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PS3 FW 4.45 coming - Trophy notification toggle [Warning: Update bricking PS3s?]
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Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Dat gaf info hookup. Was minutes away from updating. Luckily xcom finished dling. Now to see how bad this game is.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
cjtiger300
Member
Made it through, whew!
zerodayPopbot
Member
I was just about to update. Thank you for the warnings guys.
Vincent4756
Member
I hope all you trophy notification haters feel good for all this pain and suffering you've caused.... lol im just kidding.
It is seriously irritating though.
It is seriously irritating though.
There's still the arguments of affecting game design, but that's nebulous and hard to measure, and at any rate I do imagine the novelty's worn off ENOUGH that now it's just sort of "oh right, we should do this." Then there's games where they show how far along you are all the time, unless they disable that I may as well turn on trophies/achievements just to see when I reach that goar.
Actually we should probably gather our models and experiences.
Slim (late 2009) - updated - no problems.
I guess the only reason you'd turn notifications off is you wanted to treat it like Christmas. Beat a game, and look at all those new trophies.
You don't need to unplug it, the PS3 never auto updates itself. It only downloads the firmware.
chrominance
Member
PlayStation support forums have a thread with reports but no word from Sony. Symptoms appear to be similar amongst the affected:
Oh, one other thing: people in that forum thread report trying to reformat their drive and STILL getting the ribbon of death. So it's probably not worth formatting your drive just yet.
- Boots to PS3 logo and then blank sparkly screen, no response afterwards
- Dualshock won't connect, lights just flash even after plugging in via USB
- Attempting to rebuild the file system via the recovery menu ends in failure and a prompt to format the system
Oh, one other thing: people in that forum thread report trying to reformat their drive and STILL getting the ribbon of death. So it's probably not worth formatting your drive just yet.
Vincent4756
Member
Slim ps3 2011, GET ALL THE ISSUES! just did the format. and you know what? Fixed nothing.
Oh yea! Thanks
Lol. Maybe as far as trying to improve the OS in any significant ways, but not from a software POV. Still lots to come.
Sweet, I was reading the thread and shaking my head at how my PS3 was probably a cooked turkey by now.
This is pretty sucky Sony. You can't just bork peoples PS3's like that. NO TROPHIES FOR YOU
LittleToaster
Member
update:
250GB superslim from last year, swapped 250GB with 500GB Western Digital drive., no problems.
250GB superslim from last year, swapped 250GB with 500GB Western Digital drive., no problems.
Revolutionary
Member
Update went through fine on my launch PS3 with a 750GB HDD.
That's good news I guess, better than a brick. Actually, that sounds like what happened with the very first trophy update, some people's hard drives were corrupted and Sony had to put out a different one quickly afterwards.
mugoldeneagle03
Member
Keeping my fingers crossed this helps as my system has taken a total shit since tlou came out. It lags & freezes constantly while not reading any of my blu ray movies. It's one of the older fat 80 gigs so I'm sure its the disc drive but this would be awesome...
BoilersFan23
Member
My PS3 was just bricked. Watched a blu-ray movie, told I needed to update, after I did, all I got was the wavy screen. Tried restarting w/ no luck. Only option I was left with was restore system data losing everything. That fixed the PS3, but now I have to re-download everything. Oh well.
Vincent4756
Member
i cant get this system to work at all anymore. all i get is a black screen now...im not pleased.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I guess they accidentally disabled everything else along with trophy notifications. Whoops.
After it failed to repair the system file, I can't even access the recovery menu anymore.
This hits me pretty hard because I've been downloading most of my PS3 games recently, so I'm not looking forward to re-downloading everything again.
I'm not going to take that step yet. But, Sony had better get a fix out by the time I wake up in the morning. It's too late in the gen to start over. If I lose all my data I'm not starting from scratch. I'm done with PS3.
chrominance
Member
Ugh. I have a 1TB drive and my PS3 is currently dead. That might be the key.
JJDinomite
Banned
Installed it, working perfectly. I guess this is karma for me never getting that free $10 PSN thing.
wellthatsucks
Neo Member
Great. I have no interest in trophies, so being able to turn off the notifications will be nice.
750GB. So, there goes that theory.
Could be anything greater than 500GB...
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