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PS3HEN [Support Thread] PS3HEN Bugs, Problems, and Other Issues

Miyo3 said:
So i'm a ps3 ss debuging station owner (dech 4000aa if its important). I saw on ps3exploit site [where few years ago got hen on my old and now dead PS3 fat 60 GB] it IS posibble to get hen on DEX consoles, but only on 4.82-4.84 DEX OFW, i cant find any higher than 4.81, is there any chance im able to get hen on my ultra super rare test console hen? Or at least got online in psn? Becouse as i heard u team dont want to share this softer, i mean 4.82
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yeah, DEX is available on main site under HEN Developer options menu, but it uses old stackframe and may have some issues launching certain homebrew, until we get it ported to v3. What firmware version are you on. We have tested it on 4.82 and 4.84 DEX. I have only tested on retail conversion (DREX/PREX)

NOTE: You can just use the auto installer page. When the page loads, it will download the default CEX version of PS3HEN.p3t. After it downloads, just check the DEX box and it will prompt you and download the DEX PS3HEN.p3t file, select overwrite and then click install HEN as normal. It should load the same as the CEX version does, but it defaults to using the debug version of bin.

The DEX version of HEN does not hide the package manager like retail consoles, and also always shows app_home. It mimics DEX behavior. Also some HFW Tools options are missing, not meant for DEX. Everything else is the same basically, except the HEN icons will also be DEX versions visually.
 
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sacker12 said:
Nevermind. Mr Mario's video on YouTube about using the Auto Installer with the dummy file is what did it.
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What was the problem then? That doesnt make sense that HEN would freeze with blank boot_plugins.txt. It should not freeze with or without that file.

Are you saying you boot HEN with nothing plugged into USB and it loads fine after being installed? Or you never made it past the install part from web page? You had webmanmod installed before or this is a clean install or upgrade from 3.2.1 or lower HEN?

Just curious what the actual issue was
 
esc0rtd3w said:
What was the problem then? That doesnt make sense that HEN would freeze with blank boot_plugins.txt. It should not freeze with or without that file.

Are you saying you boot HEN with nothing plugged into USB and it loads fine after being installed? Or you never made it past the install part from web page? You had webmanmod installed before or this is a clean install or upgrade from 3.2.1 or lower HEN?

Just curious what the actual issue was
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The issue was with which method of installation that I used while the USB drive with the dummy file. I had originally used the Alternate method instead of the Auto Install method.

Also, this was an upgrade from (I think) HFW 4.89 with previous versions of MultiMan and IrisMan to the new programs. I have also not tried booting the console without the USB drive attached, but I do know that all previous plug-ins from the old programs were deleted after I had run the install with the dummy file in the USB drive because of the message that came up during the successful install.
 
esc0rtd3w said:
What was the problem then? That doesnt make sense that HEN would freeze with blank boot_plugins.txt. It should not freeze with or without that file.

Are you saying you boot HEN with nothing plugged into USB and it loads fine after being installed? Or you never made it past the install part from web page? You had webmanmod installed before or this is a clean install or upgrade from 3.2.1 or lower HEN?

Just curious what the actual issue was
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I was talkin more about ps3updat.pup, on developers wiki u can find list of all OFW for difrent ps3 consoles, for DEX highest avilable to download was 4.81, ps3xploit says its regiment 4.82 or 4.84. i can download hen for OFW (?) 4.82 and HFW 4.84, but no OFW itself, i got from somewhere grom psx place HFW 4.84.1 and with it im trying to instal hen but after 100% initialization its says initialization failed or if its go for instalation its ALLWAYS freez, i dont have any idea what more i can do to het hen on this debug station
 
Miyo3 said:
I was talkin more about ps3updat.pup, on developers wiki u can find list of all OFW for difrent ps3 consoles, for DEX highest avilable to download was 4.81, ps3xploit says its regiment 4.82 or 4.84. i can download hen for OFW (?) 4.82 and HFW 4.84, but no OFW itself, i got from somewhere grom psx place HFW 4.84.1 and with it im trying to instal hen but after 100% initialization its says initialization failed or if its go for instalation its ALLWAYS freez, i dont have any idea what more i can do to het hen on this debug station
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The OFW 4.84 DEX is not available for the public, (It doesnt make sense as the HFW 4.84 DEX is available o.0) and the HFW 4.84 DEX can be downloaded here as you already know.

I can try to install It here + HEN and see If i get the same freeze as you
 
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LuanTeles said:
The OFW 4.84 DEX is not available for the public, (It doesnt make sense as the HFW 4.84 DEX is available o.0) and the HFW 4.84 DEX can be downloaded here as you already know.

