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Installing PSP custom firmware 5.00 M33-3

yk — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:38:40 +0000

Installing Custom Firmware 5.00 M33-3. This article assumes that you have custom firmware (OE/M33) installed on your PSP and want to upgrade to version 5.00 M33-3.

If you have OE/M33 firmware lower than 3.52 M33 please start from Section A.
If you have OE/M33 firmware equal or greater than 3.52 M33 and lower than 3.52 M33-4, please start from Section B.
If you have OE/M33 firmware equal or greater than 3.52 M33-4 and less than 4.01 M33, please start from Section C.
If you have OE/M33 firmware equal or greater than 4.01 M33 and less than 4.01 M33-2, please start from Section D.
If you have OE/M33 firmware equal or greater than 4.01 M33-2 and less than 5.00 M33 please start from Section E.
If you have OE/M33 firmware equal or greater than 5.00 M33 and less than 5.00 M33-3, please start from Section F.

If you have followed the instructions in my previous post Installing PSP custom firmware 5.00 M33, please start from Section F.

Downloads:
(DL.C.1) Custom firmware 3.52 M33
(DL.C.2) Custom firmware 3.52 M33-4
(DL.C.3) Custom firmware 4.01 M33
(DL.C.4) Custom firmware 4.01 M33-2
(DL.C.5) Custom firmware 5.00 M33
(DL.C.6) Custom firmware 5.00 M33-3
(DL.O.1) Official firmware update 1.5
(DL.O.2) Official firmware update 3.52
(DL.O.3) Official firmware update 4.01
(DL.O.4) Official firmware update 5.00

Section A - Install custom firmware 3.52 M33

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 3.52 M33 (DL.C.1)
(b) Official firmware update 1.5 (DL.O.1)
(c) Official firmware update 3.52 (DL.O.2)

Steps to install:
(A.1) Copy the folder M33CREATOR and its contents to your PSP’s memory sticks’s /PSP/GAME150/ folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME150/).
(A.2) Rename Official firmware update 1.5 (EBOOT.PBP) to 150.PBP.
(A.3) Copy the file to your PSP’s memory stick’s /PSP/GAME150/M33CREATOR/ folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME150/M33CREATOR/).
(A.4) Rename Official firmware update 3.52 ((EBOOT.PBP) to 352.PBP.
(A.5) Copy the file to your PSP’s memory stick’s /PSP/GAME150/M33CREATOR/ folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME150/M33CREATOR/).
(A.6) In your PSP, browse to your Memory Stick and run the program 3.52 M33 CREATOR.
(A.7) After it completes, run the the program 3.52 M33UPDATE.
(A.8) Your PSP is now running custom firmware 3.52 M33. You can now delete the folder M33CREATOR folder from your PSP.

Section B - Update to custom firmware 3.52 M33-4

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 3.52 M33-4 (DL.C.2)

Steps to upgrade:
(B.1) Copy the folder M33Update4 and its contents to your PSP’s memory sticks’s /PSP/GAME150/ folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME150/).
(B.2) In your PSP, browse to your Memory Stick and run the update (the icon has a grey background, with red letters saying 3:33:33 in the foreground).
(B.3) Your PSP is now running custom firmware 3.52 M33-4. You can now delete the folder M33Update4 folder from your PSP.

Section C - Install custom firmware 4.01 M33

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 4.01 M33 (DL.C.3)
(b) Official firmware update 4.01 (DL.O.3)

Steps to install:
(C.1) Copy the folder UPDATE and its contents to your PSP’s memory sticks’s /PSP/GAME/ folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME/).
(C.2) Rename Official firmware update 4.01 (EBOOT.PBP) to 401.PBP.
(C.3) Copy the file to your PSP’s memory stick’s /PSP/GAME/UPDATE folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME/UPDATE/).
(C.4) Go to Recovery mode (Power off your PSP by holding the power button for 10 seconds. Turn on your PSP while holding the right shoulder button to go into recovery mode). Revert your kernel to 3.52 (or any kernel above 3.52 like 3.90). Exit the Recovery mode.
(C.5) In your PSP, browse to your Memory Stick and run the program 4.01 M33.
(C.6) Your PSP is now running custom firmware 4.01 M33. You can now delete the folder UPDATE folder from your PSP.

Section D - Update to custom firmware 4.01 M33-2

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 4.01 M33-2 (DL.C.4)

Steps to upgrade:
(D.1) Copy the folder UPDATE and its contents to your PSP’s memory sticks’s /PSP/GAME/ folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME/).
(D.2) In your PSP, browse to your Memory Stick and run the program M33-2.
(D.3) Your PSP is now running custom firmware 4.01 M33-2. You can now delete the folder UPDATE folder from your PSP.

