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Softmod ISO available
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emtUD
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29. May 2006 @ 18:07 |
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Oh, I downloaded the torrent from TorrentSpy - are there different announce URLs for the other two sites, or is it the same?
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Hazrdous
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31. May 2006 @ 00:39 |
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HI can you please make a tutorial on how to use it and what it is exactly used for?
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bakkaken
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31. May 2006 @ 04:20 |
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Hi Shademand, do you know the reason why i clicked on the xbox dashboard icon within XBMC and it just went black and freezed?
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31. May 2006 @ 04:44 |
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@Hazrdous, there must be a million softmod tutorials, many within this very forum; no sense of me re-inventing the wheel. If you are unsure of how to use the ISO then I would suggest to you that you not use it until you have done a little research on your own about softmodding.
@bakkaken, must be the XBMC's XML file just edit the file to ensure that it is triggering the evoxdash.xbe file, or just use the file manager view to get back to the dash by selecting the evoxdash.xbe file in the C folder.
Proud owner of an original release day V1.0 Xbox w/ Xenium ICE SP, Xenium 2.3.1 OS, w/ Avalaunch, Evox, and XBMC dashboards.
I can mod an Xbox in 3 minutes or less!
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bakkaken
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31. May 2006 @ 05:37 |
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Hi Shademand, i followed the method fr xboxmediacenter.com to make XBMC as my dashboard and renamed the default.xbe fr XBMC to evodash.xbe. So, do i need to re-make evox as my xbox dashboard in order to edit the xbmc's xml files?
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31. May 2006 @ 06:28 |
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I guess my question here would be if you made the XBMC your main dash and you were within that dash why are you selecting the goto dash option? Next, are you asking how to make Evox your main dash?
You have 3 Options when it comes to changing your main dash: Option 1, the easiest use XBTool and reconfigure your default.xbe file. Option 2, edit the dashboard's INI or XML file so that you trigger the dash that you want. Option 3, setup your main dashboard like Slayer's does so that all other dashes are selected from the Apps menu.
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I can mod an Xbox in 3 minutes or less!
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emtUD
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31. May 2006 @ 20:28 |
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Ok, so I got the torrent, did a bunch of stuff, and now I'm stuck on Error 6. This is an improvement over where I was, though (I think).
Story so far - bought brand new XBox & 500GB Seagate HD, gave to a friend to softmod. Softmod failed, to the point where it did the flubber, but then just a few colored lines (no error code or anything) on a black screen. No dice getting it to load a game disc/AR memory card. The 500GB drive was still untouched.
I managed to download your ISO, along with xboxhdm, and used the C and E folders from your ISO to make the xboxhdm linux ISO. The eeprom I managed to pull off the shot stock HD by hooking it up to my computer and reading it with Liveinfo, and using Liveinfo to save the eeprom to a bin (dropping it in the xboxhdm/linux/eeprom folder as told by some tutorial - maybe yours, maybe not?).
So I had the xboxhdm ISO disc burned with the C & E folders off your ready-made ISO, plus the eeprom pulled from the stock HD. I used xboxhdm to make and then lock the 500GB HD, and now I'm getting Error 06 (which I see from various tutorials means the box can't unlock the drive).
Some extra info that might help (?) - when I check the drive's status with xboxhdm after locking it (and xboxhdm claims the lock was successful), it still says Security Locked - No. Something right above it (Security Enabled?) changes from no to yes after the locking process. I can still freely lock and unlock the drive with xboxhdm. Also, when I went back and double-checked the HD Keys of the two drives, I noticed that they're different, even though I *thought* I was using the eeprom from the original drive to lock the new HD. Even when I manually enter the HD Key from the original HD to lock the new one, I still get Error 06.
Any ideas????? I'd really, really appreciate any help anyone can offer, even if it's just pointing me in the direction of a useful guide/post thread on this problem...
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Magotchi
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2. June 2006 @ 06:08 |
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emtUD, I'm unfamiliar with your method of getting the eeprom.bin off the hard drive. The only way I've ever known how to get the eeprom.bin is to run a program on the xbox (either the Evox dashboard's backup feature or the ltools gamesave exploit kit's backup feature). When I'm installing new drives, I usually mod the small drive first, run Evox's backup feature, and grab the eeprom.bin off the xbox via FTP.
Anyway, I'll assume you do have the correct eeprom.bin for your xbox (it really should be independent of your hard drive as the same eeprom.bin can be used to password protect any drive and have it work correctly).
