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MartyMcNuts wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:13 pm No it is not because of your firmware version. It will be because your original firmware is for NB40. I'm afraid you might be s**t out of luck on this one.

That is unfortunate, but thank you for all the help!

I was hoping that if you could get BP50NB40_1.01-MK onto it, you could then try the recover option again, selecting the BP50NB40_1.01-MK as the incorrect file, then select your original firmware bin file in the drop box.

Yeah, unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case. I've tried to ...

I recently came into possession of an old LG BP50NB40 , I was excited when I saw in the main UHD Drive flashing thread that it could be cross-flashed to support UHD drives (or so I thought), I didn't realize that my service code of NB40 makes it incompatible with UHD drives, as per this thread .

So ...

Try the recovery option of the SDFtool Flasher. I suggest trying to flash the BP50NB40_1.01-MK firmware onto it to start with.

Thanks for the reply!
I've been trying the Recover option with the firmware that I read off the drive, I haven't tried any of the images from the pack because they are ...

Steps:
0. make sure you have the latest SDF.bin , specifically at least version 0x7B
1. select the "right" firmware to flash (like DE_LG BU40N_1.00.bin).
2. locate the firmware file for the "wrong" firmware - one currently flashed to the drive.
3. confirm that this is a "silent flash" failure ...

Hello! I acquired a BP50NB40 that's been sitting in someone's closet for a while, and long story short, I didn't realize it was an older revision. It has the SVC code NB40 , not NB50 . So despite the fact that it was on 1.00 firmware (which I did dump before doing anything, and I have that file ...