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having trouble fixing a semi brick

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alfie_wrex

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Ok, so I have a phat psp running 5.00 m33 that belongs to a kid I know. The psp boots to M33 recovery when you turn it on, which was my first indication something was up. secondly when playing a umd the home button menu (do you wish to quit. yes, no) is unresponsive. When connected to a computer the drive just shows the the iso of whatever umd is in it, just like it does when you are ripping the image with usbsss. I can trick it and get to the folder on my memstick if i connect the psp and then insert the mem stick, however.

What i have tried so far,

tried running recovery flasher which freezes right at the first screen, no matter if i load through the xmb or through recovery menu

attempted to use a pandora battey however, cant load up dc8 because the recovery menu boots whenever you turn the psp on, not allowing dc8 to run while holding the button its tethered to even after exiting the recovery menu.

Hopefully there is a fix for this that im overlooking, but I just dont do enough troubleshooting and cannot find the answer on my own.
 
You sure the battery is in a pandora state and that you are using the correct boot key i.e Like holding rtrigger?

The pandora method works by loading before anything loads from the RAM, hence you should be able to load before recovery mode kicks in.
 
Try re-asiging the DCv8 Boot key from RTrigger, With a little experimentaion, it is nearly impossible to boot an DCvX using RTrigger, And again are you DEFINATLY sure the battery is in pandora sate and it was made correctly AND the battery is Pandora-ible?

With the Timemachine IPL it should boot from MS -> Dumps into ram and bypasses the internal nand, did the time machine IPL inject proerly into your MS, did you do a MSPFormat?
 
i have 'up' on the dpad as my trigger for dc8. and i tried it on my own psp which worked without a hitch. im am 100% that its setup correctly, timemachine and all. i found that he dropped it high and hard enough for the umd drive to fly open and shoot the umd out. anyone think an impact shock could be the culprit?
 
Impact shock yes, this could of damaged the motherboard or anything, a physical examination of the innards may prove useful
 
Could be, but i doubt it - has he a nand dump from it?
 
Could you try a different version from the DC range? Come to think of it My friend's psp wouldnt boot DCv8 But it would DCv7 and the orginal unbricker! Now could this be tried with the orginal unbricker or a lower DC version?
Only try the orginal 1.50 flasher if it is a 1000!
 
Hmm, let me see where using an earlier version takes me. It'll prolly be tomorrow before I can report back. Thanks for all the support and ideas so far.
 
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