Post: Successfully tricked PS3 to downloading updatelist.txt.
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02-09-2011, 03:27 AM
#1
TheGuyWhoHakz
Pokemon Trainer
it currently says:
# UK
Dest=87;CompatibleVersion=0000bc25-;
Dest=87;CompatibleSystemSoftwareVersion=3.5600-;
Dest=87;ImageVersion=0000bc76;SystemSoftwareVersion=3.5600;CDN=https://duk01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/uk/2011_0127_6e070c96e0464e993aaf9deac3660863/PS3UPDAT.PUP;CDN_Timeout=30;
any ideas, I've already tried changing 3.5600 to 3.500 but it still wants to download something.
Thanks
We (the people active in this thread) are going to compare Signing into PSN on 3.55 and signing in on 3.56. We will be using wireshark to record what gets sent from the PS3 to sony & vice versa.
We will sign in on each firmware, OFW 3.55 and OFW 3.56, and while signing in wireshark will be recording the data being sent back and forth.
Hopefully this will get us one step further to bypassing 3.56 again
.EDIT 2:
Right I have successfully recorded data while signing in on OFW 3.56, the file is located here (some bits I had to take out as these were getting picked up by other things, my antivirus updating and other things)
but I have recorded the data while signing in on 3.56, its somewhere in there
Just have a look at it and see if you find anything interesting UPDATE: I added the .pcap which shows alot more information:
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Now were waiting for the wireshark 3.55 "PSN sign in" data
EDIT 1:
If your using the DNS bypass, or proxy bypass, then when you try system update via internet, it will say it has the current version, yet if you sign in via PSN it says theres a system update available.
So Sony has found out the real firmware through PSN, somewhere on the ps3's HDD is a file that tells sony that the ps3 is on 3.55, but where is this file?
Ways I see of fixing this:
finding the file and changing 3.55 to 3.56
installing a custom firmware which blocks out updates, or which says its on 3.56.
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02-09-2011, 05:48 PM
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TheGuyWhoHakz
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02-09-2011, 05:52 PM
#93
DubStepperDay
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02-09-2011, 05:55 PM
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TheGuyWhoHakz
Pokemon Trainer
02-09-2011, 05:59 PM
#96
El Nomeo
I am error
I wont trick it, because it still check the update file when it is uploading it to its hard drive. And it check it agian when its installing.
Those of you who went form 3.55OFW to 3.55 geohot CFW then back 3.55 OFW then to 3.55 CFW kmeaw, may understand what im on about. As a few time in recovery mode or from the system update on the XMB, it will copy the information (so long as it didnt stop it) but when it begins to install it sometimes stops and says current software is already installed.
Those of you who went form 3.55OFW to 3.55 geohot CFW then back 3.55 OFW then to 3.55 CFW kmeaw, may understand what im on about. As a few time in recovery mode or from the system update on the XMB, it will copy the information (so long as it didnt stop it) but when it begins to install it sometimes stops and says current software is already installed.
02-09-2011, 06:02 PM
#97
DubStepperDay
-W.H.U.F.C-
Originally posted by TheGuyWhoHakz
has anyone actually tried it though? As if it went wrong it could be downloading the real update file from Sony, maybe that's why its not even been attempted.
well my theory is that there is a automatic file that has not been found on the system that changes the logs every-time you try to sign in to PSN this then gets sent to sony which then tells the system it needs to be updated.
because as far as im aware the DNS bypassed sony from seeing the FW you are on.
as for trying that way explained to you im sure someone would have tried this by now there is just more to it.
02-09-2011, 06:28 PM
#98
TheGuyWhoHakz
Pokemon Trainer
Originally posted by CainFoool
It would say "Corrupt File" if it didn't work.
I'll try it now then...
---------- Post added at 06:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:02 PM ----------
Originally posted by EPiK
well my theory is that there is a automatic file that has not been found on the system that changes the logs every-time you try to sign in to PSN this then gets sent to sony which then tells the system it needs to be updated.
because as far as im aware the DNS bypassed sony from seeing the FW you are on.
as for trying that way explained to you im sure someone would have tried this by now there is just more to it.
because as far as im aware the DNS bypassed sony from seeing the FW you are on.
as for trying that way explained to you im sure someone would have tried this by now there is just more to it.
Yeh that's what I used to think and have changed my mind back again, DNS and Proxies don't work, and there is some kind of "hidden" file.
---------- Post added at 06:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:06 PM ----------
Originally posted by CainFoool
It will download from a different location instead of Sony. Allowing you to download 3.55 firmware tricking into thinking it's 3.56.
This method does not work, I tried it and it still needed to update.
Its nothing to do with the DNS, Proxy Servers, there's a hidden file on the PS3s HDD somewhere telling sony what the system version is.
Yet someone may want to have a look at wireshark and sign into psn, as I found some quite interesting stuff, but some of it didn't make sense, so can someone else capture the data while signing in on 3.55 then we can compare it to signing in on 3.56 and see any differences and then we might figure out how PSN is finding out what version the firmware is.
02-09-2011, 06:36 PM
#99
DubStepperDay
-W.H.U.F.C-
Originally posted by TheGuyWhoHakz
I'll try it now then...
---------- Post added at 06:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:02 PM ----------
Yeh that's what I used to think and have changed my mind back again, DNS and Proxies don't work, and there is some kind of "hidden" file.
---------- Post added at 06:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:06 PM ----------
This method does not work, I tried it and it still needed to update.
Its nothing to do with the DNS, Proxy Servers, there's a hidden file on the PS3s HDD somewhere telling sony what the system version is.
Yet someone may want to have a look at wireshark and sign into psn, as I found some quite interesting stuff, but some of it didn't make sense, so can someone else capture the data while signing in on 3.55 then we can compare it to signing in on 3.56 and see any differences and then we might figure out how PSN is finding out what version the firmware is.
---------- Post added at 06:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:02 PM ----------
Yeh that's what I used to think and have changed my mind back again, DNS and Proxies don't work, and there is some kind of "hidden" file.
---------- Post added at 06:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:06 PM ----------
This method does not work, I tried it and it still needed to update.
Its nothing to do with the DNS, Proxy Servers, there's a hidden file on the PS3s HDD somewhere telling sony what the system version is.
Yet someone may want to have a look at wireshark and sign into psn, as I found some quite interesting stuff, but some of it didn't make sense, so can someone else capture the data while signing in on 3.55 then we can compare it to signing in on 3.56 and see any differences and then we might figure out how PSN is finding out what version the firmware is.
Iv also been looking through the ps3 files and looked in dev_flash/vsh/resource and found a file named software_update_plugin.rco seems like its souning about right to do whats happening with the update?
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