ProgSkeet Flasher
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History:

110726: 
Private flasher release. Only for reviewers. Does not support Flashing due to some difficulties with some NAND Flash devices.
Note: Production went too fast, so I didn't have enough time to do everything promised yet. It will all come on time. I am working on fixing this ASAP. Tomorrow we are thoroughly testing it to find any bugs that may be hidden. We cannot risk the customer flashing a wrong image and then blaming us for it.
For now you have to specify the specific values taken from datasheets.
This goes without saying: DO NOT LEAK.
You can however tell people that you have the software.
Please click "test shorts" prior to soldering to ensure you have a working ProgSkeet.

110726-a:
Added NAND Flashing. Be cautious when using. Not tested on every sort of flash yet.
Removed "PageSize" and added "Raw" and "LargeBlock" checkboxes.

110727:
- Added NAND Flashing (confirmed working) with differential flash option (read sector before flashing, eventually saving some time)
- Optimized NAND Dumping by a whole lot (28kB/s on average :D~~~~~)
- Fixed NOR dumping

Note: if you get too high speed (more than 1035kB/s) during dump, it's probably got an error and you should let me know about it.

110728:
- Fixed NOR dumping a little bit (forgot to SetDirections, oops ;o)
- Fixed NOR flashing (but you can't use it yet, I have to test it thoroughly still)

110729:
- NOR flashing works 100%, enabled ;) For PS3 take 128kB SectorSize and 128 Sectors

110731:
- Added Verify option to NOR Dumping/Flashing (make sure you use Differential for best speed results ;D)
- Fixed bug in NAND 2 dumping
todo: will add verify for NAND Dumping/Flashing, code is a bit large and I have to get some sleep now :)

110801
- Fixed: error with regard to addressing of NOR flash
- Fixed: verify was done on NOR even though the checkbox was left out (=> half speed)
- Added Verify NAND... you have to stay by the program while it's flashing, because it's going to display a message and continue.
todo: find a way to display bad blocks; add a counter to maximum attempts of writing before aborting that specific block; add start/end sector

110802
- Added more selections to Block Count (bigger NANDs)

110803
- Fixed: issue with "Test Shorts" - ONLY USE THIS WHEN PROGSKEET IS NOT CONNECTED TO ANY DEVICE!!! OTHERWISE IT GIVES FALSE POSITIVE!!!

110807
- The comboboxes are bigger now, can't be edited and show the values with a scrollbar.
- Made the NAND part idiot proof. Enjoy.

110808
- It seems there are problems in Windows 7 and since I don't have Win7, please find the log file in C:\ProgSkeet.log and put it on pastebin.cc so I can take a look... thanks!

110811
- NOR: Rewrote entire NOR driver. NAND is unmodified.
- NOR: Write-To-Buffer Programming method optimized (added timeout)
	Note: not every device supports this. Please consult the datasheet if you are facing problems.
- NOR: Erase Sector optimized (added timeout)
- NOR: Forced verify and differential flash
- NOR: Can't enter values anymore, thanks to RAIDEN (if only some people could read...)

Note: Some NOR flash devices have bad sectors (usually just a few bytes, but enough for entire systems not to work). These will be reported in C:\ProgSkeet.log
If you have such a device (for example, I heard this happens with RSOD on PS3), you should relocate the sectors to somewhere else or replace the NOR flash device.

110811-A:
- NOR: Fixed fault in timeout of programming/erasing. Also increased it to 3.5seconds per line and per sector.

110811-B:
- NOR: Added wait on erase sector.

110811-C:
- Improved flashing speed

110811-D:
- Added "tries" for flashing. It is currently hard-coded to 5 tries.

110812:
- Removed auto-detect NAND because some devices don't give the correct information
- Removed device combobox (for now, until xml configuration is correctly implemented)

110812-A:
- Bug fixed: 16 bytes on NAND2 when using Big Block (normal is 64 bytes) (thanks to dospiedras xD)

110813:
- Diagram by marcan has wrong #NOR_TRI... this is why it either took long or even froze. Won't happen again (it's active-high, not active-low)

110814:
- Minor adjustments in the GUI to improve speed on NAND.

110815:
- NOR: added "Alternate Writing Method"... only use this if the flasher freezes without it checked... Thing is, this is supported by most (if not all) NOR flash devices out there BUT requires 4 cycles per write, so it *MAY* be slow.
- NOR: added sector start & end, in case it's useful... (the image must be the size of "SectorSize * [EndSector-StartSector]" when writing !!!)
- NAND: too many reported that both flashing as well as dumping freezes so I set a static delay instead of waiting on RDY signal.

110816:
- NOR: several things related to sector count were fucked due to start/end sector, should be functional now ;)
- NOR: Optimized the code just a little bit more, getting on average 15kB/s more
- GUI: Whole thing with speeds and time left fixed

110819:
- NOR: verification is only done if "verify" is checked and only after it's done flashing
- NOR: added "ByteSwap" so you don't have to use any additional app to reverse the bytes - goes for dump and flash (for transplanet v1 but you can also use the unaltered version of norunpack this way)
- Logging: moved the log file to the application directory so you don't need admin rights

Notes: 
*) if you're using 16MByte SAMSUNG NOR, please use Sector Size: 4kB/ Sector Count: 4096 and check "alternate writing method".
*) Differential flash, if you haven't noticed yet, will skip unnecessary writes (compares data on chip vs data in file)



yours truly,

uf6667
