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How many times have you flashed between 1.5 and 2.0?
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illum
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22. December 2005 @ 06:35 |
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Well, i was just reading a few articles and, as many people know, flash chips arent really meant to be flashed more than a few times in their lifetime.
I was wondering if any of you flash between 1.5 and 2.0 a lot? I want to be running homebrew a lot of the time, but also want to play legit UMD games like GTA. Anyone ever heard of a PSP screwing up after someone just flashing it too many times?
Cheers.
P.S Not sure if this has been discussed before, i couldnt find any posts on it so i guess not.
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22. December 2005 @ 07:03 |
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none. im the poor git who has 2.01. :(
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pbailey
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22. December 2005 @ 07:28 |
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I'm not sure either, i don't think constantly flashing a chip is a good idea, i haven't bothered since upping to 2.0 from 1.52, then down to 1.5, lol simply cause i don't have any 2.0 games unfortunately.
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illum
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22. December 2005 @ 09:23 |
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aye, thats what i was thinking. So nobody else?
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Ichijoe
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22. December 2005 @ 09:39 |
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I think if you looked at this from a certain perspective you'd see how flawed your idea is. Example(s); SD \ CF \ MMC \ XD \ iPod shuffle or iPod Nano or indeed S0NY MemoryStick? are what exactly?!? If you said veries forms of Flash ROM. Give yourself a Tracking Cookie!! =)
Consider how this Market would hold up if Flash ROM(s) only had a limited Number of R/W Cycles?? Acatually it's quite true that they do actually but then that Number is up into the Tens-of-Thousands of Cycles before any corruption should occur. So as long as you follow the rules 75% Charge, you keep the PSP? connected to the Mains. Useing only trusted Firmware Images. (p2p should probably be best avoided!),. I can't see why you couldn't up / downflash as many times as you'd wish to.
However I have a feeling that unless something happens soon (UMD Loading via Firmware Emulation), I expect to see Firmware v2.5 / v3.0 **ONLY** Games sometime around Q1 2006. If you think Lifes' a Peach now with v2.0 GTA and v1.5 Homebrew....
Just wait!!!
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illum
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22. December 2005 @ 10:23 |
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Well, that was quite an informative post ichijoe, and thanks for that bit of information. Dont really like the way you decided to act like a smart ass and be all sarcastic though, no need for it at all. I thought a senior member like yourself might be a little less pedantic. Apparently i thought wrong.
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Burngames
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22. December 2005 @ 10:35 |
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Your right ilum some of these people just aren't civilized enough to appropriately handle stuff like that. It?s almost sad!
PSP with firmware 2.01
2GB SONY memory stick PRO DUO, got it for FREE!!
1GB Scandisk memory stick, payed $50 for it!
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Ichijoe
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22. December 2005 @ 11:04 |
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huh?? Ok first off I'm a bit under the wethaer, wether or not this excuse holds water with you (or not), I'm sorry if I somehow came off as beeing abrash. That was not my intention. I was mearly tring to convey a counter agument with the Above Poster. Perhaps I could have reworded it a bit to be more PC. Thing is I don't do PC, and I have never wished to deal with PC types. So I have a rather nasty habit of telling it like it is!
But, unless you should go out of your way to acttually 'brick' your PSP? by say pulling the Plug at 58% compleate. Or you decideing to give 'Uncle Ds' 1.50 Downgrader from eDonky a try. I don't see why you couldn't (in theroy), update and downgrade (i.e. Flash), as many times as you could wish for.
But, as others have stated it's best in the case of Firmware Flash ROM's not to Flash as fast and loose as say with any of the above Media(s), as the Firmware (i.e. Software itself), is mission critical! and if it should suffer the slightest corruption you can preaty much chuck your PSP?. (e.g. It's bricked),. Where as you can almost always atleast attempt to wipe (i.e. reformat), it again, and possibly recover it.
On the whole it's just as possible to recover a bad Firmware Flash too. However, in the case of the PSP?, that would require quite a bit of hardware that only a few in the would could afford.
