Slim read/write/erase bad block error

[Fawad]

I have xbox360 slim/trinity and i dumped its 16 mb nand 4 times with nandxv3/nandpro3.0a through Xnand Healer. Problem is have bad block in 0x002->0x3ff Xell region. 360 flash tool or any other tool is unable to read nand or open image. i tried building xell through donor nand but got write Error on block 0x002 while writing ecc file to xbox(same block on which i got error while reading every time) that i made through donor nand, i cant read/write/erase 0x002->0x3ff this block so i cant remap my nand.i tried many times to fix it through "Fix it" button in xnandhealergui but same error while writing. After writing ecc console doesnt boot and gives redlight after 3 or 4 minutes, i wrote back original nand and its booting fine

 

[Martin C]

ok - keep your good NAND dump safe. make a copy and call it nandtemp.bin

now, run the following commands:

nandpro nandtemp.bin: -r16 3ff.bin 3ff 1
nandpro nandtemp.bin: -w16 3ff.bin 2 1

You should be able to open nandtemp.bin in 360 Flash Dump Tool etc. Read my sticky on bad block remapping for when you get to the ECC file.

 

[Fawad]

Renamed a cope of real nand to nandtemp.bin and entered the following command as you said in nandpro
nandpro nandtemp.bin: -r16 3ff.bin 3ff 1
after that Nand pro says "Could Not open virtual nand Device file: nandtemp.bin

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nand is not accessible by nandpro or any other nand reading program

 

[Fawad]

i uploaded nand to mediafire, download and please verify yourself
http://www.mediafire.com/?skaa2ho9zs6l3cw

 

[tingedace]

For future reference, you could just have used the Build Xell Reloaded tab in Xnandhealer. It would have done everything for you with one click!

 

[Fawad]

Xnand healer doesn't build xell in xell reloaded tab, Xbox is slim trinity after selecting nand image and clicking on "Build Xell reloaded" it says "Glitch Hack for Xenon not supported yet.sorry!" lol

 

[tingedace]

Not sure why you'd see that. Are you using the latest 0.74 version?

 

[Martin C]

Tingedace - I couldn't get XNANDHealer to repair the nand either. nandpro can't read the file as a VNAND because block 2 is missing. I had to remap it manually.

fawad - here you go. Keep it safe. You'll be able to use this for all NAND functions:

http://www.mediafire.com/?y7b5sruvc8q9sk5

 

[Hackerjac]

have fixed your nand, uploading it atm, will pm you the link when its done

ok Martin was faster than me

 

[tingedace]

Tingedace - I couldn't get XNANDHealer to repair the nand either. nandpro can't read the file as a VNAND because block 2 is missing. I had to remap it manually.

http://www.mediafire.com/?y7b5sruvc8q9sk5

Thanks Martin. I suspect it could be down to a different version of nandpro. It seems that nandpro can't create a file and then write to it. I've noticed you have to create a dummy file yourself first then it will work by overwriting it.
I've always used 2.0b but I guess I need to try other versions.

Would you be so kind as to repeat that test but point Xnandhealer at nandpro 2.0b instead? (if you have it)

 

[Martin C]

It's not a nandpro version per-se. The problem is without certain blocks in place, nandpro doesn't recognise the image as a VNAND. I had to manually copy the last 4200h blocks from the image and inject them at 0x8400

 

[Hackerjac]

wierd, i used nandpro 2.0b and the 2 command lines Martin had postet and diden't had any problem, also tried nandpro 3, but that one woulden open the imagefile

 

[Martin C]

ah ok - so something must have changed between v2 and v3 in the way VNANDs are handled. Something to bear in mind.

 

[tingedace]

You had me wondering there Martin so I had to check it out but as you can see nandpro 2.0b doesn't care

But 2.0d does care and won't work.

So does nandpro (in general) just need to see the block containing the CB?

Incidentally, I realised that's why fawad had the issue in Xnandhealer of it defaulting to Xenon when attempting to build Xell - because it couldn't see the CB!

Still, manually selecting trinity and with 2.0b it would have worked fine.

Thanks for the info

 

[Martin C]

I don't know what Tiros uses to identify a VNAND. I guess it would be too much to ask to check the reserved map area

 

[tingedace]

Ha ha yes. Same could be said for myself :-$
It will be sorted though.

 

[Fawad]

thanks martin for the nand, worked fine and console is finally RGH and booting fine.

 

[Martin C]

Glad you got it sorted