CECHA00 not reading games 4.84 DEX

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zoiasso

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The history is, I started to buying some retrocompatible, repairing them selling.

This CECHA 00 was on 4.86 cfw i sold it, them few days later the buyer told me the ps2 games were going in to black screen. I said "ok, dont touch anything, just send me back and i will return your money".

So i received the console on 4.84 DEX, its not even reading ps3 games anymore. The games dont even show o XMB, the LED from blue ray stays blue on full time with disc in. Already tried another working BR drive (not a hardware problem). He also changed some how from japanese to american (cecha 00 is originally japanese model).

I opened the console to check if it was the same i board i sold, it was. The buyer just messed with the sofware.

Is there anyway to downgrade back to OFW? I dont have any dump, i deleted my dump few days after selling it. Now the console is on 4.84 DEX not reading games.

Srry about my english.
 
i managed to move from dex 4.84 to cex and updated to 4.86 rebug. Still not reading discs, and the bluelight stays solid on with disc inside. Is there anyway to downgrade to some old OFW?
 
zoiasso said:
i managed to move from dex 4.84 to cex and updated to 4.86 rebug. Still not reading discs, and the bluelight stays solid on with disc inside. Is there anyway to downgrade to some old OFW?
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just install OFW 4.86
 
You probably should have just sold the PS3 with a "No Return" policy, not to be shitty to customers but that is the standard that I've seen with most people who sell jailbroken consoles. Trouble can come depending where you sell from and sales history of jb consoles on places like eBay usually get redacted in 6 months or so anyways.

You sold it on 4.86 CEX and he sent it back to you on 4.84 DEX, making his issue yours. He probably messed up on the kernel swap.

Also, being that it's a very old CECHA00, any variety of things could be wrong with it or went wrong at a very inconvenient time.

But again, he took responsibility as a buyer and the product was fine at the time of sale and receipt. He screwed it up to his own accord.
 
SKEPTiCK said:
You probably should have just sold the PS3 with a "No Return" policy, not to be shitty to customers but that is the standard that I've seen with most people who sell jailbroken consoles. Trouble can come depending where you sell from and sales history of jb consoles on places like eBay usually get redacted in 6 months or so anyways.

You sold it on 4.86 CEX and he sent it back to you on 4.84 DEX, making his issue yours. He probably messed up on the kernel swap.

Also, being that it's a very old CECHA00, any variety of things could be wrong with it or went wrong at a very inconvenient time.

But again, he took responsibility as a buyer and the product was fine at the time of sale and receipt. He screwed it up to his own accord.
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Yeah, but it's partially my fault, cause in fact i believe he was having black screen with playstation 2 games, cause im having it in another retrocompatible console that i updated to 4.86 rebug (seems like the 4.86 cfw is messing up with the ps2 stuff directly from disc). I tested ps2 media only before i install 4.86rebug, i forgot to test after, that's why i believe he was actually ahving black screen on ps2 games.

Do you believe its possible that changing something on this DEX mode, can be retained? I mean he changed some setting, and it wont go back by changing firmwares or recoverying system?

I have 2 theories:
1 - hardware problem due to shipping (maybe they dropped the box or something like that) * Idont believe in this one
2 - He changed some weird stuff into that dex mode, that is causing this.

****Blue ray drive is not a possibility cause i tested with anoother (KNOWN WORKING)

I reinstalled now the 4.86 OFW like Coro said above, but still not reading. And now Im back to 4.86 REBUG again, i will keep researching, if I manage to solve the problem i will post here to help others with same problem.
 
zoiasso said:
Yeah, but it's partially my fault, cause in fact i believe he was having black screen with playstation 2 games, cause im having it in another retrocompatible console that i updated to 4.86 rebug (seems like the 4.86 cfw is messing up with the ps2 stuff directly from disc). I tested ps2 media only before i install 4.86rebug, i forgot to test after, that's why i believe he was actually ahving black screen on ps2 games.

Do you believe its possible that changing something on this DEX mode, can be retained? I mean he changed some setting, and it wont go back by changing firmwares or recoverying system?

I have 2 theories:
1 - hardware problem due to shipping (maybe they dropped the box or something like that) * Idont believe in this one
2 - He changed some weird stuff into that dex mode, that is causing this.

****Blue ray drive is not a possibility cause i tested with anoother (KNOWN WORKING)

I reinstalled now the 4.86 OFW like Coro said above, but still not reading. And now Im back to 4.86 REBUG again, i will keep researching, if I manage to solve the problem i will post here to help others with same problem.
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As far as I would think, he was probably trying to switch from 4.86 CEX to 4.84 DEX to see if PS2 games would run any better but if he forgot to dump his EID before swapping his LV2 Kernel to DEX, then the CEX kernel could be gone from the console.

