Toshiba-Samsung 360 Auto Flasher v3.0 Out Now

We talked about the Toshiba-Samsung 360 Auto Flasher before from Ryanmp31. It makes a bootable USB key including all the files needed to backup, flash and recover your Samsung Xbox360 firmware.

Now Auto Flasher version 3.0 is out.

And that’s being met with mixed reviews online. Why? For one thing, there’s been some complaints in various forums and articles in the Internet (although we haven’t been able to substantiate them as real accounts or if they were just malicious griping), and a few of them report that the old versions of Auto Flasher (versions 1.0 and 2.0) bricked motherboards, DVD drives, and whatnot (bricked = messed up the electronics so that it’s about as useful as a pile of bricks).

But several others report that the Auto Flasher worked perfectly well! So maybe this Version 3.0 has cleared all that up.

But if you’re smart, you might not want to believe gossip of “other people.” So there’s another thing to look at. Ryanmp31’s own description of the old Auto Flasher version 2.0 said: “instead of writing the orig.bin to a new file, in hopes of getting the flasher out quick, I took that part out as well and now the program just overwrites your orig.bin with the correct values to make it the xtreme20.bin (although the name remains orig.bin).”

That makes it seem as if the old Auto Flasher version 2.0 overwrote the original firmware backup (orig.bin) with xtreme20 (xtreme20.bin) and then renamed it “orig.bin.” If that were so, that would have been potentially confusing! For example, if someone new to this kind of thing accidentally messed something up, it would have been difficult to fix because there would have been no original backup left but only an xtreme20 version masquerading as the orig.bin.

So we checked the new version 3.0 description to see if there was anything that would clear this confusion up. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find where this issue was addressed directly in the version 3.0 description (the description didn’t say “the orig.bin won’t be written over with something else”), but it did say that Auto Flasher version 3.0 won’t mess with the keys, so maybe that’s a bit of an assurance.

We are not writing to tell you that the Auto Flasher version 3.0 doesn’t work. QJ is not saying that the Auto Flasher will brick your system. We are simply reporting what others have had to say (we figured you might want to know that other people have doubts about the software you’re downloading). If you have any doubts, we suggest you head on over to our forums and ask those who have had a bit more experience. Or you can also consider other alternatives.

We talked about the Toshiba-Samsung 360 Auto Flasher before from Ryanmp31. It makes a bootable USB key including all the files needed to backup, flash and recover your Samsung Xbox360 firmware.

Now Auto Flasher version 3.0 is out.

And that’s being met with mixed reviews online. Why? For one thing, there’s been some complaints in various forums and articles in the Internet (although we haven’t been able to substantiate them as real accounts or if they were just malicious griping), and a few of them report that the old versions of Auto Flasher (versions 1.0 and 2.0) bricked motherboards, DVD drives, and whatnot (bricked = messed up the electronics so that it’s about as useful as a pile of bricks).

But several others report that the Auto Flasher worked perfectly well! So maybe this Version 3.0 has cleared all that up.

But if you’re smart, you might not want to believe gossip of “other people.” So there’s another thing to look at. Ryanmp31’s own description of the old Auto Flasher version 2.0 said: “instead of writing the orig.bin to a new file, in hopes of getting the flasher out quick, I took that part out as well and now the program just overwrites your orig.bin with the correct values to make it the xtreme20.bin (although the name remains orig.bin).”

That makes it seem as if the old Auto Flasher version 2.0 overwrote the original firmware backup (orig.bin) with xtreme20 (xtreme20.bin) and then renamed it “orig.bin.” If that were so, that would have been potentially confusing! For example, if someone new to this kind of thing accidentally messed something up, it would have been difficult to fix because there would have been no original backup left but only an xtreme20 version masquerading as the orig.bin.

So we checked the new version 3.0 description to see if there was anything that would clear this confusion up. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find where this issue was addressed directly in the version 3.0 description (the description didn’t say “the orig.bin won’t be written over with something else”), but it did say that Auto Flasher version 3.0 won’t mess with the keys, so maybe that’s a bit of an assurance.

We are not writing to tell you that the Auto Flasher version 3.0 doesn’t work. QJ is not saying that the Auto Flasher will brick your system. We are simply reporting what others have had to say (we figured you might want to know that other people have doubts about the software you’re downloading). If you have any doubts, we suggest you head on over to our forums and ask those who have had a bit more experience. Or you can also consider other alternatives.