Some clarifications on continuous PSP upgrading and downgrading

[QueenB]

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Originally Posted by qjnet

Needless to say but our beloved homebrew coders do a lot of testing before they come out with their creations. This is particularly true for sensitive matters like firmwares, modchips, and others.

Some of you may not be aware of this, but Fanjita and the Noobz team have been thinking of coming up with a "flash cleaning" application. What's a flash cleaning application, you ask? Well, according to them, they have this theory that the flash runs out of space after several cycles of upgrades and downgrades.

Fanjita wrote that they've reached this speculation after the Undiluted Platinum test PSP showed signs of having ran out of space on the flash. To those of you who are quite knowledgeable about these things, the symptom was an error code of "8001001C when starting ipl_update.prx".

The error appeared after they tried to run the 3.03 downgrader, meaning there was no space left on the device. So Fanjita and the Noobz team continued experimenting and according to them,

After some exhaustive testing, we've now come to the conclusion that there is no unnecessary wastage of flash space during the 3.03 downgrader process. We believe we can now put the problem down to issues with the interaction between the Undiluted Platinum flasher program, and v3.00 firmwares, which has previously caused flash problems with other people's UP PSPs.

So there. You should not be bothered by this process, except for the usual risk that comes with any downgrader. Thanks for the clarification!

I always wondered and now we know - great news, puts my mind at rest

[Bex]

Ooooh, tis good to hear
I did remember reading some ppl were saying that the 3.03 downgrader did leave unnecessary wastage of flash space - or something along those lines anyway, meant the same thing.
So tis good to hear it doesnt