PS3 Slim Waninkoko 355CFW – successful flashed and brick after playing hours???

**ps3tester** · 01-18-2011,07:47 AM

Hello,
I read from a Fat PS3 that was successful flashed with the Waninkoko CFW and brick then later after hours playing.

Any Slim Models known with this?

Sorry for my very bad English…

**andyt12** · 01-18-2011,07:51 AM

Originally Posted by ps3tester

Hello,
I read from a Fat PS3 that was successful flashed with the Waninkoko CFW and brick then later after hours playing.

Any Slim Models known with this?

Sorry for my very bad English…

Where does this crappy information come from. Ive read that others have read but no source. Im going to go out on a limb and say its false.

**dreamcastmaster** · 01-18-2011,07:54 AM

It sounds ridiculous, it's probably fake comments from people who just have sour grapes over bricking their console because of a 256mb nand or because they don't want pirates playing on PSN.

**hukfed** · 01-18-2011,08:00 AM

Originally Posted by andyt12

Where does this crappy information come from. Ive read that others have read but no source. Im going to go out on a limb and say its false.

I'm gonna agree, my mate (next door) updated his 20 mins after the CFW was released...it was on all day yesterday and all this morning...the only problem he is complaining about is some .pkg's not installing...

Between us we have read just about every post on every forum to try and confirm that my PS3 is ok to update and we have seen nothing about flashed consoles bricking anytime after the the update....

**mococaido** · 01-18-2011,08:02 AM

This is a complete and utter bullshit story to deviate or cause mass hysteria

**ps3tester** · 01-18-2011,08:11 AM

Ok, sorry for the bad question…

**JEB101** · 01-18-2011,08:20 AM

I wouldn't be so quick to discredit this guy... My friend has a first generation Slim and he isntalled this CFW, it worked fine for a good 20-30 mins then XMB would randomly black screen and crash, would require him to unplug and replug the console.

He tried different things over the day, and in the end he restored back to OFW + Geo..

Now, I'm not sure about this (not a dev..) but doesn't the LV1 hash / check LV2? What if the patch or something fails to remove the integrety check of LV2, wouldn't that cause a future brick?

Sorry for the last bit of speculation, just wanted to point out he is not the only one with stability issues..

**Omnomnom** · 01-18-2011,08:28 AM

I was one of the first people on this forum to flash mine with the firmware, and I've had no problems at all. It used to hang when I was loading a backup improperly, but now that I've got all that sorted out, I've left it on for about 16 hours to test, and it's not hung once.

**Ben Jeremy** · 01-18-2011,09:09 AM

Originally Posted by JEB101

I wouldn't be so quick to discredit this guy... My friend has a first generation Slim and he isntalled this CFW, it worked fine for a good 20-30 mins then XMB would randomly black screen and crash, would require him to unplug and replug the console.

He tried different things over the day, and in the end he restored back to OFW + Geo..

Now, I'm not sure about this (not a dev..) but doesn't the LV1 hash / check LV2? What if the patch or something fails to remove the integrety check of LV2, wouldn't that cause a future brick?

Sorry for the last bit of speculation, just wanted to point out he is not the only one with stability issues..

There have been several reports of freezes and such with Waninkoko's CFW, but "brick" is a pretty harsh term, and means something completely different.

I would suspect that a PS3 becoming a brick after getting flashed, followed by hours of playing games is more likely just your standard YLOD hardware malfunction, unrelated to the flashing of the firmware.

That said, it WOULD be interesting to see some video of Waninkoko's firmware glitching. I have to wonder if some of the "undowngradeable" consoles are effected, and there isn't some sort of check that was missed in fiddling with lv2 that gets "hit" with an unpatched check, causing the problems. Clearly, Sony put in some nasty fault modes for would-be hackers after 3.42 to slow them down. This was part of the problem flukes1 was having with his initial attempts to patch lv2.

**ken_oh** · 01-18-2011,09:16 AM

Originally Posted by Omnomnom

I was one of the first people on this forum to flash mine with the firmware, and I've had no problems at all. It used to hang when I was loading a backup improperly, but now that I've got all that sorted out, I've left it on for about 16 hours to test, and it's not hung once.

agree 100%

all specualtion regarding bricking after installation just doesn't make any sense to me..

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