FAQ for flashing Pioneer A05/105

[woody]

FAQ on flashing the A05/105 with hacked firmware is here.

 

[guest]

DVD-RW could not be erased after Upgrade 1.33

After Update to 1.33 of the PIONEER A-105 I´m not able to erase the medium with NERO 6.0 and Windows XP; now I would "downgrade" the drive to 1.30; but it doesn´t work and the hotline in Germany was not very helpful.

 

[woody]

Your problem might be Nero.I haven't heard of this effect before.Maybe upgrading/downgrading Nero,or another program might do it.Flashing to an official Pioneer firmware should still work too.

 

[VIPER_1069]

note here the older firmware links are dead now woody

i checked them

only the DVR-105 v1.33 - RPC-1 + 2xDVD-R + 12xRip is a valid download

 

[weboneando]

After Update to 1.33 of the PIONEER A-105 I´m not able to erase the medium with NERO 6.0 and Windows XP; now I would "downgrade" the drive to 1.30; but it doesn´t work and the hotline in Germany was not very helpful.

Definetly like Woody said your problem is Nero version, I have a working A05 with hacked firmware 1.33 and everything is working great, my Nero version is 5.5.10.20 and I´m going to stay in that version for a while until I find a reason to change or complaints about new Nero versions stop.

 

[VIPER_1069]

if anyone finds a mirror for the older firmware let me know thanks

 

[weboneando]

Have you checked the firmware page?
http://forum.firmware-flash.com/portal.php
If you can´t find it then let me know, I have both versions (1.30 & 1.33) stored somewhere and could send it to you.