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Xbox360 Forums => Xbox 360 Hacking Forums => Technical DVD-ROM and Modified DVD Firmware Forum => Topic started by: bartosie on May 17, 2009, 08:27:00 AM

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 17, 2009, 08:27:00 AM

Hi all,

I got my 360's dvd drive flashed a couple months back to firmware version 1.5, i paid a ridiculous amount of money to this guy to do this and now i decided to go try flashing it myself..

The problem is that i dont have a connectivity kit or a chip or whatever to get the key out of it, but i recall reading that you dont neccesarily need to key to flash it to a newer firmware since it has already been flashed...

Is this information correct? I can't find any topics about it and I really wonder if its right..

I got my xbox opened up already and i can hook it up to the computer easily, but i just need to know if its do-able without getting the key first.. And also wandering how to proceed.., since everyone keeps talking about half-opening-up the tray and stuff.. or is this only to get the key??

Thanks in advance,

bartosie

This post has been edited by bartosie: May 17 2009, 03:28 PM

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: Ranger72 on May 17, 2009, 09:05:00 AM

If you flash your drive without the key then you will need to spend much more money that you paid to get it flashed to replace your console that you will have bricked.

Since it has ix 1.5 you wont need to full connectivity kit but you will still need to read the drives firmware to get the dump files to make a proper ix 1.6 firmware for your drive before you can flash it.

Get the latest Jungle Flasher and click the tutorial link within the program.

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: 3601stTimer on May 17, 2009, 09:18:00 AM

Just need a sata sable and use the 360 to power the drive, as it's already flashed with 1.5 you can just create a dummy.bin from the drive, follow the JF tutorial.

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 18, 2009, 06:07:00 PM

got it hooked up to my clean 32bit vista PC and did the half open tray method BEFORE starting up the PC

i set sata mode from enhanced to compatible and they bios recognized the drive like it should..

the problem im having is that windows loads up REALLLYY slow, like incredibly slow.. even weirder is that whenever i close the tray, things start to speed up again...

anyone know what might be wrong??

my specs:
asus p5q, p45 chipset
intel e8500
vista x86 sp1

jungle flasher doesnt recognize the drive either..

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: hardie on May 18, 2009, 06:32:00 PM

QUOTE(bartosie @ May 19 2009, 08:29 AM)

got it hooked up to my clean 32bit vista PC and did the half open tray method BEFORE starting up the PC

i set sata mode from enhanced to compatible and they bios recognized the drive like it should..
the problem im having is that windows loads up REALLLYY slow, like incredibly slow.. even weirder is that whenever i close the tray, things start to speed up again...

anyone know what might be wrong??

my specs:
asus p5q, p45 chipset
intel e8500
vista x86 sp1

jungle flasher doesnt recognize the drive either..

have you read the tutorial and followed the procedures???
have you installed portio
do you have a via card or are u using the sata port on the motherboard
have computer booted up before you turn on the drive abd then run JF
are u selecting the right port in properties

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: SuperHumanly on May 18, 2009, 06:32:00 PM

install the PORTIO32 drivers...they come with jungleflasher.

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 19, 2009, 06:26:00 AM

QUOTE(hardie @ May 19 2009, 01:24 AM)

yes i installed portio32, it even shows up in the device manager, so i think i should be good on that..

does it matter on what kind of sata slot i put it in? should i set it as a primary master?! or shouldnt that matter?

you serious about letting the computer start up first? before turning on the drive?
that would really help..

im going to try that now..

edit: wow tried that, got the neccesary files, and then pressed Liteon-Erase.. and i got an 0x50 error and it says that device intro failed?!

did i brick my drive?

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 19, 2009, 06:51:00 AM

holy shit, i cant get the drive to eject and whenever i turn my xbox on it give me 1 red light..

i really screwed stuff up didnt i

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: run187 on May 19, 2009, 06:58:00 AM

I f you have the keys it is fixable need to do in dos or get status 72(sometimes dif )with the correct flash chip stuff showing in right colum in jf or by using dos there be link somewhere on this site how to fix with dos i dont have time at min to look search google fo lite on frozen with le erase i am in somewhat of a rush at he min so this probably makes even less sense then my already hard to understand typing style
I did same s you and fixed mine unplug all ide devices and any usb if it is like my asus then it ill frezze with them pluged in put the jmicron into ide or ahci if that board has that i would guess that i did but i cant be sure without looking on asus site anyways good luck fixing it is reasonabily easy using the robing playground vid..

QUOTE(bartosie @ May 19 2009, 12:43 PM)

holy shit, i cant get the drive to eject and whenever i turn my xbox on it give me 1 red light..

i really screwed stuff up didn't i

nah its just blank once get re flashed will wok perfectly try jf 1.6 if not already done so i best go out i suppose

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: Takashi on May 19, 2009, 07:04:00 AM

Jesus man, you're going to confuse him more than he already is!

Find L-O-E.exe [dos based lite on erase program]
find your lite-CFW.bin [the resultant ixtreme v1.6 firmare jungleflasher created for you, or create it again fom the dump files]
find Dosflash v1.7

make a bootable USB thumbvdrive with dos , the above tools, and the lite-CFW.bin on it.

c:> L-O-E.exe [port memory address, e.g. DCF0]
once, powercycle, again, powercycle, again, powercycle, again, now you should have status 72.

powercycle one last time.

c:> Dosflash [enter]

choose the drive by the number.
press w for write [enter]
type lite-CFW.bin [enter]

DONE

This post has been edited by Takashi: May 19 2009, 02:05 PM

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 19, 2009, 07:07:00 AM

yeah i got 4 files from it, but when it was dumping the dummy.bin file it said something that it wasnt loaded correctly and asked if i wanted to continue..

i said yes and it asked me to repair the dummy.bin file.., it needed some kind of barcodes that it was missing or something... i just skipped that and went ahead and tried flashing it, since it finally showed up in JF, so i thought i was good to go!

but then after loading 1.6-repack and going to liteon-erase it gave me that error..

ever since ive been rebooting my pc/switches sata ports but it hasnt been showing up in JF..

i guess ill try & find out how dosflash works..

can i just put my dummy.bin file here, so you guys might see if something is missing ?

