Some alternative points to reduce pad damage risk: Instead of having the resistor directly on those pads, try on the Pico instead, as the Pico is slightly more disposable if a pad gets pulled: Pico Pin11 (blue wire) to Pico Pin36 (3.3v) via 10k resistor. (Or just alternatively put long thin wires off the resistor.) The ground wire bridge to the other 'lone' wire that connects to pin 27 on the Pico - again, to minimise risk, just bridge Pico pin 27 to pin 28 as thats a ground pin.
@@Ben-Marzouk-Tarefe76In 'some' cases with SPI in general, the MISO pin needs a pull up, so yes you could 'try' a 10k resistor between pico pin 21 (MISO) and Pico pin 36 (3.3v) But do the Phat (or any non-eMMC) models have issues with PicoFlasher normally?
@@TinWhisker am having issues right now doing a xenon board. Picoflasher was able to read the nand perfectly and flash xell with no problems, i made the mistake of removing the pico from the board before i powered on the console. got the cpu key into jrunner no problems, go to hook the pico back up to flash xebuild but now the pico is refusing to recognize the console at all. pico lights up the green light when i try to read nand and then back off if i try again and so on. have tried reflashing pico with the picoflasher.uf2 file even completely removing the drivers off my computer and manually reinstalling them to no avail. solder joints are fine, wires are short. using the same wire and leads i used the first time around when it worked fine. very frustrating being so close yet so far haha thankfully ordered an xflasher as a backup and it should be in on monday 8/19/24 fingers crossed eh
my pads got messed up but i hope i can still save my 360, i got so frustrated with it i had kept soldering and de-soldering the xbox trying to jtag it xddd
Very cool that you figured this out. I modded several 360s last year I think it was, started out with PicoFlasher but after the first one or two began to run into problems and ended up getting the xFlasher 360. I actually only even attempted RGH because I saw you could do it with a Pico, and I had just done several other Pico/RP2040 projects like PicoBoot on the GameCube and building Flatbox and Open-Frame1 controllers with them. Now that I *have* the xFlasher I would probably just use it again because it's custom-tailored to the job and I already have it and it worked well on every motherboard and NAND size I came across, but I guess if a friend I knew was getting into this stuff I'd feel better recommending PicoFlasher again now. While this video covers issue #14 on the PicoFlasher repo, I still wonder about #4 and #12 where the Pico seems to stop working not long after being flashed with PicoFlasher. It doesn't seem like anyone got to the bottom of that, instead trying to blame it on bad hardware despite people reporting they were bought reputable places and still worked with other firmwares on the same Picos. I had kinda given up hope on PicoFlasher becoming usable since there hadn't been commits to the repo in ages and a bunch of issues were seemingly being ignored.
xFlasher in my opinion is definitely the way to go, but I know many people will prefer PicoFlasher for different reasons. Even with problems it might have, it's hard to beat a $4 board and a free firmware!
I performed RGH3 on my Corona 4GB model (with hynix emmc) a month ago. First issue was that i couldn't get the PLL point to stick to the wire, as I ripped the copper ring around the via and was stuck with soldering to the via itself. But after that sort of worked I attepmted reading the nand and got the console not found error. It turned out that to fix it I had to (not sure if all steps are necessary, but that fixed it for me): 1. Unplug the Pico from the laptop 2. Unplug the Xbox from the power supply 3. Unplug the charger from the laptop (so that it only runs on battery and isn't grounded to my electrical system) 4. Plug the Xbox power supply direcly to a wall socket instead of an extension cord 5. Plug the Xbox into power 6. Plug the Pico to the laptop Then, after reopening JRunner (and also trying 3 different USB ports) it got a good read and succeeded in the rest of the process! 1 small issue was not being able to boot into XeLL, but that was solved by actually not forgetting to tick the "RGH3" checkbox 😅 Thanks for your amazing tutorial! All other tutorials that I've seen online were really hard to follow and didn't mention some very important things that only you said in your video. By the way, does XeLL also freeze for you on configuring network if using XellLaunch while connected over ethernet on a Corona board? Also, I wanted to mention that I actually had a few Picos around, as I'm into electronics and these are the best microcontroller that I've worked with! Another thing is that I unfortunately had to install Windows on an old laptop just to run JRunner, as I'm a Linux power user. I wish someone maybe someday makes a Linux port... Shouldn't be had, as JRunner is written in C# IIRC, and you can run most .NET Framework programs via Mono on Linux.
Thanks for sharing! A testament of your patience and troubleshooting abilities right there! Those readers could be so problematic, so I sympathize. XeLL has worked fine on my Corona for me, no freezing! Finally, yes! It's a wonderful microcontroller, makes me happy to see others verifying that!
I feel you on having to use another machine with Windows because you usually use Linux. I had to keep walking between my soldering area downstairs and a spot in my kitchen where we had an old Windows PC to do all the software stuff. None of my personal machines had Windows. Then to make matters worse that PC was an all-in-one so I couldn't take advantage of a monitor already being in that spot and had to walk the 360 over to a third spot to hook it up to a display for booting XeLL, and I didn't have ethernet run over to that area so I had to manually type my CPU key in back at the computer from a picture I took on my phone. Then add to that the fact that sometimes it doesn't work and you gotta go retouch your wires and walk all around again carefully holding the 360 with the precarious wires, lol. If I ever mod some more 360s I'll probably try to get everything I need in one spot to make it easier next time.
Dude, thank you SO MUCH!!! The 10kohm resistor and extra ground wire fixed my Pico not being able to write!! Thank you for all the work you do for the hardware modding scene 🙏🙏🙏
I am so grateful for this. It worked exactly as mentioned in the video. This was my second 4gb corona and my third console overall so I was kinda confident with my soldering. Tried different cables, computers... bought second pico, resoldered everything 5 times, but nothing worked. Wish I found this sooner. It should be distributed with the wireing diagrams. Thanks a lot, Mario!
