BrokenArrow
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PROS needed, stuck on firmware 3.71 M33 - can not upgrade past it. UPDATES 08-06-09*
Hello exophase community, first of all I must apologize as this is my first post and I am already seeking help, but given my situation and exhausting all the possible ways I could... I need your guys help. I already posted this elsewhere and some of you probably are from those other forum boards so you might be seeing this for the second time but for the sake of getting a response by posting to a bigger audience I am posting it here as well. Now I am not an idiot when it comes to these things and I find this an extremely weird case, so here goes.
Problem: I can't upgrade firmware past 3.71 M33-4
**I CAN DOWNGRADE even down to 1.50 JUST NOT ANYTHING PAST 3.71 M33-4!**
PSP Specs:
Motherboard: TA-079
PSP Model: 1001 aka a FAT PSP
Battery: Sony 3.6v 1800 mAh Battery Pack
Memory Stick: Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo 4GB
I have tried (for many different firmware versions past 3.71):
putting the M33/OFW in PSP/Game/UPDATE folder and running it in XMB
Despertar del Cementerio (v3 -- 3.71 installer doesn't even seem to work?)
Hellcats Recovery Flasher (downgrades to 1.50 good but upgrades brick)
ChickHen
flashing by IPL's (by MMS's)
and probably some other ways as well but I can't remember them all right now
Flashing by IPL's (from the MMS's) I have tried:
PSP Pandora Deluxe,
Rains Ultra Lite MMS,
PSP Grader,
Catb50 Ultimate Magic Memory Stick Creator and none of those worked (except I got Catb50's to show the IPL screen except I could not for the life of me get past it -- I was trying the 3.80 option maybe would have worked with the 3.71 option) <- I have now tried this as well (3.71 option in catb50's and it doesn't work either to best my knowledge).
Xi-Bits NewbiInstaller
The FULL story:
The problem as mentioned in the thread title is I can not seem to update my firmware past 3.71 M33 (more accurately 3.71 M33-4). I get to the Update was successful press X to restart and when I press X it restarts the green light comes on but with the black screen and couple seconds later green light turns off (becomes bricked). This always ends up happening... I have tried different firmwares 3.80, 3.90, 4.01, 5.00, and OFFICIAL firmwares as well past 3.71 but it still does not work. The methods I have used have been putting the M33/OFW in the UPDATE folder and running it, tried Despertar del Cementerio, Hellcats Recovery Flasher, ChickHen, IPL's (by MMS's) and probably some other ways as well but I can't remember them all right now. The MANY times my PSP has bricked trying to upgrade my firmware I tried different IPL's from Magic Memory Stick Creators and only 1 really works on my PSP. I have tried PSP Pandora Deluxe, Rains Ultra Lite MMS, PSP Grader, Catb50 Ultimate Magic Memory Stick Creator and none of those worked (except I got Catb50's to show the IPL screen except I could not for the life of me get past it -- I was trying the 3.80 option maybe would have worked with the 3.71 option). What did work was Xi-Bits NewbiInstaller (which installs 3.71). That is what I've been using to unbrick it since nothing else is even unbricking it anyway. My battery (Sony 3.6v 1800 mAh Battery Pack) I have heard mixed reviews about being able to turn into a Pandora Battery but I've been able to successfully use it to unbrick my PSP along with my Magic Memory Stick.
So here I am community, hopefully somewhere here can help me as I am clueless as to why my PSP can not seem to handle going past 3.71 M33-4, I've googled and noone else seems to have this problem and I've spent much, much time trying different combinations and options. Seems so very odd and random...
The only thing I can add to this original thread today is I have found a post from someone with a similar problem from lan.st. No answers were posted or if his was even fixed but cory1492 and jas0nuk threw in their 2 cents which I'll show below.
Original page in thread:
http://www.lan.st/showthread.php?t=1430&page=46
Or just to quote them from the thread
Guy with similar problem
They mention checking the RAM and PSAR errors, lflash check but in order to run any of those (all cory1492's tools) they need to be ran in the elf menu which I can't seem to do so I can't even check that! Same with nandTool and flash23 formatting (formatting flash 2 and 3) but unless you guys have another way to try these things outside of elf menu or have another way to try and fix it (since I did get 1.50) then ya... here I am!
P.S EVERYTHING is backed up NAND/IDStorage etc and I can brick it some more so don't worry I am fine and know what I am doing for it.
Hello exophase community, first of all I must apologize as this is my first post and I am already seeking help, but given my situation and exhausting all the possible ways I could... I need your guys help. I already posted this elsewhere and some of you probably are from those other forum boards so you might be seeing this for the second time but for the sake of getting a response by posting to a bigger audience I am posting it here as well. Now I am not an idiot when it comes to these things and I find this an extremely weird case, so here goes.
Problem: I can't upgrade firmware past 3.71 M33-4
**I CAN DOWNGRADE even down to 1.50 JUST NOT ANYTHING PAST 3.71 M33-4!**
PSP Specs:
Motherboard: TA-079
PSP Model: 1001 aka a FAT PSP
Battery: Sony 3.6v 1800 mAh Battery Pack
Memory Stick: Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo 4GB
I have tried (for many different firmware versions past 3.71):
putting the M33/OFW in PSP/Game/UPDATE folder and running it in XMB
Despertar del Cementerio (v3 -- 3.71 installer doesn't even seem to work?)
