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[danthaman673]

Hi all before I post my question/issue I'd just like to mention relating to the above posts, that you need the dashlaunch patch (setup) to detect insertion of XB1 games and bypass the issue it originally had with the use of the memory stuff (I'm just going from what I remember reading somewhere, I will look into it properly myself after I solve this more serious issue) Oh yeah and I'm pretty sure that kxampatch is just a delivery method for any freeboot/9199 patch using dashlaunch in a similar way to MS do some of their updates/patches.

I have a box that is Cygnos V2 running on a Falcon. I did a pretty standard build (I confess lately I've started cheating with toolbox 2.4 - in this case I used the Nand option, the HDD option seems only to produce black screens) I then ran the Flash installer for dashlaunch and flashed the utf-8 .ini etc.. No worries there I double check with cygnos toolbox to see that it's mounting the drives (only seems to happen when patch is correctly applied) BUT 50% of the time either when it boots (but usually after leaving game or JTAG app) it will not go to default ooption (Xexmenu 1.1) instead it will go to dash and then behave like a retail box (it won't boot JTAG apps , it just says 'unable to boot <_Insert_JTAG_app_name_here>' or words to that effect.

My guess is that dashlaunch might be affecting Cygnos's SMC JTAG injection (It might explain some of other's ealier problems - not much to do with donor nands) It could be voltage related (It's more likely to boot properly if nothings plugged-in) I'm not sure but I will muck around with it some more and try to nail down when/what is causing it to 'mal-load' for want of a better term.

Perhaps if any of the dashlaunch guys are still reading this topic they might be able to point me in the right direction

Brgds/Dan

[dupfold]

How do I compile a freeboot image to include these patches please? Previously I have been using toolbox, but I have no where to place the patches_jasper.bin with that app and using that app along, Xbox 1 games do not work (360 just hard resets).

UPDATE: Sorted it, found a vid tut. Flashed and xbox 1 games working now!

However, xexmenu now hard resets 360 without a USB plugged in? I have already deleted the 'unknown xbox game' save which caused xexmenu to not boot (black screen) before, but this hard reset is new to me and not heard of this problem before? Any ideas?

[MegaUltraCh1ckn]

QUOTE(antisniperspy @ May 25 2010, 11:56 PM)

Ever going to tell us how you patched your xbox without building a new nand??

That's a simple answer... A brain and a Hex Editor.

[kettenschutz]

just want to give a backinfo for the issue that others maybe disturbing, too

there are more and more games now which boots fine up to FSD, only a few hardliners only want to go back to NXE
if i use here RT and Y at the miniblade i come back2fsd without problems

so the issue, isnt really an issue anymore. its more like a little bug yet

hopefully there comes a lots of cool plugins with dashlaunch now, maybe ftp plugin for all-time-transferring or a mp3 player plugin. this would be cool
a little filebrowser would be awesome, too
dont to forget xlink kai, cause we have the killed ping limit

[neil321]

When using toolbox maker 2.4 and needing usb & internal HDD dash lauch do you tick HDD or USB.

[danthaman673]

QUOTE(neil321 @ Jun 29 2010, 03:47 AM)

When using toolbox maker 2.4 and needing usb & internal HDD dash lauch do you tick HDD or USB.

Niether, Tick NAND and then use flash_installer to flash the .ini (that should ref the hdd - assuming it's always there) and launch.xex to your Nand, Make sure you edit your .ini in UTF-8 , Put a .ini on th Hdd that refs the Hdd, one on the USB that refs usb0 etc..  

Brgds/Dan

PS: If you just want to do a normal build without dashlaunch then still use NAND.


       

[360720]

Hi Guys,

Quick question, can i use the 'smc_dec.bin' i extracted from my 'flashdmp.bin' when creating the freeBOOT image ?

I downloaded the 'flashdmp.bin' via Xellous HTTP interface.  

I've once before flashed this 360 and only got a black screen on boot, which i'm told is SMC related.  Just want to be sure i have this right before doing anything.

I'm already running freeBOOT on Falcon.

Thanks !

This post has been edited by 360720: Jun 29 2010, 07:52 PM

[doveman007]

This is sort of working for me.

I've flashed the .xex to the NAND and I've got the following .ini in the root of my HD:

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[QuickLaunchButtons]
Default = LHdd:\Freestyle\FreestyleDash.xex
BUT_X = LHdd:\Applications\xexmenu\default.xex
BUT_B = LHdd:\Applications\xm360\XM360.xex
BUT_Y = LHdd:\Content\0000000000000000\C0DE9999\00080000\C0DE99990F586558

It does boot to Freestyle from cold and if go to the MiniBlade from there and press Y and Yes it goes back to Freestyle. However, when in NXE, if I go to the MiniBlade and press Y it goes straight back to NXE without showing the Yes or No prompt and the same if I select Xbox Dashboard from the MiniBlade. So the only way to get back to Freestyle is going Quick Launch - All Programs and finding it, which is what I used to have to do and was hoping wouldn't be necessary with Dash Launch.

Any one know how to fix this?

[doveman007]

Hmm, now my Xbox is restarting each time I boot it just as the Freestyle scanning HD screen appears.

