Videos: Infectus PS3 Mod and E3 Card Reader 3.50 Downgrader

[barbnjason]

Today we received word and videos from bx1199 of the E3 Team and sk group that E3DIY.net has made available an E3 Card Reader PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.50 downgrader, while PR0r also let us know that OzModChips (linked above) is now offering an Infectus PS3 Mod 3.50 Firmware downgrade service as well.

Download: E3 Card Reader 3.50 Downgrader / E3 Card Reader 3.50 Downgrader Guide

With this bin you can get the PS3 into service mode and downgrade using the previously released files to downgrade to 3.41 and below.

To quote from their page: "Thank you for using E3card Reader PS3. Today we will bring you a big surprise: the E3-Downgrader for E3card Reader. Yes it's THE downgrader which can turn your 3.5 PS3 down to any version you wanted, i.e. the 3.41.

It's no time limit, no PC software need to download, no need to write any emails, no need to wait and after all it's FREE. Yes, it's true. We can even proved that today it's not the day one of you need to go on board of some you know what ships, that of cause because we are Chinese. You can review the videos by click here (http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjI3MjA0NzI4.html), download the upgrade file by click here (http://www.e3diy.net/Download/e3downgrade%2012.03.rar) and download the 3.41 FW package by click here (http://www.sendspace.com/file/qlfoyi).

Password : iLoveE3
please note that it's case-sensitive.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Best Regards

E3Diy Group
E-mail: [email protected]"

Moving on to the related OzMod news, their site has also been updated today to include a new 3.50 downgrade service using the Infectus PS3 Mod. Unfortunately this is only available to Australian's as an overnight service and isn't available to international customers. At $94.99 is this really worth it though? We know a free version is right around the corner and is only a matter of days away.

From their page: With the help (well they did almost everything) of a developer, we are finally able to offer a service which allows us to restore firmware 3.15 on a Fat console. This firmware version will bring the ability to install Linux back to the console!

It is no secret that the PS3 is popular console and its current advertising tagline is that the console "Only Does everything". Unfortunately it came under fire this year when they start removing advertised features. The biggest uproar was over the removal of the option to install linux on 3.21 firmware and above.

It has caused Sony to be caught up in a bunch of legal battles worldwide. 1 of them was in Australia. The Australian argued in court that it was unfair to remove an advertised feature with a firmware upgrade.

There is always the option of not upgrading, but many people did not think the option would just dissapear! When you agree to Sony's terms and conditions, which would take you about 5 hours of non stop reading, they pretty much can do anything to your console. Unfortunately, regardless of what is fair and what is not fair between normal people, when it goes to court its just a bunch of words, and who can argue the best to the judge! Politics aside...

The whole downgrade this was done a while ago by Team Infectus, and we have figured out how to do it on newer consoles. It will involved us opening your console, soldering a million wires, extracting your NAND, patching it, and flashing a new NAND on. It doesn't matter what firmare you are on currently (we test on a 3.5 console) we can bring it back on 3.15

So far we have tested a couple of consoles, and it is working well. 1 thing to make sure you know... We only really extract the KEYs from your NAND. So everything else will be wiped clean, as the donar NAND we flash on is just a normal factory settings NAND.

Please make sure you backup all of your important content. Profiles, save games, etc!!! Everything, and I mean everything will dissapear.

Not sure what happened if you do a full backup and retore. we woudl guess that it wouldn't work, because the firmware is loewer on the restore, not higher!

Geohot also proved that its possible to have custome updates. Befroe he left the PS3 scene he said he was working on getting linux on 3.15 for Slim consoles. We hope the developer who is working us will be able to do the same thing, but no luck yet.

From 3.15, you can go to any firmware you want. Since 3.15 is the last firmware before all of this mess started, we will just put it to there.

• 3.15 firmware is the last firmware that Linux can be installed on
• 3.21 blocks Linux and doesn't really bring anything new.
• 3.3 and 3.4 are just small updates, nothing major
• 3.41 is the most famous firmware I guess, the one that got us into trouble and made us all sad pandas with no money.
• 3.42 is like 3.41, but they removed some feature
• 3.50 add 3D for movies etc, but stops you from being able to use a lot fo 3rd party USb devices, like controllers etc.

Please don't email us about the possibility of helping you with customise your ps3. We are just putting 3.15 back on, the rest it up to you!

This process takes us about 4 hours currently!! All consoles will be done overnight, not on the spot. We should be charging more for this, but we think it will be popular and we hire great solderers!

More PlayStation 3 News...

