3.71 M33 Custom Firmware - Safe Or Bricker?!

[Steven D]

THIS POLL WILL ASK YOU IF YOU BELIEVE THAT 3.71 M33 IS A GOOD CUSTOM FIRMWARE OR IF YOU HAVE HAD A BRICK AS A RESULT OF USING IT?

I PERSONALLY HAVE NOT UPDATED YET AS WHEN I TRIED IT SAID I HAD TO HAVE 3.52-M33 OR ABOVE WHEN I HAVE 3.52 M33-4 :confused:

POST YOUR VIEWS AND IF YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY UPDATED POST HOW YOU DID SO FOR OTHER!

[Scotty1982]

it's working fine on my slim. haven't tried it yet on my fatty...

[chachakoala]

THIS POLL WILL ASK YOU IF YOU BELIEVE THAT 3.71 M33 IS A GOOD CUSTOM FIRMWARE OR IF YOU HAVE HAD A BRICK AS A RESULT OF USING IT?

I PERSONALLY HAVE NOT UPDATED YET AS WHEN I TRIED IT SAID I HAD TO HAVE 3.52-M33 OR ABOVE WHEN I HAVE 3.52 M33-4 :confused:

POST YOUR VIEWS AND IF YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY UPDATED POST HOW YOU DID SO FOR OTHER!

did you check that game kernel is 3.xx in recovery?

[p$p b0y]

tried it on my phat, worked fine. went back to 3.52 m33 4 though, ill wait for the 1.5 subset :)

[RzXG]

No problems at all.

[ignite]

Installed fine on my psp slim. I did have some trouble getting into recovery mode, but it worked after I got rid of custom firmware extender from my plugins.

I'm keeping my phat at 3.52 M33-4 though.

[dsi]

Only 80% success? Hope you guys still have your Pandora battery.

[Steven D]

THIS IS CRAZY WHY DO U GUYS WANNA UPDATE THERE IS NO GAME OUT YET THAT TO MY NOLEDGE NEEDS 3.71 WHY UPDATE UR ONLY GIVING UR SELF HASSLE AND MORE SEURITY!?:eek::eek::eek::eek::confused::confused:: confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:: confused::)

[mokyurin]

Just had single blue screen after entering setting.
no problem after that. mp3 and picture sametime works.
theme works. cookie works.;)

[kenkiller]

THIS IS CRAZY WHY DO U GUYS WANNA UPDATE THERE IS NO GAME OUT YET THAT TO MY NOLEDGE NEEDS 3.71 WHY UPDATE UR ONLY GIVING UR SELF HASSLE AND MORE SEURITY!?:eek::eek::eek::eek::confused::confused:: confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:: confused::)

there are some improvements like for sequential video playback. but what you say is true.

[linkboy]

I installed it on my slim just fine (wanted to install in on my old PSP first, but the battery was at 13% (its charging now, going to install it when it gets charged).

The features in 3.71 are more for the slim (UMD cache being one).

[Scotty1982]

I like some of the added features. like custom themes (the us psp website says instructions for making your own are coming soon). i like the video addons, don't give a crap about listening to music while watching a slideshow though... had irsmp3.prx if i wanted that.

[Funkwheat]

THIS IS CRAZY WHY DO U GUYS WANNA UPDATE THERE IS NO GAME OUT YET THAT TO MY NOLEDGE NEEDS 3.71 WHY UPDATE UR ONLY GIVING UR SELF HASSLE AND MORE SEURITY!?:eek::eek::eek::eek::confused::confused:: confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:: confused::)

Damn dood you need to relax ;)

But, as I always say, CAPS LOCK IS CROOZ CONTROL FOR KOOL

[Gutterball]

Multiple Phat's updated with no problem.

[dsi]

As a word of advice (and today's experience), if you have a fat PSP, format the Flash 1 and Settings from the recovery menu in 3.52 m33-4 first.

Otherwise, after you run the 3.71 M33 update, you can end up with a brick if you go to the Themes menu.

