Reverse-engineering the Xiaomi Mi Band 10 and its Bestechnic BES2700iMP SoC for custom firmware
Summary
Aaron Christophel reverse-engineers the Xiaomi Mi Band 10 fitness tracker, which uses a Bestechnic BES2700iMP (BEST1503) SoC, to write custom firmware and port Doom to the device. The project is documented on GitHub with accompanying video details.
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The latest subject comes in the form of the Mi Band 10, which features a BES2700iMP SoC, known internally at the manufacturer Bestechnic as the BEST1503.
This is all documented on the GitHub project.
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