xuebix
01-07-2007, 10:45 PM
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THIS GUIDE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
ONLY THE STEPS TO GET YOUR PSP TO
FIRMWARE 1.50 HAVE BEEN ADDED SO FAR
-------------------------------------
This guide is written to help other newbie’s get to the sage of running a 3.0X OE
custom firmware on there psp, I myself as a newbie knows how hard it is to find a
guide you can follow without getting lost so I wrote this to try and help other
newbie’s get there psp up and running.
now there are easy downgrader and tools which you can use to do these steps
but i perfer to to it the way it was done originaly so that i can hoe to get
exactly the same result as the person Who developed it.
Getting started:
Finding out your Firmware version and psp type
Is your PSP TA 082?
getting required files to downgrade / Upgrade
downgrading your psp to 1.5 (scariest part of the lot!!)
-----------------------------------
Finding out your Firmware version
-----------------------------------
turn on your psp and go to the setting option,
scroll down to System settings and select it,
then go to System Information and select it.
you should now see 3 items listed on your screen:
MAC Address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
System Software x.xx
Nickname xxxxxx
Your Firmware version is the number next to System Software,
It should be one of the following:
1.00 - 1.50
2.00 - 2.50 - 2.60 - 2.70 - 2.71 - 2.80 - 2.81 - 2.82
3.00 - 3.01 - 3.02 - 3.03
Now if your psp Firmware is version 2.81 2.82 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03
then your out of luck for now because there is currently no downgrades
for those firmware versions yet :(
if your firmware is 1.00 to 2.80 then your fine to continue with this guide.
OK now to clear something else up there was an issue with PSP's bricking because
they were of a certain model,(most new ones) so heres a link to finding out
which model you have, if you have this TA 08X model you still can continue
with this guide because thanks to Dark_AleX and friends there is now a Downgrader
Fix for this type of psp
now to find out if your PSP is a TA 082 Model:
This is a photo of where to look:
http://z.about.com/d/psp/1/0/9/1/-/-/pspboardphoto.jpg
or a simple Diagram:
http://z.about.com/d/psp/1/0/8/1/-/-/pspboard.jpg
If the code is on the right where the images say "= TA-082" then you will need to
follow the next step before downgrading if your model isn't TA you should be Safe
to Skip this step and continue :D
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getting required files to downgrade / Upgrade
----------------------------------------------
ill do the TA-0XX model First since there more complicated, well not really :P
Grab these 3 downloads:
TA-082 Downgrader: http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/982
1.50 EBOOT (Official): http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/4
Homebrew Enabler(HEN D): http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/922
Now follow this guide Carefully step by step, I have successfully downgraded
2 White PSP's with this guide, an i'm a Newbie!!
----------------------------------------------------
2.71 Downgrader Guide for TA-082 (Downgrader.lan.st)
----------------------------------------------------
This is an application to downgrade a ta-082 unit running 2.71 firmware and
HEN-D to 1.50, although theoretically can downgrade to any version, but only 1.50
has been tested.
The application, at the moment of writing this read me was tested in 5 psp’s,
with 5 success. As always, this kind of application have risks, this one in concrete
write to idstorage area of nand.
READ CAREFULLY THE INSTRUCTIONS AND DON’T SKIP ANY STEP
Remember its safer to just put your PSP on Charge and let it charge till your battery
is 100% charged.
Instructions
* Copy the UPDATE and idstoragechange folders into /PSP/GAME/
* Get the official sony 1.50 eboot and put it in the /PSP/GAME/UPDATE folder with the
name of UPDATE.PBP
* Run HEN-D if you are not already running it
(Hen-D is the distorted image in the Photo section on your psp)
screen will go blue then either Green or Red,
if screen green hen-D ran correctly and your psp should restart
if it goes red you need to turn off your psp and try again
* Execute the idstoragechange. It needs 75% battery. It will change some keys of your
idstorage needed to downgrade the ta-082.
(IDSTORAGE can be found in your games menu under memory stick)
* The program will exit to the XMB. Now execute the generic downgrade,
which will show in the xmb as “Update X.YX” in the psp language.
(Update X.YX is also found in the games menu under memory Stick)
* The generic downgrader will also need 75% battery. IT will downgrade your psp
to 1.50.
* At the end, it will ask you to press X to restart the psp. Do it.
* If all went fine, you’ll receive a blue screen telling you to press O.
Do it, and reenter your settings. Welcome to 1.50.
