Bricked GeoVision IP camera

[wyliesdiesels]

Hi all. Ive got a Geovision BL-2410 IP camera thats been on my garage working happily up until recently.

A few months ago I went into the interface to change some things around and update the firmware. I messed up on something because immediately afterwords, it was bricked into a continous reset and reboot pattern. Every 60 secs or so, the camera will unlink from the port on the switch then relink and reset itself.

I spent several hours with tech support trying to get it working. They were perplexed as theyve never seen anything like this before.

The camera still powers on and the motorized lens resets itself every reboot. Theres something wrong with the ethernet link. I dont see it show up on my router's DHCP tables and Ive tried an IP scan of my network. I even switched subnets on my NIC to the default geovision factory IP subnet but didnt see the camera.

So Im calling on the garage journal collective to see if anyone has an idea about how to get it working again. Maybe someone has some software tools that can fix it.

Ive already tried the factory reset button many times.

This camera is expensive and i dont have the funds right now to replace it...

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Bump

 

[justsam]

Is this POE? If not is there POE on the Ethernet to it that may be causing some grief. If local power, measure it during the re-boot to be sure something is not going on with the power to it.

Have you just tried another Ethernet port?

 

[dogdog]

Don't have these fancy cameras... maybe ask them how to recover from boot loop, it seems to be running linux.?
just arm chair suggestions for you....


tried their "GV-IP Device Utility"?

TFTP mode firmware recovery ? something like these...or you can google something from the WRT54G days are popular in firmware recovery....

sample from a different product
https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/arti...reset-your-device-with-TFTP-firmware-recovery

Try to see if you can identify those serial ports and see if you can do a recovery over that.... some devices are build on top of the Ethernet port ..... if you are able to identify the serial port tx rx gnd you could open a hyperterm to it and see the console messages....

JTAG?


http://www.geovision.com.tw/english/Datasheet/Upgrading_IPCam_Notice.pdf

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Is this POE? If not is there POE on the Ethernet to it that may be causing some grief. If local power, measure it during the re-boot to be sure something is not going on with the power to it.

Have you just tried another Ethernet port?

Yes it is POE and yes Ive tried different ports and 2 different POE switches. Its not a power issue.

The camera has a fan and the fan runs continously. The ethernet is the only thing that resets

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Don't have these fancy cameras... maybe ask them how to recover from boot loop, it seems to be running linux.?
just arm chair suggestions for you....


tried their "GV-IP Device Utility"?

TFTP mode firmware recovery ? something like these...or you can google something from the WRT54G days are popular in firmware recovery....

sample from a different product
https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/arti...reset-your-device-with-TFTP-firmware-recovery

Try to see if you can identify those serial ports and see if you can do a recovery over that.... some devices are build on top of the Ethernet port ..... if you are able to identify the serial port tx rx gnd you could open a hyperterm to it and see the console messages....

JTAG?


http://www.geovision.com.tw/english/Datasheet/Upgrading_IPCam_Notice.pdf

Thx. I will try your suggestions when i get a chance...

Yes have tried that utility and it doesnt find it

 

[RacerX]

link problem ? take the camera down and try connecting it direct to your P.O.E. switch or P.O.E. power source and see if it powers up normally.