GUIDE TO GETTING CFW ON PS3 VERSION 3.55​

Guide objectives :

- Install Custom Firmware 3.55

- Connect to PSN (optional step)

- Install and launch Homebrews

- Transfer files between Computer/PS3

- Play games with managers
​

Guide Contents & Index:

GUIDE 1: INSTALLING CFW:

- Pre-requisites

- Procedures

- PC Stuff

- PS3 Stuff


GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN

- Pre-requisites

- Procedure
​

GUIDE 1: INSTALLING CFW AND BACKUP MANAGER​

- PRE-REQUISITES -​

0) A FAT32 formatted USB drive

Most low-capacity USB drives are already FAT32 formatted. If your's isn't, right click on the drive letter of your usb(eg: E:\) and click on Format. Choose FAT32 and Quick Format it.

1) OFW 3.55(if you don't already have it)

Download (Use the mediafire link.)

MD5 CHECKSUM: ca595ad9f3af8f1491d9c9b6921a8c61


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Make a new folder on the root of a usb drive and call it PS3. Make another folder inside it called UPDATE. Put the 3.55 update in here and make sure that it's named, 'PS3UPDAT.PUP'. Now put the usb drive into the PS3 and go to Settings -> System Update and choose Update via Storage Media and press 'X'.

2) CFWM 1.5 Small Version [32MB]

Download

Used for obtaining Custom Firmwares.

3) MultiMAN:

BASE

This is currently the best backup manager.

- PROCEDURE -​

- PC STUFF -​

STEP 0: CREATING A CUSTOM FIRMWARE

Automatic Patching:​

1) Create a new folder on your desktop and call it 'CFWM'. If you downloaded OFW 3.55 earlier, skip step 3 and create a new folder inside this folder called 'Original_3.55_FW'. Copy the PS3UPDAT.PUP to this folder.

2) Extract the .exe from inside the CFWM archive to this folder.

3) Now, open the .exe and choose 'Download 3.55 OFW'.

4) After it has finished, choose any CFW from the 3.55 section and click on Create Custom Firmware 3.55.

NOTE: I recommend Kmeaw's 3.55 CFW.

Manual patching:(by Cyan)​

1) Download CFWM v1.5 Full version (+batch by Cyan) [152MB]. and create a new folder on your desktop and call it 'CFWM'. Now, extract everything from that archive to this folder.

2) Place the downloaded OFW 3.55 in 'Original_3.55_FW' folder (or OFW 3.41 in 'Original_3.41_FW' folder).

3) Double click on the Batch file corresponding to the cfw you want to create (ex. Kmeaw_3.55.bat) and follow the instructions. Verify that both MD5 hashes are matching at the end of the process.

4) The patched cfw is now available in newly created folder named after the cfw you chose.

STEP 1: TRANSFERRING EVERYTHING TO THE USB DRIVE

Okay, now lets start transferring the CFW and the Backup Manager to the USB drive.

1) On the root of your USB drive, create a new folder called 'PS3'. Now inside 'PS3' create another folder called 'UPDATE'.

2) Go to the 'CFWM' folder and now go to the folder of your chosen CFW.

3) Find the PS3UPDAT.PUP file and copy it to the 'UPDATE' folder which we created.

4) Open the multiMAN archive.

5) Extract multiMAN WT.pkg, USB.CFG and options_default.ini to root of your USB drive.

- PS3 STUFF -​

STEP 1: INSTALLING KMEAW CFW

1) In the XMB, go to Settings -> System Update.

2) Now select Update Via Storage Media.

3) A message will pop-up.

4) Press 'X'.

5) It should install successfully. If you get any errors, try installing it using Recovery Mode.

STEP 2: INSTALLING MULTIMAN BACKUP MANAGER

1) In the XMB go to Game -> Install Package Files.

2) Select MultiMAN and install it.

3) If you want to play games with Kmeaw cfw, you need to install this using the 'Install Package Files' option in the Game section of the XMB.

STEP 3: ENABLING NTFS ON MULTIMAN (OPTIONAL)

[title: ENABLING NTFS ON MULTIMAN]

1) Plug your external hdd into your PC and download this.

2) Install usbview and open it.

3) Grab the vendor id and the product id.

4) Now create a new notepad file and put this in 0xVNID:0xPRID:V where VNID is the vendor id and PRID is the product id and V is the number of volumes.

5) Now save it as USB.CFG and copy it over to the root of your USB Drive. If it asks you to replace it, do so.

6) Now download Awesome File Manager and install it on your PS3.

7) Run it and browse to /dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR

8) On the other side you should find a directory that has "USB" in it, the inside directory should have your "USB" file.

