PS3 Hacking & Jailbreaking the PS3

Hello guys! I have a question. I'm a noob when it comes to PS3 "hacking" but I have done my fair share of computer things since I was a little kid. I just got myself a 1st gen fat PS3, managed to update it to Evilnat's 4.90 CFW, but since my BD is not working, I had to use the noBD version. My PS3 is delidded and I just changed the thermal paste on both the CELL and RSX. Is there a way to get the OC working on the noBD version? Thanks!
 
Thimblewad said:
Hello guys! I have a question. I'm a noob when it comes to PS3 "hacking" but I have done my fair share of computer things since I was a little kid. I just got myself a 1st gen fat PS3, managed to update it to Evilnat's 4.90 CFW, but since my BD is not working, I had to use the noBD version. My PS3 is delidded and I just changed the thermal paste on both the CELL and RSX. Is there a way to get the OC working on the noBD version? Thanks!
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There's no OC + noBD afaik but maybe Evilnat or someone else know how to make one.
Mind that noBD firmware is only required if the BD daughterboard is broken. If the daughterboard is fine and only the drive is broken then regular firmware can be used, in which case you can just install the regular OC. Be sure that's indeed the case though, since if you attempt to install the regular variant on a system with a broken daughterboard you'll get stuck in an update loop.
P.S. A 1st gen (I assume you mean the backwards compatible model) is pretty much pointless without a working Blu-Ray drive, or at the very least a working daughterboard, as the noBD variant does not (and cannot) support PS2 hardware BC.
 
NiQ said:
There's no OC + noBD afaik but maybe Evilnat or someone else know how to make one.
Mind that noBD firmware is only required if the BD daughterboard is broken. If the daughterboard is fine and only the drive is broken then regular firmware can be used, in which case you can just install the regular OC. Be sure that's indeed the case though, since if you attempt to install the regular variant on a system with a broken daughterboard you'll get stuck in an update loop.
P.S. A 1st gen (I assume you mean the backwards compatible model) is pretty much pointless without a working Blu-Ray drive, or at the very least a working daughterboard, as the noBD variant does not (and cannot) support PS2 hardware BC.
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When I bought the PS the Blu-Ray drive made 2 beeps when trying to press the eject button. I didn't even try inserting a disc (because it came to me as "broken" from the seller and I didn't bother). Yesterday, I opened it up, delidded it and changed the paste. The blu-ray drive now eats up the CD and opens it normally (I tried an audio CD), but it did give me an error saying the PS was unable to gather information about the CD over the internet (tracks on it did display, but not play). Is there a chance that the BD is actually working? I should probably test with an original game, right?

Also, if I'm running PS2 ISOs through the MultiMan or Webman apps, that means it's software emulated at all times? Shame if so :P
 
Thimblewad said:
When I bought the PS the Blu-Ray drive made 2 beeps when trying to press the eject button. I didn't even try inserting a disc (because it came to me as "broken" from the seller and I didn't bother). Yesterday, I opened it up, delidded it and changed the paste. The blu-ray drive now eats up the CD and opens it normally (I tried an audio CD), but it did give me an error saying the PS was unable to gather information about the CD over the internet (tracks on it did display, but not play). Is there a chance that the BD is actually working? I should probably test with an original game, right?

Also, if I'm running PS2 ISOs through the MultiMan or Webman apps, that means it's software emulated at all times? Shame if so :P
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If you could play fine the audio from your test CD, then everything is working (at least on the CD/DVD side). Try a BluRay game and check how it behavies: if it loads the disk slow, if it stucks, if it returns an error, etc.

But to me, it seems that the drive was stuck or in disc-on position after the previous owner removed the disc manually.
 
GuilloteTesla said:
If you could play fine the audio from your test CD, then everything is working (at least on the CD/DVD side). Try a BluRay game and check how it behavies: if it loads the disk slow, if it stucks, if it returns an error, etc.

But to me, it seems that the drive was stuck or in disc-on position after the previous owner removed the disc manually.
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Is it possible, that it doesn't work properly because I have a noBD CFW installed? Also, the audio CD I tried was burned at home to use in my car in CD audio format, does the PS have some extra checks to see if the CD is a "legit" copy? Thanks!
 
Thimblewad said:
Is it possible, that it doesn't work properly because I have a noBD CFW installed? Also, the audio CD I tried was burned at home to use in my car in CD audio format, does the PS have some extra checks to see if the CD is a "legit" copy? Thanks!
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You must install a full CFW in order to re-enable the BD support, yes. Don't worry, if your BD drive board is faulty, you can replace the full CFW PUP with the noBD version and it will skip the BD checks.

