Post by: Xbox-Scene on December 11, 2007, 04:49:00 PM
| Maximus released 360 Firmware Toolbox(info) v4.6 - a graphical tool to handle several common dvd-drive firmware tasks. iXtreme v1.4 is added including for Hitachi-LG v78 and v79 (only with passkey for now) drives. From Readme/NFO: Quote
Official Site: n/a (by Maximus) Download: n/a (might be illegal under DMCA/EUCD) |
Post by: tezza192 on December 11, 2007, 05:21:00 PM
Post by: DMAddict on December 11, 2007, 05:23:00 PM
QUOTE(tezza192 @ Dec 11 2007, 04:57 PM) 
Still no soft flash of the 79............
Maybe not yet, but does this mean it's near. . . ?
QUOTE
WHAT IS NEXT ON FUTURE TOOLBOX VERSIONS ?:
* Direct dump/flash of 79 drives
* Direct dump/flash of 79 drives
Post by: tezza192 on December 11, 2007, 05:28:00 PM
QUOTE
WHAT IS NEXT ON FUTURE TOOLBOX VERSIONS ?:
* Direct dump/flash of 79 drives
* Direct dump/flash of 79 drives
Its been saying that in the NFO of the toolbox for ages, as Maximus is making money off the passkeys I cannot forsee that ever happening unless someone else figures a way to do it.
Post by: SuperStition on December 11, 2007, 05:44:00 PM
Post by: syntaxerror329 on December 11, 2007, 05:59:00 PM
QUOTE(DMAddict @ Dec 11 2007, 07:59 PM)
Maybe not yet, but does this mean it's near. . . ?
I bet that version will come out once he has sold out of all of his passkey's
Post by: Bubbalynch on December 11, 2007, 06:07:00 PM
And why do you believe this when the info says otherwise? Or am I totally not understanding the topic at hand here?
My Elite is collecting dust while my Premium is collecting heat from spinning those DL's. I hope a non solder/non passkey solution comes soon. This is suspensful as a thriller novel, lol.
Post by: wutitdo on December 11, 2007, 06:41:00 PM
Will this say that i finally can have a slower firmware for my hit 47dj?
Post by: Goldtiger on December 11, 2007, 07:05:00 PM
This post has been edited by Goldtiger: Dec 12 2007, 03:05 AM
Post by: benbon on December 11, 2007, 07:09:00 PM
QUOTE
Direct dump/flash of 79 drives
I hope that never comes out, I find it super easy to mod.
Post by: 4real*leb on December 11, 2007, 07:19:00 PM
QUOTE(benbon @ Dec 11 2007, 07:45 PM)
I hope that never comes out, I find it super easy to mod.
Woah, really?
That would be perfect since nobody would have to buy any extra hardware to flash the 79.
Post by: DeeRez on December 11, 2007, 07:22:00 PM
QUOTE(benbon @ Dec 12 2007, 02:45 AM) 
I hope that never comes out, I find it super easy to mod.
Translation: I hope that never comes out, I love charging an extra $40 to mod the 79s.
Post by: linuxman5 on December 11, 2007, 07:25:00 PM
I mostly work on Samsungs, so I want to be sure doing the 78k.
Post by: sekone on December 11, 2007, 07:40:00 PM
i keep getting this msg
#xbins unable to join channel (invite only)
was just working for me yesterday.
would love to try out new FWToolbox.
thanks
Post by: DeeRez on December 11, 2007, 08:04:00 PM
QUOTE(linuxman5 @ Dec 12 2007, 03:01 AM)
What's the proper procedure for flashing Hitachi drives that are already modded? I have a 78k with 1.2 that needs to be flashed, do I write the was.bin back to it, then apply the ixtreme 1.4, or can I go straight to ixtreme 1.4?
I mostly work on Samsungs, so I want to be sure doing the 78k.
I mostly work on Samsungs, so I want to be sure doing the 78k.
You will need to restore to stock, then flash with 1.4.
Post by: Bubbalynch on December 11, 2007, 08:48:00 PM
QUOTE(sekone @ Dec 12 2007, 04:16 AM) 
anybody else having trouble logging on to xbins?
i keep getting this msg
#xbins unable to join channel (invite only)
was just working for me yesterday.
would love to try out new FWToolbox.
thanks
Me too, Xbins Auto Launcher says Connection was rejected by host or some shit.
Strange...
