R0 / DS-2CD2x32 BrickfixV2 brick recovery and full upgrade tool - enhanced.

[alastairstevenson]

It will be interesting to see what you find.
Do you have the needed serial TTL to USB convertor? PL2303TA works ok.
And the 4-pin 1.5mm ZH JST wired connector?

 

[BlwnGazkit]

I've downloaded this stuff, and I'm going to read through the pages here and give this a shot tonight.

I have 3 2342WD Turret cams that WERE working fine, and I'd previously updated from 5.3.8? to 5.4.5. Last night I tried to load the latest firmware and FireFox locked up. I've tried the Hikvision tftpd tool and the cameras each respond to the handshake and the firmware is downloaded, but I'm assuming they're rejecting the firmware as there's no "Update Complete" message and the cameras are still unresponsive. I can usually see them on the Hikvision Installation tools, and they're showing a v4.x.x firmware and now have a default admin password of 12345, but there's no WebGUI access.

Wish me luck I guess... These are practically new after sitting on my shelf in the box for 2 years, and I'd hate to have them as paperweights now.

 

[alastairstevenson]

These are R6 series cameras, so the brickfixV2 method is not applicable to them, it's for R0 only.

If the firmware version showing is 4.0.8 the camera is running in the min-system recovery mode due to installation of incompatible firmware.
This is a basic system with no web services.

Where did you download the firmware from? Can you provide a link?
You might just need to install valid firmware to recover them.

 

[BlwnGazkit]

Thanks for the reply, I didn't realize these weren't R0 cameras!

With these being (supposed to be) US market cameras, I downloaded all the firmware updates from the US Hikvision website. I can link to the specific firmware if it would help.

I do have a copy of the last stable firmware update, but I don't know how to upload it without tftpd, which I've tried and it never succeeds.

 

[alastairstevenson]

I do have a copy of the last stable firmware update,

With the downgrade block and other aspects - it would be helpful to know what firmware version was on the camera before the attempted update if you can recall, and also what exact version(s) was attempted that caused the problem.
The downgrade block takes effect whether the update was successful or not.

There is a good selection of versions here :

R6 series firmware - see models list

Hikvision's R6 series of IP cameras raised the bar from the R0 series of entry-level devices, adding improved sensors, higher resolution and new features. Hikvision also ramped up their support for their authorised reseller channels over the...

ipcamtalk.com

 

[BlwnGazkit]

I'm pretty certain they were operating with IPC - DS_2X22FWD_2X42FWD_EN_STD_5.4.5_170124, and I was trying to flash IPC - DS_R6_EN_STD_5.5.0_170725

I wasn't aware of a downgrade block and have been attempting to flash back to a known stable firmware. Is it possible flashing back to the failed firmware, or a newer version, may succeed?

 

[alastairstevenson]

I wasn't aware of a downgrade block

That will now reject any attempt to install any version below 5.5.0
It would be worth trying the 5.5.x versions from the forum download link.
I don't believe that model has a reset button, but not 100% sure.

 

[BlwnGazkit]

Thanks for the info about the downgrade block, flashed the newest firmware and got the cameras up!

Now I just have to figure out this issue with IE not properly displaying the configuration page... None of the menu items on the left are click-able.

 

[alastairstevenson]

That's likely to be due to the browser cache no longer matching the newer web structure of the newer firmware.
Either refresh the page or clear the browser cache, that should fix it.

 

[khaledking]

DS-7808N-f1(B) nvr firmware upgrade

 

[bathuudamdin]

Any 12v 1.5A centre-positive power supply, widely available on eBay or even Amazon.

It's likely to be a timing problem.
You might get lucky if you just keep retrying the power cycling, than can happen.

Finally got it done.

First of all, obviously used 12v adapter. Secondly I changed the camera's IP to 192.0.0.64 and 255.255.255.0. Still no luck. (Even tried 192.168.1.64 camera and 192.168.1.128 pc with no luck). In the end I disabled windows firewall and reverted IPs back to 192.0.0.64 and 192.0.0.128, boom it went success, but stuck at "download completed" section. Then used CH version file to get "update completed" stage.

So anyone having trouble like mine try disabling windows firewall, looks like it was mother of all problems.

 

[alastairstevenson]

Finally got it done.

Hey, well done!
And thanks for posting an update.

A couple of minor comments, for others info :

Secondly I changed the camera's IP to 192.0.0.64 and 255.255.255.0. Still no luck.

The configured IP address in the normally running state is not connected to the value the camera uses when probing for the Hikvision tftp updater.
The probe is done using an IP address that is set in the environment variables of the bootloader.

In the end I disabled windows firewall

Interesting.
Normally when the Hikvision tftp updater is first started, there is a Windows firewall popup to request allowed inbound access to the tftpserve.exe program.
Clicking 'OK' implicitly creates the inbound firewall rule.
Do you remember if you got this popup?

 

[bathuudamdin]

Hey, well done!
And thanks for posting an update.

A couple of minor comments, for others info :

The configured IP address in the normally running state is not connected to the value the camera uses when probing for the Hikvision tftp updater.
The probe is done using an IP address that is set in the environment variables of the bootloader.


Interesting.
Normally when the Hikvision tftp updater is first started, there is a Windows firewall popup to request allowed inbound access to the tftpserve.exe program.
Clicking 'OK' implicitly creates the inbound firewall rule.

Do you remember if you got this popup?

Yes that was done when i did my 2332 succesfully.

 

[cenfl]

Awesome thread sir, thank you...

Perhaps know what firmware to use for DS-2DE2202I-DE3/W20160220CCCH575946125

I went through the above fix and installed a multi language firmware 5.3.9 and getting language mismatch error again

 

[cenfl]

Disregard last post from myself

I had ran the EN brickfix mistakenly instead of CN.... Really appreciate all the help here on the forum, thank you everyone!!

 

[bathuudamdin]

Hi Guys, it is a bit off topic, but little related. Does anyone notice 2432 is running a little grainy in low light/night after updating firmware to 5.4.5? What sort of video/image settings running to overcome this?

 

[alastairstevenson]

Does anyone notice 2432 is running a little grainy in low light/night after updating firmware to 5.4.5?

There are a couple of versions of the 5.4.5 - but I don't know what's changed between them.
And there is the 5.4.41 which is the last R0 version.
Maybe worth an experiment.

R0 series DS-2CD2x32x-Ixx IP camera firmware - Updates

ipcamtalk.com

 

[bathuudamdin]

So 5.4.5 is not latest and backdoor proof?
What is best way to update from 5.4.5 to 5.4.4.41, web gui or hikvision tftp?

 

[alastairstevenson]

So 5.4.5 is not latest and backdoor proof?

5.4.5 does not have the backdoor.
5.4.41 is the version that Hikvision announced as having the backdoor fixed.
The web GUI should work OK, and will be easiest.
The 5.4.5 build 170401 seems to post-date the 5.4.41 version, though I don't know why, I haven't looked.

 

[bathuudamdin]

Thanks Alastairstevenson,

Apparently mine is 5.4.5 170123. I guess I will update it to 5.4.41 then 5.4.5 170401 to see if night image improves.