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Old 09-09-2012, 06:16 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by twobob View Post
internal jumper / pin /switch - These are the ones that were still lingering from the "But how do magic my dx"

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Still seems like to me: making Amazon engineers crack a glued case and hook up internal connectors to merely invoke a boot state? Total madness.

So to that end... TBC...
I agree with your point that "things tend towards simplicity".

But in contrast (a fancier than current known ways):
I would sense a locally, strong, magnetic field.
Hold a little ceramic magnet against one spot of the case back == Downloader Mode.

And a Hall Effect device would be hard to spot on visual inspection among all the other SMT devices on the board.
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