tomcctv 190 Posted March 19, 2019 If you mess with the software you will not get it to work you can’t get the software .// like you have been told firmware is not the software..... look up bricked my dvr your playing with a 720 AHD no name unit 720 AHD is the only software you can load .... any other format will not see the cameras ..... you can’t use anything else because of hardware Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
johnyp 1 Posted March 19, 2019 5 hours ago, tomcctv said: If you mess with the software you will not get it to work you can’t get the software .// like you have been told firmware is not the software..... look up bricked my dvr your playing with a 720 AHD no name unit 720 AHD is the only software you can load .... any other format will not see the cameras ..... you can’t use anything else because of hardware By software you mean the bin files that i try to flash? Well dvr is up and running, can see the cameras, can do almost anything except save the settings. If i change any setting it looses it after reboot, the same thing is when i try to set it by uart with setenv command. This is the version info it shows me. Bin file was for model AHD7004T-EL. I believe that it has a corrupted eeprom but that is my opinion only. What is yours, and please explain to me what you mean by the word software and what by the one firmware. All the bin files i try and flashing is the firmware, and inside the bin file are the linux kernel, the boot logo, the custom functions library and the web interface files. All theese files are written in flash and in onother section in the flash is the enviroment declares. If i delete 256kb at position 0x400000 then i delete the enviroment and on boot uses the default one that i believe is in the eeprom. I can imagine what else the eeprom may contain... What am i getting wrong here? Thank you for your time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tomcctv 190 Posted March 19, 2019 Unit comes new with software for it to operate ....... firmware is a fix or a add to existing software ...... it does not carry the software ..... also firmware is known as a patch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
uAliAmer 0 Posted October 7, 2021 On 3/13/2019 at 2:48 PM, johnyp said: Update: Found the uart and here is what i am getting on 115200: U-Boot 2010.06-svn342 (Jan 20 2016 - 19:33:32) Check spi flash controller v350... Found Spi(cs1) ID: 0xC2 0x20 0x18 0xC2 0x20 0x18 Spi(cs1): Block:64KB Chip:16MB Name:"MX25L128XX" Set lock level: 3, start of bottom address Spi is locked. lock address[0x0 => 0x40000] envcrc 0x85a986c0 ENV_SIZE = 0x3fffc In: serial Out: serial Err: serial USB: scanning bus for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found 0 Storage Device(s) found Press CTRL-C to abort autoboot in 0 seconds16384 KiB hi_sfc at 0:0 is now current device CFG_BOOT_ADDR:0x0 0ff:0x84000000 cramfs: wrong magic super.magic:0x5d0ab7ad,CRAMFS_32 (CRAMFS_MAGIC):0x28cd3d45 0ff:0x84000000 cramfs: wrong magic super.magic:0x5d0ab7ad,CRAMFS_32 (CRAMFS_MAGIC):0x28cd3d45 ### /UbootLogo/ LOAD ERROR<ffffffff> ! jpeg decoding ... <<addr=0x8e800000, size=0xb85f9, vobuf=0x8e800000>> addr:0x80853e64,size:755193,logoaddr:0x8e800000,: 1,4a load jpeg err. CFG_BOOT_ADDR:0x58080000 0ff:0x84000000 cramfs: wrong magic super.magic:0xc5ae99c9,CRAMFS_32 (CRAMFS_MAGIC):0x28cd3d45 ### boot/zImage.img LOAD ERROR<ffffffff> ! Wrong Image Format for bootm command ERROR: can't get kernel image! hisilicon # Hey man, where did you find the UART? I have the same board and trying to flash a firmware thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
