Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.

Turns out this didn't completely fix it, the issue is that the pic firmware from this build is very unstable. You can fix this by flashing the pic firmware from the antMiner_S320141013.bin firmware. To retrieve the stable pic firmware first flash the antMiner_S320141013.bin firmware to your miner, do not retrieve from any other firmware version especially antMiner_S320141024.bin(the pic firmware is identical to antMiner_S320141013.bin but very tricky to retrieve due to the filesystems being built incorrectly).
To retrieve the firmware scp it to your computer using the following command. This assumes your miner is still on the default IP of 192.168.1.99 .

Code:

scp root@192.168.1.99:/rom/etc/config/miner_pic.hex miner_pic.hex

Next Flash the latest antMiner_S320141126.bin firmware and upload the file back.

Code:

scp miner_pic.hex root@192.168.1.99:/etc/config/miner_pic.hex

Finally reboot your miner to apply the stable pic firmware.

You are a very clever person bitsolutions. Now, can you kindly tell us how to open and read the code in that hex file please? If these jombas from bitmain are not going to be honest with us, their customers, then I think they've earned us the right to pore over their little secrets. I thank you in advance.

You can't read it since its compiled.

Very well then, it seems they have even cleverer people at bitmain than I gave them credit for, my bad.
Now if you do not mind throwing some light on the issue that is perturbing me, so here goes:

Aside from the pic firmware in the Nov release (which you cleverly established to have been fiddled with by bitmain), what advantage has the rest of the update in the Nov release is there to be had over that in the Oct release? Seems to me a simple and complete reset to the 13th Oct 2014 firmware rather than fudging the two would do nicely. Ofcourse, I am speaking from a postion of utter ignorance, so bear with me there).