RTL2838 corrupted EEPROM

rtl2838.eeprom.txt

For some unknown reason, the NESDR Mini running one of my ADS-B receivers
(outside, on the antenna mast) packed in at the start of December 2016.
It had started to show the wrong USB vid:pid and other descriptor errors.
Some of the descriptor is kept in an external EEPROM, which is readable
and writable through USB commands - but I had to hack in the bad vendor
ID to the rtl-sdr library in order to get rtl_eeprom to even attempt to
dump the data.

static rtlsdr_dongle_t known_devices[] = {
	{ 0xffda, 0x2838, "Generic RTL2832U OEM with corrupt descriptor" },
  ...

EEPROM dumped from a working NESDR Nano 2+

00000000  28 32 da 0b 38 28 a5 16  12 10 03 52 00 65 00 61  |(2..8(.....R.e.a|
00000010  00 6c 00 74 00 65 00 6b  00 1c 03 52 00 54 00 4c  |.l.t.e.k...R.T.L|
00000020  00 32 00 38 00 33 00 38  00 55 00 48 00 49 00 44  |.2.8.3.8.U.H.I.D|
00000030  00 49 00 52 00 12 03 30  00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30  |.I.R...0.0.0.0.0|
00000040  00 30 00 30 00 31 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00  |.0.0.1..........|
00000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000080  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|
*
00000100

EEPROM dumped from the broken NESDR Mini:

00000000  28 32 da ff 38 28 a5 16  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |(2..8(..........|
00000010  00 6c 32 74 00 65 00 6b  00 ff 03 52 00 54 00 4c  |.l2t.e.k...R.T.L|
00000020  00 32 00 38 00 33 00 38  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |.2.8.3.8........|
00000030  00 49 00 52 00 12 03 30  00 30 00 30 1c 1c 1c 1c  |.I.R...0.0.0....|
00000040  00 30 00 30 00 31 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00  |.0.0.1..........|
00000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000080  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|
*
00000100