Note: Updated since original post – see updates at the end of blog post
I noticed yesterday that “Doren Katz” over @ http://doronkatz.com/iriver-story-firmware-171-update has found a firmware upgrade for the iRiver story.
However, I failed to find the original download on any of the korean, china or japan iriver websites but non the less downloaded I downloaded it myself to have a look but rather than installing I decided to have a peek inside the ebook.hex file.
Firstly, this is really a .zip file with a false 128byte header, so its time to get the swiss-army does everything with files utility out and strip the header off with:
dd if=ebook.hex of=ebook.zip bs=128 skip=1
Next, lets look for what has changed between the different version’s, so as “unzip” includes the crc check for each file, we just need to create a text file with the files in sorted order with the appropriate crc check included. I used a combination of unzip/awk/sort
unzip -v ebook.zip | awk '{ print $8, $7 }' | sort >ebook.17.txt
I did this for the ebook.hex from Doren’s site and the official 1.61 file.
So, what can I deduce from the update…
The big question is….. should I install it?
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Update – Original link to firmware found @ http://zone.iriver.co.kr/service/cs_down.aspx?pGroup=8&pName=Story&Cate=1&VIdx=1&idx=1217
Update -2
A very quick translation, gives us the following…
Fixes include:
