MaxSafe (Backup your IDStorage by team 0x4658)

[wraggster]

Team 0x4658 (http://4658.bravehost.com/) posted this news/release:


Maxsafe it's an application to have a secure psp 100% with pandora.

Pandora its a big applitacion that allows unbick your PSP, exept recovery corrupts IDStorages.
Maxsafe modify the main menu of Pandora and adds some options to have a backup of your IDstorage.
and get them when you need it because you have your own BackUp (that its what you can do with this app) :).

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[cal360]

Does this mean a recovery of ID storage if yours is corrupt and you have a backup?

[John Vattic]

No more half-downgraded psp's?

sounds like a very good piece of homebrew.

Nice work!

[animekid4]

OMG thank you thank you thank you!!!

[Cloudhunter]

Erm... Recovery doesn't corrupt IDStorages? If you backup your nand, it also backups the IDStorage.

Cloudy

[wolfpack]

Pandora its a big applitacion that allows unbick your PSP


heheh unbick :D

[eatnooM]

Erm... Recovery doesn't corrupt IDStorages? If you backup your nand, it also backups the IDStorage.


True, the problem being that you can't use the Pandora's battery normally if your IDStorage is corrupt or missing. I'll assume that this application is a way to bypass the requirement of a working IDStorage somehow, otherwise it wouldn't be a big deal. If this is the case, awesome, I might be investing in another battery at some point.

[MicroNut]

What this program does is add additional menu options to Pandora

The best part of this is that it allows you to dump the ID_Storage keys before resurrecting a bricked PSP.

It a perfect edition to Pandora.

Especially good for dead PSP's that have never had the ID_Storage backed up.
(provided the keys weren't damaged in the first place)

Take one bricked PSP:
1. Back up ID_Storage using Pandora MaxSafe
2. Resurrect the dead using Pandora
3. Restore the original "ID_Storage" of the PSP 100%

Good Stuff imo

The dump location and file name on the memory stick is:
ms0:\kd\idstorage_backup\backup.back

[double1r]

The Maxsafe HB did install and booted, but the screen on my PSP (ta-082) was not on. THE screen is just blank does anybody else have this problem.

[MicroNut]

The Maxsafe HB did install and booted, but the screen on my PSP (ta-082) was not on. THE screen is just blank does anybody else have this problem.

This app modifies an existing Pandora memory stick.
You must create a Pandora memory stick first.

It will install on a non-pandora formated memory stick.
But it will not work.
All you will get is a black screen.


Here is clear pic of the modified Pandora boot menu:

[double1r]

This app modifies an existing Pandora memory stick.
You must create a Pandora memory stick first.

It will install on a non-pandora formated memory stick.
But it will not work.
All you will get is a black screen.


Here is clear pic of the modified Pandora boot menu:

I'm a TA-86 user and I'm having a brightness problem with this HB.
I've installed this on my working Pandora MS0 and when I boot Pandora, it loads but the screen brightness is 0%. Meaning I can see the menu, by looking at my PSP's screen on an angle. I could see the menu of Maxsafe and even execute them if i wanted to.
(I've ran the IPL backup and it was OK)
So how do I fix this brightness problem on the main menu?
I've tried pressing the screen brightness button btw, but still no luck. It just stays the same no matter how many times I press the button.
Pls help me!

[MicroNut]

@double1r

I see that some others are having the same problem as yourself.

1. I assume you tried using the brightness button.

2. Make sure your ID_Storage keys are good: Chilly Willy's Key Cleaner v1.3 (http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=56265)

3. Try asking for help in one of the hardware help forums.
You will probably get more responses.

[AuroEdge]

I see that some others are having the same problem as yourself.

1. I assume you tried using the brightness button.

2. Make sure your ID_Storage keys are good: Chilly Willy's Key Cleaner v1.3 (http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=56265)

3. Try asking for help in one of the hardware help forums.
You will probably get more responses.

I do not understand what the IDStorage is and what it does for the PSP. Please explain.

[MicroNut]

IDStorage (http://harleyg.net/docs/idstorage.txt)
by harleyg

AuroEdge
IDStorage Keys (I am not really qualified to answer)
Are the low level hardware values, unique to every psp, that are used to read and write information on the nand.

double1r
You might try upgrading to an official sony 2.71 firmware.
Then softdowning the psp (http://pspupdates.qj.net/2-71-TA-082-and-TA-086-Downgrader-Corruption-free/pg/49/aid/85767) to 1.5.

If you can still see the screen good enough to run the Pandora then its really a minor problem... right?
You can still backup the nand, id_storage, and recover from a brick.

The key cleaner should help tho...

I really don't know if any of this will fix the brightness problem.
If enough TA-86 users report the problem then -maybe- it has something to do with Pandora.

[double1r]

thanks for the help micronut i will give it a try

[hacksparrow]

damn it, i hoped i wouldn't need this

a friend of mine idiotically bought a used ta-86 AHHHHHH!!!!!!!! y the hell would u do that?

[kingb15]

This bricked my PSP after installation and restart with Pandora Battery!!! The screen just went black like another user above said. Good thing I had a spare psp laying around to uninstall it and uninstall it from a different psp then unbrick it and upgrade back to OE!!