More specifically, did he give you examples of PS2 games that he tried playing. Because some games like "Freekstyle" or others that I can't remember but some PS2 games have blackscreen issues on ALL PS3 consoles and simply don't play. I have played Area 51, GTA3, GTAVC & GTASA on 4.84.2 D-REX with no issues.

Other games that gave me framerate issues would be games like Tekken 5, Soul Calibur 3 or BLACK, anything with high-speed animations and alot of movement. As for games that didn't work, which I've tested, most of the Tony Hawk games as well as GUN would not work for me.

Region can be changed in the Debug Settings, go to "Fake Region" and set back to "Japan" if that's what he did. If Region is still stuck and SEN Enabler is on the console, then use that to change the TargetID back to Japanese Retail.

Other than that, I'm not sure it can be fixed if he installed 4.84.2 DEX over 4.86 CEX without having the EID probably dumped beforehand.

Dumping CEX EID with Rebug Toolbox was the 1st thing I did when I received my PS3... and then you swap to DEX
 
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SKEPTiCK said:
As far as I would think, he was probably trying to switch from 4.86 CEX to 4.84 DEX to see if PS2 games would run any better but if he forgot to dump his EID before swapping his LV2 Kernel to DEX, then the CEX kernel could be gone from the console.

More specifically, did he give you examples of PS2 games that he tried playing. Because some games like "Freekstyle" or others that I can't remember but some PS2 games have blackscreen issues on ALL PS3 consoles and simply don't play. I have played Area 51, GTA3, GTAVC & GTASA on 4.84.2 D-REX with no issues.

Other games that gave me framerate issues would be games like Tekken 5, Soul Calibur 3 or BLACK, anything with high-speed animations and alot of movement. As for games that didn't work, which I've tested, Tony Hawk's Underground 1 & 2 as well as GUN would not work for me.

Region can be changed in the Debug Settings, go to "Fake Region" and set back to "Japan" if that's what he did. If Region is still stuck and SEN Enabler is on the console, then use that to change the TargetID back to Japanese Retail.

Other than that, I'm not sure it can be fixed if he installed 4.84.2 DEX over 4.86 CEX without having the EID probably dumped beforehand.
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Thx, that debug settings isn't there anymore, i need to into dex again to have it? Im more like a hobbiest electronics repair, I dont know much about ps3 software stuff, i just have one here that i play sometimes

Ah one last thing, if i managed to come back from dex to cex on rebug toolbox, wasn't it dumped on console?
 
zoiasso said:
Thx, that debug settings isn't there anymore, i need to into dex again to have it? Im more like a hobbiest electronics repair, I dont know much about ps3 software stuff, i just have one here that i play sometimes

Ah one last thing, if i managed to come back from dex to cex on rebug toolbox, wasn't it dumped on console?
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Yeah, it should be. If you want to give the Debug Settings a shot, then go ahead... Otherwise, you could just leave it on 4.84 CEX and re-install a fresh CFW @ 4.86 on top of the 4.84 that he tried, couldn't you? Just make sure you're on CEX when you install a CEX-ONLY build of REBUG

4.84.2 D-REX is the last DEX build that was released more than a year ago, maybe 2... he probably wanted dev stuff or all mods working.

Pick REBUG 4.85 or 4.86 for CEX... Probably best to use REBUG 4.86.1 LITE
 
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zoiasso said:
I reinstalled now the 4.86 OFW like Coro said above, but still not reading. And now Im back to 4.86 REBUG again, i will keep researching, if I manage to solve the problem i will post here to help others with same problem.
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Sorry, I did not see this quote until now... I'm not sure what your issue could be but another person might be able to figure it out.

You could also try this method, though you would have to go back to D-REX 4.84.2 to properly install it.

https://www.psx-place.com/threads/how-to-remarry-blueray-drive-on-cfw-ps3-step-by-step.26913/

^Link for NoBD/NoBT firmware, but I've never used one and I don't know if it's possible to come back from NoBD firmware. You say that it can't be a blu-ray drive issue but it could be an issue with that drive specifically if another blu-ray drive works just fine.

I don't know anything about marrying the drives but that blu-ray drive has probably seen it's fair share of use in that console's nearly 15 years of existence. One of the oldest models, if it hasn't been refurbished at all, then it does not surprise that issues are arising now.
 
