Thread: Determine device firmware version
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Old 09-07-2015, 07:25 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by mishagale View Post
Thanks! I knew I'd seen a file like that somewhere, but I couldn't find it, probably because I was looking on / instead of on the SD card.

Looks like the comma-separated fields break down into serial number (which starts with the model number), kernel version, firmware version, kernel version again, kernel version yet again, and then something I'm not certain, maybe a different representation of the firmware version? No idea why the kernel version is repeated three times, but looks like there's enough info there to identify model and firmware version.
The last value in the file is the model identifier. That is safer than using the serial number. From memory, for the older Touch's, the serial number doesn't start with the model number. There has been a list of these identifiers posted in the past, but it won't include the latest models.
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