thermal-printer/reverse_engineering/NOTES.md

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MAGIC VALUE: 0x51 78

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  1. Inspo (cat printer) i motivaciq
  2. Sniff s ESP32 i nrF connect
  3. TestGen.py, Gledane samo na dannite
    • 0x5178 100% e magic value kato header
    • packetitie zavurshvat na 0xFF
    • ggVGgJ:%s/5178/^V^M5178/g^MggddG:s/0*$/^M:%s/\(\w\w\)\(\w\w\)/\1 \2/g^M:%&g^M for data parsing
    • 2ta scripta za visualizirane, ne bqh zabelqzal, che e B/W dithered, a ne grayscale, ochakvah da pop outne kartinkata
    • dataToBin.py, da go gledam s hex editor => do nikude
  4. zabivane v PrintPreviewActivity.java
    • printBtn
    • printData
    • nedecompiliraniq handler, emptyMessage-5 => emptyMessage-4
  5. Zabivane v activityType (LABEL, OFFICE, ...)
    • predpolagam label, produljavam
  6. PrintModelUtils i PrinterModel => x6.java, izvadq argumentite
    • legendarno vim macro: 0f(l"ddt,xxj0f(ldw"edt,xxjvi{:s/<C-R>e;/<C-R>d;<CR>?{k0
  7. naj-nakraq v pravilnata posoka: BitmapToData() v PrintDataUtils.java
  8. status byte-ovete rediscovernati: 0x51 78 A3 00 01 00 00 00 FF obratno v PrintData (PrintPreviewActivity)
  9. v BitmapToData se vika eachLinePixTo...B, no to ne e decomp, zatova gledam eachLine...Gray, sigurno e sushtoto
    • zashto tf raw byte-ovete na dithera se zavirat direktno v packeta, bez packet (0x51 78 ... FF).
  10. bluskam si glavata, no vednaga vijdam, che v eachLineP...B ne e sushtoto, oshte v purvite redove se getva width / 8, ochevidno e razlichno.
  11. buildvame packeta:
    • enerAgy packet 0x51 78 AF 00 02 00 <nrg_low> <nrg_high> <crc> FF
    • printType packet 0x51 78 BE 00 01 00 <type> <crc> FF Type: 00 - image, 01 - text, 02 - tattoo, 03 - label
    • feedPaper packet 0x51 78 BD 00 01 00 <textSpeed> <crc> FF
  12. obratno v BitmapToData:
    • blackeningPacket 0x51 78 A4 00 01 00 33 99 FF (quality 3 (51) (0x33) - vinagi za moq printer e tova quality) te sa ot 1 do 5 (ot 49 do 53)
    • feedPaper 0x51 78 BD 00 01 00 0F <crc> FF - feedPaper(15)
  13. obratno v eachLinePixToCmdB: polzvam nqkolko regexa, ne pomagat osobeno mn
    • zagrqvam, che DataTrim() vzima (runLenght, byte, arrayList), i byte-a legit e 0x00 ili 0x01 vseki byte, kojto pravi e <1b: stojnost na byte-a, 0 ili 1><7b: duljina na run-length(do 127)>
    • run-length encoding, ako e po-zle ot bitpacking, togava bit-packvame
    • L_0x02fb dataTrim-vame 0, ako izobshto nishto ne sme imali
    • v L_0x0328: stranni kriterii dali sme kompresirali: ne sme kompresirali, ako: 1. purviq byte e 0xFF, 2. byte-ovete ne sa width/8 + 1
    • 0x51 78 + -94(0xA2) ako ne sme kompresirali, -65(0xBF), ako sme kompresirali
    • 0x51 78 <A2 | BF> 0 <datalen_low> <datalen_high | 00> <dannite, run-lenghtnati ili bitpack-nati> <crc> FF
      • da se izfukam, che kompresiqta q nqma v originalniq writeup
  14. naj-nakraq q svurshih, obratno v BitmapToData
    • paper packet, ot BluetoothOrder 0x51 78 A1 00 02 00 30 00 F9 FF, sled vseki PrintBean, kojto ima .isAddWhite()
    • maj nqma takiva
  15. finalna naredba na komandite
  16. decode.py, bachka s probite (primeri)
  17. kakvo e energy-to?
    • gledam v koda: (concentration-a - Code.DEFCONCENTRATION(4))*0.15*d + d, trqbva da e 0x7B2A(=10875), zashtoto tova poluchavam
    • osuznavam, che concentration sigurno e print depth, zashtoto defaulta e 4 ot 1 do 7 (DEF [ault] CONCENTRATION = 4)
    • az polzvam 7, znachi (7-4)*0.15.d+d = 10875 => d = 7500, no moderateConcentration-a na X6 e 8000.....
    • moqt printer e x6_n or PrinterModelUtils.java, vse pak ne obqsnqva zashto isCanPrintLabel qvno e false
    • hipoteza: energy = (printDepth - 4)*0.15*7500 + 7500, shte testvam
    • hipoteza 2: textEnergy=> energy da e =0 pri textov rejim
  18. kakuv e print type-a
    • probvam da send-na snimka kato text, image; text kato text,image; opitam se da dokaram label
  19. textSpeed-a e model.textSpeed(10) za text(0x01), model.imgSpeed(30) za image(0x00) i label(0x03)
    • probvajki prednoto, sledq feedPaper-a
  20. Da probvam:
    1. da dokaram print type: label
    2. da dokaram print type: text
      • vidq dali energy == 0
    3. probvam pone 2 drugi energy-ta, da vidq dali scale-va pravilno
    4. probvam da sendna snimka kato text, obratnoto, sledq feedPaper-a
  21. Findings:
    • kogato printiram document, type: img, printType-a se meni, no nikoga nqma energy i textSpeed = 10
    • energyto naistina e po onazi formula
    • tova s documenta e izkluchenie, sus image i text:
      1. pri image ima energy po formulata, BD=00, textSpeed=30
      2. pri text nqma energy, BD=01, textSpeed=10
    • label-a se durji tochno kato chist image, samo BD=03; nezavisimo dali type-a e setnat na Text ili Image
    • kato mu dam poveche kopiq apparently ne sa otdelni bean-ove, poneje ima blackening pred vsqko i dopulnitelen feedPaper(25) sled vsqko => probvam s multiple beans
  22. Recreate in script
    • crc-to, deleted59 => gledam lipsvashtoto sus xor na vsichki ostanali, razbiram che e 0x3d
    • printImage.py -> uspeshno generira commandi
  23. Make script actually send BLE packets
    • reading what printer sends back, the 4th byte is 0x00 if phone->printer and 0x01 if printer->phone
  24. status (0xA3) response (length 3)
    1. status, ends with:
      • =0: ok,
      • 0b1: out of paper,
      • 0b10: compartment open,
      • 0b100: overheated,
      • 0b1000: low battery,
      • 0b10000: currently charging,
      • 0b10000000: currently printing
    2. labelNum, kakvoto i da e tova
    3. battery level, po nqkakva skala?
  25. Bachka
  26. Kakvo ostana?
    • kakvo pravi 0xBD FeedPaper?
  27. Look back
    • ako imah akul i bqh zabelqzal, che e cherno-bql, mojeshe samo ot protocol capturi-te no nqmashe da imam compressiq, da znam za type-ove, za energy i t.n.