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@zoiasso did you "remarry" the new disc drive? also as it is cech-a model it should run practically any ps2 from disc. maybe two or three ps2 games will not play.

@SKEPTiCK if you are using netemu tony hawk and gun need config files. maybe on cech-c and cech-e also. a or b model should play fine. ive played gun start to finish 3 times on different non-bc phats and slims.

EDIT: it wasn't Gun that i fully played 3 times. it was Red Dead Revolver.
 
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Coro said:
@zoiasso did you "remarry" the new disc drive? also as it is cech-a model it should run practically any ps2 from disc. maybe two or three ps2 games will not play.
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As i said the game is not even reading, the blue light on ps3 stay solid on forever when a disc is inserted. The black screen thing on ps2 games was before the buyer mess up with software stuff. Now the console cant even indetify the disc on XMB. About "remarrying the disc" this same blue ray drive was also tested before on this console and worked fine.
 
zoiasso said:
I will try this so, in my debug settings theres no region options anymore, seems like its a dex feature?
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I had to look again myself, but yes, to enable DEX Debug setting make sure that you have set your system into "REBUG" operation mode via REBUG Toolbox, then it will restart the PS3 when you quit... After PS3 turns back on, go to Debug Setting and look for "Region Settings" set it to Japan from there... Last night, I said "Fake Other Region" but I was wrong about that.

But I don't think this would fix your problem... Whatever's happening seems like a completely random error or he messed it up bad.
 
SKEPTiCK said:
But I don't think this would fix your problem... Whatever's happening seems like a completely random error or he messed it up bad.
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You are right, im now in 4.48.2 DEX changed to japan, still the same. I will try to remarry bd like you said now
 
SKEPTiCK said:
But I don't think this would fix your problem... Whatever's happening seems like a completely random error or he messed it up bad.
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I did remarry it, still don't work, but i think i did it wrong i need to get a nobd cfw. I will now get a nobd cfw and redo de remarry stuff again, but i think it won't work, cause from what i remember from hardware stuff, on cecha models the BD drives were'n married to the console at the time. This marry technology came later on newer models (that's what i remember im not 100% sure). In fact i tested multiple drives in this cecha00 and cecha01 models and they just worked fine.
 
SKEPTiCK said:
But I don't think this would fix your problem... Whatever's happening seems like a completely random error or he messed it up bad.
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Im f*** lost, look at this. Is saying CEX but target:dex. In the xmb i have the ip on bottom right like in dex mode. What's wrong?
 

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zoiasso said:
m f*** lost, look at this. Is saying CEX but target:dex. In the xmb i have the ip on bottom right like in dex mode. What's wrong?
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Nothing is wrong, this is exactly the same way I have my PS3's setup including my CECHA00. It just means the Lv2Kernel being used is CEX > for full DEX switch Lv2Kernel to DEX as well.

REBUG REX/D-REX CFWs allow you to use both CEX and DEX Lv2Kernels while the console is switched to DEX.

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I am going to say it but if you do not know what your doing with DEX then don't use it and stick to CEX. DEX is mainly for Devs and offers not real benefit over CEX when just playing games.
 
Cypher_CG89 said:
Nothing is wrong, this is exactly the same way I have my PS3's setup including my CECHA00. It just means the Lv2Kernel being used is CEX > for full DEX switch Lv2Kernel to DEX as well.
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it was not letting me update the cfw to 4.85 nobd. Then i changed a seeing on rebug toolbox the xmb host info, and them it showed CEX CEX. And right now im updating to do the proper remarry. Let's see
 
zoiasso said:
Im f*** lost, look at this. Is saying CEX but target:dex. In the xmb i have the ip on bottom right like in dex mode. What's wrong?
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Hmm, that is odd... he should not have changed the Target ID because he obviously has no idea what he did.

Also, @Cypher_CG89, I get that you can cross CEX & DEX TargetIDs + LV2 Kernels but he sold this console for use on CEX

Anyways, if the PS3 is on LV2 CEX but has DEX TargetID, doesn't that make it unsafe to log on to PSN with? I use LV2 DEX & CEX TID... Other than that, from my experience of using DEX non-stop for 3 years, DEX & CEX like to interfere with each other sometimes.

We are just trying to fix minor issues all-the-while, figuring out what is wrong with the blu-ray drive when OP has said others work.

@zoiasso Target ID is easiest to change with SEN Enabler, idk how he changed it without it. Maybe that was the "Region Settings" But it can't be because my Region Setting is North America and my TargetID in SEN Enabler is 0x83 Japan
 
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