software to extract a full firmware form the player ?

renesigma · #1 (**permalink**) 17th Oct 2006, 4:19 pm

HI

I want know if someone have a software to extract a full firmware form the player, like chinese software or something ?

tadad1 · #2 (**permalink**) 17th Oct 2006, 4:53 pm

renesigma,
It is not possible to extract a full version firmware because all the files are not on the player. A full version firmware contains files that are used to prepare the player for the firmware by allocating locked disk space, prepare the boot sector and scan the players hardware configuration.
These extra files are not loaded to the player so can not be included in the extraction.

renesigma · #3 (**permalink**) 17th Oct 2006, 5:00 pm

BAD NEWS

But can be possible, I guess, extract these files form a full firmware and make a full firmware with a dumped one.

tadad1 · #4 (**permalink**) 18th Oct 2006, 2:12 am

renesigma, Yes you can merge a full firmware with a dump using s1fwx. To do this copy the following red text to notepad and save then rename the file merge.bat.

@echo off
::make script from full.bin to recompile from
s1fwx s full.bin > merge.script
::extract files from the full.bin
s1fwx x full.bin
::extract files from dump.bin overwriting files extracted from full.bin
s1fwx x dump.bin
::rebuild full firmware with files from dump.bin included
s1fwx a merged.bin:afi < merge.script
::delete surplus files
for %%t in (dump full merged) do ren %%t.bin *.bak
for %%t in (script ap fw bin bi$) do del *.%%t
ren *.bak *.bin

Place merge.bat into the s1fwx folder then add your full version firmware named full.bin and your repaired dump named dump.bin. When you run the merge.bat it will combine the two and create a file called merged.bin.
You may need to try a couple of different full firmware to get a viable full merged firmware.