While they're okay on paper, they managed to burn a lot of customers in regards to the add-on wifi 7 module. Quite a few of the modules went out without their eeprom programmed correctly, and all of them appear to be…
I too honestly thought that this was going to be a deep dive on the M-series PCIe controller or something similar.
I suspected something along these lines was possible when I looked at this provider a couple months ago. If I recall, I had a fairly decent view of their various checks because it was delivered completely unminified,…
If I recall, for something like GPON or XGS-PON, you end up having to clone the various attributes of the original for it to work properly. This typically includes serial number, hardware id, firmware identifiers, etc.
> Most vendors gave the security researchers either silent treatment or were slow, even after Airoha published fixes. Jabra was one of the positive outlier, Sony unfortunately negatively. While I don't recall Sony…
> that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere It did a great deal more than that. It also allowed the toggling of VoNR, which apparently affected the fallback behavior of some people's services. (Ie. It would fall back…
The major carriers perhaps, but support among the MVNOs isn't universal. Number sharing support for smart watch usage is almost non-existent among the MVNOs in Australia. Eg. ALDI (yes, the German supermarket chain run…
It's still a pretty hard question to answer, given how specific model numbers are sometimes missing on sales listings, and silent revisions to hardware.
I had a similarly negative experience, sadly. Samsung managed to break HDMI-CEC in the final firmware update for one of their tvs, and wouldn't allow downgrading. Which tends not to be great for a tv one wants to use…
It's a shame that Intel seemed to really not want people to use it, given they started disabling the ability to use it in future microcode, and fused it off in later parts.
For those not aware, they are most likely referring to an ongoing "tobacco war" among organised crime groups in Australia, with tobacconists becoming the targets of many arson attacks. Obviously the illicit tobacco…
The sad thing is, the WRT3200ACM has more or less an unmaintained wifi driver, with 802.11w (and thus WPA3) possibly broken within the radio firmware itself. I believe there are other issues regarding regulatory…
In addition to the wifi, I recall the preloader at the start of the boot chain is also a binary blob, which handles some of the chip init and memory calibration for the DDR4.
The insane thing when I tried to update Nextcloud, was that it kept timing out the download because it was too slow, and then required me to delete the upgrade in progress file in order to try again...
Not too surprising given what I've seen of their vendor sdk driver source code, compared to mt76. (Messy would be kind assessment) Unfortunately, there are also some running aftermarket firmware builds with the vendor…
I wonder what SoC these are running? Quite a few of them actually end up configured to preference SD boot over internal flash and/or have easily accessible buttons or shortable pads to trigger bootrom recovery modes.…
> Samsung does monthly updates on more premium phones. But a former flagship like the S22 would sometimes only get the update near the end of the month, even before the S24 is out. This is complicated by their rolling…
I'd consider enabling the hardware watchdog as well. While one could argue that you should figure out the source of your device freezing in the first place; Nothing is better than having to ask someone to power cycle…
> Mediatek might not be willing to provide their WiFi SoC if you are not using their compute SoC There are some China-only ZTE devices that do this, but they obviously have a different order volume and scale that makes…
There's a very recent talk that they did at 37c3 that you can watch, if you're interested in the process of them gaining root on the various platforms [1][2] [1]…
Reminds me somewhat of certain keyboard MCUs that would also brick when fed certain lighting commands. OpenRGB ended up having to disable the particular module from running automatically on that hardware. (Although the…
While Windows technically supports LE Audio and the profiles required, the encoding and such are left up to the vendor driver to implement.[0] I'm not even sure if Intel's newer products will actually properly do BAP…
Reminds me of the WRT3200ACM, which Linksys sold/advertised as "open-source". It's impossible to get compliant WPA3 working on said device because the final firmware blob for the radio has a broken PMF (802.11w)…
From what I can see, this tool also had it's docs hosted on GitHub Pages, but I don't seem to see any evidence of it existing in the repository. Did the author force-push to delete the documentation too?
