Red Rite Aid 400 - 6600 Unlocked! Finally Got it!
I have a Red (really pink) 400 with no picture preview screen bought from Rite Aid, doesnt say PV2 anywhere I added the USB cable to pins 6 7 8 9.. not sure if I went on the right side.. My pcb said J5 on one end so I figured that was Contact 1 (1 was nearest the top of the camera, 10 at bottom?) Doing 2 types of pinches I get back these 2 sets of alphanumerics EA 60 61 60 20 00 66 00 28 28 23 I installed the lib usb although I am unaware of where to add 27,28,29 etc lines or where to find the inf file im supopsed to add them to. When cam is connected, PV2Tools cant see the camera or connect to it When I click connect, it just errors and closes (send/dont etc) it says the error has to dow ith libusb.dll or soemthing. I can post pics if needed of my cams insides/outs,screenshots, as well as the work I have done on the cam. I am trying to get this working as a beginner camera for my 7 yr old. IE I wont care if she breaks/loses it. Any help is greatly aprecciated. I have been up messing with this for 3 hours and now its 3:30 am... need sleep..lol.. Thanks Mike

Here are some images, hope they help you direct me in the proper direction >http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/RezendesFamily/b232329c.jpg>

Make sure your wires are not touching in the device manager point the camera to the driver.

Nothing is popping up in device manager. If it does what section would it appear under. I am also unsure of what copy of pv2tools I should be using, and I am also unsure of which libusb to use? Should I be following this tutorial? Is this the most up to date? forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=339" target="_blank">http://camerahacks.10.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=339 Should the camera power on when it is plugged to usb? Or beep or anything? Have I wired the usb correctly (correct pins used?) I must have did something because now it (pv2tools) doesnt error, it just says "cant find camera" Also I am dont know where in the INF file I am supposed to add that one line. Is it at the bottom? Thanks for any help guys

I think you are connecting to 2,3,4 & 5 (luckly for you ) (you got some practice soldering)(looking down at the board with the edge connector pointing away from you, contact 10 is to the left, contact 1 is to the right. (Your RED lead is connected to (5) not (6) )

Your right the wires are backwards

post the debug screen from PV2tools

I finally managed to get the camera detected in PV2Tools 2.19 and as soon as that happened I shorted and got the death beep and then clicked sdram keyscan... I think all worked; heres my debug report; PV2Tool 2.19 Use this software at your own risk. The author takes no responsibility if you damage your camera. Found the camera: SMaL Digital Camera, VID:0DCA PID:0028 Found camera. Connected to camera. Requesting challenge from camera Recieved challenge from camera Comparing Reset key to challenge Comparing Morcheeba's key to challenge Comparing Zeroed key to challenge Comparing BillW's key to challenge Comparing Codeknowbi's key to challenge Comparing Mpho01's key to challenge Comparing Mpho01-6520-2B-02 key to challenge Comparing RayM-6550-2b key to challenge Comparing Mpho01-6550-2B-03 key to challenge Comparing Mpho01-6550-2B-02 key to challenge Comparing WebcoW-6550-2B key to challenge Comparing Mattwhitt-6550-2B key to challenge Comparing Stupid key to challenge Comparing Stupid2 key to challenge Challenge not recognized 14 37 1D 0F CE 29 15 A2 7A D8 D2 40 0C E3 8A 9A 84 93 2D AE EF C1 99 AB 6C 85 EF F7 D9 4D A1 5E 2A 40 67 F2 0F FF BE 46 2D 2F C5 C9 ED C0 0C FC 6E EC CC F8 E1 EB 2C 03 64 DF 1D A3 B3 0B 42 FC 40 BE 07 19 1C AC C4 E2 93 ED 3A 04 55 31 F3 92 23 F7 65 FB 59 7C E0 B6 97 D3 78 2F B1 70 B5 04 81 9A A2 79 75 E4 BA 12 0F 49 6B 21 09 4D AA C6 98 02 93 E9 AA 7C CB 24 A5 39 B0 8A 63 4C 4B 79 Could not unlock the camera with any of the known keys. Camera USB device closed. Error: Found the camera, but could not open it. Found the camera: SMaL Digital Camera, VID:0DCA PID:0028 Found camera. Connected to camera. Attempting download of SDRAM for keyscan Failed at retrieving memory If you're in bootloader mode, ignore previous errors Scanning SDRAM for keys ...Key found ...Key found ...Key found ...Key found ...Key found Found keys were added to pv2keys.txt External key file, pv2keys.txt was found and will be loaded Camera USB device closed. Error: Found the camera, but could not open it. Found the camera: SMaL Digital Camera, VID:0DCA PID:0028 Found camera. Connected to camera. Requesting challenge from camera Recieved challenge from camera Comparing Reset key to challenge Comparing Morcheeba's key to challenge Comparing Zeroed key to challenge Comparing BillW's key to challenge Comparing Codeknowbi's key to challenge Comparing Mpho01's key to challenge Comparing Mpho01-6520-2B-02 key to challenge Comparing RayM-6550-2b key to challenge Comparing Mpho01-6550-2B-03 key to challenge Comparing Mpho01-6550-2B-02 key to challenge Comparing WebcoW-6550-2B key to challenge Comparing Mattwhitt-6550-2B key to challenge Comparing Stupid key to challenge Comparing Stupid2 key to challenge Comparing YourNameHere.1 key to challenge Challenge matches YourNameHere.1 key Sending response Succeeded at unlocking camera. ***This key has not been reused before!! Please report this to camerahacking.com!! Succeeded to CD to / Succeeded at downloading FIRMWARE.BIN Found location to apply unlock patch Succeeded in writing FIRMWARE.BIN Succeeded in patching and uploading FIRMWARE.BIN ---------------------- I then Saved my Raws, and opened them with Picasa and Saved as Jpegs... Why do some of the pics have weird artifacting??

either use pv2fetch or use Flatfoto2 drivers to get better pics I think FF2 gives better results

and ff2 is only obtainable through radioshack?

load drivers on computer, go to PV2tools and change the PID to Flatfoto2 you will nolonger need PV2tools. It will show up under "My computer"

FF2 Installed fine and camera shows in 'my computer' now I can see the pics on the cam, they all show 3.14mb, then when I copy them and paste them from the camera to the desktop, I get 3 BMPs with no data in each of them (ie nothing) Whats going on?? PS: Pv2fetch works great Interested to see the BMPS from FF2 compared to the PV2Fetch JPG's thanks again guys