Team Jungle has released a new hacked firmware, iXtreme 1.5 for Samsung, BenQ, and LiteOn drives. It is the first firmware update in over a year for the Samsung and BenQ drives, and the very first hacked firmware for the previously unflashable LiteOn DG-16D2S. An iXtreme 1.5 version for Hitachi drive models is still in development and will be available in early 2009.

The Firmware can be downloaded from Xbins.

Along with this new firmware release are updates to tools and a completely new one. Firmtool has been updated to version 1.3.1, DVDKey32 has been updated to version 0.8.1, DosFlash has been updated to version 1.7, and an updated beta version of JungleFlasher has been released. This is a new GUI-based tool that aims to support flashing of all drives in Windows.

At this time, a RS232 to TTL serial circuit is still required to dump the drive keys from the LiteOn drive. This can be a homemade circuit using schematics online, or you can purchase commercial products like the Xecuter Connectivity Kit v3, or Maximus Xtractor 360. These products if purchased by themselves still require that the Tx pads on the LiteOn drive be bridged in order to work, so if you want a completely solderless solution, you should purchase an Xecuter CK v3 + CK3 Probe , or a Maximus Xtractor 360 + Spear.

Tutorial for Xecuter CK v3 LiteOn DVD Key extraction.

Tutorial for Xecuter CK v3 + Probe LiteOn DVD Key extraction.

Tutorial for Maximus Xtractor 360 LiteOn DVD Key extraction.

Team Jungle tutorial on LiteOn flashing with DVDKey32, Firmtool, and Dosflash32.

360Patches JungleFlasher Tutorial.

JungleFlasher 0.0.43 Tutorial covering Lite-On, Samsung and BenQ drives.

A quick tutorial for flashing a LiteOn with JungleFlasher is quoted below:

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Instructions on flashing a LiteOn with JungleFlasher are as follows:
1: Hookup LiteON to sata port and power drive
2: In JungleFlasher select MTK Flash 32 Tab.
3: Select correct port (see above tutorials for figuring out the correct port)
4: Hit Lite-On-Erase button. NOTE – This is done AFTER you have already successfully transferred your inquiry.bin / identify.bin / key.bin files!!! Please read the Prompts VERY carefully! It is important to power cycle the drive at the correct moment to prevent your computer from freezing with VIA cards.
5: After power cycle, drive should return status 0×72 and display Flash information. If it does not, click Device ID and power cycle as prompted. If still not successful then you did not successfully erase the drive.
6: Once Flash information is displayed, you are ready to write! Go to firmware tool 32 tab and select “Load from dump files” and select your key/inquiry/identify .bin files. Then select ix15-liteon.bin after pressing “Open Target Firmware”. Press “Spoof Source To Target”. Then “Save to File” and save your CFW.bin.
7: Go back to MTK Flash 32 tab and select Write. It should automatically take the liteon firmware you loaded in the Firmware 32 tab and flash to the drive. It will automatically verify flash. If verified your done

The Textbook tutorial will be updated eventually.