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andy-man / ps4-wee-tools

PS4 tools for NOR and Syscon manipulations
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Syscon "Not Patchable" / "Overwritten coreOs slot" status #17

Open tajaldeen0 opened 11 months ago

tajaldeen0 commented 11 months ago

NOR Data: SKU : CUH-2016A B01 Region : [16] Europe / Middle East / Africa SN / Mobo SN : 00274523720282063 / 16WTC203966389 Southbridge : Belize A0/B0 Torus (WiFi) : Version 2 HDD : TOSHIBA / MQ01ABD050 / 56D3SA5HS FW (active) : 9.03 [A] [min 3.50] FW (backup) : 8.50 <-> 9.60 GDDR5 : 0xFF 0MHz | 0xFF 0MHz SAMU BOOT : 255 [0xFF] UART : On Slot switch : Off 5521F7B7ECB846376CB380106C6EB353

SYSCone Data

Version : 2.13 SNVS : Vol[0] Data[0] Counter[0xA01] OWC[1] Entries : 284 records found at 0x60C00 Status : Not patchable

andy-man commented 11 months ago

About "not patchable" syscon

If tool says "not patchable" (original syscon dump) it means your coreOs slot is already overwritten (in sflash) and FW revert isn't possible (99,999...%). Why it happens? Well, when PS4 has downloaded FW update in background it silently writes fw to sflash (into previous coreOs) and added (0C-23) entries to syscon. Tool detects FW update (0C-23) entries after last installed FW entries (08-0B) in syscon dump and warns you. There is no known method to fix it for now.

In some rare cases you can try your luck and apply manual patch. Just delete everything below last blue entry. It will be patchable after that.

But still there is minimal chance of success.

how to apply manual patch

Any ideas regarding this problem are welcome.

Any questions like - My syscon is "not patchable"! What should I do!? Help! - will be blocked without any reason.

kadom11 commented 9 months ago

Is there a solution to this problem in the near future, and what about the latest version of your wonderful program, when will it be converted to exe . thank you

andy-man commented 9 months ago

The problem is not in syscon but in SFLASH. I strongly doubt that there will be solution in future. It requires to generate new CoreOS fw but its not possible without private keys. However there is always a place for a miracle (key leaks, fw bugs and etc)

EXE files are released with major version update. Closest release is planned for December 2023.

kadom11 commented 9 months ago

Thank you for your response and I wish you all the success in your work and life