Bret Sanders
n3wb
- Nov 25, 2015
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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.
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.
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!