I can try to install It here + HEN and see If i get the same freeze as you
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Then if its not important to instal OFW 4.84 before launch HFW 4.84 then i dont have any idea why instaling hen dont work

EDIT: Then if i can ask you to gry it urself, i realy dont have any clue what im doing wrong coz i dont have any reason to think its something wrong with hfw on hen itself
 
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Miyo3 said:
Then if its not important to instal OFW 4.84 before launch HFW 4.84 then i dont have any idea why instaling hen dont work

EDIT: Then if i can ask you to gry it urself, i realy dont have any clue what im doing wrong coz i dont have any reason to think its something wrong with hfw on hen itself
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i had a ps3 that installed hen easily but would never enable. changing hard drives fixed the issue. i have since found at least one other user who seemed to have the same issue and different hard drive worked.

you can swap the drive and test. if it does not work, insert the old drive and it should still have all files on it.
 
Coro said:
i had a ps3 that installed hen easily but would never enable. changing hard drives fixed the issue. i have since found at least one other user who seemed to have the same issue and different hard drive worked.

you can swap the drive and test. if it does not work, insert the old drive and it should still have all files on it.
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Hard drive is completly empty, before hfw i was not even able to set time from internet or login on psn accout, i will set oryginal 60 gb and will report did that help
 
Can someone tell me how can i install hen if my firmware is on 4.90 and doesnot Take The HFW update but on my friend's it worked there is no usb issue. Can someone help me
 
Coro said:
i had a ps3 that installed hen easily but would never enable. changing hard drives fixed the issue. i have since found at least one other user who seemed to have the same issue and different hard drive worked.

you can swap the drive and test. if it does not work, insert the old drive and it should still have all files on it.
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On second hard drive still failed
The third one is a winner! This with alternative instaler, 5 seconds with first try and we got this.
 
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hello i am frustrated because i downloaded ccapi on hen system i have asked you before how to fix it but everyone is telling me something i don't know what to do now please if someone knows how to fix it show me i am broken inside i swear You don't know the value of something until you lose it
 
Jason, by holding R2 to ignore boot_plugins.txt it is also not executing map_paths, is that intentional? if so how can i keep the remaps?

Edit: I managed to solve it

I created a load_hen_plugin function if boot_plugins.txt is bypassed, i think we should keep the remaps

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LuanTeles said:
Jason, by holding R2 to ignore boot_plugins.txt it is also not executing map_paths, is that intentional? if so how can i keep the remaps?

Edit: I managed to solve it

I created a load_hen_plugin function if boot_plugins.txt is bypassed, i think we should keep the remaps

ByDj8AP.png
ByDj8AP.png

FCfZzpo.png

oxt44gP.png
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The default mappings are not disabled when using r2. I am on my phone, but here is where the mappings are still set, even if plugins disabled.
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If plugins are disabled, that includes henplugin.

This was the original intention.

EDIT: Its not a bad idea to also load the henplugin if others are disabled, but it wasn't the original intention, or maybe better said, it was done that way to also help during testing to disable henplugin as well.
 
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esc0rtd3w said:
The default mappings are not disabled when using r2. I am on my phone, but here is where the mappings are still set, even if plugins disabled.
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If plugins are disabled, that includes henplugin.

This was the original intention.

EDIT: Its not a bad idea to also load the henplugin if others are disabled, but it wasn't the original intention, or maybe better said, it was done that way to also help during testing to disable henplugin as well.
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That's strange, mines are disabled if i hold R2 (i disabled the L2 combo), only by loading hen_plugin.sprx made them work, i'll check the untouched source
 
BTW i added some symbols to hen as i was needing them, cellFsRename and cellFsMkdir, can i make a PR or is it not necessary? (No use with the current official code) i'm also adding some features from Cobra 8.4.
 
LuanTeles said:
BTW i added some symbols to hen as i was needing them, cellFsRename and cellFsMkdir, can i make a PR or is it not necessary? (No use with the current official code) i'm also adding some features from Cobra 8.4.
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Cool. Feel free to make a PR for some of the things you have tested and I can go through them at some point.

Edit: For things that are not used currently, it could be commented out for future use. Some examples are the vsh poke and xregistry usage, although those are used in henplugin. The code being there makes it easy to uncomment and test things, when needed.

Now we can't go all crazy with it for lv2 stuff because the payload size is already pushing its max, in its current implementation, but I think some stuff is fine being there dormant as a comment.
 
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LuanTeles said:
That's strange, mines are disabled if i hold R2 (i disabled the L2 combo), only by loading hen_plugin.sprx made them work, i'll check the untouched source
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After thinking about it more, there are a few good reasons to allow henplugin if plugins are disabled.

From what I remember, if you check socat logs, it should still show the mappings when using r2 to disable plugins. But the problem lies where the xmb doesn't get refreshed because the henplugin doesn't load.

Now that I'm thinking about it, if you want to submit a PR also for that I can test it later too. It probably would be better to allow henplugin to run.

I only have one issue with that, and that is when testing changes, I use that all the time to disable henplugin. But normal users probably prefer it to load.

I suppose a toggle could be made to allow both. An HFW Tools Developer option named something like "Allow HEN Plugin When Disabling Plugins" could be added. Or I guess in this case, it would be "Disallow", having it load as default.

Either way, it should be updated in some way for next release.
 
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