Repacking main EXT parititon

[cnlohr]

I tried repacking the main partition using the older nex-hack tool, and a tool I wrote to repack the lzpt files. Unfortunately I tested both my tool and several changes I made to the OS at the same time. Now my camera boots up, but right as it gets to the main page or firmware loader, the camera reboots.

I was attempting to remove text from the screens by corrupting the fonts. Apparently doing so also causes the camera to not work.

If anyone knows of a way of un-bricking NEX-5N's, I'm all ears! I'm not sure where else to ask. But I can't get it to do the normal boot-to-a-regular-OS.

My changes to re-pack: https://github.com/cnlohr/nex-hack
The story of the failure: erik-smit/nex-hack#2

[ciko]

Hi @cnlohr , I also partially bricked my Nex 5R by modifying the So** icon font TTF file. After that, the camera booted but was very slow and only went into live-preview mode without any UI elements. The buttons made a sound, but visually nothing but the live image remained. I was able to unbrick my camera by doing a firmware update. After unmounting the camera you have to press "ok": Just press the button in the middle of the D-Pad, no matter what the screen says. After the update my camera was back to working again.

The TTF file I used was a valid font file, so I guess the camera's font parser is very picky about what files to read.