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PS4 Firmware 3.50 Details (Friend Online Notifications, Appear Offline)
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EdReedFan20
Member
Yeah. I'm often shocked at how unknown these things still are to people.
SolidAwesome
Banned
Smooth update nonetheless
the original ones were very shit so people didn't take them seriously, and if you have an old house (ours is 110 years old), likely to have poor wiring.
steescribbles
Member
An increase in the Twitter video length from 10 seconds to 30 seconds would be nice, unfortunately it seems like it's not present in this update.
Wow no second wave of invites? I really might not get in this one
You checked your spam or promotions emails?
Checked mine..invites seem randomly picked. I signed up before I linked a friend after the original topic was posted - he got in and I didn't. Could be chosen based on console usage, though, he's on a lot more than I am.
autoduelist
Member
The existence of a feature on previous systems has no bearing on a new system. When designing firmware from scratch for a huge launch, it is best to strip down your OS to mission critical items and add in the 'fluff' later. You do not want unnecessary features to accidentally cause massive issues at launch, destroying marketing/launch momentum. For example, what if people with 100+ friends on their friends list in some cases caused unforeseen network issues, etc?
Now, I agree it didn't necessarily need to take this long to get some of the missing features, but expecting feature parity between a mature OS and a launch OS is a mistake -- it would be absolutely negligent of Sony to not prioritize a slim OS built for launch to millions of customers.
Checked no luck
do a bug report, you, me and a few others are experiencing this. meanwhile other people are seeing increased speeds. very strange stuff.
Yep, these are excellent. Even works in my old house with a circuit box arranged in such a way that an electrician once said he had never seen before in his career. It seems like I get occasional minor packet loss, but it's still a hell of a lot better than wifi through 2 floors.
Saint of Killers
Member
^_^ My most wanted request is in 3.50: We can now disable the screenshot icon! \o/
Where do you do that?
Settings > Notifications > At the bottom.
Thank you sir.
ubersticky
Member
Guess I'll continue to use a sub account then.
Well then.
If they can't get that right then at least let us set a status. All I want is for others to be able to use my PS4 without getting a bunch of invites to everything :\
EdReedFan20
Member
To be clear, you're talking about whenever trophies are earned, you'll get a screenshot automatically taken, correct? If so, the ability to turn that off has been there for a while. That is not a new feature.
Optimus Prime
Member
No, apparently in 3.50 you can disable the little screenshot icon in the upper left corner that comes up after taking a screenshot. Since it's always delayed, it's nice to remove it if you take a series of pictures so it won't end up in your subsequent ones.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Does it still make the 'ding sound' so you know if you took the screenshot or not?
Yes.
SolidAwesome
Banned
The objective of appearing offline is so that everyone on the dash see's you offline. not if you are playing a game. the heck is wrong with some of you?
Zombie James
Banned
You can disable that, too.
Wait, people were expecting to be invisible in game (Destiny etc) or what?
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Some nice features. I'll give remote play a try when I can. Still waiting on those folders, though.
Remote Play on PC/Mac is cool, but there goes part of the usefulness of my Vita TV.
Sony, please give us folders. I, along with everyone that has used a PS4 are of having to scroll through everything just to find the game/application we're looking for....
VITA MEANS LIFE ｡･ﾟヾ(✦థ ｪ థﾉ｡ﾟ･｡
ﾉ｡ﾟ･｡Sony, please give us folders. I, along with everyone that has used a PS4 are of having to scroll through everything just to find the game/application we're looking for....
Huh?
Beta 2 of the 3.5 FW or are you talking about the old beta for the FW that happened last year?
SolidAwesome
Banned
Beta 2 of 3.5. It says so when you download it.
Reflection
Member
Any chance they fixed the sorting of music tracks in the media player so that they sort by track number instead of alphabetically?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Yeah it seems weird and would probably require a patch for each and every game that wanted to do it. I mean if you are playing an online game why would you want to be invisible?
To be invisible in games you can just disconnect from network. Did people want to be connected to some network features but not others? Like store, trophies and so forth, but not gaming/social/media?
royalroyal
Member
is anyone else having issues with the beta via remote play with vita?
RedAssedApe
Banned
even if it could i dont see them doing something like unless it was a psp situation where the chips were binned to run at a certain speed but purposely underclocked for whatever reason
I think Remote Play is disabled in the beta.
Anyone having issues with other Wi-Fi devices when the PS4 is pushing data? When I stream Netflix or doing anything for that matter online with the console is disrupts other wireless devices severely. I get massive amounts of packet loss and a ridiculously high latency (when I'm not dropping packets).
BoboBrazil
Member
I saw this leaked online. If I install it, how would future updates work?
Only if the yield is such it can be be done without breaking stuff. So usually the answer is no unless they took a higher clocked chip and specifically downclocked it for power usage reasons.
I asked this because the network functions seem to work better with this beta so I'm thinking they improved it to prepare for PC remote play.
I test out some of the unofficial Plex channels like Primewire & so on just to see if they work & before this beta Primewire didn't work at all but now it work. being that it's a unofficial channel I doubt if the changes was made on their end & Plex on PS4 is still on 01.17 so I think it's something that came with the improvements of the FW update. also some of the official Plex channels like the CW , Comedy Central , Nick Jr , CBS , South Park , TV Land , Spike & so on that was hit & miss (mostly miss ) seem to work as they should now. Fox has always worked as it should the others didn't seem to work for the most part but now everything seem to be working better.