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Old 12-27-2016, 05:56 PM   #116
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Originally Posted by kido.resuri View Post
Is there a neat and clear how-to instruction or thread about how to extract the contents of the firmware?
I would like to examine it a bit, maybe i find some fun and useful stuff others missed. I'm not good in linux yet, so I'm not familiar with "binary" formats.
I'm expecting to "touch" the user interface a bit (extra menus, etc.).
The firmware 'image' is just a '.tar.gz' file, so it can be extracted using tar. The contents is basically a linux distribution.

I believe most of the interface stuff is in the nickel binaries though, so I don't know how much more can be discovered.

GeoffR and others are the people who know a lot more about it than I do however.
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