Bricked PSP

Erant · Post by **Erant** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:43 am

Well, I've done it. It's bricked. I was updating to 2.00 to play GTA, but I had a power outage, and instead of the battery catching in, I got a black screen, a white face, and went into cardiac arrest. I've just had a heated discussion with Sony Netherlands, who kindly told me to go fuck myself, take a plane to Japan and get it fixed there. Needless to say, I said something to the lady I won't repeat here. But now I'm stuck with a $200 paperweight. I'm quite handy with electronics, and I wouldn't mind building a NAND flash interface, and solder a few wires to the PSP mainboard to try and flash back a NAND dump I happen to have (Long time ago, thx to nem) But I was wondering if anyone had a pinout or something I could go on to get to the NAND flash interface without desoldering the flash chip. nem? I'm also thinking the bootloader is still on the flash, as the green LED flashes on for 15 seconds, and then turns black. Or does anyone maybe have a working motherboard I could buy off them?

Post by **ooPo** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:25 am

Welcome to the club, friend.

Wraggster · Post by **Wraggster** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:09 am

Damn i do feel sorry for you, its one of the reasons i never updated my v1.0 PSP, its a pity there wasnt some online shop that would for a small charge unbrick PSPs rather than have tons of dead PSPs.

Makes you wonder how many PSPs are getting bricked withthese firmware updates :(

Erant · Post by **Erant** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:39 am

It also makes you wonder how the hell this thing is reflashed. Is there anyone here who did the bogus update (ooPo's bane), and sent their PSPs back to Sony for reflashing? How much did it cost?

F9zDark · Post by **F9zDark** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:50 pm

That might be a possibility, but it should be covered under warranty. It is Sony's stupid fault for making the updates need the AC adaptor in in the first place. Had they made it either AC to boot, then battery as failsafe(which they apparently did not) then you wouldn't have this problem.

As well, if they were to reflash it, you'd get it back with 2.50. Whether you want that or not, I don't know, but I sure as hell know I don't.

Either way, it really sucks man. Probably better off trying to reflash it yourself.

Art · Post by **Art** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:40 am

A UPS is a gift from God :)

However, sorry for your loss man :(

cheriff · Post by **cheriff** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:20 am

That's pretty strange. When I used the 2.0 upgrader, it refused to run untill the battery was 50% full, even with the power cord plugged in. Probably to avoid this very situation.
Are you saying this protection was removed in the 2.5 upgrader on the gta:lcs disk?

Zenurb · Post by **Zenurb** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:21 am

My GTA:LCS umd came with the 2.0 encoder and afaik all the psps that Game are stocking in the UK still ship with 1.5 version software.

F9zDark · Post by **F9zDark** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:19 pm

GTA comes with a 2.0 upgrade, not 2.50.

As well, a sudden power surge could have fried the PSP, right before the power went off. That is how my fishtank water pump. Granted its not a PSP, but its almost entirely mechanical, which is far more hardy than a completely electronic piece of equipment.

Erant · Post by **Erant** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:47 pm

For now, I'm going on the possibility that it fried the battery circuit (There's a shitload of electronics in the battery itself). I'm still waiting to hear from nem though, and it's been a week. Does anyone maybe see or talk to him on regular basis, and could point him to this topic, and my PM?