Soldering 101! Episode 7: Xbox 360 Flashing?

Do you have a technical question that doesn't really fit a specific console? Want some general info on electronics, hacking, making cookies, etc? Here's the place to ask! Go nuts.

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Post by Kyosho » Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:37 pm

If you know how to do it, any chance you could show how to solder to a battery without it going KERSPLODE?

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Post by Skyone » Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:45 pm

You either need to be really quick or you a battery socket.

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Post by vb_master » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:56 pm

Yeah, skyone's got it. You could also unplug your iron, wait 20 seconds, and solder the wires on.

Episode 5 will be comming out this summer. It will be geared towards another forum's requests though.

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Post by ShockSlayer » Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:14 pm

How to solder tiny wires on tiny contacts that are very close together with a big tip?
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Post by blackbox_dev » Sun Jul 09, 2006 4:16 pm

I'd love to be able to do that with my Dad's suxz0r5 iron.

Meh, i'm getting a 40-watt Weller soon anyways. 8)
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Post by vb_master » Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:21 pm

ShockSlayer wrote:How to solder tiny wires on tiny contacts that are very close together with a big tip?
I'll start on ep 5 maybe tonight.

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Post by ShockSlayer » Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:36 pm

sweet! Look forward to learning! :P

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Post by Indigno » Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:01 pm

Neat, I was just having soldering problems with my portable TV. I hope this helps.

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Post by vb_master » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:39 am

These are some bad examples of soldering. Don't do those.

To avoid a "cold solder joint" add a bit of solder to it if you reheat it.

Remember to heat up both the pad and the wire at the same time, so you get an electrical connection.

If I get my modchip today, I will do a special Xbox editon!

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Post by ShockSlayer » Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:11 pm

Special Xbox edition..hmmm... Might come in handy!
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Post by vb_master » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:03 pm

My harddrive came today, but modchip didn't. Infact, Divineo just emailed me and said it just shipped today (even though it said ships in 24 hours, and I ordered on Thursday). It's comming from the east coast of Canada, so it has to go through customs, so it is going to take a while.

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Post by vb_master » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:00 pm

Got my chip today, I got footage of me explaining how to take it apart and how to solder the header on the chip, but I couldn't get me putting it on the Xbox, me flashing the chip, or putting the new HDD in.

Just a word of caution: it's going to be HUGE as takeing the Xbox apart takes a while.

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Post by vb_master » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:25 am

The unedited videos are 356 MB in total, I hope that the final file size will be around 60 MB.

Here's just a something I made in XBtool Preset Maker, I had to plug in the values into XBtool to make a BIOS with that color logo. Hopefully the real thing looks as good as the simulated version.
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Post by vb_master » Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:52 pm

I uploaded the uncompiled video to PoD to give to my friend who is using something better than Windows Movie Maker to compile it.

Watch out (maybe tonight) it will be done!

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