This is a continuation of “Hacking Dollar-Store Bluetooth Devices (The Kindness of Strangers) part 1”
After putting the EEPROM programming document (rda5871_progguide) through google translate, I was able to discern the format of this mysterious binary dump I had created – I created a simple program to parse the Saleae log file (saleae_log) into one contiguous binary image (binary_image – extension is just to get around wordpress, it’s binary) and parse the info header as well as some of the configuration data (hopefully).
However, the data I got back was pretty trivial:
Parsing info header…
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Chip ID: 0x5873
Version: 6.4
PSKey Length: 532
Data Length: 6912
PSKey: SYS_CONFIG_ID_NULL
Length: 0
Data: {}
This at least provided a sanity check against the info header format – the Chip ID matches what is laid out in the guide. But, none of the datasheet’s “PSKey” information located at 0x88 seems to be used – just 532 bytes of “SYS_CONFIG_ID_NULL” and zero-length data blocks. As well, the ISR code regions described seem to reside well out of the memory range of the binary dump – e.g. 0x80006880 – so it appears I am no further along in the binary image, pending further ingenuity…
But then I noticed some clearly labelled serial connections!
I was able to discern from my ‘scope that the data was transmitting at a line discipline of 115200 Baud 8N1 – however, the data that it spat back at me was indecipherable. Consistent, but gibberish. I had some hopes that it was unicode / chinese characters, but this was quickly ruled out (unless this serial prompt also uses arabic…). If I had to guess, this is some binary debug and/or manufacturing automation output. Oh well.
I also noticed that the device would pair to my PC as a USB keyboard – it ends up sending a “Volume up” keystroke and a “Enter” keystroke between the two buttons. I was hopeful that the EEPROM image would contain the keycodes for these, allowing us to change it’s behaviour, but I was unable to find such.
My next step will be to selectively write some of the EEPROM data & (hopefully) change the device’s name – stay tuned!