Security locked should be off. I'm pretty sure that's just like a lockout for when you try to use the wrong key to unlock the drive or something, but I don't know. I just know it's not supposed to be on.
The lock keys for the original drive and for the new drive should be different, as they are generated based on the eeprom.bin file and some parameters from the hard drive in question. You would definately get error 06 if you locked the 500GB with the small drive's key.
I recommend, if it's possible, that you get your original drive working in the xbox and backup the eeprom with a Evox or some other program capable of doing it, then using the linux locking/unlocking tools in xboxhdm, lock your big drive(using the command "lockhd -a" while the eeprom.bin is in the eeprom folder).
I hope that helped somewhat. If I was unclear on something, let me know. Also, if you extracted the eeprom.bin from the hard drive purely using the drive and a computer and it worked (and the eeprom.bin file didn't just already exist on the drive as backed up by a program), please let me know exactly how you did it. That would be awesome to know with all the boxes I mod. Additionally, if you're having problems getting all 500GBs to be usable, I know how to handle that as well.
I'd also like to add a quick bit, considering the creator of this mod package seems to not have any knowledge of such things as hot-swapping the hard drive and/or using xboxhdm for direct access to its contents, that the aforementioned is possible instead of being required to have ftp access. I used to use a memcard to usb adapter, mechassault, and some sort of usb memory (a digital camera or thumb drive or something) to do all my modding. Once my mechassault copy got too badly scratched, I found out there was a much better way to do things. Now that I use the hotswap method and xboxhdm, I only need an xbox, a tv, and computer to do my modding. Pulling the ribbon cable from a plugged in hard drive and replacing it with another one may seem risky at first, but I've done it at least 30 times with no broken equipment yet.
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emtUD
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2. June 2006 @ 07:14 |
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Magotchi - thanks for the info. I did eventually manage to get the original stock HD working with EvoX. I used the hotswap method to unlock the drive, and then used xboxhdm to restore it with the C folder from Shademand's ISO. As soon as I get home from work today, I'm going to do the backup and then grab the eeprom, since I was able to FTP in with FlashFXP (smartFTP didn't work). I'm fairly certain that it's clear sailing from here to get the larger drive working, now that the original drive is fixed.
I think the problem may be that I never actually got the eeprom from the original drive, especially since it was locked. But here's the detail on what I did to get the info I got -
I plugged the stock HD into my computer, then booted up into WinXP Pro. WinXP didn't find the drive, but I ran the program Liveinfo (obtained from the usual places), and it was able to detect the xbox drive. I was able to verify this because it displayed the drive's model & serial numbers correctly. I clicked the "save as .bin" button, and used the eeprom.bin file it generated.
I suppose the most likely explanation for why this didn't work is that Liveinfo wasn't able to get all the information it needed from the locked xbox drive, but I don't understand eeproms well enough to explain why Liveinfo could display the version number, XBE region, Confounder, HDD Serial, HDD Model, and HDD Locking Password without being able to make the eeprom.bin correctly.
Anyway, I'll post again this evening to let everyone know if I manage to get the big HD working.
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Magotchi
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2. June 2006 @ 20:20 |
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I hate to tell you this, but I don't think this will work as is with your 500GB drive (at least you won't get more than 137GB). nkpatcher can't get past that limit and that's the method used here to patch the kernel (as opposed to a bios loader like PBL or something like that which replaces it). At the time of my last post, I hadn't finished downloading and using the package yet, so I couldn't have told you that. If you have a version 1.6 xbox, I don't really know how to get you to where you can access the whole drive. If you do not have a 1.6, I know a way that will work (I'd have to give you some files and stuff), but there is probably a better way. I just don't know the correct way to install a BIOS loader manually. If you do have a 1.6, I believe you need to install the Metoo edition of PBL for it to work correctly (something about the file size of the other one being too big for a 1.6 or something gay like that), but as I said before, I don't know how to correctly install a bios loader.
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emtUD
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9. June 2006 @ 16:29 |
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The adventures continue...
Shademand, this may be an issue with your installer that you need to check or it may be an issue with my box/HD. I finally got into the stock HD with a hotswap, dumped the eeprom, etc etc, xboxhdm with the C/E drives from your ISO & the dumped eeprom, made the big HD, locked it, worked perfectly. Booted into EvoX, no problems.