Post by: Xitherun on December 11, 2007, 08:17:00 PM
QUOTE(Bubbalynch @ Dec 12 2007, 04:48 AM)
Me too, Xbins Auto Launcher says Connection was rejected by host or some shit.
Strange...
I'm also having this problem. Trying to get the new FWTB as I type this post, but mIRC says the channel is invite only.
Post by: Ticketz on December 11, 2007, 08:21:00 PM
QUOTE(Xitherun @ Dec 12 2007, 01:23 PM)
Sweet. Now I can update my drive in my Elite.
I'm also having this problem. Trying to get the new FWTB as I type this post, but mIRC says the channel is invite only.
Ditto, just tried two minutes ago..
Post by: momhoener on December 11, 2007, 09:12:00 PM
Matt
Post by: Xitherun on December 11, 2007, 09:58:00 PM
QUOTE(momhoener @ Dec 11 2007, 08:48 PM)
Yeah my xbins is down to. Anyway I want to flash the new ixtreme 1.4 on my 78fk. Well I seem to have lost my orig.bin although I can get the key from the hacked firmware. Since there are like 6 different firmware versions of the 78. How can I tell which firmware it was originaly?. Thanks a link or any reply would be appreciated. Thanks
Matt
If you look at your hacked firmware in FWTB, next to "Key Information" should be the address your key for your drive starts at. My drive, for example, is a 78fk and the key starts at 4B00. Included within the FWTB folder should be the original hitachi firmware .bin files in another folder called "orig_fw" (or at least that's where mine are). If I had lost my original firmware, I would want the firmware named 78-4b00.bin. Then I can take the key from my hacked firmware, and put it in place of the original firmware.
Hope this helps you.
This post has been edited by Xitherun: Dec 12 2007, 06:00 AM
Post by: monteca820ce on December 11, 2007, 09:31:00 PM
Thanks
Post by: MarutiDriver on December 11, 2007, 10:44:00 PM
Post by: vtrucco on December 12, 2007, 03:35:00 AM
QUOTE(staple123 @ Dec 12 2007, 09:58 AM)
What about the 79FL drives that were modified by externally removing the DVD chip and then re-flashing with ixtreme v1.2.....the new firmware being spoofed to appear as a 78 drive with modeB tweaked into the firmware?
this should be reflashaeble just like any other 78 drive, but how to do it properly?
since the 79Passkey was never needed or used in this solution is a factor too...?
79FL drive ley location 4E10
I have the same question... I flashed my 0079 with passkey, but I removed the chip... Can I flash the new firmware using de tray open trick or I need to solder the chip again?
Post by: Jadgamez on December 12, 2007, 05:01:00 AM
QUOTE(vtrucco @ Dec 12 2007, 12:11 PM)
I have the same question... I flashed my 0079 with passkey, but I removed the chip... Can I flash the new firmware using de tray open trick or I need to solder the chip again?
Same question here i have a 79FL which was flashed with the passkey then mod removed. Can i just force it into mode B and re-flash. If so how do i get into mode B?
Post by: phoenixdigital on December 12, 2007, 06:07:00 AM
Just patched my first xbox firmware Hitachi 78... had alot of problems getting it into modeb as I bought a cheap ass version of the connectivity kit from diygadget.com. Bit annoyed about that they do say it can "support for debug mode (on some DVD-ROMs)" should have checked deeper as it cannot do hitachi which I found out after alot of stuffing around. They should mention it on the description. Also my fault for being a tight ass and not buying the xecuter kit.
Slax was my savior
Then the firmware mod worked a treat.
Thanks again
Post by: walterg74 on December 12, 2007, 07:38:00 AM
QUOTE(phoenixdigital @ Dec 12 2007, 10:43 AM)
Thanks for all involved with this.
Just patched my first xbox firmware Hitachi 78... had alot of problems getting it into modeb as I bought a cheap ass version of the connectivity kit from diygadget.com. Bit annoyed about that they do say it can "support for debug mode (on some DVD-ROMs)" should have checked deeper as it cannot do hitachi which I found out after alot of stuffing around. They should mention it on the description. Also my fault for being a tight ass and not buying the xecuter kit.
Slax was my savior
Then the firmware mod worked a treat.
Thanks again
Uhmm.. sorry to 2burst" your bubble, but even the original xecuter kit does NOT put a hitachi 78 into mode B... I have it, and it just does NOT do that... you're fine on 59 and below, but for a 78 you gotta use slax....
