Bricked Livebox
11 June, 2010 - 21:58
How excited was I. Found your site via Automated Home, hunted down a Livebox, and then bricked it. I was so excited, it's the first time I've tried something like this, but I missed one key part, I didn't unzip the reboot_blueg5.6-patched.gz file, and just copied that into /dev/mtd0. I hope this is a warning to everyone else not to rush.
Will I try again?? JTAG looks way beyond me, and I can't really see me buying another box, so it looks like a trip to the recycling, oh well. Pretty fed up really, reader be warned. The instructions are good, make sure you read them!
Keep up the good work guys, I'll keep looking back to see how HAH develops.
12 June, 2010 - 10:07
#2
she's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
This is the only crucial part of the process where a failure cannot easily be recovered from, sorry to hear that things didn't go well. Based on your feedback I've amended the notes around this area so other don't rush ahead of themselves. Do keep an eye on ebay for another livebox, my mate has picked them up for as low as 99p on a good day.
Brett
15 June, 2010 - 20:35
#5
Sweet success
Good job on the successful load of the HAH firmware. I'll check the wiki details re the DHCP requirement. Note that there is a new release of the firmware available today. Just follow the instructions on the wiki to do an 'autoupdate' http://www.dbzoo.com/livebox/hah#firmware_updates
Do let us know how you get on with using your new HA controller.
15 June, 2010 - 21:03
#6
DHCP
Right at the beginning of the http://www.dbzoo.com/livebox/hah page in the list of feature it's mentioned that the IP address is obtained via DHCP. Yep its documented alright.
Brett
Sorry to hear this. I updated the Wiki instructions to BOLDEN the 'Unzip it' instruction.
JTAG isn't something that we've tried.
Now, please don't give up. You were so nearly there with the hacking in. If you are patient, you will pickup a Livebox on eBay for around a tenner (or if you are awash with cash, there are a couple of 'pre-flashed' ones on eBay.co.uk just now).
As for developments, I'm beginning to research howto add support for an RF receiver - this won't happen quickly as it's quite a bit of work.