Samsung released LN52A650 firmware source code & intructions

[marcelru]

Hi Imgn,

At first glance, this looks pretty much the same as the code for the LE/UExxB series (32B650.zip) The good thing is that it holds some info on installation of it, which makes life a bit easier. Shouldn't be too hard to build working code from it, I guess. The chipset (Amber) is a bit different, though. Most supported in this forum is the Chelsea chipset, I'm afraid.

marcelr

[arris69]

Samsung LN52A650 firmware source code, tools and intructions to compile and install.
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 3970 2010-04-27 03:21 FIRMWARE_UPGRADE_WITH_UBOOT.txt
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=========== Warning ============================================================
Only "boot.img", "uImage" and "rootfs.img" are allowed to update with this sequence.
It's forbidden to update with other files in this sequence and it will cause malfunction of the TV.

this sounds like a invitation.
who wanna try to flash old firmware in this way?

arris

[arris69]

I would like to try. But please tell me why is it an invitation?

if samsung say it's forbidden...

Do you know what is possible to achive with this TV? The file I found is it helpful by somehow?
Thanks

we will see

arris

[marcelru]

Hi Ipgn,

I just had a closer look at the root filesystem of your TV. (squashfs-type) Basically, it already has everything you really need: telnet support, and support for wifi dongles (probably only samsung's own, but it's a start).

What needs to be done is to change the firmware to start the telnet daemon, flash it onto your tv and off you go.
This involves the unpacking of the rootfs.img, rewriting of a few startup scripts and repacking everything into rootfs.img. I have no experience with this.

Once you reach this point, you can start thinking about building software for your tv (support for other wifi dongles etc).
Unfortunately, I don't have a tv like yours, so I can't test it.

Maybe someone else on the forum with a similar tv can help here?

btw, I don't see why they packed squashfs 4.0 into the LGPL packages. the rootfs is squashfs 3.0.
Yet another GPL violation?

grtz,

marcelr