Post: How-to: Dual-boot ‘Reset Glitch Hack’ & retail dashboard
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09-27-2011, 05:35 PM
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Originally posted by another user
Antman1, a forum member of cygnos360, has written up a nice tutorial on how to turn your Xbox 360 into one bad-ass dual-booting machine—one side Reset Glitch Hacked (RGH) and the other a standard retail dashboard with Live access. Therefore, when you’re in the mood to play homebrew games, you can simply switch to the RGH mode and when you’re ready to jump onto Xbox Live, you can switch back to the standard Xbox 360 dashboard with Live access.
You’ll need the Cygnos360v2 Rev. E hardware for this tutorial. In addition, the author of this tutorial used an Xbox 360 Falcon version.
You’ll need the Cygnos360v2 Rev. E hardware for this tutorial. In addition, the author of this tutorial used an Xbox 360 Falcon version.
Tutorial:
This Guide will help you with installing and flashing the Cygnos360v2 Rev E for the reset Glitch. This mod will allow you to use your 360 with Xbox Live and be able to switch over to homebrew as well all on the same console. All consoles are supported for this except Xenon release consoles.
You will need the Rev E version so you can dual boot. This will also work on the Slim as well. I will post a pic with the Alt solder points as well except that you will not be able to use the quick solder method on the Slim for the Rev E version of Cygnos360v2. You will need to wire it using wires to the alt solder points.
My first recommendation is that you install your Reset Glitch first. Here are some pics of mine installed:
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That is my Glitch “CMOD” board that I installed first. I recommend installing it first to get this first part of the hack out of the way. It will be different for a lot of people except for the points on the board for the fat 360s and the Slims. If you need an easy way to program the board I found this tool below to be useful from Soulheaven: x360Glitchip-Prog-v1.0.rar (mirror)
Now we get to installing the Cygnos360v2 Rev E Chip. I first put a dab of flux and solder on all the points I will be soldering (also known as tinning the points).
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Get some flux and put a little on all the points you will be soldering to, after doing this place your Cygnos360v2 Rev E in place for the quick solder points and you dont have to use much solder since you tinned the solder points on the Cygnos360v2 Rev E (I used a 15 watt soldering iron). You will not need to solder the X0 through X7 points. you do need to solder the “RB”, “VCC” and “GND” points as shown in the pic below. You will also see that I am real big into hot glue to make sure no complications happen so you can see that I hot glued a little of the sides of the Cygnos360v2 Rev E to make sure it does not pull on any of the quick solder points.
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On the Trinity board (known as the Slim) you will need to do a wire install to these points on this picture below:
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This pic is not mine it is from a member on xbox-scene forums and is accurate.
Once these are soldered on you will need to connect the flat cable that has the switch and mini usb port. You will now need to get some electrical tape and tape off the Cygnos360v2 Rev E and make sure it is insulated from the metal cage when you put it back together.
Now you will need to get things ready for the Dual Nand setup and the Glitch. First connect your Micro USB cable to your PC and install the drivers located here at the cygnos360.com website. Now open “Cygnos360 V2 Toolbox 1.10 beta5″ and make sure you have the switch off on the Cygnos360v2 Rev E and do a few of nand dumps to make sure you have a good copy of your original nand.
Now for this next part you will have to prepare a full nand image with the new Reset Glitch Hack already implemented into it because the Cygnos360 v2 Toolbox does not have this feature yet to flash the ecc file to the nand.
you will need to make your ecc Glitch Hack File first and this can be done using this:
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After you have made this file you will need to place Nandpro v2.0e and all the files created (in the ouput folder) from the Reset Hack Glitch package above in the same folder with your copy of your nand image (important because we will be writing direct to the image).
Now you will need to open command prompt and navigate to the folder will all these files and type the command “nandpro nand.bin: +w16 image_00000000.ecc”, the “nand.bin” being the name of your nand file in this directory.
Once it is complete you will need to open “Cygnos360 V2 Toolbox 1.10 beta5″ and make sure the Cygnos360v2 Rev E is on and the Blue light is on. Now program the nand image you just wrote the ecc file to the Cygnos360v2 Rev E nand.
At this point after the flash is complete you should be able to turn the the 360 back on with the switch off and it will have your normal startup of the Xbox360 unmodified dash. Then turn the 360 off and switch the Cygnos360v2 Rev E back on with the blue light lit and then turn the 360 back on. If the Glitch board is installed correctly and working then you should be greeted with the “Xell-Reloaded” screen within 2 minutes (mine never takes that long, usually within 5 seconds) and it will show you your CPU key and DVD Key. At this point put everything back together and make it pretty when you mount the switch.
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