Section E - Install custom firmware 5.00 M33

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 5.00 M33 (DL.C.5)
(b) Official firmware update 5.00 (DL.O.4)

Steps to install:
(E.1) Copy the folder UPDATE and its contents to your PSP’s memory sticks’s /PSP/GAME/ folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME/).
(E.2) Rename Official firmware update 5.00 (EBOOT.PBP) to 500.PBP.
(E.3) Copy the file to your PSP’s memory stick’s /PSP/GAME/UPDATE folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME/UPDATE/).
(E.4) Go to Recovery mode (Power off your PSP by holding the power button for 10 seconds. Turn on your PSP while holding the right shoulder button to go into recovery mode). Revert your kernel to 4.01. Exit the Recovery mode.
(E.5) In your PSP, browse to your Memory Stick and run the program 5.00 M33.
(E.6) Your PSP is now running custom firmware 5.00 M33. You can now delete the folder UPDATE folder from your PSP.

Section F - Update to custom firmware 5.00 M33-3

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 5.00 M33-3 (DL.C.6)

Steps to upgrade:
(F.1) Copy the folder UPDATE and its contents to your PSP’s memory sticks’s /PSP/GAME/ folder (eg. Z:/PSP/GAME/).
(F.2) In your PSP, browse to your Memory Stick and run the program M33-3.
(F.3) Your PSP is now running custom firmware 5.00 M33-3. You can now delete the folder UPDATE folder from your PSP.

Installing PSP custom firmware 5.00 M33

yk — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:09:42 +0000

Installing Custom Firmware 5.00 M33. This article assumes that you have custom firmware (OE/M33) installed on your PSP and want to upgrade to version 5.00 M33.

If you have OE/M33 firmware lower than 3.52 M33 please start from Section A.
If you have OE/M33 firmware greater than 3.52 M33 and lower than 3.52 M33-4, please start from Section B.
If you have OE/M33 firmware greater than 3.52 M33-4 and less than 4.01 M33, please start from Section C.
If you have OE/M33 firmware greater than 4.01 M33 and less than 4.01 M33-2, please start from Section D.
If you have OE/M33 firmware 4.01 M33-2, please start from Section E.

If you have followed the instructions in my previous post Installing PSP custom firmware 4.01 M33-2, please start from Section E.

Downloads:
(DL.1) Custom firmware 3.52 M33
(DL.2) Custom firmware 3.52 M33-4
(DL.3) Custom firmware 4.01 M33
(DL.4) Custom firmware 4.01 M33-2
(DL.5) Custom firmware 5.00 M33
(DL.6) Official firmware update 1.5
(DL.7) Official firmware update 3.52
(DL.8) Official firmware update 4.01
(DL.9) Official firmware update 5.00

Section A - Install custom firmware 3.52 M33

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 3.52 M33 (DL.1)
(b) Official firmware update 1.5 (DL.6)
(c) Official firmware update 3.52 (DL.7)

Section B - Update to custom firmware 3.52 M33-4

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 3.52 M33-4 (DL.2)

Section C - Install custom firmware 4.01 M33

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 4.01 M33 (DL.3)
(b) Official firmware update 4.01 (DL.8)

Section D - Update to custom firmware 4.01 M33-2

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 4.01 M33-2 (DL.4)

Section E - Install custom firmware 5.00 M33

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 5.00 M33 (DL.5)
(b) Official firmware update 5.00 (DL.9)

Installing PSP custom firmware 4.01 M33-2

yk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:34:30 +0000

Installing Custom Firmware 4.01 M33-2. This article assumes that you have custom firmware (OE/M33) installed on your PSP and want to upgrade to version 4.01 M33-2.

If you have followed the instructions in my previous post Installing PSP custom firmware 3.90 M33-3, please start from Section C.

Downloads:
(DL.1) Custom firmware 3.52 M33
(DL.2) Custom firmware 3.52 M33-4
(DL.3) Custom firmware 4.01 M33
(DL.4) Custom firmware 4.01 M33-2
(DL.5) Official firmware update 1.5
(DL.6) Official firmware update 3.52
(DL.7) Official firmware update 4.01

Section A - Install custom firmware 3.52 M33

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 3.52 M33 (DL.1)
(b) Official firmware update 1.5 (DL.5)
(c) Official firmware update 3.52 (DL.6)

Section B - Update to custom firmware 3.52 M33-4

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 3.52 M33-4 (DL.2)

Section C - Install custom firmware 4.01 M33

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 4.01 M33 (DL.3)
(b) Official firmware update 4.01 (DL.7)

Section D - Update to custom firmware 4.01 M33-2

Files to be downloaded and extracted:
(a) Custom firmware 4.01 M33-2 (DL.4)

Scuba Dynamics Ladies’ Month

yk — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:51:14 +0000

Good news to all the ladies divers out there! Scuba Dynamics has declared August to be Ladies’ Month and they’ve put up a few special packages for just for ladies!

