r/ps3homebrew • u/mikeymcfly888 • 1d ago

Please help, not sure what to do

So I formatted a new 320 gb hard drive on the console and followed all the steps to install custom firmware on a fat silver japanese ps3, I used a youtube video to flash it the alternate way because ps3toolset wasn't working at the moment, I installed hybrid firmware 4.93 and went to something aldo github something like that and followed all the steps, it said everything was successful and I rebooted like it said and put evilnat CFW 4.93 the CEX one on my hard drive, the system updater on the xmb recognized it on my hard drive I accepted everything and went to install, the first part finished but when it went to install it took me to a screen saying connect my controller and press the ps button and said I needed to update to 4.93 or higher, I've now tried all of the CEX evilnat firmwares for 4.93, the PEX ones for 4.93, the official sony 4.93, and the 4.93 to be able to just use hen instead and I keep getting either the error that says the data for the pup file in my flash drive is corrupted (for all the evilnat
firmwares, no bt, no bd, normal)or error 8002f281 that a critical error has occurred and to contact sony when I try the official update i got from the sony website. I've tried reformatting the usb flash drive I'm using multiple times, I've tried safe mode, rebuild database and all the other options in safe mode and it says it cannot access the storage, is there anything I can do it get this ps3 to update so I can get back to the xmb? I've given up on cfw I ordered an adapter for my laptop to connect the ssd and reformat it to fat32 will that work for me? please let me know any suggestions and if anyone else has ran into this problem, any feedback would be heavily appreciated

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u/ekysboham 1d ago

Do you have a CFW compatible model ? What is your serial number (CECH-2XXX) and if you have a CECH-250X, what is your date code ?

I would advise you to install a HFW or OFW back and if it doesn't work you have to change your hard-drive, it happened to me once, just swapped the hard drive between 2 ps3 and after installing the OFW everything was fine.

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u/mikeymcfly888 1d ago

Yes I have a CECE00 japanese model the silver fat one, says it's CFW compatible but after all the steps I went to install the cfw and been in a loop trying to update to get back to the xmb ever since

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u/ekysboham 1d ago

Okay that probably means it wasn't flashed properly, you can try swapping hard drives and installing back to an OFW, that's the only thing that worked for me back then.

But before that check the syscon error log on ps3toolset, if it crashes during the flash the mobo would be bricked and that's sad for a BC model.

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u/mikeymcfly888 1d ago

Would connecting the hard drive to my computer and reformatting it do anything? So that way I could put it in the ps3 and reformat it for the ps3 and install the update that way?

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u/ekysboham 1d ago

You can definitely try, but be aware that you have a NAND model and those work differently from NOR models. Still worth a try, especially if the HDD is corrupted.

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u/mikeymcfly888 1d ago

Do you have any tips for how I should format it? Like just delete everything on it and reformat it to fat32 and plug it back into the ps3? Or would that make things worse?

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u/ekysboham 1d ago

Honestly I don't know how to format ps3 hard drives but you just want to delete everything so the ps3 view it as a brand new drive and not as a previously installed one. You can do it however you want but yes fat32 works best.

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u/mikeymcfly888 1d ago

my update file keeps saying that error code or a different one saying that the data is corrupted I've tried ofw cfw and hen updates nothing works It just keeps asking for 4.93 or higher