I recently found a firmware dump on this website:
http://home.ica.net/~phoenix/wap/BC246T and was looking through it. My question is how could this data be grabbed from the scanner? Obviously, the new firmware update is transmitted from the computer into the scanner, so my thought is that maybe someone figured out how to tap the com port output and grab the raw data as if it were the scanner receiving the data. I looked at the firmware update setup program and data file and couldn't find this data contained inside, although the file sizes seemed about right. I'm thinking it was compressed inside the setup program. I really don't know how it was obtained, but that's not as important to me as the next question. If the firmware was grabbed and changed to raw data, is there any way to take that raw data and send it to the scanner? If so, it would not be hard to make slight modifications to the firmware. It would be a worthwhile mod to try to change the startup text and if that worked, then more advanced things could be done. For example, attempting to bypass the "Press any key..." for Close Call by changing a byte or two in the right place. Anyone who's disassembled Windows executables or messed around a lot with computer programming knows what I'm talking about, and it wouldn't be that hard. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks.