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I solved it! hopefully others can learn from this! This morning I was monitoring the wifi and it appears in the day, more people had wifi on (router scanned >20APs!) and although I changed the channel to an uncongested channel it still didn't like it. Changed to a new channel and 4mp live view...

just spent the last 4 hours on trying to find out the root cause. observations so far: I turned off pullpoint straight after so all observations made with this. 1. I noticed that having a live preview made a huge impact, even if I limited it to 1fps. I can verify this 100% of the time by...

I have one hikvision 4mp camera DS-2CD2542FWD-IWS monitoring the front of house. While the inbuilt motion detection is reasonable, I'm getting a lot of false motion events with tree shadows. I've purchased BI because it is much more flexible with detections. BI version is 4.5 x64 With the iVMS...

I guess its up to you. Something must have went funny, considering it didn't brick no matter what I did before. I just wish I had the cable before it died so I can figureout what was wrong in case someone else ever have the same issue as me in the future.

ok. i think it's completely dead. connected the serial interface per UART connection to recover Hik cameras Nothing at all in putty. tried setting different speed and turning flow control off. wires tested fine with my multi-meter. the serial cable works fine with my yi camera that i'm trying...

yes, power and network ok. also tested with my backup cisco switch. True, have to try TTL UART now, nothing to lose I suppose. also managed to recover the complete S/N of the device from an email of when it was working. Interestingly, it has CCCH where as after i tried to recover, all of them...

The only real inconsistancy is the 5.4 downgrader not working before. That would appear to due to the fact that I power cycle the camera ~10sec after the completed message. I'm getting it still haven't had enough time to install properly. On the last occasion, leaving it for 5minutes ensured...

I've got good news and bad news. I tried the 5.4 downgrader again but this time left the camera on for about 5min after the completed message. After power cycle, I began seeing a response from 192.0.0.99! I left it there for another 5minutes and then opened up TFTP and power cycled the camera...

Just tried those steps. After update is completed, I rebooted and started pinging. I never got any response from 192.0.0.99 at all.

I didn't try hiktools since I thought the original firmware as well as the other ones such as the 5.3 downgrader are all set to 2 CN already. I'll give pinging 192.0.0.99 a go to see what happens. I could never get the original firmware to work though, it was still booting into mini-recovery

Just tried the 5.4 to 5.3 downgrader. This in less than a minute, the downgrader showed the 'update completed' message so it definitely did something. I waited for about 10min and then TFTPed the IPC_R0_CN_STD_5.3.0_150513.zip file. However no luck with it at all, still mini-recovery. I also...

thanks, I'll order one as well then. saves me the trouble of soldering then. here is a photo of the sticker on the back of the camera.

thanks for the quick reply. the 5.4 firmware i used is http://oversea-download.hikvision.com/uploadfile/USA/Firmware/Value%20Series/DS-2xx2_5.4.0_160530.zip I fear the unrollback feature may really be getting in the way too. how would I go about and check the region? SADP currently shows CCRR in...

Can anyone help me with unbricking my DS-2CD2432F-IW from aliexpress? Camera date is 03/2016 I updated it to 5.4 via the web interface but it never succeeded. Could not see camera in SADP so I looked here and tried a bunch of firmwares: 5.30 downgrader 5.30 downgrader with hiktools lang...