For PSP 3000 : A Complete Guide For Enabling Custom Firmware

[3001]

The chickHen R2 CFW will not flash your psp but The PSP Gen-A will.

It is correctly flashed into the psp 3k ( if that is your concern ).. you need to flash your psp only once though.. the next time you do it, you just reboot into CFW since the flashing was already done. Doesn't brick your psp..

[golly]

Hi i am new here , i saw your post complete guide it's very useful for a newbie like me,but i do not understand THIRD step no.10 do i have to go to Photo then Memory Stick to launch the main EBOOT.PBP Thanks in advance

[3001]

yes, go to games>memory stick and look for "installer loader" if i remember correctly. that's the eboot.pbp the readme is talking about.

[10076757]

i Need help big time. when i go to game and click on installer loader, the psp restarts. the bit where its supposed to say L or R and circle for reboot doesnt come instead it says systemctrl_02g.prx not found. aborting. i need help

[sidh_15]

Great job........
HATS OFF

[sgibbers17]

Once I have 5.03 GEN-A on my PSP-3000 can I flash with 5.00 m33 or another CFW?

Are the any limitations?

[gbdallin]

If you have a 3000, you cannot flash a permanent CFW onto your system, as it flashes to the lflash and a 3000 or a v3 cannot handle unsigned IPL's. You'll be bricked.

[pengs]

Originally Posted by 3001

The chickHen R2 CFW will not flash your psp but The PSP Gen-A will.

It is correctly flashed into the psp 3k ( if that is your concern ).. you need to flash your psp only once though.. the next time you do it, you just reboot into CFW since the flashing was already done. Doesn't brick your psp..

Why am I such a scaredy cat? Or maybe I'm being really cautious but to clear that up even more (sorry), the CFW gets flashed onto your PSP however it doesn't get flashed in a way that causes a brick (outside of yanking the battery out during it being flashed )?

P.S, this site is awesome and the community is fantastic.

[sgibbers17]

Originally Posted by pengs

Why am I such a scaredy cat? Or maybe I'm being really cautious but to clear that up even more (sorry), the CFW gets flashed onto your PSP however it doesn't get flashed in a way that causes a brick (outside of yanking the battery out during it being flashed )?

P.S, this site is awesome and the community is fantastic.

As far as I can tell Gen-A doesn't actually get "flashed" to the PSP. Gen-A goes away after you shut down the PSP or drain your battery.

I was confused my self when I was about to put the CFW on the PSP-3000. But after doing so I found out that it is just like chickHen where if you completely shut down your PSP or drain the battery completely (not just low battery where it goes into sleep but all the way dead) the next time you start up your PSP it is back to the OFW and not the CFW.

You can get the CFW back on again if you go the the steps again.

What I am doing is carrying around a small Memory Stick pro duo with the stuff that I need to get the CFW on the PSP just in case I accidentally turn it off.

From what I hear is if you do not want to brick your PSP just don't change your theme or anything else that will touch the firmware. I think if you stick to playing games PSP or PSX you will have no issues.

[Schuyler]

the cfw goes away after you turn off your psp because ChickHEN runs in the RAM.