XFlash Utility for LiteOn/Sony Optical Drives
| LiteOn / PLDS / Sony Writer Discuss, XFlash Utility for LiteOn/Sony Optical Drives at CD and DVD Writers forum; XFlash Utility for LiteOn/Sony Optical Drives The Official Thread What does this do? This tool is designed to extract the raw .BIN firmwares from LiteOn's firmware flashers (the ones that use XFlash). These .BIN files can then be used with firmware flashing tools such as MtkFlash. Compatibility This program only |
| XFlash Utility for LiteOn/Sony Optical Drives The Official Thread What does this do? This tool is designed to extract the raw .BIN firmwares from LiteOn's firmware flashers (the ones that use XFlash). These .BIN files can then be used with firmware flashing tools such as MtkFlash. Compatibility This program only works with XFlash firmware flashers. XFlash Utility will not work with scrambled/compressed flashers! Latest version is 3.2.4 (7 January 2008) Download: http://codeguys.rpc1.org/utilities.html More Info: Change Log | Documentation | Unpacking RAR Files Enjoy! 
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| Cool! You can recognize which Windows updaters are considered XFlash by looking at the main Window. There are two variations as seen below. XFlash 1:  XFlash 2:  The older Liteon Windows Flasher that you might still find for some drives that this tool will not work with can be seen below: 
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| This tool will be very handy...  A BIG thank you  Keep up the good work.  |
| Nice! Two tools in one week! Keep up the good work!
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| Good job Code65536  Thanks!
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| Very useful indeed. 
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| Sorry ... I think this tool won't work very soon... I compressed/scrambled the binary data. Sorry again !!  |
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(Unmodified) Xflash-X won't be able to find the bytes it's looking for. Thanks for the warning Karr
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| Any change there will be someone to write an unpacker/descrambler for stock firmwares that come straight from LiteOn? Possible workaround: If you have the drive that the f/w update was really intended for, flash it with the new firmware from LiteOn. Use any flash utility to dump the firmware from the drive to a .bin file. And there you have the unscrambled, uncompressed firmware file. Disadvantage of this method is that you have to have the right drive, a cross-flashed drive won't work.
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| @squirrel just look at the codeguys, tdbs and dhc014's site, there are a lot of unscrambled firmwares. |
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__________________ My optical drives: NEC ND-4550A(1.X7)@ND-4551A(1.Z2) / NEC ND-3500AG(2.FC_QV3ME) / NEC ND-3500AG/BTE(2.FC_QV3ME) / Philips DW1650@BenQ DW1650(BCIC) / Philips CDRWDVD3210 Combo / LiteOn LTR-32123S@40125S / LiteOn LTD-165H(CH12 Quiet patch) |
| This question has been addressed before, in another thread. As some on this forum may remember, a long time ago, XFlash-X used to handle scrambled firmwares. But LiteOn kept adapting its scrambling algorithm. It got to the point where a new version of XFlash-X became obsolete in just a few days because it doesn't take that much effort for LiteOn to make minor (or not so minor) changes to the scrambling algorithm. Because XFlash-X was becoming obsolete so quickly and so frequently, having the unscrambling feature was, in practice, useless. Thanks to XFlash-X, LiteOn has already created, by my count, 5 different scrambling algorithms. This number would probably be much higher if I had kept updating XFlash-X. So, no, there will probably never be a unscrambler for LiteOn firmwares.
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| @code65536 how do you, and other firmware freaks, extract the firmware and whats the tool to create an .exe-file with the unscrambled fw with? |
| Excuse me for the empty reply above. I had text typed, but somehow something went wrong when I pressed the send button. The text vanished and I can't edit the post anymore. What I wrote was that I was wondering why LiteOn should take the hassle to scramble their new f/w, because it is easy enough to flash it, dump it and save the .bin file unscrambled. Another wonder I had was about the added value of XFlash-X, because when someone has to descramble the .exe first, it's also easy to save the unscrambled .bin and flash that with any flasher available. Understand me well, I hugely appreciate the work of the C0deguys!
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| 1/ I don't know why they bother, either. But they do. 2/ XFlash-X used to have value, but now that most flashers of interest are scrambled, there is very little value to this tool. Which is why this thread has been lying dormant for so long until someone dug it up from the grave. 
__________________ "You don't have to be a supporter of freedom of speech to protest when your own ox is being gored. You do have to be a supporter of freedom of speech to protest when the government tries to censor the speech of those who are goring your ox." -Alan M. Dershowitz LiteOn Stuff: LiteOn F.A.Q. | OmniPatcher | DVD-Writer Overview | Changing Write Strategies | Crossflashing | XFlash Utility General Stuff: DVD-Writer F.A.Q. | Rules of the Optical Drive Forums | Attaching Scans | The rpc1.org Firmware Database Code Guys: http://codeguys.rpc1.org/ | send us e-mail I Use: Firefox + QuickDrag + NoRedirect + URL Flipper | Winamp | CmdOpen Shell Extension | HashCheck Shell Extension C64K: My Travel Photos | In Retirement... |
| just a thought... how hard would it be to do a software-emulated LiteOn drive? That way it could be "flashed" and extract the bin that way. I know, it's a crazy suggestion, but this thread had me thinking....... -Blu
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| I suppose that you would need to have something that contained an eeprom that looked like a Liteon Drive, sorta like Daemon Tool's, or Alcohol 120%'s virtual drive, except that it would need to have a unique LiteOn id... thus, it would probably be possible, but impractical. Besides, most firmware's that come out need to be tweaked, so it's just best to wait for the 'masters' to work out the bugs first. Codeguys are a bunch of firmware masters. They KNOW firmware, and they KNOW how to make it work better. Trust them... believe me, it's worth it to do so. |
| *shakes head* There is no need to make suggestions on solving a problem that does not need solving. We have our ways of getting a firmware out of the flasher, and for a number of reasons, making such methods public would provide the community with little or no benefit (for one, because unscrambled firmwares are already readily accessible).
__________________ "You don't have to be a supporter of freedom of speech to protest when your own ox is being gored. You do have to be a supporter of freedom of speech to protest when the government tries to censor the speech of those who are goring your ox." -Alan M. Dershowitz LiteOn Stuff: LiteOn F.A.Q. | OmniPatcher | DVD-Writer Overview | Changing Write Strategies | Crossflashing | XFlash Utility General Stuff: DVD-Writer F.A.Q. | Rules of the Optical Drive Forums | Attaching Scans | The rpc1.org Firmware Database Code Guys: http://codeguys.rpc1.org/ | send us e-mail I Use: Firefox + QuickDrag + NoRedirect + URL Flipper | Winamp | CmdOpen Shell Extension | HashCheck Shell Extension C64K: My Travel Photos | In Retirement... |
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__________________ My optical drives: NEC ND-4550A(1.X7)@ND-4551A(1.Z2) / NEC ND-3500AG(2.FC_QV3ME) / NEC ND-3500AG/BTE(2.FC_QV3ME) / Philips DW1650@BenQ DW1650(BCIC) / Philips CDRWDVD3210 Combo / LiteOn LTR-32123S@40125S / LiteOn LTD-165H(CH12 Quiet patch) |
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