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add notice about bad boards
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Rotzbua committed Oct 11, 2018
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**The development by owner miguelbalboa has ended**. Further development will be done by community. This library is sporadically maintained. You can make pull request if you have developed a fix. Support/issues should be solved by community.


.. _before buy:
Before buy
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Please notice that there are many sellers (ebay, aliexpress, ..) who sell mfrc522 boards. **The quality of these boards are extremely different.** Some are soldered with wrong/low quality capacitors or fake/defect mfrc522.

**Please consider buying several devices from different suppliers.** So the chance of getting a working device is higher.

If you got a bad board and you can tell us how to detect those boards (silk, chip description, ..), please share your knowledge.


.. _what works and not:
What works and not?
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#. According to reports #101, #126 and #131, there may be a problem with the soldering on the MFRC522 breakout. You could fix this on your own.


* **Firmware Version: 0x12 = (unknown)**

#. The reason of this behavour is unknown.
#. If this sometimes apear a bad connection or power source is the reason.
#. If the firmeware version is reported permanent, it is very likely that the hardware is a fake or has a defect. Contact your supplier.


* **Sometimes I get timeouts** or **sometimes tag/card does not work.**

#. Try the other side of the antenna.
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