NEW OPTION: 'UHD Friendly' Firmware Downgrade / Cross-Flash Using Official (Modified) ASUS Flasher for ASUS & LG Drives

[bossman]

For those who recently bought an LG BP50NB40, I did just that today and was able to downgrade. Mine had a manufacturing date of July 2019, firmware 1.02, and was purchased from Best Buy. Took some trial and effort but I got it to be recognized as a BP60NB10 by doing the following:

1. Downloading the latest modified flasher in the first post. Be sure to use the flasher that was modified in August 2019.
2. Flashing the BP50NB40 1.02 firmware from this post: https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 19&t=19113. File name is

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   HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BP50NB40-NB50-1.02-NM00700-211811011016.bin

3. Flashing BP60NB10 hybrid firmware linked in the first post. File name is

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   DE_LG_BP60NB10_1.00_MK_HBD.bin

Fully recognized UHD disks and I'm now ripping Into The Spider-Verse. Hopefully this helps someone out in the future. Thanks for all the great work!

[MartyMcNuts]

For those who recently bought an LG BP50NB40, I did just that today and was able to downgrade. Mine had a manufacturing date of July 2019, firmware 1.02, and was purchased from Best Buy. Took some trial and effort but I got it to be recognized as a BP60NB10 by doing the following:

1. Downloading the latest modified flasher in the first post. Be sure to use the flasher that was modified in August 2019.
2. Flashing the BP50NB40 1.02 firmware from this post: https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 19&t=19113. File name is

   Code: Select all

   HL-DT-ST-BD-RE_BP50NB40-NB50-1.02-NM00700-211811011016.bin

3. Flashing BP60NB10 hybrid firmware linked in the first post. File name is

   Code: Select all

   DE_LG_BP60NB10_1.00_MK_HBD.bin

Fully recognized UHD disks and I'm now ripping Into The Spider-Verse. Hopefully this helps someone out in the future. Thanks for all the great work!

You're welcome! Glad to help!

[fede66]

Good morning I get the asus bw16d1ht burner to rip blue ray 4k, I wanted to know, to change the firmware if the already installed one doesn't go well, just connect the burner in sata normally, then with the asus odd program load the firmware 3.02 , it's correct?
How do I check the firmware already installed in the factory?
thanks.

[st4evr]

Good morning I get the asus bw16d1ht burner to rip blue ray 4k, I wanted to know, to change the firmware if the already installed one doesn't go well, just connect the burner in sata normally, then with the asus odd program load the firmware 3.02 , it's correct?
How do I check the firmware already installed in the factory?
thanks.

Read this post:

https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic ... 16&t=19634

It has a step-by-step video showing exactly what you need to do.

[fede66]

Hi I didn't understand much because I'm not an expert in these things, I thought it was enough to simply use the asus odd program as explained on page 1 and load the new firmware 3.02.
It is not so?

[fede66]

Besides I wanted to know which is the best model of burner on the market that works well to rip and write blu ray 4k thanks.

[lucian13]

@ MartyMcNuts, thnx dude your modified ASUS tool worked like a charm!!

[MartyMcNuts]

@ MartyMcNuts, thnx dude your modified ASUS tool worked like a charm!!

You're welcome! Glad I could help.

[jonghotti]

Besides I wanted to know which is the best model of burner on the market that works well to rip and write blu ray 4k thanks.

Fede I sent you a PM.


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[BluSkies]

Just crossflashed a balky LG WH16SN40 SVC50 1.02 to ASUS BW-16DHT 3.02. It's happily reading the Casino Royale UHD from my new box set. Thanks so much. Your method is about a thousand times easier than taking the drive to work so I can hook it up to a SATA port on an old PC there and run through the whole DOSFlash routine. You are awesome.

[MartyMcNuts]

Just crossflashed a balky LG WH16SN40 SVC50 1.02 to ASUS BW-16DHT 3.02. It's happily reading the Casino Royale UHD from my new box set. Thanks so much. Your method is about a thousand times easier than taking the drive to work so I can hook it up to a SATA port on an old PC there and run through the whole DOSFlash routine. You are awesome.

You're welcome!!

Enjoy!

[replicant69]

Hi Marty, greetings from the UK!

Just wanted to say thanks for creating this thread - I've just received an Asus BW-16DHT with firmware 3.1.

Quick flash to MK 3.1 using your guide and tool and hey presto, currently ripping my first 4K title

Fingers crossed it completes with no problems and I can start on the rest of my collection - one little thing I wanted to ask is in regard to the Sleep Bug that is constantly referred to throughout this thread.

Will the firmware I've flashed it to still suffer from this? And will it damage my disc surface in any way? (noob alert!)

Many thanks again for this resource.
Cheers

[jonghotti]

The sleep bug is still present in the current ASUS firmware. I’m not quite sure why such a big deal is made about it. Seriously how hard is it to start a rip within two minutes??And set a timer on your phone to come check the rip in 40-45 minutes from when it starts. Totally valid workaround.

[replicant69]

My optimism faltered when I checked and the rip had failed due to a SCSI error that points to the media being damaged
Plays ok on my standalone though and the surface looks clean as a whistle.
I'll try another one later and maybe it was just a one off.

[replicant69]

After the failure of my first attempt it gets worse.

Now my drive is refusing to scan my UHD discs let alone rip them ( i have tried two) and is just hanging with this error (and more the same but with different offset positions):

Error 'Scsi error - MEDIUM ERROR:L-EC UNCORRECTABLE ERROR' occurred while reading 'BD-RE ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.02' at offset '32606060544'


Tried 2 standard Blurays, works fine, UHD's just refuse to even read so I guess it is a duffer drive (brand new on Thursday)?

Only option is to shell out and buy another drive I guess? Perhaps I'll try an LG rather than ASUS.