their way to try and help the community and even in this thread have asked BITMAIN TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW...which is really THE LAW not a request...no company is above the law and to be honest it really disgusts me that the only posts by BITMAIN in here are to pimp their hardware and NEVER to answer the customers requests...I have asked for the unreleased july 28 firmware with no response...as have others...

We have rights as customers and companies have laws they must abide by....this isn't the wild west...if it was I am sure BITMAIN would be lynched by now for their business practices of late.....abysmal really

Certainly - good idea. Thanks, just skinned up a fat one 

Waiting for my inbox to fill up with Bitmain hate mail........ 

487 for 237 is fine.  check it in about 1 day

 Was that $400 just for the HST or did you have to pay duty on the equipment as well?

+100!!

I agree completely  

You deserve a smoke  

EDIT: @IYFTech - can you post this in other Bitmain threads? Maybe they will take notice?

Hmmmm.......Sorry to quote myself, but the more I think about this - the more it doesn't make any sense. in fact, it smells.

Apart from the obvious legal obligations pointed out by ckolivas, one of the hardest working & well respected Bitcoin community members there is, I find myself wondering why on earth Bitmain won't release their code - are they trying to hide something? I mean, the third party redirect fix was a very important update - why on earth would Bitmain not want to implement it? There are also a multitude of other fixes & improvements which Kano (where is he by the way?) listed in a previous post regarding the S2, but are still relevent:


By not cooperating with the cgminer devs request to release the code as they are legally bound to do - and not updating cgminer to incorporate the very important security fixes, Bitmain are not only breaking the law - but they are also arousing suspicion amongst the Bitcoin community as to why they are refusing to do so. For a company that claims to respect & care deeply for the Bitcoin community, this makes no sense to me whatsoever.

Before anyone starts breaking my balls accusing me of stirring things up trying to discredit Bitmain - I am a customer who has Bitmain hardware & am quite happy with it. I am merely pointing out the legally binding obligations Bitmain are ignoring, as well as trying to highlight the contempt that Bitmain are showing towards ckolivas & kano - without who, mining & Bitcoin would not be what it is today. We, as a community owe it to the cgminer devs to make sure that all hardware manufacturers respect their requests to release their code as stated in the open source license agreement. If they refuse - we should all be concerned as to the reasons why.

Sorry to ramble, but I'm a great believer in Open Source & what the cgminer devs have done, and continue to do. We owe them  

Bitmain has demanded that i perform a multimeter test on the two chains (6 pin atx plug ports).  i told them i do not own a multimeter, but none the less i went ahead and purchased one.  i am really not sure why their own RMA department will not test the RMA, is it not their job to find the fault ?  I am still waiting for Bitmain to send me RMA info.  The last communication i had with someone by the name of "Tim" stated 

"Hi there, Should there be a carrier tracking number showing that this miner came from our factory, we can also provide RMA for your faulty parts."

Not really sure why they rely on carrier information; why do they need to find a carrier tracking number to prove my purchase when i have already given them my order id number ?  my s3 has just been sitting collecting dust for a couple of weeks now.  Thanks BITMAIN

If anyone has had similar issues with an s3 and has managed to solve the riddle please let me know how.  thanks

This is because you're running the new firmware. Re-flash the older firmware and it will work again (you will lose the web GUI overclocking support)

I have often wondered about this, it's really not on for a hardware manufacturer to misuse open source software in this way.

I wish the Antminer monitor program worked but for some reason it gives a .net error.

Yup 

I think that's what I have with the default settings. I think it should be more though

Hashrate - 5min:513.11G / 30min:493.11G / 1hr:487.73G O
Is that alright for 237M?

Indeed, I saw your post requesting access to the code - ignoring it seems a very strange course of action by Bitmain, especially since agreeing & cooperating would not only benefit everyone - but would also stay within the legally binding license terms.......

I hope they realize their error & do the right thing - as well as live up to their claim of supporting the Bitcoin community.

@ckolivas: Is there anything we, the community, can do to help? Maybe if we all started mailing them they will take notice?

Thanks. Seems you have a similar problem as I do, just with a smaller temp diff. My problematic unit also doesn't OC well. I actually ran out of paste after just doing all the chips. Let me know if you see any improvement from repasting the backside of the other blade. Might get new paste and try that as well.

If you say the temps dropped but you didn't see any improvement in speed it might not be the source of the problem actually.

Not that I am aware of.

Do any reputable sites (non ebay/amazon) have S3s in stock?

M

my 12-14%  not close to 20% could be correct  after all.

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Bitcoin Difficulty:   19,729,645,941

Estimated Next Difficulty:   22,959,869,961 (+16.37%)

http://bitcoincharts.com

Difficulty   1972964594

Estimated   22005031037  about 11.53%

If somebody in Europe/France does have the same trouble, I'd be happy to have a look and try to unbrick it if Bitmain doesn't accept RMA.
Looks like unbricking could be done by serial line programming (easier) or JTAG if serial doesn't work (will have to find the solder points).

Both methods will require soldering and will void your warranty.

Also, what are the tests asked by Bimaintech?

One would assume that we have access to their modified code and driver for cgminer which the cgminer license stipulates, however they have ignored our requests for making that code available. I am considering what direction to take now about that license violation.