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I have successfully flashed a Liteon 93450c drive to iXtreme LT Lite Touch 1.7 using JungleFlasher. I have used Xtractor Maximus, Vampire (a probe) and a Rebuild Board. The process involved cutting and soldering. The original drive firmware (Lite-OFW.bin) is safe.

I do have a number of questions, they may seem simple, but am not clear on them as to the process yet.

1. To upgrade the Xbox 360 to the latest system version, I would need to revert back to the original drive firmware using the Lite-OFW.bin file that was extracted with JungleFlasher?

2. If yes in question 1, do I need to open the console again and get to the drive, and connect the Xtractor Maximus and Vampire again? I would need to erase the current iXtreme LT Lite Touch 1.7 CFW and write to the drive the original firmware (using the Lite-OFW.bin file?

I am not clear on what is involved in reverting back to original firware from iXtreme LT Lite Touch 1.7 CFW and whether any hardware is required again in doing so.

If I need to hook my drive again, what is required as a connection? Connect everything identically as when the firmware was first extracted (Lite-OFW.bin)?

Would one also need to open up the DVD drive to expose the motherboard, and deconnect the two ribbon connections to the driveboard as initially done? Or the intention of this, is to connect the Xtractor Maximus only to the drive board, while leaving the three ribbon connected to the board in place? Not sure what needs to be opened up.

The only file that was extracted from the drive was Lite-OFW.bin - this is all I need to reflash back to original firmware, no? Been reading that some have other files (such as key.bin, or dummy.bin - what are these?) Are these not files generated/extracted from the Lite-OFW.bin?

Now, are there any reflashing back to original firmware tutorials out there using JungleFlasher? Under the "Firmware Tool 2" I would have to load "Lite-OFW.bin" in the SOURCE field (by clicking on the "Open Source Firmwar"), but what about the TARGET field? What is that?

Again, not sure how the reflashing back to original is to be done.

(The initial flashing to CFW was done by loading the "ix-ltv1.1-934.bin" from JungleFlasher v0.1.73 Beta firmware folder inside the SOURCE field, and the TARGET was the extracted "Lite-OFW.bin" file. Then under "MTK Flash 32" the "Lite-On Erase" button was pressed, followed by "Intro/Device ID", "Write" and then "Outro/ATA Reset" if I recall correctly.)

The same has to be done this time by now "Lite-OFW.bin" is loaded inside TARGET and "ix-ltv1.1-934.bin" is loaded inside the SOURCE field?

The drive does not have to opened to expose the motherboard? Or if it does, do I leave the ribbons connected to the drive board of the DVD in place, but only connect the Xtractor Maximus to power and turn it on so it does the injection by itself?

Not too clear, and this is also since I could not find clear and concise instructions on this.

Anytime you do a system update (dashboard update) you DO NOT need to revert your firmware. the drive is only used when loading/playing a game. Second, If you decide to revert your firmware you would need to do the same process as you did to hack the firmware, ie: open the drive, remove the ribbon cables, use your extractor, cut traces, dump the firmware. once you get to the part where you are to load the firmware, you would simply use the Lite.OFW instead of the Lite.CFW. then you would flash the drive. hope this helps...

You mean, to revert to OFW from CFW (for dashboard updates, etc), one would have to recut things... I am not sure about that... a board is there in place, the cuts were already done - this was all done for the purpose of getting the OFW file.

The purpose of cutting, and soldering things was to get the OFW file once for all.

You are saying the flashing from CFW to OFW (ie. to revert to original entails recutting, etc?) This means taking out the board that was soldered on the drive board, and removing the solder points, then resoldering everything again? I do not follow...

I was under the impression that once you have the OFW, you do not need to recut, resolder everytime you need to revert back from CFW to OFW...

This is the Xtractor board soldered...



Notice the J1 written on it (near the middle). Once the OFW was extracted and once the CFW (LT 1.1) was flashed to it, a bridge was soldered where you see J1 written on the board to finalize things.

I would have thought that once you have the OFW extracted, you come back to it and reflash it with JungleFlasher whenever you want without having to take the soldering points down, etc. I am now even more confused!

Yeah I don't believe you need to cut anything else you have the original FW you have your key you should be able to flash your original with your key back to the drive, do the system update and then flash back to the LT. Just make sure you have the key and original saved in an email or what ever incase things go wrong. PM louis09 he can help you out with using JF and getting your OFW on there

once you have the dummy from a lite on you never need to use any type of key extraction tool e.g. probe/vampire. system updates can be done when your drive is flashed so dont worry, some people like to revert back then update then flash their drive again, its totally up to you