Unofficial LG ODD Firmware Links

LG Writer Discuss, Unofficial LG ODD Firmware Links at CD and DVD Writers forum; Two LG Electronics websites. Let's continue to suggest to LG for some changes in their website management which I think is too disorganized and user-unfriendly. http://www.lge.com http://www.lge.co.kr Temporary firmware and utility download page first of all to serve two South Korean ODD manufacturer's main ODD products since I can get

Posted: 31-12-2004

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

Two LG Electronics websites. Let's continue to suggest to LG for some changes in their website management which I think is too disorganized and user-unfriendly.

http://www.lge.com
http://www.lge.co.kr

Temporary firmware and utility download page first of all to serve two South Korean ODD manufacturer's main ODD products since I can get in touch with the firmware files relatively more frequently than Philips or NEC or Pioneer firmware files though I will try to update as many things as possible.

http://kenny.storageinfo.co.kr/firmware/firmware.htm

Don't forget TDB site (which is also linked on my page.)

http://tdb.rpc1.org

And visit appropropriate threads if there's any for each specific firmware and the respective release announment.

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Posted: 31-12-2004

dhc014 (Retired Moderator): Posts: 4,370

I usually start from www.lgservice.com, the German site (de.lgservice.com) often has firmwares before any other regional site...

You're right Kenshin, their sites are all very disorganized. I guess it's because they sell certain products only in certain regions, and thus, only provide support on certain regional sites.

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Posted: 31-12-2004

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

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Originally Posted by dhc014

German LG site seems to be better organized indeed.

http://de.lgservice.com/index_b2c.jsp

There are some duplicate lists on that page.

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Posted: 31-12-2004

sverkalo (MyCE Resident): Posts: 1,265

Kenshin you've got quite a site!
I want to ask you if I could find and burn dual sided DVD RAM for my
4163B?Of course I have to search to find it here in Greece but if you
know something more about the media(I think you are)tell me!
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Posted: 31-12-2004

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

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Originally Posted by sverkalo

There are some double-sided DVD-RAM media. They have 9.4GB space, 2 * 4.7GB side. But users have to eject and re-insert the disc to use the other side each time manually. That's the major reason why double-sided media are not popular. 9.4GB DVD-RAM media cost a little more than 4.7GB single-sided DVD-RAM media. Compared to DVD+RW and DVD-RW, it is easy to find double-sided 9.4GB DVD-RAM media because DVD-RAM is more reliable and has been on the market for much longer.

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Posted: 31-12-2004

sverkalo (MyCE Resident): Posts: 1,265

Thank you!
To eject and reinsert is nothing serious.
I have seen also at CD/DVD speed that +RW bitsetting can't be set because
it's grey out.Any thoughts?

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Posted: 31-12-2004

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Originally Posted by sverkalo

Thank you!
To eject and reinsert is nothing serious.
I have seen also at CD/DVD speed that +RW bitsetting can't be set because
it's grey out.Any thoughts?

LG DVD burners don't provide any means to change the booktype on DVD+RW media. One of the small disadvantages.

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Posted: 31-12-2004

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

Alexnoe's utilities added to the link collection.

http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~noe/Plextor/

As Alexnoe demonstrated well, please use his tools to test GSA-4163B write quality. Of course, one needs a PX-712A.

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Posted: 01-01-2005

sverkalo (MyCE Resident): Posts: 1,265

Thanks

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Posted: 01-01-2005

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

The current number of downloadable firmware files either as binary, hex, executable, or a compressed file package for each manufacturer of PC DVD recorders.

Asus: 0
BenQ: 15
LG: 22
Lite-On: 8
NEC: 2
Philips: 2
Pioneer: 1
Plextor: 12
Ricoh: 0
Samsung: 0
TSST: 13
Sony: 8

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Posted: 10-01-2005

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

LG-dedicated page: http://kenny.storageinfo.co.kr/lg
Main page: http://kenny.storageinfo.co.kr

Not pretty.

Just tried to make all in one page to fit a typical 1024*768 or 800*600 window.

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Posted: 21-01-2005

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

GSA-5163D firmware A102 added but not linked for download yet because it's a test-purpose firmware at this moment. Forwarded to TDB as well. So far, there's no publicly available firmware for GSA-5163D. For that matter, no firmware for GSA-4163B on LG's domestic homepage though there are A102 available on US, German, Japanese, and some other country's LG homepages.

Anybody saw GSA-5163D on sale anywhere?

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Posted: 27-01-2005

willno2 (CD Freaks Junior Member): Posts: 57

Hi, i saw a Hitachi drive (LG 4160B) temped to buy,was offered a good price!!
How's the write quality, as good as NEC on cheap media, is it close?
Where i can i read a review about it?
Can i just flash it directly into a hitachi drive??
If not where can i find Hitachi firmware then??

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Posted: 27-01-2005

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

Hitachi-branded GSA-4160B seems to use the same firmware.

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Posted: 30-01-2005

cellculture (New on Forum): Posts: 11

I am confused by the number of firmware,
firmware of the lastest version of external burner(5163d) is A102,
but the firmware of 5160d is A302,
how does LG define the number of firmware?
the bigger the newer, or the smaller the newer?

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Posted: 31-01-2005

zz4m0lxx3 (New on Forum): Posts: 8

5160(4160) are different drives than 5163(4163) thats why they have different firmawres

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Posted: 31-01-2005

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

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Originally Posted by cellculture

For 5163D: A100 < A101 < A102
For 5160D: A300 < A301 < A302

A1, A2, A3 usually do not mean anything. They are used to cause less confusion for identifying the right firmware.

00, 01, 02, 03... ** are version numbers for firmware files released to the public (=retail.)

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Posted: 31-01-2005

cellculture (New on Forum): Posts: 11

thanks, I see

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Posted: 03-02-2005

eleewhm (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 1,261

i would like to see auto book typing in the next firmware upgrade for all LGs...especailly LG GSA 4163B...with auto book typing....the GSA-4163B will be flawless

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Posted: 07-02-2005

manu_dvd (New on Forum): Posts: 27

What are the advantages of upgrading to A115 Firmware for the LG HL-DT-ST GSA-4120B? I use A112 that I downloaded from the dangerous brothers, this works great.

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Posted: 08-02-2005

Kenshin (MyCE Resident): Posts: 12,753

Isn't A115 TDB firmware also available? I have no idea whether there will be A116 or A117 official firmware update from LG. Firmware update is usually very safe. Unless there is a known problem with the new version, always have the latest firmware. In most cases, manufacturers know most about their products.

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Posted: 11-02-2005

eltranquil (CDFreaks Resident): Posts: 4,533

Kenny, I found a link to a firmware version A103 for the GSA-4163B in your pages, but it is broken...

Is it a beta version?

BTW, thanks for the cool page!

TIA,

Last edited by eltranquil; 11-02-2005 at 12:23. Reason: Removed direct link...

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Posted: 11-02-2005

ajz (CD Freaks Member): Posts: 135

Quite interested too...

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Posted: 12-02-2005

21021 (CD Freaks Rookie): Posts: 47

Me neither

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Posted: 12-02-2005

ginetto (New on Forum): Posts: 7

Maybe you can give me a tip:
I downloaded the windows ver. E112 FW for GCC-4240N I have on my dell laptop from dell site and when I click on the exe it opens and say it "can't recognise device" and is grayed out

I never update any FW to this combo drive, I have now D110 FW on.
I use xpsp2 with an almost standard setup.
Can you clarify this ?
PS I can't use the DOS ver. 'cos of floppy drive is missing .

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