Help finding update.img for Anran IPC IP-camera

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Hi there!

I have been reading a lot on this forum and is amazed by the knowledge some people have here.

I have a problem, I have this Anran IP camera: http://www.anranhtshop.com/views.asp?hw_id=1132 (IPC model with HI3516C SoC) and was doing a firmware update per Anrans instructions via e-mail the other day. (This firmware https://pan.sohu.net/f/MTY4MDQsaGR1Ym0.htm (IPC53H20L V4.0.R11.00001532.1)) and I was upgrading from V4.02.R11.00001532.10010 with build date 2014-02-26.

The update bricked the camera and it doesn´t get an IP-address anymore.

I have been able to connect to the camera using a serial cable and connecting to U-boot works fine, but I can´t get further. I have the .bin file for the firmware for both the advised firmware by Anran and an older .bin-file with the same build date as the one that was on the camera from the beginning.

Is it possible to rebuild this to the required update.img-file to flash via serial and TFTP-server? Or better, does anyone know where I can get the file? Anran doesn´t answer me anymore, convinient huh?

If I extract the .img-files from the .bin and rename them to update.img I can upload them to the camera using the run up command and flash them one by one, but the camera still doesn´t work after that. Worth to mention is that I can only do this with the firmware with build date 2014-02-26. If I try with the newer firmware, I get messages from U-boot saying it doesn´t match with the memory or something like that.

One other thing, if I ping my router from U-boot, it actually shows up in the routers device list for a minute or so.

Everything is there, and I feel that it has to be possible to recover it in some way?

Please help me, I will be forever grateful!

(And please forgive my english, it´s not my native language)
 
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