PSP Star Wars LE Bricked! Help me!

[ninermaniac]

Does anyone by chance know if this version is able to be hacked to be brought back to life. Mine officially got bricked today and I have never attempted the Pandora and MMs hack before. Any other ways, like pressing certain buttons and stuff, would help me greatly too. I have a little about it but am not sure if the motherboard for this PSP slim version has the unhackable type of board on it. Any help would be appreciated.

[aikainnet]

I believe that psp had one of the hackable boards. It was one of the slim release systems nee?

[warmachine]

How did you brick it?

[Lord Helmet]

How did you brick it?

 

Yeah, what were you doing that bricked it? I thought the only way to brick it was to have something go wrong when using the Pandora battery / magic memory stick to install custom firmware.

 

There is an unbricker that will work on most PSP slims called Despertar del Cementario (which means something along the lines of "wake up the brick") Check it out here:

 

http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/f133/installing-and-using-despertar-del-cementerio-t202045/

[ninermaniac]

How did you brick it?

 

Yeah, what were you doing that bricked it? I thought the only way to brick it was to have something go wrong when using the Pandora battery / magic memory stick to install custom firmware.

 

There is an unbricker that will work on most PSP slims called Despertar del Cementario (which means something along the lines of "wake up the brick") Check it out here:

 

http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/f133/installing-and-using-despertar-del-cementerio-t202045/

 

 

My son was putting on a new wallpaper he downloaded and I guess it was not compatible. This PSP is OFW and not CFW so I didn't know what he did either. It has started up once since it happened but only after sitting for about half a day. I turned it on today and it cam on but I turned it off to recharge and when I tried it again today it shut off.

 

BTW: The wallpaper he downloaded might have been a CFW one and that is what happened. The one he downloaded was not on the PSP when I checked it so I thought things were good and could have been a bad battery but that is not the case. It charges and everything but has a black screen with no sound so I am afraid it is partially bricked and needs to have CFW to make it come back to life. I dunno. Thanks for the responses

[warmachine]

It doesn't seem like a picture would cause anything like that to happen.

 

If it has been bricked, the power LED and screen backlight should still come on.

 

If it powers on every time, but boots to the operating system randomly, than

you could have a semi-brick, which could be repaired with the pandora battery.

[Lord Helmet]

Yeah, I don't think that a jpeg image is going to brick the psp. Sounds weird to me.

[ninermaniac]

Well, after many hours of reading and interrogation of my son I found out that he was playing with the battery door and the battery fell out while he was updating from OFW 5.03 to OFW 5.51. When he did that it caused it to go into a semi bricked state. Thankfully there are some good sites where they go into good detail on how to create the Pandora and MMS. The only problem now is that I have it unbricked but the screen will not show an image. Backlight is on and all the XMB clicks are there but no picture. Guess I'll have to break it down and check some teany tiny fuses on the motherboard or check the connections. Luckily I have taken one apart before to change the case but never got into specialized mechanical repairs or anything with the PSP. UGH. I could shoot the kid sometimes but I kinda luv em'.

Edited August 31, 2009 by ninermaniac

[Bruce Tomlin]

I don't think it's the fuses. I recall that in the first days of the slim (and even some fats in the pre-Pandora days) there were problems getting the display to work. As long as you have the battery, you've done the hard part. You probably just got an old version of the Pandora loader.

 

If you look in "the right places" you might be able to find a newer Pandora bootloader, or it may help to get an old fat so that you can properly generate up-to-date CFW through more freely available means that decode a Sony update to generate CFW. (I'll warn you right now to not have a background screen or skin set when you generate a fresh Pandora image.)

 

But yeah, there's a reason why even CFW utilities are paranoid about the battery level, even with the power adapter plugged in.

 

The good news is that this probably didn't mess up the partitioning, especially the partition that includes the important config data.

Edited September 1, 2009 by Bruce Tomlin

[shadow460]

There's one other possibility, and that's a damaged NAND image. If the serial numbers for the drives and WLAN card are lost from the NAND, those items will not work from any firmware that is installed. OFW does not back up the NAND before installing. As you might expect, each PSP has different serial numbers on these devices.

 

Despertar Cementario is able to flash both custom and official firmware to the unit. My advice is to flash it back to the 5.03 firmware and see that everything works. If it doesn't, you will need Time Machine to run custom firmware from a memory stick. This will enable the various parts to run without their serial numbers installed. If you can run Time Machine anyway, it'll tell you if the firmware is causing the screen not to work or if it is a hardware issue. The last time I used DC8, I was able to repartition and format the flash, and install my choice of custom or official firmware.

 

It is also possible that the battery's own firmware was damaged when it fell out. If it's giving an odd serial number to the unit, the unit might think it's some odd battery in Sony's lab.

 

How old is the battery? Is it the one that came with the PSP? If so, you can flash the firmware on that as well.

 

If you like, I'd be happy to try and revive the unit for you.