(The blue screen is basically telling you that all the setting are corrupt
and you need to re-enter them)
* If things didn’t go that fine, you’ll have a non-functional psp, aka brick.
You accepted that risk, remember.
Wahoo your 1.5 i hope sorry if you aren't but that is one of the risks.
----------------------------
Downgrade form 2.71 to 1.50
----------------------------
as allllllllways remember to charge your psp i recommend 100% just for safety reasons
Grab This Download:
2.71 Downdater (includes 1.50 HELPER): http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/753
2.71 to 1.50 Downgrader! Includes the required 1.50 helper [downdater] files.
Written by Dark_AleX, Mathieulh, and Yoshi. DOES NOT WORK ON TA-082 MOTHERBOARDS!
1. Copy the files inside MS_ROOT to the root of your memory stick.
This zip has the Folder called downdater already in it so you just skip step 2
2. Wait someone with 1.50 to pass you a folder called DOWNDATER and copy it
to the root of your memstick.
3. It is recommended that you have the psp at more than 50% battery and connected to AC
4. Go to the xmb photo viewer.
At this point will see one of the following things:
* You'll see a full red screen.
This indicates that the downdater is doing its job. Wait for it to finish.
When it finish it will crash on purpose. Restart your psp manually and you'll
probably have a 1.50 PSP if nothing went wrong.
* You don't see the red screen.
This indicates that the downdater code has not started to execute.
(even if the memstick blinks(or not), it doesn't matter! if the screen is not red,
you can safely restart the psp at this point).
This happen because of instability in the tiff.
Don't worry, just restart the psp and keep trying until you reach the red screen of downdate.
The downdater code is NEVER executed partially. It's either executed totally or nothing.
It depends of "luck" but usually the downdater will start to execute in a average of 1/10 times.
Things that may increase the probabilities:
- A fresh formatted memory stick.
- A 32 MB memory stick (and fresh formatted)(you don't need a 32MB stick i used 1Gb :))
Keep tuned in theres more guide to come...............
some sections of this guide have been taken from sources on the net and have been modified slightly
to make them easier to understand.
if there is a section of this guide that you don't agree with or want remove please just email me and ill
get onto removing it and replacing it in my own words.
THIS GUIDE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
ONLY THE STEPS TO GET YOUR PSP TO
FIRMWARE 1.50 HAVE BEEN ADDED SO FAR
-------------------------------------
This guide is written to help other newbie’s get to the sage of running a 3.0X OE
custom firmware on there psp, I myself as a newbie knows how hard it is to find a
guide you can follow without getting lost so I wrote this to try and help other
newbie’s get there psp up and running.
now there are easy downgrader and tools which you can use to do these steps
but i perfer to to it the way it was done originaly so that i can hoe to get
exactly the same result as the person Who developed it.
Getting started:
Finding out your Firmware version and psp type
Is your PSP TA 082?
getting required files to downgrade / Upgrade
downgrading your psp to 1.5 (scariest part of the lot!!)
-----------------------------------
Finding out your Firmware version
-----------------------------------
turn on your psp and go to the setting option,
scroll down to System settings and select it,
then go to System Information and select it.
you should now see 3 items listed on your screen:
MAC Address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
System Software x.xx
Nickname xxxxxx
Your Firmware version is the number next to System Software,
It should be one of the following:
1.00 - 1.50
2.00 - 2.50 - 2.60 - 2.70 - 2.71 - 2.80 - 2.81 - 2.82
3.00 - 3.01 - 3.02 - 3.03
Now if your psp Firmware is version 2.81 2.82 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03
then your out of luck for now because there is currently no downgrades
for those firmware versions yet :(
if your firmware is 1.00 to 2.80 then your fine to continue with this guide.
OK now to clear something else up there was an issue with PSP's bricking because
they were of a certain model,(most new ones) so heres a link to finding out
which model you have, if you have this TA 08X model you still can continue
with this guide because thanks to Dark_AleX and friends there is now a Downgrader
Fix for this type of psp
now to find out if your PSP is a TA 082 Model:
This is a photo of where to look:
http://z.about.com/d/psp/1/0/9/1/-/-/pspboardphoto.jpg
or a simple Diagram:
http://z.about.com/d/psp/1/0/8/1/-/-/pspboard.jpg
If the code is on the right where the images say "= TA-082" then you will need to
follow the next step before downgrading if your model isn't TA you should be Safe
to Skip this step and continue :D
----------------------------------------------
getting required files to downgrade / Upgrade
----------------------------------------------
ill do the TA-0XX model First since there more complicated, well not really :P
Grab these 3 downloads:
TA-082 Downgrader: http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/982
1.50 EBOOT (Official): http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/4
Homebrew Enabler(HEN D): http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/922
