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Bricked PSP, What now?
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Lucifier
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20. March 2008 @ 10:21 |
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I Was trying to put on a flash theme by doing the falsh0 stuff and im pretty sure I bricked my psp fat. It shows the psp logo and sound at the start and then acts like its going into the menu but shows a white screen then shuts down. Does anyone have an easy to use tutorial or could help me over msn? I tried following the tutorial at the sticky s there but im missing some of the stuff in that tutorial. Thanks. I was using 3.90 m33-2 btw.
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20. March 2008 @ 10:53 |
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I'm guessing you didn't bother to make a backup of your flash0 first?
Firstly, see if you can still boot to the recovery menu, secondly, if you can, get the 1.50 recovery folder from somewhere on the internet (a little tricky to get ahold of) and follow the instructions to downgrade your PSP back to 1.50.
PSP, all the way from 1.00 to 5.50 GEN D2 - DS Lite w/ M3DS Real (M3 Sakura v1.34)
PS3 3.01 - iPod Touch 2G 16GB Jailbroken - Xbox 360 60GB - PC, Q6600, 3GB DDR2, GTX260 (216) 896MB |
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Lucifier
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20. March 2008 @ 10:58 |
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No I did back up the flash0 stuff to my computer. Anything I can do with them?
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20. March 2008 @ 11:04 |
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Ahhh then you just made it almost too easy for yourself :P
All you have to do is boot into recovery and toggle the flash0 connection, now, (be careful when doing this) delete the whole of your PSP's flash0. Now copy over the backup of the flash0 that you made earlier onto your PSP. Let it finish, disconnect USB and boot to the XMB.
PSP, all the way from 1.00 to 5.50 GEN D2 - DS Lite w/ M3DS Real (M3 Sakura v1.34)
PS3 3.01 - iPod Touch 2G 16GB Jailbroken - Xbox 360 60GB - PC, Q6600, 3GB DDR2, GTX260 (216) 896MB
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Lucifier
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20. March 2008 @ 11:11 |
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Lol, I feel like an idiot. Thanks anyway, it worked. Also was that a semi-brick of full brick, as ive heard about semi-bricks. If it is a semi, can I do that to recover from a full brick also?
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homeb0i
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20. March 2008 @ 11:37 |
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that was a semi-brick. Full brick means u have a black screen, and u need to use pandora's battery to go back to 1.50.
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Deathtord
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20. March 2008 @ 13:05 |
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Yes it was a semi brick.
Full bricks cannot downgrade using pandora because the flashes get corrupted. The way full bricks get unbricked is using a NAND restoration. It is 90% safe but is the only way to get a bricked PSP working again.
Full bricks cannot access recovery mode so that way, if you have no NAND backup, you have yourself a useless PSP :)
PSP: 5.00 M33-6
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20. March 2008 @ 13:22 |
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Semi-Brick = Recovery menu still is accessible but XMB is not.
Full-Brick = XMB and Recovery Menu are no longer accessible.
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20. March 2008 @ 15:09 |
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Originally posted by Deathtord:
Yes it was a semi brick.
Full bricks cannot downgrade using pandora because the flashes get corrupted. The way full bricks get unbricked is using a NAND restoration. It is 90% safe but is the only way to get a bricked PSP working again.
Full bricks cannot access recovery mode so that way, if you have no NAND backup, you have yourself a useless PSP :)
With a full brick you can still use a Pandora to fix it, that's the main reason the Pandora Battery was invented. What you're on about is something else, and i suppose it's been dubbed a "NAND brick".
PSP, all the way from 1.00 to 5.50 GEN D2 - DS Lite w/ M3DS Real (M3 Sakura v1.34)
PS3 3.01 - iPod Touch 2G 16GB Jailbroken - Xbox 360 60GB - PC, Q6600, 3GB DDR2, GTX260 (216) 896MB
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Cind3R
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22. March 2008 @ 09:27 |
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Can you get full-brick if you just change flash0? Or do you only get semi-brick?
I want to change my gameboot, but I'm afraid to get full-brick.
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Deathtord
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22. March 2008 @ 11:06 |
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If you change the Flash0 into wrong files you get a full brick.
Shokz
Why do they make the NAND things then if you can fix a brick with pandora...?
PSP: 5.00 M33-6
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Nintendo DS: R4 v1.18
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22. March 2008 @ 11:55 |
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Well, the flash0 is the only place that contains essential system files, so yes, you can fully brick from just changing files in the flash0. That in mind, there's one file called recovery.prx, don't touch that and no matter what you've done, you *should* still be able to boot into recovery to fix it with a flash0 backup.
Altering something like your gameboot.pmf is totally safe, no matter what you mess with theme-wise, you'll still be able to get into your recovery menu.
One simple rule: Always back up.
PSP, all the way from 1.00 to 5.50 GEN D2 - DS Lite w/ M3DS Real (M3 Sakura v1.34)
PS3 3.01 - iPod Touch 2G 16GB Jailbroken - Xbox 360 60GB - PC, Q6600, 3GB DDR2, GTX260 (216) 896MB
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22. March 2008 @ 11:56 |
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Originally posted by Deathtord:
If you change the Flash0 into wrong files you get a full brick.
Shokz
Why do they make the NAND things then if you can fix a brick with pandora...?
You make a NAND dump in case you have an issue with IDStorage or some other keys have an issue that Pandora + Magic Memory Stick or any other homebrew can not fix.
You then have a NAND backup to write to the PSP fixing the issue. That is why it says to use that option as last resort.
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Cind3R
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22. March 2008 @ 18:42 |
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Thanks alot! Got a custom gameboot running now :D
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