Pete. Super Spammer
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Posted: 19:01 - 16 May 2021 Post subject: Geek required to flash Hotspot |
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I managed to brick my hotspot and now I need help to flash a new firmware to it.
It's a Huawei E5770S which powers on but just has a large 'up arrow' on the screen which presumably means it's in boot loader mode. I found a cracked firmware for it but I just can't get my head around performing the flash.
I followed a link to here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/huawei-e5770-custom-firmware-o2-sim-unlock.3911704/
Which seems to offer me some hope but I'm completely clueless with any of the procedure. I don't mind trying to flash the device as I have nothing to lose but I am wary of istalling stuff on my PC to do it.
Can someone help me bring this back to life? Huawei Tech support were very helpful on the phone but their repair department refused to fix it under warranty because even though I bought it new from amazon they said that it was listed as some kind of discounted item, like someone had bought a crate of returns and punted out the unopened stuff as brand new even though they were technically second hand. I used it for a year then did something daft and bricked it. ____________________ a.k.a 'Geri'
132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good |
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Pete. Super Spammer
Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :
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Posted: 18:56 - 17 May 2021 Post subject: |
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I scanned it with defender and it came back with 1 file scanned 0 threats found but thanks for looking.
Double-clicking it doesn't do much and running it from the command line with a /? switch doesn't give me a list of commands I can use it just returns ????????? ????? or something like that.
I particularly want to revive this because I had a 3TB drive slaved off it via cat5 and none of the others I can find allow for that. ____________________ a.k.a 'Geri'
132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good |
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Easy-X Super Spammer
Joined: 08 Mar 2019 Karma :
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Posted: 16:51 - 18 May 2021 Post subject: |
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I've had a look at the source code, some translations:
Code: | The utility is designed for flashing modems on the Balong V7 chipset, usage:
balong_flash.exe [options] <name of the file to load or the name of the directory with files>
Valid Options:
-p # - serial port number for communicating with the bootloader (for example, -p8 = COM8)
(if the -p switch is not specified, port autodetection is performed)
-n - multi-file firmware mode from the specified directory
-g # - set digital signature mode
-gl - description of parameters
-gd - disable signature autodetection
-m - display the firmware file map and exit
-e - parse the firmware file into partitions without headers
-s - parse the firmware file into sections with headers
-k - do not restart the modem at the end of the firmware
-r - forcibly restart the modem without flashing partitions
-f - flash even if there are CRC errors in the source file
-d # - setting the firmware type (DLOAD_ID, 0..7),
-dl - list of types |
The problem is that it's all in Russian so all the text comes out as ??? unless you change the language settings of your PC.
The procedure looks about as fiddly as reflashing phones ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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