Replying to #17
I knew you meant CFW. And still, how would you normally get to CFW? From OFW. The part that makes me leery in any upgrade is having to spend that small amount of time in OFW to get to CFW, because there's that off chance that it will just throw an error instead of going CFW. I've had this happen to me, and luckily I had a Pandora battery on hand. You really have to trust that the install file that you have is signed and legit. It's the same way when I had to flash my PS3 for 3.55 CFW. You really have to depend on the source you got it from, and if something goes awry, you're totally screwed.
Also, the fact that you can't tell that I was talking in terms of CFW the entire time, except for the second-to-last mention of 6.39 tells me that you are not experienced enough with the PSP scene to know what's going on and again, you should not be giving out any advice on the matter. I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm just trying to prevent others from unknowingly bricking the device, and this can be prevented entirely if there is no reason to update to such a high firmware if they're already on a lower CFW, or even a lower OFW. With lower CFW, they're presented options. 6.39 CFW PRO B10 only gives them that one option. They don't have the slew of options if they start there. With 5.50 OFW, they have the option to go to GEN D-3, or Prome-4, or 6.20 and up if they so choose.
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Again, you're missing my point about updating in general. Why would you have an app that seeks and finds all of the up to date stuff
if you don't have a legitimate reason for updating.I mentioned this in the other thread(s). There is NO REASON you need to update anything. At all. Ever. If you're the savvy pirate, then you'd know that the sources you get your stuff from should have the workaround .wad files
provided for you to install. In essence, this is the update, but it doesn't go anywhere near firmware, which basically means you get the updated effect while still being on a lower firmware. So why you have an app that is able to grab unnecessary files, that you probably won't even need, and has the potential to update firmware, is what I'm baffled about.
You don't just go and grab SP3 for XP if you have no need for it. Why install a newer .NET Framework if you don't need it? Why? Just because you
might need it?
I'm not even gonna ask why you have a mod chip in your Wii, or why you even bothered with chips in the repair process, or how can someone mistakenly update to 4.3 if they're so proficient at hacking post-bannerbomb (apparently you didn't use the extremely easy bannerbomb exploit despite it being out by the time you decided to hack your Wii), and why the hell were you using GeckOS? Who uses that archaic piece of shit?
I've gone way off topic, but this is relevant only because it's an expensive lesson learned that should never happen. And yet it does.
The lesson learned here is don't update unless you have to.
I'm not continuing this discussion any further because it is irrelevant to the topic.