#16d1ht downgrade firmware how to#
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Just because greed is greed and $109 is still $109. There is no doubt that in response to mainstream usage of this interface, it will be disabled in upcoming firmware versions, making life significanty difficult for everyone. LG WH16NS58 (Internal, Firmware: TST5) ASUS BW-16D1H-U A201 (External, USB, Manufactured 2015+, Firmware: A201) LG BU30N (Internal Slim/Laptop, Firmware: 0217, 0245) If your drive is already with the latest firmware version that is not backup-friendly, you can use DVDFab UHD Drive Tool to downgrade the firmware to the previous one. SPI bus access via vendor ATA is a firmware-controlled feature, not a hardware interface. There is no doubt that as with UHD support, in a few days the respectable commercial firmware downgrade utilities would stop requiring changing the setting of IDE controller and would start working with USB drives. If anyone wants to make a community service and post official firmware images with this byte patched, you are welcome to do so in this thread. No checksums, no digital signatures, nothing. With this byte changed, the firmware will be accepted by drives with latest firmware, allowing downgrade using official flasher. In fact on all (old) firmwares the bytes just before this byte have some distinct values, and all bytes after this byte are FFs.Р”В¬hange just this single byte (at location 0x1ec056) from 0xFF to 0xDE ('downgrade enable').Р”В¬ongratulations! You are an elite hacker now. Open the firmware BIN file with a hex editor. Here are instructions for the super-duper-secret-mega hack that would allow flashing the old firmware into drives with latest firmware: Any old firmware can be patched this way. A custom step is required to make the old firmware flash-able on a latest-firmware drive.

#16d1ht downgrade firmware archive#

For example ASUS drive with 3.03 firmware would refuse to flash firmware 3.0 (present in archive from link above). Normally official flasher would refuse to downgrade firmware from latest versions - the so-called 'Write DRAM NG 05/24/00' error.

#16d1ht downgrade firmware update#

This is important step - the official update BIN is needed, not a dump of any sort or 'cleaned' dump. The archive at link above contains some images already. s58-96313/ This flasher operates using drive self-update mode.Р”Р„n unpacked official update image (bin file). No dosflash, no direct flash write, no meddling with IDE controller settings.Р”Р„ patched official MTK flasher.

#16d1ht downgrade firmware how to#

Here is my 'guide' how to downgrade any MTK firmware using only official flashing app. Normally I avoid doing so, but the current insanity has to be stopped. To stop the painful drive abuse I have to divulge some information. This method is highly dangerous ( please see viewtopic.php?f=16&t=18857 ) but is used widely because this is the only method that is publicly available. Guides on our forum written by fellow members are also based on this method. Live flash update in raw mode became a commodity. DVDFab tool method) became more and more popular.

However recently the firmware downgrade method using SPI access via vendor ATA commands (a.k.a.

NOTE: Information in this post is mostly obsolete, please see the main FAQ thread for an up-to-date information - viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634Р”Р„s mentioned many times earlier, I personally do not recommend downgrading your drive firmware without understanding the possible consequences.