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magic_man185

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Should I Backup Nand Before Getting Banned?
« on: December 10, 2010, 10:56:00 AM »
I have an xbox that hasn't been online since October of 2009, before iXtreme LT first came out.  I didn't go online because I did the "check the service website to see if you are banned" and it appears that I am flagged for banning.  I understand that that was always speculation, but I didn't want to risk it.  I never went on live to test if I was banned because at the time if you were banned you could no longer play games from the hard drive.  IIRC, that capability was given back to banned consoles with a later dashboard.  I am planning to take the xbox on live, and was wondering if there is any reason to backup the nand before doing so, so I can recover if needed.  Is there anything I lose, other than live connection obviously, by getting banned?  I am want to use the xbox as a u-verse receiver, and you only need live long enough to install the service, so I am hoping it will get on live for a couple of minutes (hopefully it takes a minute to register the ban, I have heard of this happening before I think) long enough to install the service, then if it gets banned no big deal.  I am also going to revert to stock firmware in the off chance it is not already flagged.  Any other advice?

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Aldanga

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Should I Backup Nand Before Getting Banned?
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2010, 11:14:00 AM »
If your box is banned or flagged for banning you won't be able to use LIVE for any period of time. Your console will allow game installs, but all data modified after the ban on this specific console will show as corrupted on other consoles.

You can make a backup of your NAND, but if LIVE requires you to update before actually banning you it will become useless.
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Aldanga

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Should I Backup Nand Before Getting Banned?
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2010, 11:31:00 AM »
Yes. The backup would serve that function as long as you have already updated your dashboard.
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Aldanga

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Should I Backup Nand Before Getting Banned?
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2010, 02:34:00 PM »
Sticky. This will have some information regarding flashing a console for exploit, as well as uncrippling. Obviously exploiting your console is not possible, but the tutorials contain the information you need.

Backing up Jaspers only takes a long period of time over LPT if it's an arcade version with onboard memory. A normal 16MiB NAND takes approximately 45 minutes to an hour to dump over LPT.

This post has been edited by Aldanga: Dec 10 2010, 10:35 PM
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