Post by: wutitdo on December 12, 2007, 07:48:00 AM
Post by: Exist2Resist on December 12, 2007, 08:24:00 AM
Post by: erod550 on December 12, 2007, 08:38:00 AM
Post by: justicedreadz on December 12, 2007, 08:40:00 AM
Post by: Exist2Resist on December 12, 2007, 01:45:00 PM
QUOTE(erod550 @ Dec 12 2007, 12:14 PM)
as mentioned earlier, #fw has info on where to get it.
I know where to get everything thanks, my question is will Slax put the 78 and 79 in mode B and be able to read write the fw like on the 46 and such?
Post by: justicedreadz on December 12, 2007, 01:47:00 PM
Post by: Exist2Resist on December 12, 2007, 02:09:00 PM
I'm sure he has his reasons, hopefully soon though.
Post by: ctpact on December 12, 2007, 02:28:00 PM
Post by: phoenixdigital on December 12, 2007, 04:27:00 PM
QUOTE(walterg74 @ Dec 12 2007, 04:00 PM)
Uhmm.. sorry to 2burst" your bubble, but even the original xecuter kit does NOT put a hitachi 78 into mode B... I have it, and it just does NOT do that... you're fine on 59 and below, but for a 78 you gotta use slax....
Oh good news then I saved a bit of cash. They still should describe what drives it will NOT work on for diygadget.com.
QUOTE(Exist2Resist @ Dec 12 2007, 04:00 PM)
So Slax 2.0 can put the 78/79 in mode B and then you can read/flash the drive ?
I think I have slax 2.1 and it put my 78 into modeb.
Post by: cronaldo on December 13, 2007, 01:17:00 PM
still prefer the good old dos method in my opinion.
thanks
Post by: Perplexer on December 13, 2007, 10:30:00 PM
QUOTE(staple123 @ Dec 12 2007, 06:49 PM)
WILL IT ALLOW IS TO PROPERLY PATCH OUR 79FL KEY (ADDRESS 4e10) into a ixteremv1.4 spoofed as a samsung MS28?
I can answer this one. I had a customer bring me a 79FL where the PCB had been completely trashed. I removed the SST and dumped it, had Toolbox insert the 0079 key and spoofing to a MS28 with iXtreme1.4, and flashed a TS-H943. Worked fine.
QUOTE
can we DirecT Drive Flash----->Differential Flash {PATCH} with FWToolbox v4.6 a 79FL drive that was upgraded to ixterem v1.2 and spoofed as a 78 drive without using the 79Passkey?
I should be able to test this within 48 hours. I have a 0079 flashed to iXtreme1.3 and we'll see how Toolbox likes it without a Passkey installed.
Post by: thetrunks on December 14, 2007, 05:22:00 AM
only applied update for 8x speed
This post has been edited by thetrunks: Dec 14 2007, 01:24 PM
Post by: Obveron on December 14, 2007, 08:51:00 AM
Post by: Marcian on December 14, 2007, 12:35:00 PM
Then i booted up to Windows, restored to original Firmware and patched to new 1.4 Ixtreme (from the Version that came with 4.0) with 5x speed. (no rebooting in between).
Thanks to c4e and Maximus.
This post has been edited by Marcian: Dec 14 2007, 08:36 PM
Post by: Marcian on December 15, 2007, 02:29:00 AM
QUOTE(staple123 @ Dec 14 2007, 10:34 PM)
Marcian,
THIS IS ABOUT 79 DRIVES (LOADED WITH IXTREME V1.2) AND HOW TO RE-FLASH WITHOUT THE 79PASSKEY BEING RE-INSTALELD---GOT IT!
Well, i thought, that this news post was about the new Maximus 360 Firmware Toolbox 4.6 release.
So nobody should be thankful to c4e and Maximus for their work. I think i now got it staple123.
Also i used the not-so-well-known but extremely easy mode to get to Mode b (not mentioned in the famous textbook-tuturorial afair). (I used ICH7 onboard S-ATA).
Staple123: You as the maximo leader of this great can feel free to ban me from the board.
bye bye
Marcian
Post by: Murc on December 15, 2007, 10:55:00 PM
I originally had a 78...but I got the RROD, then a few months ago I got a Benq, and today once again I was graced with the presence of the RROD, I just got back from Bestbuy from buying an "arcade" edition, and was Very Dissapointed to open it up and find a 79 in it.....grrrrrr.
god I wish MS would fix this damn problem.
I also wish Maximus would stop messing around and release the soft-flash for the 79 allready, I'm sure he's allready made a boat load of cash-money.