[April]

I just updated on my original PSP and it all went like clock work. No problems at all

[S41N7]

Update works a treat on both slim and phat. I do not have a ps3 so the update was non-essential, but appreciated non the less.

[renceri]

@dsi you mean pandora does not work with you after brick from 3.71?

[Chilly Willy]

As a word of advice (and today's experience), if you have a fat PSP, format the Flash 1 and Settings from the recovery menu in 3.52 m33-4 first.

Otherwise, after you run the 3.71 M33 update, you can end up with a brick if you go to the Themes menu.

Also disable ALL custom stuff (icons, plugins, etc.). The bricks that people are getting on the phat are almost certain due to people having custom stuff in the flash that causes the update to fail. The reports you see are "update to 3.71 M33 failed, so I installed a clean 1.50 with Pandora, installed a clean 3.52 M33-4, and the update to 3.71 M33 worked."

[pakkman781]

THIS IS CRAZY WHY DO U GUYS WANNA UPDATE THERE IS NO GAME OUT YET THAT TO MY NOLEDGE NEEDS 3.71 WHY UPDATE UR ONLY GIVING UR SELF HASSLE AND MORE SEURITY!?:eek::eek::eek::eek::confused::confused:: confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:: confused::)

I don't usually say this, but I f*cking hate people like you. I'll not explain why, I just had to say it.

Anways, 3.71 M33 is working brilliantly for me. I've not had any problems. I installed the Wipeout theme, played SNES9XTYL (seemed faster, maybe because of fixed isocache ram allocation, but may have just been my imagination) booted a UMD and a couple ISOs. No problems so far.

I think phat owners are actually having more problems than the slim owners. There's idiots trying desperately to reflash after they found 3.71 M33 isn't what they expected, and going about it all wrong. Also, a lot of people are trying intense plugins even with the warning that they won't work correctly.

I'm sure the problems will be ironed out in a few days when people stop freaking out about today's events and get their heads on straight.

IMO, Slim owners should upgrade, but Phat owners may want to wait a few days until they can run the 1.50 kernel so they can boot more recovery utilities, just in case.

[Haruspex]

I installed it for my phat and it was successful. However when i get to the themes menu i get a blue screen of death but fortunately i didn't end up with a brick. I press O as the screen said and reverted to the original settings without problems.

But i downgraded to m33 3.52 update 4 for now because it's more stable and more tested. Plus i can use all of my popsloaders and the cwcheat plugin that i like so much. I read it the read me that most plugins doesn't work but i upgraded just for testing and "excitement" purposes to see what is like.

[Steven D]

I don't usually say this, but I f*cking hate people like you. I'll not explain why, I just had to say it.

Anways, 3.71 M33 is working brilliantly for me. I've not had any problems. I installed the Wipeout theme, played SNES9XTYL (seemed faster, maybe because of fixed isocache ram allocation, but may have just been my imagination) booted a UMD and a couple ISOs. No problems so far.

I think phat owners are actually having more problems than the slim owners. There's idiots trying desperately to reflash after they found 3.71 M33 isn't what they expected, and going about it all wrong. Also, a lot of people are trying intense plugins even with the warning that they won't work correctly.

I'm sure the problems will be ironed out in a few days when people stop freaking out about today's events and get their heads on straight.

IMO, Slim owners should upgrade, but Phat owners may want to wait a few days until they can run the 1.50 kernel so they can boot more recovery utilities, just in case.

shut up there is no need to update when its onyl been out a day or 2 let it have sumtime then they willo bring out an update and fix all the problems there is no NEED to update

i dont care if you h8 me im just voicing my opinion

[icyboy89]

work on my slim and brick my phat...

[Unceshinya]

I've noticed huge improvements on PSX eboots. Many games that would perfectly on 3.52M33-4 and not so well on 3.60M33 seem to have been fixed. 3.71M33 is running wonderfully on my PSP Slim. Official Sony themes work fine, most of the 3.xx kernel emulators work perfectly(esp NJ's). And have yet to come across a PSX game, that I already had converted, that hasn't worked. So far so good. My fat will most likely stay at 3.52M33 though just for Pandora's Battery.

