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SpongeFreak52 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 05:04 PM

Ok, first of all, the thread that talked about the usb port exploit somehow disappeared. and second, alot of us are having problems with the usb cable. the pc loses the connection before the psp. any suggestions?

hacker3.0 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 05:05 PM

if you did get it to work it bricks so jut stop talking about the usb cABLE

coagulatequick · #3 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 05:22 PM

Yea it was never confirmed to completely work all we knew was that it bricked so dont bother trying it unless your rich and can afford lots of nice little PSPs to play with.........

Milkman · #4 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 05:43 PM

that guy should go to hell...i actually believed that this could work because it is something that we have never seen before.

We only focus on downgrading through software but never hardware.

Mersonally i would pay liek 50 bucks to buy some sort of hardware to downgrade.

stupid BS i hate people who want attention and then bring everyone down

SpongeFreak52 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 05:45 PM

sorry guys i left at 10 last night, so i didnt get the news, that would explain why the thread was deleted

djstriker91 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 07:54 PM

The USB fiasco was never meant to be a downgrader...just a way for people to go from there to make a downgrader. I attempted a downgrader, here was the ACCURATE results (now that the thread is closed I can't edit my post for what REALLY happened):

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Before anything, I'd like to point out this...

I know nothing about the power of this - if it's useless, then so be it, if it isn't then I'd like to see someone who knows what they're doing pick up the ball and take it somewhere (hopefully far away from bricking a PSP when you try to do it).

FINAL EDIT: After seeing a lot of the posts here I've come to realize a few things. A complete downgrade, with this exploit as of now, is impossible. All we've figured out is that we can write/read the memory card even without it being in USB mode. However, this doesn't mean this is totally useless - if people out there that know what they're doing catch wind of this, hopefully we can come away from this realizing it's a step in the process of downgrading.

For my story, for exactly what happened:

I was messing around with doing this and got it to stay on my computer and say 'Connect a USB cable'.

I exited out of the USB menu, ran to memory card, selected the 2.6 update and ran it. I got to the EULA from here, hit accept as far as I could go without actually beginning the update. I popped in the new eboot, the 1.5 update, overwriting the old eboot, the 2.6 update. From here, the update continued, asking for the AC adapter, which I plugged in. From there, the update began, taking about 45 seconds to actually start updating. It went 1%, 10%, stalled for 2 minutes, 60%, 61%, 72%, 99%, and same fashion as the 2.0 downgrader, stated a fail, but this time instead of saying contact Sony, it just hung....memory card reading like crazy, for 5 minutes at a light blue screen then kicked me back to the main menu, still with 2.5 firmware.

Tried again, same result however this time, the version number I had was 1.5 and my PSP would freeze if I moved the menu cursor over to the right far enough to expose the Internet Browser menu (with the location free and browser itself). From here, I just played it cool realizing it's wrecked, and eventually just updated to 2.6, where all was fine in the update.

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: Sony has blocked the 1.5 downgrade from running.

And that's that. There is no 'USB 2.5 downgrader' and never was.

bluesman · #7 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 08:04 PM

u kno sum hopes just got smashed but i kind a knew if this thing was gonna work, then a lot more recognition was needed. thats y i think we should hav sumthin to kno if ppl r tellin the truth or if theyre not just attention seekin jackass maybe like a code so that if some noob comes along wit sum downgrader we ll kno if its for real

mart19902004 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 08:14 PM

it s load of bs

Eclipse9069 · #9 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 04:01 PM

There would also be no way that you could "switch" the 2.6 eboot with the 1.5 during the update process (or before the EULA) because if you tried to move, or overwrite the 2.6 eboot, it would not let you because your computer would say that the file is in use and can not be moved.

Lyoko · #10 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005, 05:30 PM

1) copy the firmware 2.6 on a memory stick
2) copy the firmware 2.0 on a ANOTHER memory stick

3) put the memory fw 2.6 and update
4) At the Eula disclaimer remove the memory stick fw2.6
5)put the other memory and try to continue the downgrade
6) after reboot the psp and check if the PSP FW is on 2.0 or 2.6
7) If the FW is 2.0 ... downgrade it with the downgrader

it's that i will test tomorow

what do you think ?