Hikvision ip camera ds-2cd2020f-i chinese firmware

[JohnnyKirchev]

I have putting the firmware from your description R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhancedand my camera is working but it is in chinese language .The firmware was 5.4.41

Very strange because I tryed to upgrade the same and can't. If I do by IE it says that other platform (or something like that). If upgrade by tftp it says that unpacking error. SADP I didn't try. And if I remember correctly, after update BrickfixV2 firmware doesn't have version 5.4.41
On the link that I gave above there is a firmware 5.4.41 chinese version. Maybe you using this? I tryed to upgrade 5.4.41 chinese version and it works fine but only chinese.

Earlyer I used this brickfix for ds-2cd2032I and it work fine. Thanks Alastairstevenson for this.

 

[Alexsim19]

nice now we must find how to install also the english language

 

[alastairstevenson]

Some interesting results here, in some ways.

It sounds like perhaps the Hikvision 'downgrade block' is getting in the way of reverting to earlier, working, but CN, firmware.
And that the 'brickfixV2EN/CN.dav' firmware, which is R0-based, can be used to inhibit the 'downgrade block' on these R2 cameras, which is what it does for R0. To do this it uses a modified 'min-system' runtime environment. It's this that processes the 'update' command in the bootloader.
Which then allows the earlier CN firmware to be loaded, and the camera works again, though with CN menus.

 

[pepeEL]

No, link is down, no ping.

I can but it is unlikely will good for you.
What do you do for starting camera on Chinese?

This is all the firmware that I could to find - Папка из Облака Mail.Ru

Maybe you also has on russia page modified firmware for platform G0 with english ? Because now i have only china... My camera DS-2CD2035-I...

 

[JohnnyKirchev]

Some interesting results here, in some ways.
It's this that processes the 'update' command in the bootloader.

I will need to try again to load brickfix again and put the result from putty here.

Maybe you also has on russia page modified firmware for platform G0 with english ?

For this camera I do not know, I did not search.

 

[pepeEL]

But if you found on russia page please share me

 

[JohnnyKirchev]

ok. Earlier I wrote to the sellers on aliexpress for helping. One wrote
"I think no one has such hacked firmware, coz the hacked camera cannot be upgraded
Otherwise it will back to Chinese
Sorry, we have no hacked firmware, my apology !"

Another one wrote
"Dear Customer
Please send your inquiry to tom.gate@outlook.com"

I wrote to this email and no answere. Try to write seller. May be someone give us firmware with multilanguage.

 

[pepeEL]

Ok i write to this man.... but i dont have contact with my seller. Because i delete some time ago my orders from app Aliexpress.

 

[JohnnyKirchev]

i dont have contact with my seller

I searching on ali grey hik cams and write to sellers.

 

[Alexsim19]

ok friends also me if I find something for this camera firmware I will share it with you!!

 

[JohnnyKirchev]

ok, deal guys!

 

[JohnnyKirchev]

Doing experiments with the camera.

Default stage: Camera DS-2CD2020F-I FW V5.4.41 build 170707
1. Trying to update with brick_fixv2 digicap.dav CN by using tftp
result is
Bytes transferred = 18558206 (11b2cfe hex)
error: platform mismatch.
error: digicap unpack error!

2. Trying to update with IPC_2XX0_ML_STD_5.4.5_170123 I changed language via hiktools
Result is
Download Filename 'digicap.dav'.
Download to address: 0x81000000
Downloading: # [ Connected ]
################################ [ 1.000 MB]
################################ [ 2.000 MB]
################################ [ 3.000 MB]
################################ [ 4.000 MB]
################################ [ 5.000 MB]
################################ [ 6.000 MB]
################################ [ 7.000 MB]
################################ [ 8.000 MB]
################################ [ 9.000 MB]
################################ [10.000 MB]
################################ [11.000 MB]
################################ [12.000 MB]
################################ [13.000 MB]
###########
done
Bytes transferred = 13999000 (d59b98 hex)
Found 1 packets.
Skip file _cfgUpgSecPls
Skip file _cfgUpgClass
Erasing [sys] .........................................................done
Writing [sys] .................................................................done
write uImage len: 3499472 ok
Erasing [app] .................................................................done
Writing [app] .................................................................done
write app.img len: 10498048 ok

Upgrade success!
auto reboot now
resetting ...

After restart - too many errors, loop boot. Camera doesn't work.

3.Trying to update 2xx0,2xx2,2xx4_CN_5.4.41 and change language to English via hiktools.
result is
Bytes transferred = 13712636 (d13cfc hex)
error: packet's language mismatched!
error: digicap unpack error!

4. Trying at the same digicap.dav change back language to CN via hiktools and have error:
Bytes transferred = 13712636 (d13cfc hex)
error: packet's language mismatched!
error: digicap unpack error!

5. Trying to update clear 5.4.41 CN and have loop rebooting.
6. Trying to update clear CN_STD_5.4.2_160608 and have good start.
7. Trying to update CN_STD_5.4.2_160608 and change language to English via hiktools.
Result is
Bytes transferred = 13790460 (d26cfc hex)
error: packet's language mismatched!
error: digicap unpack error!
8. Trying to get back Chinese at the same file. Result is good boot.

My thoughts:
1. digicap.dav from brickfix doesn't work
2. change digicap.dav using hiktools doesn't help
3. Immediately transition to the 5.4.41 is impossible and firstly we must update to 5.4.2 after that we can update to the 5.4.41.

 

[alastairstevenson]

1. digicap.dav from brickfix doesn't work

I would not have expected that to work as it is for R0 series cameras. So strange about the earlier result.

change digicap.dav using hiktools doesn't help

It just changes the language of the header that is before the firmware - to fool the simple first part of the process that validates the firmware for update.
Useful, but does not change the language of the firmware or the camera.

 

[Alexsim19]

so you didn't get english language to the the camera?

 

[JohnnyKirchev]

nope.

 

[pepeEL]

I know that only user MonteCryptho on this forum can help us... also for R2 and G0 platform. It is user magic. But he dont answera....

 

[JohnnyKirchev]

Yesterday I unpacked digicap.dav wich is 5.4.2 Chinese and saw that it has English and Russian languages. But I don't know what I should do with this. Also I wrote to another one seller from Aliexpress but he has not answered yet.

 

[JohnnyKirchev]

How to change language I didn't found. This camera has SD slot but it didn't work. May be Chinese firmware wrong may be something else.
Alexsim19
Are you use SD slot?

 

[Alexsim19]

Hello JohnnyKirchev I don't use SD slot but also I'm searching to find how it will be possible to change to english language but still now I didn't find nothing!!! Did you get awnser from MonteCryptho?

 

[pepeEL]

MonteCryptho user no reply for all user. I also write to him but no replay. But i write for platform G0.