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PS3 FW 4.45 coming - Trophy notification toggle [Warning: Update bricking PS3s?]
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Lol stop
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Xbudz
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There is ALWAYS a conspiracy.
Microsoft could have been sniffing packets and injecting random ones and zeros.
See? Conspiracy.
Phil Harrison activated his sleeper agents.
Mine booted directly after the update and I play TLoU last night? Any chance I'll be okay?
Proelite
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Operation Doolittle.
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Xbudz
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lol
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Yahoo has picked this up: http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/latest-playstation-3-causing-big-problems-182038290.html
Alcahest
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lol, you do know that the ps3 checks the fw's MD5 after it's done downloading and PRIOR to starting the install, right?
Shogun_of_Truth
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I made it onto PSN on my Vita, but not my 4.45 PS3. Hmm
I can't do that either
Shogun_of_Truth
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I must have got lucky. Ha, well I'm glad its not my PS3 then. I had a game freeze and then I couldn't log in after reboot. I was scared the patch had screwed up my PS3 for a second. Haha
The perfect Dark
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wtf sony? hurry up, this is ridiculous. it's evening and I want to play online.
ShadowgeistX
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lol I love Q3, the tone is somewhat like: Are you guys incompetent? Don't you ever check your shit before you put it online?
Xbudz
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OK fine, then this is all Sony's dumb fault.
I'd rather believe it was an outside source.. seems silly for Sony to drop the ball now.
NathanMcMahon
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me too
Same
Hell, I'd take it a step further and say it was probably a poorly engineered (or more likely crudely patched in, miracle-that-it-works) feature period. If they held off and introduced with Vita/PS4 I imagine it'd work far smoother, or even if the PS3 was simply designed with more hooks and space available for these kind of feature updates. It was odd in the first place how trophies were an exception from disabling notifications, and now when they finally implement that feature issues hit the system. Nevermind that it took something like 4 or 5 years.
Because some (many?) of us either don't want it in all games and some (definitely some) don't even want it in their games at all. It's a very gamey, standardized feature that we may feel either ruins or at least undermines the experience and we may just be sick of the mentality surrounding them. I'd rather each game did its own if it felt it was important to a game similar to games like Smash Bros, Kid Icarus, and Xenoblade so I can be rewarded and the notifications a natural part of the experience.
It seems recovery mode still works. Which would mean that those PS3s are not actually bricked.
Hold power button till 3rd beep. Then power down.
Hold power button again till 2nd beep. Release power button. Welcome to recovery mode. You will need to connect controller via USB cable.
I guess Sony will release an update for those users. They will have to download manually to USB stick and then apply that via PS3 recovery mode.
BIGWORM
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Same.
Luckily, my kid didn't update last night while he was playing LBP2. I put a 500GB in mine, so I was definitely looking at a brick if he had updated it. I had my wife pull my kid from the game, disable the internet connection, and turn off the PS3 until the updated FW was pulled earlier this morning (?).
dripdripsplash
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I have a PS3 2nd edition slim with the stock 500GB in them. PS+ automatically updated to 4.45 though and I have been playing TLOU today, so I hope I wasn't affected. Thanks to Sony for that new feature though, very welcomed.
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Ah good good.
I have a slim 2 (super slim, w/e) with the factory 250gb HDD and so far everything is just fine though I noticed something odd with The Last Of Us. While checking out the bonuses and rewatching some cutscenes I noticed one was missing pre-update. After I updated to 4.45 the missing cutscene has now appeared but it's muted, am I the only one with this odd little issue?
chrominance
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Latest word on the PS forums is that Sony knows what the issue is and is fixing it, but has not put out any official comment.
The 4.45 update was pulled, so right now there's nothing to update to. You're cool.
That sucks, 3 friends of mine got their PS3s bricked last night :/ Hopefully Sony will be able to work something out soon.
endlessflood
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It sounds like recovery mode still works so I don't think any got bricked, but it's possible that HDDs might have to be erased to fix the problem. Hopefully they can figure out a solution that doesn't involve that though.
Xbudz
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This is way too late. Trophy display toggle should have been in there from the first day of trophies.
I tried poking around with a few HDD repair tools on my PC and it can't detect anything on the drive. I don't think my HDD is salvageable at all. At this point I've already given up and just installed a new HDD.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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I wonder how are the people with bricked PS3s going to be able to fix their shit. I guess the answer is they won't. This is why I always take a few days to update my PS3, this shit has happened before.
In fairness, the fact they can get to their boot screen is promising.
If anyone cant boot up their system, you probably are SOL.
endlessflood
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The PS3 uses a proprietary file system for the internal HDD, so repair tools on a PC are more likely to do harm than good I would say.
Couldn't you try to just wipe the drive, write a new MBR (with something like Parted Magic) and reinstall the disk? I would be highly surprised if there's anything physically wrong with the hard drive. Most likely just a corrupted file system.
This seems like a problem that is potentially easily fixed if wiping all files is an option.
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