12/02/2010, 06:53 AM
Well, not sure if anyone will know anything about these, but here goes anyway.
Have been having some odd issues with my PSP for a while, but some of these has started occurring more recently. It seems to have started when I was playing a bit around with firmware (installing 5.50 GEN, trying official 6.00 FW etc), but as these occur somewhat randomly, can't exactly say.
It's a PSP-1000, bought at the end of 2005 - here's the info from Pandora:
Model: 01g
Motherboard: TA-81
Anyway, the issues I've noticed:
Using USB in XMB: there only appears to be issues when writing. Reading and copying from the memstick using this feature appears to work fine. Simple write operations, like renaming a file, or copying a 1KB text file also seem to work fine, however, larger writes seem to be problematic.
Basically, if I'm copying some videos, for instance, it will appear to write at crazy speeds. After disconnecting (yes, using Windows' safely remove feature) and then reconnecting, obviously the data isn't written, except for the first file, which will be corrupted.
This occurs for both my memory sticks, but oddly, this doesn't occur if I use the USB mode in the recovery menu (this is what I've been using to copy stuff to the PSP the last few months).
CPU speed change preventing shutdown: it seems that 3 consecutive CPU speed changes via the vshmenu (that is, Select (open menu), Left/Right (to change speed), Select (close menu), Select (open menu) etc) will stop the PSP from being able to sleep, reset or shutdown. The power switch simply becomes unresponsive to sleep/shutdown requests (hold still works) and the reset/shutdown commands in the vshmenu don't work (after selecting them, the menu goes away but the PSP doesn't do as its told). Same effect with trying to sleep/reset/shutdown from the Custom Firmware Extender menu.
This is definitely repeatable for me.
Random freezes: can't really say much more than that - this has started occurring more recently and seems to be rather random. Used to be just in games, but now it's doing it in the XMB too. Something like scrolling across could cause it to freeze, or animating a gameboot could freeze it too. Fortunately doesn't happen terribly often.
Unable to power on: this has been occurring for the past few days and is annoying and I can't figure this one out. Sometimes, after a crash, when trying to turn the PSP on, the green LED would turn on, then go off after a second.
The battery is a pandora, but the same thing happens with or without the battery. The only thing special I can find is that if I have the battery in, but take out the memstick, the green LED stays lit, like a normal pandora battery does without the memory stick. If I push the memstick back in, it will then power off after one second. Weirdly though, if I don't use the battery (just AC power), it will do this weird shutdown regardless of whether the memstick is in or not. All this applies for both memory sticks.
When it's in this state, DCv8 and recovery menus are inaccessible.
It seems after a while of random switching between battery/AC or battery+AC power, memstick in or out, different memsticks etc, it will finally decide to fully boot up, so the PSP is still actually usable.
All this occurs on both 5.50 GEN and 5.00 M33, and also the Test M33 option from DCv8. I've tried formatting flash from DCv8 before installing each of the firmwares, and have even tried rebuilding IDStorage, but all these issues persist.
From what I can tell, this doesn't appear to be solely a hardware or software issue... >_>
So anyone have any ideas?
Thanks for reading :)
Have been having some odd issues with my PSP for a while, but some of these has started occurring more recently. It seems to have started when I was playing a bit around with firmware (installing 5.50 GEN, trying official 6.00 FW etc), but as these occur somewhat randomly, can't exactly say.
It's a PSP-1000, bought at the end of 2005 - here's the info from Pandora:
Model: 01g
Motherboard: TA-81
Anyway, the issues I've noticed:
Using USB in XMB: there only appears to be issues when writing. Reading and copying from the memstick using this feature appears to work fine. Simple write operations, like renaming a file, or copying a 1KB text file also seem to work fine, however, larger writes seem to be problematic.
Basically, if I'm copying some videos, for instance, it will appear to write at crazy speeds. After disconnecting (yes, using Windows' safely remove feature) and then reconnecting, obviously the data isn't written, except for the first file, which will be corrupted.
This occurs for both my memory sticks, but oddly, this doesn't occur if I use the USB mode in the recovery menu (this is what I've been using to copy stuff to the PSP the last few months).
CPU speed change preventing shutdown: it seems that 3 consecutive CPU speed changes via the vshmenu (that is, Select (open menu), Left/Right (to change speed), Select (close menu), Select (open menu) etc) will stop the PSP from being able to sleep, reset or shutdown. The power switch simply becomes unresponsive to sleep/shutdown requests (hold still works) and the reset/shutdown commands in the vshmenu don't work (after selecting them, the menu goes away but the PSP doesn't do as its told). Same effect with trying to sleep/reset/shutdown from the Custom Firmware Extender menu.
This is definitely repeatable for me.
Random freezes: can't really say much more than that - this has started occurring more recently and seems to be rather random. Used to be just in games, but now it's doing it in the XMB too. Something like scrolling across could cause it to freeze, or animating a gameboot could freeze it too. Fortunately doesn't happen terribly often.
Unable to power on: this has been occurring for the past few days and is annoying and I can't figure this one out. Sometimes, after a crash, when trying to turn the PSP on, the green LED would turn on, then go off after a second.
The battery is a pandora, but the same thing happens with or without the battery. The only thing special I can find is that if I have the battery in, but take out the memstick, the green LED stays lit, like a normal pandora battery does without the memory stick. If I push the memstick back in, it will then power off after one second. Weirdly though, if I don't use the battery (just AC power), it will do this weird shutdown regardless of whether the memstick is in or not. All this applies for both memory sticks.
When it's in this state, DCv8 and recovery menus are inaccessible.
It seems after a while of random switching between battery/AC or battery+AC power, memstick in or out, different memsticks etc, it will finally decide to fully boot up, so the PSP is still actually usable.
All this occurs on both 5.50 GEN and 5.00 M33, and also the Test M33 option from DCv8. I've tried formatting flash from DCv8 before installing each of the firmwares, and have even tried rebuilding IDStorage, but all these issues persist.
From what I can tell, this doesn't appear to be solely a hardware or software issue... >_>
So anyone have any ideas?
Thanks for reading :)
