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I’ve been looking at these for a while, hoping the custom firmwares for it will become more popular, as I was considering getting this for my six-year-old.

The disabled usb is certainly a bummer. I wonder how they disabled it though – is there a hardware difference?

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To flash a new firmware on those devices you just need to place the firmware image of crosspoint on the memory card and then press UP+POWER to reboot and install the new firmware.

My device was the China edition that was locked (USB firmware upload disabled), the memory card method worked fast and easy.


Crosspoint is very popular and very easy to flash onto the device.

Locking and preventing flashing of firmware only happened in China.


This page mentions international models, but seems it's still possible to flash them in any case

https://crosspointreader.com/#unlock-tool

also: https://crosspointreader.com/unlocker




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