Your unwillingness to describe the specifics of your project is a big red flag for me.If you actually have the money to pay market rates for tens to hundreds of hours of professional reverse engineering, it's very hard to see how this makes any sense.I encourage anyone considering getting involved to tread carefully.I tend to interpret rule 4 narrowly, on the basis that open technical discussion benefits the whole community regardless of whether a project commercial, but using this forum simply to recruit for a secret project seems quite inappropriate.
One of the things that a lot of them want, is getting rid of their cameras WiFi capabilities, we were currently manually opening up devices to take out the WiFi card, But we are looking for a way to streamline the process thus minimizing the chances of damage, by using software instead.
I actually don't have a problem discussing all the projects details, just being that I am completely new to this whole camere hacking I have no idea from where to start,The purpose is for an Organization currently active in several country's, who help people limit themselves and their kids who struggle with over exposure and addiction to social media, disconnect and limit themselves,
One of the things that alot of them want, is getting rid of their cameras WiFi capabilities, we were currently manually opening up devices to take out the WiFi card, But we are looking for a way to streamline the process thus minimizing the chances of damage, by using software instead.
Finally, with enough effort, it should be possible to figure out how to disable WiFi in the actual Canon ROM, create a hacked version of that ROM, and re-flash the camera's ROM.
re-flashing part of the ROM to disable wifi seems more in line with your objective. It's possible to flash individual blocks of RAM, and in principle it could be reversed, but not without risk. It's likely one could modify one of the wifi related tasks in a way that prevents it from working with affecting normal camera operation. Except for the flashing part, this could be prototyped non-destructively in CHDK. This would require additional work and testing on each supported model.There are also a lot of wifi related event procs. It's possible one of them could disable wifi without direct flashing, e.g. by setting the MAC address to an invalid value, or enabling wlan factory mode.All that said, I'm somewhat hesitant to get too deep into potentially destructive modifications that could potentially get back to Canon as warranty claims at some point.
FWIW, if you have successfully disassembled Canon cameras and disabled wifi by hardware modification, description of the process or photos would be welcome.We collect this kind of thing, like https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/UART
I didn't see anything about taking out WiFi cards, (I allready did hundreds of them, all of them keep working after the removal)
Wifi in PowerShots is something fairly new by CHDK standards. Which model(s) have removable wifi cards not integrated onto the main PCB?
The warrenty i am not worried, first the way we do it right now, voids the warrenty
What I meant was pictures of internal components. I don't recall seeing any of wifi modules, so it might be of interest to the community if you posted them.
I disassembled the SX530 and did not see the separate WiFi module. WiFi chipset and PCB antenna are integrated on the main board.I suppose that's the same on all other cameras with WiFi, but I may be wrong.Even if you could remove the WiFi module the camera would probably immediately turn off with a code for a hardware failure.
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