Hacking Hardware Misc Alarmo - Enable into USB Flash Drive Mode!

[HtheB]

I found out that holding down the 3 buttons (Back, Notification and the Big dial) while inserting the USB into a PC, it will enable a flash drive mode.
It is formatted as FAT and has 2,75MB of free space.

I wonder what it is for. Maybe a recovery mode? Maybe it can be used for something else?

 

[Axido]

I found out that holding down the 3 buttons (Back, Notification and the Big dial) while inserting the USB into a PC, it will enable a flash drive mode.
It is formatted as FAT and has 2,75MB of free space.

I wonder what it is for. Maybe a recovery mode? Maybe it can be used for something else?


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2.75MB isn't much considering you will presumably be able to download additional sounds in the future. Does Windows Disk Management recognize other partitions that the explorer doesn't show?

 

[HtheB]

2.75MB isn't much considering you will presumably be able to download additional sounds in the future. Does Windows Disk Management recognize other partitions that the explorer doesn't show?

I assume that it will be saved into another memory that we cannot access it by regular ways.
Windows Disk Management (and any other partition managers) just show this 1 partition of 3MB.

 

[WeegeePiez4]

I assume that it will be saved into another memory that we cannot access it by regular ways.
Windows Disk Management (and any other partition managers) just show this 1 partition of 3MB.

You're right alarms and the system are on a different chip USB Storage Mode is for firmware upgrades via USB (or possibly put doom...)

 

[HtheB]

You're right alarms and the system are on a different chip USB Storage Mode is for firmware upgrades via USB (or possibly put doom...)

Yeah, this discovery was made and shared the day when Alarmo was revealed, before the Alarmo hacks/mods went live

There's great progress on it in here by Tim Schuerewegen
https://x.com/timschuerewegen