What, does your PSP not load to the XMB?Quote:
Originally Posted by shadow786
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What, does your PSP not load to the XMB?Quote:
Originally Posted by shadow786
No
Just A Black Screen And The Ms Light Flashes
2.80
Note: Plugging in an adapter during a 2.71 se firmware downgrade back to 1.50 causes bricks
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when a psp boots up does it rely purely on the flash memory and no other source. Can the flash memory of a psp be considered the same thing as a regular pc's bios chip? If so then u could actually unbrick the psp with a way of forcing it to boot from something other then the flash itself ie. the memstick, because u can fix ur computers bio's if it gets messed up during a firmware upgrade by means of a floppy drive. Its just a thought. I know theres away around the psp booting from the flash.
No, there is no way of getting it to boot from anything else, it relies solely on the NAND flash. It is like a PC's bios, and the operating system in one... So as you can imagine, a corrupted or incompatible flash is rather fatal.
Cloudy
but a corrupted pc bios can be fixed by means of a floppy drive.
umm no. a graphics card bios can with a floppy set to auto boot but a pc bios cannot (unless you get one of those fancy dual bios - which is like the modchip on the psp).
with a faulty pc bios there are 2 options:
1. a hot swap (swapping good bios for faulty to flash it while machine is on) - not possible on a psp as the chip cant be removed.
2. total replacement of the bios chip - again not possible on a psp however the modchip is close to this idea.
now sony is reportedly able to reflash a psp through the com port however noone actually knows if this is true or even how it could be done.
cloudhunter is exactly right - a pc without a bios is useless in the same way as a psp is without the firmware files it needs to boot.
Yeah, on some PC's, very rare though...Quote:
Originally Posted by C0R3F1GHT3R
When you are bricked fully though, the drivers aren't even loaded to run the firmware, so you cant run off the NAND and it doesn't even LOOK at the memory stick for its information...
Cloudy
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Originally Posted by mannyman789
No Sh*t...Quote:
Originally Posted by splodger15
if i bricked my psp during the guarante, sony give me another?? thanks
hey guys, hope someone can check my situation:
i had 3.10 OE-A and i tried to update to 3.30 OE, i did it with no problems, i had in 3.10 OE the usb files for loading my games via usb, i tried put them back in the flash0 folder and when i restarted, it didnt whant to boot, sow i got my memory stick, put the recovery folder in the game folder with the file that you create with the 2 firmwares, i think is the DXAR files (correct me if im wrong) the thing is that i could boot my psp so i had no chance to make the files, but i had a copy of the file, and i forgot if this files was already open for writing or not, i took my chances and use the recovery mode to tried to re-flash again, but unffortunaly it gave me the error that the file was already open and it shutdown. I saw on page 4 of this thread something that if the back light of the psp is on and the memory stick flashes or blinks, it maybe a chance to recover my psp ? i had an idea, if i put back a good DXAR file and the psp starts reading from it, someone said maybe the psp is trying to still read a missing file from the ms, dont know if is posible because what u said, there maybe no OS to install the files, but i want to clear my doubts. any suggestions besides SONY will be good, thanks!!
****ing Hell talk about bring back an old thread
ok lets put this simply seeing as its already been brought back from the dead.
if the screen lights up AND the memory stick light flashes AND it has a custom firmware on it you CAN recover it by using recovery mode. then you just need to get the dxar file and the installer and run it directly from recovery mode. (read the insturctions that came with the custom firmware - thats what there for)
under ANY other circumstances, except modchip and sony, you cannot unbrick a psp.
some mod please feel free to lock this old thread.
this was like the first thread i ever made when i was a complete noob. and why would you need to lock it?
As it would stop it people bringing it up in the future
because the thread is nearly 1 year old. and also the questions have been answered ages ago, except the new one just added.
Why'd you bump such an old thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by mgcrol
AvengedSevenfold Fan good idea hope someone hears you up there...Quote:
Originally Posted by AvengedSevenfold Fan
new information on unbricking a psp is sonn to come ;)
hey ac0n could you help me with something sorry for spaming you're thread but could you get online please i need help with something..
uhhhhhhhhhh. sure... where... msn or aim????
msnQuote:
Originally Posted by acn010
i bricked mine, no warranty, no coustom firmware, I'm screwed right.
(there's a guy in Niagra falls who can deal with these)
Do you no how old this thread is?
Try Pandora's battery on google...
Pandora's battery my friend. But, how can you brick on official firmware?
wow. this was my first thread from when i joined over a year ago when i was a noob. it keeps popping back up at random times.
You can brick 1.0 or 1.5 if you try hard enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by ExcruciationX
or you can brick by taking the battery out while updating
so where's the files?
its OLD man... now theres the pandora battery...
try it
once again, the ancient over year old thread that i made when i first joined has been ressurected lol.
i know... people dont notice the dates that were posted