Phat RGH Tutorial For Noobs

Phat RGH Tutorial For Noobs.

My main aim in writing this tutorial is to make things as easy as possible for those of us that have never dumped and patched a NAND before, NOT to teach people to solder. If you are not 100% confident in your soldering then do not attempt this, pay somebody else to do it for you, it will be much cheaper than buying a new console.

For the purpose of this tutorial I will be using NandX, TX Coolrunner, QSB's and the official update cables. I assume your NANDX is already on V3 firmware, there are already detailed instructions posted on how to do this so I will not be covering it here.

You will need to install JTAG tool before we start, you can also find this whilst you're looking for instructions to update your NANDX.





The first thing you should be doing after removing your 360 motherboard is cleaning it up with compressed air and IPA alcohol, this will help prolong the life of your console and also make solering much easier.

Once this has been done you will need to flux the area's that you will be attaching the QSB's to, Uber has posted many photo's of where the QSB's should be soldered so I trust you've done your homework there. Some people choose to tin the solder points before fluxing but I'll leave that up to you to decide on, we all have our own methods of working.

Solder the boards in place and stick your coolrunner to the top of the video output, I find it easiest to place the coolrunner as close to the USB/LAN ports as possible so you have enough space to attach the fans back to the board later.




Now it's time to take your NANDX with cables attached.

Hook it all up, the plugs on the cables are all colour coded with the QSB's so there should be no problem there. Also make sure the red cable for the coolrunner is connected to VCC, the switches are set to "phat" and "prg" - this is very important.

Plug in the USB cable to both your PC and NANDX, then plug in the 360's power brick but DO NOT power on the console - this is very important.

Load up JTAG Tool and click on "new dash, reset glitch"

Then click on the type of console you have, I was flashing a Zephyr whilst making this tutorial

Then click on NANDX.

Then click on "flash glitch board".


Once the coolrunner is programmed, the green LED on the coolrunner board will go out. When this happens click on continue

Next click "read nand"

This is what you'll see when the NAND is being read, pay attention to the "250" error's, they are telling you about bad blocks in your NAND. You need to remember if you have recieved any bad block block messages whilst the NAND is dumping, we'll come to why this is important later.

You will need to dump the NAND twice before you can go any further, this is to make sure your first dump was a good image. If your first NAND dump was bad and you then write over your XBOX's NAND with a patched version of your bad NAND dump then your xbox is totally useless to you. If you happen to screw up your xbox in this mannor then I will happily buy it and use it for spare parts, not that you are going to screw up because you're paying attention here.




Next click on "create .ecc" and point it to one of the good NAND dumps you just mad

You'll see your ECC file being created for you, just wait a few seconds and you're good to go

Next click on "write .ecc" and wait whilst it writes this new ECC file to your XBOX's NAND.

When the ECC file has been written to the XBOX you need to remove the power brick and then remove the USB cable from your NANDX, then remove all the cables from your QSB's. Now flick the switch from "prg" to "norm" on your coolrunner, plug the power brick and video cables into your xbox. Now turn your xbox on with the DVD eject button and you should be greeted with Xell Reloaded.

When Xell Reloaded has finished booting your CPU and DVD keys will be displayed, take a good photograph of these as you're going to need the CPU key in a minute.

Now you need to type your CPU key into JTAG tool and click "check key", if you've typed it in correctly then you'll be able to move onto the next stage.

Now select which dash you want to use, probably the most recent. Now click "create freeboot image"

Watch as your freeBOOT image is created for you

Now rename the newly created freeBOOT image to "nandflash.bin" and copy it to the root of a fat32 formatted USB flash drive along with a copy of rawflash v3. Plug the flashdrive into the xbox 360 and start it up with the eject button again, when you start the console up with the flash drive plugged in it will update the console with your new freeBOOT image. The reason we are updating through Xell Reloaded rather than with the NANX is because of the bad block error's we recieved earlier in the process, rawflash V3 will remap the bad blocks for us so that saves us another job.



Once this is completed you can remove the flashdrive and power off the console for 30 seconds, when you plug the console in again start it up with the power button and you hsould be golden


Special thanks goes to ccNick over at Team Xecuter who is also a member here at Techkings!

Excellent tut bobby well done!!! Stickied

Glad you like my tutorial, nice of you to notify me that you were copy/pasting it.

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Once the coolrunner is programmed, the green LED on the coolrunner board will go out. When this happens click on continue

then click read nand

in the picture the coolrunner cable is disconnected is that right or can it be connected when reading nand. it.s not clear in the text