This topic is one that I often find myself explaining in more detail, and one that many people aren’t even aware that they can update their camera’s firmware, and how this may affect their digital camera. An analogy is to updating the version of software on your smart phone. What is firmware and why is it important? This Pin was discovered by Nikon Store. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest.

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Just wondering if anyone else had this issue. Granted the FW is pretty new, but the update process shouldn't be something that's easy to mess up, and I'm confident it was proper.

The update started, and then failed about a minute into it. A message came up saying to press the reset button on the HU and the update would restart. Unfortunately after that, it just loops that message a few times and goes blank.

Sony's 'tech support' wasn't very helpful, and their only option was to send in the HU, and 10 business days later, they'll send a replacement out... Basically putting me without a radio/backup camera for a good 3-4 weeks. I offered a credit card to pay for a cross-ship so I wouldn't be down too long, but to no avail - that doesn't fit their scripts. Crutchfield to the rescue - They're taking care of me and will have a new HU in my hands tomorrow! I'm just nervous to try and update the FW on this one!

Suggestion - The FW update resets all your settings anyway, perhaps I should have done a factory reset on the HU before starting the update?

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UPDATE: Using a 4GB FAT16 formatted USB stick did the trick! H/T to u/4senberG !!!

You may have come across this website a while ago:

and been frustrated by the lack of instruction and other info out there.

I bought a Hero 2018 yesterday and within an hour had it hacked into a Hero 5 Black.

I still won't hold your hand, if you don't know how to zip/unzip, use windows command prompt etc. Essentially if anything below isn't clear enough - you probably shouldn't try this.

Anyway, the missing information is:

1. You need to have an UPDATE folder in the root of you sdcard with these 4 files :

• patched camera_firmware.bin from 2.6 Hero 5 firmware

• camera_loaders.bin

• hd5_update.txt from 2.6 Hero 5 firmware zip and CAMLOAD:0 set

• copy of hd5_update.txt renamed fwupdate.txt, CAMLOAD:0 set

The Hero 5 Black 2.6 firmware can be downloaded from the GoPro website under manual update, you will have to enter a serial number but plenty are available on images.google.com.

Extract the zip into a root folder called UPDATE on your sdcard and edit/create the text files as per above ensuring for both:

CAMLOAD:0 CAMERA:1 HIBER:1

The trouble I then had was, how do I modify the camera_firmware.bin?

The clue is actually in the above link - the site shares a .diff file for download!

Simply download and extract bspatch for windows from: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/929/

Then copy camera_firmware.bin and gethypoxic.com's diff file into the bsdiff folder. Then from command prompt within the bsdiff folder run:

bspatch camera_firmware.bin camera_firmware_patched.bin h5to2018.diff

This will patch the firmware, performing all the manual steps the site describes. Be sure to check the SHA1 checksum against the one on the site above (there are plenty of sites that let you do upload files & display the SHA1)

Now copy camera_firmware_patched.bin back to the UPDATE folder on your sdcard and rename it camera_firmware.bin

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You should now have the above four files ready to go on the sdcard in a root folder called UPDATE. Insert the sim and turn on the camera, it will go through the update process.