whoslooking
IPCT Contributor
Just as easy to use a windows pc and putty only basic skills are needed for the mtd hackI did not make full check yet
Now I try to get mtd5 & mtd6 files from camera, yet I fail. I have no skills in Linux ((
Just as easy to use a windows pc and putty only basic skills are needed for the mtd hackI did not make full check yet
Now I try to get mtd5 & mtd6 files from camera, yet I fail. I have no skills in Linux ((
Ok, i have gone to this topic in order to hack my cameras properly http://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/3474-Hikvision-5-2-5-amp-5-2-8-Full-English-(INC-DAYS-OF-WEEK)-mtd-Hack/Use the mtd hack on your cameras to set the region to 1,
you can't upgrade the 5.2.5 cameras to a higher firmware anyway and doing the mtd will allow them to work as they should.
Changing the MTDBLOCK0 seems not work as cameras.You are correct, it shouldn't.
But the supplier had installed firmware that gave language=1 via getHardInfo (though not via /proc/hkvs/bootpara) so had English menus etc both via the web and the VGA/HDMI output.
The hardware descriptor, which is flashed during manufacture, shows language=2
So as delivered, it worked fine with cameras that were supplied with hacked English firmware, and also the same cameras subsequently converted to English region.
Before making any changes, I made a backup copy of mtdblock0,1 and 2 (which is where the firmware resides) and also created an installable firmware from mtdblock2 (with @wzhick Hiktools, I posted this somewhere here) so I could go back to as-delivered if I wished to. Which I have quite a few times during experiments. And - important - a copy of the system configuration after the settings and cameras were finalised, for each firmware version in use.
Going forward - a firmware upgrade via the web GUI maintains / maybe converts the system configuration, including the language, so the 3.2.1 firmware is still working as English despite the region still being Chinese.
That doesn't happen if I do a TFTP update as the config gets wiped - but if I reload the saved config specific to the version of firmware, all is OK again.
I hope that makes sense!
Eh? Wrong thread?Network abnormal hmm