Going back to stock

[GRASSASS]

hi guys iv been feeling quite brave of late doing the new drives, SO im gona try flash my sammy drive back to stock.
iv found the OFW v.A for Ms28 im wondering if i could get a bit of help on how i would do this with jungleflasher...
i have been thinking that it would be a matter of starting at the point of choosing source fw ??? imjust not sure
the drive itself is dead from older experiments (bought new to spoof)i lost the fw during said spoof)

[sadalius]

Going back to stock with a samsung and jungleflasher is pretty easy.

1. Connect up your samsung to your PC and power it on. If you have ixtreme 1.5 on the drive, eject the tray and power it off and push the tray back in half way.
2. Open jungleflasher and click on the MTK Flash 32 tab. Click on Sammy unlock. Ignore the instructions on closing the tray halfway since you already have and follow the rest of the on screen instructions, but if it asks you to power the drive off and on at any point, do so. Once it's unlocked, it should show information about the drive in the flash chip properties area.
3. Click on the Firmtool 32 tab. Click open target firmware and choose your stock samsung firmware.
4. Go back to the MTK Flash 32 tab and click write. It will ask you if your sure, click yes. It will then erase and flash each bank individually, then do a verify.

Samsungs are notorious for read/write errors, so don't get to scared if you start to see x and y characters while it's flashing or verifying. as long as you have 16 little .....'s on each line, your ok. If it does fail, like the lite-on, dosflash can be used to flash it if you have to.

[GRASSASS]

excelent cheers for that SADALIUS


so then to spoof this drive once done , iwould just follow these same steps but then choose my fw i want to spoof to and follow wot u said ?

[GRASSASS]

dudes my sammy drive is void of any fw at all. im wanting to put it in a hit elite (eventualy) but the drive right now is like when the lite-on crashes after erase and will not open, well thats were im at and jungleflasher does not pick up the drive on the correct port.?.?.?
got any hints

[lilrevuk]

If you have problems such as this, I would recommend trying Dosflash from iprep 8.8. You have more chance of sata picking the drive up in DOS, though if you can't get the drive open at all, it may be bricked...

Was the drive as replacement, or did it come in a 360 as stock??

[GRASSASS]

i bought it to replace (spoof) another drive giving errors... but i messed up. now its dead
thought there would b a way to unbrick it ? but no worries, cheers lilrevuk

[lilrevuk]

what happened last time you tried flashing it??

You might get lucky, and dosflash may just find it in auto mode. It depends what state the drive is in... Can you open the drive??

I would do yourself a copy of the 0800 disc as well, this can help put the drive in the correct state to read/write the flash...

[GRASSASS]

dude i used iprep v8 (wot a prog) it not only read the fw that id put on it b4 (hit v79 it was a sammy-stock) but bloody spoofed it instantly for me to ix1.5.... wow you lot really know your stuff for the very manyieth time thanks for your work.
another post over

[lilrevuk]

Good stuff my man

The Sammy's are pretty brick-resistant. This is because the drive can still be accessed even if it has no fw at all...

The Hitachi's are different. When you flash a hitachi, you just flash over certain parts of the firmware. All the commands for the drive are stored in this firmware, and this is why if a flash goes bad with a hit, they're normally dead. Always make sure each step goes perfectly before trying the next with the Hit's. I've had to replace one that just stopped flashing midway so far...