omg omg OMG.. IT WORKED. I have to SHARE.. ipcamtalk and everyone on these BLOGS are the reason I finally got it to work. There has been so many of you I do not even remember everyone, over 6 months. I started and gave up 2 times. Then I came across someone who posted the HikVision
TFTP server program. So here what the end result was.
1. Bought a DS-2CD2032F-IW ..
2. Did a firmware update with the latest on US Hikvision site.. end result.. I got an expensive Brick.
3. Searched and read blogs after blogs. Used TFTP windows, TFTP64 and on and on. Nothing worked. Could not get the DAV file to load.
4.A week ago I got brave again and stumbled on a blog where one of you awesome guys posted the TFTP tool from Hikvision which had been removed.
5.TADA, TFTP is working, I am able to push firmware. I then spent days looking for correct firmware. I tried it all. One actually worked, kind of.
6.I applied the downgrade from 3.5 firmware. Now the SADP tool sees it but the version is 4.8 and port 8000, no possibility to do anything.
7.Back to trying others and searching.
8.Stumbled on wzhick..and alastairstevenson this is different.
9. Decided to do some checking on the DAV files I am using, and looky there the downgrade DAV that is showing 4.8 and only kinda works has a language of 2.
10. So using the hiktool I changed it to 1 and ran the image update with TFTP .. OMG it worked.
11. SADP now reports Software version V5.2.5Build 141201, port 80 works it all works.
I cannot thank you all enough.. I hate it when something kicks my but. never give up .. never give up.. lol (lost my mind a few times).