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TI-Nspire OS 4.3 out (blocks Ndless and downgrades, but not nBoot nor ControlX?)

Started by Dream of Omnimaga, August 02, 2016, 06:02:56 PM

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Dream of Omnimaga

https://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=18874

Apparently someone got his hands on OS 4.3 for the TI-Nspire in China and apparently, it features more powerful TI-BASIC linking commands to interact with other devices connected to the TI-Nspire. They were tested with the TI-Innovator and apparently worked.

Now the next question, though, is did they patch the exploits used by nBoot and Ndless?

UPDATE (08/02/16): Although this OS blocks Ndless, it seems like it doesn't block nBoot+ControlX. Critor had no issue launching them from the new Boot2 4.3, as demonstrated at https://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=18877&p=206173#p206172

He also demonstrated how installing OS 4.3 on a calculator that already had nBoot+ControlX installed will not prevent you from downgrading back to OS 4.2. The Ndless installer currently doesn't work on OS 4.3, so downgrading will be necessary for the time being. Also note that the exploit used by nBoot was patched in hardware revision W.
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
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Vogtinator

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on August 02, 2016, 06:02:56 PM
Now the next question, though, is did they patch the exploits used by nBoot and Ndless?

The exploit used by nBoot can't be patched, it's in the hardware (boot1). It is fixed in HW-W though.
  • Calculators owned: TI-Nspie CX CAS, Casio FX-85ES

Dream of Omnimaga

Ah I didn't know W didn't support nBoot. But thanks for the info.
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
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Dream of Omnimaga

Important:

I updated the first post with more information from @critor : https://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=18877&p=206173#p206172

Basically, although this OS blocks Ndless and downgrades, it doesn't block nBoot+ControlX, so if you installed the latter two prior upgrading, then you can downgrade at will (which will be needed to install Ndless for the time being).
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
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Dream of Omnimaga

OS 4.3.0.702 is now out:
TI-Nspire CX CAS https://education.ti.com/en/us/software/details/en/0607F21D07B14ACB9EE85E57A9C30EDA/ti-nspirecxcas_os
TI-Nspire CX https://education.ti.com/en/us/software/details/en/0607F21D07B14ACB9EE85E57A9C30EDA/ti-nspirecxcas_os

No official changelog so far (but it blocks Ndless and downgrades, as usual, so don't upgrade if you still want to use Ndless. I assume that older hardware with nBoot and ControlX can downgrade, though, right?). The main additions are an exam mode for the Netherlands and TI-Innovator commands for TI-BASIC

Source https://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=18919
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
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critor

Yes. If you install nBoot + ControlX before updating to 4.3, then you can still downgrade whenever you want and much more... ;)

A clean english nBoot + ControlX installation tutorial with download links is now available :
https://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18920&p=206415#p206415

Dream of Omnimaga

I assume that nBoot + ControlX still requires hardware V or lower, though? Hopefully enough students managed to get an old enough hardware revision for this school year.

Thanks for the tutorial by the way. :)
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
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critor

Yes, hardware A to V.

I did test with an emulated hardware W calculator - it just doesn't work (normal boot).

I didn't test with a real hardware W calculator (we don't know... it might brick things... the emulator is not perfectly reliable).

GalacticPirate

  • Calculators owned: TI-Nspire CX CAS (4.4.0), TI-83 Premium CE (5.2.1), TI-83 Plus.fr USB (2.55MP), Casio fx-92 Collège 2D+, Casio fx-92 Collège 2D
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Adriweb

Also, there has since been seen a revision X :P
But my guess is that it's a minor update of W.

We won't know for sure (well, even then...) until we get our hand on one, take a photo, and compare with W :P
  • Calculators owned: TI-Nspire CX CAS, TI-Nspire CX, TI-Nspire CAS (x3), TI-Nspire (x2), TI-Nspire CM-C CAS, TI-Nspire CAS+, TI-80, TI-82 Stats.fr, TI-82 Plus, TI-83 Plus, TI-83 Plus.fr USB, TI-84+, TI-84+ Pocket SE, TI-84+ C Silver Edition, TI-84 Plus CE, TI-89 Titanium, TI-86, TI-Voyage 200, TI-Collège Plus, TI-Collège Plus Solaire, 3 HP, some Casios
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Dream of Omnimaga

I wonder if the revision that comes after Z will be AA or greek letters? Also I wonder if any previous calc ever saw that many hardware revisions before?
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
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Adriweb

Well the 84+ uses AA, AB, AC... but the 83+ have restarted to A, for instance (also, different factories over time), so, we'll see.
I lean towards AA, AB, AC...
  • Calculators owned: TI-Nspire CX CAS, TI-Nspire CX, TI-Nspire CAS (x3), TI-Nspire (x2), TI-Nspire CM-C CAS, TI-Nspire CAS+, TI-80, TI-82 Stats.fr, TI-82 Plus, TI-83 Plus, TI-83 Plus.fr USB, TI-84+, TI-84+ Pocket SE, TI-84+ C Silver Edition, TI-84 Plus CE, TI-89 Titanium, TI-86, TI-Voyage 200, TI-Collège Plus, TI-Collège Plus Solaire, 3 HP, some Casios
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Dream of Omnimaga

I didn't know the 84+ went this high. I thought they were around revision R or S at most. As for the 83+ I was sure revisions stopped years ago. (at least on North American models)
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
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Adriweb

Rev. R was made by factory P between around April 2011 and December 2013 (yep, it lasted quite a while, at least from information I have - we'd need people to share their datecodes to get better accuracy :P).
However, in the same time, there have been other factories and revs, from S (Jan 2011 factory K and Mar. 2012 factory P) to Z (factory K)
  • Calculators owned: TI-Nspire CX CAS, TI-Nspire CX, TI-Nspire CAS (x3), TI-Nspire (x2), TI-Nspire CM-C CAS, TI-Nspire CAS+, TI-80, TI-82 Stats.fr, TI-82 Plus, TI-83 Plus, TI-83 Plus.fr USB, TI-84+, TI-84+ Pocket SE, TI-84+ C Silver Edition, TI-84 Plus CE, TI-89 Titanium, TI-86, TI-Voyage 200, TI-Collège Plus, TI-Collège Plus Solaire, 3 HP, some Casios
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Dream of Omnimaga

Darn, that's a lot. Even by 2011 I thought they were around M or so. I guess I forgot how long ago the missing RAM pages were discovered (2009 when people noticed TI-Boy SE and some Omnicalc functions stopped working on newer models)
  • Calculators owned: TI-82 Advanced Edition Python TI-84+ TI-84+CSE TI-84+CE TI-84+CEP TI-86 TI-89T cfx-9940GT fx-7400G+ fx 1.0+ fx-9750G+ fx-9860G fx-CG10 HP 49g+ HP 39g+ HP 39gs (bricked) HP 39gII HP Prime G1 HP Prime G2 Sharp EL-9600C
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