It first did this when I was in xexmenu and then used the Miniblade to go back to Freestyle. I heard a click and it rebooted and then kept rebooting at the same point until I turned it off.

I turned it on again and the same thing happened. I don't know if this is anything to do with the dashlaunch patched freeboot I just flashed, or the Ping Check removal patch.

I managed to boot into NXE and then xexmenu and delete the Ping Check patch, which made no difference. I've got a brand new spare PSU so I tried that, thinking that maybe the old one was on the blink, but the same thing happened.

I'm wondering if it's anything to do with the fan speed as when I boot into NXE the fans stay slow, but I've got them set to 90% in Freestyle as it's very hot here at the moment (31c ambient), so when that boots the fans speed up and that happens to be the time it's rebooting.

If I boot into NXE and then XexMenu, so that the fans are on default/auto, the temps are:
CPU 55.8C, GPU 59c, EDRAM 62.9C, MB 39.9c
but all the temps are slowing climbing, which doesn't seem right. In the time it's taken me to type these couple of lines they've now reached:
CPU 58.1C, GPU 62.8c, EDRAM 66.5C, MB 40.6C

I checked and the fans seem to be both working as I can feel (very hot) air being blown out the back. There is the odd tick/click coming from somewhere though.

Anyway, probably nothing to do with the flash or the patch, just a wierd coincidence

[c_b_n]

QUOTE(doveman007 @ Jun 29 2010, 09:38 PM)

If I boot into NXE and then XexMenu, so that the fans are on default/auto, the temps are:
CPU 55.8C, GPU 59c, EDRAM 62.9C, MB 39.9c
but all the temps are slowing climbing, which doesn't seem right. In the time it's taken me to type these couple of lines they've now reached:
CPU 58.1C, GPU 62.8c, EDRAM 66.5C, MB 40.6C

That's not that strange. Turn up the fans to 60%.

Did you make your nand image with BestPigs tool? Then install the launch.ini and launch.xex on the nand?

Just try again.

[doveman007]

QUOTE(c_b_n @ Jun 29 2010, 10:33 PM)

That's not that strange. Turn up the fans to 60%.

Fair enough, just been a while since I've seen such high temperatures.

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Did you make your nand image with BestPigs tool? Then install the launch.ini and launch.xex on the nand?

I didn't need to, as I'd already built a working Freeboot, I just put the dashlaunch Jasper patch file in place and rebuilt it.

I've dismantled the Xbox just to check the fans were OK but they're fine. I put Freestyle on a USB stick along with a Launch.ini and booted into that fine. Booting from the HD still resulted in Freestyle rebooting though.

I then flashed back the previously working non-dashlaunch Freeboot and booted from HD, which booted into NXE  as I'd deleted the old Launch.xex from the HD. I then tried to load Freestyle from the Quick Launch and it just locked up whilst scanning. I loaded Dragons Age fine though but didn't want to play with the fans on auto.

If ran Freestyle from a USB stick with the HD connected, and it scanned the HD fine and worked normally.

I then deleted the Freestyle and fsdata folders from the HD and copied Freestyle from the USB and that seems to have sorted it. I've also re-flashed the dashlaunch Freeboot and the launch.xex and it's booting into Freestyle OK at the moment.

I wonder if there's something dodgy about my HD connecter/casing/lead as I had some problems a couple of weeks ago with games locking up. I connected the HD to my PC and copied a couple of games back over, but I'm not sure if they were actually corrupt or if the HD just wasn't connecting properly. The problems only started since I changed from XBR to Freeboot but that's probably just a coincidence.

[chrisco93]

ok please some one help me out please, ok so i am trying to get the new updflash.bin into my xbox by using flash360 " i used freeBOOT_ToolBox_Maker24 to make that file" and when i try to write updflash.bin to NAND it says this..

QUOTE

WARNING: Your current nand is not the zeropaired
If you have a way to switch the nands, do so now

I have no clue what the means or what i am suppose to do
PLEASE HELP!

[antisniperspy2]

QUOTE(chrisco93 @ Jun 29 2010, 09:51 PM)

ok please some one help me out please, ok so i am trying to get the new updflash.bin into my xbox by using flash360 " i used freeBOOT_ToolBox_Maker24 to make that file" and when i try to write updflash.bin to NAND it says this..
I have no clue what the means or what i am suppose to do
PLEASE HELP!

What type of console do you have? I had that exact warning on my jasper 512 but did not have it on 2 falcons and a 16mb jasper. And all 4 went well when flashing. Hope this helps

[chrisco93]

QUOTE(antisniperspy2 @ Jun 29 2010, 07:57 PM)

What type of console do you have? I had that exact warning on my jasper 512 but did not have it on 2 falcons and a 16mb jasper. And all 4 went well when flashing. Hope this helps

i have a xenon

[doveman007]

QUOTE(chrisco93 @ Jun 30 2010, 02:51 AM)

ok please some one help me out please, ok so i am trying to get the new updflash.bin into my xbox by using flash360 " i used freeBOOT_ToolBox_Maker24 to make that file" and when i try to write updflash.bin to NAND it says this..
I have no clue what the means or what i am suppose to do
PLEASE HELP!

I get the same flashing Freeboot to my Jasper. Doesn't seem to be anything to worry about.