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[Reaper527]

http://pastebin.com/m56ac726e

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[00:14] <c4eva> 1.5 - open tray power on support for windows inquiry/fw unlock mode
[00:14] <c4eva> 1.5 - enhanced "bad angle" support
[00:15] <c4eva> 1.5 - single speed only (12x)
[00:15] <c4eva> 1.5 - enhanced SS support for spoofing
[00:16] <c4eva> 1.5 - more secure firmguard - benq only
[00:18] <c4eva> 1.5 - Benq 6039 (1319L) version!
[00:20] <c4eva> 1.5 for liteon will come soon, work on fw continues by the team!
[00:22] <c4eva> liteon fw is complicated, but im optimistic the team will solve it soon!

2008-11-30 (in #fw):
[03:42] <c4eva> flashing liteon is easy, all software,all this has already been done!
[03:43] <c4eva> the team is working on the fw, patience!
[03:47] <c4eva> The team has several liteon dumps and flash back to any liteon perfectly! Patience!
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NO! THERE IS NO SPECIFIED OR ESTIMATED RELEASE DATE FOR iXtreme v1.5 OR FOR THE LITEON FW! SO DON'T BOTHER ASKING! IT'LL BE DONE WHEN IT'S DONE
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from what i have heard, the "all software flashing" doesn't include key retrieval yet. this is still great news though. great work everyone

a warning for everyone:
"whats the eta" == 7 day mute

*************** UPDATE BY SOSO - DEC 7th 2008 *******************************************
Again on this Liteon subject, threads ( Lite-on, Model:DG-16D2S FW:74850C ) are closed on all major sites because of the lack of respect for the posting rules

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Plse read the rules ,
and the following pinned thread:No More Non Technical Posts, Lost your Post...Read This
Finally "No Request for ETA" or this thread will be closed as well
Do not expect a nice PM, everyone breaking rules get a minimum 7 days posting suspension

As this seems to happen more, we decided to hard moderate with sanctions authors of useless repetitive post and/or off topic post.

Anything that does not respect the intented purpose of the thread ( and in the context of the technical forum) will be removed.  

Note: If you want to have a non technical discussion on this, plse find/start the appropriate thread in Xbox360 General, that said all technical post, discussion on how features, ... are all welcomed .
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[Ranger72]

This sounds very good indeed. I may finally have a use for all these boxes of Liteon drives I have laying around.

[oxide32]

was wondering how well these new liteon drives will perform compared to what we all use at the moment, sammys and hitachi's etc. will be great to use one of those liteon drives that i ended up with a bunch of.

[b1g]

This is awesome for people 'stuck' with Lite-Ons!

I don't like the parts about enhanced FirmGuard and better Bad Angle support, makes it seem like our current FW is unsafe  

Not to worry though, I have money ready for a new 360 in case mine gets banned  

[mcraenz]

Ok so these are IRC logs which seem to be a bit taboo around here but surly not fake since there is a link to the pastbin the #fw.

This post has been edited by mcraenz: Dec 1 2008, 08:28 PM

[360NI]

I have a benq on my way to replace my liteon too, by the time it gets here the liteon 1.5ixtreme will prob be out, lol.

Looking forward to getting it.

[Ranger72]

QUOTE(oxide32 @ Dec 1 2008, 08:18 PM)

was wondering how well these new liteon drives will perform compared to what we all use at the moment, sammys and hitachi's etc. will be great to use one of those liteon drives that i ended up with a bunch of.

I would expect it to perform much like the BenQ since they are closely related hardware wise.

[Vauxfan]

Lol, I wonder if all of a sudden ebay will be full of Benqs again when Liteon is done.

Probably will sell mine when news is announced

[eddy56]

ye look like i will be doing a few of them

[nickfarinha]

This is good news

[carniver]

Great, I knew a place selling old falcons from 0735 but I resisted the temptation to buy (stock up) another one. Now if only LiteOn's are hacked I can happily pick up a Jasper and hack that  

[Ramnath2k]

sounds very very good.  

[celinelust]

Why did people stop commenting? this piece of news is worth more than 1,000,000 posts
Hopefully I will be able to finally flash my lite-on drive using the ICH8 intel sata chipset.

[Reaper527]

QUOTE(celinelust @ Dec 3 2008, 10:56 AM)

Why did people stop commenting? this piece of news is worth more than 1,000,000 posts
Hopefully I will be able to finally flash my lite-on drive using the ICH8 intel sata chipset.

one can hope, but i have my doubts.

no one else has commented on it, but my personal predictions are that with this drive being so similar to the benq, any chipset that can flash a benq will be able to flash this, and any drive that can't, won't be able to.

granted, when i say this, i do mean easily. i seem to remember it being possible to flash benq's with the ich8 chipset, but it was more work than simply doing all software solutions.

[linnx88]

This is awesome, my 4th 360 burned out a few months ago (video just disappeared, no rrod) and i went to buy a new one simply to be cursing at the screen when I found out its unflashable. The only good thing about the new Jasper is the 65nm chip, it runs MUCH cooler and for anyone who hasn't noticed, the power supply brick is a pound lighter since now it's only 175W compared to original 220W...[now hopefully the LiteOn gets flashed, as I've heard it's a more reliable drive]. So it even saves you on your electricity bill. The cooling solution now finally looks like it does on a normal CPU, and I did get the HDMI for the first time [had all Xenons before] (gave me reason to visit monoprice, their cables are insane, 4-5$ for 10ft HDMI).

This post has been edited by linnx88: Dec 3 2008, 06:46 PM