It's the greatest paradox for the community. If RT were to implement EEPROM - we know it would be implemented after the most extensive testing and event logging for the end user - but it will never happen. I've 'experimented' with EEPROM reading programs on my test modules for years, not because I want to do anything commercial or nefarious, just because I'm interested in the way things work. There are very few of the other tools available that I would actually trust to do what I require.
I got one of the tools mentioned above over five years ago, and before delving into the EEPROM side of things, I thought I would try an innocuous function of preventing my SatNav from ejecting the DVD. Just a single setting in Adaptation of the module, something I've done many times with . So when I activated it with the other tool, I heard a very strange noise coming from the boot. Popped the boot open, noise still coming from the area that the SatNav resides so when I opened the side compartment, the DVD reader was trying to actually eject the DVD.
So I lost trust in the tool, not really knowing what it is doing in the background when all I wanted it to do was set an adaptation channel. Needless to say the subscription hasn't been renewed and it is just lying in the cupboard now.