4971:ce12 — FV-U35
SimpleTech
- Vendor ID
- 4971
- Product ID
- ce12
- Combined
- 4971:ce12
- Decimal
- 18801:52754
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a FV-U35 manufactured by SimpleTech. The vendor ID 4971 is registered to SimpleTech with the USB Implementers Forum, and ce12 is the product ID that SimpleTech assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 4971:ce12 SimpleTech FV-U35.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 4971:ce12 SimpleTech FV-U35
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 4971:ce12, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 4971:ce12. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=4971, idProduct=ce12.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_4971&PID_CE12 USB\VID_4971&PID_CE12&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_4971&PID_CE12"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
FV-U35:
Product ID: 0xce12
Vendor ID: 0x4971 (SimpleTech)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
4971 SimpleTech ce12 FV-U35
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