As of May 2014 I own an Olympus OM-D E-M10 and Im very happy about it.

Update: 07.08.14 Because I only own an E-M10 this is all about the new OM-D camera.

But the procedure for hacking an Olympus firmware is the same for all 3 OM-D cameras.

The system behind the link: language0001camera idindexfirmware numbera.html Where the firmware number is an integer: Ver.

Ver 1.1 2; etc.

Camera Firmware Hacks Series And Found

I searched for older firmware hacks for the OM-D series and found some people who downloaded and decrypted one for the E-M5: On this page is a link to the binary firmware file of the E-M5 which is being downloaded by the Olympus Digital Camera Updater to update the firmware of your Olympus camera.

So I wrote an app to search(with the new id of the E-M10) the Olympus website for similar pages to get the firmware for the E-M10.

So as described at person-view.com I extracted all the files with the olyfwtools and got 64 files (incl.

Now that is where the fun part takes place: Reverse engineering.

Camera Firmware Hacks Code Files And

So far I only had time to look at the strings inside the language and main code files and can say: The camera does not support 25fps video.

Or in other words: Olympus did not wrote any code for that yet.

Years ago there where some rumors that the E-M5 does support 60120fps, but as confirmed by others that settings is only for the internal view finder, which indeed has support for up to 240fps.

So to get further: I decrypted the maincode.bin (binary file) of the firmware with the command: olyfwmanip.exe --analyze --in OLYE113110400000000.dissected00.main-code-01.bin --out.OLYE113110400000000.analysis What you get is the file 00.main-code-01.addrstringsall.txt which contains a more readable version of all strings you would also find in the HEX file.

Encrypted and progressed code is being ignored, resulting in a fun to search through file.

Apparently there is equipment which uses Bluetooth, but can we use it also for our purposes The strings show that a OLYMPUS BlueSDK a4 is used to connect to the PENPEL.

It contains all kinds of debug strings for different situations like USB-, WiFi and SD-Card-debugging.

If we get a shell to work, the possibilities are almost endless.

Well lets go on with the hex file.

There is a pyhon script available to emulate the Olympus server.

With this, a new (hacked) firmware can be flashed just like a normal one, no matter what version is installed.

Result: It works like a charm We can flash any firmware - check.

Because we have literally tons of debug commands I try to establish a debug connection.

Original Publish Date: 29.07.14 Update 1: 01.08.14 Update 2: 04.08.14 Update 3: 05.08.14.

Keep hacking Reply Delete Replies Reply Anonymous 14 August, 2014 12:16 Hi, great article, could you please post the olyfwtools I wasnt able to register to personal-view forum.

Reply Delete Replies Unknown 14 August, 2014 20:21 Write me an email and I will give you a link.

Delete Replies Reply Reply 1124 Records 23 January, 2015 22:51 Hi, Can the EM-1 or EM-10 firmware be hacked or modified to work on the PEN EP-5 I would love to add the Live Composite feature to my PEN.