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A quick look at the bad GPE(S).bin files causing the boot loops (and at good files)

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Without trying to decode the contents, I had a quick look at the files that were kindly sent to me.

Good files (from yesterday evening):
GPE.bin GPES.bin, sha256sums for both are:
04c89555a560bbdf35dc3d9ea1c679dc875c011e941c15fcc1a1e453f5e346ba
File type is: zip compressed data, original size modulo 2^32 216692
Unzipped the sha256sum is (for both):
f92218b089d6fd651154cd39090e4121bd8e5d576aae64e753606b473a4c1b7b
And the size: 216692 bytes.

Bad files:
GPE.bin:  data file, cannot unzip it, size is 216692.
GPES.bin: gzip compressed data, original size modulo 2^32 16584
sha256sums:
f92218b089d6fd651154cd39090e4121bd8e5d576aae64e753606b473a4c1b7b  GPE.bin
e6dfae1dc1be0e062136398843ff8ef89e68959be9efc1c2534b0f6c8423f166  GPES.bin

Notice that the sha256sum and the size of the "Bad" GPE.bin is the same as the _unzipped_ good GPE.bin
The size of the "Bad" unzipped GPES.bin is only 16584 bytes.

Obviously any software that expected a zipped GPE.bin would be unable to unzip it, because it was already unzipped.
The "Bad" GPES.bin is very small. This may or may not be signifcant, for systems that use EPO.bin you can obtain EPO files in different sizes (the bigger, the longer they are valid). A small file for a day, a bigger one for a week.

It does not answer anything but I thought I'd post it anyway just in case anyone else finds this kind of thing fascinating. :-)

  • Have you checked "good files" as well?

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member 6 months ago in reply to pdurys

    They are at the top of my post, those are the two identical gzipped files with names GPE.bin and GPES.bin that are unzipped 216692 bytes. No idea why two identical files with different names are used. I could not find how the files are encoded. The ephemeris data formats I found are in plain ASCII, these files are not.

    The bad files are not the same in size. Also, the Bad GPE.bin is not zipped, and the Bad GPES.bin is zipped, but of a smaller size.

  • Redundancy?

    After unzip files are they maybe kind of fit format?

    Garmin likes to have everything in this format