As far as the v2.5 / v3.0 **ONLY** goes... Heck anyone here should have the 'sight' to see that comming...
I guess what I ment to say was that if you used plain commen sence and the proper responsibility afforded with Flashing Firmware. Your PSP? should have a long and happy life. After all the mechanics of the Flash ROM inside the PSP? is little sifferent to say other forms of FLASH ROM...
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rxester
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22. December 2005 @ 11:28 |
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hi guys, i'm kinda new here
i just wanna know the requirements for my psp to connect to the internet??
rxester
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rxester
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22. December 2005 @ 12:10 |
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so in order for my psp to connect to the internet i just have to have a wireless router, an internet connection/modem/ethernet or whatsoever and i just need to configure my psp... is that all?
and I don't need something like PCI card right???
guys please answer my question.
thanks
rxester
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illum
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22. December 2005 @ 12:10 |
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Dont worry about it Ichijoe, it was a good post, nice and informative, and thanks for the followup post, makes me feel a lot better about the flashing now. Cheers.
And yea, i never deal with PC types, im extremely brash with my comments about things all the time, but ive been reading a lot of these forums before i actually did any posting and ive noticed that there happens to be a lot of idiots giving each other crap all the time, so im trying to be all nice n shit, its hard work ;)
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pbailey
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22. December 2005 @ 14:27 |
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Yeah, ichijoe, it's got nothing to do with PC, it's called being a smart arse rude prick. If you're referring to me as the above poster, read it again, how can you counter argue something when all i've said is i don't think it's a good idea to constantly flash the chip, don't try and pawn your sorry excuse behaviour on me tool.
Perhaps i'm just used to dodgy arse flash roms inside photocopiers, etc, but in my experience, you don't want to flash a rom too many times, ask any flash rom manufacturer and they'll all tell you the more you flash it, the chance of it failing blows out exponentially.
Not saying that's gospel, the rom inside the psp maybe awesome quality that a 1000 suns couldn't destroy lol, but just giving another side of the story, although if sony's plan all along was to use the rom to counter the piracy effect, then perhaps it's going to be fine. But what makes you so 100% sure in your self righteous postings that constant flashing isn't going to have adverse effects on the lifespan of the chip?
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22. December 2005 @ 14:38 |
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Sony do not know how many updates they will release in the psp's lifetime so they allow for the chip to be flashed a lot I would think
I don't see a problem with a lot of flashing... except maybe in the park at night :)
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent...
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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pbailey
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22. December 2005 @ 14:55 |
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LOLZ, yeah, we've all been there :). I agree that it'll prolly be fine, i'm just sick of ichijoe and his slef righteous posts all over the board. Ichijoe, you seem to have no idea how to talk to people, take any thread on this board and look at your replies, they're not just rude, you act like you're above people for knowing something. Abusing that dude cause he upgraded a 2.0 to 2.5 without knowing springs to mind...
edit, but that said i really got no beef with you ichijoe, your second post just really pissed me off, i need to take some of my own advice and chill for a while, smoke a joint, it's not good to take anything seriously, especially oneself.
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XbOxOwNeR
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23. December 2005 @ 09:55 |
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there is no way that you can damage a chip by flashing it to many times, the only way you can damage it is by not doing something right and bricking it...
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Ichijoe
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23. December 2005 @ 12:26 |
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The above post is 100% correct! Unfortuantly that's an easyier number for some, then others. Like I said use trusted sites to get your Firmwares like psphacks.net which has all the Firmwares since v1.00. Allthough I think the v1.00 is a fake. In anycase it's known to have bricked many a PSP?. the only Two Firmwares you should be remotly intested in are the v2.00 (if you don't already have it!), and v1.50 of course. Since these are genuine PSP? Firmwares there's not to much to worry about...
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illum
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23. December 2005 @ 16:38 |
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thanks everyone, thats all i wanted to know. :)
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