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A while ago "September last year" I got my spare PS3 slim downgraded and the guy who did it for me gave me a back up of the nor. I had the nor backup on my pc then the hdd on my pc failed.I no longer have the oriorigioriginal backup and i assume the guy who downgraded doesn't as he no longer downgrades ps3's. The ps3 still works and is on 4.70 dex rebug. I think I can get a nor back up through rebug tool box but i'm not 100% sure if this back up will work with a e3 flasher. I would like to know soon as before I do anything else on my ps3 as I don't want to brick it and find out I can't fix it.

The only way to get a back up is through the e3 flasher. But however if your ps3 ever got bricked you can unbrick it without a back up.

1. Find a pic of your motherboard You must login or register to view this content.. Solder a wire from nor tristate on motherboard to SBE on e3 ribbon cable. This will keep your PS3 on with the first switch up on the flasher. Or you can solder a wire from nor tristate to a GND point on the motherboard. Both will halt the nor and keep the PS3 on for flashing.

2. Now you need to try and get a valid backup. It is still possible even if you are bricked. Depends on what you did, and if the important info has been flashed over.

3. So to try and get some backups, keep switch 1 up, and put switch 3 up, the rest down.

4. Reseat the clip and get it on good. Or solder the e3 linker to know for sure you have a good connection.

5. Validate your backup dump. Follow this guide to validate your dumps. I know that guide can be confusing, also look at this guide that helped me understand how to validate my dumps. Then you can get someone with experience to double check your dump You must login or register to view this content..

6. After you get a good enough backup, you can patch it with Rogero's Nor dump patcher. To patch it, put the bkpps3.bin in the folder with PS3_Nor_Dump_Auto_Patcher_v0.01.exe. Then drag n drop the dump onto PS3_Nor_Dump_Auto_Patcher_v0.01.exe. It will then apply the patches for you.

DO NOT CONTINUE UNTIL YOU HAVE A VALID BACKUP!!! If you try to continue without a valid backup, you may flash over the info we need to unbrick the console. If that info is not gone already.

7. Then put switch 3 down and leave the rest as they were.

8. Flash the patched dump.

9. When it is done flashing, turn the ps3 off.

10. Put all switches down on flasher. If you soldered from nor tristate to GND instead, you need to remove the wire now.

11. Turn PS3 on and you should see the connect controller screen.

12. Then cut the power by pulling the plug or by the power switch.

13. Insert downgrade dongle into the right most USB port.

14. Plug PS3 back in, and press power then eject.

15. Wait for the dongle to communicate with the PS3 and the PS3 will shut off automatically.

16. Put You must login or register to view this content.(RENAME TO PS3UPDAT.PUP) and this You must login or register to view this content. on the root of a FAT32 formatted USB stick.

17. Replace the downgrade dongle with the USB stick, in the right most USB port.

18. Wait for about 4 or 5 minutes for the firmware to install, and the PS3 to shut off by itself.

19. Now put this Lv2diag.self by itself on a FAT32 formatted USB stick.

20. Put the USB stick in the right most USB port and press power on the PS3.

21. Wait for about 30 seconds for the PS3 to shut off by itself.


You should now be unbricked. and if you used Rogero v3.7 follow the You must login or register to view this content. steps.


Don't do any flashing until you get the clip on good, and get a valid dump. This is very important. If you flash over the info needed for a valid dump, it will never be recovered. Thus making your PS3 a permabrick.

I recommend you save this to a note pad

Thanks for the reply. I still need an e3 flasher then so I might as well get one or borrow one at some point. I hardly use my cfw ps3 anymore. Saved the post into a word document and made a backup of it. Thanks for the info

No problem