This is not for the faint of heart, so you have been warned. Thanks to CBX for figuring this out on 5.1. This is for people that have 5.1.2 already installed on the camera.
The latest firmware, 5.1.2, even if you install the English firmware on China region cameras will be all in Chinese with no option to change to English. If you follow the instructions, you can use 5.1.2 all in English including the day of week and all the menus.
HARD WAY
1.First, if you are doing this from Windows, pickup a few free tools (putty, 7-zip & HxD)
2.Login to the camera via the browser OK
3.Go to Advanced Configuration -> first category (System) -> last tab -> check Telnet OK
4.Use Putty (or your favorite telnet program) to login. Use the browser password (admin/12345) OK
5.FTP the Davinci file to your FTP server (you can get free software for this, but I used my NAS at 192.168.0.3) - /bin/ftpput -u username -p password 192.168.0.3 davinci.tar.gz /dav/davinci.tar.gz
6.Grab the davinci.tar.gz file from your FTP server
7.Use 7-Zip on Windows (or whatever tool you want to use to unzip, un-tar the file) and first unzip the file, then tar the file to extract the davinci file, almost 10MB.
Hikvision Firmware 5.1.2 Chinese to English Fix
in IP/Megapixel Cameras and Software Solutions
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Hello,
I have a problem :
I dont' arrive to copy the file davinci.tar.gz on my pc from camera :
/bin/ftpput -u username -p password 192.168.0.3 davinci.tar.gz /dav/davinci.tar.gz
On the camera I have launch # setFtpService start
but nothing !!!
Should i have to launch command from camera (telnet) or from my pc ?
I think to put the file back in the camera is the same ?
/bin/ftpget -u username -p password 192.168.0.3 /dav/davinci.tar.gz davinci.tar.gz
login from my pc or telnet from camera ?
Thanks a lot !!!