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NX500 - tethered shooting - simple "hack"

Started Feb 8, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP otto k Senior Member • Posts: 2,252
Re: NX500 - tethered shooting - simple "hack"
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Samsung made hacking the firmware quite complicated with non standard layout and non standard compression (or stripping the headers or similar) and if you make a mistake it means bricked device. With them pulling out of various markets it could be permanently bricked as it voids warranty.

So, I prefer going the sd card route, if something is broken, remove the card and your camera is back to normal. That said, their engineers are quite thorough and they have removed a possible attack vector present in initial firmware and closed obvious entry points. This means more work for me, but I do not give up easily and will try to at least remove video recording limit and enable control via PTP (though the Holy grail would be running ssh server on the camera).

I made some progress but all it does is performs a full diagnostic test of wifi for certification needs - not really useful for us...

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