PS3 XMB Manager Plus (XMBM+) v0.23.001-mod by Aldostools

bguerville · Feb 18, 2016

bitsbubba said:
no all icons eventually load just sometimes slower then other times, the multiple listings I get are at the bottom of the list & all the times their official listings but never any icon spinning or not and never selectable

What I get is my list of brews repeated a number of times. The icons might not be showing at first but the spinning comes eventually.
It seems as you go up & down that the list can increase as well. So the list of brews is repeated again. Or maybe it's just slow to render. Then it comes to halt I think. Maximum number of entries?
This only happens when we add xmbm+ to category_game_tool2.xml.
In-game xmb & DEX.
If you put it into another category there's no issue.

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bguerville · Feb 19, 2016

Joonie said:
I think the best way to analyze the issue is that to use cobra's debug printf with socat, see what's being loaded while that spinning icon thing is happening.

If you had Cygwin installed, it's fairly easy to get a log thru UDP port, but your PC and PS3 must be connected via LAN together.

Am sad to report no real progress in finding the reason for the DEX menu behaviour last night despite much testing & already 3 forced system reinstall...

Tonight [I will setup the lan connection & try your suggestion i.e listening to Cobra debug output to see if we can understand what's going on during in-game XMB loading.

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bguerville · Feb 19, 2016

Joonie said:
I think the best way to analyze the issue is that to use cobra's debug printf with socat, see what's being loaded while that spinning icon thing is happening.

If you had Cygwin installed, it's fairly easy to get a log thru UDP port, but your PC and PS3 must be connected via LAN together.

Going home in a couple of hours.

To get lan debug info from cobra I assume I need to use a debug stage2.bin?

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Joonie · Feb 19, 2016

bguerville said:
Going home in a couple of hours.

To get lan debug info from cobra I assume I need to use a debug stage2.bin?

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for your debugging, better to enable this code and recompile

https://github.com/Joonie86/COBRA-7.2/blob/master/478/REX/SRC/stage2/mappath.c#L253

LINE #253

Code:

//DPRINTF("open_path %s\n", path);

enable this print, by removing the comment.

bguerville · Feb 19, 2016

Joonie said:
for your debugging, better to enable this code and recompile

https://github.com/Joonie86/COBRA-7.2/blob/master/478/REX/SRC/stage2/mappath.c#L253

LINE #253

Code:

//DPRINTF("open_path %s\n", path);

enable this print, by removing the comment.

Ok. Uncomment the line & recompile.
Do I just stick to the release build then?

I will use the 7.3 source if it's OK.

Then socat -udp::<ip-address-console>:18194
Is that it?

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bitsbubba · Feb 19, 2016

bguerville said:
Ok. Uncomment the line & recompile.
Do I just stick to the release build then?

I will use the 7.3 source if it's OK.

Then socat -udp::<ip-address-console>:18194
Is that it?

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Doesn't look like it, probably different line being as it's different source[emoji14]

bguerville · Feb 19, 2016

bitsbubba said:
Doesn't look like it, probably different line being as it's different source[emoji14]

No. I don't think so.
The line number might be different (or not, I don't have line numbers on this stupid Android text editor!) but the part to uncomment is there & the result should be the same.
It'll give me the opportunity to compile 7.3 for the first time...

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bitsbubba · Feb 19, 2016

bguerville said:
No. I don't think so.
The line number might be different (or not, I don't have line numbers on this stupid Android text editor!) but the part to uncomment is there & the result should be the same.
It'll give me the opportunity to compile 7.3 for the first time...

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click on his link above it shows the line

bguerville · Feb 19, 2016

bitsbubba said:
click on his link above it shows the line

I just double checked mappath.c has not changed at all between 7.2 & 7.3.
Uncommenting the line & making sure there is no #ifdef DEBUG around it should make the release build good to go.

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Joonie · Feb 20, 2016

bguerville said:
Ok. Uncomment the line & recompile.
Do I just stick to the release build then?

I will use the 7.3 source if it's OK.

Then socat -udp::<ip-address-console>:18194
Is that it?

