Recent content by John P

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    DS-2CD2432F-IW 3MP firmware issue after trying to upgrade to 5.4

    Hi, sorry I didn't have the time to solve this yet. The AliExpress seller wasn't very helpful. I'm hoping there will be a new firmware I can install. Didn't check lately. Please let me know if you have any luck solving it.
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    DS-2CD2432F-IW 3MP firmware issue after trying to upgrade to 5.4

    Hi, I'm located in Finland. I wonder what the Aliexpress seller would say if I asked for a refund due to no warnings about firmware being limited to CN and not upgradable. Anyone had luck getting a refund?
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    DS-2CD2432F-IW 3MP firmware issue after trying to upgrade to 5.4

    Hi alastairstevenson, do you have the same or similar camera with the same problem as me? How did you recover it?
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    DS-2CD2432F-IW 3MP firmware issue after trying to upgrade to 5.4

    Thanks for the quick response. So if I understood you correctly the camera erased the old software when the new one was flashed to it, but the new firmware wasn't compatible so now it has just the bare kernel. So should the camera accept the CN 5.3.0 firmware or does the camera interpret that...
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    DS-2CD2432F-IW 3MP firmware issue after trying to upgrade to 5.4

    Hi, I messed up my Hikvision DS-2CD2432F-IW 3MP camera by trying to upgrade to the latest europe firmware via the web interface. Checked my downloads an the firmware was IPC_R0_EN_STD_5.4.5_170123. I read somewhere that I could get the email alerts with gmail working by upgrading. Didn't know...