M3 Firmware (might be relevant for M6 too)

wpyh

Well, I said a few days ago that I would post some of my adventures with M3 firmware. I haven't cleaned it up, so this is all I can post right now (see attachment).

Now I've got some help from Rupan, and the M6SL image format is now supported.

The first attachment is Rar.exe that we need to compress the firmware image.

The second attachment is the utilities. It contains:

meizu-firmware : Utility for joining or splitting a firmware image.

meizu-resource : Utility for joining or splitting a resource file.

meizu-convert: Utility for converting between resource types.

m3_settings_show : Utility for examining the settings file from an M3.

other c files: common functions.

Please note that Windows users won't need the resource converters since they have Resource Editor.

Hope this helps.

Attached Files

	winrar280.zip (101.4 KB, 39 views)
	meizu-firmware-utils.zip (21.2 KB, 63 views)

wpyh

I edited 2.004.5 firmware so that it uses SYSTEM\SETTINGS.DAT instead of SYSTEM\SETTIGS.DAT (sic)

I did not modify the resource file, so I'm not attaching it here

Attached Files

m3.new.ebn.zip (598.7 KB, 37 views)

dravik

What is this?, anymore information?

wpyh

Uh, sorry. The file meizu-firmware-utils.zip is just some utilities to manipulate the firmware. Currently I only have something to create a .ebn firmware from its components (firmware_combine.c) and something to show M3's settings (m3_show_settings.c).

The file new5.zip contains a proof-of-concept edited firmware. I edited the firmware so that it saves and loads its settings from SYSTEM\SETTINGS.DAT, instead of SYSTEM\SETTIGS.DAT.

dravik

Ok thanks for youre reply!, I don't want to risk my M6 so I'm not gonna try it out:P

strangers

im testing. confirm - your firmare working on my M3.
May be you activate all language, calc and games?

strangers

Some...
Whether there is a ready this utilites?

Asmo

There are some mistakes in font format description in meizu-firmware-utils/formats/font.

It's the index of the glyph in the glyph section. For example if you want a glyph for codepoint 0x0020, index of the glyph will be the word at offset_of_codes + 2 * 0x0020.

Not exactly right. Width of a glyph in bytes may be 1, 2 or 3 i.e. 8, 16, or 24 pixels. For 16 wide font each glyph is 16 * 2 = 32 bytes, for 20 wide - 20 * 3 + 4 = 64 bytes (4 bytes for alignment), for 24 wide - 24 * 3 = 72 bytes.

There are NO characters sets. They are unnecessary for BMP (basic multilingual plane).

wpyh

@dravik: This is for the M3

@strangers: The utilities are in the attachment, in source form.

@Asmo: I've been looking at your thread for 15 minutes and still pondering... Will report back. Thanks a lot!

strangers

May be this is not complete source?
Im try compile and what say editor:
Info :Compiling C:\BC5\m3_settings_show.c
Error:m3_settings_show.c(7,2):Unable to open include file 'STDINT.H'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(11,2):Unable to open include file 'SYS\MMAN.H'

Error:m3_settings_show.c(16,16):Declaration missing ;
Error:m3_settings_show.c(19,17):Multiple declaration for 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(16,17):Earlier declaration of 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(19,17):Declaration missing ;
Error:m3_settings_show.c(21,16):Multiple declaration for 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(16,16):Earlier declaration of 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(21,16):Declaration missing ;
Error:m3_settings_show.c(24,26):Multiple declaration for 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(16,26):Earlier declaration of 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(24,26):Declaration missing ;
Error:m3_settings_show.c(25,19):Multiple declaration for 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(16,19):Earlier declaration of 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(25,19):Declaration missing ;
Error:m3_settings_show.c(27,16):Multiple declaration for 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(16,16):Earlier declaration of 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(27,16):Declaration missing ;
Error:m3_settings_show.c(30,20):Multiple declaration for 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(16,20):Earlier declaration of 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(30,20):Declaration missing ;
Error:m3_settings_show.c(31,26):Multiple declaration for 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(16,26):Earlier declaration of 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(31,26):Declaration missing ;
Error:m3_settings_show.c(32,21):Multiple declaration for 'uint8_t'
Error:m3_settings_show.c(32,21):Too many error or warning messages
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May be you try attach complete project, ok? Thanks.