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yes and 10 char

sandungas · Feb 22, 2016

[MENTION=29]Joonie[/MENTION] this is important, i just found a mistake in rebug package manager, im not sure if this is the culprit of the problems but is a bug for sure. And i think has been present in all rebug versions

Inside explore_plugin_full.rco ... the custom text string patches applyed over all the <language>.xml files
One of the lines is duplicated:

Code:

<Text name="msg_tool_install_file"><![CDATA[★ Install Package Files]]></Text>

The problem is this same line (with the same name, value, etc... exactlly the same) appears on top of the file (exists in all OFW) and is also added at bottom (for rebug)
This is wrong, every text string needs to use an unique "name" attribute (the name="msg_tool_install_file")

Because the .xml file contains 2 duplicated lines, maybe the firmware is loading it duplicated
Anyway... better dont add it (keep the original on top but dont add the duplicated)

Joonie · Feb 22, 2016

sandungas said:
[MENTION=29]Joonie[/MENTION] this is important, i just found a mistake in rebug package manager, im not sure if this is the culprit of the problems but is a bug for sure. And i think has been present in all rebug versions

Inside explore_plugin_full.rco ... the custom text string patches applyed over all the <language>.xml files
One of the lines is duplicated:

Code:

<Text name="msg_tool_install_file"><=!=[=C=D=A=T=A=[★ Install Package Files]=]=></Text>

The problem is this same line (with the same name, value, etc... exactlly the same) appears on top of the file (exists in all OFW) and is also added at bottom (for rebug)
This is wrong, every text string needs to use an unique "name" attribute (the name="msg_tool_install_file")

Because the .xml file contains 2 duplicated lines, maybe the firmware is loading it duplicated
Anyway... better dont add it (keep the original on top but dont add the duplicated)

*edit

Removing one of them works fine after all, let's see if this fixes the issue with XMBM+ though this doesn't explain why it only happens with debug vsh. but retail vsh

*edit2

nope, this didn't fix the issue with xmbm... FYI [MENTION=872]sandungas[/MENTION]

[MENTION=22544]DeViL303[/MENTION]

Code:

Now patching  explore_category_game.sprx 9cb3396e00056ce1
Offset: 0x00068264 | Data: 0x38000001
open_path /dev_flash/vsh/resource/explore_category_game.rco
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_system-0.idx.log1
open_path /dev_hdd0/tmp/explore
open_path /dev_hdd0/tmp/explore
open_path /dev_hdd0/home/00000001/etc
open_path /dev_hdd0/home/00000001/etc/explore_view.txt
open_path /dev_hdd0/home/00000001/chat/room
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_hdd-1.log1
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_hdd-1.log2
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_hdd-9.log1
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_hdd-9.log2
open_path /dev_hdd0/game/XMBMANPLS/USRDIR/game_main.xml
open_path /dev_hdd0/game/XMBMANPLS/USRDIR/game_main.xml
open_path /dev_hdd0/xmlhost/game_plugin/fb.xml
open_path /dev_hdd0/xmlhost/game_plugin/fb.xml

Ok I got the log while in-game, and it's loading fb.xml and game_main.xml at the same time..

DeViL303 · Feb 22, 2016

Joonie said:

[MENTION=22544]DeViL303[/MENTION]

Code:

Now patching  explore_category_game.sprx 9cb3396e00056ce1
Offset: 0x00068264 | Data: 0x38000001
open_path /dev_flash/vsh/resource/explore_category_game.rco
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_system-0.idx.log1
open_path /dev_hdd0/tmp/explore
open_path /dev_hdd0/tmp/explore
open_path /dev_hdd0/home/00000001/etc
open_path /dev_hdd0/home/00000001/etc/explore_view.txt
open_path /dev_hdd0/home/00000001/chat/room
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_hdd-1.log1
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_hdd-1.log2
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_hdd-9.log1
open_path /dev_hdd0/mms/db/metadata_db_hdd-9.log2
open_path /dev_hdd0/game/XMBMANPLS/USRDIR/game_main.xml
open_path /dev_hdd0/game/XMBMANPLS/USRDIR/game_main.xml
open_path /dev_hdd0/xmlhost/game_plugin/fb.xml
open_path /dev_hdd0/xmlhost/game_plugin/fb.xml

Ok I got the log while in-game, and it's loading fb.xml and game_main.xml at the same time..

