It's official - my PSP is really bricked.
I tried reviving it with Despertar del Cementerio, and initially it looked fine - the DC7 menu booted up, I selected the option to install firmware 4.01 M33, it went through the motions of formatting flash rom and installing the firmware.
But when it was all done I rebooted with a normal battery and it was still dead. Even trying to boot into the firmware off the memory stick (Test M33 option) produced the same results.
I have repartitioned, regen'ed the IDStorage, restored the NAND from corly's "clean" flashdump, all to no avail.
I have a brain-dead PSP. The heart works, but the head is empty. I'm still thinking of an explanation why it quit on me like that, all of a sudden.
I guess now I have to decide to give it a new lease on life, or let it go.
There is the third option to gut it and make a crude display adapter for it, or turn it into a digital frame. Good luck with that
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Woe is me
Yesterday my girlfriend was towing me around while looking for a new pair of shoes, and while we were in one store, I plopped down on a sofa and whipped out my almost 1-year old PSP.
I was playing N+, and all of a sudden the unit just... died.
I thought, ok, it's just the battery, but I just charged it, so maybe its that RemoteJoyLite plugin -- it's always crashing --, I'll just do cold boot.
So I tried pulling the power switch up for ten seconds. The power LED turns green for a few seconds, then dies. I try it again. The same thing. I have never seen a bricked PSP before, but I hope that that is all it is - a corrupt firmware.
When I got home I try to plug in the AC adapter, to no avail. I went as far as disassembling my PSP. I got as far as removing the LCD frame, but it was almost morning and my girlfriend has work early, so after a few tries I finally got the PSP back together.
Right now I have my PSP with me, at the office. I was hoping to borrow somebody's PSP and make a Pandora battery.
I already have the magic memstick, so unbricking is my last course of action before having the unit fixed (which will cost me the half price of second-hand PSP phat, at least, that's what replacing the motherboard will cost me)
But in my rush not to get to work late, it seems I left the magic memstick at home, bugger that.
The thing is, I haved dropped my PSP (from about 1 foot), and it did fall a bit hard -- hard enough to somehow get the battery cover lock out, but still leave the whole PSP and battery cover lock mechanism intact.
I really wouldn't want to lose my PSP. It's almost a part of me, and 1 year isn't good enough for me to say goodbye to it yet. If I ever resurrect it I promise never to drop it, ever again.
I feel guilty for shelling out some money to fix it after my girlfriend has repeatedly told me how badly I treat it, I almost feel like I don't deserve to have it fixed.
But leaving it broken just doesn't feel right... and if it could never be fixed, I would at least like to scrap the LCD and build a driver for it, turn it into a digital frame or a mini monitor. Good luck with that though - Alexan doesn't even stock up on PICs, much less FPGAs.
If anyone has a phat compatible motherboard to sell (for cheap), let me know?
I was playing N+, and all of a sudden the unit just... died.
I thought, ok, it's just the battery, but I just charged it, so maybe its that RemoteJoyLite plugin -- it's always crashing --, I'll just do cold boot.
So I tried pulling the power switch up for ten seconds. The power LED turns green for a few seconds, then dies. I try it again. The same thing. I have never seen a bricked PSP before, but I hope that that is all it is - a corrupt firmware.
When I got home I try to plug in the AC adapter, to no avail. I went as far as disassembling my PSP. I got as far as removing the LCD frame, but it was almost morning and my girlfriend has work early, so after a few tries I finally got the PSP back together.
Right now I have my PSP with me, at the office. I was hoping to borrow somebody's PSP and make a Pandora battery.
I already have the magic memstick, so unbricking is my last course of action before having the unit fixed (which will cost me the half price of second-hand PSP phat, at least, that's what replacing the motherboard will cost me)
But in my rush not to get to work late, it seems I left the magic memstick at home, bugger that.
The thing is, I haved dropped my PSP (from about 1 foot), and it did fall a bit hard -- hard enough to somehow get the battery cover lock out, but still leave the whole PSP and battery cover lock mechanism intact.
I really wouldn't want to lose my PSP. It's almost a part of me, and 1 year isn't good enough for me to say goodbye to it yet. If I ever resurrect it I promise never to drop it, ever again.
I feel guilty for shelling out some money to fix it after my girlfriend has repeatedly told me how badly I treat it, I almost feel like I don't deserve to have it fixed.
But leaving it broken just doesn't feel right... and if it could never be fixed, I would at least like to scrap the LCD and build a driver for it, turn it into a digital frame or a mini monitor. Good luck with that though - Alexan doesn't even stock up on PICs, much less FPGAs.
If anyone has a phat compatible motherboard to sell (for cheap), let me know?
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