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title: AudioMate Firmware
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layout: default
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created: 2009-01-26 00:47:15 +0100
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updated: 2016-02-01 17:42:11 +0100
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toc: false
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tags:
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- know-how
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- hacking
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- hardware
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- audiomate
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- allsound
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- firmware
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Download
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* **1.2.2.1** BETA: [megaupload.com](http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=HTVF7XZA)
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* **Source Code**: [allnet.de](http://www.allnet.de/downloads.php?produkt=ALLSOUND)
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Details
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Looking at the firmware file, the header starts - as usual - at `0x00`. It consists of the string `UMDA!` followed by
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the firmware revision in octets. For the v1.2.2.1 I found the bytes `01 02 02 01`. After that are some bytes which
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might be a checksum. The line looks like this:
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55 4d 44 41 21 00 01 02 01 02 02 01 00 06 c5 c9 UMDA!...........
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At `0x10` starts the *.tar.gz* compressed kernel image `kernel.bin` and it ends at `0x0e1474`. After that there's a lot
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of room for more code in the future.
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The kernel seems to be version 2.4.26-uc0 for MIPS architecture. At least I found the string somewhere there.
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At `0x0ff000` the boot logo starts - a 128x64 pixel black-white-BMP. Since I don't like the original logo, I made a new
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one. Here's the comparison:
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And now for the interesting part:
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At `0x100000` the [cramfs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cramfs) starts. You can unpack it in Windows using e.g. the
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[FSExtractor](https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=99199&package_id=108962&release_id=263019) or
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*uncramfs* from the [Firmware-Mod-Kit](http://code.google.com/p/firmware-mod-kit/). You could also mount it using the
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*cramfstools* or *fusecram*.
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After mounting the kernel image, you'll find some interesting things. Here are some examples:
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`/etc/customer.info`:
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AudioMate U-MEDIA Communications, Inc http://www.u-media.com.tw
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`/etc/buildtime`:
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2005 Dec 22, 12:20 PM
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Below `/etc/ringbell/` you'll find a MP3 file `ringbell.mp3` which is the alarm sound. I formerly guessed it is made of
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sinus waves - but this discovery open new possibilities for tuning the device. The file is recorded at 44.1 kHz with
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64kbps and mono signal.
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Under `/etc/icons/` are all used icons in BMP format. Even the boot logo is found there - don't know why. Also a
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"screenshot" of the main menu.
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For time synchronization, the NTP server `0.pool.ntp.org` is used - good choice! This entry is found in `/etc/conf_def.dat`.
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Finally you'll find all pre-defined radio stations in the binary file `/bin/dma_ui`. Sadly this throws all my plans
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away. I hoped these are defined in a text file which I could change easily and re-insert into the kernel. I don't need
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those 500+ Asian radio stations. I'd like to have my own favorite stations - because the 20 favorites the device
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supports are not enough to hold ALL the stations I'd like it to hold.
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Well, there still is the way of having lots of `.m3u` playlists with links to your favorite stations on a USB drive.
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I still have to find out how the firmware gets checked for validity - because without knowing it, the firmware
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containing my custom logo gets rejected. Seems like they didn't use a common checksum (CRC16 or CRC32) - or I didn't
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find the correct range of where the checksum gets calculated.
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Checksum
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========
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A user called "tidy" has found out what the header bytes are meaning and how checksum is compiled:
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> bytes 0-3: file magic `UMDA`
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> byte 4: Platform *
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> byte 5+7: Customer * * (whatever that means its extracted from decompiling the header parse code)
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> byte 6: Model *
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> byte 8-10: Version number
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> byte 11-12: build number (little endian)
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> byte 13: flags seem to have impact on the update process but I'm not sure in which function
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> byte 14-15: checksum
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> The checksum is calculated by interpreting the file as a little endian int16 stream, adding up its
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> values, truncating the 16LSBs after every addition and calculating the value that is missing to
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> sum up to 0x10000. I.e. if one calculates the checksum as described over the whole file including
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> the calculated checksum the result has to be zero.
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