10 Sure-Fire Ways to Trash Your Radio

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Introduction

Your radio is a collection of a large number of programs, all working in a small memory-space. Many of these programs must be running in order to connect to the network. Tampering with your radio can cause it to stop working. There are a number of ways to break it, including ...

  • Deleting the password file
  • Corrupting a configuration file (e.g. passwd, inittab)
  • Installing a program on boot that takes too much memory
  • Deleting critical driver files
  • Formatting / writing over disk partitions
  • Unmounting partitions permanently
  • Deleting critical executables (such as busybox)
  • Deleting or renaming the reciva application (ir)
  • Corrupting the radio's configuration files
  • ... there are plenty more ways to trash your radio ... BE CAREFUL