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[marcelorider]

guys im SOO happy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) =)=)=)=)
ive realised that have pins changed on NPN =)
ive chanded it tested on realterm and its has working on there soo

ive done the things that u guys say drive half open and voila =)

get key 7 times correct and allways same rebooted Pc and Xbox in tries and afterwords flashed it

ive praid a bit for GOD to this thing work and

Im more one with good results (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

thx yaywoop you'r GOD (IMG:style_emoticons/default/muhaha.gif)

This post has been edited by marcelorider: Mar 17 2009, 09:06 PM

[GreenfieldToys]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

You saved my ass!

It helps i live in an old computer shop and horde parts like crazy, but this was the best solution for me. It only took me a couple hours after finding your thread to scavenge the parts and put it together. JF picked it up first time, every time. Reading/Flashing was smooth like butta'.

I got the transistor from a junked xbox v1.0/1.1 foxlink psu, the letter id was different, i forget now, but it was like "kfd2222", i wired it like your diagram for 'pn2222" and all was goood.

resistors came from a huge pile of scavenged resistors, so i can't say where they originated.

I had an ample supply of connectors and such so it came out very pretty imo.

This was my first lite-on and i thought i was gonna look like a noob to a customer (and his friends/potential customers) cause i had to tell him to wait a week while i order a 3232 adapter, i was so happy to find your solution, beautiful work my friend!  

[kulTURGUeTer]

I am not really up-to-date.

But I am grateful and would like to express this.

YAYWOOP!! I hope you agree with that!!

My first upload at all.

But surely unattainable for YouTube conditions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkh3nbizA2E

     

[xfile102]

QUOTE(Kurtz @ Mar 8 2009, 10:55 PM)

I have to ask for help again. I'm doing everything right, but its not working.

Here is exactly what I do:

Using a DIY Gadget device, I power the drive. I have it hooked up to Molex, press eject, turn the drive off, push the tray about halfway in, plug in the power, and probe R707. Bad serial everytime, in windows and dos.

But with a multimeter, the transistor is tested working, I get 3v on the serial, pins 2 and 5, and 0 when I put the probe in R707. When I bridge pins 2 and 3 on the serial, tx and rx, I get a positive loopback test in hyperterm. Jungle flash and xtractor recognize my drive.

But no matter what I do, it never works. I tried everything, all of the different methods people have had success with, but nothing. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I feel like I've tried everything. Pulled pin 3, nothing.

Kurtz,

Man, I am having the EXACT same issue. "Bad Serial Data" And so far no one knows how to address it. If you get a solid answer, PM me and let me know man. I have flashed a few dozen Baq's which were a breeze. A BREEZE. But these Liteon's are the bane of my existence. Killing me. I just cannot get the Key to dump. And from reading the other posts on here, there sre still more potential hurldles to come after that, with power rail checking, erasing nightmares and lock ups, and tons of people complaining of bricking. Sounds so foreboding. Let me know though, if you get it to work.

[sthetix]

I wonder if somebody has a homemade Connectivity Kit V3 Pro Schematic. Lite-On dump/flasher with On/Off Switch and DVD drive ejector.All in one PCB board.

[xrkahn76]

QUOTE(sthetix @ Mar 24 2009, 07:52 PM)

I wonder if somebody has a homemade Connectivity Kit V3 Pro Schematic. Lite-On dump/flasher with On/Off Switch and DVD drive ejector.All in one PCB board.

I made one with a DIY kit, threw a USB, Audio Plug board from the front of a pc, threw it in a project box from Radio shack with an on off switch.  The Audio Ports serve as plug for my probe and a ground line if needed.

Will post pictures here soon.

[zoltrix2590]

QUOTE(xrkahn76 @ Mar 25 2009, 02:57 AM)

I made one with a DIY kit, threw a USB, Audio Plug board from the front of a pc, threw it in a project box from Radio shack with an on off switch.  The Audio Ports serve as plug for my probe and a ground line if needed.

Will post pictures here soon.

I have no idea what you were trying to explain there, but i'm waiting on the pictures!  

[chrislive]

hey guys  my pc doesn't have any com ports, so i was wondering would this work?
http://www.amazon.co...i...5677&sr=8-7

would i need any usb drivers or anything?

[ghettoc401]

I just made this kit but I put it on a pcb instead because I dont like loose wires hanging around. Here is a pic for reference:



I was able to buy all the needed parts at RadioShack and I used a sewing needs for the probe. The device works just as well as the real thing

[Carl1987]

Thank you so much for all of this!, worked like a charm!, thanks again!!.

[r1tony]

Thanks A LOT! This worked sweet, all done in windows with jungle flasher.

I was getting "Bad Serial Data" for a couple hours as I rebuilt my serial reader, made sure it was all good, replaced transistor etc.. I found out I had the pin-outs wrong on the serial end (so people check those).  When that was fixed jungleflasher found it first time, awesome.

Thanks a million well at least 50 bucks that I would spent on a reader and probe..

[jvoldarski]

hi first time flashing a liteon i built the circuit and it seems to test fine except every time i try to read the code it says serial data bad now i have tried many things and read multiple threads but still no solution the only thing i keep seeing is to make sure the drive is half way open and you have the correct com port i am using a usb to serial adapter with the correct drivers installed and i am positive i am using the correct com port i also have tried different ways of opening the drive half way any suggestions on what i could try and when you have the drive half open is the light supposed to be blinking on the front of the xbox

[Bushwick2002]

Quick question. After I make this DIY tool to read the keys, do I still need to use it to erase and flash the liteon drive? eg. connecting the probe everytime I need to erase/flash the drive?

I manage to flash 2 other lite on drives successfully. This 3rd one is giving me problem. I have 2 PC not detecting the drive, everytime I run L-O-ERAS.EXE to erase it, it returns with a status of 0X80. I just wanna make sure it has nothing to do with the DIY key tool.

Thanks.

[No0B]

Kinda bumping thread and asking a question, so anyone that hasn't seen it will be able to see it.

Aight i bought a CA-42 yesterday. It has only 4 cables, blue, white, green, orange. The orange one is useless cos it's not connected to the PCB at all. It's hard to say which one is which cos there are no number coding given, but for the blue one is connected to the other side of the PCB and has TXD written right above it. The problem is the RXD one, so I wanted to ask if anyone could gimme instructions on how to do a loopback test using hyperterminal or realterm or both if u can so i can make sure it's the right one. I've done it with teraterm by using the blue and the green wire cos i kinda thought it was the RXD, I went to setup and then terminal, and ticked the Local Echo box. Then it repeated whatever i typed like "aabbccDDFF", not sure if i was meant to tick the local echo tho, really dunno about those stuff. So again if someone could gimme the instructions, i'd really appreciate it.

Wait I found this one just now, if this one is correct, the blue one that i thought was the TXD and has TXD written right above it, seems to be the RX lol, and the one i thought is the RX is the TX one. So can someone please help me out, thx.

[No0B]

Extremely sorry about this, i accidentally posted here, i didn't realize i had clicked Datenshiz's link to this thread, and posted here. My greatest apologies, and it won't let me edit my post again, otherwise i would've deleted that instead of double posting, again i am really sorry. Man i have made a bad impression on my first day here.