Wait! I've made it work! I'm not sure how but I have. I saved the file as GH1_133.bin and set the version increment to 21...not sure why this worked but it did.
Ugh....my battery wasn't that low, 2/3rds charged, but now I'm just staring at the green led watching it charge....oh vel, just moved so I need to setup my main computer anyway, back in an hr or so.
YES!!! YES!!! You MUST USE FULL BATTERY. I saved it as GH1__133, version 10 and I added the 100 max patch, iirc.
Put the full bat in, put the card in, turned it on and hit play and it said "please wait" instead of "no picture", then asked me to update, yes or no and of course I clicked yes....then the progress bar started. Took a little over a minute give or take.
Now I can't find my data cable, of course the frustrations never end. :P Once again, Vitaliy is the man!!
Thank you very much Vitaly, I was late buying my GH1 (Ver 1.34)and got what I thought was an unhackeable one until now, it is now hacked and working using Ipowels safe settings.
Hacked again. Just wanted the stock 50mbs native 24p reliable settings so reformatted card. I named the bin file 134, one up from the 133, I originally did. Did version 11, one up from 10, topped up the battery just to be on the safe side and it worked.
You need to change increment only first time. If you use Prevent Version Compare you do not need to bother anymore. Same for file name. If PTool allow you to save file under such name it'll be ok (as it prevents you make wrong file name).
I did not add photos, I used a freshly reformated empty card, with just the bin file. I did 133 for the first file name and that worked and then I rehacked it and did 134 and version incriment 11.
I did not hold the play button down 5 seconds, I only held it until the "please wait" screen came up, which seemed like it was instant.
Thanks again....The FAQ needs to be updated a bit with all these little changes. For instance, FULL BATTERY needs to be highlighted. All these little things made it hard the first time.
Once again, thanks Vitaliy for everything you've done.
I used a cheap mini 2g sd card with adapter for the original hack because I could freshly format it since I had stuff on my 16gb card. I recorded a few clips with it then swapped the 16gb card and the card works.
You only need the bin file on the card for the hack, once the firmware is updated you don't need it. But...some earlier hack users said they had multiple cards with muliple hacks loaded and just rehacked when they wanted to try different settings.
Hi everyone, and massive thanks to Vitaliy for his continued efforts.
I've done what feels like a lot of homework for this hack, but most of the instructions and other stuff (e.g. patches, recommended settings) seems to be for the GH1. I haven't found much for the GF1, which is the camera I want to patch.
Anyone care to give a brief explanation-for-dummies what are the best hack settings etc for my (previously unhackable) GF1? I'm looking to gain manual film settings, and ideally a higher AVCHD bitrate (so long as it allows for in camera playback). Hopefully this is do-able?