More details of the promotion:
Duration: 8th August 2008 to 31st August 2008 (while stock lasts)
Online details: Scuba Dynamics Special Offers
Location: Desa Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur

Hobi Sports Mega Sale

yk — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:37:02 +0000

Hobi Sports is having a store wide sale with reduction from 20% to 90%! Good news for scuba divers who are looking for Mares or Saekodive products.

The following are the details of the Mega Sale:
Duration: 5th July 2008 to 1st September 2008
Online pamphlet: Hobi Sports Sales
Locations: Beach Street Penang, Krystal Point Penang and Bandar Sunway Petaling Jaya.

Sony Ericsson W960i and USB

yk — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:41:41 +0000

My W960i is making me lose hair again. After using my non-original car charger to charge my phone, I am not able to charge my phone with my regular wall charger anymore. I wasted no time in sending in the phone since it’s under warranty and after a few days, I got it back (bravo to the Sony Ericsson service centre for the super fast service!).

In my pursuit of privacy preservation, I did a master reset to clear all the data in the phone before sending it in to the service centre. The first thing that I did when I got it back was to plug in the USB cable in order to restore the data that I backed up. Immediately, I was confronted with repetitive poppings of yellow bubbles in my system task bar saying:

USB Device Not Recognized

After some painstaking plugging and unplugging of USB cables, uninstalling and installing Sony Ericsson software and drivers, the problem was solved when I tried another USB cable. So, it turned out that my USB cable was fried.

Here In My Home available for download

yk — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:51:17 +0000

Damn, I just can’t stop listening to the song! And now Malaysian Artistes For Unity has made the song and video available for download! To ease their server’s load, I’ve taken the liberty to create torrents for the files and add them to a torrent tracker. Here are the torrents:

Songs:
Here In My Home [mp3]
note » mp3 version + 192 kbps + song duration: 4:07

Here In My Home [cd quality]
note » full bandwidth version + 16 bits + 44.1khz + song duration 4:07

Here In My Home - karaoke [mp3]
note » mp3 version of karaoke mix + 192 kbps

Here In My Home - karaoke [cd quality]
note » full bandwidth version of karaoke mix + 16 bits + 44.1khz

Videos:
Here In My Home - video [for computer playback]
note » mov format + 640x480 + requires quicktime

Here In My Home - video [for computer playback]
note » mov format + 480x360 + requires quicktime

Here In My Home - video [for streaming or mobile phone]
note » mov format + 320x240 + requires quicktime

Here In My Home - video [for small screen mobile phone]
note » 3gp format + 176x144

Help me spread the wonderful song and video guys, so open your favourite torrent clients and download and seed the files!

Here In My Home

yk — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:27:13 +0000

Malaysian Artistes For Unity (MAFU) released a fantastic song today that mirrors the sentiment that most Malaysians feel in their hearts. Here’s a YouTube version of the music video:

SonyEricsson W960i Contact or Messaging related problems

yk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:40:35 +0000

It was 1 month ago when I had my first brush with the SE W960i’s Messaging problem. As discovered then, the problem is related to the phone’s Contacts. After fiddling with it for a month, I finally found a permanent solution to the problem.

First of all, here are the possible symptoms of the Contact/Messaging problem:

Contact’s name and/or picture does not show when a call comes through

Contact’s name does not show in Messages

When trying to view some/all messages, an error message saying the message is incomplete and/or Access is denied is displayed on screen and the messages cannot be viewed.

When a voice command is added to a contact and the phone is rebooted, the above symptoms appear. However, if all voice commands are deleted and the phone rebooted, the above symptoms disappears

The cause of all the above symptoms is you have contacts saved in your SIM card. To fix the problems, remove all contacts from your SIM card and reboot your phone.
To do this on the SonyEricsson W960i, go to Contacts -> More -> View folder -> SIM. After that, More -> Mark -> Mark all and then More -> Delete. Now all you have to do is reboot your phone and all your problems will be gone forever (hopefully).

Outlook 2003 crashes on startup

yk — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:23:32 +0000

This morning Outlook gave me a big scare. Nope, it didn’t deliver a particularly nasty email, but it crashed as soon as it started. Here’s a look at the nasty error message:

No amount of begging and coaxing would make Outlook start normally, so I started Outlook on Safe Mode and after it managed to start without error, ended it in hopes that it will fix whatever stuff that is wrong when the program quits. And guess what? It did.

So, for anyone who encounters the above error, the first thing you can do before trying the myriad of troubleshooting suggestions found on the internet, give Outlook a chance to fix itself by starting it in Safe Mode. To start Outlook on Safe Mode go to Start -> Run and type:
outlook /safe