[duff_beer]

Also disable ALL custom stuff (icons, plugins, etc.). The bricks that people are getting on the phat are almost certain due to people having custom stuff in the flash that causes the update to fail. The reports you see are "update to 3.71 M33 failed, so I installed a clean 1.50 with Pandora, installed a clean 3.52 M33-4, and the update to 3.71 M33 worked."that is simply not true i have a clean install of 3.52M33-4 on both my TA-79 and both have the same problem with 3.71M33 runs fine but crashes, ive crashed exiting a game or booting into the recovery menu and even from just booting up, ive had to go back to 3.52M33-4 as that works flawlessly

[Steven D]

TURE STORY

3.71 m33 for phats is ****

[sshaw1982]

TURE STORY

3.71 m33 for phats is ****


No, users with no knowledge are Sh!t not the firmware - look at your first post, you blatantly didn't read the readme as you got the 1.5 kernal error.

Polls like this are pointless and you sir, are a grade A prat

[Steven D]

so what if i made a simple mistake dont act like uv never done any im not a prat im just someone that wanted to make this thread if you think its pointless then dnt post in it ! simple really:confused:

[sshaw1982]

1. Its in the rules to use ENGLISH not text speak
2. Readme's are included for a reason
3. Following instructions avoids pointless threads
4. Your still a Prat
5. Did I mention I think your a Prat?

[Steven D]

u seeriously dont have a life if ur making geeky jokes .....

im not a fuhckin psp no it all i just needed a bit o help n so do others as there have been alot of bricks!
etc

[sshaw1982]

There maybe some people struggling (how I'll never know) but all the bricks have come from STUPIDITY not a problem with the firmware. You have proved this by FAILING TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS

Typing in REAL ENGLISH is still a prerequiste of this particular site, maybe you should go have a look at the rules? :mad: :rolleyes:

[Unceshinya]

There are always bricks with newer firmware because people fail to follow simple directions when it comes to installing it.

Seriously, how hard can it be if you've done previous cfw installs for people not to **** it up.

[brethren]

As a word of advice (and today's experience), if you have a fat PSP, format the Flash 1 and Settings from the recovery menu in 3.52 m33-4 first.

Otherwise, after you run the 3.71 M33 update, you can end up with a brick if you go to the Themes menu.

i've got a fat, i also went to themes and i also got the error message and the bsod. but mine didn't brick so all i can say is there must be something else thats causing the bricks.

that said, your formatting idea seems like a good one (though i don't see why you do it in 352 which would just mean the 352 registry, which doesn't have all the theme stuff would be reinstalled)

i'd install 371m33 then do the formatting of flash1(before going in the xmb). so the 371 registry is installed

[Steven D]

hu do u think u are ? ur a sleezy young adult how thinks hes better than everyone cause he knows how to install a psp firmware thats been hacked in real programming u know **** all so that makes u a spaz so dont come acting like u know everythin and bringin out the insults just post ur opinion and leave thats what this thread was for so lets get back on topic people!:)

[Steven D]

i've got a fat, i also went to themes and i also got the error message and the bsod. but mine didn't brick so all i can say is there must be something else thats causing the bricks


exactly its the firmware it was rushed they should have done more testing or bring out an update that fixes these probs people are having or at least bring out a better easy to understand readme

[sshaw1982]

hu do u think u are ? ur a sleezy young adult how thinks hes better than everyone cause he knows how to install a psp firmware thats been hacked in real programming u know **** all so that makes u a spaz so dont come acting like u know everythin and bringin out the insults just post ur opinion and leave thats what this thread was for so lets get back on topic people!:)


1. I am me, a young adult who works in IT as a IT Professional and has a moderate amount of coding experience (Little bits of pearl, C, basic and Java - nothing major but I've never claimed otherwise)