Looks like you've found the issue so. Nice one. I don't know why its loading the game_main.xml ingame when none of the items works as XMBM+ is dummied ingame.

Joonie · Feb 23, 2016

DeViL303 said:
Looks like you've found the issue so. Nice one. I don't know why its loading the game_main.xml ingame when none of the items works as XMBM+ is dummied ingame.

I don't think that's the issue, because on retail xmb, it works fine even it's being loaded.

but I noticed one weird thing though, on DEBUG VSH, after I applied xmbm, it forces grouping on application on game category.. so I can't degroup items.. on retail this works fine.

DeViL303 · Feb 23, 2016

Joonie said:
I don't think that's the issue, because on retail xmb, it works fine even it's being loaded.

but I noticed one weird thing though, on DEBUG VSH, after I applied xmbm, it forces grouping on application on game category.. so I can't degroup items.. on retail this works fine.

Strange, I dont know at all. would be nice to know alright.

I know loads wouldn't like this, but if it was up to me the Network category would be renamed to "Tools" or something like that, and all extra mods like XMBM+, CFW settings and XMBPD etc would be ran from there. I would move remote play to game, and group all the game "Utilities" under one folder in the game category. That would probably solve this issue and make the FW tidier, but it would piss a lot of Rebug users off.

Joonie · Feb 23, 2016

DeViL303 said:
Strange, I dont know at all. would be nice to know alright.

I know loads wouldn't like this, but if it was up to me the Network category would be renamed to "Tools" or something like that, and all extra mods like XMBM+, CFW settings and XMBPD etc would be ran from there. I would move remote play to game, and group all the game "Utilities" under one folder in the game category. That would probably solve this issue and make the FW tidier, but it would piss a lot of Rebug users off.

EDIT

I think I got this, [MENTION=6]bitsbubba[/MENTION] [MENTION=7]atreyu187[/MENTION] [MENTION=2198]bguerville[/MENTION] [MENTION=872]sandungas[/MENTION] [MENTION=89]aldostools[/MENTION] [MENTION=22544]DeViL303[/MENTION]

Feel free to test this xml

category_game_tool2

Code:

			<!--<Query
				class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
				key="seg_hdd_install"
				src="ese://localhost/query?type=install_game"
				/>
			<Query
				class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
				key="seg_pkg_install"
				src="ese://localhost/query?type=install_pkg"
			/>-->

Disabling these two queries did the trick!, it's always nice to compare things side by side

bitsbubba · Feb 23, 2016

Joonie said:
EDIT

I think I got this, [MENTION=6]bitsbubba[/MENTION] [MENTION=7]atreyu187[/MENTION] [MENTION=2198]bguerville[/MENTION] [MENTION=872]sandungas[/MENTION] [MENTION=89]aldostools[/MENTION] [MENTION=22544]DeViL303[/MENTION]

Feel free to test this xml

category_game_tool2

Code:



Disabling these two queries did the trick!, it's always nice to compare things side by side

or this one 16kb smaller (not much but every little bit helps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/erdl24

edit: deleted all Package manager and added this line instead

Code:

<Query
	class="type:x-xmb/folder-pixmap"
	key="seg_package_files"
	src="xmb://localhost/%flash/xmb/category_game.xml#seg_package_files"
	/>

Joonie · Feb 23, 2016

bitsbubba said:
or this one 16kb smaller (not much but every little bit helps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/erdl24

oh, it is just using the queries from categoy_game.xml for pkg manager! nice

EDIT

I just tested this, pkg manager seems broken as it doesn't show pkgs from dev_flash/rebug/packages and I get spinning icons of pkgs inside dev_hdd0/packages..

bitsbubba · Feb 23, 2016

Joonie said:
oh, it is just using the queries from categoy_game.xml for pkg manager! nice

EDIT

I just tested this, pkg manager seems broken as it doesn't show pkgs from dev_flash/rebug/packages and I get spinning icons of pkgs inside dev_hdd0/packages..

here's the one you uploaded with the same edits: https://www.sendspace.com/file/642j8c

Joonie · Feb 23, 2016

bitsbubba said:
here's the one you uploaded with the same edits: https://www.sendspace.com/file/642j8c

Ok, this one seems working

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