The Firmware Page

I shut down the laptop and removed the battery for a few mins. Not sure if that is enough but just being able to play in VLC is a HUGE improvement already.

you dont have to go that far. as long as its powered of for even a second is enough. and you should not need to pull the battery.

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Ok i bit the bullet and reset the region the final time and checked DVD info after that.


Success! 5 changes available again.

Just thought this might help those who will follow after me.

thanks for following up and letting us know.

So, if I understand correctly, this will work for any of the model burners that require a Windose machine for flashing.
May new a new external burner soon.
Thanks.

you understand incorrectly. this is so you can run MCSE on a Intel Mac. flashers are not able to use wine to flash since wine does not connect to that interface.

My mistake.
I made MCSE=to what DVR flash did for Pioneer drives.
So MSCE under WINE will get us to the place with all the other steps&downloads involved to have a region free drive without having to use a Windows machine?
Thanks.

Since I worked really hard on this and had no idea what I was doing for 5 hours, here is how I did it:
How to do this on a Mac:
Use instructions of MCSE at: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=46767
to create a different drive file (.exe) file.

Download MCSE at viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41228

In the winebottler: http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
Select (copy only) when you install.

Use your drive found in: http://files.rpc1.org/index.php
(make sure it is the apple drive if your on a Mac)

Inside MCSE:
Hit Load... and browse to the drive downloaded from http://files.rpc1.org/index.php

Then choose what you want... I chose to autoreset RPC2.

Then what you want to do is download the Flasher: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flasher/files/

Next what I did was create a folder in my Applications called App

I then put the .exe file created by MCSE in the folder App and the Flasher in the folder App

Next I opened an application called Terminal.

(Remember that the drive I used was GSA-S10N_AP12... It might be different for you. Substitute the name of your drive for this)

I typed in terminal: cd /Applications/App

Next I ripped the .exe into .bin format by typing: ./flasher -r GSA-S10N_AP12.exe
If it rips correctly you should get (cmd_ripexe: Finished firmware ripping process) (do not type this in)

I then typed in: ./flasher -d Drive ID: 1 -m main_firmware.bin
You should get: cmd_drive: Opening Drive: Drive.

So I am not sure if you need to do the next step.

and then i typed: ./flasher -d Drive ID: 1 -c core_firmware.bin
You should get: cmd_drive: Opening Drive: Drive.

I then dumped cache by typing: ./flasher -d 1 -m main_firmware.bin
You should get cmd_dumpmain: Dump process finished but it might take a little time for the process to complete so wait.

I'm not sure if you need to do the next step.

I then dumped a different cache by typing: ./flasher -d 1 -c core_firmware.bin
You should again get cmd_dumpmain: Dump process finished but it might take a little time for the process to complete so wait.

Now don't quit your application terminal, but check in the folder App which should be in the Applications and there should be two new files called main_firmware.bin and core_firmware.bin (this should still be with the flasher, GSA-S10N_AP12.exe, CORE_GSA-S10N_AP12.exe.bin, MAIN_GSA-S10N_AP12.exe.bin)

Next you want to flash the drive with the new .bin by typing: ./flasher -d 1 -f MAIN_GSA-S10N_AP12.exe.bin
Terminal will then have a space and 3 lines underneath it... you will know it has worked if it does not say error and it says (cmd_flashfirm: Flashing process finished)

Make sure you shut down the machine completely, restarting is most of the times not enough. LG drives need the power to be cut from the drive after flashing it in order to internally re-flash themselves with the new firmware. Once you turn your machine on again your drive should work normally. - cvs said

Please confirm this is right DevilsClaw and cvs...

Thank you dabmushi for the correction!

Just wanted to say thank you to dud3z above as following his detailed steps there enabled me to get my daughters Macbook DVD unlocked and with autoreset for the future. Only minor problem was that the two instructions where you say you don't know if you need to do this step both need ./ at the start but otherwise it worked flawlessly. In my case I have a windows machine so was able to use MCSE on that to patch the firmware and then just copy it over on a memory stick to the Mac.

I am not at all technical so a big thank you to this site and all the moderators hard work. Its not often a 54 year old accountant impresses his 20 year old daughter with his technical ability!