CFW released by waninkoko

It would be good if waninkoko let us know which model ps3's he tested his work on as a lot of people now on ps3hax.net are saying that models with 256mb nand are being bricked but ps3's with 16mb nand are not...

 

Yeah that's a good point he should do that.

 

I hope there is a way to restore bricked ps3's because this flashing stuff is pretty risky and I feel sorry for the people who have units that are now useless.

 

Sure, there's a way to recover these bricks. However, it's a hardware solution involving soldering a nor/nand flasher to the board. The lv2 kernel is required to enter recovery mode AND service mode. These bricks are likely bad LV2 kernels, so the system is completely dead. With a nor/nand flasher, you can write proper files directly without needing the system to work properly.

I feel sorry for the people who jumped on this and got bricked. Waninkoko should have done a lot more testing, but I think he was trying to answer the scenes constant begging for "good custom firmware". I'm sure ego played it's part in this, as well.Mathieulh, however, is just pointing and laughing. Reading his comments... does he really have any room to comment on geohots ego issues?

 

Wanin did ask for testers, onyl 4 people helped him. So he was only able to base results from those consoles. None of them had 256 nand so the problem did not appear.

Well he needed testers and looks like he managed to get a hundred of so testers, now he can improve his cfw

As for Mathieulh, yes he's done some good stuff, but he too has an ego, and those with egos prefer to work alone and set things back.

 

Yeah I think its kinda messed up how he kinda bashed waninkoko there a bit. He is a wii scene guy not ps3 but people respected him from that scene and thought it would be an easy choice to use his firmware without any problems. Rather than just pointing out waninkoko did wrong mathieulh was making fun of the guy and the people who bricked their devices.

 

at the top of the page,he said "HAVE NOT TESTED IT YET,,GOING TO BED",,right there the yellow caution flag came up,,to many people jumped right in knowing it was not tested,,the guy has done great work,who knows how long hes been up working on this,but instead of helping him with this,lets bash him for other people stupidity,,im not in a rush for the cfw,,when it comes out fully tested and working,then ill update,

 

Most of the people who actually did the procedure correctly didnt brick. It was the people who flew to conclusions and started flashing w/o going back to 3.55 OFW. Thats their fault. There was kids who flashed with the CFW straight from 3.41!!! HAHAHAA

You fail to read, prepare to bleed!

 

Has anyone on this post tried it yet?

 

I am tempted to see what happens to my ps3, but as I said the sensible thing to do is let others who are willing to take the risk (and the impatient) to try new projects first and then decide if you want to do it yourself.

So thanks to all the new "testers" we conclude that this only work on consoles with 16mb nand. There is a list being made so you can check how many others with the same model have flashed successfully. But also note this still disables bluray playback, so if you watch bluray movies then installing this is a definite no.

Even with this info I'd still be cautious as you never know what may happen.

 

Okay so basically if you use the OFW you have to put up with Sony adding and removing features. If you use a CFW you still may end up loosing features or bricking your system.

Basically its a damned if you do damned if you don't kinda situation. LOL

 

The difference being that CFWs are quickly adding features, and OFWs just remove them. Plus, it isn't like OFWs have never bricked systems.

It has only been a matter of days since we saw the first real CFWs...and to call them "real CFWs" isn't even accurate...they are just hacked OFWs. If you are not involved with development, stick with 3.41 for about a month and then the CFWs should be something to behold. Yes, backups do work on 3.55...but it is a pain in the *** to get them to work, and far too difficult to make the patches work. Stick with 3.41 until there are real backup managers on 3.55; or at least an on-system app for ripping, hacking, and installing games right from the BD drive...it won't be long.

 

thats what i have been saying all along,,dont think to many people get it,,

 

I agree with Killerbug, these are the first cfw (or modified ofw) out there, therefore you should really think of these more like alpha projects. So we've had people test the alpha version and we've seen a few bumps. So now we wait a couple more weeks to see what the next wave of beta releases will be like, and then a couple weeks after that more stable and compatible cfw will be out and we should expect them to install without any problems and add more features to the console.

though sometimes things dont go exactly as planned, and may take longer.

 

If you have a 256 meg NAND this will BRICK your PS3. Only the ones with a 16 meg nand are safe to update to Waninkoko's cfw but even then it seems kind of iffy. I believe models CECHA - CHECG

From everything I have read, I would wait a few days until a backup manager is complied for Wutangrza's cfw and flash that one.

 

Well spotted, meant to say "does not work on 256mb nand"

And to add someone has created an app to allow backup mangers to run on Wutangrza's cfw, see other thread I have made.

 

So the most efficient compatability with playing backups lie still in 3.41 with the dongles? How come theyre a pain in the arse to play on 3.55? Just wondering. ;D

 

I posted that a whole two days ago...a lot has changed since then. Now we have Kmeaw CFW, an updated Rogero Manager, and a permissions fixer app. I now have 3.55 on both of my PS3s...I am going to keep using OFW for online because I don't want my account nuked...but offline games are running on CFW only.

 

Yea i know, in just two days the news just poured in on this scene. i love it! Shows progress. Anyways, with these CFW's FTP'ing is off-limits right? Also, what is that permissions fixer app?

 

FTP works fine...game updates too. Just don't login to your account.

http://www.ps3hax.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=570#axzz1BYJQfWgm