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SUCCESS! All languages unlocked on NEX-F3 using my M1 Mac :D #528
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Hi, Also, please close this issue, as it is not related to a software problem, but lack of experience on this. It's ok, we're here to help, we all have been in your position. |
You can still continue asking here! |
Hi! Sorry I accidentally posted before I finished typing ahaha... |
Lmao. Well done then! ;D |
hello! This guide was super helpful as windows was just giving me way too many issues. The final thing I had to do was use thank you for the guide!! |
Thank you for the guide, was able to get it running on my M2 mac. |
On 20 June 2024 MacBook Air M1, Sonoma 14.2.1, Sony Alpha NEX-F3 Camera
Changed my camera's language from Japanese to English
METHOD: https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE -> Service Mode
DISCLAIMER: I’m just a girl who bought a camera in Japan and got baited by a Google search telling me that this would be super easy, but it was actually really hard because I’ve never used any code thing before and I had no idea what Terminal is on my Mac until yesterday and this took way way way longer than I expected lol
DISCLAIMER 2: this may be the long way 'round, or the wrong way but you know what I got there in the end so I'm posting this in the very very rare case that it will be helpful (rant at the end) :)
NOTE:
REFERENCES I USED:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udunk6HG1uk (the video I got baited by ;-;)
#327 (comment)
#327 (comment)
#504 (comment)
STEPS I TOOK: COPY AND PASTE INSTRUCTIONS
Install Homebrew (I also installed Python on my laptop but idk if I needed to lol)
Open Terminal app
Install Python 3.9 via Homebrew and activate it (I had to use an older version of Python because I ran into the asyncore issue)
brew install python@3.9
python3.9 -m venv myenv39
source myenv39/bin/activate
Install the latest tcl-tk for Python for the "_tkinter module not found error"
brew install python-tk@3.9
Install libusb via Homebrew
brew install libusb
Clone the Sony-PMCA-RE GitHub repository
git clone https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE/
cd Sony-PMCA-RE/
Install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
On the camera (in Japanese):
Back on Terminal
sudo ./pmca-gui.py
My main issue (error 128):
My solution:
Install requirements again
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the GUI again
sudo ./pmca-gui.py
Click Start Tweaking (service mode)
AND IT FINALLY POPPED UP!!!
RANT:
Even though I am 100% UNqualified to give advice, I wanted to put this out there because I couldn't find any solution for my specific issue. + there were only a few people who did this with a Mac.
I literally watched so many YT videos, tried installing the playmemories thing but my OS is too new...
I tried downloading the Sony Driver on my laptop and that didn't do anything? + I couldn't install the latest firmware update for my NEX-F3 bc its JUST THAT OLD
I couldn't tweak using the updatershell either because it just crashed my camera lol
I even followed this #504 (comment) thread by emulating Linux?? I still don't know what that is?? by downloading Ubuntu through UTM... THAT was a whole ordeal that I don't even want to think about oml
It kept running into this issue
Don't even get me started on trying to get ChatGPT4.o to help because it complicated things so much more by telling me to change the codes, both on Terminal and on Ubuntu which did literally nothing in either systems.
And then I tried emulating Windows (which failed miserably) to get Zadig but failed...
I've downloaded so many confusing things onto my laptop through links I might actually get a virus and not even know.
I've made so many online accounts so that I can download VMware (which didn't even work!) and other things the amount of marketing emails I'm crying.
FINALLY I was like "screw it" I'm literally just a girl. I can solve my issue by deleting it.
So I retraced my steps on Terminal and followed the file line and deleted my Error 128 LOL and I can't believe it worked T^T
This took a good 7 whole hours off my life for an old ass camera and I WANT IT BACK
If you read this rant, literally why?
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