Forum: Open Source & Homebrew Jailbreak - If you are looking for news and helpful information on PS3 topics like open source and homebrew jailbreak solutions then PSX-Scene should be your first stop. You can stay up to date on topics such as PSGroove and PSFreedom plus much more.


The above video goes away if you are a member and logged in, so log in now!




 
Would you like to get all the new info from
PSX-Scene in your email each day?




Want to learn more about the team keeping you up to date with the latest scene news?

Read about them now!

Check out our Developer bios, too!

 


User Tag List

Thread: Help needed to turn Bannco FRAGnStein dongle to Jailbreak device
  

Results 1 to 1 of 1
  1. #1 Thumbs up Help needed to turn Bannco FRAGnStein dongle to Jailbreak device 
    antapetr is offline Registered User
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Posts
    2
    Downloads
    1
    Uploads
    0
    Mentioned
    0 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Likes Given
    0
    Likes Received
    0
    Hi all,
    It is a nice work you all are doing!
    Next day after I heard about PSGroove I opened dongle of my FRAGnStein controller (pictures attached). And I found AT90USB162 chip inside. FnS dongle as JB device will be a bit inconvenient while there is no custom firmware, cause if anyone wants to play FPS game on jailbroken PS3, he/she needs to put original FnS firmware after JB. But i hope for CFW for PS3 and for one tile JB FnS dongle would be very attractive device.
    I spent a bit of my time making small discoveries of FnS firmware installer and found these things:
    1. installer is windows executable and fw images are stored as resources;
    2. fw images bytes inside resource are with reversed nibbles;
    3. I guess effective firmware size of all FnS firmwares are 12800 bytes - next bytes in resource are version and checksum? information;
    4. I guess Bannco are using own bootloader on dongle cause on windows system without driver installed dongle falls back to composite HID device (mouse and keyboard) - so i guess bootloader are communicating with driver and will stay in FW upgrade mode only if systems (driver) gives some original feedback.


    Things needed to turn FnS (and probably other Bannco and Splitfish products) to JB device:
    1. some Atmel guru who can warrant that bootloader stay safe independently of fw (because of this fallback to normal HID devices I think that bootloader is more intelligent than Teensies' HalfKay or Atmel's DFU and I am affraid of bricking my FnS);
    2. to revers engineer info/checksum? part of windows resource;
    3. to replace original Bannco fw resource in windows executable with one built from PSGroove & co binary and additional info;
    4. JB your PS3 with FnS !!!


    I am waiting for someone with expertise to confirm item #1. All other things seems very doable to me.
    I attached newest FnS fw is someone want to look at it (this fw version restores FnS compatibility with new PS3 v3.50 fw). Remember that to get Atmels binary rom file you will need get first 12800 bytes and swap nibbles inside every byte. Full installer of FnS fw can be found at Bannco site
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails atmel-side.png   radio-side.png  
    Attached Files
    Last edited by antapetr; 09-26-2010 at 05:58 PM. Reason: added link to installer at Bannco site
    Reply With Quote  

Posting Permissions
  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •