I'm new here and would just like to say how impressed I am with you guys, and hope you can answer a few quick questions.
I'm getting ready to purchase one and need to know:
difference between 1.21 and 1.22
I am fairly savvy with computer software/networking, but if something should go wrong, is t possible to totally brick the thing with no recourse?
I am getting a brand new model just in stock today - any chance that hardware changes have been made on these rendering the hack impossible? Should I ask about a specific model number?
I have read through a ton of this stuff and found answers to all questions but these.
thanks 4 your help!
Hi.
Read 90+% of this thread.
Very impressed with the knowledge level of some participants.
I jumped in and ordered an e4. I live and ordered in Canada.
Now I am nervous:
Ordered 2 weeks ago. Was supposed to take 1 week.
Called in today and the new delay is 2 to 3 additionnal weeks.
I can still cancel the order.
Would this be enough time for Flir to seriously lock the e4 to the point where real hw hack is needed to unlock a new version? Or.. Am i getting a bit paranoid ?
Any others seeing those types of delays like the ones a change in production would induce?
Thanks
Dan.
Hi.
Read 90+% of this thread.
Very impressed with the knowledge level of some participants.
I jumped in and ordered an e4. I live and ordered in Canada.
Now I am nervous:
Ordered 2 weeks ago. Was supposed to take 1 week.
Called in today and the new delay is 2 to 3 additionnal weeks.
I can still cancel the order.
Would this be enough time for Flir to seriously lock the e4 to the point where real hw hack is needed to unlock a new version? Or.. Am i getting a bit paranoid ?
Any others seeing those types of delays like the ones a change in production would induce?
Thanks
Dan.
Hello all,
Got my camera today, got in the first attempt with Filezilla, used the tool to generate the file and added the menubeta. Now I can not connect at all with Filezilla, I get "no route to host" and "connection refused" every time. Any ideas? I've been searching and seen others have had this problem but haven't really found the solution.
Also, from my experience with doing this. You can not simply copy the "system" file when doing the MENU hack. When I did that, I did not get all of the new features. I had to copy the full FLASHBFS folder over before I got the dialog box that allowed me to overwrite files and now I have all of the color palettes and other features.
Also, from my experience with doing this. You can not simply copy the "system" file when doing the MENU hack. When I did that, I did not get all of the new features. I had to copy the full FLASHBFS folder over before I got the dialog box that allowed me to overwrite files and now I have all of the color palettes and other features.Are you copying the system file into the FlashBFS folder to overwrite the existing FlashBFS folder to overwrite the existing system folder? You may have copied the system folder over the old system folder which in reality puts the system folder you are transferring into a subfolder within the original system folder instead of overwriting it.
Sadly the 1.19.8 firmware was taken down from flirs site before i was able to grab it. [...] Does anyone have a zip of 1.19.8 they could link?
@ All newbies: Is it so hard to copy files from one directory to another?
It is as same as on computer from drive c: to drive d:.
For the E4 hack of 1.21/1.22 firmware it is so easy with the cfc_generator.
But you have to rename the resulting file conf_new.cfc to e8.cfc and then to copy it to the FlashFS\system\appcore.d\config.d\ subdir.
There is nothing to delete, just copy into this directory besides the conf.cfc.
The files for the menu hack it's the same, just copy to the same directories.
The directory 'presets.d' with its files are new in FlashBFS\system\ui.d\
With the menu hack, I did exactly as the video and many people said. Drop system onto FlashBFS, not into the folder itself along side the old system and it should have overwritten everything but I only got 2-3 color palettes and 1 pip and none of the scale options or extra menus like the USB one or the condensation items. Those did not show up until I took the whole FLASHBFS folder and dragged it onto the directory above FLASHBFS and I think this is an issue related to FileZilla because when doing it the second time it asked what I wanted to do with the files, the first time using system folder it just did whatever.
With the menu hack, I did exactly as the video and many people said. Drop system onto FlashBFS, not into the folder itself along side the old system and it should have overwritten everything but I only got 2-3 color palettes and 1 pip and none of the scale options or extra menus like the USB one or the condensation items. Those did not show up until I took the whole FLASHBFS folder and dragged it onto the directory above FLASHBFS and I think this is an issue related to FileZilla because when doing it the second time it asked what I wanted to do with the files, the first time using system folder it just did whatever.
It sounds pretty clear that you simply copied the FlashBFS folder to the wrong location on the camera. It's probably not an issue with filezilla. No offense but you didn't understand where you were putting the files when you were doing the copy. Are you able to confirm that you have extra files in the wrong place on your camera?
No...I copied FlashBFS into the folder above it which I believe is just "/" which would cause it overwrite the entire FlashBFS folder. The first time I put "system" onto FlashBFS instead of placing it inside of FlashBFS. Yes, I did understand where I was putting the files and how to do it but something did not happen correctly when placing system on FlashBFS and was not corrected until I did it with the FlashBFS folder.
With the menu hack, I did exactly as the video and many people said. Drop system onto FlashBFS, not into the folder itself along side the old system and it should have overwritten everything but I only got 2-3 color palettes and 1 pip and none of the scale options or extra menus like the USB one or the condensation items. Those did not show up until I took the whole FLASHBFS folder and dragged it onto the directory above FLASHBFS and I think this is an issue related to FileZilla because when doing it the second time it asked what I wanted to do with the files, the first time using system folder it just did whatever.
It sounds pretty clear that you simply copied the FlashBFS folder to the wrong location on the camera. It's probably not an issue with filezilla. No offense but you didn't understand where you were putting the files when you were doing the copy. Are you able to confirm that you have extra files in the wrong place on your camera?
No...I copied FlashBFS into the folder above it which I believe is just "/" which would cause it overwrite the entire FlashBFS folder. The first time I put "system" onto FlashBFS instead of placing it inside of FlashBFS. Yes, I did understand where I was putting the files and how to do it but something did not happen correctly when placing system on FlashBFS and was not corrected until I did it with the FlashBFS folder.Post a screenshot here from filezilla with the entire directory tree. We will see what's wrong.
Onion,
If you could give something a try that i have been curious about! Since you don't have the original file, i have been wondering
if it is possible to run the firmware update from flir. Your cam already had 1.22 on it but if there is a corrupt or missing file the update may repair it? If that works there are quite a few people that have had the same issue. It may all be for not if the firmware update just looks at the current version info and stops there but its worth a shot!