RT63 ... any precaution?

[advapi]

Hello,
I'm new to jtag and I've successully jtagged my falcon using nand-x , was wondering if I can remove the RT63 or better to solder the U6T2, what should I expect after soldering/removing them? should I see the green lights as well?

Thanks

 

[Martin C]

Removing R6T3/bridging U6T2 should result in nothing changing on boot. It's for eFuse protection if you were to update incorrectly from a game disc.

 

[manwithoutname]

Personally I don't bridge or remove them, but if you have to do it I'd suggest making a bridge via switch for a very good reason. If you remove or bridge the resistors, it will also stop you from performing standard freeboot update/flash via Flash360 tool.

Surely whenever a new dash/freeboot comes out you don't want to open your console and disolder the bridge just to update your jtag. Of course you can always re-flash the NAND directly via the NAND-X but why not do it the easy way in the first place.

 

[Martin C]

Personally I don't bridge or remove them, but if you have to do it I'd suggest making a bridge via switch for a very good reason. If you remove or bridge the resistors, it will also stop you from performing standard freeboot update/flash via Flash360 tool.

I've never experienced this and all my boxes have R6T3 removed. There is no reason whatsoever why this would stop Flash360 from updating. I've used XeLLous, Flash360 and NAND Flasher for Xbox 360 1.20 all with success.

 

[manwithoutname]

I had 2 consoles come in when their owners tried to update them directly via flash360 and the update failed. Then I re-flashed the original NAND which one had 6717 dash and I thought to update to 7371 but instead greeted with E80 that's when I looked under the board to find one of them the resistor was removed or bridged.

So this caused both freeboot update as well as standard dash update from 6717 to fail (which is exactly meant to do) but that's from my own experience.

 

[Martin C]

I had 2 consoles come in when their owners tried to update them directly via flash360 and the update failed. Then I re-flashed the original NAND which one had 6717 dash and I thought to update to 7371 but instead greeted with E80 that's when I looked under the board to find one of them the resistor was removed or bridged.

So this caused both freeboot update as well as standard dash update from 6717 to fail (which is exactly meant to do) but that's from my own experience.

Of course you'll get E80! flashing stock 6717 to 7371 will result in eFuses being burned, so the update will fail.

Once you have 7371 on there, remove the resistor. You're not going to update stock dashboard any higher, are you?

 

[manwithoutname]

That's understandable, but why did the consoles give E80 when updating from an earlier freeboot to the latest dash?

Unless the previous owners did something else that I'm unaware of?

 

[Martin C]

That's understandable, but why did the consoles give E80 when updating from an earlier freeboot to the latest dash?

Unless the previous owners did something else that I'm unaware of?

Because they used a stock dash update instead of a freeboot one?

E80 is good on a JTAG console. It means that someone has tried to update the eFuses (namely the CB lockdown) but the console hasn't been able to.

Nowhere in your statement above does it say anyone got E80 when trying to update from one freeboot to another. Your E80 was going from stock 6717 to stock 7371, which as I said WILL happen with R6T3 removed.

 

[M AzeeM K]

Because they used a stock dash update instead of a freeboot one?

E80 is good on a JTAG console. It means that someone has tried to update the eFuses (namely the CB lockdown) but the console hasn't been able to.

Nowhere in your statement above does it say anyone got E80 when trying to update from one freeboot to another. Your E80 was going from stock 6717 to stock 7371, which as I said WILL happen with R6T3 removed.

Ditto...

 

[frazzeld]

I can also confirm bridging the U6T2 resistor will not stop you updating via Flash360, I have x3 Jags all units are bridged and updated using Flash360 tool

 

[advapi]

so I can do that? mean bridging U6T2resistor

 

[garageinc]

yes its fine to bridge u6t2. i also have never had an issue updating freeboot with it bridged. done about 10 updates now too on various consoles vis flash 360 all bridged. i had a customer apply the stock update on his once and all it did was hang on boot after. no error at all just centre light and nothing else. flash back to orig nand and update properly and it was fine again.

 

[relax2010]

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