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by gozmike 4745 days ago
This happened during another wave of bricked PS3's about a year ago. One year later - same shit is happening to PS3 owners, no real addressing of the problem happened.

My device has been stuck in a perpetual (failing) update loop like many others. No patch was ever released. There's no known way without specialized hardware (PS3Key) or out-of-warranty RMA. I don't want to invest in either solution.
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leddt 4745 days ago
My device does something similar. When a new update comes out, 95% of the time the update will fail. When that happens, it continues to fail no matter how often I retry.

Through much trial and error, I found a way to make the update work every time. This may look stupid, but I swear it works:

  1. Try the update. It fails.
  2. Turn off the console.
  3. Take the hard drive out.
  4. Turn on the console. It will fail to boot and shutdown.
  5. Put the hard drive back in.
  6. Turn on the console. The update will start again and succeed.
I have no idea why this works, it makes no sense to me. But it's been working this way without fail for a few years.
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gozmike 4745 days ago
Thanks man. I tried this out to no avail. When I realized that I was faced with a hefty RMA bill, I tried both removing the battery and letting its settings RAM clear overnight as well as booting without a hard drive. Both had no effect unfortunately.

In my opinion, it's a poorly designed update mechanism that makes it prone to failure. There should be some redundancy built into the process so that the machine can always force itself back to a "known-good" state and at least access the recovery menu.

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