Symptoms of a bricked camera?

[LaZona]

I just got a handful of cameras for free from a leftover yardsale. I believe they are all bricked, but I am trying to see if I can unbrick them.

They all power up through POE, and the IR LEDs activate, but the cameras do not appear on SADPtool. Is this normal for a bricked camera?

 

[alastairstevenson]

the cameras do not appear on SADPtool. Is this normal for a bricked camera?

With apologies for the dumb question - are these Hikvision cameras?
SADP will only show cameras that support the Hikvision SADP protocol.

If they are Hikvision and they don't show up on SADP, and they appear to have power, then they are bricked. But quite likely recoverable, if it's not a hardware failure :
Hikvision DS-2CD2x32-I (R0) brick-fix tool / full upgrade method / fixup roundup.

 

[LaZona]

With apologies for the dumb question - are these Hikvision cameras?
SADP will only show cameras that support the Hikvision SADP protocol.

If they are Hikvision and they don't show up on SADP, and they appear to have power, then they are bricked. But quite likely recoverable, if it's not a hardware failure :
Hikvision DS-2CD2x32-I (R0) brick-fix tool / full upgrade method / fixup roundup.

Yes these are all hikvision. DS-2CD2232-I5


I'll be working on them this evening. It would be nice to revive them.

On another note, 2 of the cameras were not bricked. They just needed their passwords reset. And since they were all on FW 5.2, it was easy to reset the passwords.

One of those camera works perfectly. But the other camera rebooted my NVR when I plugged it into one of the ethernet ports. Anyone ever had that happen to them?

 

[mlapaglia]

Yes these are all hikvision. DS-2CD2232-I5


I'll be working on them this evening. It would be nice to revive them.

On another note, 2 of the cameras were not bricked. They just needed their passwords reset. And since they were all on FW 5.2, it was easy to reset the passwords.

One of those camera works perfectly. But the other camera rebooted my NVR when I plugged it into one of the ethernet ports. Anyone ever had that happen to them?

Double/triple check you have the ethernet wired correctly. If you've got your wires crossed that could cause it.