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OK so I figured I'd have a tinker with the Yi this morning.
The vanilla 1.0 firmware is here:
LINKS REMOVED DUE TO DIFFERENT HARDWARE VERSIONS ON THE MARKET
Here's a ridiculously tweaked firmware based off the full 1.0.0 (including Linux partition) which runs in 30Mbps in ALL modes in all circumstances. Use this at your own risk
LINKS REMOVED DUE TO DIFFERENT HARDWARE VERSIONS ON THE MARKET
Here's a ridiculously tweaked firmware based off the full 1.0.7 (including Linux partition) which runs in 30Mbps in ALL modes in all circumstances. Use this at your own risk
LINKS REMOVED DUE TO DIFFERENT HARDWARE VERSIONS ON THE MARKET
The 30Mbps firmware gave me exactly 90 minutes of recording before the camera turned off which I think is great!
As with any custom firmware there is a high risk that this can kill your camera if the process is not followed correctly - always ensure you are connected to an active USB power source when you attempt to follow this process. Likewise I've only tested this for a few minutes so there is a chance that the higher bitrates could cause instability due to the heat - it's suck it and see but I have included a copy of the standard firmware to make it easy to revert back.
I have not seen any ELF firmwares floating around for this so at this point in time there is no known easy way to recover using something like DirectUSB - please bare this in mind if thinking of using this custom firmware.
You can see the difference in the firmwares here with the camera running at 1920x1080 @ 30fps:
![upload_2015-3-22_10-19-19.png upload_2015-3-22_10-19-19.png](https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/data/attachments/11/11757-97c9cddaaaf33f60a6e99a8aa394d2f8.jpg?hash=l8nN2qrzP2)
![upload_2015-3-24_20-4-52.png upload_2015-3-24_20-4-52.png](https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/data/attachments/11/11809-fbd3a7b09445994391047a7489b18e6a.jpg?hash=-9OnsJRFmU)
You can make your own custom firmware by following the instructions in this video:
To install it's simple:
The vanilla 1.0 firmware is here:
LINKS REMOVED DUE TO DIFFERENT HARDWARE VERSIONS ON THE MARKET
Here's a ridiculously tweaked firmware based off the full 1.0.0 (including Linux partition) which runs in 30Mbps in ALL modes in all circumstances. Use this at your own risk
LINKS REMOVED DUE TO DIFFERENT HARDWARE VERSIONS ON THE MARKET
Here's a ridiculously tweaked firmware based off the full 1.0.7 (including Linux partition) which runs in 30Mbps in ALL modes in all circumstances. Use this at your own risk
LINKS REMOVED DUE TO DIFFERENT HARDWARE VERSIONS ON THE MARKET
The 30Mbps firmware gave me exactly 90 minutes of recording before the camera turned off which I think is great!
As with any custom firmware there is a high risk that this can kill your camera if the process is not followed correctly - always ensure you are connected to an active USB power source when you attempt to follow this process. Likewise I've only tested this for a few minutes so there is a chance that the higher bitrates could cause instability due to the heat - it's suck it and see but I have included a copy of the standard firmware to make it easy to revert back.
I have not seen any ELF firmwares floating around for this so at this point in time there is no known easy way to recover using something like DirectUSB - please bare this in mind if thinking of using this custom firmware.
You can see the difference in the firmwares here with the camera running at 1920x1080 @ 30fps:
![upload_2015-3-22_10-19-19.png upload_2015-3-22_10-19-19.png](https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/data/attachments/11/11757-97c9cddaaaf33f60a6e99a8aa394d2f8.jpg?hash=l8nN2qrzP2)
![upload_2015-3-24_20-4-52.png upload_2015-3-24_20-4-52.png](https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/data/attachments/11/11809-fbd3a7b09445994391047a7489b18e6a.jpg?hash=-9OnsJRFmU)
You can make your own custom firmware by following the instructions in this video:
To install it's simple:
- Download the file above from Mega
- Unzip the contents of the ZIP file to your desktop
- Rename the extracted file to firmware.bin
- Power off the Yi Sports Camera
- Copy this file to the top level folder / root of a microSD card and then place that into your Yi Sports Camera
- Connect the Yi camera to a power source that is turned on (very important - if the camera dies during this process you have got a dead Yi!!)
- Turn on the Yi
- You will now hear a constant beeping for around a minute - after this the red light will flash and the camera will turn off.
- Remove the microSD card and place back into a PC and ensure that you delete the \firmware.bin file
- Place the camera back in your card and start to enjoy higher bitrate video (assuming it doesn't cause the camera to keep crashing!!)
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