Just looping back. I've tried this, and it worked great on two stubborn consoles. I couldn't get the 4GB tool to easily read these, and the pico hadn't worked at all, but then I put that 100KOHM resistor in and it worked immediately like magic, so thank you for sharing.
Good morning. After almost boiling the brains, behold, a blessed person appears giving precious information. Congratulations for the "tip". Thank you very much. I tried with 2 different Raspberrys PI Pico and it also only worked on an older PC. I believe that it has to do with DRIVERs. Big hug. Hugs from Brazil. 👍
I had a trinity and the stubborn picoflasher also gave me the "console not found". After checking my soldering over and over I went with a J-R Programmer and it worked first try without having to touch any of my soldering work. Pico was indeed the issue.
Had the same issue, but i just opened j-runner without having the pico plugged into my pc, then plugged it back in it worked fine, apparently it’s a common issue
I modded 2-360' a fat elite and the next one before corona, with chips and programmer from Aly.. using the methods in your videos and they still work today so thank you, now i'm eager for xbox one to start being modded.😂
I have a 4gb corona and used pico to mod my console. I had some weird issues as well but eventually got it to work. Fixing my problem involved having to flash nuke my pico then reload it with the pico flasher software more than once/every time i was trying to use it because it kept messing up or something for some reason and it would always be recognized in the software but when i had it in a fresh state of flash nuke then load software it would work better for some reason. I know its not a very descriptive answer but i did this a while ago. For mine I did not need that extra pcb to put the wire under the cpu pin whatever its called. I had a hell of a time trying to connect that 1 super tiny point where you have to scrape off that one tiny area but eventually managed to get it done. thanks for all your hard work. I now have a fully modded 360 loaded up with games that I dont really use because I had way more fun modding it than I do playing it :P
360 modding is getting even more interesting. New xefus 2019 and 2021 were recently taken from Fusion Frenzy and Crimson Skies and they fix quite a few games like the GTA trilogy, Timesplitters, Driv3r, Malice, Kung Fu Chaos, Tony Hawk - with improved performance and loads more to test.
it works for me but after reading nand, create xell then write xell it was not booting or turn on...solution I found is remove all connection to picu, to boot and read the cpu.
Just for info even if the Pico and soldering is good, the quality of the wires also can be the problem as it doesn't give proper connection or data transfer.
What if I'm seeing the console after trying this, but always getting different Reads, and none match. It ends the read very quickly after just a couple seconds, and the dumps are 1-5MB's (different every time in size)
@@MrMario2011 I had this console sitting in my workshop for almost a year, I couldn't even read it with the SD card reader, thanks mate for the solution, I've done plenty corona boards without issues but this one was a pain in***
I had this same issue, but unfortunately I didn't found any help at the time. The only thing that worked well for me, instead of using the pi pico, I used the SD card reader. That for me worked very well.
I know years ago people said both had a tendency to be quite picky, so I've been surprised that they're being recommended again. The xFlasher has been the best programmer I've used in terms of reliability, but I know those can be cost prohibitive for many people.
@@MrMario2011 I did the improvised sd adapter. Just soldered the jump wires inside one sd adapter following the guides available on internet. I found it to be quite easy despite the apparent complexity. The only problem that I had was that some usb to sd adapters, for pc, can't read the sd adapter, but I tested another brand and it worked very well for me. Apparently the usb adapter has to be able to read the improvised sd card soldered on the MB in some strange way. Or, maybe, was some bad contacts with my old usb to sd card adapter.
the video helped it detect my console, but when i press write Xell it finishes and makes a bell noice but it doesnt say succesful. After I unsoldered the pico and turned on the console but nothing appears. Just the fan is spinning and circle is green but no screen comes on. Any help please?
Did you get it to work? I'm having the same issue, saw someone say xell has issues sometimes with HDMI so worth a shot with the AV cable. I need to try this out to once I get my hands on a set of Av cables.
@@cri1027 no, i tried everything, i redone everything from the start, everything is soldered really well, because i work with soldering. I dont have a AV cable but I tried different hdmi cables/different monitors. But still i have a still green light and the fan is running. The tv sees that a hdmi is connected but just has no signal. I did everything by the steps. I even used really short cables for the pico and the ppl. I found it it doesnt matter if the jrunner doesnt find the rest of the infomation. I guess the last choice is to purchase a AV cable...
Awesome and detailed video. Finally managed to get rid of the dreaded console not found issue with this fix. However i need some advice. Out of 30 read attempts, i managed to dump the nand once, the second read was not the same and comparison failed. I saved that "successful" dump and continued again. After about 30 minutes of doing other things in between a few read attempts, i got another good read of one dump and second failed after reading for maybe 15 seconds. I compared this to the first successful read and they both are identical. So 2 questions: Do i go with this and create a xell image and hope that they are in fact perfect dumps? If reading 2 identical dumps was so hard, could writing the xell image possibly also have issues? FWIW my soldering is super neat ( I do electronics repairs eg, console hdmi ports and retimer ic's ), using Picoflasher, white slim corona v3 with 4gb nand. Wires used for Pico to corona is probably about 20cm long, so not sure if thats an issue. Tested, re-tested pins and wiring, and also de- and re-soldered wiring. Also, when the reads fail, if i immediately try again, J-runner gives an error saying "Cant, picoflasher firmware out of date". If i unplug the pico then plug back in it reads console, and i can read nand again. Sometimes the nand reads for 3 seconds and fails, sometimes it reads for 25 seconds and fails. Its ALWAYS random. Any advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. And, i followed your RGH 3 tutorial to get the correct J-Runner as well as Pico firmware Thanks again
To answer your two questions: 1. If I was having that many issues getting a proper dump, I'd hesitate to continue on with the current configuration. Unfortunately it might be best to verify you can get a proper NAND dump with another seasoned programmer such as the xFlasher, PicoFlasher can be hit or miss. 2. Yes.
