SOFI SP8 or TL866CS programmers; which one faster?

Hello everyone!!!

I´m in the market to play a bit with this thing of EFI chip reprogramming. I have access to many macs so I plan to upload many efi chip dumbs to the forum once I get my setup going.

I planned on buying one of this chip reprogrammers and they are affordable and work easily via USB and windows. I would get one MBA Easy Flash as soon as they get avaialble again.

My question is which one of these common chip programmers should I buy, which one is faster. Price is very similar and they look very similar externaly and in the connections, but I guess there might be a difference. Do you guys know how much time takes one of these bad boys to read an 8Mb dumb? Any notiveable difference in total time between these two?

Thanks a lot in avance!!!

Hi!

I have both of them. The SP8-A is the choice if you want to have a ready to go Flasher! You should use a Ponoma Clip, because they are fine and much better than the China clips! The TL866CS could be converted to an TL866A. I`ve done this, not a big deal. But the TL866A is hard limited in SPI Flashing! For SPI use the SP8-A!

The speed of the SP8-A is incredible if the Chip is read in the ZIF Port. Only Seconds for a 16MB Flash Chip. But you know, we like to read SPI, and in this case the TL866A and SP8-A are both not fast.

rg

KingBonecrusher wrote: Hi!

I have both of them. The SP8-A is the choice if you want to have a ready to go Flasher! You should use a Ponoma Clip, because they are fine and much better than the China clips! The TL866CS could be converted to an TL866A. I`ve done this, not a big deal. But the TL866A is hard limited in SPI Flashing! For SPI use the SP8-A!

The speed of the SP8-A is incredible if the Chip is read in the ZIF Port. Only Seconds for a 16MB Flash Chip. But you know, we like to read SPI, and in this case the TL866A and SP8-A are both not fast.

rg

Can you maybe tell me why sp8-a and the tl866 can't read or write N25Q064a chip from macbook air?

Maybe its because the chip in the macbook air is a BGA and its hard to make contact to the pins with a clip

I`am using the SP8-A with SPI to work with W25Q128BV ICs (SPO16). It works very well. But for BGA IC`s that`s not working.

I have an RaspBerry Pi 3 for now. But is a Pi Zero not also working?

Cyber16 wrote: Maybe its because the chip in the macbook air is a BGA and its hard to make contact to the pins with a clip

Even if I desolder the bga chip its not working
but I can select the chip from device list so its very strainge.

KingBonecrusher wrote: I`am using the SP8-A with SPI to work with W25Q128BV ICs (SPO16). It works very well. But for BGA IC`s that`s not working.

I have an RaspBerry Pi 3 for now. But is a Pi Zero not also working?

I had this problem only with Micron N25Q064A bga chip,
But the macronic MX25L6406EZNI BGA it works very well.

Raspberry pi works very well with both of them. I have the model B+
PI zero don't know

thaGH05T wrote: Zenelli, I think you are limited to software right now, I would have to check teh datasheet, but the op-codes may differ slightly.

What are op-codes?