Hellcats Recovery Flasher (downgrades to 1.50 good but upgrades brick)
ChickHen
flashing by IPL's (by MMS's)
and probably some other ways as well but I can't remember them all right now
Flashing by IPL's (from the MMS's) I have tried:
PSP Pandora Deluxe,
Rains Ultra Lite MMS,
PSP Grader,
Catb50 Ultimate Magic Memory Stick Creator and none of those worked (except I got Catb50's to show the IPL screen except I could not for the life of me get past it -- I was trying the 3.80 option maybe would have worked with the 3.71 option) <- I have now tried this as well (3.71 option in catb50's and it doesn't work either to best my knowledge).
Xi-Bits NewbiInstaller
The FULL story:
The problem as mentioned in the thread title is I can not seem to update my firmware past 3.71 M33 (more accurately 3.71 M33-4). I get to the Update was successful press X to restart and when I press X it restarts the green light comes on but with the black screen and couple seconds later green light turns off (becomes bricked). This always ends up happening... I have tried different firmwares 3.80, 3.90, 4.01, 5.00, and OFFICIAL firmwares as well past 3.71 but it still does not work. The methods I have used have been putting the M33/OFW in the UPDATE folder and running it, tried Despertar del Cementerio, Hellcats Recovery Flasher, ChickHen, IPL's (by MMS's) and probably some other ways as well but I can't remember them all right now. The MANY times my PSP has bricked trying to upgrade my firmware I tried different IPL's from Magic Memory Stick Creators and only 1 really works on my PSP. I have tried PSP Pandora Deluxe, Rains Ultra Lite MMS, PSP Grader, Catb50 Ultimate Magic Memory Stick Creator and none of those worked (except I got Catb50's to show the IPL screen except I could not for the life of me get past it -- I was trying the 3.80 option maybe would have worked with the 3.71 option). What did work was Xi-Bits NewbiInstaller (which installs 3.71). That is what I've been using to unbrick it since nothing else is even unbricking it anyway. My battery (Sony 3.6v 1800 mAh Battery Pack) I have heard mixed reviews about being able to turn into a Pandora Battery but I've been able to successfully use it to unbrick my PSP along with my Magic Memory Stick.
So here I am community, hopefully somewhere here can help me as I am clueless as to why my PSP can not seem to handle going past 3.71 M33-4, I've googled and noone else seems to have this problem and I've spent much, much time trying different combinations and options. Seems so very odd and random...
The only thing I can add to this original thread today is I have found a post from someone with a similar problem from lan.st. No answers were posted or if his was even fixed but cory1492 and jas0nuk threw in their 2 cents which I'll show below.
Original page in thread:
http://www.lan.st/showthread.php?t=1430&page=46
Or just to quote them from the thread
Guy with similar problem
LEO said:hi everyone. Sorry for posting here, i know is a forum for devs but im having a weird problem with a psp slim. The only firmware i can use is 3.71. Every time i update to a higher firmware it bricks. Even with pandora, the only firmware i can get working is 3.71 M33. I upgrade it to 3.80 (brick), 390 (brick), 4.01 (brick). While on 4.01 M33 i manage to toggle flash 0 and i notice all files were corrupt but i dont understand why only this happens after upgrading from 3.71 to any other firmware. I then flash anothers psp slim nand dump (of course after backing up my id storage keys and nanddump), but no luck still a brick. Can anyone give me feedback toward this issue. once again sorry for posting here.
jas0nuk said:That isn't really on topic, but anyway, it sounds like a hardware problem that only manifests itself on 3.80+ (unlikely but possible) - to see if the RAM is ok, check the last post in this topic: http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=117116
cory1492 said:Firmwares after 3.71 went nuts if flash2/3 (4 possibly on slim, as well, but I've never seen it happen) weren't formatted to the correct version/cypher - it basically corrupts memory (resulting in a crash/black screen) somehow when it tries to load the lflash/lfat drivers and one of the partitions doesn't match the version. If the mem test works out with a bunch of OKs (and I'm not entirely sure it will test slim extended memory, but I think it won't), then try using nandTool and/or flash23 format to repartition and format the partitions to the firmware you want to install (basically means making sure the right _updater prx's are in place.)
This could easily happen if you are using a badly made des.cem stick with mismatched prxs or a corrupted partition record (tool to check that from pandora here) - if the partition records are corrupted when it goes to format a partition it doesn't fail with an error sometimes (from pandora at any rate), it just acts like it worked.
Good luck, at any rate (and here's hoping you aren't caleebra with the failing DRAM.)
They mention checking the RAM and PSAR errors, lflash check but in order to run any of those (all cory1492's tools) they need to be ran in the elf menu which I can't seem to do so I can't even check that! Same with nandTool and flash23 formatting (formatting flash 2 and 3) but unless you guys have another way to try these things outside of elf menu or have another way to try and fix it (since I did get 1.50) then ya... here I am!
P.S EVERYTHING is backed up NAND/IDStorage etc and I can brick it some more so don't worry I am fine and know what I am doing for it.