@@MrMario2011 Thanks for the response. Thankfully this is just a project as i got the console for super cheap due to laser not reading discs. So will have to bite the bullet and try order an xflasher 360 as nobody in our country sells this. Such a pity, had a JR programmer as well as a Nand-X which i binned years ago due to losing interest in doing RGH consoles for friends and family etc :D :D. If i really wanted to get this going, could the SD Card reader method still work? albeit more time consuming in terms of read and write speeds etc? Just a thought. Not wanting to rush it but seems Weekend Modder and Phenom Mod dont ship to South Africa :(. Again, thanks so much for the advice and your excellent tutorials
Well this appears right after I gave up on a MMC corona, which wasn't really detecting on both the pico and SD tool, so I did the 16mb downgrade. Hopefully it helps in the future tho, but there's still the issue of most EMMCs dying
Another thing to note regarding issue with the Pico not detecting the console is that it really does not like some USB 3.0 ports. I just did my Trinity a couple weeks ago and while the Pico itself was detected in J-Runner it would not detect my console until I move it over to the only USB 2.0 port on my motherboard.
Definitely true, although I think that's a programmer oddity in general? I just know I had plenty of USB related issues like that even back in the day with multiple different programmers.
@@MrMario2011 probably but I think it probably happens way more now than in the past because lot's of newer PC's have very few USB 2.0 ports now (or none at all).
So this one is giving me some trouble on my white Xbox 360 Slim. At first, I was getting the no console found issue. I did what you mentioned on here and it resolved that issue at least. Problem is, I don't think the Nand was dumped correctly or something, because when I wrote Xell, the Xbox would just power on, but it wouldn't boot into Xell and the LED ring never spun. It just remained a solid green light at the center with no signs of activity. I made sure to double check all my solder points and redid them all. I even readjusted the postfix adapter to make sure it was making proper contact. I still haven't ruled it out for being faulty but I don't have another one at the moment to test. I also made sure to re-enable R/W for the NAND. I'm pretty stumped. I also ended up pulling Pad 1 but I was able to use the trace that connects to that pad. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed?
Rewrite stock and verify it boots properly. If it does you can try it again, but if PicoFlasher is the issue (which it has been known to be buggy) then you're probably better off getting another flasher.
@@MrMario2011 I tried rewriting stock and undid everything and it doesn't boot up either. There's no red ring, just a solid green light and no video output. I did order an SDtool but it'll be a while before that arrives. Another thing I noticed but I don't recall if these areas are populated after you read the Nand. In Bootloader's and SMC, non of the boxes display any of the information other than the "Console" box.
@@devilinthewoods3809have you found a solution for this? I'm having the same problem but lucky me when I reflashed to stock it booted fine. Reading nand was fine as well after doing the resistor work shown in this video 😢
Just attempted this, no luck unfortunately. I'm quite confident in my soldering skills so know that's unlikely to be the cause. JRunner went from "Console Not Found" to "Corona: 4GB (eMMC connected) PicoFlasher has encountered an error. Try to unplug and replug the device System.TimeoutException". Can't get past this now haha, just displays this error message then freezes the application until I unplug the Picoflasher from my PC.
DIY SD card nand reader works like a charm, I somehow managed to do it first time with pico but it took me whole day of trying and it was successful idk how. If you have good soldering skills just make your own nand reader from sd card adapter and follow the rules ofc
Hey I had this exact issue and for some reason changing the power cord attached to the power supply fixed it. This is completely anecdotal but it may be worth giving it a try.
Wasn't able to get two good nand reads in sequence, but got more than one good nand file reads in another try. So i compared the nands even they are different reads and it was the same. After created the ecc file and write it, i disconnected everything and when I boot the console it doesn't show video. Any fix? Tried to write it again, but no video again.
@MrMario2011 the detail is that I don't understand what you do since you don't speak English and I don't understand what you say in the video. would you have any outline or pinout of that?
Is there any chance to recover from a bricked Xbox 360 slim 4GB? I bought some slims and one doesn't boot into stock or Xell. Dumping the nands produces some errors telling me that the dumps are not the same. I also don't have any way of getting a hold of the original dumps or the CPU key. I'm guessing it was bricked by the owner, but thought I'd see if there was any way of salvaging it before I just bit the bullet and purchase a new Motherboard and daughter board for the drive.
I don't know if I'll get a response but I was having issues with the console not found and this solution did the trick, the issue now is that the jrunner got frozen and I gave up, removing the cables turns out my resistor was loose, but now with everything removed my xbox 360 slim 4gb does not power on, makes power on sound and disc tray sound but it does not power on any led light, can it be that while reading the nand it got something bad?
Tried this while soldering the 10k resistor onto the pico and grounding it on itself as well. JRunner found the console for once, but would freeze after reading. Noticed a wire got loose during soldering so i re-soldered and was able to read NAND. So even if you have faulty soldering it can still read the NAND in some cases but will freeze while trying to do anything. Fast forward to after writing the glitch onto the NAND, the console will not turn on but will chime. Disconnected the pico off the xbox entirely, and the xbox turns on now (green light) but will not boot..
Sorry to hear, it might be worth reflashing Stock to make sure everything is still working. If it does, you can try to write XeLL again. Usually if it isn't booting, it could be an issue with soldering or quality of soldering, but keep in mind Corona consoles can also be a bit picky from my own experiences.
first time modding a console here, Corona V6 4GB (hynix emmc) I bought a spool of 30AWG solid core colored red. Looking at the Pico diagram theres multiple colored wires so im wondering if using this 30AWG is safe for this? or is it just different colored insulation and im just overthinking?
