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Originally Posted by CaptainCPS-X Ok guys, thanks for your concern and positive feedback! My brick occurred when I re-flashed my PS3 back to CEX with my original 256 NAND dump. The exact problem was this: MY DEX-TO-CEX BRICK - PS3 supposedly went out of FSM based on the generated "factory.txt" log file, but then I got a Blinking Red Light. - PS3 got bricked "apparently" by using the wrong "Lv2diag.self" to exit FSM, I was supposed to use the one for CEX, not DEX. I will put this information in the main thread as a Warning so people don't make the same mistake. My recommendation is that if you go to DEX, stay on DEX until it is officially confirmed that you can safely go out of DEX on NANDs. EDIT: Updated main thread with this information. SeeYa!

The problem which causes all the bricks is flashing the whole NOR/NAND. You didn't do anything wrong, except for that. Chance to succeed is less than 10% when you overwrite the flash - in the other 90% the coreos region of the flash gets corrupted and bricks the PS3. Even with the original dump you may not be able to recover the brick, unless someone "fixes" it (it was done with NOR dumps).

Just a warning to everyone: do not flash the whole NAND/NOR - use a tool to flash only the changed EID0 sector. If you remember the post from @evilsperm - he flashed the EID0 from petitboot, but ONLY 64KB (which is also not necessary). So either use petitboot to flash the eid only or multiMAN, which does it properly (a lot of people converted with no problems).