Although that’s most likely not your case if you got such a cable, but I did manage to break firmware on mine completely. So let’s start with restoring it
Both generations of Kong make use of NXP LPC1768 MCU (Cortex-M3) (along with Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA, by the way), that can be reflashed over SWD
Back in February 2019, someone told me about “SHSH tag length underflow”, that allows “arbitrary memset”. The person failed to tell me which ROM it’s for
But for A4 ROM I found something similar. Look at this line of code:
Here is my little thread about Lightning video adapters – also known as Haywire – which are actually computers that feature Apple Secure Boot and run Darwin kernel
There’re 2 kinds of Haywire:
1. Lightning Digital AV Adapter (b137ap/iAccy1,1) – Lightning to HDMI adapter, supports both video and audio
2. Lightning to VGA Adapter (b165ap/iAccy1,2) – doesn’t support audio output for obvious reason
I was planning to keep this knowledge private, but damn it. This is a thread about Apple SWD cables, some things they can do and how to use them
For now I only have got KongSWD, so everything below applies to this type of cable first of all
f you’re reading this thread, you’ve most likely seen many photos with these weird Apple internal cables posted here, on Twitter, — Gorilla, Kong, Kanzi, Chimp, Flamingo, etc.