I am posting this to hope that people quit making the same post, BRICKED LITEON OMG PLEASE HELP!! People don't think first before they post to look and see if someone else had the same issue, they post the same questions several times a day it seems... So please make sure you read the tutorials over several times before you try to flash your liteon, hopefully you read this post before doing so, so you know what you might run into. If you are unsure of what to do still, pay someone to do it instead of having to pay another $200 for a new Xbox 360!!

First off, if you plugged in your power cable in, well upside down? Smell smoke? Drive don't work anymore? Then you need to buy a new xbox and be more careful! Learn from your mistakes.

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Problem: JungleFlasher can't open bin files (key.bin, inquiry.bin, identify.bin, hacked.bin, dummy.bin)

Solution:

Put JungleFlasher.exe in the same directory where your bin files are, then start it again. (key, inquiry, identify, hacked.bin, dummy.bin)

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Problem: No Com port in DVDkey32 in JungleFlasher OMGWTF?

Solution: Just type in your com port in the box. So if you are using com port 1, you would type COM1 in the box where the drop down menu is. IMPORTANT=> you must put COM before the Port number!!!

or this might be resolved in the latest version of jungle flasher, i know my com port now shows in the latest beta.

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PC freezing issue:

If you were in windows and using Jungle Flasher and you have successfully got your key and created your firmware from your dummy.bin or even have got as far as getting your key, inquiry, and identify.bin files, then you should be ok, just make a dummy.bin and then make your liteon firmware!

So your pc froze? You were erasing your liteon and then when you did the power cycle, your PC froze? Well you are in luck. As long as your key, inquiry, and identify.bin files were correct, then you can save your drive. What will happen at this point is your drive will no longer eject, so you think oh no bricked drive. This can be fixed. Make sure you can boot to DOS by floppy or USB drive and have the proper files on it.

You will need L-O-Eras.exe, latest dosflash16, and your hacked firmware file. Well what you do, restart your PC with your liteon connected, but not powered on, boot to DOS. Once you get to DOS restore power to your liteon drive. Go to where your files are.

Type L-O-Eras SATAPORT <-- put in your sata port that your drive is connected too. If you don't know your sata port, you can do dosflash really fast and figure out which port has the liteon drive on it. So after you do L-O-Eras SATAPORT you should return status FF72 I believe. I haven't had to do this way for awhile so if I made a mistake on the status please PM me so I can fix this. After you do this, go type DOSFLASH, then enter the proper # for the port that has the liteon drive on it. Then type W for write. Then enter your hacked firmware file, usually lite_cfw.bin then it will erase and write the firmware to your drive. After it is done, turn the power off on your drive, then turn it back on and press eject and if it does, problem solved!

Now you have flashed your firmware to your Liteon drive, put your system back together and test a backup.


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Note:

Also for those who are having problems with PC freezing. Make sure your Windows is up to date. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your chipset. For example I was having problems with my onboard nforce 650i sli. I went to nvidia.com and downloaded the latest drives for the 650i sli, installed them, then installed portio32.exe and restarted. Now my PC doesnt freeze anymore when erasing a liteon and power cycling in windows. If you don't have nforce, you will have to figure out where to get your drivers from.

If I missed anything please PM me or post what I was wrong with here.

good post, wouldnt have come to this if everyone would read the tutorials over and over until they understand whats going to happen.

'First off, if you plugged in your power cable in, well upside down? Smell smoke? Drive don't work anymore? Then you need to buy a new xbox and be more careful! Learn from your mistakes.'

that made me laugh...

anyone new to flashing should either wait till more updated and stable tools become availiable or get someone to do it for you, a small fee to get it done is better than the fee of buying a new xbox and still not being able to play backups... THINK - AM I CAPABLE OF THIS BEFORE YOU OPEN THE CONSOLE.

Awesome Post! Thank you.

great post! thanks for the advice. however, Jungle Flasher still freezes my computer the instant i open it even after updating my nforce drivers with the latest from nvidia.com.