Can someone help me? I blew up pad 16 to read the NAND. Should I jumper to the resistor under the pad? Or where do I jumper to be able to read the NAND later? It's a 4GB Corona V6.
almost given up... i have wanted to rgh3 my xbox 360s for awhile now, so i followed the rgh tut and first chip i got was jr programmer... and that did not work at all, so i got a rpi pico and flashed it with pico flasher and then did the wiring for the pico and then i ripped one of the solder pads on the mb' to the yellow wire off, but scratched off the trace and soldered the wire to it and that worked it detected it and read it, but it was saying (pico flasher has encountered an error). so i tried brand new wires and... than it worked worse now it said (console not found). so then this video came up than i followed it perfectly, but it did the exact same (console not found) thing. Ive also used a bunch of micro usb cables. so now i am at loss, and don't' really now what to do.. or how to fix it....... any help would be great.. im just thinking of buying and new xbox 360s and see if that fixes anything..
hello ! unfortunately, I wanted to report to my colleagues that my ksb burned out, unfortunately from what I understand, I need to undo the soldering to turn on the console and extract the cpu key from the xell, tomorrow I'll change the Ksb and continue and I'll be back to tell my colleagues more. By the way, here in Brazil Rgh is fashionable, everyone is still looking for it.
Opa, tudo bem ? Topei aquí com uma V6 infernal, fiz até uma reza em cima, mas não vai. Vou utilizar a informação dada pelo camarada. Depois retorno com o resultado. Sucesso aê... 👍
Also mrmario bootleg picos are very dodgy from china i tried reading the nand but does not work well got one console rgh3 once with those bootlegs that error happens lots with bootlegs
@mikepower9944 If you can't see the pico picture on the chip clear and compare it to a fake one, it's hard to see, but a real one, you can see the Berry one the chip
Honestly I gave up on picoflashers. Spent like 4 hours trying to make it work before ordering an xflasher. People were saying to try another pico, but my pico even failed at flashing a trinity.
Just attempted this, no luck unfortunately. I'm quite confident in my soldering skills so know that's unlikely to be the cause. JRunner went from "Console Not Found" to "Corona: 4GB (eMMC connected) PicoFlasher has encountered an error. Try to unplug and replug the device System.TimeoutException". Can't get past this now haha, just displays this error message then freezes the application until I unplug the Picoflasher from my PC. Plz help me
Some alternative points to reduce pad damage risk:
Instead of having the resistor directly on those pads, try on the Pico instead, as the Pico is slightly more disposable if a pad gets pulled:
Pico Pin11 (blue wire) to Pico Pin36 (3.3v) via 10k resistor.
(Or just alternatively put long thin wires off the resistor.)
The ground wire bridge to the other 'lone' wire that connects to pin 27 on the Pico - again, to minimise risk, just bridge Pico pin 27 to pin 28 as thats a ground pin.
That's actually really solid advice, thanks for sharing!
Yeah, was going to suggest the same thing.
Thanks and what about the jasper bigblock 256/512mb flash nand. Didn’t work with the PICO any idea 💡
@@Ben-Marzouk-Tarefe76In 'some' cases with SPI in general, the MISO pin needs a pull up, so yes you could 'try' a 10k resistor between pico pin 21 (MISO) and Pico pin 36 (3.3v)
But do the Phat (or any non-eMMC) models have issues with PicoFlasher normally?
@@TinWhisker am having issues right now doing a xenon board. Picoflasher was able to read the nand perfectly and flash xell with no problems, i made the mistake of removing the pico from the board before i powered on the console. got the cpu key into jrunner no problems, go to hook the pico back up to flash xebuild but now the pico is refusing to recognize the console at all. pico lights up the green light when i try to read nand and then back off if i try again and so on. have tried reflashing pico with the picoflasher.uf2 file even completely removing the drivers off my computer and manually reinstalling them to no avail. solder joints are fine, wires are short. using the same wire and leads i used the first time around when it worked fine. very frustrating being so close yet so far haha thankfully ordered an xflasher as a backup and it should be in on monday 8/19/24 fingers crossed eh
I had a 4gb corona E that I was doing 7-8 months ago. I wish this fix was a little bit earlier LOL but respect for the possible fix for others!
Here's to hoping it helps!
my pads got messed up but i hope i can still save my 360, i got so frustrated with it i had kept soldering and de-soldering the xbox trying to jtag it xddd
Very cool that you figured this out. I modded several 360s last year I think it was, started out with PicoFlasher but after the first one or two began to run into problems and ended up getting the xFlasher 360. I actually only even attempted RGH because I saw you could do it with a Pico, and I had just done several other Pico/RP2040 projects like PicoBoot on the GameCube and building Flatbox and Open-Frame1 controllers with them. Now that I *have* the xFlasher I would probably just use it again because it's custom-tailored to the job and I already have it and it worked well on every motherboard and NAND size I came across, but I guess if a friend I knew was getting into this stuff I'd feel better recommending PicoFlasher again now. While this video covers issue #14 on the PicoFlasher repo, I still wonder about #4 and #12 where the Pico seems to stop working not long after being flashed with PicoFlasher. It doesn't seem like anyone got to the bottom of that, instead trying to blame it on bad hardware despite people reporting they were bought reputable places and still worked with other firmwares on the same Picos. I had kinda given up hope on PicoFlasher becoming usable since there hadn't been commits to the repo in ages and a bunch of issues were seemingly being ignored.
xFlasher in my opinion is definitely the way to go, but I know many people will prefer PicoFlasher for different reasons. Even with problems it might have, it's hard to beat a $4 board and a free firmware!
Worked on my 4G Corona with a 22k resistor, too. Thanks for shining light on this issue!
Glad it helped!
