I would love to try this particular method, except Monkey will not recognize my HD500x. For some reason, when the servers are disconnected, it will only recognize devices that have been recognized during a previous load (when the network was able to connect). So, I cannot even offline flash my firmware. :( Hopefully they get this server back up soon. I've even tried using VPN's , hoping that an EU or JPN line6 server would connect...no dice.