whoslooking
IPCT Contributor
No you must do the mtd hack first, then upgrade with English 5.30
Full English Including days of the week for Version 5.2.5 & 5.2.8.
This Again is the mtd5 & mt6 Hack, but requires you to maintain the checksum -16 to the original value.
So if you change the region flag from Chinese to EN / US you need to find the other correct value to also change allowing the checksum to remain the same.
This solves the day of week in Chinese and also the Issues with IVMS and NVR with region mismatch.
Yes the Language is now region 1
No you can’t upgrade to 5.3.0 this is done via another check which I’m still looking for.
All the normal things use at your own risk, but fully tested on my own cameras.
One thing to remember that, If you update the camera you have to use Chinese firmware, with the region changed on the firmware with hiktools
to region 1.
This is also a fix for the cameras brought from AliExpress with hacked firmwares (from that Russian) that don't work correctly.
1st setup your NAS storage on your Camera
With Putty as Telnet Port 23
IP = 192.0.0.64
user = root
password = 12345
cd /mnt/nfs00
To copy the mtd files
cat /dev/mtdblock5 > temp5
cat /dev/mtdblock6 > temp6
Change the flag bytes using HxD editior,
Then putting them back with the changed block:
cat temp5 > /dev/mtdblock5
cat temp6 > /dev/mtdblock6
Reboot
NOTE: Always backup you mtd files before you play with them.
Don't forget the Thanks Button!
As Always Enjoy and Enjoy it for Free!
And the video linked below.
MTD HACK made easy on Video
Sorry, I dont understand what I have exact to do in the hex editor :-(
Need a guide for stupids.
This technique is only for the DS-2CD2x32 cameras, the R0 series.Hopefully I'll get my DS-2CD1103-I running
In others words, there's nothing else I can do about that then.This technique is only for the DS-2CD2x32 cameras, the R0 series.
Your camera, I believe, is an R2 series, so the method does not apply.
Ahh thanks for the pointer on Mtdblock8, that worked.Mtdblock8 is open by the system, it holds the recovery files, a basic kernel and the update programs.
Use mtd8ro instead.
There should be a few hundred bytes of data at the beginning of mtdblock5, the rest is all in the erased (0xFF) state.
It's most likely something to do with when the camera was manufactured.Unfortunately mtdblock5 is definitely FF on both cameras. Checked and double checked and then once again out of shear desperation :/
This is on both cameras Iv'e updated to 5.2.5. The others I can't check as 5.0 doesnt have option to enable telnet and I can't seem to find any other version between the two.It's most likely something to do with when the camera was manufactured.
It doesn't really matter.
A firmware update doesn't change it.