Except I couldn't play any games. Tried legit Xbox DVD games, tried FTPed copies, it just wouldn't play them. All the apps worked fine - DVD2XBOX copied Forza for me, the DVD player worked like a charm with playing Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, etc etc, but no gameplay. Also, I VERY quickly ran out of storage space, and maybe that's what Magotchi was talking about, but since it cut me off after only two games, I can't imagine it even got close to 137 GB.
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9. June 2006 @ 18:54 |
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I think its both an issue w/ your HD and the fact that the folders were compiled to work w/ smaller HDs.
Proud owner of an original release day V1.0 Xbox w/ Xenium ICE SP, Xenium 2.3.1 OS, w/ Avalaunch, Evox, and XBMC dashboards.
I can mod an Xbox in 3 minutes or less!
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Magotchi
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9. June 2006 @ 23:19 |
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I don't know about the no gameplay thing. As far as the running out of space quickly goes, are you copying your games to the E drive letter with dvd2xbox or to the F drive letter. Dvd2xbox, or at least older versions of it don't have use of the F partition enabled by default. You have to go into it's options and enable it. Evox also may or may not have it enabled by default in his package. When you prepare a drive with xboxhdm, you make several partitions on the drive. The C, E, X, Y, and Z partitions are always (I believe) the same sizes regardless of the size of your hard drive. The F (and possibly G if you choose to gayly set it up that way) partitions are where the rest of the space goes.
As far as games not working, I don't exactly know why they won't. I have had problems with specific games, although I know my brother has successfully ripped Forza with dvd2xbox and plays it regularly.
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Hazrdous
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10. June 2006 @ 18:44 |
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@ Shade
Didn't need the ISO, I used the Auto Installer 4 Deluxe. Works perfectly.
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JRoyle
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29. July 2006 @ 11:28 |
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I just installed this softmod using xboxhdm onto a 250GB hard drive. Everything worked fine, except for I can't use my G drive. I enabled it in Evox's setup menu, and the F drive works fine. What am I supposed to do to get my G drive working, does it have to be formatted? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Magotchi
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29. July 2006 @ 17:26 |
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I don't believe xboxhdm will even create a G drive. First of all, G drives are about the dumbest idea there is, considering there are BIOSes that support having all the space on F. If you're missing space that you should have on F, that's a different issue.
Also, because I'm dumb and couldn't figure out how to get around the LBA48 (137GB) limit, I eventually just switched to using:
UDE1/UDE2 Package For Xboxhdm
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/lofiversion/index.php/t222993.html
It's available at the usual places in the xboxhdm section. The update.xbe it requires you'll have to dig around for as far as I know, but it works great.
This mod (I believe) will seriously work on all xbox versions. It is the same as the UDE1/UDE2 memcard exploit I used to use with MechAssault before I learned to hotswap hard drives. It is the only solution I have found so far that will let me mod a 1.6b xbox AND get past the LBA48 limitation. I just always use PBL Metoo as my loader and EvoX M8 as my BIOS.
I had one difficulty that had me wondering about it for a while. All you have to do is put the UDE folder in the linux directory of xboxhdm. That is it. The script will then work. Apparently I don't understand linux enough to know how that's possible, or xboxhdm's creator specifically made xboxhdm look for a UDE folder with a script inside.
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JRoyle
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30. July 2006 @ 07:36 |
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How would I go from shademand's ready made mod, to UDE1/2, on a launch xbox?
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Magotchi
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30. July 2006 @ 14:21 |
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I am not sure what you mean by launch xbox (1.0 maybe?), but here goes.
I assume you made a backup of what came on your xbox's C partition before you applied shademand's package. If you did not, I'm not sure as to exactly which files are needed for UDE1/2 to install correctly.
Anyway, you need to start with a clean C partition (original files from Microsoft) of ANY version of the MS dashboard. Although the official xbox-scene thread for this UDE2 xboxhdm package already says this, if you don't have MS dashboard version 4920, 5659, or 5960, you need to get the update.xbe from one of these dashboard versions or the update.xbe from NFL Fever (I'm assuming there's some original version of NFL Fever you need as opposed to a possibly fixed re-release of it). Once you get this file, you just need to drop it in the UDE\files directory. If you are having trouble finding this file, give me some way of contacting you, and I may be able to greatly help you get it.
Now that the long-winded explaining is over, here are quick, summarized steps:
Extract xboxhdm.
Extract the UDE1/2 for xboxhdm installer package.
Put the appropriate update.xbe in the files folder in the UDE folder in the UDE1/2 package (UDE\files).
