Easily update your Jtagged Xbox 360 to Kernel / Dashboard 12611 with FbBuild 0.11

Note: This guide in now obsolete, have a look at my guide here if you wish to play the new games: Link: Easily update your Jtagged Xbox 360



This guide aims to cover everything required to update your Jtagged Xbox 360 to the latest 12611 Kernel / Dashboard. I have tried to make the guide as detailed as possible so people still learning about all this can follow it, if you want a guide that is more to the point have a look at slimwadey's.

Firstly my apologies for watermarking the images in this guide. I'm fed up of websites such as 360iso, 7sins, Gametuts and so on ripping tutorials I have put a lot of time in to creating and passing them off as there own. If you like this guide than by all means link to it here, I would be more than happy knowing you think this guide is worth linking to Please just don't copy + paste it, thanks.

Secondly, thanks to ikari and everyone else who has contributed to FreeBoot / fbBuild. It is great what you guys have accomplished, it is appreciated by myself and many people who want to use FreeBoot for homebrew & region locked games, not for cheating on Xbox Live. Keep up the great work

Anyway on to the guide:

Things will you need to provide yourself: (these are unique to your Xbox 360)

• Your original nand – you should have this. (it's beyond the scope of this tutorial using a donor nand from another 360)
• Your CPU key – again you should have this, if not see the FAQ at the bottom on how to obtain it.

Things you will need to download to complete this guide:

• fbBuild 0.11
• 12611 Files
• 360 Flash Tool v0.97

Getting started:

First unzip fbBuild 0.11, you should have some files / folders like in the image below



Go in to the data folder and unzip the 12611 files in to there



Now go in to the mydata folder and open cpukey.txt in notepad



Replace the CPU key in there with the one from your console and save.

Obtaining smc_config.bin, a decrypted KV.bin and a a decrypted SMC.bin

To obtain smc_config.bin, a decrypted KV.bin and a decrypted SMC.bin we will use 360 Flash Dump Tool

Unzip and run 360 Flash Dump Tool 0.97

Go to Settings > Keys



Now enter your CPU key and press ok



Now in 360 Flash Dump tool go to Settings > Options and select "extract ibuild compatible files", then press ok



Now you either want to open your original nand backup or a dump of your working XBR / FreeBoot nand and press extract.

I used my original nand and had no problems what so ever, however a lot of people have had problems with that. However the people that had problems have stated this tutorial worked perfectly when using there XBR or FreeBoot nand.

I would recommend you use your XBR / FreeBoot nand with this in mind, If you have used the aud-clamp wiring variation for the Jtag hack or modified your SMC in some way using your original nand will not work anyway.



Extract your SMC, Keyvault and Config Blocks



Its best to make a new folder to save the extracted files in, i saved the files in a folder called Extracted



From the extracted files you want:

• Extracted\freeBOOT\Data\smc_config.bin
• Extracted\KeyVault\KV_dec.bin
• Extracted\SMC\SMC_dec.bin

Rename the files like so

• smc_config.bin is fine how it is
• Rename KV_dec.bin to KV.bin
• Rename SMC_dec.bin to SMC.bin

Copy these to the \fbBuild_0.1\mydata folder

Your mydata folder should now look like this:




Now in the fbBuild_0.1 folder open 1blkey.txt and enter the correct 1bl key, this is: DD88AD0C9ED669E7B56794FB68563EFA

As I mentioned earlier the 1bl key is the same for all Xbox 360’s



We now have all the files required to build the hacked nand image.

Quick recap:

• The data folder should contain the 12611 dashboard files

The mydata folder should contain:

• The consoles cpu key in the cpukey.txt file
• KV.bin (decrypted)
• SMC.bin (decrypted)
• smc_config.bin

• The 1blkey.txt file in the fbBuild_0.1 folder should contain the correct 1bl key.

Building the image to flash:

Open command prompt and navigate to the fbBuild_0.1 folder



To build your hacked nand type:

Code:

fbbuild.exe -c <your console revision> -d mydata updflash.bin

For <your console revision> you must select which revision your xbox 360 is

Type one of the following depending on which revision it is, this can be: xenon, zephyr, falcon, jasper, jasper256, jasper512

My console is a Jasper 512 so I would type:

Your updflash.bin should be built successfully with no errors, the console type, nand size cpu key and 1bl key will be shown, check everything is correct.



That’s it, your nand is built and ready to be flashed.


