Hi All, this is my first post to this forum(or any for that matter). I'm relatively new to flashing consoles, but I have done many benQs in the past with full success.
I was recently given an xbox 360 with a liteon DG-16D2S drive (firmware version 74850C) to attempt to repair. It had the "open tray error" (the one where the laser gets pushed too far back to work). I found a simple fix for it; I super glued a small piece of a washer( about 1mm thick) to the back stop of the dvd drive to prevent it from falling off again. I haven't long-term tested yet, but it seems to be holding up well so far.
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At this point it is a working stock liteon DG-16D2S; I decided to go ahead and flash it even though I read about many horror stories with these drives prior to attempting it. Also, I decided to go as cheap as possible as i am unemployed right now, and I made my own probe and connectivity kit.
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I just googled it really and found the best way for me to it as I am unskilled in soldering.
I had a bit of difficulty getting the probe to work to extract the keys, but eventually I got it to work.
Here's where it went downhill; got the keys (in jungleflasher 1.88 using "phat key" command), auto-load or whatnot failed. It's ok though, I got the Dummy.bin! I manually spoofed the keys to firmware in JF and like the noob that I am, I spoofed to the wrong firmware and flashed in JF. The write went well completed "write verified ok!" But when it was time to device outro; the dvd drive crashed(because of the bad firmware I believe). After this it could not be detected by JF even after trying various attempts to device intro/outro and cycling the power(in the proper order of course.) Put it in xbox and get E64 error and flashing green led.
At this point the drive is basically partially bricked, so I went to work on making a bootable usb for dos mode so I could repair/flash this testy drive.
I went back to JF to fix my noobish mistake on the firmware. I respoofed (the correct firmware) and saved the file (you can name it whatever you'd like just remember where it is and what you call it because these files will save your drive! Make copies just in case!). Put a copy of that onto the root of the bootable usb.
I then booted into dos and followed a couple more tuts I found from another google search to repair/flash the liteon with good firmware. (Its a pretty simple 10 or so step process) Did this sucessfully and like magic my drive works again with hacked firmware!
I hope this can help someone, as it was my first liteon to flash and I had this much of and issue, I would suggest to all who attempt the same to use JF only to get your Dummy.bin file and spoof it to the proper firmware for your drive. Stop there and then flash in dos mode, worked for me.
Now all I need is LT+ 3.0 and all will be great!
As I used many differnt sources to find my solution I can't properly cite all the correct people, so a big thanks to all those with Team Xecuter, the Jungleflasher team, Xbox experts, and all whom I may have missed.
I hope this helps, Happy Holidays Everyone!