Now follow this guide Carefully step by step, I have successfully downgraded
2 White PSP's with this guide, an i'm a Newbie!!
----------------------------------------------------
2.71 Downgrader Guide for TA-082 (Downgrader.lan.st)
----------------------------------------------------
This is an application to downgrade a ta-082 unit running 2.71 firmware and
HEN-D to 1.50, although theoretically can downgrade to any version, but only 1.50
has been tested.
The application, at the moment of writing this read me was tested in 5 psp’s,
with 5 success. As always, this kind of application have risks, this one in concrete
write to idstorage area of nand.
READ CAREFULLY THE INSTRUCTIONS AND DON’T SKIP ANY STEP
Remember its safer to just put your PSP on Charge and let it charge till your battery
is 100% charged.
Instructions
* Copy the UPDATE and idstoragechange folders into /PSP/GAME/
* Get the official sony 1.50 eboot and put it in the /PSP/GAME/UPDATE folder with the
name of UPDATE.PBP
* Run HEN-D if you are not already running it
(Hen-D is the distorted image in the Photo section on your psp)
screen will go blue then either Green or Red,
if screen green hen-D ran correctly and your psp should restart
if it goes red you need to turn off your psp and try again
* Execute the idstoragechange. It needs 75% battery. It will change some keys of your
idstorage needed to downgrade the ta-082.
(IDSTORAGE can be found in your games menu under memory stick)
* The program will exit to the XMB. Now execute the generic downgrade,
which will show in the xmb as “Update X.YX” in the psp language.
(Update X.YX is also found in the games menu under memory Stick)
* The generic downgrader will also need 75% battery. IT will downgrade your psp
to 1.50.
* At the end, it will ask you to press X to restart the psp. Do it.
* If all went fine, you’ll receive a blue screen telling you to press O.
Do it, and reenter your settings. Welcome to 1.50.
(The blue screen is basically telling you that all the setting are corrupt
and you need to re-enter them)
* If things didn’t go that fine, you’ll have a non-functional psp, aka brick.
You accepted that risk, remember.
Wahoo your 1.5 i hope sorry if you aren't but that is one of the risks.
----------------------------
Downgrade form 2.71 to 1.50
----------------------------
as allllllllways remember to charge your psp i recommend 100% just for safety reasons
Grab This Download:
2.71 Downdater (includes 1.50 HELPER): http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/753
2.71 to 1.50 Downgrader! Includes the required 1.50 helper [downdater] files.
Written by Dark_AleX, Mathieulh, and Yoshi. DOES NOT WORK ON TA-082 MOTHERBOARDS!
1. Copy the files inside MS_ROOT to the root of your memory stick.
This zip has the Folder called downdater already in it so you just skip step 2
2. Wait someone with 1.50 to pass you a folder called DOWNDATER and copy it
to the root of your memstick.
3. It is recommended that you have the psp at more than 50% battery and connected to AC
4. Go to the xmb photo viewer.
At this point will see one of the following things:
* You'll see a full red screen.
This indicates that the downdater is doing its job. Wait for it to finish.
When it finish it will crash on purpose. Restart your psp manually and you'll
probably have a 1.50 PSP if nothing went wrong.
* You don't see the red screen.
This indicates that the downdater code has not started to execute.
(even if the memstick blinks(or not), it doesn't matter! if the screen is not red,
you can safely restart the psp at this point).
This happen because of instability in the tiff.
Don't worry, just restart the psp and keep trying until you reach the red screen of downdate.
The downdater code is NEVER executed partially. It's either executed totally or nothing.
It depends of "luck" but usually the downdater will start to execute in a average of 1/10 times.
Things that may increase the probabilities:
- A fresh formatted memory stick.
- A 32 MB memory stick (and fresh formatted)(you don't need a 32MB stick i used 1Gb :))
Keep tuned in theres more guide to come...............
some sections of this guide have been taken from sources on the net and have been modified slightly
to make them easier to understand.
if there is a section of this guide that you don't agree with or want remove please just email me and ill
get onto removing it and replacing it in my own words.