QUOTE(Takashi @ May 19 2009, 01:56 PM)

sweet im definetly gonna try that, how about the maybe-corrupted dummy.bin, is there any way you guys can check that for me?

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: Takashi on May 19, 2009, 07:08:00 AM

That's not the issue, where's the lite-cfw.bin that jf tried to flash?

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 19, 2009, 07:15:00 AM

here's my JF log:
http://www.gratizwebtoolz.nl/jf.log

and here is my lite-cfw.bin:
http://www.gratizwebtoolz.nl/Lite_CFW.bin

if you give me a go, ill definetly go ahead and try it

thanks for ur help

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: Takashi on May 19, 2009, 07:24:00 AM

Looks valid, it's DOS time!

This post has been edited by Takashi: May 19 2009, 02:24 PM

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: hardie on May 19, 2009, 07:25:00 AM

just following this
JF log looks good and your litecfw file looks valid
When u used jf to send the erase did you power cycle the drive

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 19, 2009, 07:31:00 AM

yes i did, if by power cycling u mean plugging that annoying little power cable in and out of the drive, then yes, i did

making a bootable usb drive as we speak!

one more question before trying it:
you said something about using this command:
c:> L-O-E.exe [port memory address, e.g. DCF0]

for me that would be L-O-E.exe 0x01F0 right? or just L-O-E.exe 01F0?

This post has been edited by bartosie: May 19 2009, 02:32 PM

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: Takashi on May 19, 2009, 07:32:00 AM

L-O-E.exe 01F0

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 19, 2009, 08:03:00 AM

wow i must have typed L-E-O.exe 01F0 about 30 times now..

keeps giving me status FF51..

even if i try to enter L-E-O.exe 01F0 right after i put the power connector back in..

anyone got a solution?, ive been reading in other topics that this might have to do with the fact that either the drive is bricked, or its not getting power somehow..

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: Takashi on May 19, 2009, 08:08:00 AM

can't brick a lite-on.

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 19, 2009, 08:30:00 AM

sweeet got it! after restarting and trying a different sata port i finally got ff80 and after powercycling bunch of times i got ff72! woehoe

then i powercycled one more time and wrote the firmware on it..

then i powercycled again and started to test it out.., none of my disks were working though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

after restarting the xbox it started working again; i first tested some old games, then i tried one of the newer wave xbox 360 games (guitar hero metallica); it stil says: play DVD, instead of play Game;

any way to find out for sure if it succesfully flashed to 1.6?

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: Takashi on May 19, 2009, 08:35:00 AM

QUOTE(bartosie @ May 19 2009, 08:22 AM)

i first tested some old games

You never said whether originals or pre-wave-3 worked...

hmm, reload the dump files back into jungleflasher, and create the firmware again, then save to thumb, then erase and write again, maybe there was a flaw.

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: hardie on May 19, 2009, 08:36:00 AM

yes take a dump of the firmware again but this time tick the box that says get dummy bin only and hit the tab at the bottom that says dummy from ixtreme
then check this to see that your key is in the file

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 19, 2009, 08:38:00 AM

yeah they all work fine!

is it true that wave3 games converted back to wave2 games (with ppf-o-magic) arent working with the new 1.6ixtreme firmware?

if so, that might be it.. I think i might have mixed up the two guitar hero metallica cd's (1 wave3 & 1 wave3-converted-to-wave2). One of them is not working and the other one is..

Im downloading a new 360 game to know for sure now..

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: Takashi on May 19, 2009, 08:57:00 AM

patched that way, def won't work without activate.iso

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: bartosie on May 19, 2009, 09:37:00 AM

what do you mean?

are the wave3-to-wave2-converted games not working anymore, because i didnt use activate.iso (GOOD!)

or are all the newer wave3 games not working, because i didnt use activate.iso (that would be really BAD)

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: shadow-360 on May 19, 2009, 09:50:00 AM

QUOTE(bartosie @ May 19 2009, 03:29 PM)

are the wave3-to-wave2-converted games not working anymore, because i didnt use activate.iso (GOOD!)

Thats it!

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: drgaston on May 19, 2009, 12:19:00 PM

QUOTE

are the wave3-to-wave2-converted games not working anymore, because i didnt use activate.iso (GOOD!)

To play wave3-to-wave2-converted games with iX 1.6 you need to first insert a burned copy of activate.iso, then the game you want to play.

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: run187 on May 19, 2009, 02:51:00 PM

QUOTE(bartosie @ May 19 2009, 02:30 PM)

You may want to edit some of that out just a small suggestion ..
and if you still have the original iso just reburn em if not you could always "buy" them again or re rip your "owned" games..

Title: Liteon 1.5 -> 1.6 W/o Getting The Key
Post by: chorizo1 on May 19, 2009, 03:22:00 PM

QUOTE(bartosie @ May 19 2009, 08:30 AM)

Im downloading a new 360 game to know for sure now..

X-S is not here to get your pirated games to work.

xboxscene.org forums

Xbox360 Forums => Xbox 360 Hacking Forums => Technical DVD-ROM and Modified DVD Firmware Forum => Topic started by: bartosie on May 17, 2009, 08:27:00 AM