A Tale Of Two Thousand Bricks (And Counting)

[Sirgrassalot]

i flashed three consoles today all from rebug 3.55.2 models [CECHK01]working
[CECHG01] had two of these all went ok,

[zanzabar]

I'm sure a lot more people than the ones who post on this forum. Just imagine how many other bricks there are. I'm comfy right now on my 3.55. The games I have play fine and at the moment I can use PSN. When PSN is out again, my games still work offline. I'll wait for a stable firmware.

People should have known that though. With anything that's new (new Windows or Mac OS X, new iOS or Android version, new CFW) there will be bugs in the beginning. That's expected, in my opinion. I'm sorry for the people who bricked their systems and I hope they find a way to 'unbrick' them because I know I'd be more than crushed if my system bricked and I left all those unbeaten games on my system, stranded, lol. I'm sure most people saw "NEW CFW 4.21" and just bungee jumped right in, head first. Didn't even check the suspension cables. Is what it is.

Gonna play a little AC: Revelations later, since I just got around to playing that one

i want to have blu ray playback back, the keys are expired on 3.55 and once you put in a disk with new keys the system fkags the incompatible ones so you cannot watch any of them.

[bsod83]

anytime you flash firmware there is a chance for a brick. whether its ofw or cfw a 600 dollar machine or a 20 dollar router. i have a cecha01 was running a cfw from iceman keamu based. and i update from the xmb no recovery just settings update via storage media. was playing borderlands 2 all day yesterday. bout to get down on some re6 and maybe some doom bfg. but word of advice if you never flashed anything before. bricking is always a possibility. no matter what.

[raphael4]

Maybe it was from E3----maybe E3 wants people to make a lot of bricks and then people will buy all stock-E3-flashers in order to unbrick their ps3s? What do you think about it?

Ha! That's funny. How do they decide who gets the brick and who's PS3 updates just fine? Is there some kind of script that does the lottery during CFW installation? ;p I'm very sorry for anyone who bricked their console. It's inevitable with breakthroughs in CFW like this one, but I wouldn't exaggerate the problem. There are thousands of people like me that succesfuly updated their consoles, and are too busy with testing (like playing 2.08 Gran Turismo 5) to actually come to the forum, and mention that everything went fine.

[nadheeh]

am amongst those patience people who wud wait until a more stable CFW 4.21 is released instead of jumping on without even reading the proper instructions..and SHAME on the people who are blaming the hardworking ROGERO..i salute u bro..keep up the good work..

[bitsbubba]

i am glad showtime did not get an update as i would have flashed right away. i wounder how many people bricked and did not follow the directions like turning the QA flag on and making a full nand backup so you could install a hardware flasher if needed.

My CECHA01 with Rogero 4.21 has Showtime working quite nicely (Dean has an update, but I signed the EBOOT myself with the recently released tool)

[skreama]

1 - always take a nand backup of any device you flash (second nature when playing with android)
2 - always use recovery its safer
3 - always use a MD5 checker (A lot of bricks are from corrupted or damaged downloads)
4 - ALWAYS! ALWAYS! READ THE INSTRUCTIONS AT LEAST TWICE BEFORE STARTING ANYTHING! (have spent hours helping people who just missed a simple instruction that was crucial)

ive flashed 5 slims and 7 Phat ps3 all different models and had no issues (actually tell a lie i had a 40gb get pissy after but then its HDD failed and it was fine after a replacement)

[sakibsultan308]

honestly i think rogero shouldn't have rushed this cfw...4.21/4.25 cfw(whatever you call it) is a totally brand new stuff to all of us here, as 3.55cfw was only implanted in our brains until this. :P there should have been more testing of every nook and cranny in this firmware before releasing it publicly. we are all humans. so ofcourse people will try to flash this firmware the moment they see it in forums. anyways i mean no disrespect to any one. just saying out loud

[Chaos-Kid]

A wild brick appears, E3 uses Hardware flasher, it's super effective

[bitsbubba]

NO-CRYING

I was one of the many that experienced the Waninkoko v1 brick-wave at least y'all have a better chance now of recovering, my fix was buying another launch models off ebay for $350

[Mathematician]

I was thinking about purchasing a hardware flasher; I noticed the two main ones are progskeet and the e3 flasher. Any recommendations on which one is overall better for the average user and why?

Thanks in advance,

[amp2006]

depending on your PS3 Model the E3 Is only for NOR PS3 but Progskeet is for both and there are mainly two version of progskeet one is solderless the other is need solder.

[divisionbyzero]

So, my brain was divided. Part said 'oh cool, >3.60 CFW at long last!' but another part said 'now now, be patient.'
So i was patient. I waited and I saw 'oh no! my ps3 is bricked!' and I read. The console model numbers that popped up were a bit too close to mine for comfort (mine is a CECH 2503A) and I was glad I waited. Still, I'm looking forward to seeing safer versions come out and finally play some of the ps3 games I've wanted to play.

[Mariguas]

NO-CRYING

I was one of the many that experienced the Waninkoko v1 brick-wave at least y'all have a better chance now of recovering, my fix was buying another launch models off ebay for $350

the story is su sad it actually brings a tear to my eye

I was thinking about purchasing a hardware flasher; I noticed the two main ones are progskeet and the e3 flasher. Any recommendations on which one is overall better for the average user and why?

Thanks in advance,

if your ps3 is NOR use E3 flasher, if not, then use progeskeet

[InnerD]

i did not do anything but copy to update folder and install from xmb after a cold boot from kmew 3.55.
Worked fine. So far each game i have tested works too. Slim 60GB here not sure of model number.
I am sorry if you got a brick but chalk it up to bad luck in general.

[bitsbubba]

the story is su sad it actually brings a tear to my eye



if your ps3 is NOR use E3 flasher, if not, then use progeskeet

I've got a console (2 actually) I'm just saying I knew the risk (same with this one, did it anyway) I took it didn't blame anyone & jump on the band wagon to find a cure

[megatoto]

So many people who brick and are sad enough that they even don't care posting to tell you so...Other want to help and post their unsuccess experience and other insult them for trying without waiting...If every body wait nothing will happens ! No progress...So think about these so many first adopters that brick and move on without going here to blame cause they are so sad...but hey they do the bad job for you all !

[skreama]

So, my brain was divided. Part said 'oh cool, >3.60 CFW at long last!' but another part said 'now now, be patient.'
So i was patient. I waited and I saw 'oh no! my ps3 is bricked!' and I read. The console model numbers that popped up were a bit too close to mine for comfort (mine is a CECH 2503A) and I was glad I waited. Still, I'm looking forward to seeing safer versions come out and finally play some of the ps3 games I've wanted to play.

As long as your careful its worth the risk
ive been messing with my psvita since exploits came available and its all good so far
but on the flip side ive lost 3 psps from the early days of the psp scene but im still trying all the different CFW and DEX conversions to see whats what
i will have a Progskeet and E3 flasher shortly and will be offering unbricking services to uk based memebrs if they need help

[AbiDez]

Hello, no brick work perfekt.
From 3.55KMEAW over Recovery to 3.55OFW
After Install Format Drive with XMB/Format.
3.55OFW flash again over Recovery, after
back to Recovery Install Rogero 4.21 ..
New MM RE6 It works... But now Homebrew
I Had a CECH 2004A Ps3 Slim 120GB.

[BorgifiedPS3]

No brick here YEAH!!
CECH-2501A 1TB
Rogero 4.21 CFW

Brick (electronics) "In one common sense of the term, "bricking" suggests that the damage, often a misconfiguration of essential on-board software, is so serious as to have rendered the device permanently unusable."