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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tigers_gonads on 05 February 2016, 13:39:23
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Yesterday, I had a nice shiny new 16 way DVR delivered and off I trotted to make some money out of some poor helpless customer ;)
The venue for this place is a community centre and at the time, it was been used for a birthday party for about 50 screaming little bastards children.
While changing the various passwords to my own, half of these little bastards children came bursting through the office door, ran around then pished off out of the other door.
Now here is the good bit ............. At the time, I was changing the Admin password using a on screen keypad and mouse.
The new password was saved and I carried on with the installation.
Today, I nipped back to do some fine tuning.
Typed in the password and you guessed it, my normal password is NOT what went in and now the unit is hard locked :'( :'(
The Dvr is a 16 way analogue unit from Videcon Basics.
Due to the community centre in the prosess of changing internet supplier, the system is not networked so remote access is not a option unless I plug my netbook in direct (which has not been tried yet)
No doubt, there will be a backdoor into this unit somewhere so I can force a hard reset of all passwords but I cannot see it anywhere.
Anybody know of a way around this ?
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You'll probably need to open it, and either remove cmos battery, or on some there is a reset jumper on the main board.
HTH
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you don't say which videcon unit it is .. but this appears on several sites .. might work for your model ??
Hold the Rewind button and the Enter button down and pull the power, keeping the buttons pressed, re apply the power. Keep them held down until the writing appears. This resets password.
no idea if it works or not ......
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You'll probably need to open it, and either remove cmos battery, or on some there is a reset jumper on the main board.
HTH
Cmos battery removal will wipe the parameters after about a week.
Codes tend to be kept on a NVM so I very much doubt it will work :)
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you don't say which videcon unit it is .. but this appears on several sites .. might work for your model ??
Hold the Rewind button and the Enter button down and pull the power, keeping the buttons pressed, re apply the power. Keep them held down until the writing appears. This resets password.
no idea if it works or not ......
::) That might help ::)
This the one .................... http://www.videconbasics.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=88_60&product_id=269
Had a word with there "tech department" ::)
The gentleman got quite excited until he realised that it was one of the lower priced ones then its a case of
1/. Fill out a online form.
2/. Sent it back to us via our courier.
3/. We will fix it over 7 - 10 days then send it back to you.
Total cost ................. 60 quid plus vat for the fix plus carriage both ways >:(
When I told him I would bet my life on there been a hidden way and it will take about 30 seconds, you could almost hear him sniggering >:(
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Nige, what site did you get that information off please ?
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Oh well....there goes the money from the poor, helpless customer.
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Nige, what site did you get that information off please ?
google search for "videcon dvr factory reset" and "videcon dvr hard reset" then from the results ...
http://www.cctvforum.com/post-99819.html
using the info in your other post ... gets me this ...
http://www.hardreset.info/devices/videocon/videocon-vt79c
now I don't know why searching for UTC-EDVR gets me to VT79C .. but hey ho ... :)
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Oh well....there goes the money from the poor, helpless customer.
Its the mother and half the family tree of a member off here ::)
And yes, I did make a few quid on it :P ;D
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Nige, what site did you get that information off please ?
google search for "videcon dvr factory reset" and "videcon dvr hard reset" then from the results ...
http://www.cctvforum.com/post-99819.html
using the info in your other post ... gets me this ...
http://www.hardreset.info/devices/videocon/videocon-vt79c
now I don't know why searching for UTC-EDVR gets me to VT79C .. but hey ho ... :)
Don't know about the 2nd one but i'll give the 1st one a go on Monday if I get chance :y
Thanks :)