Complete Firmware Tutorial V40: Samsung And Hitach, Backing Up, Modifying & Flashing the FW, Options

[geebee]

Hack the 360: The Tutorial

Backing Up, Modifying & Flashing the Samsung Drive
&
How to Create Game Backups
&
Bad Flash Recovery

For Toshiba-Samsung and Hitachi-LG

Written by: Geebee & contributors

This post will be updated as I update the tutorial...

Changelog:
* Updated to cover Xtreme v3 Samsung and Xtreme v2.1 Hitachi (v40)
* doc format … guide is now 'open source' (v40)
* Major changes….garyopas XTRM-HITACHI-ALL-V1_2 method is now the only way to flash the Hitachi (v37)
* Added: Now recommends Samsung Autoflasher & garyopa’s Hitachi pack, both with no need to inject your key (v36)
* Changed: crossed wires now recommends using a 1k resistor (MUCH safer) (v35)
* Added: f900 tutorial (v34)
* Added: v36 support (v33)
* Added: news section (v33)
* Fixed: Merged both tutorials (Hitachi and Samsung) (v33)
* Added: v59 stuff (v32-Hit)
* Removed: Hitachi, clevermod crap & password (v32-Sam and v32-Hit)
* Changed : watermark (v32-Sam and v32-Hit)
* Added: v46 info (v31)
* Changed: General typos (v31)
* Added: A huge watermark and pwd protect to prevent stealing (v30)
* Added: hdtv soft boot trick to boot backups (v29)
* Added: pic of which screws to undo (v28)
* EDITED: Thankyou list… corrected for scene people who deserve thanks only (v28)
* Added: HD Method to get backups to boot (v27)
* Added: Crossed Wires Pictures and expanded tutorial (v26)
* Added: Xecuter connectivity kit tutorial (v25)
* Update: IMPORTANT: This may give you an error message when flashing. Repeat the xtreme.bat file run until it is successful. DO NOT power off the drive until successful. (thanks Arakon) (v23)
* Added: fix if Hitachi cannot be seen in windows when in modeb (v22)
* This is just Hitachi…no samsung stuff (v20)
* Added the perfect way to open the 360 without damaging the case (v18)
* Added bookmarks (v17)
* Added hotswap method for getting Hitachi recognised in Windows (v17)
* General corrections (v17)
* v15: now covers how to make an SS with a Hitachi drive... (v15)
* added diagram for "crossed wires" connection and rewrite of method. (v13)
* added the crossed wires method of getting a Hitachi into modeB. (v12)
* updated for Helldocs SS Merger v1.4 (v11)
* Now in-cludes Sniperkillas Amendments: No need to remove DVD case for wxRipper; how to stop bad rips in wxRipper; reliable key editing with hexwotrkshop and more
* Few more bits added and now in PDF



Download Tutorial (v40 Toshiba-Samsung and Hitachi-LG guides): here(doc)

[XanTium]

Another update of this guide by Mksoftware & geebee ... v12

What's new?
* added the crossed wires method of getting a Hitachi into modeB

[XanTium]

Here's v13 of this guide by Mksoftware & geebee:
http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/tutorial/xbox360...tutorialv13.pdf

ADDED: diagram for "crossed wires" connection and rewrite of method

[kezor]

great tutorial, hopefully i didn't offen you in any of my other posts but it would help to add how to burn using dvd decryptor, much better than clonedvd

[dizturbd]

Well, following the tutorial was pretty easy, but I found that I only needed a 7 and 10 torx!

[XanTium]

v15 is up!
http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/tutorial/xbox360...tutorialv15.pdf

props go to Geebee & Mksoftware.

[geebee]

ignore the new section on SS creation on the Hitachi...its not working quite right!


apologies

[X-Clusion]

May I ask what's wrong with it, I was about to try it, but if you say it's not working correct, I shouldn't bother trying

[geebee]

no its a level above my skills...memdump doesnt replace the 0800 xtreme firmware exactly so it will NOT work until the firmware hack is out


sorry

[Analyzer52]

Can someone explain this section in more detail "Extracting the Security Sectors:" I under most of the other stuff but this section loses me. What direction and order are these numbers supposed to be filled in???

[Woore]

Nice job

[PurpleHippo]

WARNING: If you are going to connect your 360 and PC together in *any* way, then you *must* provide the 360 with a path to true earth ground. This is because the 360 has a floating ground and horrible things happen if all connected systems do not agree on the reference voltage. I used a couple of croc clips from the chassis of the 360 to the chassis of my PC to achieve this.

There do not seem to be any warnings like the one above in the tutorial, is this "earthing" no longer deemed necessary?

[geebee]

actually it probably is necessary

i will add it now

[Harami]

I found I only needed a T10 screwdriver. I went out and bought a T8, but it was never needed.

[Xb0XmAn]

thanks, i used it today to flash my drive.

I already disassembled the xbox with another tut, but i used this to flash the drive. I ran into some minor PC specific problems but I solved them by searching the forum