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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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Never enough time for fun stuff...

Good news - two tiny additional options uncovered

If you want to take a screenshot of your camera screen put a file named save_screen_enable.txt in the SD card root and every time you press EXP+OK a file named OSD####.jpg will be saved to SD card root. save_screen_enable.txt will contain the integer of next image id (as bytes, not text).

If you want to see how all the popups and notices look in all the languages (for any reson) put a file named qa.txt in the root of the SD card. When you power the camera on you will see a popup menu that enables you to access all the popups, etc, in camera (press up and down to change them, left and right to change the language). It's meant for quality assurance staff, but here it is. Now, the "fun" stuff is that it crashes on 188/189 message popup display (unhandled page fault it seems) and produces following files in SD card root timestamp_{log,a7_log,a9_crash,a9_dlog,a9_dmesg}.info containing a lot of debugging data.

TLDR NX500 does not boot all that often - it hibernates and then wakes up when you power the camera on - cute - that's how it starts up in one second

Also, some RAM information

Total RAM is 512MB, reserved (buffer?) is 380MB.

I have a way to run a shell scrip off the SD card but I'm starting a new thread for that...

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