[ModderFokker]

Damn... too slow just posted same news

[Admin]

Yep, a few hours ago I got an e-mail from bx1199 of the E3 Team and sk group as well... but just got online now so I will fix up the news and promote it to the main page shortly. Thanks for the submission though barbnjason!

[BwE]

This process takes us about 4 hours currently!! All consoles will be done overnight, not on the spot. We should be charging more for this, but we think it will be popular and we hire great solderers!

wtf? what's with the long story about infectus n stuff, its a bit confusing... anyways it doesnt take 4 hours and you dont have to backup your files... it takes about 5 minutes to downgrade 3.41 to 3.15 and you lose nothing...

i used psjailbreak's dgf.rar btw. i'm going to test shortly if you can in fact "downgrade" to a debug firmware.

also, thanks for using my photo lol <3

ps: the guide for this is the same as the psjailbreak's downgrader.

copy the self file number one and the update pup to the root of a usb.
boot the ps3 into service mode, turn it off
plug the usb in and it will stay black (updating/downgrading) then it will turn off
turn it back on and youll be in service mode and it will be downgraded
copy the self file number two into the root of the usb
turn off the ps3 and plug the usb in and it will start the whole, welcome to ps3
once thats done youre set! you will notice your homebrew will still be there so im not sure what everybody is on about when it comes to having to backup everything.

[mushy409]

I want more info on the Infectus method!! Thank god I still have my infectus, probably one of the best bits of hardware I've bought in years.

So they dump the NAND flash, extract the NAND keys then use a donor dump to flash back? So they use a decrypted 3.15 nand image & re-encrypt with the current console NAND key then flash to the console?

Tell me more!!! My PS3's in pieces as we speak with my infectus already soldered

[fisher42uk]

why go to all the effort of soldering stuff when they could just use a PSJB or E3 to downgrade in 10min?

[BwE]

3.15 to 3.41 debug does NOT work. when turned on the ps3 makes an almost musical beep.

beepboopbeepboopbeepboop

i hope i havn't bricked it... lol

[mushy409]

No offence, but any brainless dimwit could stick a dongle in the console and press a few buttons.

The infectus is more challenging & since I already have one AND I build my own JB dongles then I won't be buying any other even if it means waiting for a PSGroove port.

[xScoper]

Will a port come for the Ti-84 anytime soon?

[BwE]