Vim commands for easier decompiling

  1. :v/L_0x....:/norm A;^[

  2. :%s/\(\d\+\)(0x.*)/\1/g

  3. :%s/\(.* \)\?r\(\d\+\) = \(.*\);$\n\t\(.* \)r\2 = \(.*\);$/\=("\t".submatch(4)."r".submatch(2)." = ".substitute(submatch(5),"r".submatch(2),submatch(3),"")."; \/\/ rule 1")/g

  4. :%s/\(.* \)\?r\(\d\+\) = \(.*\);$\n\tr\2 = \(.*\);$/\=("\t".submatch(1)."r".submatch(2)." = ".substitute(submatch(4),"r".submatch(2),submatch(3),"")."; \/\/ rule 2")/g

  5. :%s/int r\(\d\+\) = r\1 \([+-\*\/]\) \(.\+\);/r\1 \2= \3; \/\/ rule 3/g

  6. :v/r\(\d\+\) = \(\-\?\d\+\);\n.*r\1 \?=.*/ s/r\(\d\+\) = \(\-\?\d\+\);$\n\t\(.*[ (]\)r\1\(.*\)/r\1 = \2;^M\t\3\2\4 \/\/ rule 4/g

  7. :%s/boolean r\(\d\+\) = \(.*\);\n\tif (r\1\(.*\)$/if ((r\1 = \2\)\3 \/\/ rule XXX/g

  8. :%s/if (\(.*\)) goto \(L_0x....\);\n\tif (\(.*\)) goto \2;/if ((\1) || (\3)) goto \2; \/\/ rule 6/g

  • broken but still cool: :%s/if \(.*\) goto \(L_0x....\);$\n\(^\t.*$\n\)\+\tgoto \(L_0x....\);\n\2:$\n\(^\t.*$\n\)\+\4:/if \1 { \/\/ rule 5^M\5\t} else {^M\3\t}/g

command order

  1. blackening /// ne za vseki bean
  2. vsichkite komandi ot EachLinePixToCmdB
    1. enerAgy
    2. printType
    3. feedPaper(textSpeed)
    4. draw
  3. paper (ako bean-a ima addWhite)
  4. feedPaper(25)
  5. paper x2 bi trqbvalo da gi nqma, poneje X6 e isCanPrintLabel.
  6. feedPaper(25) /// ne za vseki bean
  7. ne poluchavam devInfo (0x51 78 A8 00 01 00 00 00 FF), nz zashto i tuk i pri dvata paper-a se durji, sqkash X6 ne e isCanPrintLabel

todo

  • writeup
  • grammar check writeup