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Swap firmware easily without an USB dongle
Got this from the source and it's a neat trick that I'm sure will be useful to many folks over here.
Hi guys, I'm always looking for ways to make my PS3 experience easier so this was awesome. It's nothing special but I'm constantly needing to change firmwares like many of you so I thought I'd share it. To do this it's best to use QA Flag Extra since most firmwares cant enable "System Update Debug". Enable QA Flag Extra and go to the debug settings and enable "System Update Debug" then use Multiman's file manager(or other) and create a folder in /dev_hdd0 called "updater", so it's /dev_hdd0/updater/ then create folders in that directory for the firmwares called 01, 02, 03, ect.(Dont miss a number or it will error). Now copy whichever PS3UPDAT.PUP into one of those folders and........ Rename it to whatever you want, you dont even need the .PUP at the end. Now go to System Update then Update via Hard Disk and it should look something like this: P.S. Updates take only 3 minutes with this! 
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ye but can you downgrade this way say if i install 4.0 under debug
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Where is your 4.0 cfw on the picture ?
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Has anyone used this and verified that it works perfectly? If this allows me to swap firmwares right on the spot and it doesn't permanently upgrade from game disks, I'd be playing the latest Ratchet & Clank game along with a few other things.
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I'm gonna go with you'll still need a spoofer to stop game disk updates but i'm gonna take heavyrain's word for it that it works. I don't think he'd post something he didn't test, especially since he said that it takes 3 minutes to update with it.
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i was just wondering if i install 4. using this method then maybe the q and a flag will stay and we can downgrade back to 3.55
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Wow, been looking for something like this for a while now.
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Can we downgrade a Nor system without formatting HDD? I can't find it anywhere. Thanks
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and the original won't be formated you can't use it on the fw that you downgraded to but ok |
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