Hi experts, in our summer house i have a number of HFW1435SP-W.
One of them died, and while I replaced it with a newer model, I was trying to recover it for fun, learning, and reuse...
I do have a working firmware image and I went on with the steps in the posts here, not necessarily making the situation better,
At this point I guess the situation would need some expert advice:
The boot log says:
The partition table is:
And just in case the environment is:
One of them died, and while I replaced it with a newer model, I was trying to recover it for fun, learning, and reuse...
I do have a working firmware image and I went on with the steps in the posts here, not necessarily making the situation better,
At this point I guess the situation would need some expert advice:
- Cam was clearly stuck in a boot loop.
- I pressed the factory reset button but nothing happened.
- The cam went back to the default 192.168.1.108 and would respond to ping for a bit and then reboot again
- The Cam only showed port 3800 open.
- The well-documented procedure of restoring via port 3800 would not work, claiming failure to login. Tried the old credentials and the default credentials to no avail
- Connected the serial port and played with uboot
- Managed to successfully upload the new firmware via TFTP and run da/dr/dk/du/dw/dp/dc/up.
- After the uploads, not much changed. Still bootloop, still port 3800 only
- At this point i am afraid I probably got a wrong turn and improvised with uboot commands (e.g. rdefault, sync_uboot etc...)
- The boot log looks even worse now, and cam still not working
The boot log says:
-Boot 2010.06-svn3845 (Dec 18 2016 - 09:32:48)
I2C: ready
DRAM: 118 MiB
gBootLogPtr:00b80008.
spinor flash ID is 0x1940ef
partition file version 2
rootfstype squashfs root /dev/mtdblock5
fail to parse HWID
fail to parse bootargsParametersV2.text info
fail to init bootargsParametersV2
TEXT_BASE:01000000
Net: Detected MACID:00:12:34:56:78:9a
PHY:0x001cc816,addr:0x00
s3l phy RTL8201 init
sd update init:HWID is missing!
Using ambarella mac device
TFTP from server 192.168.254.254; our IP address is 192.168.1.108; sending through gateway 192.168.1.1
Download Filename 'upgrade_info_7db780a713a4.txt'.
Download to address: 0x5000000
Downloading: *
Retry count exceeded; starting again
Try again use backup_serverip
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
Failed to get info.txt
Fail to get info file!
Init error!
Using ambarella mac device
TFTP from server 192.168.254.254; our IP address is 192.168.1.108; sending through gateway 192.168.1.1
Download Filename 'failed.txt'.
Download to address: 0x2000000
Downloading: *
Retry count exceeded; starting again
state:ff,err_count:02
SPI probe: 32768 KiB W25Q256FV at 0:0 is now current device
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 02000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.10.73
Created: 2016-12-23 4:02:18 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 1485054 Bytes = 1.4 MiB
Load Address: 00208000
Entry Point: 00208000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ...OK
OK
partition file version 2
rootfstype squashfs root /dev/mtdblock5
fail to load bootargsParameters.txt
fail to load bootargsParameters.txt file
get bootargs info failed
unknown phy memory type, use default
Starting kernel ...
unknown core,use back
The partition table is:
>partition
name cs offset size flag fs_flags fs_type
MinBoot 0 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000040000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
U-Boot 0 0x0000000000080000 0x0000000000040000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
hwid 0 0x00000000000c0000 0x0000000000020000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
partition 0 0x00000000000e0000 0x0000000000010000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000001
Kernel 0 0x00000000000f0000 0x0000000000180000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
romfs 0 0x0000000000270000 0x0000000000150000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000002
web 0 0x00000000003c0000 0x0000000000680000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000002
user 0 0x0000000000a40000 0x0000000001030000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000002
updateflag 0 0x0000000001a70000 0x0000000000030000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
config 0 0x0000000001aa0000 0x0000000000070000 0x00000000 0x00000003 0x00000004
product 0 0x0000000001b10000 0x0000000000010000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000002
custom 0 0x0000000001b20000 0x0000000000020000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000002
backupker 0 0x0000000001b40000 0x00000000000e0000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000002
backupfs 0 0x0000000001c20000 0x0000000000050000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000002
data 0 0x0000000001c70000 0x0000000000100000 0x00000000 0x00000003 0x00000004
user1 0 0x0000000001d70000 0x0000000000290000 0x00000000 0x00000001 0x00000002
MinBoot mountcmd:
U-Boot mountcmd:
hwid mountcmd:
partition mountcmd:
Kernel mountcmd:
romfs mountcmd:
web mountcmd:mount /dev/mtdblock6 /mnt/web/
user mountcmd:mount /dev/mtdblock7 /usr/
updateflag mountcmd:
config mountcmd:mnt_jffs2 /dev/mtdblock9 /mnt/mtd jffs2
product mountcmd:mount /dev/mtdblock10 /mnt/pd/
custom mountcmd:mount /dev/mtdblock11 /mnt/custom/
backupker mountcmd:
backupfs mountcmd:
data mountcmd:mnt_jffs2 /dev/mtdblock14 /mnt/data jffs2
user1 mountcmd:mount /dev/mtdblock15 /mnt/user/
And just in case the environment is:
>printenv
bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200 mem=118M root=/dev/mtdblock5 rootfstype=squashfs init=/linuxrc
bootcmd=sf read 0x2000000 0xf0000 0x180000;bootm 0x2000000
bootdelay=3
baudrate=115200
ethaddr=00:12:34:56:78:9A
ipaddr=192.168.1.108
serverip=192.168.1.1
autoload=yes
gatewayip=192.168.1.1
netmask=255.255.255.0
ID=000000000000000000
da=tftp 0x02000000 dhboot.bin.img; flwrite;tftp dhboot-min.bin.img;flwrite
dr=tftp 0x02000000 romfs-x.squashfs.img; flwrite
dk=tftp 0x02000000 kernel.img; flwrite
du=tftp 0x02000000 user-x.squashfs.img; flwrite
dw=tftp 0x02000000 web-x.squashfs.img; flwrite
dp=tftp 0x02000000 partition-x.cramfs.img;flwrite
dc=tftp 0x02000000 custom-x.squashfs.img; flwrite
up=tftp 0x02000000 update.img; flwrite
tk=tftp 0x02000000 uImage; bootm
dh_keyboard=1
appauto=1
sysbackup=1
logserver=127.0.0.1
loglevel=4
autosip=192.168.254.254
autolip=192.168.1.108
autogw=192.168.1.1
autonm=255.255.255.0
pd=tftp 0x02000000 pd-x.squashfs.img; flwrite
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial
ethact=ambarella mac
Environment size: 1019/131068 bytes