I performed RGH3 on my Corona 4GB model (with hynix emmc) a month ago. First issue was that i couldn't get the PLL point to stick to the wire, as I ripped the copper ring around the via and was stuck with soldering to the via itself. But after that sort of worked I attepmted reading the nand and got the console not found error. It turned out that to fix it I had to (not sure if all steps are necessary, but that fixed it for me):
1. Unplug the Pico from the laptop
2. Unplug the Xbox from the power supply
3. Unplug the charger from the laptop (so that it only runs on battery and isn't grounded to my electrical system)
4. Plug the Xbox power supply direcly to a wall socket instead of an extension cord
5. Plug the Xbox into power
6. Plug the Pico to the laptop
Then, after reopening JRunner (and also trying 3 different USB ports) it got a good read and succeeded in the rest of the process! 1 small issue was not being able to boot into XeLL, but that was solved by actually not forgetting to tick the "RGH3" checkbox 😅
Thanks for your amazing tutorial! All other tutorials that I've seen online were really hard to follow and didn't mention some very important things that only you said in your video.
By the way, does XeLL also freeze for you on configuring network if using XellLaunch while connected over ethernet on a Corona board?
Also, I wanted to mention that I actually had a few Picos around, as I'm into electronics and these are the best microcontroller that I've worked with!
Another thing is that I unfortunately had to install Windows on an old laptop just to run JRunner, as I'm a Linux power user. I wish someone maybe someday makes a Linux port... Shouldn't be had, as JRunner is written in C# IIRC, and you can run most .NET Framework programs via Mono on Linux.
Thanks for sharing! A testament of your patience and troubleshooting abilities right there! Those readers could be so problematic, so I sympathize.
XeLL has worked fine on my Corona for me, no freezing!
Finally, yes! It's a wonderful microcontroller, makes me happy to see others verifying that!
I feel you on having to use another machine with Windows because you usually use Linux. I had to keep walking between my soldering area downstairs and a spot in my kitchen where we had an old Windows PC to do all the software stuff. None of my personal machines had Windows. Then to make matters worse that PC was an all-in-one so I couldn't take advantage of a monitor already being in that spot and had to walk the 360 over to a third spot to hook it up to a display for booting XeLL, and I didn't have ethernet run over to that area so I had to manually type my CPU key in back at the computer from a picture I took on my phone. Then add to that the fact that sometimes it doesn't work and you gotta go retouch your wires and walk all around again carefully holding the 360 with the precarious wires, lol. If I ever mod some more 360s I'll probably try to get everything I need in one spot to make it easier next time.
This worked for me! Went from console not found to 2 perfect dumps. Thank you for the guide.
Dude, thank you SO MUCH!!! The 10kohm resistor and extra ground wire fixed my Pico not being able to write!! Thank you for all the work you do for the hardware modding scene 🙏🙏🙏
Great to hear!
I am so grateful for this. It worked exactly as mentioned in the video. This was my second 4gb corona and my third console overall so I was kinda confident with my soldering. Tried different cables, computers... bought second pico, resoldered everything 5 times, but nothing worked. Wish I found this sooner. It should be distributed with the wireing diagrams. Thanks a lot, Mario!
This was a fix that balika011 helped me find through messages, so it hasn't been documented anywhere before this video. Glad this helped!
Even though seeing it makes my fingers hurt, I really appreciate video of challenging soldering jobs.
Glad it's entertaining!
Just looping back. I've tried this, and it worked great on two stubborn consoles. I couldn't get the 4GB tool to easily read these, and the pico hadn't worked at all, but then I put that 100KOHM resistor in and it worked immediately like magic, so thank you for sharing.
Glad it helped! Although do you mean a 10K resistor?
@@MrMario2011 sorry yes lol 10K
This fix worked like a charm for me as i had a stubborn Corona that was totally lost and couldn't be found. Thanks a gazillion!
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Good morning. After almost boiling the brains, behold, a blessed person appears giving precious information. Congratulations
for the "tip". Thank you very much. I tried with 2 different Raspberrys PI Pico and it also only worked on an older PC. I believe that
it has to do with DRIVERs. Big hug. Hugs from Brazil. 👍
Thanks for sharing!
I had a trinity and the stubborn picoflasher also gave me the "console not found". After checking my soldering over and over I went with a J-R Programmer and it worked first try without having to touch any of my soldering work. Pico was indeed the issue.
Had the same issue, but i just opened j-runner without having the pico plugged into my pc, then plugged it back in it worked fine, apparently it’s a common issue
You're a lifesaver I got my 4gb corona modded because of this video though I did end up using 10 1k resistors in series it looked awful lol but worked
A beautiful mess.
I modded 2-360' a fat elite and the next one before corona, with chips and programmer from Aly.. using the methods in your videos and they still work today so thank you, now i'm eager for xbox one to start being modded.😂
Thanks MrMario for your hard work. Love your videos.
Hope this helped!
I have a 4gb corona and used pico to mod my console. I had some weird issues as well but eventually got it to work. Fixing my problem involved having to flash nuke my pico then reload it with the pico flasher software more than once/every time i was trying to use it because it kept messing up or something for some reason and it would always be recognized in the software but when i had it in a fresh state of flash nuke then load software it would work better for some reason. I know its not a very descriptive answer but i did this a while ago. For mine I did not need that extra pcb to put the wire under the cpu pin whatever its called. I had a hell of a time trying to connect that 1 super tiny point where you have to scrape off that one tiny area but eventually managed to get it done. thanks for all your hard work. I now have a fully modded 360 loaded up with games that I dont really use because I had way more fun modding it than I do playing it :P
I've never had to flash nuke, only heard of it, but at least you got it sorted!
360 modding is getting even more interesting. New xefus 2019 and 2021 were recently taken from Fusion Frenzy and Crimson Skies and they fix quite a few games like the GTA trilogy, Timesplitters, Driv3r, Malice, Kung Fu Chaos, Tony Hawk - with improved performance and loads more to test.