Regarding the burned audio CD, the PS3 can not check whether it's a legit copy or not (normal audio CDs don't have any sort of copy protection in their specs), so you are good to go. Use it as usual.
 
GuilloteTesla said:
You must install a full CFW in order to re-enable the BD support, yes. Don't worry, if your BD drive board is faulty, you can replace the full CFW PUP with the noBD version and it will skip the BD checks.

Regarding the burned audio CD, the PS3 can not check whether it's a legit copy or not (normal audio CDs don't have any sort of copy protection in their specs), so you are good to go. Use it as usual.
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But if I try to install a full CFW I'll probably get the update error, right? And then the PS3 starts looping on the update and I really wouldn't want to lose my save games. I already had to do this once and I barely managed to save the PS, thank god I found the original CFW the PS3 came with when I bought it :')

Is it possible to attempt the update, and then if it fails, use the recovery menu with the current CFW and rewrite it without losing everything?
 
Well, tried to update to the 4.90 OC CFW and again, got the 8002F149 error at 77%. Will try to rollback through the recovery menu. What could be causing this? The BD drive seems to be working just fine and so do the WIFI card and BT.

Edit: Even after the double beep, I still get thrown to the update screen instead of the recovery menu.

Edit2: Managed to get to the recovery menu like this:
  1. Inserted a blank HDD with only partition primary.
  2. Reinstalled 4.90 CFW.
  3. Plugged back in the SSD I'm using as main.
Why would my BD drive be throwing an error like this even tho it's apparently working? I really want the OC, it's the sole purpose why I delidded the PS3 :blue:

Edit3: If possible and someone can do it, prefferably @Evilnat, I'm willing to donate for a NoBD + OC version of the CFW :D
 
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According to the wiki, error 8002F149 is just an update error, but it doesn't mention anything over the BD board.

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It could be that your PUP file is corrupted, or the USB drive has some bad sectors. But your console didn't enter a boot loop.

I don't know why changing the HDD for an SSD would make it work, it installed OK on the HDD so it makes no sense to change it to an SSD.
 
GuilloteTesla said:
According to the wiki, error 8002F149 is just an update error, but it doesn't mention anything over the BD board.

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It could be that your PUP file is corrupted, or the USB drive has some bad sectors. But your console didn't enter a boot loop.

I don't know why changing the HDD for an SSD would make it work, it installed OK on the HDD so it makes no sense to change it to an SSD.
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I tried THIS CFW, the USB key is fine since I was able to restore the system from the same key using the noBD file. And yes, the console did in fact enter the bootlop, I wasn't even able to enter recovery, so changing the SSD/HDD drive helped me to get to recovery menu. I read online that the error is related to BD/WIFI, my bad for not checking the wiki.

Edit: I just have to say, that I contacted Evilnat, got a reply and he's going to make a noBD+OC package just for me, the dude is a legend!!!! <3
 
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Could anyone help me? I just finished doing this whole process and installing a few games now whenever i hover over the Playstation 3 w the star folder in the main menu w Webman my console freezes i can go anywhere i want but the moment that folder is brought up its over.
 
Mojo_DP said:
Could anyone help me? I just finished doing this whole process and installing a few games now whenever i hover over the Playstation 3 w the star folder in the main menu w Webman my console freezes i can go anywhere i want but the moment that folder is brought up its over.
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enable hen. move right once on xmb to get to network column (the one with web browser). go up until you see "Hybrid Firmware Tools". under one its submenu is an option about "app_home". turn it off and that icon will go away.
 
Coro said:
enable hen. move right once on xmb to get to network column (the one with web browser). go up until you see "Hybrid Firmware Tools". under one its submenu is an option about "app_home". turn it off and that icon will go away.
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I am on PEX 4.90 W Full CFW (CECHA01). I just completely wiped my drive and reinstalled, multiman, webman, pkgi and it froze in a random spot. I'm currently reinstalling 4.90 pex well see how it goes.
 
Can somebody maybe help me with my SuperSlim? I had everything running just fine until a friend of mine played in the Settings and i had to reinstall the HFW, now every time i want to enable it, the screen just shows HEN and stays at that page.
I even got some Toolboxes installed now, but i can´t go further then Install HEN and not enabling it in the Games Tab...
CFW with Evilnat was way way easier to fix

EDIT: Even if i got it running, it asked me every time for a licenced account and then i reinstalled the firmware. I think that the toolboxes and all that stuff is causing problems...
 
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