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Hi, just posted an updated high res pic of the liveview PCB front: The illegible chip at the bottom middle has “E3030    Z312E” on it

To help people out, I’ve drawn the approximate size and location of the plastic retainer clips holding the liveview together in red on this image. I used a swiss army knife to lever it open blindly 🙂   The prongs of the clips are on the side with the display, locking into the plastic baseContinue reading “Liveview case clips”

OK, ok, I couldn’t resist any longer, I had to open the liveview up. Here are the pics (click for larger ones): Front view:   Rear view: Front PCB closeup: Rear PCB closeup: It seems to be rather annoyingly common with this sort of thing to include extremely blurry photos which are no use toContinue reading “Liveview teardown”

I’ve just checked in the final piece of the LiveView protocol. If you look here, you’ll find a complete re-implementation of the LiveView protocol in Python, allowing it to be completely controlled from a PC. It shouldn’t be hard to port this to Java and completely replace the Android LiveView application with something else entirelyContinue reading “Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking: complete”

I bought one of those wee Sony LiveView devices during the holidays. They  sound quite cool in theory, but the connection to them seems to be rather flakey for some reason. Supposedly there is a firmware update for  the device itself due out in January to fix this. However, in the meantime, I want toContinue reading “Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking!”