Slim 0225 spi lock question.

Mikeemyke2

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Nov 2, 2011
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Hi guys,hope you can shed some light on my
Question..im planning to do the sputnik unlock on my 03 (0225)driveboard then will flash lt 2.0 w/it. My concern is,after fwritng lt2.0 on my drive can i skip locking my spi lock status and leave it on 0x00 then press outro? So that next time i have to upgrade i dont have to unlock it anymore. Will there be problems if i dont lock it? Btw,have no plans going live/online ever.

And another question,my friends xbox has a 0225 drive that was kamikaze hacked & flashed to lt2.0 and his dashboard is 12265. He cant play gears of war 3 coz i told him his system needs to be on 13599 dash to run xgd3 games & from what i searched is that when you upgrade ur units dash from 12265 to 13599 ur flashed 0225 drive would revert to stock & lock the spi status.

He didnt listen to me & went ahead to update gow3,to my suprise after updating it with gow3 disc,his dash became 13599 & didnt return to stock & was able to play backup gow3 and all other back ups.

Why didnt it get locked or revert to stock?
 

jsinger47

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there should not be issues if you leave it unlocked

however! leaving the spi unlocked is detectable (on AND offline)

0225 drives are never flashed by updates
that was only 9504 drives
 
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gerardo15

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The slim drives that came already locked (0225,0401,1071) m$ cant update the firmware because they are suppose to be always locked. Thats why nothing happened to you ur friend. In your case if you dont plan to play online you shouldnt have any problem..
 
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Mikeemyke2

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So if i dont lock my spi my system would still work fine w/o problems? Btw wat do u mean its detectable on/offline? Is there a downside if dont lick it?

So only 9504 drives are affected w/13599 update coz it came unlocked. Am i right?

Thanks for checking my questions.
 

gerardo15

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The slim does a firmware check on every boot, it still does not make an spi status check. But it can happen on a future update!