Post by: Marcian on December 16, 2007, 04:30:00 AM
There is no need to garbage this thread with any arguing.
I have not shorted anything on my DVD-Drive, nor did i say i did. It is unclear to me at which point of the method i used it comes to critical timing. Perhaps you can send me a link, where it is stated that switching on the dvd drive with open tray will brick anything and so on. A PM will do it.
Also there is no point about discussing the selling rate of 78/79 drives. Fact is that you need the Maximus Toolbox for both of the drives and that this is the first version that comes with ixtreme 1.4 Firmware (+ it is the first time that i personally use the speed switching feature). I'm quite sure there might be some other users that actually own that v78 drive.
I didn't ask anybody to stop their discussion about the v79 drives, just wanted to state my experience with that new Toolbox and thank the people for doing that stuff for us.
Now i wish everybody with v79 drive a happy discussion.
Bye
Post by: sosotiit on December 17, 2007, 03:39:00 PM
-soso
Post by: pcton on December 18, 2007, 04:36:00 PM
Now it's realy good time to release the new direct 79 flash versio!
Post by: mlapaglia on December 29, 2007, 10:13:00 AM
Post by: alfsoft on January 06, 2008, 02:27:00 PM
Too pity I didn't read any forums before my buy. From now on I'm one of the big group of 79 soft-mod awaiters.
Post by: atomikus on January 07, 2008, 12:53:00 PM
Altough in my country flashing 79drive isnt that expensive 50 done by profesional.
Post by: Antman1 on January 25, 2008, 06:14:00 AM
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Post by: Antman1 on March 11, 2008, 06:22:00 AM
Post by: Antman1 on March 12, 2008, 09:09:00 AM
Has anyone took a v79 drive and put it in an older 360 and had to spoof the drive as something else? If so has anyone been able to read the firmware from the v79 drive after spoofing it and open their firmware in toolbox4.6 with it passing checksum? Mine said it failed checksum and then shows it as unsupported firmware when opening in toolbox4.6 but the drive works fine in the 360 just wanted to reflash with iXtreme1.4
Post by: adelyser on March 23, 2008, 04:29:00 PM
QUOTE(Antman1 @ Mar 11 2008, 05:58 AM)
Well I broke down and got a passkey and all was good but you know how it is. I saw that the v79 drive didnt read all the media as well as my samsung so I decided to swap the drives. Got my ms28 drive in my halo3 edition and went to put my v79 drive in my other 360 but I believe I may have found a bug in Toolbox. I restored the drive back to original firmware then redid the key to match my ther 360 then forgot to reflash back to iXtreme1.4 and I spoofed it to a hitachi v47 drive like my samsung was spoofed to and then after putting it back in my other 360 realized it will only play originals because I did not flash it back to iXtreme1.4 so I hooked it back up to the PC got it back into modeB and loaded Toolbox4.6 and told it to dump the firmware first and it did but came up and said it could not validate the checksum and asked if I want to accept it anyway so I said yes then it asked to open it and I said yes and it came up like it is Unsupported Firmware and would not load it up. Then I decided to load the firmware I had of my v79 up on toolbox and see if I could unspoof it that way. It loaded I told it to flash just the spoof strings and it told me that Verify step failed for sector 3C000 and asks "Do you want to Retry?" and never can do it. I then tried the Restore option but it told me it sees a lot of differences and warns me that flashing to many sectors at once can brick the drive so I did not do it. Please help. Anyone have a clue how I could manually flash the sectors of the v79 drive so it is not spoofed anymore?
I have the same problem. I have a 79FL drive, installed the passkey. It went into mode B just fine, I got several good reads from the drive.
I patched the firmware with iXtreme1.4, and flashed it back with Firmware Toolbox 4.6, and now I get a hardware failure in the Xbox. I hooked it back up to the PC, and found that when I read it, I have a LOT of differences in the new firmware and original. Plus, I get the same error from Firmware Toolbox, that there are a lot of changed sectors and it fails on verification of every one.
So my question now is, are there any special steps to RESTORE the original firmware to the drive? I can get it into mode B using Slax, and I can read it and verify changed sectors with Toolbox 4.6, but I cannot get anything to flash. Any ideas or suggestions would be very appreciated, I don't really want to brick this drive.
Post by: nycaznkidd0 on May 29, 2008, 12:38:00 PM
currently using 3.0.
This post has been edited by nycaznkidd0: May 29 2008, 07:44 PM