[TUTORIAL] noob friendly way to upgrade to higher custom firmware

[flash670]

make sure it is the OFFICIAL 4.01 update
and
it is renamed as 401.PBP

if that doesnt work, try redownloading it.

[lexter7]

[FAN LETTER]
MR. Flash670 . . !'m a noob here and would you pls. help me out.
! have no clues as to how to upgrade th!s and that . . you can say !'m an !d!ot but !'m a b!g fan of yours. . out of all the tuts !v'e see . . ! th1nk [even a total noob and an !d!ot would real!ze th!s; but on my personal op!n!on though] that your tut !s the best. .

see 1 day i sort of formatted my memory stick using a 'memory stick duo adaptor' and when i tried putting in games, everything went haywire. EVERYTH!NG becane corrupted file thus i cannot use my psp anymore.

Can you please help me how to fix my problem and upgrade to whatever version is good, i possible the latest.


P.S. - ! have a fat psp and i think it was 2.71 something [i never upgraded coz shoppe owner threatend me, for saftey purposes i guess]

PLS. YOU ARE MY ONLY HOPE !!
~i think this is a song and i heard this somewhere, lolz xD

-Thank you so much [you juz dunno how much this means to me] >,<

[BCman]

The new Hack your PSP thread
read that sticky thread at the top of this section, u must downgrade to 1.5 first....

[Secret Dragoon]

I figure wouldn't the noob friendly way of updating the PSP be via the System Update because as of 3.80 DA has his updater built in.

Right?

[flash670]

as i said, this tut is an optional way to upgrade.

[boomerkid]

hi. ive got a slim that's running on 3.71 M33-4. can i still use this method of upgrading to 4.01?

and what's the difference between 5.00 and 4.01?

[flash670]

5.00m33-3 is the latest version of custom firmware.
4.01m33-2 is the second latest.
and yes you may use this method.
i recommend this if you do NOT have a wireless access point around.

please follow all steps before doing anything

[boomerkid]

i dont have a wireless access point. so anyway i can just straight away upgrade to 5.00 from 3.71?

[flash670]

yes, just follow the instructions

[boomerkid]

i followed ur instructions, and i only see corrupted data. i tried re downloading too. what went wrong =S