OT? Report successful installs of Psychson: please share your results

[jeroen-80]

Original tests are performed in the Patriot 8GB Supersonic Xpress. It seems that this type of device is hard to get nowadays. In the issue list I can read a lot about Phison 2251-03 powered devices that DO NOT work as expected. Furthermore there are reports - in different postings - about devices that are working on Windows A but not on Windows B x86 / x64and / or device that are working on USB 2.0 but not on USB 3.0 ports or the other way around. My suggestion would be to post successes - IN ONE THREAD - including:

• Device brand + type (if known) + capacity.
• Successfully tested demos (HID / Hidden Partition Patch / Password Patch) including target OS + architecture + USB port revision.
• DriveCom /drive= /action=GetInfo of the device.

If would be really nice if the first poster can also attach a log of all steps followed since we then know for sure that punching in the wrong commands isn't the reason of a failure. Thanks in advance for sharing!

[bytedeez]

+1

[grince]

Hi,

I have some Patriot Supersonic Express 16GB-Sticks and I can tell the following:

DriveCom.exe /drive=I /action=GetInfo
Action specified: GetInfo
Gathering information...
Reported chip type: 2303
Reported chip ID: 98-3A-A8-92-76-57
Reported firmware version: 1.10.53
Mode: Firmware

Successfully Tested Demo: RubberDucky works fine. (Windows 7 64bit)

I had a little bit of panic since I wasn't able to re-flash the stick after flashing it with rubberducky, but I finally found the way to re-flash it. I have to manually set the Bootmode and then et as Firmware the FW03FF01V10353M.BIN and it is a normal stick again.

[lkos]

Hi!

I was able to run succesfully HID payload demo on cheap 32GB stick sold under "Medion" brand. For additional reflashes it was neccessary to short pins in order to enter boot mode. OS was Windows 7 64bit.

[grince]

apparently, I have to find a "small" solution to short pin 2 and 3; the first stick seems to be broken because I made that too often.
But I can report that the Patriot Supersonic Express 16GB-Sticks work fine with the hidden partition. Interesting enough, how the NumLBA-Number changes from stick to stick...

[brunomarx]

Hi,

I would like to share my results with you and ask for help regarding some additional points.
My first test began with a Kingston DT111/8GB USB 3.0 Drive. It has a 2303 Phison controller and I thought it was the perfect USB-Key for doing what I had in mind,namely script injection. First I dumped the firmware(GetInfo had worked fine) and then tried to apply the custom firmware. It didn't work. I got an Error DeviceIoControl failed:0079 and the USB stopped working. By stopped working I mean that the OS couldn't detect it anymore. As I had read I now had to shorten the PINs 2 and 3. Due to my lack of ability I managed to break the first PIN and thought the only way was to solder it again. Instead I tried to shorten the pins once again and it did work out. Now the OS was able to see an attached USB drive and gave it a letter (G:), but I couldn't use it as a USB Drive to store things anymore. I used GetInfo to see that the USB Drive was in BootMode and tried to apply a firmware once again. I tried all the combinations of burners and firmwares and it didn't work out. I kept getting this error : Header not accepted. Eventually I gave up using this USB Drive from Kingston.

On the day after I bought another USB Drive but this time from Toshiba (TransMemory TX 8GB 3.0) and it has the same compatible controller 2303 from Phison.I experienced the same errors again, but didn't give up. Since I had removed the case and was afraid of touch the metal parts of the USB Drive while plugged in, I decided to use a USB Hub. This time I could not only apply the custom firmware but could also restore it as a USB Drive again. I used the burner xxx04M.bin and the firmware xxx0053.bin and it worked. After that I used a tool from Phison called RestoreUsb or something like that and was able to format and restore it again, so that I could transfer files to it. I wanted more though. So I modified the 0053.bin firmware to inject the script and applied to the USB Drive. It worked. All Duckscripts work just fine now, but I couldn't use it as a storing Device anymore. The system shows that a USB Drive is plugged in, but I can't use it anymore only for running scripts. This leads to my first Question: A) Has anyone succeded in making a USB Drive run scripts while being able to store data? According to what I've read this isn't an easy task since every firmware modification can cause problems to the functionality of the Drive.

I tried to do the same tasks without the USB HUb and I keep getting the DeviceIoControl failed:0079 error.

I tried to restore both USB drives using different versions of MPALL, but it didn't work out. Sometime MPALL recognizes the plugged USB key, but says there is a read error (Code 255 I guess) and clicking on start is pointless since nothing happens. I tried to create different versions of MP.INI and QC.INI but it didn't help. B) How should I proceed to succeed in restoring my USB Drive to default settings using MPALL?

C) I thought about buying another Toshiba Transmemory TX to dump its firmware and try to apply to the other Toshiba USB Drive to see if it works. Does it make sense? I still have the dumped firmware of the Toshiba Drive in a folder and I've heard that the Dumping proccess could sometimes result in firmwares with errors. D) Is that true?

Thank you for your help and sharing your information with us.

by the way, this is part of an academic project at my university.

[AlbinoDrought]

Action specified: GetInfo
Gathering information...
Reported chip type: 2303
Reported chip ID: 98-DE-98-92-72-D7
Reported firmware version: 1.10.53
Mode: Firmware

Patriot Supersonic Xpress 8GB stick
HID works on USB 2.0 ports, x64 and x86

[vnexter]

How to manually set bootmode? thanks