manufacturing updating start
PackageName = /dev_usb000/PS3UPDAT.PUP
settle polling interval success
vflash is disabled...
boot from nand flash...
creating flash regions...
create storage region: (region id = 2)
format partition: (region_id = 2, CELL_FS_IOS:BUILTIN_FLSH1, CELL_FS_FAT)
create storage region: (region id = 3)
format partition: (region_id = 3, CELL_FS_IOS:BUILTIN_FLSH2, CELL_FS_FAT)
create storage region: (region id = 4)
format partition: (region_id = 4, CELL_FS_IOS:BUILTIN_FLSH3, CELL_FS_FAT)
create storage region: (region id = 5)
create storage region: (region id = 6)
Initializing
taking a while...
start Updating Proccess
Initialize elapsed time = 33 msec
check UPL
Check UPL elapsed time = 30 msec
check Package Size
get package size elapsed time = 8 msec
start Updating Package
Update packages num = 27
Update packages total size = 147097842
Update Package Revoke list
read package revoke list package (576 bytes) elapsed = 1 msec
update package revoke list elapsed = 108 msec
Update Package Revoke list done(0x8002f000)
Update Core OS Package
read core os package (5228918 bytes) elapsed = 281 msec
update core os package elapsed = 1959 msec
Update Core OS Package done(0x8002f000)
Update VSH Package
sys_memory_container_create() success(id = 0xc0effffe)
Update VSH's package : 1/19
read vsh package (1696 bytes) elapsed = 3 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 30 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 6685 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 0 msec
Update VSH's package : 2/19
read vsh package (5616387 bytes) elapsed = 304 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 342 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 1737 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 403 msec
Update VSH's package : 3/19
read vsh package (3357775 bytes) elapsed = 183 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 230 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 2943 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 313 msec
Update VSH's package : 4/19
read vsh package (5240116 bytes) elapsed = 283 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 312 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 2644 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 402 msec
Update VSH's package : 5/19
read vsh package (24839 bytes) elapsed = 4 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 28 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 1213 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 10 msec
Update VSH's package : 6/19
read vsh package (9852384 bytes) elapsed = 532 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 291 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 10814 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 485 msec
Update VSH's package : 7/19
read vsh package (10268746 bytes) elapsed = 554 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 282 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 16290 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 520 msec
Update VSH's package : 8/19
read vsh package (6873237 bytes) elapsed = 372 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 356 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 10896 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 425 msec
Update VSH's package : 9/19
read vsh package (8625010 bytes) elapsed = 466 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 218 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 4640 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 387 msec
Update VSH's package : 10/19
read vsh package (10422267 bytes) elapsed = 562 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 258 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 5107 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 469 msec
Update VSH's package : 11/19
read vsh package (9235868 bytes) elapsed = 499 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 239 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 10439 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 451 msec
Update VSH's package : 12/19
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decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 258 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 5542 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 480 msec
Update VSH's package : 13/19
read vsh package (8982580 bytes) elapsed = 484 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 219 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 3355 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 412 msec
Update VSH's package : 14/19
read vsh package (9450420 bytes) elapsed = 511 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 365 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 7144 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 485 msec
Update VSH's package : 15/19
read vsh package (9296157 bytes) elapsed = 502 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 351 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 15630 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 505 msec
Update VSH's package : 16/19
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decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 392 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 21612 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 637 msec
Update VSH's package : 17/19
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decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 319 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 19481 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 789 msec
Update VSH's package : 18/19
read vsh package (8693374 bytes) elapsed = 470 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 212 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 2456 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 482 msec
Update VSH's package : 19/19
read vsh package (7212053 bytes) elapsed = 390 msec
decrypt and verify vsh package elapsed = 359 msec
write vsh package elapsed = 15474 msec
compare vsh package elapsed = 661 msec
Update VSH Package done(0x8002f000)
Bul-ray Disc Player Revoke
read bdp revoke package (1904 bytes) elapsed = 3 msec
decrypt and verify bdp revoke package elapsed = 33 msec
write bdp revoke package elapsed = 2273 msec
compare bdprevoke package elapsed = 58 msec
Bul-ray Disc Player Revoke done(0x8002f000)
Update Program Revoke list
read program revoke list package (736 bytes) elapsed = 3 msec
update program revoke list elapsed = 331 msec
Update Program Revoke list done(0x8002f000)
move_2block_status_into_the_region(): region id = 3
rewrite_region() region id = 0x3, start_lba = 0x0, end_lba = 0x4000
rewrite region done (ret = 0x8002f000)
rewrite region elapsed time = 1276 msec
touch_1st_sector_in_block() region id = 0x3, start_lba = 0x0, end_lba = 0x4000
touch_1st_sector() done (ret = 0x8002f000)
touch_1st_sector() elapsed time = 1209 msec
rewrite_region() region id = 0x3, start_lba = 0x0, end_lba = 0x4000
rewrite region done (ret = 0x8002f000)
rewrite region elapsed time = 1277 msec
Update BD firmware
read BD firmware package (1966992 bytes) elapsed = 107 msec
update BD firmware elapsed = 185 msec
read BD firmware package (951040 bytes) elapsed = 53 msec
update BD firmware elapsed = 145 msec
read BD firmware package (951040 bytes) elapsed = 52 msec
update BD firmware elapsed = 144 msec
read BD firmware package (951040 bytes) elapsed = 52 msec
update BD firmware elapsed = 146 msec
read BD firmware package (1639296 bytes) elapsed = 90 msec
update BD firmware elapsed = 154 msec
read BD firmware package (787200 bytes) elapsed = 44 msec
update BD firmware elapsed = 144 msec
read BD firmware package (1639296 bytes) elapsed = 90 msec
update BD firmware elapsed = 151 msec
Update BD firmware done(0x8002f000)
Update Multi-Card controller firmware
read MCC package (28636 bytes) elapsed = 3 msec
update MCC elapsed = 28 msec
Update Multi-Card controller firmware done(0x8002f000)
Update BlueTooth firmware
read BT package (644322 bytes) elapsed = 36 msec
update BT elapsed = 59 msec
Update BlueTooth firmware done(0x8002f000)
Update System controller firmware
read SC patch package (4864 bytes) elapsed = 2 msec
read SC patch package (4864 bytes) elapsed = 2 msec
read SC patch package (4864 bytes) elapsed = 2 msec
Update System controller firmware done(0x8002f000)
update package elapsed time = 200881 msec
post processiong...
post processiong done
cleanup update status (ret = 0)
os version = 03.4100
build_version = 45038,20100721
region of core os package = 0xa0000000
build_target = DEX-ww
build target id = 0x82
manufacturing updating SUCCESS(0x8002f000)
set product mode (ret = 0)
Total Elapsed time = 203008 msec

the log of my failed debug update... it says it was successful, confusing..