Upgrade to latest custom firmware with 1.50 fw fat psp with patched motherboard

[PSPnewb]

Hi all,

_{First, I already opened a thread with these questions a couple of days ago but I can't seem to find it. If a moderator or admin removed it can a moderator or admin please tell me what I did wrong? If the thread is still around excuse me for opening another thread.}

Now for my question.. A long time ago I downgraded my psp to firmware 1.50 with the N00bz GTA patch. When I did this my motherboard got patched by the downgrader. In another thread I read that you had to go from firmware 1.50 to firmware 3.52M33 first before you could  go to the latest custom firmware and I found some complicated instructions about doing this with an exploit in 1.50 fw. I haven't done anything with my PSP in quite a long time because I was a little scared to mess things up but recently a colleague of mine offered to help me out with the upgrading process. He has a Pandora battery with a memory stick and told me he could upgrade for me. Now I have some questions about this process.. I searched the internet but I could not find someone who had done what I am about to do before, upgrade from 1.50 to custom firmware with a Pandora battery.

Is it possible to go straight from 1.50 to the latest custom firmware with Pandora so that it detects all of my key problems during installation on the motherboard and fixes everything in the upgrade process? If so, how big is the risk (since I couldn’t find someone who did this before) Or is it better to go to firmware 3.52M33 first (can this also be done with Pandora instead of the exploit in 1.50?) and use a custom tool like Keycleaner? Something which I also read something about in another thread. I also read something about dumping the keys of the PSP, is it required to dump my keys before upgrading even when some keys are patched?

[kendo2748]

As you have a 1.50 psp you do not need pandora just follow guide here http://forums.noobz.eu/ge...llation-guide-tutorial/0/ to get to 3.52m33-4 then higher from there, guides are in this forum. Good luck

[PSPnewb]

As you have a 1.50 psp you do not need pandora just follow guide here http://forums.noobz.eu/ge...llation-guide-tutorial/0/ to get to 3.52m33-4 then higher from there, guides are in this forum. Good luck

Thanks for your response.

Yes I know I don't need pandora but I wanted to know if it was possible, I am a little to scared to do this all by myself. My collegue wants to do it with pandora and despertar del cementerio v8. Is this possible? And is it necessary to make backups of everything before I go from 1.50 to 5.00 m33-4?

[Loonix]

Please do it with Pandora and Pespertar del Cementerio v8.
Make a Backup of your NAND first.
Then flash 5.00m33-4.

It is possible to do it without
but when something should go wrong you would in any case be in need of a pandora battery
and i cant think of a program to backup your NAND at the moment.
Without that backup you might have a hard time to recover your PSP should something go wrong.

[PSPnewb]

Please do it with Pandora and Pespertar del Cementerio v8.
Make a Backup of your NAND first.
Then flash 5.00m33-4.

It is possible to do it without
but when something should go wrong you would in any case be in need of a pandora battery
and i cant think of a program to backup your NAND at the moment.
Without that backup you might have a hard time to recover your PSP should something go wrong.

Okay thanks for the advice. I read this in the readme of dc8:

- Use the app under a 3.x+ kernel. The program may not work in versions prior to 3.03 OE.

If I understand correctly I need to update from 1.50 tot 3.03 first before using the batery? Can I do this with my patched motherboard?

[kebramar]

It didn't patch ur PSP motherboard. It just changed its firmware. If ur PSP is w/ the 1.50 FW ur rdy to go. Install the 3.40, after that, the 3.52 and then, u can install the 5.00. If u dunno what's DC8 or never used it, just go to Dark-Alex site, download the needed files and do it manually, following the steps I told u.

ps: Read the readme's.

[PSPnewb]

It didn't patch ur PSP motherboard. It just changed its firmware. If ur PSP is w/ the 1.50 FW ur rdy to go. Install the 3.40, after that, the 3.52 and then, u can install the 5.00. If u dunno what's DC8 or never used it, just go to Dark-Alex site, download the needed files and do it manually, following the steps I told u.

ps: Read the readme's.

