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Sandisk Sansa View
markys:
Hey,
Here's the output of "dd if=/dev/sdb2 of=/HiddenPartition.img"
http://age.bdeb.qc.ca/~markys/HiddenPartition.img
Unfortunately, i can't help much more for the decrypting and programming part, but i am always willing to help the project and to learn, so if you need anything (not too complicated!) you can ask me  :)
Markys
Bagder:
Yeps, it confirms that the Sansa View has the BL and OS parts in the second partition is pretty much identical how they are laid out in the e200 v1 series. It does seem to contain more segments though, which hardly is surprising...
crackmonkey421:
OK, now that I have some free time I would like to start trying things... I've never done this before though so I'm not sure where a good place to start is. Anyone know where I can find good information on editing a firmware? I'd like to try changing a string and flashing as Bagder suggested. Decrypting and re-encrypting look easy enough. The part I'm not sure about is modifying a string. Is there any good program for this? Suggested string to modify? or better yet, Is there a good web resource that will give me some of this information?
zivan56:
Get a hex editor (frhed in Windows, ghex or similar in Linux). Decrypt the main Firmware.mi4 and look for a language string. Something like a main menu item or similar (it is near the bottom of the file). Keep in mind strings are unicode.
Bagder:
--- Quote from: pienose on December 30, 2007, 01:46:42 PM --- Does this mean that rock box will be fairly easy to port, I mean if it has the same sort of layout and whatnot as the e200?
--- End quote ---
Oh no, it'll be a heapload of work to port Rockbox to this. A little depending on exactly how different this PP variant is - we just don't know yet.
The "same layout" part was regarding the disk layout and the seemingly similar file format for the hidden partition, so while that part is "easy" large parts of the port won't be.
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