I've gone and totally killed one of my Hikvision cameras (R0 / DS-2CD2332-I) - I've got a TTL cable coming tomorrow but I just realised when digging through old photos that it was actually a 5.2.8 camera from the factory (I removed the sticker a long time ago and regretting that massively now)!
It's an Aliexpress camera with the English firmware patch and won't boot any firmware and is complaining about the initramfs having junk in there and it's the same error with every firmware I've tried - English or Chinese (I've tried with and without the mtd hack).
@alastairstevenson has been a massive help to me so far! The first camera I did worked perfectly but the second one has been a right bitch
I've totally restored all of the original mtd backup blocks and no joy, camera has been formatted first etc.
I just wondered if anyone has or could point me in the direction of 5.2.8 141231 please as I'm struggling to find it!
It won't work with the downgrader firmwares either as it has the same error regarding the initramfs. I've tried using the flash_eraseall tool to clear mtd11 first with still the same error. Also tried nandwrite instead of writing to the mtdblock with no joy. It's a shame you don't get the extra output of upgrade command showing the files like it does via TTL - the cable will be here soon anyway
Thanks in advance
It's an Aliexpress camera with the English firmware patch and won't boot any firmware and is complaining about the initramfs having junk in there and it's the same error with every firmware I've tried - English or Chinese (I've tried with and without the mtd hack).
@alastairstevenson has been a massive help to me so far! The first camera I did worked perfectly but the second one has been a right bitch
I've totally restored all of the original mtd backup blocks and no joy, camera has been formatted first etc.
I just wondered if anyone has or could point me in the direction of 5.2.8 141231 please as I'm struggling to find it!
It won't work with the downgrader firmwares either as it has the same error regarding the initramfs. I've tried using the flash_eraseall tool to clear mtd11 first with still the same error. Also tried nandwrite instead of writing to the mtdblock with no joy. It's a shame you don't get the extra output of upgrade command showing the files like it does via TTL - the cable will be here soon anyway
Thanks in advance
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