Iosef
10-26-2005, 07:38 AM
Hi!
I just tried to upload a manipulated firmware to my Kodak V550, however, it turned out to have been a major mistake: The camera doesnīt work any more! What happened was the following:
The Kodak V550 has got a way too high image compression. So I downloaded the firmware and changed the jpeg-quantization-table. First I replaced some values with similar ones (replaced all 63-numbers in the table with 61s) and it worked fine: the image quality had improved, the compression was less aggressive, but still too aggressive for me. So I tried it again, changed the values to less than 12, which means that I copied a Fuji FinePix F10-quantization-table into the firmware. The upload went fine, but when I turned on my camera again to activate the firmware, the lights were flashing for a few seconds and the camera turned itself off again. Nothing works, I canīt connect the camera to my computer, I canīt access any menu, the screen remains black, so thereīs nothing I can think of to do any more... but I think that there must be some way to reset the cameras "BIOS", no? I just don't have no idea how to do it. the camera doesn't have a reset-button, so can anyone help me?
thanx alot!
I just tried to upload a manipulated firmware to my Kodak V550, however, it turned out to have been a major mistake: The camera doesnīt work any more! What happened was the following:
The Kodak V550 has got a way too high image compression. So I downloaded the firmware and changed the jpeg-quantization-table. First I replaced some values with similar ones (replaced all 63-numbers in the table with 61s) and it worked fine: the image quality had improved, the compression was less aggressive, but still too aggressive for me. So I tried it again, changed the values to less than 12, which means that I copied a Fuji FinePix F10-quantization-table into the firmware. The upload went fine, but when I turned on my camera again to activate the firmware, the lights were flashing for a few seconds and the camera turned itself off again. Nothing works, I canīt connect the camera to my computer, I canīt access any menu, the screen remains black, so thereīs nothing I can think of to do any more... but I think that there must be some way to reset the cameras "BIOS", no? I just don't have no idea how to do it. the camera doesn't have a reset-button, so can anyone help me?
thanx alot!