I don't really get what you are trying to say. When I downgraded from 3.03 to 1.50 my motherboard got patched. Now I would like to know if I read the readme of Despertar del cementerio (v8) correct and if I need to update to at least 3.03 official firmware (and if that's possible to do with a patched motheboard) so that Despertar del cementerio works. I am also not going to do it myself a colleague is going to do it for me.

[Loonix]

The 'making' of the Magic memorystick might be more of a problem.
I belive the programm that makes the stick requires 3.30 CFW (not official firmware).
if you have a friend that can build the memorystick for you you should have no problem.
For 'Despertar del Cementerio' it is unimportant what firmware you are on now.


There is another installer for 5.00m33-4 firmware that does not use the pandora battery but i cant tell you if it runs on 1.50 firmware.
also it does not give the option to make a NAND backup before you flash the new firmware so i dont reccomend that.

In any case you should run 'chilly willeys keycleaner' after you have installed CFW it will fix nearly every problem that might occure

[PSPnewb]

The 'making' of the Magic memorystick might be more of a problem.
I belive the programm that makes the stick requires 3.30 CFW (not official firmware).
if you have a friend that can build the memorystick for you you should have no problem.
For 'Despertar del Cementerio' it is unimportant what firmware you are on now.

My colleague is going to build the memory stick and he already has the battery so that's no problem. It doesn't matter on what PSP the battery and the mem stick are built right? (Since he is probably going to do it on a slim)

There is another installer for 5.00m33-4 firmware that does not use the pandora battery but i cant tell you if it runs on 1.50 firmware.
also it does not give the option to make a NAND backup before you flash the new firmware so i dont reccomend that.

I won't do that then.

In any case you should run 'chilly willeys keycleaner' after you have installed CFW it will fix nearly every problem that might occure

Thanks for the tip. In case I run into any problems I will put them in this thread, I hope you can help me fix them.

Thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate it!!!

[Loonix]

When your colleague is making the Batery please keep in mind that the Slim batterys dont fit into Classic PSP's.
Classic batterys fit into Slim PSP's but they might slightly stretch the contacts on the Slim PSP so the Slim Battery could not fit as well as before.
But your colleague can defenitely make a pandora Battery for you.

You are wellcome every time

[PSPnewb]

When your colleague is making the Batery please keep in mind that the Slim batterys dont fit into Classic PSP's.
Classic batterys fit into Slim PSP's but they might slightly stretch the contacts on the Slim PSP so the Slim Battery could not fit as well as before.
But your colleague can defenitely make a pandora Battery for you.

You are wellcome every time

My colleague just did it! First he made a backup of my NAND (dumped it with DC) and then he put 5.00 M33-4 on it, everything seems to run smoothly. The NAND backup he dumped was done when my PSP was still 1.50, should I ask him to make another NAND dump now that the CF seems to have successfully unpatched my motherboard?

[Loonix]

CONGRATULATIONS!

Yes, it is a good idea to have both states.
Should the CFW have broken something that only gets apparent later on you can go back to 1.50 with that.
Also if you 'just mess up' with a plugin or a custom theme you have one easy step to return to your 5.00m33-4

Your Mainboard should still be patched but 5,00m33-4 can live with that.
Just take a peek if chilly willy thinks something is wrong with your Keys.

[PSPnewb]

CONGRATULATIONS!

Yes, it is a good idea to have both states.
Should the CFW have broken something that only gets apparent later on you can go back to 1.50 with that.
Also if you 'just mess up' with a plugin or a custom theme you have one easy step to return to your 5.00m33-4

Thanks. I have just dumped my 5.00 M33-4 NAND. If I find something to be wrong can I just use Despertar del Cemeterio to go back to 1.50 again?

Your Mainboard should still be patched but 5,00m33-4 can live with that.
Just take a peek if chilly willy thinks something is wrong with your Keys.

I thought that all CF that was released after 3.70 M33 or something automatically unpatched the motherboard if it found that it was patched.
Posted on: January 13, 2009, 03:29:24 PMOkay I may have found an error that came with installing the custom firmware but I'm not sure. When I try to connect to PSN (make an account) I get a connection error 80431068. I have tried searching google but I can't find an explenation. Does anyone of you have an idea?

Edit:
Never mind, I tried my own router and it worked. I guess error 80431068 is a connection time out or something.