2. Flames are far better when written in such a way that they actually make sense.

3. I never claimed to know EVERYTHING - common sense dennotes this thread as pointless.

4. On Topic - 3.71 has no more bugs than ANY OTHER firmware DAX has released either under his name or that of M33

5. Internal errors have been there since 2.71 SE and its normally been a case of just formatting flash 1

[Steven D]

well i just dont see the point in upgrading if you cant use themes and ur security is tightened and u dont need to cause no games need 3.71 :confused::confused:

[sshaw1982]

well i just dont see the point in upgrading if you cant use themes and ur security is tightened and u dont need to cause no games need 3.71 :confused::confused:

Security isn't really tightened - your just running in 3x kernal, homebrew WILL work it just needs coding for 3xx kernal.

Themes will be cracked and will be ultimatley better with Sonys own tools - you just have to wait occasionally.These things rarely happen overnight but part of the problem in the PSP community is the impatience of some peoplke demanding releases immediately, theme editing is a RELATIVLEY NEW thing, we have only been able to do it for about a year now

Games will start coming with 3.71 very shortly as well

[Steven D]

thats what im saying thers no need to update till it gets better

[sshaw1982]

There is EVERY need to update still, the more people that update - the sooner devs will start to look at using the 3xx kernal (thats if all the devs haven't left the scene!!)

Once that happens - full homebrew ;)

[GR33P]

Working great for me, no problems at the moment.

Thank you team m33.:)

[coffeemoney]

Impossible D_A will release a bricker fw for us..so..success..^^

[psp.padawan]

No problems updating to 3.71 M33

Thanks Dark_AleX/M33 :)

[sector-chan]

looks like a stupid thread...
all firmwares have the chance of brick, not the program creates the errors, the user does it

never got a brick just rtfm

[Steven D]

its clearly not a stupid thread as it has over 1000 views :confused::eek:

[Xenogears V]

To the moment, there is not it needs to install the 3.71 M33, above all for the people as me, that use the Psp for 80% for the homebrews.

Reading the various forums, I have noticed that there are many small problems.

I will wait that it will go out a 3.71 more stable M33, even with the old method of update.

[whataru]

I upgraded to 3.71 just fine, if you brick your PSP it's because you're dumb.

[Steven D]

To the moment, there is not it needs to install the 3.71 M33, above all for the people as me, that use the Psp for 80% for the homebrews.

Reading the various forums, I have noticed that there are many small problems.

I will wait that it will go out a 3.71 more stable M33, even with the old method of update.

thank you its totally pointes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Xenogears V]

thank you its totally pointes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What?, I dont' understand.:confused:

[vercat]

everything went fine on the firmware update, i played a couple of games shut it down then played some games again. but now i just turned on my psp and it freezes as it starts up, it gets to the waves i can see the time and battery level then it freezes.

i tryed running recovery but it allways freezes on start up. how do i boot back to 1.50?

a little help please

[Steven D]

What?, I dont' understand.:confused:



i was arguing with another member he was saying that it was neccessary to update to 3.71 and i was saying there was no need and i was just saying thanks to you because u agreed and had the same view also! if you care to look back a page to see what im talking about:)

[vercat]

everything went fine on the firmware update, i played a couple of games shut it down then played some games again. but now i just turned on my psp and it freezes as it starts up, it gets to the waves i can see the time and battery level then it freezes.

i tryed running recovery but it allways freezes on start up. how do i boot back to 1.50?

a little help pleasei formated flash 1 and reset settings and that fixed it

[BaNDiTo_RoX]

The update went great on the Phat but like a couple of people here I too will want until it's more stable before I install it on my Slim.

one problem though since I didn't like it on the phat because of the homebrew not working and yea I know why it ain't working and went to reinstall M33 3.52 it wouldn't let me like all other CFW did before and I had to use pandora to downgrade back to 1.50 then back up to M33 3.52-4

[SKAR]

As a word of advice (and today's experience), if you have a fat PSP, format the Flash 1 and Settings from the recovery menu in 3.52 m33-4 first.

