Omnimaga
General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Vogtinator on July 07, 2014, 03:47:30 pm
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My old (well, 4 years old) camera doesn't want to open the shutter anymore, so it was time to get a new one, primarily for the school trip to croatia in two weeks ;D
It had to be cheap, in case someone steals or somehow makes it less usable, you know <_<
Most cams in that price range were awful, REALLY awful, but the samsung wb350f (http://www.samsung.com/us/photography/digital-cameras/EC-WB350FBPBUS) was nice to control and looked a bit less plasticky than the other ones. </advertisement>
It has a whole lot of totally useless features, like an NFC tag, Wi-Fi connection to upload pictures and movies to picasa, facebook, dropbox, youtube, send it per email, a baby monitor (not kidding!), remote control using a smartphone (I don't have one, just a normal mobile phone) and the list goes on and on.
But to upload to dropbox, it has to register a oauth token and such it opens a webbrowser to a dropbox login page with some samsung customizations. You can probably guess what comes next: Set up a DNS server to redirect (CNAME) www.dropbox.com to a custom server with ssl certificate and redirect everything to http://google.com. Success!
(http://i.imgur.com/5SrDHnAl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/5SrDHnA)
The browser doesn't seem to support CSS or anything like that, but the font rendering is quite good ::)
I would love to play around with this some more, but without windows I can't do firmware updates, use the samsung software etc. >:(
I found a directory "java" on the microsd card, so the browser (forgot the name) may be java (ME?) itself. Also a previous model is a bit more open in a hack-friendly way and runs enlightenment, so probably linux-based?
Let's see what this thing can do!
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in case someone...makes it less usable...
Like.. yourself? :P
/me runs
j/k
Nice camera you got there :) It's really surprising how everything gets more and more features nowadays. Good to see it can do all those things as well :)
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now publish a screenshot with Ricky on it. :p (nice redirection though, nice one)
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Whoa that's a nice hack.
Reminds me of how the Gamecube was first hacked. Basically there was that online game that downloaded updates from the server. Binary executable updates that is. And guess what : there was no check. :P So people just set up a custom DNS and server to upload binaries to the console.
I hope you can do something interesting with this.
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in case someone...makes it less usable...
Like.. yourself? :P
/me runs
j/k
I can actually tell a story about something like that. My grandpa owns a camcorder (really cheap crap) and I tried to change some settings as the pictures and videos were really awful. So I tried to change the resolution and other properties, which is called "Bildformat" in German.
Now in the main menu there was an option called "Format". I assumed it's the "Bildformat" and clicked on it. And no, it wasn't. SD card empty, photos of a full year lost, without any backups >:(
now publish a screenshot with Ricky on it. :p (nice redirection though, nice one)
Give me the URL and I'll do it!
Whoa that's a nice hack.
Reminds me of how the Gamecube was first hacked. Basically there was that online game that downloaded updates from the server. Binary executable updates that is. And guess what : there was no check. :P So people just set up a custom DNS and server to upload binaries to the console.
I hope you can do something interesting with this.
I've got a windows VM somewhere so I can probably get a firmware dump (and the source code, maybe) which may be modifyable. Shell access would be nice ;D
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in case someone...makes it less usable...
Like.. yourself? :P
/me runs
j/k
I can actually tell a story about something like that. My grandpa owns a camcorder (really cheap crap) and I tried to change some settings as the pictures and videos were really awful. So I tried to change the resolution and other properties, which is called "Bildformat" in German.
Now in the main menu there was an option called "Format". I assumed it's the "Bildformat" and clicked on it. And no, it wasn't. SD card empty, photos of a full year lost, without any backups >:(
Aww that really sucks :( They really should make those options hard to access to avoid these kind of accidents.
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in case someone...makes it less usable...
Like.. yourself? :P
/me runs
j/k
I can actually tell a story about something like that. My grandpa owns a camcorder (really cheap crap) and I tried to change some settings as the pictures and videos were really awful. So I tried to change the resolution and other properties, which is called "Bildformat" in German.
Now in the main menu there was an option called "Format". I assumed it's the "Bildformat" and clicked on it. And no, it wasn't. SD card empty, photos of a full year lost, without any backups >:(
Aww that really sucks :( They really should make those options hard to access to avoid these kind of accidents.
Hmmm shouldn't there be a confirmation prompt ? <_<
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Nice, I was always wondering if it was easy to hack digital cameras :thumbsup:
in case someone...makes it less usable...
Like.. yourself? :P
/me runs
j/k
I can actually tell a story about something like that. My grandpa owns a camcorder (really cheap crap) and I tried to change some settings as the pictures and videos were really awful. So I tried to change the resolution and other properties, which is called "Bildformat" in German.
Now in the main menu there was an option called "Format". I assumed it's the "Bildformat" and clicked on it. And no, it wasn't. SD card empty, photos of a full year lost, without any backups >:(
Aww that really sucks :( They really should make those options hard to access to avoid these kind of accidents.
Hmmm shouldn't there be a confirmation prompt ? <_<
This happened to me too once, but luckily I was able to restore everything from the formatted SD card using a program to undelete files.
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Nice, I was always wondering if it was easy to hack digital cameras :thumbsup:
in case someone...makes it less usable...
Like.. yourself? :P
/me runs
j/k
I can actually tell a story about something like that. My grandpa owns a camcorder (really cheap crap) and I tried to change some settings as the pictures and videos were really awful. So I tried to change the resolution and other properties, which is called "Bildformat" in German.
Now in the main menu there was an option called "Format". I assumed it's the "Bildformat" and clicked on it. And no, it wasn't. SD card empty, photos of a full year lost, without any backups >:(
Aww that really sucks :( They really should make those options hard to access to avoid these kind of accidents.
Hmmm shouldn't there be a confirmation prompt ? <_<
There was. A single window with a single button in the center, called "Ja"/"Yes". Nothing else.
This happened to me too once, but luckily I was able to restore everything from the formatted SD card using a program to undelete files.
I haven't had the time to do that and it was only his secondary camera anyway, it was so bad he barely used it. Still, there were quite a few pictures on there. And IIRC formatting took so long that after clicking on "Ja" I first thought it crashed or freezed. I wasn't quick enough to remove the battery, so I'd assume it didn't only format but rather clear the entire card, but I can't tell for sure.
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But... can this camera run Doom? :trollface:
Awesome, though :)
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But... can this camera run Doom? :trollface:
I actually wouldn't be surprised if it could.