I get this, don't ask me why it happened (short of that I was uploading self-built stuff, I have no idea):

Verifying data flash...OK
    Device name: eVic-VTC Mini
    Firmware version: 0.00
    Hardware version: 42949672.95

Please set the hardware version.

...indeed, that's exactly what I'd like to do in this situation.

After looking for options to do exactly that and finding none I downloaded the dataflash, changed the ffffffff starting at byte 4 to 63000000 (i.e. hw version 1.04, which is the correct one), uploaded that with extensive --no-verify (why do I also need to upload an aprom with that? no matter)... and it's not changing a thing.

Any hints, pointers, or insights?