Otherwise, after you run the 3.71 M33 update, you can end up with a brick if you go to the Themes menu.



I DID NOT format the Flash1 and I DID NOT had a brick :D ;)


EDIT: My homebrews are all working.. What are your problems?

[Billy-X]

vote to brick.....

[reini]

update works fine on my slim one!

[Steven D]

my m8 updated his successfully :)

[Scotty1982]

now it's installed on my fat psp also, worked great... i restored a nand image of M33 3.53-4 with clean keys, custom ipl, and default XMB first, maybe that's why i didn't have any issues...

[atHeart]

3.71 M33 is a Success on my Fat PSP

[PS3Krazy]

Didn't read all the post, just reporting.

3.71 M33 CFW seems to be the best running CFW. It bricked my UP NAND, but worked fine on the $ONY NAND.

Alex, I like the way the update is executed now. Looks real authentic. Good work man.


PS3Krazy

[aypl]

As a word of advice (and today's experience), if you have a fat PSP, format the Flash 1 and Settings from the recovery menu in 3.52 m33-4 first.

Otherwise, after you run the 3.71 M33 update, you can end up with a brick if you go to the Themes menu.
I also bricked my PSP when I go to Theme. I thought it's because I have plugins enabled. But I'll try this when I unbrick my PSP.
Thanks for the tip..

[Silvia007]

Went to a buddy's house and we managed to make a pandora battery and memory stick set. We actually messed up a few times but managed to get it to work. Went to 3.60m33 fine, updated to 3.71m33 just fine. I don't see how this can brick anything. There's plenty of mistakes that I made today and didn't manage to brick my PSP Slim. Just for your info.

[jrd90]

Works fine for me. At first it wouldn't turn on, but it ended up being my memory stick so I formatted and everything works now.

[Hardepiemel]

the updater works fine. just ignorant analfabetics get brick.

[TheFly]

Does the pandora works on a fat with 3.71 M33 if it has a brick.

[Unceshinya]

Does the pandora works on a fat with 3.71 M33 if it has a brick.

It should.

[gamidi]

3.71 M33 is working fine on my fat. Even 1.5 kernel hb can be loaded with eloader(except snestyl). But i have noticed two bugs. First when i try to connect to the internet via a router, it stops at Obtaining IP Adress... and after about half a minute it says that the connectiopn has timed out. So i cant use infrastucture. The second but is in recovery. If you change the game folder homebrew to 1.5 and then back to 3.71, the recovery menu will write 3.71 but the "status bar" will say 3.52.

[Steven D]

should have been realeased after bugs have been fixed or DA/M33 should bring out a -1 etc update

[larzen23]

safe as new

[5t@1n3d]

As a word of advice (and today's experience), if you have a fat PSP, format the Flash 1 and Settings from the recovery menu in 3.52 m33-4 first.

Otherwise, after you run the 3.71 M33 update, you can end up with a brick if you go to the Themes menu.

Well I wish I would of seen that in the readme file! I now have a brick........I am curious if anyone wants to sale me a pandoras battery............I was fine at 3.52m33-4 y did I update? Is there any other way for me to recover this w/o the battery since I don't have one?

[DarkNikon]

First off I want to start out by saying, I now have a Semi bricked SLIM that runs 3.71 m33 recovery mode quite well but does not run XMB. On D_Ax' behalf I did it myself. The themes are different to install and I fucked it. But I have total faith in that D_Ax will soon release an unbricker for the slim and I'll be one happy camper! But to all of the Fuckwads out there who are blaming Dark Alex for your own stupidity, CREATE YOUR OWN CUSTOM FIRMWARE THEN AND STOP BITCHING TO THE PERSON WHO MADE YOUR PSP WHAT IT IS TODAY!!!! DAX is A GOD! much respect!

[z3phyrantes]

Went to a buddy's house and we managed to make a pandora battery and memory stick set. We actually messed up a few times but managed to get it to work. Went to 3.60m33 fine, updated to 3.71m33 just fine. I don't see how this can brick anything. There's plenty of mistakes that I made today and didn't manage to brick my PSP Slim. Just for your info.

