[aneeshchennai]

"Have you tried patching the backup instead of the e3_downgrade.bin?"-Playerkp

wats this ? cant understand this step

[playerkp420]

Try and patch your 4.00 backup with the link in my last post. Then flash it to your ps3 with all switches down.

[aneeshchennai]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gxfbin

here is the link of my 4.00 bios.. can u patch it and upload for me.. its midnight here and i may sleep.. it will be great from my side to see a patched bios done for me in the morning ..please )

[playerkp420]

Originally Posted by aneeshchennai http://www.sendspace.com/file/gxfbin here is the link of my 4.00 bios.. can u patch it and upload for me.. its midnight here and i may sleep.. it will be great from my side to see a patched bios done for me in the morning ..please )

Sure, I can patch it for you.

Rename this patched backup to bkpps3.bin.
Put it on your sd card by itself.
Put it in your flasher with all switches down and press start.
Reboot ps3 and you should get the connect controller screen.
Then follow the downgrade steps.

Good luck.

[aneeshchennai]

So i hope i get my own patched bios from u in the morning! great ! u are best..

Then put all switches down and use the (patched) bios from u to do the restore bios step from where i left?

[playerkp420]

Originally Posted by aneeshchennai So i hope i get my own patched bios from u in the morning! great ! u are best.. Then put all switches down and use the (patched) bios from u to do the restore bios step from where i left?

Yes. After you flash the patched bios and reboot and see the controller screen. Cut the power and use downgrade dongle.

[master737373]

Ok, when you say you checked it, do you mean each flash file individually like you're supposed to? Or just with some program?

[aneeshchennai]

sorry to tell u...
I got up early in the morning and tried this. Still same..No display ...no hdd activity and power button holding also did not work.
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by the way- i feel that my own bios backup will be a problem. also, i had forgotten to backup the bios after the second step.. I took a copy of bios to my pc only after the ps3 got bricked in the restore step when first light started progressing.. is there a problem?

[playerkp420]

Originally Posted by aneeshchennai sorry to tell u... I got up early in the morning and tried this. Still same..No display ...no hdd activity and power button holding also did not work. ************* [ - Post Merged - ] ************* by the way- i feel that my own bios backup will be a problem. also, i had forgotten to backup the bios after the second step.. I backed up bios only after the ps3 got bricked in the restore step when first light started progressing.. is there a problem?

If that backup is from after you got bricked, and after patching it didn't work, then I'm sorry to say you most likely won't be able to fix it.

Try one more thing. I haven't tried this, but have seen it worked for a user on here.
Flash your backup with the switches 1 and 3 up and the rest down. May not work either but worth a shot.

[haz367]

3UP = backup

my 2 cents...i had a brick..could not repair it using "1UP-2/6DOWN

** unbricked with original way: bkpps3.bin+e3_downgrade.bin - 1UP-2/5DOWN-6UP, proceed with downgrade, tho i had normal screen input!

also heard..it's normal behaviour with patched file and black screen..aka you must do it blindly, although you don't see a thing on screen, it's working..just watch the front led on PS3

some info about your backup:
it looks valid ..in my view this must be able to fix, perhaps ask euss on efnet...
if u check it with "norpatch" it show's

PRG0 version = 3.55
PRG1 version = 3.21
PKG0 version = unknown
PKG1 version= unknown
ROS0 version = 3.60
ROS1 version = 3.72

and if you used a "patched" dump, maibe give this a shot like the user on the wiki >>

user experiences from my experience soldering a wire to the nor tristate point did nothing, try this method instead. Manually patch your nor backup. Place the patced backup and the e3_downgrade.bin file onto the SD card ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ then put all the switches on the flasher down and hold start and turn on the console. If the console stays on and the flashing process begins when completed after rebooting the console should boot normally on the firmware you were trying to install, if you see two blue flashing lights and the console just turns off try this.. all switches down except the 6th one (lock/unlock) hold start on the flasher and turn on the console providing that the console stays on once finished flashing DO NOT TURN THE CONSOLE OFF instead put the last switch down and press start again. once finnished reboot and hopefully the console should be back to life.

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Originally Posted by playerkp420 Sure, I can patch it for you. Rename this patched backup to bkpps3.bin.

not to cause any drama here but this patched dump is byteswapped = IFI header instead of "original bytereversed e3 header" = FI.I...one must patch the E3manual patches from the wiki with original E3DUMP(sendspace link ^) = FI.I header and not on the "bytereversed" IFI - bkpps3.swap.bin u get from Flowrebuilder(Bytereverse NOR dump)
check screenshots...

so, grab the e3manual patches

use that sendspace dump
open Flowrebuilder
Choose option 6 : Patch a bytereversed NOR dump or an .....
Load original bkpps3.bin(sendspace link) into flowrebuilder
Load Progskeet_patch.txt into flowrebuilder
Hit Execute operation
Done


correct manually patched bkpps3.patch.bin has a MD5 checksum of:

 File: bkpps3.patch.bin
CRC-32: fb29bbf8
   MD4: 7cd6c5e852ed62321f7dc03daac8e08f
   MD5: d42c604f983e0c1066d4dd8cc9f2107a
 SHA-1: ae3e4631d9f8c049b5d7283cbe93439f6b1142ae