Fusion being used on the Xbox One/Series was absolutely not something I was expecting 🤣
Thanks so much! This did the trick after getting the "Console Not Found" error.
very good, thanks here from Brazil, I'm an amateur and your tutorial was 100%, thank you very much for sharing, God be with you
Appreciate it! Glad it helped out.
*This* solved my issue, tyvm for posting this!
You're welcome!
it works for me but after reading nand, create xell then write xell it was not booting or turn on...solution I found is remove all connection to picu, to boot and read the cpu.
Best practice is to disconnect the programmer when turning the console on, yes.
Just for info even if the Pico and soldering is good, the quality of the wires also can be the problem as it doesn't give proper connection or data transfer.
Yep!
welp this is good timing I have already ordered everything needed to rgh my 4g corona E now just gotta buy a 10k resistor and see how I pan out 🔥❤️
Best of luck!
@@MrMario2011 I have your guides I hope I'm good ❤️
Works like a charm. Tanks a lot.
I had this exact problem with a Corona. I'm going to try this fix
What if I'm seeing the console after trying this, but always getting different Reads, and none match.
It ends the read very quickly after just a couple seconds, and the dumps are 1-5MB's (different every time in size)
Any solution to fix no signal? With a glitch chip and even without the glitch chip. Solid green and fan is spinning. Unable to boot xell.
It could be an issue with RGH3 soldering or solder quality. If all is sound, use another flasher.
Thanks Mario, worked like charm
Glad it helped!
@@MrMario2011 I had this console sitting in my workshop for almost a year, I couldn't even read it with the SD card reader, thanks mate for the solution, I've done plenty corona boards without issues but this one was a pain in***
I had this same issue, but unfortunately I didn't found any help at the time. The only thing that worked well for me, instead of using the pi pico, I used the SD card reader. That for me worked very well.
I know years ago people said both had a tendency to be quite picky, so I've been surprised that they're being recommended again. The xFlasher has been the best programmer I've used in terms of reliability, but I know those can be cost prohibitive for many people.
@@MrMario2011 I did the improvised sd adapter. Just soldered the jump wires inside one sd adapter following the guides available on internet. I found it to be quite easy despite the apparent complexity. The only problem that I had was that some usb to sd adapters, for pc, can't read the sd adapter, but I tested another brand and it worked very well for me. Apparently the usb adapter has to be able to read the improvised sd card soldered on the MB in some strange way. Or, maybe, was some bad contacts with my old usb to sd card adapter.
Thanks this fix worked 👌
the video helped it detect my console, but when i press write Xell it finishes and makes a bell noice but it doesnt say succesful. After I unsoldered the pico and turned on the console but nothing appears. Just the fan is spinning and circle is green but no screen comes on. Any help please?
I get no errors. I dont know what the issue could be
Did you get it to work? I'm having the same issue, saw someone say xell has issues sometimes with HDMI so worth a shot with the AV cable. I need to try this out to once I get my hands on a set of Av cables.
@@cri1027 no, i tried everything, i redone everything from the start, everything is soldered really well, because i work with soldering. I dont have a AV cable but I tried different hdmi cables/different monitors. But still i have a still green light and the fan is running. The tv sees that a hdmi is connected but just has no signal. I did everything by the steps. I even used really short cables for the pico and the ppl. I found it it doesnt matter if the jrunner doesnt find the rest of the infomation. I guess the last choice is to purchase a AV cable...
@@cri1027 i just hate to buy a av cable and invest more money and then i will find out it wont work again. It will be so frustrating
@@cri1027 did you get it to work? i bought a glitch chip ace v3 and i still get no signal...
THANK YOU I HAD THIS FOR A DAY!!!! TYSM
Enjoy!
Awesome and detailed video. Finally managed to get rid of the dreaded console not found issue with this fix. However i need some advice. Out of 30 read attempts, i managed to dump the nand once, the second read was not the same and comparison failed. I saved that "successful" dump and continued again. After about 30 minutes of doing other things in between a few read attempts, i got another good read of one dump and second failed after reading for maybe 15 seconds. I compared this to the first successful read and they both are identical.
So 2 questions:
Do i go with this and create a xell image and hope that they are in fact perfect dumps?
If reading 2 identical dumps was so hard, could writing the xell image possibly also have issues?
FWIW my soldering is super neat ( I do electronics repairs eg, console hdmi ports and retimer ic's ), using Picoflasher, white slim corona v3 with 4gb nand.
Wires used for Pico to corona is probably about 20cm long, so not sure if thats an issue. Tested, re-tested pins and wiring, and also de- and re-soldered wiring.
Also, when the reads fail, if i immediately try again, J-runner gives an error saying "Cant, picoflasher firmware out of date". If i unplug the pico then plug back in it reads console, and i can read nand again. Sometimes the nand reads for 3 seconds and fails, sometimes it reads for 25 seconds and fails. Its ALWAYS random.
Any advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
And, i followed your RGH 3 tutorial to get the correct J-Runner as well as Pico firmware
Thanks again
To answer your two questions:
1. If I was having that many issues getting a proper dump, I'd hesitate to continue on with the current configuration. Unfortunately it might be best to verify you can get a proper NAND dump with another seasoned programmer such as the xFlasher, PicoFlasher can be hit or miss.
2. Yes.
@@MrMario2011 Thanks for the response. Thankfully this is just a project as i got the console for super cheap due to laser not reading discs. So will have to bite the bullet and try order an xflasher 360 as nobody in our country sells this. Such a pity, had a JR programmer as well as a Nand-X which i binned years ago due to losing interest in doing RGH consoles for friends and family etc :D :D.
