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, 05:36 AM
#40
woofdawg233
Tokin' on Dat GreenStuff
02-09-2011, 05:39 AM
#41
TheGuyWhoHakz
Pokemon Trainer
Originally posted by woofdawg233
Wait could this be a possible downgrade???? Edit it a bit say 3.56 is outdated and install 3.55 or 3.41?
I tried to edit the version.txt and you can't because its on flash memory meaning you don't have the correct permissions to write information to the file, I think the only way to do this is installing custom firmware with the version.txt all ready edited
02-09-2011, 05:43 AM
#42
jayconfly
Grunt
Originally posted by TheGuyWhoHakz
I tried to edit the version.txt and you can't because its on flash memory meaning you don't have the correct permissions to write information to the file, I think the only way to do this is installing custom firmware with the version.txt all ready edited
You can change the version.txt to any version you want, it still will be the same FW
02-09-2011, 05:45 AM
#43
stocko
Gunner Stocko(RA)
guys i just posted how to do this yourself a page or two back its a mini tut i even messaged it to the thread starter do what you will with it
all this speculation about changing the version.txt will not work because the one stored on the ps3 has nothing to do with the one that your ps3 checks update.playstation.net for when you try to sign in on PS3 you have to use a DNS server to Spoof the ps3 into thinking your on the correct FW. All Aaron the host of (67.202.81.137) is doing is hosting a updatelist.txt file on his webserver and the DNS is tricking the ps3 into thinking its looking at ps3.update.playstation.net
all this speculation about changing the version.txt will not work because the one stored on the ps3 has nothing to do with the one that your ps3 checks update.playstation.net for when you try to sign in on PS3 you have to use a DNS server to Spoof the ps3 into thinking your on the correct FW. All Aaron the host of (67.202.81.137) is doing is hosting a updatelist.txt file on his webserver and the DNS is tricking the ps3 into thinking its looking at ps3.update.playstation.net
02-09-2011, 05:52 AM
#44
TheGuyWhoHakz
Pokemon Trainer
Originally posted by stocko
guys i just posted how to do this yourself a page or two back its a mini tut i even messaged it to the thread starter do what you will with it
all this speculation about changing the version.txt will not work because the one stored on the ps3 has nothing to do with the one that your ps3 checks update.playstation.net for when you try to sign in on PS3 you have to use a DNS server to Spoof the ps3 into thinking your on the correct FW. All Aaron the host of (67.202.81.137) is doing is hosting a updatelist.txt file on his webserver
all this speculation about changing the version.txt will not work because the one stored on the ps3 has nothing to do with the one that your ps3 checks update.playstation.net for when you try to sign in on PS3 you have to use a DNS server to Spoof the ps3 into thinking your on the correct FW. All Aaron the host of (67.202.81.137) is doing is hosting a updatelist.txt file on his webserver
as I said you can try and spoof it through this way, as it will not work when you login to the PSN it checks somehow what system version your using it used to check through updatelist.txt, it still does, but there's also another way it checks, this is what were trying to find out. I've already hosted my own updatelist.txt on my own web-server, and it has the exact same effect as a dns bypass or a proxy bypass.
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Originally posted by jayconfly
You can change the version.txt to any version you want, it still will be the same FW
Yes I know, i'm saying that you can't actually edit the file.
02-09-2011, 05:55 AM
#46
stocko
Gunner Stocko(RA)
Originally posted by TheGuyWhoHakz
as I said you can try and spoof it through this way, as it will not work when you login to the PSN it checks somehow what system version your using it used to check through updatelist.txt, it still does, but there's also another way it checks, this is what were trying to find out. I've already hosted my own updatelist.txt on my own web-server, and it has the exact same effect as a dns bypass or a proxy bypass.
---------- Post added at 05:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:50 AM ----------
Yes I know, i'm saying that you can't actually edit the file.
---------- Post added at 05:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:50 AM ----------
Yes I know, i'm saying that you can't actually edit the file.
since everyone who is trying this will still be on 3.55 sony cant have actually "patched" this they havnt changed anything ps3 side they probably just set up PSN to ignore the DNS settings
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