LITEON DRIVES - Maximus 360 Lizard

Tutorial 1 - LITEON DRIVES – READING KEYS WITHOUT CUTS – FLASHING
---- GETTING THE DRIVE DATA ---Remove bottom cover of the dvd drive
Connect Power Drop to Power Supply (xtractor or console), keep all turned off by now
Note about Direction of the Plug
Connect the end pointing TO DRIVE to the drive
If you using an xtractor as power supply please plug it on the side “TO SUPPLY”, using the wire of the
xtractor, the power drop will actually act like an extension of it.
If you will use your console to Power it (Some people think this is not Live Safe) plug it as in the
picture, using the wireset that connect the console and the drive, Make sure your console is turned off
while doing the connection. Also DONT FORGET to put the Audio/Video cable on the console,
otherwise will turn off at aproximate 1 minute when you turn on without those cables
Connect Scorpion
Connect the Wire with the 2 grabbers to the scorpion as shown in the following pictures, please note
there are slots to prevent wrong side plug of the wireset.
Update: For Scorpion 2 with “JAW” type grabbers: Connect the grabbers on the Legs on the IC as
shown on the next image REMEMBER ALWAYS CONNECT WITH DRIVE TURNED OFF:
IF YOUR GRABBERS ARE OF THE “HOOK TYPE PROCEED AS FOLLOWS:
The Black wire connection
Make sure your drive has no power at all when connecting the Scorpion
Pull the neck of the grabber to release the hook, start with the Black Wire grabber. Put on the leg of the
IC as shown in the pictures. Please note the Grabber hold better if you pass below the flex ribbon
The Red wire connection
Now take the grabber with the red wire and attach under the leg of the IC as its shown, please note the
proper side you need to attach. Never attach on the other side as shown in the 2nd image.
Testing Scorpion
Now turn on the power supply (xtractor of the console) and also turn on the Switch on the Power Drop
and Look carefully at your scorpion, the red led should start lighting, if you dont see lighting please
shut down your drive inmediattely as could means you wired something wrong, double check your
connections.
After looking at this test TURN OFF THE DRIVE before continue with following steps as we still need
connect other stuff.
Note about Charge on Scorpion: The scorpion store energy on its capacitor, even after removed you can
still see the red led still on. Dont leave the scorpion rest over any metalic part inside or outside the
drive, dont leave it unattended.
Please dont force the scorpion discharge, on one of our first videos we show it the fast way to discharge
the capacitor was touching the hooks betwen them, but DONT DO IT, as reduce the life of the scorpion
capacitor, its better to leave it discharge alone over the time.
More Connections
Connect sata between cable and Lizard, Remember nothing is powered ON yet
Connect Lizard to USB on the PC
Now connect the USB cable from your PC to lizard, if you have set the drivers properly it should take 5
seconds or less to be detected by the PC and showing information on the screen.
Open Lizard Toolbox
Check COM port and test Device Details
Please make sure you choose the proper com port on the bottom left corner of the Lizard Toolbox
application
In order to test if you choose proper port Please click on Get Device Details Button on the Application,
it should show you the Lizard Serial Number and Lizard OS information
Now Turn on the Power Supply and Also turn on the Switch on the Power Drop. If the power supply
will be a console dont forget to have plugged the Audio/Video Cables.
Navigate to the Liteon->Read Keys with Maximus Scorpion
Note, require GECKO 1.01 or above to be able to use scorpion, if you have lower version than 1.01
you will not see the Read Keys with Maximus Scorpion Icon. Remember to enter a menu you press
OK, to go back to parent menu you hold the UP button for 2 seconds then release
Step 1/3 TURN ON-OFF THE DRIVE (POWER CYCLE). Now the Lizard tell you to powercycle
your drive, please do it and after doing it press OK button
Now Press OK button in the Lizard to continue next step
Step 2/3 CONTACT MPX01, On this step you need to touch the MPX01 spot with the tip of the
Scorpion, please check pictures so you can know where is located that spot on the drive board
While contacting Powercycle the drive again.
Now Press OK button to continue next step
Step 3/3 REMOVE PROBE, on this step Lizard ask you to remove the Probe from the MPX01 spot,
please take care of resting the scorpion on a place where does not contact metal or the drive as its still
charged and connected to the live power on the drive.
After removing the Scorpion Power Cycle again
Now Press OK button to continue next step
Key Sucess Screen. If you did all steps ok then you should get the KEY READ SUCESS screen
Now Press OK button to continue next step
Now on the Lizard you will get the START GET SNAPSHOT PC screen, DO NOT PRESS BUTTON
OK yet
Now go to Toolbox press the SNAPSHOT GET button
The read on Lizard will start automatically and you will get a confirmation screen on toolbox when
finished
-----GENERATING HACKED FILE-----Now go to the CFW Generator Tab and under the EASY VIEW tab and load the File you just read
The details of the file you just read should be shown
Choose a File Template from the list
Click on Save As
--- FLASHING THE DRIVE ---To write on a Liteon Drive you need first to Erase it. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE
PREVIOUS STEPS AND ALL WENT SMOTH AND NICE, AND YOUR KEYS WERE VERIFIED.
The reason of this is because you are about to ERASE the drive so if you failed to get the data from it
on the previous steps or you skipped the previous steps, you will not be able to recover your data. If its
your first mod and you want to feel more safe try doing the read of the data (previous steps) 2 or 3
times. When you get the same data many times you can feel confortable to continue.
Navigate to the Liteon->Erase option on the Menu
You will receive a couple of messages asking for confirmation, Just to check that you are sure of what
you are doing, click OK on both
Follow the screen instructions, IF (ONLY IF) you receive a screen message asking to powercycle your
drive, then do it
Press OK button after it
When finished you should receive a Screen Message telling Erase was sucess.
Press OK to continue
If you are using GECKO 1.02 or above then Lizard will automatically will start the MTKINTRO
process when you click Ok.
If you running on GECKO 1.01 or lower then you will need to go manually to the option, please
navigate to Liteon Menu -> MTK Intro.
If prompted follow the screen instructions to finish the MTK intro mode, in case you got asked to
restart your drive do it.
Now its time to write the drive. Navigate to Liteon->Write
You will be prompted for security warnings, press OK on both, its just to make sure you know what
you are doing.
After a few seconds you will get the screen asking to start the FILE SERVE on the PC message, DONT
PRESS OK BUTTON when you get this image
Now go to Lizard Toolbox and click on the Fileserve button
Choose the Custom Fw you want to flash on the drive, MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE THE PROPER
FILE THAT YOU WANT TO WRITE to avoid write a wrong type firmware on your drive. This step is
Critical please dont overlook
After selecting the file the write will start automaticaly in lizard, let it finish, should take around 45
seconds or less
After the writting is finished, the verification will start on lizard, leave it finish
When all finished you will get the Sucess screen
Now the process is finished, its time to unplug everything
Power off the drive first
Unplug the sata cable between drive and lizard
Remove Grabbers from scorpion probe,
Remove first the Red grabber, then the black grabber, take extra care of not bending the hooks
Leave Scorpion Discharge itself, PLEASE DO NOT BRIDGE THE HOOK GRABBERS TO
DISCHARGE AS MIGHT REDUCE THE LIFE OF YOUR SCORPION
Reassemble cover of the drive
Install on the console and you are good to go, enjoy !!