Flashing the nand:

Download Flash 360

Unzip Flash 360 and copy the contents of the zip file to your Fat 32 formatted USB drive, then copy updflash.bin to the USB drive:



Load Flash 360 from the USB Drive using FreeStyle Dash or XEX Menu:



When Flash 360 has loaded press "A" to write updflash.bin to the nand:



Press "B" to flash the KV/config in the FreeBoot nand:



The error about the keyvault encrypted data check mismatch and about your current nand not been zeropaired are normal, press start to continue.

• Your FreeBoot nand will now be flashed to the console, when it has finished do as instructed and press any button to continue.
• Now press back, then back again and your console will shutdown.
• Unplug the power brick and leave it disconnected for two minutes.
• Re connect the power brick, power the console on and if everything has gone ok your console should boot in to the 12611 Dash.

You can verify the console is on the 12611 by looking in system settings, although it should be obvious it is:



And just to prove this is a jtag, a 1tb drive in the 12611 dash:



Thats it, good luck and if you have any questions I will do my best to answer.


FAQ:

How do I restore the avatars?

Spoiler

Restoring the avatars is simply a case of you running the official Microsoft 12611 update, only do this after you have upgraded to the 12611 dashboard using this tutorial. If you run this on a Jtag with an earlier dashboard you will find that you no longer have a Jtag.

The Xbox 360 Kinect Dashboard Update 2.0.12611.0 With Avatars can be downloaded here.

Simply extract the $SystemUpdate a Fat32 formatted USB drive, there is no need to copy the default.xex to the USB drive, that can cause E71 errors if you do.

The USB drive should look like this:



Just insert the USB stick in to the 360 and you will be asked to update, say yes and the 360 will re start and your avatars will be restored.

There you go, you now have the 12166 dashboard on your Jtag with working avatars.

How do i format my USB drive to Fat 32?

Spoiler

Go to My Computer, right click on the USB drive and select format



Select Fat 32 and Default allocation size, then press start.

I don't know if my console is an Xenon, Zypher, Falcon, Jasper 16mb, Jasper 256mb or Jasper 512mb?

Spoiler

To find out simply load Flash 360 like instructed in the guide above and you will be told the revision of your 360 and the nand size



As it says in the picture this 360 is a 512mb Jasper

How do i find out my consoles CPU key?

Spoiler

1. Connect the 360 to the TV with the Component or VGA cable (Xell / Xellous do not not work with HDMI)
2. Power on the console with the DVD eject button
3. Have a camera ready
4. Wait until the fuse sets are shown
5. Take a photo quickly as they will usually scroll off the screen fast
6. Combine fuse sets 3 and 5 or 4 and 6, this will give you the consoles CPU key

Fuse set example:


(Image found on Google)

Take line 3 and 5

3= E42D681ED06A6D1C
5= 1FFD8E48C56A2058

So my CPU Key is: E42D681ED06A6D1C1FFD8E48C56A2058

How do i obtain smc_config.bin with Ibuild?

(I have since found it is much easier to do this with 360 Flash Tool, however as i spent a while typing that up I have moved it here)

Spoiler

[*]Download Ibuild

You must extract your original nand with Ibuild to get this

Unzip Ibuild then open a command prompt window in that folder

For example here I opened command prompt and navigated to the Ibuild folder on my desktop using “cd C:\Users\Matty\Desktop\ibuild”



You need to run the following command:

Code:

ibuild.exe x -d temp\ -p [cpu key] -b [1bl key] 7371.bin

So for example:

Code:

ibuild.exe x -d temp\ -p 13378008313500f26816F9ACF23FEEA4 -b DD88AD0C9ED669E7B56794FB68563EFA 7371.bin

• 13378008313500f26816F9ACF23FEEA4 is the cpu key
• DD88AD0C9ED669E7B56794FB68563EFA is the 1bl key, the same on all 360’s
• 7371.bin is my original nand
• temp is the name of the folder we will be extracting the original nand to

If you look in the temp folder you should have all the files extracted from your nand, look for smc_config.bin



Copy it to your \fbBuild_0.1\mydata folder

 

Glad it worked for you gosmon, I have had a few PM's from people saying that using the FreeBoot 9199 nand and not the original worked perfectly for them.

Removing the R6T3 resistor or bridging U6T1 is not essential, however it is highly recommended as will stop your console from blowing an efuse. That would render your Jtag useless if that was to happen.

They dont match comparing them how you say

 

Everything is the same for me on the Original 7371, FreeBoot 9199 and FreeBoot 12611.