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PS3 CALENDAR BUG FIXED. READ OP - now I can play Bakugan Battle Brawlers, thank God
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DarknessTear
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I've been in New York for a week sightseeing with my girlfriend and I need to get the rust off, damnit! I want to play Modern Warfare 2. 
Bob, from another forum, may not be accurate to your model but anyway:
"My PS3 is slightly different to the one shown, in that it has two more screws in the top, towards the middle of the unit. Once you get to the bit where it tells you to 'gently lift out the whole motherboard' (pic. 17) you need to turn the mother board over and on the reserve side, on the left-hand side, you will see a round plastic piece of green tape, with something like 'CR2032 Sony Energy Devices Corp.' written on it. Whilst this looks a piece of specialised equipment, it is nothing more than a 'common or garden' CR2032 battery that you can pick up from any watch repair shop or even on Ebay. Remove the battery from its holder and gently unclip it from the motherboard. You will need to remove the green plastic from the existing battery and you will then see that Sony have kindly soldered the positive and negative connectors onto the existing battery. Carefully prise these connectors off with a screwdriver and then either solder them onto the new battery (paying particular attention that you get the positive and negative the right way round!!!) or, as I did, you can simply hold them in place and secure them with some tightly-wound electrical tape. Clip the new battery into place and reconnect the electrical connector to the motherboard. Put the PS3 back together in the reverse order to which you took it apart and, hey presto, you should have a PS3 that keeps the time and date perfectly...........until that battery needs replacing, of course!!"
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/725224
EDIT:
There, that green thing
http://www.llamma.com/PS3/repair/PS3_disassembly_tutorial.htm
"My PS3 is slightly different to the one shown, in that it has two more screws in the top, towards the middle of the unit. Once you get to the bit where it tells you to 'gently lift out the whole motherboard' (pic. 17) you need to turn the mother board over and on the reserve side, on the left-hand side, you will see a round plastic piece of green tape, with something like 'CR2032 Sony Energy Devices Corp.' written on it. Whilst this looks a piece of specialised equipment, it is nothing more than a 'common or garden' CR2032 battery that you can pick up from any watch repair shop or even on Ebay. Remove the battery from its holder and gently unclip it from the motherboard. You will need to remove the green plastic from the existing battery and you will then see that Sony have kindly soldered the positive and negative connectors onto the existing battery. Carefully prise these connectors off with a screwdriver and then either solder them onto the new battery (paying particular attention that you get the positive and negative the right way round!!!) or, as I did, you can simply hold them in place and secure them with some tightly-wound electrical tape. Clip the new battery into place and reconnect the electrical connector to the motherboard. Put the PS3 back together in the reverse order to which you took it apart and, hey presto, you should have a PS3 that keeps the time and date perfectly...........until that battery needs replacing, of course!!"
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/725224
EDIT:
There, that green thing
http://www.llamma.com/PS3/repair/PS3_disassembly_tutorial.htm
Big Baybee
Member
Everyone is posting the same two or three videos over and over again.
Dedication Through Light
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theBishop said:
Well they said on the blog that they were changing color schemes, so that is probably that
dreamer3kx
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fortified_concept
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We need ELPESADOR's expert opinion on this. Someone PM him on youtube.
Any locked saves can only be restored onto the same system. Unlocked saves will copy as normally.MemoryofMaggot said:
In order to transfer over locked saves you have to use the transfer utility to hook the old PS3 up to the new one. I'd recommend bringing an ethernet cable with you to Best Buy and having them do the transfer there rather than trying to restore a backup.
RbBrdMan said:
OT: Hey is this easy to do, clean up the inside I mean? And since you removed the sticker, would Sony still take it in for repairs if you sent it to them or no?? Thats what's stopping me from doing so. But Im sure I'd rather save that $150 and save for a Slim if mine died.
PS3 issues: update -
http://community.eu.playstation.com...on-issues-error-8001050F/m-p/10313748#M126581
Don't know if it was posted, but it's here to new people in the thread to read.
http://community.eu.playstation.com...on-issues-error-8001050F/m-p/10313748#M126581
Don't know if it was posted, but it's here to new people in the thread to read.
Dreams-Visions said:
I have forever been tainted. Now whenever someone mentions America or American's I will think of that mtf screaming like a fucking idiot.
I'm moving to Euro land, Canada is to close to the states for me.
PS: I will never touch a twinky again, because of that fucker. :lol
Net_Wrecker
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fortified_concept said:
Didn't he get suspended?
EDIT: He's back I guess http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5n6LFEM618 :lol
BobTheFork
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Im not syaing it's gone but could it be placed in a differant spot then the system they tried this one. I really need a picture here because there's no battery visible at this point at all.Valkyr Junkie said:
BlazingDarkness
Member
can't play offline games either. If it was online games only i wouldnt give a shitDipswitch said:
Nope, they won't take it in if that sticker is removed, that's how they know if it's been opened or not, which voids the warranty. Most consoles have a sticker like that that leaves the word "void" over everything after you remove it. I used to work in a Mom and Pop video game store and we had rejected a few Xbox 360s that were trying to be traded in because that sticker behind the faceplate was gone.Cruzader said:
MarshMellow96
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Y210 bug! And so it begins...
MemoryofMaggot
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Will try, thank you.Yeef said:
BobTheFork
Member
OK then, thank you.gotee12 said:
Mine is different. There is a huge plate under my BR drive, and I can't just take the corner off. It must be different becaue when his drive came out, there was no plate there. It covers the whole bottom half
SoccerGoaliePro
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NOOOOO I think my UNcharted 2 trophies are gone.
Big Baybee
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navanman said:
That's how I read it as well. :lol
Dreams-Visions
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cool.Yazuka said:
I'll say, "a majority", then. and I'm certainly inclined to believe that the minority who are experiencing no issues aren't because of a special set of circumstances (like their PS3's being off for awhile or some such).
there is no manufacturing subset of fat PS3's that are immune.
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Neuromancer
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You know Sony, that serial killer isn't go to catch himself. I have half a mind to charge you with obstruction of justice.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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gofreak said:
More like they've been reading the forums and user's feedback. The "fixing in 24 hrs" is more like "we'll wait for 24 hours to see if it fixes itself. if not, we will patch it".
Dreams-Visions said:
My fat PS3 is immune, so are many other fat PS3s.
Valkyr Junkie
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I wonder if the reason some fats are working is because their CMOS batteries have already gone out
Urban Scholar
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Hmm, would anyone recommend backing up their data now? I read that it would be best to not use it if already affected or not(my 60gb is affect). However, I'm rather concerned of losing some save files here.
It's elaborate to get to the battery, but this looks like a 20gig(should be about same as 60gig?). http://www.llamma.com/PS3/repair/PS3...y_tutorial.htmBobTheFork said:
Who are the idiots at Sony just waiting around to see if it fixes itself? This is unacceptable. I guess this is what you get with a free online service. You can bet Microsoft would be trying a bit harder to resolve such an issue since people are shelling out money to use their service.