murderist

Another member of Archosfans has opened up his model of the archos 605 wifi 30 gb. here's the link Forum.ArchosFans.com :: View topic - Inside the Archos 605 30GB (Pictures)

Vortran

I have an Archos 605 WiFi 80GB - just got it. I am not a hacker, but I am a programmer (unfortunately, I don't know C very well).

1) It needs the ability to have no backlight power-off. The max is 90s which is stupid. Can't disable this, so the backlight shuts off while using it.

2) It needs a shell terminal so can access a command prompt.

3) It needs a new / replacable main desktop 'menu'.

4) It needs an SDK like the PMA440 and 3rd party software to be written for it.

*** 5) Bu MOST IMPORTANTLY, it needs to run Palm OS software or have an emulator or a port path. Specifically, I desperately want Graffiti 1 to run on it. Alterntively, SOME handwriting app to replace the stupid keyboard widget. Though I've been using Graffiti 1 (yes, even on the newest Palm OS devices) for years. Changing is possible, but not desirable as it would slow me down to a crawl and cause no end of frustration (why I an others still use Graffiti 1).

That ought to keep the LINUX hackers busy for a while! I did download the GPL source and none of their proprietary software is on there (no surprise). I suspect that after enough geeks like me who also are able to work with LINUX and C get their hands on this, there will be 3rd party apps galore. I hope.

murderist

i found out what kind of chip it uses. and yes it has jtag

Forum.ArchosFans.com :: View topic - Question for people who have dismantled their archos

murderist

someone has opened their archos 605 wifi completly

Forum.ArchosFans.com :: View topic - Dismantle 605 Wifi 30G

murderist

The archos 605 and 705 have been hacked finally

Forum.ArchosFans.com :: View topic - Archos 605wifi hacked (604wifi too probably)

daithi81

Seems that Archos closed the back door after the last hack, anyone been attempting to crack it?

murderist

yea, archos closed the hack with the last firmware. any firmware upgrade past 1.17.3 i think is closed, that sucks. i can still use the hack though because the firmware upgrades after that have nothing really to upgrade for so i don't bother.

daithi81

Yeah but the latest firmware has Flash 9, which is really handy. Is anyone working on a hack these days?

x_matteo

Hi,
is there anybody that can hacking the archos 605 wifi (firmware 2.1.04)? It is linux based, now the version <= firmware 1.7.13 are hacked (Forum.ArchosFans.com - View topic - Archos 605wifi hacked (604wifi too probably)), we can Qtopia installing,.. .
Is there anybody able to hack the latest version (2.1.04)?