We have put together this very easy to follow image on how to identify a Liteon 74850C DVD Drive and how to take off the back plate and find the area where you will need to use the CK3 Probe in order to extract the DVD key using Jungle Flasher.

Liteon 74850C

Major Nelson posted a tweet about the dashboard update (with facebook, last.fm etc support) that will be released Tuesday:

I have to correct myself: When we turn on the new features tomorrow they’ll just appear! No need for a system update.

So did MS already include all the features in that small WPA2-fix (8955) they released a few weeks ago and do they just have to activate the new features somehow (via LIVE?) or do they have another trick up their sleeves?

Thanks to CyKiller for the news/link.

Original Source: Xbox-Scene

This NAND image will boot your Xbox360 right into XeLL, which allows you to launch linux distros or run libxenon homebrew software, as long as you never upgraded it via the normal MS upgrade procedures to kernel 849x or higher.

From the readme/nfo:

Finally the Jasper JTAG Hack is here
This is XELL (Redline99’s XeLL) inserted into 6723 Jasper-Kernel.

This was actually released last week already, but with all the BAN news we kinda missed it (but we’re still the first site to report about it ) … so here it is
After the release of the hack for Xenon, Falcon/Opus, Zephyr and Jasper-16mb motherboards, here’s the Free60 JTAG/SMC XeLL Hack for Jasper (v4) motherboards with 256 and 512mb NAND chips.

Don’t wonder about the Filesize, its correct like that. It just flashes the beginning of the NAND so your console specific data like MAC adress will stay.

Of course you should have a working backup of your NAND before you proceed.

*** NOTE ***
It’s for the Large Block Jaspers, 256MB and 512MB

Someone also sent us this nice diagram made by Sandungas about how to wire the JTAG hack and SPI (for NAND reading/writing via LTP with nandpro) on Falcon/Zephyr/Jasper motherboards.

Some useful info from Xbox-Scene regarding rescuing banned Xbox’s

I see lots of sites posting today about a way to unban Xbox 360 from LIVE often linking to a thread made on our forums here.

This method has been known for a long time (since the King Kong Exploit days) and does indeed ‘work’. Basically you swap the Keyvault (or ‘KV’ in short, it stores stuff like console certificates, per-box private keys, DVD key, etc) inside the NAND with the KV from an unbanned console. While technically very different you could somewhat compare it to swapping eeprom data during the Xbox1 days.

However there’s a (really) big ‘IF’ (besides the required tech knowledge) … you need the (unique) CPU key of your banned console – without it you can’t correctly write the new KV data in the NAND bin of your banned console.
Now you wonder how to get the CPU-key … well by running XeLL of course!
To run XeLL u need to perform the JTAG hack (or the King Kong exploit, but that’s even more outdated) … and if you got banned the last few weeks it means you updated to the latest dashboard/kernel (else you can’t get on LIVE).
And that’s the problem… Microsoft patched the JTAG hack since kernel 849x (July 2009) … so no way to boot up XeLL (= no realistic way for you to get the CPU-key atm) and thus no way to swap the KV data in your NAND image.
And then there’s also added KV protection (hashing) on newer motherboards (Falcon+ ?), but if you can’t even get your CPU-key it doesn’t matter much to do deeper into this problem.
The only way it would work is if you retrieved the CPU-key of your old banned 360 before you updated to anything over 849x. If you did that you probably know about all of this and I’m not telling you anything new
Downgrading kernel is not an option either, older kernels won’t boot as both kernel and CB fuses were burned during the various updates MS performed.

Hope that explains the situation a bit (tried to make it not too technical)
On a side-note, it would probably be pretty easy for MS to detect KV-swaps (like HW-mismatches etc).

Original Source: Xbox-Scene