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Right, i'm on 3.55 and cant go online, i'm trying to come up with a 3.56 bypass, i've successfully tricked my ps3 into downloading my custom modded You must login or register to view this content. file, any ideas on what to edit inside the ps3-updatelist.txt ?

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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You'll need to download Wireshark to open it: DOWNLOAD WIRESHARK You must login or register to view this content.

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.

Im on 3.56 I'll compare it tomorrow to 3.55

Goodie! Not sure this way will work though :/

Try this:

# UK
Dest=87;CompatibleVersion=0000bc25-;
Dest=87;CompatibleSystemSoftwareVersion=0.000-;
Dest=87;ImageVersion=0000bc76;SystemSoftwareVersion=0.000;CDN=https://duk01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/uk/2011_0127_6e070c96e0464e993aaf9deac3660863/PS3UPDAT.PUP;CDN_Timeout=30;

There is a file called "version.txt" in "dev_flash/vsh/etc/version.txt"

In my version.txt file show this (Im on 3.55 CFW):



You cannot edited it because its on the flash, but there is a pkg program out there that enables you to edit the flash.

What if you do something like this:

    # UK

Dest=87;CompatibleVersion=0000bc25-;

Dest=87;CompatibleSystemSoftwareVersion=3.5600-;

Dest=87;ImageVersion=0000bc76;SystemSoftwareVersion=3.5600;CDN=[COLOR="Red"]https://duk01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/uk/2011_0127_6e070c96e0464e993aaf9deac3660863/PS3UPDAT.PUP[/COLOR];CDN_Timeout=30;

Then redirect the red marked URL to your server and put ie. OFW3.55 in the folder as PS3UPDAT.PUP

Is this a possible way to downgrade/install CFW?
If you are already on 3.56 you can try with putting 3.5700 in.

looks like more ppl are getting involved on the Hacking Scene =D

i would say :

Join Team-Blizzard mate some ppl are currently working on tests like these and you could help then with it

you got some good ideas for this Share and Develop them with us

Grtz.MysticalX & Team-Blizzard

So what i have managed to get from this thread so far.
1. Nothing has changed ps3 side as we have not updated yet.
2. They are finding out our fw version a different way now.

Is it possible to somehow packet sniff, Or log onto psn in some way as to see what requests are being sent to our ps3. What about putting a pc in between the ps3 and our modem using ethernet and log the activity ?

If this is true, then sony download your ps3-updatelist.txt and then check it at their end. As i said, if that is true and that is all that is being checked, then we only need to replace the 3.55 ps3-updatelist.txt with the 3.56 one. You guys have been editing values and still being asked to update, so maybe sony added some NEW code in 3.56 for the ps3-updatelist.txt that is flagging the file up as different. If that is the only thing sony are checking (i havent personally checked, im basing it off the quote above), then they are not checking the NAND.
I'm not at home so i can't check for myself but i suggest some of you get wireshark and take a look so we can see exactly what sony are trying to get, then we should be able to work out how to spoof it.

Finally!
We have a thread here that has people talking sense... Which means we are closer to finding a cure lol.

All this talk of patching the DNS has had me hitting my head against the wall. You cant patch DNS.. everything needs it and to an extent, you control what comes out of your house. They could remove the DNS feature from the PS3 and you can use other means to control it.. Or they could change the update process deal with IP addresses so that DNS has no effect, but the big thing is that if you are on 3.55, how were you patched? As far as we are all aware, rootkit is the lovely new feature that the SS introduced in 3.56, so if your are on a version from before then and you didn't update anything.. How did the patch magically appear on your system?

I am using the DNS trick and the PS3 isnt itself detecting an update or requesting that I do one, so that is working fine. It is only when trying to log in to PSN (now I have signed out) that it wants me to.

So I think you guys are working along the right lines.

Something on PSN has changed to work around what we are doing (so probably during the PS3s conversation with PSN), and it it understanding what that change is that will get us back to PSN.

I do not know to what extend a PSN login is able to control your system. Can the login process itself ask your PS3 to verify other bits (such as read extra files from the NAND) that doesnt usually form part of that login process? Or is it that without an update, the login process is static and they are fixed when it comes to what information can be passed to the serrver from the PS3. If that is the case, it would mean that they are using the same data from what was already being sent but has interpreted it in a new way server-side to determine what version is being used.

Nobody can do more than guestimate at this point, but I do think that you guys are along the right track and I will be keeping an eye on here and testing things out where needed.

Keep up the good work!