Brick Recovery Research

[BULLDOGG]

the HD light also comes on in my 40gig. for a second.

[exstazi]

Ok I already added this on IRC, but I'll post it again. I've been in contact with a former sony technician working in tech departement repairing ps3's. He stipulates the following from a few years back when he was working there.

The FAT model has a full recovery restore backup ON BOARD. In the "old" days they used a MSduo stick which he remembers had 1 file in root and 3 FOLDERS on it. You had to put the stick in, no fancy button combination, just turn it on, the ROOT file would tell in the brief second that the PS3 should RESTART and read the stick for "FACTORY RESET RESTORE". The nand's can NOT be totally overwritten with a firmware update and only can be totally wacked if you would use an external programmer. In this case, the first pointers in the NAND (with wanicaca) have been overwritten and the ps3 doesn't know where to go look for the rest anymore. That aside, the msduo stick will initiate a FULL RECOVERY by copying nand's protected to the unprotected and restore the system. He did mention to REMOVE THE HDD when doing this. In short you would have to get to a YELLOW BLINKING light.

1. insert the msuo with the appropriate files
2. when turned on, the system will do 3 beeps (like now) + 3 MORE
3. the system turns itself ON again , reads the folders from the stick
4. the system will turn itself off again and the recovery screen will popup

Now allowing you to restore an OFW.

When the harddisk is put back in, it might say at first "this harddisk is not the right one for this system" but you can ignore that.

Meanwhile he is trying for me to get hold of the files !! (NOW THAT WOULD BE AWESOME) keep fingers crossed.

He doesn't know much about the slim ones. He only worked on the fat ones.

regards

[bitsbubba]

Meanwhile he is trying for me to get hold of the files !! (NOW THAT WOULD BE AWESOME) keep fingers crossed.

Now this would be awesome please keep us posted!!

[cookie42]

Damn, that's very interesting.
I wonder if that could work via a card reader for slims? I don't think so, as apparently lv2 and lv1 don't have usb drivers or something like that, only gameos does. But it'd be worth a try.

[mister]

Now this would be awesome please keep us posted!!

OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!

[siggen]

Ok I already added this on IRC, but I'll post it again. I've been in contact with a former sony technician working in tech departement repairing ps3's. He stipulates the following from a few years back when he was working there.

The FAT model has a full recovery restore backup ON BOARD. In the "old" days they used a MSduo stick which he remembers had 1 file in root and 3 FOLDERS on it. You had to put the stick in, no fancy button combination, just turn it on, the ROOT file would tell in the brief second that the PS3 should RESTART and read the stick for "FACTORY RESET RESTORE". The nand's can NOT be totally overwritten with a firmware update and only can be totally wacked if you would use an external programmer. In this case, the first pointers in the NAND (with wanicaca) have been overwritten and the ps3 doesn't know where to go look for the rest anymore. That aside, the msduo stick will initiate a FULL RECOVERY by copying nand's protected to the unprotected and restore the system. He did mention to REMOVE THE HDD when doing this. In short you would have to get to a YELLOW BLINKING light.

1. insert the msuo with the appropriate files
2. when turned on, the system will do 3 beeps (like now) + 3 MORE
3. the system turns itself ON again , reads the folders from the stick
4. the system will turn itself off again and the recovery screen will popup

Now allowing you to restore an OFW.

When the harddisk is put back in, it might say at first "this harddisk is not the right one for this system" but you can ignore that.

Meanwhile he is trying for me to get hold of the files !! (NOW THAT WOULD BE AWESOME) keep fingers crossed.

He doesn't know much about the slim ones. He only worked on the fat ones.

regards

I'm hoping this here method will work on Waninkoko bricks (I bought a new slim, but I want my old backwards compatible ps3 back ). If my PS3 is dead then its dead, but it surly would be nice if it could work again.

Does anyone have any more info, or reasoned hypothesis on if this method should work on waninkoko bricks, and or the service jig unbricking method?

thanks

[HaCKeR]

Hey guys,

Demonhades found references to factory signed .selfs so maybe if we could get one of those and put them onto a mem card - we could rebuild it?

In the leaked jig id swap pdf there's definitely references to installing special OS and processes, etc though there is no mention of memory cards (and the diagram is of a Phat with 4 usb ports).

[mister]

well, the only thing now that backs his statement up is that ms pro duo port is active.

his story seems quite believeable.

fingercrossed!

[msparky83]

Well, I can confirm no blinking yellow led after taking out the hard drive.....there must be a step missing or I must have misunderstood what was said. At any rate this information is quite exciting and coincidentally put a smile on my face. Thanks for that mate.

[akhenamenra]

If [Host] PS3's system software has ver 1.0x/1.1x/1.3x,
Please power off the "Host PS3" after you push the enter key' message comes out
So, click "Yes" and shut down [Host] PS3

as quoted form the manual

as i said earlier i think we need a earlier ps3 firmware ( maybe the first ever created...dam) maybe that has the executable files for the brick to ressurect??