1.5 proof of concept Unflasher,

**mesosade** · July 16th, 2006, 10:19

cheers...this community is going to BOOM! over the summer and i can't wait...what will be intresting in the future when all those other people buying psp firmware 3.x whateva we'll be laughing in their face...omg wait what about homebrew community FOR THE PSP2!?!?!?!?!!?? that will be greaaaaat

**BL4Z3D247** · July 16th, 2006, 10:21

anytime

**shadowprophet** · July 16th, 2006, 10:22

Originally Posted by Voltron

::RUMOR ALERT!::

OK everyone, its obvious that custom firmware is definitely a huge breakthrough with almost endless possibilities. However I remember reading on these forums a while back that the PSP has an alleged FLASH LIMIT. Something like 1000 times.

This limit was suggested to be a security measure by SONY. And they probably figured there would never bee 1000 different firmware updates. This REALLY sounds like one of those "myths" that go around.

Does anyone know of the likelyhood of such a limitation? Because if custom firmwares are constantly released or you are constantly flashing the PSP to add/edit/remove/modify features, a limit could become a problem.

I myself am skeptical but it would be nice to know for certain. If anyone knows more about this, please share your thoughts. Thanks in advance!

No its not a myth, and 1000 is a very positive outlook on things, Picture your internal flash memory like and electronic film You can write to it many times, But in time with much use its integrity starts to break down, So yes flashing your psp over and over and over again, Can indeed put wear on this flash memory, SO its best to only update as you personally feel it necessary , and know that there is no real built in limit to how many times you can flash your psp, 1000 times was just a general estimation, compared to how many times the experts figured you could successfully flash your psp before imminent breakdown and wear corrupted your flash memory.
So its best that people keep this in mind before they get all flash happy and know the risks of flashing,

**tophead420** · July 16th, 2006, 10:23

ok i tryed this since i screwed up my custom fw by doing a retared reflash so anyway i ran the prgram and from the looks of it it works no brick soo yeah success

EDIT: ok i reflashed the custom firmware and it works the poc remover works a o k it fixed my problem

**BL4Z3D247** · July 16th, 2006, 10:30

well there's always the UP chip if someone gets "flash happy" as SP said...i only flashed my baby 3 times, 2 for downgraders and 1 for the custom fw(so far

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**Uruz 6** · July 16th, 2006, 10:33

I'm happy for you tophead420;
Anyway I don't think we'll reach the flash limit anytime soon (you say around 1000 but really I've done it 5-6 times).

**shadowprophet** · July 16th, 2006, 10:39

Originally Posted by Uruz 6

I'm happy for you tophead420;
Anyway I don't think we'll reach the flash limit anytime soon (you say around 1000 but really I've done it 5-6 times).

If im not mistaken, Your internal flash memory is made out of a similar material as your memsticks,
Or psone/ps3 memory cards. So people shouldn't assume a couple flashes are going to wear them out,
Its just advised that people understand that flash memory is not (incorruptible) it is much more delicate then standard random access memory.

**tophead420** · July 16th, 2006, 10:54

well hopefully that is one of my last flashes for a while and iv olny done like 4 flashs so im cool and yeah thanks Uraz 6

**Uruz 6** · July 16th, 2006, 10:56

Just wanted to point out that, if you don't do reckless things, reaching the physical limit of the flash is REALLY hard.

**Night-Wolf** · July 16th, 2006, 11:15

There's something else that many of us are forgetting, by simply changing the wallpapers on our 1.5 psp we're also writing on the flash memory so keep that in mind.