If i really wanted to get this going, could the SD Card reader method still work? albeit more time consuming in terms of read and write speeds etc? Just a thought. Not wanting to rush it but seems Weekend Modder and Phenom Mod dont ship to South Africa :(.
Again, thanks so much for the advice and your excellent tutorials
Cant read nand, Jrunner freezes and then times out when trying to read it.
Well this appears right after I gave up on a MMC corona, which wasn't really detecting on both the pico and SD tool, so I did the 16mb downgrade. Hopefully it helps in the future tho, but there's still the issue of most EMMCs dying
For sure, not a great feature having that eMMC for longevity.
Just tried this on my 4gb 360 E finally got it to recognise my system. Btw you can just solder the resistor on the wire by just exposing more of it.👍
Good tip!
Another thing to note regarding issue with the Pico not detecting the console is that it really does not like some USB 3.0 ports.
I just did my Trinity a couple weeks ago and while the Pico itself was detected in J-Runner it would not detect my console until I move it over to the only USB 2.0 port on my motherboard.
Definitely true, although I think that's a programmer oddity in general? I just know I had plenty of USB related issues like that even back in the day with multiple different programmers.
@@MrMario2011 probably but I think it probably happens way more now than in the past because lot's of newer PC's have very few USB 2.0 ports now (or none at all).
So this one is giving me some trouble on my white Xbox 360 Slim. At first, I was getting the no console found issue. I did what you mentioned on here and it resolved that issue at least. Problem is, I don't think the Nand was dumped correctly or something, because when I wrote Xell, the Xbox would just power on, but it wouldn't boot into Xell and the LED ring never spun. It just remained a solid green light at the center with no signs of activity.
I made sure to double check all my solder points and redid them all. I even readjusted the postfix adapter to make sure it was making proper contact. I still haven't ruled it out for being faulty but I don't have another one at the moment to test. I also made sure to re-enable R/W for the NAND.
I'm pretty stumped. I also ended up pulling Pad 1 but I was able to use the trace that connects to that pad. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed?
Rewrite stock and verify it boots properly. If it does you can try it again, but if PicoFlasher is the issue (which it has been known to be buggy) then you're probably better off getting another flasher.
@@MrMario2011 I tried rewriting stock and undid everything and it doesn't boot up either. There's no red ring, just a solid green light and no video output. I did order an SDtool but it'll be a while before that arrives.
Another thing I noticed but I don't recall if these areas are populated after you read the Nand. In Bootloader's and SMC, non of the boxes display any of the information other than the "Console" box.
@@devilinthewoods3809have you found a solution for this? I'm having the same problem but lucky me when I reflashed to stock it booted fine. Reading nand was fine as well after doing the resistor work shown in this video 😢
Just attempted this, no luck unfortunately. I'm quite confident in my soldering skills so know that's unlikely to be the cause. JRunner went from "Console Not Found" to "Corona: 4GB (eMMC connected) PicoFlasher has encountered an error. Try to unplug and replug the device System.TimeoutException". Can't get past this now haha, just displays this error message then freezes the application until I unplug the Picoflasher from my PC.
That's progress that it is detected at least! However it might be worth trying another USB cable, or port, or redownloading J-Runner?
DIY SD card nand reader works like a charm, I somehow managed to do it first time with pico but it took me whole day of trying and it was successful idk how. If you have good soldering skills just make your own nand reader from sd card adapter and follow the rules ofc
@@MrMario2011 Just attempted this again on a second stubborn console I have, another 4GB corona, and it worked! Looks like it's truly hit or miss.
Hey I had this exact issue and for some reason changing the power cord attached to the power supply fixed it. This is completely anecdotal but it may be worth giving it a try.
If you get a System.TimeoutException, removing the extra wire that connects to the jumper worked for me.
Wasn't able to get two good nand reads in sequence, but got more than one good nand file reads in another try. So i compared the nands even they are different reads and it was the same. After created the ecc file and write it, i disconnected everything and when I boot the console it doesn't show video. Any fix? Tried to write it again, but no video again.
Update: I soldered to POST 6 and not POST 1
I'm trying to read the NAND of my 4G crown but the J-runner tells me Console Not Found. Unknown flash config!. Could you help me?
I showed what could be attempted in the video.
@MrMario2011 the detail is that I don't understand what you do since you don't speak English and I don't understand what you say in the video. would you have any outline or pinout of that?
Hola disculpa tendrás el esquema yo tampoco habló inglés 😢
Yo te podría ayudar si necesitas.@@albertomoran6489
@@nachito500Si todavía necesita ayuda me avisas.
@MrMario2011 didn't think to make a video about dirtypico360? I think it would be interesting
Could we use 36 gauge wire? I was thinking that with the thinner wire, it'd reduce pad tear.
Sure!
What tipe of wire are you using? They are 30 awg? Thanks😁
These ones I believe are 26 awg.
Is there any chance to recover from a bricked Xbox 360 slim 4GB? I bought some slims and one doesn't boot into stock or Xell. Dumping the nands produces some errors telling me that the dumps are not the same. I also don't have any way of getting a hold of the original dumps or the CPU key. I'm guessing it was bricked by the owner, but thought I'd see if there was any way of salvaging it before I just bit the bullet and purchase a new Motherboard and daughter board for the drive.
for my corona 4gb i just bridged the r2c10 and it detected my console, at least that worked for me i dont really know if that fixed it or i got lucky
That one must be bridged.
what type of wire used mine having problem sometimes j runner stuck sometimes no console found sometimes timeout what i do plz help me
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I'm having the same problem on a Jasper 16mb motherboard. Do you know how to solve it?
This is not the same issue. Your issue would be related to soldering issues or poor soldering quality.
Hey MrMario! Does the dirextion of the resistor matter?
Nope!
