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Recently Ian Smith reported over at DpReview that he had success in getting the camera to respond to file on a bootable disk, and was hopeful he would soon be able to get a firmware dump. Still at an early stage, but there is hope.

See this Thread at DpReview


Firmware info

As in the A610 case, the ver.req file works as well in this model. It shows the following:

Canon PowerShot S5 IS
P-ID:3148  NT D

Firmware Ver GM1.01A
No error
May 29 2007    18:17:20

Pressing DISP returns:

Adj Ver.007.000
IS Firm Ver.  3.00
IS Param Ver.  3.00

There is also:

Firmware Ver GM1.01B
No error
Jun 14 2007    16:12:20

Pressing DISP returns:

Adj Ver.007.000

And another version bought at Amazon in Germany (Made in Japan):

Canon PowerShot S5 IS
P-ID:3148  PAL D

Firmware Ver GM1.01B
No error
June 14 2007    20:11:19

Pressing DISP returns:

Adj Ver.007.000
IS Firm Ver.  3.01
IS Param Ver.  3.01

LEDS addresses

 #define LED_AF 0xC02200E0 // AF Beam (green)
 #define LED_GR 0xC02200DC // green state-led (bi-state with orange)
 #define LED_OR 0xC02200D8 // orange state-led (bi-state with green)
 #define LED_WR 0xC02200D4 // write indicator (red)

Firmware dump

A copy of the 1.01A firmware dump (from 0xff810000) for the camera listed above (dumped via blinking the AF led) is available here.

A copy of the 1.01B firmware dump is still not available.

Current progress

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