Camera web interface suddenly in Chinese ONLY

[politby]

I have 4 Hikvision cameras. 2x DS-2CD3332-I, 2x DS-2CD2032-I. They came from two different sellers on Aliexpress.

All four behaved the same out of the box, with English and a few more languages selectable in the web interface. I immediately changed the region code on the first two using the region code changer from member CBX.

The other two haven't been region patched yet. I had them temporarily plugged in for testing (set to English web menus) while working on the cabling. Today I unplugged them and installed them in their permanent locations. To my surprise, after they came online again, the web interface is entirely in Chinese, with no other languages available.

It's as if the seller had made some temporary patch and the cameras have now reverted to Chinese-only factory settings.

What would be the correct way to fix this? Region change followed by re-flash with English firmware?

 

[iTuneDVR]

If you have cleared the browser cache, you would have seen it immediately.
It should be the other two patch utility from the CBX.

 

[politby]

If you have cleared the browser cache, you would have seen it immediately.

Good catch.

It should be the other two patch utility from the CBX.

Okay, I will check with him.

 

[iTuneDVR]

Chinese IPC always stay chinese IPC without manipulation.

 

[fenderman]

This guy posted instructions on making the firmware multilingual ?

 

[iTuneDVR]

Well, and you opened America!
But the camera still remained Chinese, day of the week it shows!!!
Now the Chinese this trick will be on you Europeans and Americans earn much more!
Congratulations!

 

[fenderman]

Most folks dont care about the day of the week..its an easy fix that gets the job done...Yes there are better ways to make it completely US but this is simple and effective.

 

[iTuneDVR]

Most folks dont care about the day of the week..its an easy fix that gets the job done...Yes there are better ways to make it completely US but this is simple and effective.

I agree with you.
Quickly and efficiently, that the piss a finger

 

[catseyenu]

FWIW, the differences in disk space, listed files and login.js from a cam that has the region fix and has been downgraded from 5.20 to 5.16.