It worked for a while but now i just cant seem to open the application at all without freezing my system.

Just throwing this out there b/c it might help someone else.

I had a problem with JF saying my com port status was not available (instead of ready). I was stuck for a few hours trying different things. The fix for me was changing the com port number in device manager to something other than 1. Worked like a charm.


The cause of the problem turned out to be microsoft's activesync (which I use for my cell phone) hijacked the port and always kept it open.

For anybody out there who are having problems with pc freezing I found out that when i install the ck3 drivers after i install jungleflasher was the reason it cause my pc to lock up. Once i uninstalled the ck3 drivers my pc stop freezing on me. IF this helps anybody as well.

tried that and my pc still locks up the moment i open JF in Vista. What did was install XP on a seperate partition without installing my nforce drivers. I installed all CK3 Drivers, PIO32, VIA Drivers and now it's no longer freezing. Then just for the hell of it, I installed the latest nforce and boom, it froze. I haven't tried reading/writing with it yet so i'm not exactly sure if it's working 100%. I'll give it a shot tomorrow on my friends Lite-On

I had the freezing problems when trying to erase in jf using via 6421 and maximus extractor through usb
Podger posted a while ago about this but for some reason it dosnt seem to have cought on
I installed the VIA_RAID_V530C which can be found here http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/70826 and the problem was sorted No boot disk or dos or rebooting pc required, you can do the whole thing in 1 go
Thank's again podger

awesome post. should be stickied for tutorial purposes i think....

i couldnt get your link to work so heres an alternative for anyone having the same problem

http://drivers.viaarena.com/via_raid_v530c.zip

It is stickied

thanks guys i have got my drive reading again and ran than the customer firmware but i think i have well and trully F*%$ed it.....

i put it back together again the tried to read my back up i have and i got the message

PLEASE INSERT AND XBOX GAME INTO THIS CONSOLE

so i put the original game in same as the backup HALO 3

and got the same message.....

is there anything that i can do with this drive now

yeah you're up shitcreek without a paddle. Better luck next time.

didnt need a paddle just my wit and inginueity < (i think it is spelt like that)

problem solved after many hours of hard graft and help from many other people on this forum


!!!!THANKS GUYS N GALS YOU KNOW WHO U ARE!!!!

Nice! is this working for somone with CK3 to? annyone?

What did you do to rectify?

because i had the original firmware all i did was use Jflaher to erase all firmiware in windows then used Jflasher to the creat the dummy file this helped me create the ixreme 1.5 like normal i did all this in xp not dos, using the USB option once. so then all i had todo was make sure that the keys were right, then follow normal line using Jflasher..... as this was my first attempt it tookj me a long time to figure out how to right a wrong thati did earlier

thamks to all that helped me with this problem

One reason I have seen for the com port not pulling up is if you dont have the drive and usb hooked up before you start JungleFlasher. I hookup and setup the drive prior to starting JF and all my settings stay the same. Not that its hard to type in COM 3 but one easier step. Thanks for the original post Bong.

I just want to say thanks for these awesome tips. For some reason iprep refused to see my friend's LiteOn CFW, so I used l-o-eras.exe and dosflash, and had it working with seconds. Awesome thread!

I'm using a CK3 Lite with a VIA 6421 card and have done a few Lite-ons no problem, but the last one locked up my PC on me at the erase. This thread helped out a bunch. Thanks!

I have tried quite a few times using the dos method in this post and using jungleflash, etc. I got the identify, inquiry, and key files using a maximus but don't have a dummy.bin. My computer froze when I started the erase process with jungleflash. Is the drive junk without the dummy.bin file?

I've tried making a dummy.bin but it doesn't work. After writing the image to the drive and putting it back in the xbox it won't read any discs. It opens and closes but won't read. I think my problem is creating the dummy.bin.

