PSP won't read Memory Stick after CFW install? Need Help. Love you LONG TIME.

[bigwillie450]

PSP Phat 1000 - was 6.3 or something

Well to start it off, I went to mod my PSP, so I used "pspgrader" to make a MMS, with the "500(dot)PHB", and ordered a Pandora Battery (So I would have a Pandora Battery and an original Battery) and got all of them together. Realized I had to angle the Pandora Battery to get a charge, got it fully charged, and put in the MMS, held the L Button, put in the Pandora Battery, and voila! it worked. I had installed everything and now have System Software : 5.00 M33-4. Got some backups on one memory card, and a PSX and GBA backups and emulators on another, and everything worked great. Both Memory Cards were MMS's at this point.

Well I turn the PSP off, then back on, and it wont load! The Back-light is on, and the orange Memory Card light if blinking rapidly. So I let it sit there for a little over an hour, realized its just doing nothing, and take out the battery. Take out the Memory Card, put the battery back in, turns on fine, still have CFW 5.00 M33-4, so I think I dodged a bullet. Put in the Memory Card, and it wont read. Great. Try the other Memory Card, wont read it either. Try the 3rd 32MB card that came with my PSP, and nothing. Just a blinking orange light. Plug all 3 into my computer and they all read. Did something like formatted a card, and I think I just deleted "500(dot)PHB" from the MMS root (I was quite drunk at this point) and a little later it was working again. So I know it was not a bad Memory Card, or my PSP's Memory Card reader. I play a little FF and go to bed.

Wake up, turn it on, and the Memory Card was still in. Won't load, Back-light is on and orange light is still blinking away. Take it out, works fine, but my PSP won't read Memory Cards again. I can't remember what I did or how to fix it.

Question is, does anyone know a solution, i.e. installing an OFW without a Memory Card, formatting your MMS 6 times, or anything? Any help would be appreciated.

[bigwillie450]

Trying to change the Thread Name to "PSP won't read Memory Stick after CFW install?" lol.

[SP193]

The cause of the memory stick not being read is usually because of some connection problem between the PSP's memory stick slot and the memory stick itself.

But since you said that all sticks could be read by your PC and the problems only started occurring after changing your FW to a CFW, the issue might be software-related.

Have you tried disabling all plugins? Did you install any modifications to the CFW like FATMSMOD?

You could try to re-flash your PSP again.

DC8 (Installed on your MMS) should have an option for you to install the 5.00 OFW, so you can use that if you decide to go back to using OFWs.

Since you are using a PSP-1000 series console, you should really consider upgrading to one of the 6.39 CFWs like the 6.39 ME CFW by neur0n.

There are other 6.39 CFWs out there, but I like that 6.39 ME CFW as it has a memory stick access speedup function like the 5.00 M33-6 CFW has.

Or if you really want to stick with the old M33 firmware, at least upgrade to 5.00 M33-6.

[bigwillie450]

I went to disable plugins, but after holding R after turning on the psp, the recovery menu did not list any.

I have installed nothing besides the CFW, and a few emus on one of the Memory Sticks, just to see how it would work. On that note, I also haven't upgraded since the guide I followed was a bit out dated and only listed 5.00 M33-4.

I tried to redo the whole MMS with Pandora Battery thing again, but it just brought me to a black back-lit screen with the green power light on and orange memory stick light blinking.

I don't know how to access DC8 since my PSP won't read the Memory Stick, but I thought about reinstalling an OFW just to see if the problem was with some setting on the CFW. Alas I have no idea how to do it without a Memory Stick.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Have you tried a full format of your memory stick. Also it could be due to it being a bad memory stick or a fake one.