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garyopa is reporting you should not use Birdy’s “Friendly Flasher” with non-v46 drives as it isn’t too friendly afterall… This tool used with a non-v46 drive will most likely result in a brick; as quoted:

Been so busy working on Media Stealth,
I was not watching other people’s work,
as my packages are good enough for me.

But I also run a repair business on the side,
and after getting a ton of Hitachi’s in the mail,
all due to flashing with the “Birdy” flashing program,
as people were in a rush to get the new Media Detect
and were getting trigger-happy waiting for my next release.

I decided to look into the problem with the “Birdy Flasher” and “Bricked” drives.

Here is the problem:
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In the script file there is labels to point to the various sections of flashing code.

Remember each firmware build has different offsets and ram address for the hacks.

The Birdy script works great for v46 drives (as that is his model on his x360 system).

But users with v59 and other drives were reporting “bricked” drives.

Here is why:
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After detecting the version of drive by dumping the firmware, the system then
starts the flash progress with the following script:

This is taken from the (V59) area:

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:Flash59
// —- Flash –

status(flashing firmware)
EnCrypt

:fl461

status(flash 9003e000 Master checksum)
Flash(9003e000,1000)

iftrue
goto(fl462)
endif

YNMessage(Error by flash 9003e000 Master checksum retry ?)

IfTrue
goto(fl461)
endif
exit

:fl592
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…read the full thread by clicking the link below.

It’s also mentioned garyopa will be releasing a new package soon with all the latest goodies: Media Detect v2, Stealth Firmware, etc…

- source: xboxhacker