If this drive is junk is it possible to spoof another drive (ms28) since I have the key?

Thanks

can't figure out how to edit so I'll add this.

I read a ton more today and it seems I don't need the serial for the drive to work and my lite-on not reading discs is a key issue. I tried spoofing the lite-on to a ms28 and the ms28 works fine so it appears my key.bin is correct. What else should I try to get the lite-on to work?

Your dummy bin is made with firmtool using the 3 files you have already dumped It is not a fourth file you need to dump

I created the dummy file as well as adding the missing serial info from the labels inside the drive. I still am running the spoofed ms28 since I could not get the lite-on working. I tried flashing in dos, windows, with via ata card.

Since the ms28 is working doesn't that mean the key is correct thus the lite-on flashed with the key and ixtreme should work? I'll just leave ms28 in until I have a reason to change it then worry about it but it is too bad I can't use original.

Does the drive show in bios for anyone else? I'm having the same trouble, except my pc wasn't freezing when booting with the lite-on drive. The drive isn't recognised at all for me

I can relate bro.
I tried every guide on this and other forums.
My lite-on is still bricked.
l-o-eras , dosflash , dosflash32 , jungleflasher etc.
Nothing picks up my lite-on anymore.
If anyone got a fresh idea please give me a shout.

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ok i have a problem with my lite-on,

i done this late at nght so i may of made mistake

I used jungle flasher and extracted the key, it created the 4 files and saved them to my pc.

i used the dummy.bin to patch the ixtreme 1.5 firmware, looked ok

I then tried to erase the drive but it crashed half way through (intel sata chipset)

I then booted to dos, tried l-o-erase but no mater what i can not get it to return correct code to say it is erased.

I tried dosflash, it sees the drive, used liteon erase, looked good

I then used tosflsh to write the liteon_cfw.bin to drive, looked ok

put drive back in xbox, turn it on and i get an E66 error, contact customer support.

Any ideas or thought on how to fix?

Cheers very much,
Steven

I have the VIA 6421 card that I used under DOS to successfully flash Samsung and BenQ drives. But now with a Lite-On, I have to use Windows, but I only have Vistax64 installed. How can I still get my key (without PortIO32) and hack/flash my drive?

Thanks!

You don't.

You need 32 bit windows.

or an msdos boot thumb with dosflash, L-O-Eras, and firmtool on it.

What if I always get code FF80 with l-o-eras and Dosflash says no acpi detected ???

You probably got the wrong port in l-o-eras. If you got a spare drive there run dosflash (just type dosflash in dos) with that drive attached to find the right port number.

i HAVE THE PROBLEM THAT MY COMPUTER FREEZES WHEN I TRY TO POWER ON THE CK3PRO AND I WASN'T ABLE TO EXTRACT THE KEY, I TRIED TU USE THE L-O-ERAS BUT MY DRIVE GOT BRICKED WHAT CAN I DO?

i bricked mine too, everytime i went into windows my pc hung when i turn chip on, so i used l-o-eras and dosflash.

i had the firmware update in less than 3 minutes from this point.

see my post here http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=679665

100% sure it's the right port... I think it's dead.

I had the same problem with pc locking up.
I also got the ff80 response on my port.
I then found a youtube tutorial showing the same and all he did was type l-o-eras.exe command a 2nd time. He then got a ff72 and flashed as normal. The same happened to mine.

hope this helps

i have fried my dvd drive in xbox i know it can't be fixed but when i boot up my xbox i comes with the e65 is there anyway to skip the red ring so i can see the menu. I just want to watch movies off my xbox 360 not play games.

E65: DVD Drive Error.... DVD Timeout, Wrong firmware, dvd is without f/w chip, etc. This can also be caused by the tray not being fully closed on boot.

