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[derity]

Hey guys I got a new Xbox the other day but the guy who usually flashed my Xbox's seems to be unavaliable.

Is anyone able to flash this one for me? I'm pretty sure its a Lite-On Drive and it has a warranty sticker so it would be nice if that could be kept intact too.

I would prefer to bring the Xbox to you personally for a flash, but if post is the only option I guess I would have to....

Thanks in advance to any replies!

David.

[beasty54]

If its a slim console and brand new its very unlikely it can be flashed, the best you can do is buy one of the Lite-on 9504 drives and have someone swap the drives.

Let me know what console it is first and we can go from there

This post has been edited by beasty54: May 9 2011, 03:44 PM

[stee01]

Sent you a PM.

I wouldn't recommend spoofing (swapping) drives on a 360. If it is the case that you have both a) A Slim console and (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) A Drive that Isn't 9504, I would recommend holding off on flashing for the time being. The new drives  are in testing (which means they have found a way to write firmware to them) so it is probably only a matter of weeks before they are flashable.

[beasty54]

QUOTE(stee01 @ May 9 2011, 09:02 PM)

Sent you a PM.

I wouldn't recommend spoofing (swapping) drives on a 360. If it is the case that you have both a) A Slim console and (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) A Drive that Isn't 9504, I would recommend holding off on flashing for the time being. The new drives  are in testing (which means they have found a way to write firmware to them) so it is probably only a matter of weeks before they are flashable.

If your going to offer advice, especially if your offering to flash the drive for the OP, at least offer the corret advice. There is still no way to write to the 0225 drives, and there may never be. Team Xecuter and C4eva are simply writing the LT+ 2.0 firmware to 9504 drives ONLY.

It doesn't matter what firmware revision the drive is, 9504 and 0225 drives are all the same once erased so in other words, if you have a 0225 you can wait and see if they ever find a write solution or you can swap it for a 9504.

Quote from TX main page..

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Please note that the 0225 drive has not had the write protect problem solved yet, the 0225 fw is being tested on a 9504 drive as the hardware is the same (Liteon DG-16D4S)

[stee01]

Information we only found out a few hours ago. That Team Xecuter post has a timestamp of 9th May and wasn't there when I posted that, so I apologise for my information being out by a few hours whilst I was asleep.

Regardless my advice was correct at the time I posted, It was stated that 0225 firmware was complete, not that it was using a spoofing method on the 9504 drives.

I would still wait with an 0225 drive until the firmware is released before going about suggesting spoofing to 9504. We don't know if c4eva has a trick up his sleeve he hasnt announced yet.

[beasty54]

QUOTE(stee01 @ May 10 2011, 09:15 AM)

Information we only found out a few hours ago. That Team Xecuter post has a timestamp of 9th May and wasn't there when I posted that, so I apologise for my information being out by a few hours whilst I was asleep.

Regardless my advice was correct at the time I posted, It was stated that 0225 firmware was complete, not that it was using a spoofing method on the 9504 drives.

I would still wait with an 0225 drive until the firmware is released before going about suggesting spoofing to 9504. We don't know if c4eva has a trick up his sleeve he hasnt announced yet.

It was only posted on the TX site a few hours ago, it was mentioned a few days back.

I dont mean to offend you but your clearly lacking a bit of knowledge.

Theres no spoofing involved in the process so dont keep calling it that. Despite the fact that we differentiate the drives by refering to the firmware revision (9504 and 0225) ALL the DG-16D4s drives are identical.
If you take a 9504 drive, erase the firmware and flash it with the 0225 LT+2.0 (once released) that drive becomes an 0225, it is NOT a spoofed 9504.

As for the waiting for a write method, of course thats an option but if it was likely any time soon i'm sure C4eva wouldn't be spending so much time testing it on the drives that are write enabled (original 9504)

This post has been edited by beasty54: May 10 2011, 10:15 AM

[stee01]

QUOTE(beasty54 @ May 10 2011, 10:11 AM)

Theres no spoofing involved in the process so dont keep calling it that.

Spoofing = Swapping a dvd drive with another model

QUOTE(beasty54 @ May 10 2011, 10:11 AM)

Despite the fact that we differentiate the drives by refering to the firmware revision (9504 and 0225) ALL the DG-16D4s drives are identical.

They are not identical. The chip that stores the firmware on a 0225 drive is completely different to the one on the 9504. Hence the reason why it is currently write protected. If they were identical we would be able to flash it by now.

QUOTE(beasty54 @ May 10 2011, 10:11 AM)

If you take a 9504 drive, erase the firmware and flash it with the 0225 LT+2.0 (once released) that drive becomes an 0225, it is NOT a spoofed 9504.

No it becomes a 9504 spoofed as an 0225. The Xbox is only tricked into thinking it is an 0225. Theoretically M$ could detect this by sending a write request to the drive (I believe the new dashboard updates can write to the drives) If they find they can write to it, they will be able to identify that it is not an 0225 drive.

The new firmware in the works attempts to counteract the realtime checks of the drive firmware revision. I'd imagine (I'm not saying I'm correct here) that spoofing the drive is still risky compared to flashing to the same drive.

The drives are identical except for the nand chip. That doesnt mean M$ aren't able to detect what drive is installed by identifying that chip.

I don't claim to know it all. I know how to flash the drives, and read the keys on an 0225. Neither of us know yet for certain what the method will be for an 0225 console. You may be right, regardless this has gotten way out of hand and neither of us know what the true result is until it is released.

So let's leave it at that.

[beasty54]

QUOTE(stee01 @ May 10 2011, 01:15 PM)

Spoofing = Swapping a dvd drive with another model

My point exactly, its not a different model.... both are DG-16D4S and Hardware revison A0A0, no difference at all other than the write protect.

I'm only going on what C4eva and TX have said, both of which claim this is NOT spoofing because the Hardware revisions are identical in both drives other than the write protect on the chip. The updates could well cause problems in the future (just like any custom firmware does) but i have faith in C4eva, i'm almost certain that he wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't as safe as any other method.

Agreed its OT in here and not fair to carry on.... at least the OP probably has a good idea on what he wants to do now.  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

This post has been edited by beasty54: May 10 2011, 01:43 PM

[Ranger72]

Guys this is not the place to be discussing this. Keep on topic of derity's request.