Unban Your Xbox 360

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Recent estimated have said over 1 million gamers have been effected by Microsoft's 360 bans. Modders have attempted to free users from Microsoft's grip by releasing what is known to us as "iXtreme LT". According to a forum post on Xbox-Scene you can now unban your Xbox 360.
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"what you need:

your 8955 live console + cpu key
a 2nd unbanned console
nandpro b + flash cable
xell loader
degraded
1888 fs
robinsod's flashtool



process:



use nandpro and dump nand from unbanned console.
flash xell and use jtag hack to obtain cpu key.
use flashtool to extract file system.

dump nand from 8955 console.
use flashtool to patch nand dump with kv.bin from unbanned console.
save patched file (patched_kv.bin).

open degraded + 1888 fs.
create 1888 downgrader image (downgrader.bin) from your patched_kv.bin file.

flash downgrader.bin to 8955 console.
attach hdd + ethernet cable and boot console.

connect to live and update to 8955 dashboard.

console is now fully working and unbanned!"

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This is a highly complex process which relies on a number of free tools and in doing this you may be breaking more laws than you already have. YourEMGN does not recommend this process in any form.
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Small snag ... the latest dashboard update blocks the ability to gain access to your kernel.

Having been on Live, you as the user would've accepted the latest update before being banned. Also the 1888 (original dashboard) downgrade is only possible on Xenon (2005-2006 MFR consoles). I call BS on this tutorial :D

Therefore getting your CPU key is impossible --The only drawback of the JTAG hack which is implied with this method.

For more info on the JTAG hack browse http://www.free60.org/Main_Page.

Great otherwise to hack a console with the older dashboard so as to run homebrew [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd1g8igV6yA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd1g8igV6yA[/ame]

Pretty sweet :D
 
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nice tut - but if you've been on XBL you are on the latest dash and then your screwed anyway.

Only a matter of time though.
 
Unbanning Xbox 360 From Live - The Facts
>> I see lots of sites posting today about a way to unban Xbox 360 from LIVE often linking to a thread made on our forums here.

This method has been known for a long time (since the King Kong Exploit days) and does indeed 'work'. Basically you swap the Keyvault (or 'KV' in short, it stores stuff like console certificates, per-box private keys, DVD key, etc) inside the NAND with the KV from an unbanned console. While technically very different you could somewhat compare it to swapping eeprom data during the Xbox1 days.

However there's a (really) big 'IF' (besides the required tech knowledge) ... you need the (unique) CPU key of your banned console - without it you can't correctly write (or encrypt if you want) the new KV data in the NAND bin of your banned console.
Now you wonder how to get the CPU-key ... well by running XeLL of course!
To run XeLL u need to perform the JTAG hack (or the King Kong exploit, but that's even more outdated) ... and if you got banned the last few weeks it means you updated to the latest dashboard/kernel (else you can't get on LIVE).
And that's the problem... Microsoft patched the JTAG hack since kernel 849x (July 2009) ... so no way to boot up XeLL (= no realistic way for you to get the CPU-key atm) and thus no way to swap the KV data in your NAND image.
And then there's also added KV protection (hashing) on newer motherboards (Falcon+ ? and kernel 1888 won't boot on those), but if you can't even get your CPU-key it doesn't matter much to do deeper into this problem.
The only way it would work is if you retrieved the CPU-key of your old banned 360 before you updated to anything over 849x. If you did that you probably know about all of this and I'm not telling you anything new ;)
Downgrading kernel is not an option either, older kernels won't boot as both kernel and CB fuses were burned during the various updates MS performed, and you can't bypass that without ... your CPU-key.

Hope that explains the situation a bit (tried to make it not 'too' technical)
On a side-note, it would probably be pretty easy for MS to detect KV-swaps (like HW-mismatches etc).
Side-note2: in case it wasn't obvious yet those "unban isos" are fake and iXtreme LT won't unban you (it will instead try to avoid new bans).
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A liberal copy and paste from XBS (xboxscene.com).

In other words, if you didn't dabble with your console prior to the ban ... tough luck ... time for a new console.

Modification is simple ...

Want to play backup games? Do it offline and enjoy SP heaven!

Want to be legitimate and use Live? Keep your console standard!
 
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