I had this 1 red light in the fourth quadrant come up with error 65 and fixed it
the persons box that i flashed was a samsung which was spoofed as a liteon of course he didnt tell me this so i flashed as a samsung thats when i got this error
all fixed though and easy to do
so all im saying is check your firmware isnt spoofed as another drive and then try to reflash with the correct firmware

I found a pretty good video on using the l-o-eras . It really helped me.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?d...391525807200902


Jungleflasher froze on me during the writing of my firmware. Then it wouldn't recognize the drive.

I wrote down the steps from the video. I didn't know you had to turn the drive off after each step. I couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting the same thing as I had found in another post about dosflash16 and l-o-eras.

I still couldn't get it to work. So I took out the via sata card and used my onboard NForce3 sata. I still had to power cycle (cut the drive off and on) the drive a few times before I finally got l-o-eras to give me a FF72 status. Once I got it to do that it was a piece of cake. You don't have to do the erase step cause when you do the write it will erase it for you (if you're using the latest dosflash, I think it's 1.7).

I was doing a friends liteon and was worried to death that I had bricked it but this worked!

If it still won't work, try turning off your PC, the liteon drive and remove the Sata cable from the drive. Then reattach the cable, reboot the PC to dos, then turn on the liteon and try l-o-eras . the first time you'll get like ff80, the next time you should get ff72. If not turn power to the drive off, then back on and try it 2 more times.

If that doesn't work try it on another PC. PC's can really be flakey. What works on one may not work on another.

By the way the guy in the video said to copy all this stuff to your USB drive. All you really need is it formatted to boot in DOS, DOSFLASH16 and associated files from that directory, L-O-ERAS.exe and your hacked firmware LITE_CFW.bin or whatever you named it.

Hope this info will help someone.

XBD

Bong you are a god !! i nearly cried when i thought i killed my new 2 day old arcade when the drive wouldn't respond.
Cheers again

sorry to post again but is it ok to use dosflash32 instead of 16, i used 32 and it seemed to work ok.

Got status x072 in Jungleflasher 1.60, after Lite On Erase press but after writing verification failed.

Booted with 360 Modification Disc v1.6, kept L-O-Erase.exe and dumped dummy.bin on local harddisk.

Had to run L-O-Erase twice, power cycle in between, used firmtool, dosflash write, et voila, running 1.6 ixtreme.

/me bows down to the specialist, c4eva, the Jungle team, xbox-scene and everyone else involved.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.. I love you guys!

guys, my lite on is now spinning too fast any discs i put in......

he cant read any disc, just start spinning them toooooo fast


someone have seen some like this ?

I flashed a stock lite-on drive using jungleflasher. Everything seemed to have worked fine. When I put in games, all I get is reading on the dashboard?

I've got all my files and as far as I can tell there is nothing missing. Where do I even start?

Ok had the same problem tonight also and worked out what it was.


You probably booted to Dos with a USB flashdisk and a common problem with them is data gets corrupt when transfering accross files. What has happened here is the "lite_cfw.bin" file has become slightly corrupt during transfer to stick and although will write to drive it does not function correctly.
Just re-copy back accross files and try flash again, I am sure all will be fine second or maybe even third time round.

One other problem people seem to be having is getting the l-o-eras.exe (port) command to return the correct code 072. You keep getting 080 because the drive bay is not quite in the correct possition (Half Way). This is of coarse based on the fact you are sure you have corred drive port entered.

Hope the above helps

I actually used the jungleflasher program for the entire flashing process. I even made sure to dump the files multiple times and they are all the same.

I'm thinking that maybe I just got a bad flash and need to re-do it using dos instead of jungleflasher?

I also didn't have any issues with freezing or anything strange.

does your drive spin up at all? I have a liteon that I think got a bad flash. It will start to spin up then stop and say open tray. I replaced everything in the drive but nothing is working.

Thank you for this post Bong. You saved me from freaking out when my drive stopped responding.

Followed what you said and everything turned out fine.

Yeah indeed very glad I found this. Was not happy when the PC froze and wouldnt boot back up with the drive attached.

Thanks heaps!