make LiteOn 5001/5005 MV-free, region-0, add 3-hour LP mode

[lordsmurf]

UPDATE:
Visit www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/liteon.htm for quick instructions and file downloads to make your LiteOn 5001 region-free, Macrovision-free and to enable 3-hour LP mode recordings !!!

UPDATE 5/18: Added 5005 models too!


https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=902503
has some other info too, though only my guide is really needed

[zleepy]

MAY not work if you already have the LiteOn's second part of 1163 installed.

[zleepy]

OOPS!
Missleading statement in previous post.

It may NOT INSTALL !!!

Thus your LiteOn will be unchanged.

[JohnnyCNote]

Read this first post here:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=902503

This is for the 5001.
I know nothing about this,
just saw something good, didn't want it to slip by.

Good luck!

Could you provide some more detailed instructions on how do this?

Thanks....

[kabanero]

Could you provide some more detailed instructions on how do this?

Thanks....

Johnny,

Here is the link to LiteOn forum:

http://220.130.29.146/ikonboard.cgi?s=e37dfa83ddd0506d16eef6dfd8b41b0f;act=SF;f=2

Read recent threads about 1163 and you will find all information.

zleepy,

It works.
Yesterday I installed two parts of original 1163 firmware. Later I installed hacked part 2 of 1163 with disabled macrovision and it worked. Today I installed again part 2 of 1163 firmware with another hack that enables LP (3 hours) mode. And it works.

So, now I have macrovision permanently disabled, and I have LP (3 hours) mode.

[JohnnyCNote]

Thanks mucho!

[lordsmurf]

Can somebody give me these files? I want ones from your personal collection that you know for-sure worked for you.

I can't get it to work.

Trying to HEX the files myself just made a mess (machine error'd). The files in the Yahoo briefcase off the other site are not hacked it looks like.

I did DS1 then D11 hacked .. reading instructions. Didn't work.

Then later instructions elsewhere say to do DS1 then official D11 then hacked D11. So I started over. It did not take.

I tried the UltraEDIT HEX edit the D11 file. I did what the other site said. No luck. Machine error. I had to reburn the "hacked" (official one I think, from the briefcase) to CD-RW and it fixed the machine.

Guys, this one is above my head. I need help here. I want 3-hour and I want MV off. But I need something simpler than some of the archaic instructions on the other site and then a briefcase file that may have changed recently (because as I read, some sissies apparently griped that the experimental fw update trashed the units).

Mine is 1 day old. I'll try whatever I need. I can easily return it for another.

[lordsmurf]

Okay, thanks to help via e-mail and other communications, I got it.

However, all these conflicting instructions, fake files (and CRC failed files) and e-mail whisperings really suck. So, here's the quick-n-dirty guide: www.digitalfaq.com/reviews/liteon.htm to make your LiteOn 5001 region-free, Macrovision-free and to enable 3-hour LP mode recordings !!!

[JohnnyCNote]

I just applied the 2nd hacked disk and everything appears to work properly, and I'm seeing the 3hr LP mode that wasn't there before. This hack is different from the one I saw before. The other one only involved the 1st disk....

[lordsmurf]

The site now has the 5005 hack files too.

[pfillion]

Hi,

I tried with the instructions. The first and second update went ok. I noticed that it write A-UP nn and then do a second pass d-UP xx on the player display.

When I tried the third hacked update from DigitalFaq, it did the A-UP to 99 and quicky tried the d-UP xx but went directly to the message update done. (like it did not want to update the hacked file ?)

When I reopen the unit, my serial does not seem to have change from step 2. Serial is 0101-0143-1163-F2SC(110-010B) and does not start with 010- like stated on DigitalFaq and I do not have the macrovision menu with the region code when I do the remote hack 2960.

The original post from zleepy state not to update the part 2 before fixing it. I guess that the hack from DigitalFaq is a part 2 but it claims to do part 2 from Liteon before. This is confusing...

I tried to do setup 1 and then step 3 directly again. Seems that step 1 does not downgrade and stays with the same serial.

Do you have an older firmware before 1161 that could allow to redo the process again ?

Any other clue ? Does that mean that macrovision will always be disabled but not visible thru the menu ? What is your serial number after you installed the hack ? As I remember it did not changed between step 2 and 3.

Thanks,

-Pierre

[cchang]

When I tried the third hacked update from DigitalFaq, it did the A-UP to 99 and quicky tried the d-UP xx but went directly to the message update done. (like it did not want to update the hacked file ?)

A-UP is for mother board, d-UP is for drive. Since the drive is already F2SC, the update process skips the drive part.

When I reopen the unit, my serial does not seem to have change from step 2. Serial is 0101-0143-1163-F2SC(110-010B) and does not start with 010- like stated on DigitalFaq and I do not have the macrovision menu with the region code when I do the remote hack 2960.

(XXX-0109) the first letter is reginal code, 2nd letter for macrovision (1 for off, 0 for on). The factory default is (100-0109). In your case,110 means reginal code 1 for US and macrovison is off.

[pfillion]

Thanks a lot cchang!

-Pierre