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Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

Started Apr 8, 2016 | Polls
vasile Contributing Member • Posts: 575
Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?
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I will shortly (probably during the weekend) release the unified NX1/NX500 bitrate hack - there will be some nice surprises in there - I hope.

In the meantime, whilst I am working on that on my NX500, I have also been looking into possible ways to "production-ize" my 2k5 high bitrate hack that is currently only possible manually through telnet and gdb.

Unfortunately I have hit what seems to be a brick wall in that I was unable to identify a place where the 12Mbps rate is passed on to the RTOS kernel when Otto's 2k5 hack is activated.

At this time I am contemplating a brute force attempt to replace one of the shared libraries used by the di-camera-app.

The issue with this is that this has to be an intervention in the camera filesystem and if I mess it up, the di-camera-app will crash upon startup.

The result would be a nice NX500 shaped brick, since I am unaware of any way to reflash firmware that is done outside of the camera UI which is managed by the di-camera-app.

NB. I know for a fact that di-camera-app crashing basically kills the camera - you have no more way to connect to it.

As I am unwilling to also risk my camera in addition to the significant time I am putting into this, I'd like to gauge willingness on your part to source a "burner" camera and make it available to me for brick-level dangerous tests.

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Not interested.
6.5% 3  votes
Yes, and would pledge 5 EUR
19.6% 9  votes
Yes and would pledge 10 EUR
37.0% 17  votes
Yes and would pledge 20 EUR
28.3% 13  votes
Yes, I would pledge (anything between 0 and 20 EUR) and I would be willing to organize the acquisition
8.7% 4  votes
I volunteer my camera for that.
0.0% 0  votes
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Chopperguy Forum Member • Posts: 74
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

Yes count me in.

you guys are awesome. 20 sheckles  for an nx500 burner, no problem.

setup a paypal a/c and lets go.

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Samsung NX500 +1 more
StenM Regular Member • Posts: 201
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

Is it possible to enable (on the NX500) 3K 4:3 2880_2160?

parakalien Contributing Member • Posts: 556
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?
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I'd donate 20eur no problem.   I would be willing to send you my camera and you send it back when your done, but I'm moving to a 3rd world country in 2 weeks with no real shipping system in place.

I'm very interested in adding this feature! 

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Tomasa Junior Member • Posts: 26
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

I think all nx500/nx1 owners interested and would donate. So strange that samsung wouldn't have some recovery mode if camera app could not start.

OP vasile Contributing Member • Posts: 575
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

Tomasa wrote:

I think all nx500/nx1 owners interested and would donate. So strange that samsung wouldn't have some recovery mode if camera app could not start.

I am sure they have it, the issue is that no one outside of their devs knows how to access it.

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otto k Senior Member • Posts: 2,252
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

It's in service manual, need to short two pins inside of the camera and have recovery image on SD card.

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Krazyheaven Regular Member • Posts: 411
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

otto k wrote:

It's in service manual, need to short two pins inside of the camera and have recovery image on SD card.

This is good news. Still like the idea of getting the devs burner cameras.

Have yet to read the howtos on the current hacks. Going to give a few of them a try today. I'm

tecnoworld
tecnoworld Veteran Member • Posts: 7,232
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

But...how to get a recovery image?

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OP vasile Contributing Member • Posts: 575
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

otto k wrote:

It's in service manual, need to short two pins inside of the camera and have recovery image on SD card.

Yep I know, but it's useless without a recovery image.

Maybe some forum members work in a company contracted by Samsung to provide warranty service for their cameras?

Anyone?

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tecnoworld
tecnoworld Veteran Member • Posts: 7,232
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

Having a recovery image for nx1 and nx500 would be a great achievement for several reasons. Do you think that individual samsung service points could have it locally?

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OP vasile Contributing Member • Posts: 575
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

tecnoworld wrote:

Having a recovery image for nx1 and nx500 would be a great achievement for several reasons. Do you think that individual samsung service points could have it locally?

If I were Samsung I would make it available to them, at least upon request.

From what I read in the NX500 service manual, the recovery image is used to flash firmware without having a functioning one already in the camera.

The need to short the two pins (NB this would require disassembling the camera which would void warranty anyway) tells me that it probably puts the bootloader in a special mode (redirects it to load the initrd and kernel from sdcard instead of the emmc storage).

So yes, having it would greatly ease up bricking concerns.

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ken69 Junior Member • Posts: 25
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?
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Somebody who has account on eoshd could add such topic or link here. I think there will be many people who can help.

BopBill Forum Member • Posts: 74
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

Tomasa wrote:

I think all nx500/nx1 owners interested and would donate. So strange that samsung wouldn't have some recovery mode if camera app could not start.

If I could have 2.5K image to NX1 with high bitrate I am interested to donate. It only must be a paypal account that to is possible to make the payment from Finland. Paypal.me does not work yet here.

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Chopperguy Forum Member • Posts: 74
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

Its climbing.

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tecnoworld
tecnoworld Veteran Member • Posts: 7,232
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?
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I posted the link on eosHD. Perhaps this helped, but the replies are still a few.

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Chopperguy Forum Member • Posts: 74
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?
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do ya catch my drift ?

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Chopperguy Forum Member • Posts: 74
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?
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If this potential burner cam survives, and Vasile manages to get us a 2.5k high rate hack,

Its quite possible it could be used again for more tricky hacks.

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Samsung NX500 +1 more
arfoga Forum Member • Posts: 51
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?
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Count me in.

Here in Spain forum there is a NX500 for 330 euros.

Chopperguy Forum Member • Posts: 74
Re: Pitch in for a "burner" NX500 for a chance to achieve 2K5 high rate?

Good find Arfoga,

there could even be enough pledged to include postage 😎

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