Well, I believe there are some modified versions of nvflash floating around that'll let you flash anything with a valid signature. Of course, the only thing that'll POST are going to be just other vendor images from the…
While they're okay on paper, they managed to burn a lot of customers in regards to the add-on wifi 7 module. Quite a few of the modules went out without their eeprom programmed correctly, and all of them appear to be…
I too honestly thought that this was going to be a deep dive on the M-series PCIe controller or something similar.
I suspected something along these lines was possible when I looked at this provider a couple months ago. If I recall, I had a fairly decent view of their various checks because it was delivered completely unminified,…
If I recall, for something like GPON or XGS-PON, you end up having to clone the various attributes of the original for it to work properly. This typically includes serial number, hardware id, firmware identifiers, etc.
> Most vendors gave the security researchers either silent treatment or were slow, even after Airoha published fixes. Jabra was one of the positive outlier, Sony unfortunately negatively. While I don't recall Sony…
> that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere It did a great deal more than that. It also allowed the toggling of VoNR, which apparently affected the fallback behavior of some people's services. (Ie. It would fall back…
The major carriers perhaps, but support among the MVNOs isn't universal. Number sharing support for smart watch usage is almost non-existent among the MVNOs in Australia. Eg. ALDI (yes, the German supermarket chain run…
It's still a pretty hard question to answer, given how specific model numbers are sometimes missing on sales listings, and silent revisions to hardware.
I had a similarly negative experience, sadly. Samsung managed to break HDMI-CEC in the final firmware update for one of their tvs, and wouldn't allow downgrading. Which tends not to be great for a tv one wants to use…
It's a shame that Intel seemed to really not want people to use it, given they started disabling the ability to use it in future microcode, and fused it off in later parts.
For those not aware, they are most likely referring to an ongoing "tobacco war" among organised crime groups in Australia, with tobacconists becoming the targets of many arson attacks. Obviously the illicit tobacco…
The sad thing is, the WRT3200ACM has more or less an unmaintained wifi driver, with 802.11w (and thus WPA3) possibly broken within the radio firmware itself. I believe there are other issues regarding regulatory…
In addition to the wifi, I recall the preloader at the start of the boot chain is also a binary blob, which handles some of the chip init and memory calibration for the DDR4.
The insane thing when I tried to update Nextcloud, was that it kept timing out the download because it was too slow, and then required me to delete the upgrade in progress file in order to try again...
Not too surprising given what I've seen of their vendor sdk driver source code, compared to mt76. (Messy would be kind assessment) Unfortunately, there are also some running aftermarket firmware builds with the vendor…
I wonder what SoC these are running? Quite a few of them actually end up configured to preference SD boot over internal flash and/or have easily accessible buttons or shortable pads to trigger bootrom recovery modes.…
> Samsung does monthly updates on more premium phones. But a former flagship like the S22 would sometimes only get the update near the end of the month, even before the S24 is out. This is complicated by their rolling…
I'd consider enabling the hardware watchdog as well. While one could argue that you should figure out the source of your device freezing in the first place; Nothing is better than having to ask someone to power cycle…
> Mediatek might not be willing to provide their WiFi SoC if you are not using their compute SoC There are some China-only ZTE devices that do this, but they obviously have a different order volume and scale that makes…
There's a very recent talk that they did at 37c3 that you can watch, if you're interested in the process of them gaining root on the various platforms [1][2] [1]…
Reminds me somewhat of certain keyboard MCUs that would also brick when fed certain lighting commands. OpenRGB ended up having to disable the particular module from running automatically on that hardware. (Although the…
While Windows technically supports LE Audio and the profiles required, the encoding and such are left up to the vendor driver to implement.[0] I'm not even sure if Intel's newer products will actually properly do BAP…
Reminds me of the WRT3200ACM, which Linksys sold/advertised as "open-source". It's impossible to get compliant WPA3 working on said device because the final firmware blob for the radio has a broken PMF (802.11w)…
From what I can see, this tool also had it's docs hosted on GitHub Pages, but I don't seem to see any evidence of it existing in the repository. Did the author force-push to delete the documentation too?
Well, I believe there are some modified versions of nvflash floating around that'll let you flash anything with a valid signature. Of course, the only thing that'll POST are going to be just other vendor images from the…