Put the UDE folder from the UDE1/2 package into the linux folder of xboxhdm (structure: xboxhdm\linux\UDE).
Make, burn, and run your iso of xboxhdm.
At the point where you would normally type xbrowser or xboxhd, type UDE and hit enter.
Follow the step by step instructions. For a trouble-free install, I recommend PBL-metoo as the loader and Evox M8 as the BIOS, although other combos may work.
There you go, modded. If you want to install a new Dashboard (recommended by me as I hate both Evox and MXM), just replace the contents of E:\Dashboard\ with whatever dashboard you want, ensuring that the main xbe is renamed to default.xbe. If you aren't sure what Dashboard you want, I'll tell you now, you want Xbox Media Center. It is by far the most full-featured, one-stop shop to do anything on the xbox. I like it because you can run all your apps, games, and movies all in one place without switching to other programs. It also has a SMB (Windows File Sharing)/Samba client which kicks ass. I also believe it's the only major Dashboard that gets regular updates as of late. The only thing you may miss out on is Avalaunch's game save downloading feature, but you can just install Avalaunch as a regular app, and run it as needed.
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JRoyle
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31. July 2006 @ 12:19 |
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Alright, after following your instructions, I have Evox up and running and installed PBL-Metoo and Evox M8. My F drive is the same size as before I installed UDE2. What do I do know to get the rest of the space available on my hard drive? Your help is greatly appreciated.
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Magotchi
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31. July 2006 @ 13:08 |
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How much of a space discrepancy are we talking about here? If you prepared the drive with xboxhdm, it should have have a 500MB C-drive, a roughly 4895MB E-drive, 3 750MB cache partitions (X,Y, and Z), and then whatever is left over for F.
That means roughly 7.5 gigs is tied up doing xbox system stuff. Also, since I think the extra 2GB is normally wasted on the 10GB stock drives (as opposed to the 8GB ones), that might also be wasted when you have a much bigger hard drive.
Adding to that, are you sure you know how much usable space your drive really has? For example, my 300GB drive has a little over 3 billion bytes of space (as far as Windows knows about). It therefore has 300 billion/1024/1024/1024 = about 280GB. Hard drive manufacturers are blatantly dishonest in that they use the metric prefixes in their most classic senses (base10) as opposed to what everyone else in the computer industry understands them to mean (base2/binary).
Let me know how big your drive is supposed to be and how big your F partition is being shown to be in Evox, and maybe I can help you further.
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JRoyle
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31. July 2006 @ 13:44 |
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My Hard drive is supposed to be 250GB. I beleive my F drive is about 120GB, but I can't find anywhere to check the total space in Evox. It's reporting 105.808.117.760 free on F, and I have installed 4 games roughly 5 GB each in size, and 1 movie which was about 7 GB. Thanks again for your help.
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Magotchi
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31. July 2006 @ 14:13 |
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I've had issues like yours when switching from a situation where LBA48 wasn't supported (I think using shademand's package and a 250GB hard drive) to where it was. If you were using shademand's package (lba48 not supported) and you copied files to your F partition, it might have messed things up. I don't have a perfect understanding of how filesystems work and how switching your BIOS to see the filesystem as being larger would affect things, but specifically, I've put things on the F partition without lba48 support, replaced my bios with one that supported lba48 so I could use all of my space, and suddenly all the files I had put on the F partition were no longer there (or at least not visible in xbox apps) and my reported space had not changed.
Basically, if you have the extra 20 gigs on your computer, I would recommend backing up your games and movie (and I don't see why'd you'd have a 7GB uncompressed DVD rip on your xbox hard drive, but that's your business), freshly preparing the drive with xboxhdm, freshly installing UDE2 again, checking your free space on F once again, and, if all is right, copying your games and mammoth movie back to the xbox (or compressing the movie to a nice format like DivX or XviD first to drop it down to about 1/10th its size)
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Magotchi
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31. July 2006 @ 14:16 |
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At the peril of other readers who might have been benefitting from this discussion, feel free to add me on MSN Messenger at zach-AT(NOSPAM)-tendollarchaw.com so we can more quickly get ideas back and forth.
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JRoyle
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31. July 2006 @ 18:43 |
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I got it working after. I used xboxhdm to setup the hard drive again, then used the UDE installer to install the softmod. The full hard drive is recognized now. Thanks for all your help Magotchi.
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Magotchi
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31. July 2006 @ 22:35 |
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You're welcome.
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