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OK ......I believe I've semi bricked my psp.......
When I turn on the psp...all that comes up is a black screen.....yeah im freaked out....but when I turn it on while holding the R trigger it can go into recovery mode...After that I can still go to exit recovery menu and it takes me to my normal psp. But I can not go into it just by reguraly turning on teh psp....

This time I need help more than ever.
IF someoen who knows what he's doing, give me detailed instructions as to what to do, to semi-unbrick it
plz help S.O.S
thnx ;( ;( ;(:(

(I don't consider my self an expert but i guess try this don't have to if you don't)

Well just use your recover mode and use the recover feature and i guess that should fix it i have never had to do that.

What did you do to semi-brick it? And please no titles in caps.

Yea I don't consider myself an expert anything >.<

well what i did was...I downlaoded an eboot.pbp and made a recovery folder manually and put that in there. I did that because the easy winstaller only gives me options of F G H and I to create my recovery folder and I have K. The winstaller then says it cant create my recovery folder. So then I just did it myslef. I turned off the psp and ran teh recovery mode. I ran the blah blah blah (3rd from the top) and then evrything went black, it was black for like 2-3 minutes so I got worried and I tried shutting off the psp. I don't think that it was working. And after that it became semi bricked. Oh and actually when i turned on teh recovery folder and it was going for 2-3 minutes it wouldn't let me turn off the psp. It was just really weird. Is it suppose to take long?

The point of the winstaller is, that a eboot isn't the only file needed you need a actual downgrader/recovery folder to use it. You can't put a random file in there, so yea. Theres your problem you put a completely wrong file in there. Just delete the folder and you'll have to find a manual way to put the recovery folder in there. Find somewhere to download the correct recovery files, then downgrade to 1.5 and upgrade to a cf

Thnx..I dont have time to do this now since I have exams but will probably get back to you on this once I do it. I think you and everybody else have done everything you can do, the rest is up to me..I know my problem and objective all I need is to figure out the details.
Once again thnx alot ace_012 and pspbrew members

You could always disconnect or use daemon tools, or some component in windows to change the drive letter of your psp to one that pops up in the winstaller.

ill respond in 10 minutes im onto something, i think i solved m,y problem

You didn't stick it into the microwave did you?

wel....i didi it....I BRICKED MY PSP!!!!!!


























AHHHH JK I fixed it
what i was suppose to was put the winstaller in the K drive and then run it, after that i had teh option to put it in the k drive. anyways I recovered it back to 1.5 and then brough it back to 3.40 OE-A
The only bad thing I found out is that the firmware is not the problem as to why my wifi is not working.
I guess I have to get a new wifi card and put apart the psp after all. But I dont feel bad because I did all I could to try to fix it.
Thnx for all your help, you guys have been supporting on the way, especially you ace_012.

No problemo. You know you could've always upgraded to 3.03OE-A and tested wifi. As for fixing it, I say jsut wait a while. If it never works for a while, then I can't help you there man. Never replaced any wifi parts (antenna or anything)

hmm...maybe when i have time ill do it...but when i got the psp back to 1.5 I tried teh wifif and it didnt work and then in 3.4 OE it didnt work as well..nut ill probably try it some time later...alriet once again thnx...I hav eto continue wityh my studying now...chem exam wednesday!!!!!!!ahhhhh

i know what the problem was.. if you were at 3.03 OE-C you wouldnt have to do all that you coulda just reflashed your opening_plugin.rco to vsh/resource..

the reason it wouldnt turn on normally is because your opening_plugin.rco got corrupted somehow (or deleted)
when you go form recovery to the psp it doesnt use the opening plugin because it doesnt play the little movie..

so it doesnt really matter as long as you fixed it already

oh i already fixed everything.ko I recovered back to 1.5 and now im back at 3.40 OE

alrighty then.