Are you working on a brick psp slim or a working 3.60? what if the slim allready in 3.71 and broken (won't boot up) ??

[top50]

well..upgraded to 3.71 M33, i am loving it... :D
its cool... no problem at all running the iso's and cso's games... video playback is good as i can select the scenes now.. and evrything else is working normal..
Highly recommended... but at ur own risk..:D :p

[javadrops]

should have been realeased after bugs have been fixed or DA/M33 should bring out a -1 etc update

Urrgh, DAX ain't there JUST to make downgraders. He has other things to do, and you shouldent tell him what to do..
And, if you read you'd find out that DAX/M33 are over; Mainly 'cause people like you saying what they should do..

[mosesb]

Im Still On My 3.40 Oe-a

I Dont See Any Reason To Upgrade Since All Games Works Fine

Why Do U Have To Immediately Upgrade Anyway?

Thats A Serious Question Btw

Peace

[Silvia007]

Are you working on a brick psp slim or a working 3.60? what if the slim allready in 3.71 and broken (won't boot up) ??

It was not a bricked slim. We messed up a few times making the pandora battery and memory stick, missed a step and we couldn't boot with battery at all. Restarted the whole thing with a bad battery and somehow managed to get the pandora battery fixed.

Are you talking about slim being in 3.71m33 and is bricked? I would like to know how people brick their psp's. Perhaps I was lucky and did a successful flash. I somehow doubt it relies on luck though. If your slim is bricked, I feel you.

[Xenogears V]

Totally safe. I have also installed 1.50 kernel.

[gamer007]

Will it really brick with custom themes on the flash with 3.52 M33? I thought the updater always formats flash0.

[pspfreak2]

Hey guys hopefully someone can help me out here.

I got a psp slim, upgraded to 3.60 M33 w/ pandora battery + MMS, and then decided to upgrade to 3.71 M33. It worked perfectly. Now i wanted to install a custom wave (i was not aware that this cannot be used on 3.71 M33). So i opened up flash 0 (i backed it up first), and then put in "system_plugin_bg.rco", and replaced the original. Then i exited recovery, and the "Sony Computer Entertainment Amercia" thing starts for half a second, but freezes.

What I've Tried

1.) Restoring the original flash0 contents. Not working.

2.) Using DaX's universal psp unbricker, but when i put in the MMS/Pandora battery in, the MMS light does not flash at all or anything. It just sits there.


What do i Have to do? re-create my pandora+MMS?

PLEASE CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME

GREATLY APPRECIATED

[Redeemed]

Safe.

Update my SLim and my 3 Phats (coz the 1.50 kernel patch is out, finally)

I didnt even formatted flash1. Everything is working perfectly.

[gamer007]

Safe.

Update my SLim and my 3 Phats (coz the 1.50 kernel patch is out, finally)

I didnt even formatted flash1. Everything is working perfectly.

Can I assume you updated the phats with custom themes?

[Redeemed]

One of my phats had WIP360 from Schevy. So yes, custom themes.

[pspfreak2]

Hey guys hopefully someone can help me out here.

I got a psp slim, upgraded to 3.60 M33 w/ pandora battery + MMS, and then decided to upgrade to 3.71 M33. It worked perfectly. Now i wanted to install a custom wave (i was not aware that this cannot be used on 3.71 M33). So i opened up flash 0 (i backed it up first), and then put in "system_plugin_bg.rco", and replaced the original. Then i exited recovery, and the "Sony Computer Entertainment Amercia" thing starts for half a second, but freezes.

What I've Tried

1.) Restoring the original flash0 contents. Not working.

2.) Using DaX's universal psp unbricker, but when i put in the MMS/Pandora battery in, the MMS light does not flash at all or anything. It just sits there.


What do i Have to do? re-create my pandora+MMS?

PLEASE CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME

GREATLY APPRECIATED