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Ingenic Cloner Utility
The ingenic cloner application is a PC side utility that interfaces with the "USB-Boot" mode built into Ingenic SOCs. By placing the SOC into "USB-Boot" mode, you are able to use the ingenic clonger application to directly flash the firmware chip without physically removing, or interfacing to the flash chip.
This guide is a work in progress.
Shorting pins on flash chip
The first thing to do is locate the flash memory chip on the camera circuit board. Typically this is a square chip with 8 pins labeled 25Q64 or 25Q128, rarely 25L64 or 25L128. If you have trouble locating the chip, try taking some pictures of your board from both sides. Then ask for help in our Telegram channel. Do not try to short-circuit any random chip! It will most likely burn your camera circuit.
Short-circuit pins 5 and 6 of the flash chip with a small metal object, a screwdriver or tweezers, right after the bootloader starts but before it calls up the Linux kernel.
Pins 5 and 6 of the SOIC8 chip are on the opposite corner of pin 1, indicated by the embossed or drawn dot next to it.
