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Just curious. After perusing the quite long, and often pedantic thread regarding FW4, has anyone tried simply renaming it (eg 3.5)? Seems like that would potentially allay any concerns about not being able to update to FW4.0 later, once the official drops, and if this leak turns out to be a beta. I'll be installing probably tomorrow evening, and plan to try this unless someone already has with bad results.

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Just curious. After perusing the quite long, and often pedantic thread regarding FW4, has anyone tried simply renaming it (eg 3.5)? Seems like that would potentially allay any concerns about not being able to update to FW4.0 later, once the official drops, and if this leak turns out to be a beta. I'll be installing probably tomorrow evening, and plan to try this unless someone already has with bad results.

Please enlighten us.. how do you plan to change the firmware's version ID ? 

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Renaming won't make a difference. Version number will be embeded

 

A very basic description of what you'd need to do.

 

Hack encryption, be good with assembler language to decompile the app (not many good decompiler apps), find location of version data (sometimes easier said than done), make sure there are no links / references to the Version data that could screw other functions up that reference it, recompile it. Then, pray to god it doesn't screw your camera up.

 

Seriously, don't go there.... unless of course you are a top rate programmer (but I doubt you'd be asking this if that were true). The chances are you'll brick your camera... it's not worth the risk.

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Just curious. After perusing the quite long, and often pedantic thread regarding FW4, has anyone tried simply renaming it (eg 3.5)? Seems like that would potentially allay any concerns about not being able to update to FW4.0 later, once the official drops, and if this leak turns out to be a beta. I'll be installing probably tomorrow evening, and plan to try this unless someone already has with bad results.

I don't think there is much reason to worry about whether you can upgrade or not. This is not like a Windows upgrade where files are being applied selectively. I bet you can copy Firmware V1.0 onto a SD card and the camera will downgrade to it. Haven't tried it though :-)

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