Easily update your Jtagged Xbox 360 to Kernel / Dashboard 13604 with FbBuild 0.33

Hi
I updated,it worked for some days and now it does not start up at all showing 3 rrod..is it the update dash fault or just a co-incident that i got rrod after the update??
 
popyett@gmail.com said:
I wish you would have said that in the main post...
I followed the instructions to the letter, didn't get any error, flashed the new nand, and now I got a RROD (3 leds).
Any idea what I can do now ? I get the RROD with the eject button too.
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Its something i will add, it was not apparent at the time as i have never had a Jtag on XBR it would be impossible for me to have known when doing the tutorial.

You need to get a USB nand flasher such as the nand x, this will need soldering to the 360's motherboard and then you can flash back to your working backup.

darksmart said:
Hi
I updated,it worked for some days and now it does not start up at all showing 3 rrod..is it the update dash fault or just a co-incident that i got rrod after the update??
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If it worked at the time then its just an unlucky coincidence, if the update had gone wrong your console would not have worked after it.
 
Awesome guide, really easy, just bought the Jtag today off a friend and was completely clueless, got through it without a hitch, look forward to getting to grips with it and learning this stuff.
 
jasper 16mb nand

hi there i have a jasper 16mb nand just wonderin when building with fbuild
would i type
fbbuild.exe -c jasper -f 13604 -d mydata updflash.bin?
or do i have to write
fbbuild.exe -c jasper16 -f 13604 -d mydata updflash.bin?
 
cabernet77 said:
one other small question im currently on 12611 can i go directly to 13604 or do i need to do a step wize approach? Thanks in advance
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That will be fine, I went from 12611 to 13604 when creating this tutorial.
 
veritas2884 said:
Insane Nutter:

I tried to use best pig to update freeboot hoping that was my issue.

When I run the orig_nand.bin I made through NAND_Flasher 360 through best pig I get the an error "Your dump has not been properly extracted"

This was the same dump I used for you TUT to begin with. Am I right in thinking that since the nand was dumpled poorly and I flashed the updated version from it, that is what is causing my E79 and even when I try to reflash the un-updated nand I still get the error.

Being as though these were the only nands I have since I bough my JTAG from someone, is there anything I can do at this point?
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I would try differant software tools to apply the NAND flash. As in my experience it makes a big differance depending on what tools you use e.g. Xell update flasher, nandflash tool, flashpro etc. Once I even had to use rawflash.elf which was due to flashing a bad NAND which had xell reloaded instead of xell. I couldn't use update flash so I tried rawflash. This didn't work, but it did change the NAND image back to xell. I then flashed the exact same NAND using xell, at xbox booted up fine.

I would say try using various tools to rebuild the NAND. Easyfreeboot etc.

It's not like you have much choice now, if you want to recover you'll probably need nandx hardware tool anyway, so try out as much as you can with differant flash tools mentioned above and you might get lucky.
 
Thanks, InsaneNutter, you helped me a lot in updating my Falcon from 12611 to 13604.

However, seeing a lot of failure reports I've decided to follow another tutorial I felt more confident of: "How to use XeBuild v1.0 (FreeBoot/GGBoot/Retail Images 7371 - 14699)". It's on 360iso , and apparently you can't link to that site here.
It uses XeBuild instead of FbBuild (which I believe is a newer version or a fork of some kind), and you have to extract end decrypt SMC using "360 Flash Dump Tool" and put the resulting SMC_dec.bin in mydata folder as smc.bin, otherwise it's similar to the procedure described here.

A couple of bits I've figured out:
  • fbBuild produces different binaries depending on whether you were using lower case or UPPER CASE to write down the CPU key. They will probably both work, but I never tested them anyway and ended up using upper case for XeBuild even though Xell displays the key in lower case. 360 Flash Dump Tool automatically converts the key you give it to upper case.
  • If you're using these tools on a virtual Windows machine like I do via Oracle's VirtualBox with Mac OS as a host, you want to copy the nand dump to the guest Windows and not to open it from a folder shared with the host otherwise the build may fail with the following messages in the log:
    Code: 
    NAND dump is from a big block machine
NAND dump uses big block controller
    In that case if you copy your nanddump.bin to the guest OS' file system, the build will be successful and the log will say that NAND dump came from a small block machine. The log I'm talking about is updflash.bin.log located in the FbBuild/XeBuild root folder. You should definitely check it after building a new firmware binary.
 
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fbbuild gives me the following error:

fbBuild_0.33>fbbuild.exe -c falcon -f 13604 -d mydata u
pdflaash.bin
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fbBuild v0.33 (R:272)
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**** could not read smc.bin (-1) ****
******* ERROR: critical bootloader files are missing, cannot proceed!
***** FATAL BUILD ERROR: -1 unable to complete NAND image

EDIT: Never mind got it working when I extracted smc_config.bin, a decrypted KV.bin and a decrypted SMC.bin with 360 Flash Dump Tool 0.97 and placed them in mydata folder.
 
I think everything passed successfully but now FSD is disabled, my xbox stopped booting into FSD when I turn it on after I completed your guide, what gives?

please tell me how do I restore this? I only upgraded because I wanted my KINECT to work :(

edit:
wait, I do not have FSD anymore... so how can I write the original flash ever again if I can not use FSD to run Nand Flasher 360??

HOLY CRAP MY XBOX IS TRASHED NOW? O_O WOW... NOO... what do I do now???

Please give a warning in the first post regarding the danger of loosing FSD when following your guide!
or reply here for a fix?
 
Miki800 said:
HOLY CRAP MY XBOX IS TRASHED NOW? O_O WOW... NOO... what do I do now???

Please give a warning in the first post regarding the danger of loosing FSD when following your guide!
or reply here for a fix?
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This guide has nothing to do with FSD, its about updating your console only. FSD is something YOU (well the person who hacked your console i guess) chose to make boot when the console powers on.

Install Dashlaunch 3.02 and your console will boot FSD again.

As you need some way of launching the Dashlaunch install, burn the ISO of XEX Menu to disc, put it in the Xbox 360 and load it up from the games tab. You can then load the Dashlaunch installer off a USB drive from there.

It should pick your existing Dashlaunch settings up and will function how your console was before you updated.
 
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