When will a Waninkoko unbrick be available?

[MattyFresh]

somthing has to be true i just got my ps3 first gen 60 gig back they only had it about two weeks but its the exact same system i bricked with waninkoko even gave me back my copy of bayonetta that was in the ps3 so ikonw they have some system of unbricking i just didnt wanna buy another one and with m vs capcom comin out they got me my system back very quick although i did pay 99 to get it fixed so i know there has to be a way but this was far cheaper than buying a new ps3 so there is a way iam thinking theres a special usb jig drive like the jig battery for the psp

[atreyu187]

There is now a fix for the Waninkoko bricks but you need some serious skills and setup in order to do it, no noobs need apply.

OK, so we all know about how the original Waninkoko firmware broke the older large NAND consoles, that was due to him overwriting some portions of Cell-OS Lv2 and the segment boundaries, god knows about the signature also. He also zeroed out a good section of the kernel, and also breaks some NAND consoles due to that. Now, you want to fix this issue? Well, you have to have:

1) A NAND Dumper
2) CORE_OS_PACKAGE.PKG patched to remove signature checks or Official Core OS/PS3 in Service Mode
3) A NAND Flasher
4) Flow Rebuilder
5) Hex editor
6) PS3 with firmware less than 3.55

OK, so you first have to dump both NAND chips (2 128MB NANDs for a total of 256MB) and interleave them using Flow Rebuilder, then decrypt the CORE_OS package to give you a raw core OS image, then open your combined NAND dump in a hex editor and search for “6F FF E0″ in the search for hex section. Once there, you should see:

00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6f ff e0 |………….o..|
00000010 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 17 00 00 00 00 00 6f ff e0 |………….o..|

Right after the second “6F FF E0″, remove the next 7,340,000 bytes, then, insert the unpacked Core OS (7,340,000 bytes). Then split the image using Flow Rebuilder (use ECC!) and flash. Hopefully it should work, and then you can just Lv2diag your way out.

Do not overwrite anything else.

This guide should help you fix any NAND console with Core OS fail.

[yarecky3]

Hi there...

...
1) A NAND Dumper (any example)
2) CORE_OS_PACKAGE.PKG patched to remove signature checks or Official Core OS/PS3 in Service Mode
3) A NAND Flasher (you mean infectus?)
4) Flow Rebuilder (any example)
5) Hex editor
6) PS3 with firmware less than 3.55
...
Thx Y

[jack9s]

After the Infectus was used to downgrade PS3s back to 3.15 to regain OtherOS, Sony "put a stop to that nonsense" by fiddling with the flash process, storing hashes of the critical NAND areas in the Cell Processor's EEPROM (not accessable), which effectively bricks the system that a NAND flash has been attempted on - in other words, Sony locks in anything flashed "normally" and locks out anything else.

It is known for sometime now that this is not true. So dont spread this false info as common knowledge. The only real security is the cpu key and another related to the blu ray logic board.

[AlmenE]

We'll i'm new to this forum and have found tons of help and great threads.. Anyway i dont know if this is possible but i found by searching at google "Waninkoko brick fix"

How To Fix Waninkoko Bricked Large NAND PS3 Consoles - PS3Crunch

Correct me if i'm wrong