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Quexex

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Wow this is a bit a balls up then! I updated my machine first thing this morning so far I've had no problems - then again I've not been near the net all day so I don't no when to expect the EPIC FAIL!

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Harns

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If you already have 2.40 and its working then you are fine.

It bricked my ps3 earlier today when i updated. It hung on the floating ribbon start up screen and none of the buttons on the pad or console would work. Spent ages trying to find a fix on t'internet and sure enough formatting the drive fixed the problem. Luckily i have bugger all games on ps3 so i didn't lose much.

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Uzi

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2.40 includes a 360 emulator then

Sony desperately need money. Now a few machines are out of warranty, they have unleashed 'Firmware 2.4'

Considering they make a loss on consoles, thats an epic fail plan.

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Ferine

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Updated mine earlier and played Warhawk for a trouble-free hour. A UK 60GB with the original HDD, if anyone's counting.

Oh, it won't let me login to the game now, though; presumably this is related to the firmware pull as I didn't have any problems a few hours ago.

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SPE

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I've had a couple of devices brick at work during firmware updates, so I'm always on edge whenever my consoles go through them. Seeing as they're so cheap, I'm going to buy another USB flash drive on the way home, that will permanently sit in the PS3, just so I can back it it regularly.

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Afternoon Delight

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I've had a couple of devices brick at work during firmware updates, so I'm always on edge whenever my consoles go through them. Seeing as they're so cheap, I'm going to buy another USB flash drive on the way home, that will permanently sit in the PS3, just so I can back it it regularly.

Nice idea. Even an old 256mb sd card would probably be enough just for all your saves and can be had for pennies.

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Kazit

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Could not wait to check this update out all day, but then never got a chance to 10mins ago only to find its been removed. Dont know how i feel now happy that i missed the update and not but my machine at risk or angry at sony for yet again making another fuck up!

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Uzi

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I've had a couple of devices brick at work during firmware updates, so I'm always on edge whenever my consoles go through them. Seeing as they're so cheap, I'm going to buy another USB flash drive on the way home, that will permanently sit in the PS3, just so I can back it it regularly.

This is just annoying and a chore. I back shit up on PC's- not on consoles. My biggest plus with the PS3 is that not worry about it spazzing out in any way and now people are backing up save files and things. A sensible precaution but a really irritating one for me.

Still better safe than sorry. I have an ipod so I'll put my saves on that.

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layten

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So I turn the PS3 on for the first time in weeks earlier today and do this update, now I find Sonylol have let the work experiance chimps loose.

Fucks sake you bunch of retards, how hard is it to copy features that your competitor had before you even released the George Foreman special?

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Kazit

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I just run the Back-Up utility every couple of months and stick everything on my wee HDD that I keep all my media on. If worst comes to worst I've got everything important on there.

Yeah till have drive goes corrupt! :angry:

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SPE

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The thread on NeoGAF makes interesting reading. 400+ members have replied, and not a single person had any issue with this firmware. According to the small number of people reporting the problem on the official Playstation forum, it sounds like their firmware update got corrupted prior to installation, as they all lost power / got disconnected during the download. When they went to re-download, it just resumed the previous download.

So the issue is hardly widespread, and doesn't sound like it's a specific 2.4 problem.

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Kinketsu

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Every firmware update, some group of people say that it has bricked their machine, so it's probably the same percentage in this case and as SPE says, many of them seem to be due to something going wrong while they were installing. I'd imagine the numbers might be up a bit because more people will accepted the firmware update this time because of the hooplah surrounding 2.4.

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NecroMorrius

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No issue here. I wonder if the people complaining of bricking actually switched off the console during the firmware update and are too embarrassed to admit it. Played an hour of grid and an hour of resistance last night - no problem with either. Update is nice overall, still not perfect but I'm happy to let Sony take their time if they do it right. We can complain all we like that ingame XMB should have been in there to begin with, but the fact is it wasn't. Clearly Sony are having trouble doing it, but are at least making headway. They've put on a pretty poor show until recently with the PS3, and any steps toward a better system should be encouraged.

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AbZorba

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I suspect you'll have to have a US account. (Set up a second User on your PS3.) MotorStorm and Resistance - I think as a consequence of their being early titles - do some weird stuff with region stuff.

Cheers - that worked a treat.

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Quexex

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The thread on NeoGAF makes interesting reading. 400+ members have replied, and not a single person had any issue with this firmware. According to the small number of people reporting the problem on the official Playstation forum, it sounds like their firmware update got corrupted prior to installation, as they all lost power / got disconnected during the download. When they went to re-download, it just resumed the previous download.

So the issue is hardly widespread, and doesn't sound like it's a specific 2.4 problem.

It looks like Sony have pulled this 'just in case' as the issues don't seem that widespread, looking forward to notching uyp a few trophies on SSHD at some point though.

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Uncle Mike

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At a guess, they must have taken more calls into customer services than budgeted (I'd assume they have an expected failure rate associated with any firmware update, and monitor calls from customers against the downloads that have happened), rather than pulling it becuase of internet wailing - the internet's a terrible place to ascertain size of impact - so there probably is a problem.

That does make the risky assumption that SCE's a reasonably well-run business though, so I could be way out.

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