Bret Sanders
n3wb
- Joined
- Nov 25, 2015
- Messages
- 7
- Reaction score
- 2
To follow up and hopefully help someone else. I did get the Chinese 5.3.0 firmware to work, once I downloaded the right one (I don't read Chinese). It probably wasn't necessary, but it felt good to have the cam operational again, even if the wrong language.I just got a couple DS-2CD2032F-I cams yesterday from an Amazon seller (Ctronics) with 5.3.0-150513, manufactured 10/2015. Cannot seem to get any version of firmware loaded successfully including the downgrade. On the downgrade firmware, I see the file transfer "Completed" but I never get the successful upgrade message. After the transfer, the camera begins pinging on 192.168.1.64, indicating the mini-system failed firmware I believe. It's not visible in SADP/web/telnet, just pingable. I tried using hiktools to change the language from 2 to 1, same result. I tried Windows 10 and Windows 7 for the tftp, same result.
I also tried the Chinese firmware 5.3.0, fixed with hiktools for language 2, and I do see "Successful Upgrade" in tftp, but then after a reboot the camera is completely unreachable.
Update: the sticker said 5.3.0-150513 but in the web gui of the 2nd camera I see V5.3.0 build 150814.
The trick in my case was using the original non-4-line-intrusion-detection version of the downgrade. Once I had that version, I saw the successful update message in the TFTP. Then my camera was 5.25, but in Chinese. I performed the mtd hack and I have English now!