Gpx-6000 1 Year Anniversary. Is It The King?

[phrunt]

yep, it has a rubber moisture/dust cover on it.  It would be considered a USB port that's accessible by the end user for updating, not a service only use one like on the Gold Monster which is deep inside the battery compartment and much harder to access.

[GotAU?]

3 minutes ago, jasong said:

Nope, you got it. It really is behind the speaker grill. By memory there was a rubber plug or cover you had to remove to get to it, which was basically the first thing I did once I got it opened up to reattach my control box that came undone. Oh...what's this doodad here, ah, USB port.

Not a typical end user port like what they have on the Nox then…

[GotAU?]

2 minutes ago, phrunt said:

yep, it has a rubber moisture/dust cover on it.  It would be considered a USB port that's accessible by the end user for updating, not a service only use one like on the Gold Monster which is deep inside the battery compartment and much harder to access.

And there were never any GM updates we could do, and too bad that quick ground balance update was a change in hardware, not firmware.

At least the Nox had a nice firmware update users could do themselves, that was pretty sweet getting a new additional frequency for it.

[jasong]

I got curious sitting here thinking about it and just popped the 6000 open and tried browsing as a hard drive on my computer. No luck, it doesn't show up. Anyone figured out if there is some magic button combo to press to be able to access it's storage or some kind of admin mode by chance? Or maybe it requires some Minelab proprietary software to feed it an encrypted code to access the storage and firmware?

[GotAU?]

2 minutes ago, jasong said:

I got curious sitting here thinking about it and just popped the 6000 open and tried browsing as a hard drive on my computer. No luck, it doesn't show up. Anyone figured out if there is some magic button combo to press to be able to access it's storage or some kind of admin mode by chance? Or maybe it requires some Minelab proprietary software to feed it an encrypted code to access the storage and firmware?

I bet you are right, a flash program only they can use.  So then there’s probably a service charge for shipping it to them for installing updates (if the have one) in the future as well!

[jasong]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was wondering too.

If you aren't required to send the 6000 in for service to do firmware updates then there must be a magic sequence of button presses or Minelab will have to release software for the public to access the 6000 firmware upgrade capabilities it seems like. XChange3 or something.

I could be missing something basic though. Or my USB cable could be bad, it's outdated micro USB and so this is the only cable I still have and it's like 6 years old. Dunno.

*I'm willing to bet they saw a few years back here when we were throwing the 7000 firmware into a hex editor, trying to decompile it, and poking around looking for ways to bypass chip security and decided to nip that in the bud. 

[GotAU?]

I googled “GPX 6000 secret firmware update” and found it! You just update the EPROM on the batteries, insert it and it works!

 

Just Kidding!!! ?

[phrunt]

2 minutes ago, GotAU? said:

I googled “GPX 6000 secret firmware update” and found it! You just update the EPROM on the batteries, insert it and it works!

?

That maybe a trick click bait story though.   That's not how I'd expect it to work. 2.2 gig of free space? unlikely.

[GotAU?]

6 minutes ago, phrunt said:

That maybe a trick click bait story though.   That's not how I'd expect it to work. 2.2 gig of free space? unlikely.

Sorry, should’ve waited till April 1st, making jokes about it will probably get me in trouble.  I was just playing with my Photoshop Mix App.

Really though, I hope there’s not too painful of a way for us to get firmware adjustments for it, until then I am probably going to stick to the DD in the places I really want to use it- being that they are the closest to where I live.