robingo88
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wanted to share my tale not to complain, but as a word of caution...
thanks to all of the excellent information on this site, i purchased a GS1000 that turned out to be an iTracker with the SMH4.35.2101512A firmware from Galileo Technology Ltd.
it arrived on wednesday and i took it out for a spin and it seemed to work just fine...
then yesterday i decided to play around with it and grabbed a copy of the Texet DVR-1GP TXH4.35.220512.bin from this site, and renaming the file to vfirmware.bin, was able load it and all that worked great as well! (with the little bit of testing i did.)
then i decided to grab the 'beta' Texet software from September, and there my story has a sad ending...
i downloaded the file with the spreadsheet and the Sept 4 firmware file with the texet.bin name, and loaded it on the camera, and it booted just fine. i was able to run through the menus and see the additional settings that weren't in the original firmware or the latest Texet release firmware, but when i tried to record anything the camera would lock up. I reset the camera a couple of times and this happened each time. so i figured i would downgrade to the 220512.bin file, but before i did i looked at the beta firmware version and it said TXH3.36B.300812.
i got a little nervous that it was a TXH3 rather than a TXH4 number, but went ahead with loading the 220512.bin file.
when the camera restarted it played the tones and loaded the start up screen, but then the screen went black and the final tone continued to go 'ding ding ding ding' over a black screen, and wouldn't stop until i pressed the reset button.
i tried to use the USB Direct method to see if i could talk with the A2S processor directly and load the older firmware, but although i could get the camera into a USB Drive mode, i could never get the camera into a USB Direct mode, and none of my windows machines were able to find applicable drivers.
so as far as i can tell, the unit is officially bricked (at least for me) - probably should have stayed with the 220512.bin file (which would have at least given me the set-time-by-GPS feature)
if anyone wants this unit (perhaps you're enough of a geek to actually reprogram the A2S) let me know and we can work out a deal... or if anyone has an idea as to how to unbrick it using my average skills (and Windows XP or Windows 7 neither of which could find appropriate drivers for anything except USB Mass Storage Mode) i'd be grateful as well.
again, no complaints here - a wiser fella than myself once said, "sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you"
cheers!
robin
thanks to all of the excellent information on this site, i purchased a GS1000 that turned out to be an iTracker with the SMH4.35.2101512A firmware from Galileo Technology Ltd.
it arrived on wednesday and i took it out for a spin and it seemed to work just fine...
then yesterday i decided to play around with it and grabbed a copy of the Texet DVR-1GP TXH4.35.220512.bin from this site, and renaming the file to vfirmware.bin, was able load it and all that worked great as well! (with the little bit of testing i did.)
then i decided to grab the 'beta' Texet software from September, and there my story has a sad ending...
i downloaded the file with the spreadsheet and the Sept 4 firmware file with the texet.bin name, and loaded it on the camera, and it booted just fine. i was able to run through the menus and see the additional settings that weren't in the original firmware or the latest Texet release firmware, but when i tried to record anything the camera would lock up. I reset the camera a couple of times and this happened each time. so i figured i would downgrade to the 220512.bin file, but before i did i looked at the beta firmware version and it said TXH3.36B.300812.
i got a little nervous that it was a TXH3 rather than a TXH4 number, but went ahead with loading the 220512.bin file.
when the camera restarted it played the tones and loaded the start up screen, but then the screen went black and the final tone continued to go 'ding ding ding ding' over a black screen, and wouldn't stop until i pressed the reset button.
i tried to use the USB Direct method to see if i could talk with the A2S processor directly and load the older firmware, but although i could get the camera into a USB Drive mode, i could never get the camera into a USB Direct mode, and none of my windows machines were able to find applicable drivers.
so as far as i can tell, the unit is officially bricked (at least for me) - probably should have stayed with the 220512.bin file (which would have at least given me the set-time-by-GPS feature)
if anyone wants this unit (perhaps you're enough of a geek to actually reprogram the A2S) let me know and we can work out a deal... or if anyone has an idea as to how to unbrick it using my average skills (and Windows XP or Windows 7 neither of which could find appropriate drivers for anything except USB Mass Storage Mode) i'd be grateful as well.
again, no complaints here - a wiser fella than myself once said, "sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you"
cheers!
robin