Shipped March 28. Received today.
Mine was shipped at the same day, so now I know what to expect… 
It's not a bad light. It's just not what was presented for the Group Buy.
They sent Old-Lumens 3 versions all with east92's and then they turn around and send this noname driver bastard. Chinese FireDrill up the YingYang.
Ok I'm threw bitchin'. I'll live with it and move on.
So basically a ripp-off then ?
I'll let you be the judge. My post #11 sez it all.
I just received mine yesterday. Exactly the same crappy driver as this one. Swapped it out with a fet based driver.
Goodness… wth…
Best bet is it's a XM-L2 T6. This is clearly an XM-L2 and is labeled on the star XML U2. The manufacturers are the dummies - used a pre-labeled generic star to mount whatever they want on it. Still, the XM-L2 is still much better than what we signed up for -- an XML T6.
What I think is happening is the XM-L2 T6's have come down in price, or they just ran out of XML T6's and switched over to what they had on-hand. The driver - well, like others said, probably ran out of the East-092 labeled drivers. I've gotten plenty of other DD drivers though, not labeled East-092 and behave and perform the same as East-092's.
I have some other $7 crappy C8, their drivers are not East-092 but they are direct drive on high mode. Even if it is not labelled as “East-092” as long as it is true direct drive on high then it’s all the same.
I don't believe it is direct drive. Barely pulls 3 amps on KingKong unprotected. I know the xml u2 is more efficient and would pull less. However, the crappy driver with the horrendous next mode memory crap I can't stand. If you want to start on high, you have to turn it off in SOS mode. What an idiot driver.. Just peeved that I have to purchase another driver to get where I want to go when the east092 would have been all I needed.
And oh, I sent them a message complaining about it, so they send me a response restating that it had been shipped ,, gave me the tracking number,,,yadda yadda....really? Are these people that stupid or just faking it not wanting to deal with it. Done.
They don't want to hear, or just simply don't understand the English language. My HD2010 came in the box, and the box in the no-frills bag. The box was completely crushed, the light half hanging out of it, the lanyard ripped, and there was this white dust crap over everything inside the bag -- weird. So the packaging had no protection for the goods whatsoever, no bubble wrap, nothing...
I received an inquiry from Louis Huang at Tmart this morning.
I explained the situation and the crappy driver issue
Sent pic of what driver should have been and pic of inferior driver.
Waiting for response.
Mine came exactly as yours. Minus the white dust...LOL
No damage to item though.
I guess I’m one of the lucky one got one in a regular white box not crushed and with East-092 driver… but then again maybe because it’s Tangsfire… same driver as in their C8 
I have another one coming and hopefully it comes with XM-L2 
The T-Mart Tangsfire I received earlier had the correct driver.
The T-Mart unmarked "No-Name" no such luck. Crap Driver.
I included a link to this thread for Mr Louis Huang.
I'm hoping to get only the driver that made the HD2010 desirable & a BLF favorite, that's all.
Dunno. Will see I guess.
With all that being said I’m still happy with the purchase. Got an xml2 and a good host from it. And it was bought with the intention of modding anyway. Just wasn’t so lucky with the driver but its not a big deal to swap it out.
have you tried the pencil trick on the capacitor, to see if you can remove the next mode memory?
I forgot all about the pencil trick. I just tried it on my C8 and it worked great. No more mode memory. I can still cycle through the modes, but is I turn it off for more than a split second, it comes back on in high. Perfect!
Pencil trick?
For those of you who got the wrong driver or got the right driver, but it is faulty, or only does low amps, please PM me.
In your PM to me, include the following:
- Order number
- Date you ordered
- Date you received it
- Exactly what the problem is (Example:) " My light will only put out 1 amp on high, with the East092 driver." OR "My driver was not an East092 driver, it was an XXXX driver (include the numbers on the driver if you can)"
According to my contact, a replacement light or money back can be done.
For those of you that have some other issue, then PM me and I will see what I can do.