kimvette
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just purchased a Sunty 5E5 full HD dashcam (marketed as GS1000) from Spytec via Amazon and the firmware version is SM5E5HGB.130427.V1, orange menu. The camera does have the Ambarella chipset.
I ran into a problem where GPS was not being embedded in the video but was being logged in the GPS data files (and tracking was in sync with the video, as verified in Registrator Viewer/Datakam Viewer). I tried updating but it turned out the firmware is incompatible - upon rebooting after the update, all I get is the texet flash screen followed by a blank screen and an endless looping "ding ding ding."
If I press power to turn it off, the power button does not respond, but of course I can turn it off via the reset button. When I connect a USB cable it does boot and mount as a DCIM/mass storage device (enumerated in Device Manager as AMBA Storage USB Device). I have tried updating by both renaming the original to vfirmware.bin and also via autoexec.ash but the firmware enters an endless loop prior to executing the firmware update check code.
I tried to connect to the camera via directusb but I cannot get this camera to boot to the USB Boot Mode. I have tried the three methods posted here: http://dashcamtalk.com/gs1000/#Firmware
To no avail; none of the methods seem to get me into that mode.
Does anyone know a surefire way I can unbrick this device? It is obviously not a true brick as it does mount as a mass storage device, so that part of the firmware is clearly operational.
I ran into a problem where GPS was not being embedded in the video but was being logged in the GPS data files (and tracking was in sync with the video, as verified in Registrator Viewer/Datakam Viewer). I tried updating but it turned out the firmware is incompatible - upon rebooting after the update, all I get is the texet flash screen followed by a blank screen and an endless looping "ding ding ding."
If I press power to turn it off, the power button does not respond, but of course I can turn it off via the reset button. When I connect a USB cable it does boot and mount as a DCIM/mass storage device (enumerated in Device Manager as AMBA Storage USB Device). I have tried updating by both renaming the original to vfirmware.bin and also via autoexec.ash but the firmware enters an endless loop prior to executing the firmware update check code.
I tried to connect to the camera via directusb but I cannot get this camera to boot to the USB Boot Mode. I have tried the three methods posted here: http://dashcamtalk.com/gs1000/#Firmware
To no avail; none of the methods seem to get me into that mode.
Does anyone know a surefire way I can unbrick this device? It is obviously not a true brick as it does mount as a mass storage device, so that part of the firmware is clearly operational.
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