Agreed..The ball is in the court of the Chinese clone manufacturers now Lonrisun has been mentioned as the manufacturer. I have seen BBS tools and CPU files, CFE files for other VU models on the internet along with Brodcom studio software. I haven't seen the CPU files for the SOLO2 CPU however (bcm7345) or the original CFE file.
So yes I agree..will the clone manufacturers release the relevant files for this fix or not...Unless somebody can obtain the BBS tools themselves with working CPU initialization files, then I suppose we can ask someone with a working box to dump the CFE and use this dump to re-flash to a dead box.. Main point is having the necessary JTAG software to read/write the CFE (bootloader) via JTAG..
Broadcom do not make public the SDK and BBS tools...I believe they release them to high volume customers who are bound by a NDA to not release them.