Hi all,
I'm having a strange problem with a TA-85 V1 Slim (star wars white PSP).
a little background: A few months ago I made a MMS loaded with DC3 - I would load 3.71m33 CFW, then upgrade to 3.90m33-3. I always backup the NAND first. I have done this flawlessly on over 20 different PSP's (phats and slims). I never made any changes to the MMS or the hard-modded pandora battery.
Then my friend gave me a 2nd PSP to do for him - the problem PSP.
1. As a force of habit I always boot the PSP and check what version of firmware its on - the PSP booted fine and was on OFW 3.xx something).
2. I booted the MMS just as usual, backed up the NAND (there was no output of bad blocks during the dump).
3. When I tried to install 3.71m33 it went through the usual steps and the output of files written was filling the screen. It then got hung as it was writing a file to the flash (I could not tell which file because I didn't know where it stopped since it was re-printing from the top of the screen again. -> PSP bricked
4. At this point I wrote the NAND back and the PSP booted fine again on OFW.
5. I figured it was a freak thing and I decided to try step 3 again. at this point when I pressed "x" to install 3.71m33 it froze on "formatting flash0..." -> PSP bricked
6. Once again I wrote the NAND back but this time it did not work, PSP still bricked.
7. hitting up google for a few hours It looked like NANDTool was a great tool to look into this further. I installed 0.2 then upgraded to 0.4NEO.
8. NANDTool 0.2 initially told me I had ~1000 bad locks, and when I went to repartition the flash I got the error "ran out of NAND for lflash". I then upgraded to NANDTool 0.4NEO and I still get the same error when I try to repartition the flash, but I have been getting incrementaly more bad blocks. I had around ~2000 bad blocks, then 3441 bad blocks last night, 3997 bad blocks as of this writting.
9. using NANDtool 0.4NEO under partition Tools -> Integrity check
I get the following:
3778 incorrect LBA's found
attempting to verify partition records
**Master Boot Record**
Signature not found
Repartition NAND, something seems wrong.
Done, 3778 inconsistencies found
10. I made another MMS now with DC7. I have the same problem that I can't load any CFW or OFW because of the hang at "formatting flash0..."
Under DC7 I go to NAND operations->format lflash and it gets stuck at 95% "creating Partitions..."
11. I have multiple NAND dumps of other PSP slims - I've tried to write a different PSP's NAND to this PSP and it still would not boot.
12. I've played with various parts of the NAND also - re-writting the IPL, etc.. nothing has been working.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I'd love some feed back. I tried being as clear as possible.
I'm having a strange problem with a TA-85 V1 Slim (star wars white PSP).
a little background: A few months ago I made a MMS loaded with DC3 - I would load 3.71m33 CFW, then upgrade to 3.90m33-3. I always backup the NAND first. I have done this flawlessly on over 20 different PSP's (phats and slims). I never made any changes to the MMS or the hard-modded pandora battery.
Then my friend gave me a 2nd PSP to do for him - the problem PSP.
1. As a force of habit I always boot the PSP and check what version of firmware its on - the PSP booted fine and was on OFW 3.xx something).
2. I booted the MMS just as usual, backed up the NAND (there was no output of bad blocks during the dump).
3. When I tried to install 3.71m33 it went through the usual steps and the output of files written was filling the screen. It then got hung as it was writing a file to the flash (I could not tell which file because I didn't know where it stopped since it was re-printing from the top of the screen again. -> PSP bricked
4. At this point I wrote the NAND back and the PSP booted fine again on OFW.
5. I figured it was a freak thing and I decided to try step 3 again. at this point when I pressed "x" to install 3.71m33 it froze on "formatting flash0..." -> PSP bricked
6. Once again I wrote the NAND back but this time it did not work, PSP still bricked.
7. hitting up google for a few hours It looked like NANDTool was a great tool to look into this further. I installed 0.2 then upgraded to 0.4NEO.
8. NANDTool 0.2 initially told me I had ~1000 bad locks, and when I went to repartition the flash I got the error "ran out of NAND for lflash". I then upgraded to NANDTool 0.4NEO and I still get the same error when I try to repartition the flash, but I have been getting incrementaly more bad blocks. I had around ~2000 bad blocks, then 3441 bad blocks last night, 3997 bad blocks as of this writting.
9. using NANDtool 0.4NEO under partition Tools -> Integrity check
I get the following:
3778 incorrect LBA's found
attempting to verify partition records
**Master Boot Record**
Signature not found
Repartition NAND, something seems wrong.
Done, 3778 inconsistencies found
10. I made another MMS now with DC7. I have the same problem that I can't load any CFW or OFW because of the hang at "formatting flash0..."
Under DC7 I go to NAND operations->format lflash and it gets stuck at 95% "creating Partitions..."
11. I have multiple NAND dumps of other PSP slims - I've tried to write a different PSP's NAND to this PSP and it still would not boot.
12. I've played with various parts of the NAND also - re-writting the IPL, etc.. nothing has been working.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I'd love some feed back. I tried being as clear as possible.
