Bricked PSP Without the Use of a PC

**ExcruciationX** · October 26th, 2006, 18:44

Huh, that's odd...

**Elven6** · October 26th, 2006, 23:47

Just a theory but mabye when she was playing she turned it off by accident and when she turned it back on it reverted back to 1.5 and bricked?

**LilSwish722** · October 27th, 2006, 01:26

no i doubt that would happen...but seriously maybe it reverted back to 1.5 and she started updating with the UMD and removed the disc like that one guy (like that one guy said)

**Broadus** · October 28th, 2006, 00:41

Wow, the blatant sexism is a refreshing reason as to why I hate some people.
I remember saying how I didn't want people talking about the girl breaking my PSP, and how I didn't care that she did it at all. Guess I never said anything about it.

I wasn't using a custom firmware of any kind. Turning off the PSP in firmware 2.71 doesn't revert it back to 1.5, unless she held the power switch down, though I told her she only had to push it quickly to turn it off. When I handed the PSP to her, SWBF2 was on, and she walked off with it.
According to her, she had turned it off like I told her (the sleep mode way), then later, when she turned it back on, it was as bricked as a chimney.

I thought about a possibility as to why the PSP is broken. It's a very unlikely one.
Sometimes, when I left the PSP turned on and laid it down on my carpet (easiest place to get to it with a USB cable at my crowded desk), the battery would become extremely hot.
The extreme heat might've melted something within the PSP, like the thin glue that holds everything together, so violent motion might've shaken something loose or something like that.
It's a pretty ridiculous theory, though.

It just occured to me that, if I bought the PSP on a credit card or something, I can just get the receipt from the credit card company since I bought the game not so long ago. With the receipt, I should be able to trade it via the limited warranty.
If my PSP can't be traded via warranty, I'll try to take it to a repair shop of some kind to see what they can do about it. If THAT doesn't work, I'll just sell the whole thing as spare parts. I wouldn't get very much for it, as bricked PSPs tend to go for $50-$75 bucks on eBay because of functional parts (sans the bricked motherboard), but it's better than just having a useless brick lying around.

I have another 1.5 PSP (bought it AFTER the first one was bricked), so I'm not in real dismay, but it'd be nice to have two PSPs for the sake of one being 1.5 and one being higher versions to play new games.
Or two 1.5 PSPs for multiplayer homebrew with my siblings or friends.

**Gene** · October 28th, 2006, 18:04

Originally Posted by Broadus

Wow, the blatant sexism is a refreshing reason as to why I hate some people.
I remember saying how I didn't want people talking about the girl breaking my PSP, and how I didn't care that she did it at all. Guess I never said anything about it.

I wasn't using a custom firmware of any kind. Turning off the PSP in firmware 2.71 doesn't revert it back to 1.5, unless she held the power switch down, though I told her she only had to push it quickly to turn it off. When I handed the PSP to her, SWBF2 was on, and she walked off with it.
According to her, she had turned it off like I told her (the sleep mode way), then later, when she turned it back on, it was as bricked as a chimney.

I thought about a possibility as to why the PSP is broken. It's a very unlikely one.
Sometimes, when I left the PSP turned on and laid it down on my carpet (easiest place to get to it with a USB cable at my crowded desk), the battery would become extremely hot.
The extreme heat might've melted something within the PSP, like the thin glue that holds everything together, so violent motion might've shaken something loose or something like that.
It's a pretty ridiculous theory, though.

It just occured to me that, if I bought the PSP on a credit card or something, I can just get the receipt from the credit card company since I bought the game not so long ago. With the receipt, I should be able to trade it via the limited warranty.
If my PSP can't be traded via warranty, I'll try to take it to a repair shop of some kind to see what they can do about it. If THAT doesn't work, I'll just sell the whole thing as spare parts. I wouldn't get very much for it, as bricked PSPs tend to go for $50-$75 bucks on eBay because of functional parts (sans the bricked motherboard), but it's better than just having a useless brick lying around.

I have another 1.5 PSP (bought it AFTER the first one was bricked), so I'm not in real dismay, but it'd be nice to have two PSPs for the sake of one being 1.5 and one being higher versions to play new games.
Or two 1.5 PSPs for multiplayer homebrew with my siblings or friends.

I am not 100% sure if this is true but, i have read of people whose power buttons had become "worn" and after a certain period of time they would stop working. i dont know if the light was on but if it was you may have gotten the same problem.

**BL4Z3D247** · October 28th, 2006, 18:13

guys ur forgeting devhook has a flash menu, which is most likely how she bricked ur psp...she was probably trying to exit the damn thing and was going thru everything and when she got to the flash menu...brick
(that is if u have devhook .46)

**splodger15** · October 28th, 2006, 18:24

i completley that it could have been the flash menu

**saward85** · October 28th, 2006, 19:28

why don't you ask her how she broke it?

**BlackShark** · October 29th, 2006, 08:27

Originally Posted by zidanerick

She works for sony and knows u have a DCEmu acct? Or maybe she used to work for Lik Sang and decided to get revenge

Sounds like a freak of nature to me and if you cannot find receipt u can always do what this guy did

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtDs1nWJpng

Good Luck!

dude...thats awsome! i should do that if my psp ever brakes!