Resistors aren't polarized. 😅
I don't know if I'll get a response but I was having issues with the console not found and this solution did the trick, the issue now is that the jrunner got frozen and I gave up, removing the cables turns out my resistor was loose, but now with everything removed my xbox 360 slim 4gb does not power on, makes power on sound and disc tray sound but it does not power on any led light, can it be that while reading the nand it got something bad?
Reading it alone would not break the system, unless you caused damage or shorted something.
@MrMario2011 :( thanks for the fast response
Why didn't you shorten the legs and let sit flushed between the 2 pads?
That's just how it goes sometimes.
What do I do if it keeps timing out
Tried this while soldering the 10k resistor onto the pico and grounding it on itself as well. JRunner found the console for once, but would freeze after reading. Noticed a wire got loose during soldering so i re-soldered and was able to read NAND. So even if you have faulty soldering it can still read the NAND in some cases but will freeze while trying to do anything. Fast forward to after writing the glitch onto the NAND, the console will not turn on but will chime. Disconnected the pico off the xbox entirely, and the xbox turns on now (green light) but will not boot..
Sorry to hear, it might be worth reflashing Stock to make sure everything is still working. If it does, you can try to write XeLL again. Usually if it isn't booting, it could be an issue with soldering or quality of soldering, but keep in mind Corona consoles can also be a bit picky from my own experiences.
great friend , perfect! LIKE!!
first time modding a console here, Corona V6 4GB (hynix emmc) I bought a spool of 30AWG solid core colored red. Looking at the Pico diagram theres multiple colored wires so im wondering if using this 30AWG is safe for this? or is it just different colored insulation and im just overthinking?
Purely aesthetic, not functional.
Can someone help me? I blew up pad 16 to read the NAND. Should I jumper to the resistor under the pad? Or where do I jumper to be able to read the NAND later? It's a 4GB Corona V6.
ever get this solved?
I have same problem with corona v3 16mb. Can a help me ?
Bad soldering.
almost given up... i have wanted to rgh3 my xbox 360s for awhile now, so i followed the rgh tut and first chip i got was jr programmer... and that did not work at all, so i got a rpi pico and flashed it with pico flasher and then did the wiring for the pico and then i ripped one of the solder pads on the mb' to the yellow wire off, but scratched off the trace and soldered the wire to it and that worked it detected it and read it, but it was saying (pico flasher has encountered an error). so i tried brand new wires and... than it worked worse now it said (console not found). so then this video came up than i followed it perfectly, but it did the exact same (console not found) thing. Ive also used a bunch of micro usb cables. so now i am at loss, and don't' really now what to do.. or how to fix it....... any help would be great.. im just thinking of buying and new xbox 360s and see if that fixes anything..
Could try another console, but also maybe another older PC if that would help with the programmers?
is that 26awg single layer cable?
The NAND wires are 26awg and stranded, the smaller jumper wire I install is 30awg kynar
Would this work on the 16MB version? otherwise, i will just be using the xflasher instead
There's no need for this fix on 16 MB consoles.
Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Hallo Mr Mario i have my slim E Corona 16M but it’s Write (konsole not fund und Unknown flash config)
This isn't the fix for you, sounds like bad soldering.
hello ! unfortunately, I wanted to report to my colleagues that my ksb burned out, unfortunately from what I understand, I need to undo the soldering to turn on the console and extract the cpu key from the xell, tomorrow I'll change the Ksb and continue and I'll be back to tell my colleagues more. By the way, here in Brazil Rgh is fashionable, everyone is still looking for it.
Opa, tudo bem ? Topei aquí com uma V6 infernal, fiz até uma reza em cima, mas não vai. Vou utilizar a informação dada pelo camarada. Depois retorno com o resultado. Sucesso aê... 👍
@@baddoenedinopatriota7781sucesso irmão!
I was able to detect the nand however no it it freezes jrunner and after a few minutes it times out. Soldering seems fine. Anyone run into this?
I saw someone else comment and run into this. You could try another USB cable, port, or even PC?
@@MrMario2011 I actually tried all three😞
My pc can see the corona 4gb but when i read the nand it is always mismatched anyone have ideas?
PicoFlasher does not like interference. Reboot your PC, ONLY run J-Runner, then dump the NAND and don't touch anything until its done.
Hello, and for trinity 16 mb? Than you??
NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@MrMario2011 😔
lol when I was modding consoles coronas did this so much I just refused to buy them
never had any problems reading or flashing all 360s
Meanwhile the comment made immediately after yours is from someone saying they've had nothing but problems 😂
@@MrMario2011
thank you
You're welcome
Also mrmario bootleg picos are very dodgy from china i tried reading the nand but does not work well got one console rgh3 once with those bootlegs that error happens lots with bootlegs
I'm not surprised, sadly.
How can you tell if your Pico is bootleg?
@mikepower9944 If you can't see the pico picture on the chip clear and compare it to a fake one, it's hard to see, but a real one, you can see the Berry one the chip
Hello bro, one question, i read nand but when i write dont work. what could it be?
nice
Honestly I gave up on picoflashers. Spent like 4 hours trying to make it work before ordering an xflasher. People were saying to try another pico, but my pico even failed at flashing a trinity.
It's worth a try at least due to the cost point, however the xFlasher is still the best device out there.
Just buy xflasher!
Best flasher out there.
My xflasher is a waste of money & I don't rateit & it's not that reliable, I've had better luck with the pico
Just buy a card reader
Options are good!
Just attempted this, no luck unfortunately. I'm quite confident in my soldering skills so know that's unlikely to be the cause. JRunner went from "Console Not Found" to "Corona: 4GB (eMMC connected) PicoFlasher has encountered an error. Try to unplug and replug the device System.TimeoutException". Can't get past this now haha, just displays this error message then freezes the application until I unplug the Picoflasher from my PC.
Plz help me
This man is literally the goat for all your hard modding and soft modding needs 🫡🙏
Just a human, I do what I can.