9) Highlight it and press O to copy it into MultiMAN USRDIR.

10) Now go back to multiMAN and press Start + /\.

11) The NTFS driver should be activated now.

NOTE: Currently you can only copy from an external NTFS hdd to your internal hdd. Nothing more, nothing less.

-END OF GUIDE 1-​

GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN​

Spoiler: GUIDE 2: CONNECTING TO PSN. THIS DOES NOT WORK CURRENTLY AS THIS METHOD HAS BEEN BLOCKED BY SONY

THIS DOES NOT WORK AS OF 3/18/2011. FOR MORE INFO, GO HERE.

- PRE-REQUISITES -​

0) A FAT32 formatted USB drive

Most low-capacity USB drives are already FAT32 formatted. If your's isn't, right click on the drive letter of your usb(eg: E:\) and click on Format. Choose FAT32 and Quick Format it.

1) TEAM REBUG'S 3.60 SPOOFER

Visit Team Rebug website to download a list of URLs

Select a link from the provided list in the text file to download the installer.

- PROCEDURE -​

INSTALLING TEAM REBUG'S 3.60 SPOOFER​

1) Extract 3.60_Version_Spoofer.pkg from the archive you downloaded to the root of your USB drive.

2) Plug it in to your PS3

3) In the XMB go to Game -> Install Package Files.

4) Select 3.60 Version Spoofer

5) Once loaded Press the 'X' button to install. It will take about 15-45 seconds.

6) When it prompts for a reboot, do so.

STEP 2: INSTALLING FUCK PSN (OPTIONAL. USE THIS FOR SPOOFING YOUR CONSOLE ID).

1) Download dev_blind.pkg, fuckPsn-v0.6.exe and CA27.cer from here. Copy dev_pkg and openps3ftp.pkg from the OpenPs3Ftp archive to the root of your USB Drive.

2) On your desktop, create a new folder. Let's call it Fuck PSN.

3) Copy CA27.cer and the fuckPsn-v0.6.exe file to this folder.

4) Now download an FTP server. I personally use FileZilla.

5) Install it.

6) Now plug-in your USB Drive into your PS3.

7) In the XMB, go to Install Package Files and install dev_blind and OpenPS3FTP.

8) Go to Game and launch dev_blind to mount the flash as writable

9) Now on your PS3 run OpenPS3Ftp and on your PC run Filezilla or whichever FTP server you use.

10) Go to FileZilla and enter root as the username and openbox as the password.

11) Now using FileZilla go to /dev_blind/data /cert

12) Rename CA27.cer to CA27.cer.bak

13) Now copy over the CA27.cer from the FuckPSN directory that we created earlier to /dev_blind/data/cert

14) Now change your PS3's primary and secondary dns servers to your PS3's IP. If you don't know how to change the DNS servers look here.

15) After you're done changing the DNS servers, reboot your PS3 and launch FuckPSN.exe from the folder we created earlier.

16) You can now connect to PSN.

-END OF GUIDES-​

F.A.Q.(by Cyan)​

Main questions

Q. Can I use burnt Bluray discs to play games?
A. No. Only Internal and External HDD is working with backup managers.

Q. I updated past 3.55, is there any way to get the 3.55 custom firmware from there?
A. No. There's no way to downgrade from 3.56+ firmware yet using a software method. Though, there is a way to downgrade some FAT PS3 involving Infectus modchip.

Q. I'm on 3.50 or bellow. Do I need to install the Official Firmware 3.55 first?
A. Even if installing a cfw3.55 over an old fw should work, it's recommended that you update your PS3 to the same Official Firmware as the cfw you want to install first to avoid bricking your console.

Q. I'm on 3.41 or bellow and don't want to update to 3.55, do I really need to install 3.55 to use a cfw?
A. No, you can install Hermes cfw 3.41 (please update to ofw 3.41v2 first) and follow the guide the same way. Just don't install the Version Spoofer from Team Rebug (It only works on 3.55).

Q. I'm already using a cfw but I want to change for Kmeaw 3.55
A. First re-install the ofw 3.55 over your current one, then follow the guide again.

Q. How big should be my USB drive just to install it, not to play back ups?
A. Around 200mb.

Q. Where can I find all previous Official Firmware and their MD5 hash ?
A. Sony removed previous firmwares from their servers when the first jailbreak method appeared. You can still find remaining links and all the informations here.

CFWM

Q. The program doesn't start.
A. You need .Net framework 4.0.

Q. Where can I find .net4.0 ?
A. Here

Q. I don't want to install .Net4.0. How can I still patch the firmware?
A. You can use bspatch program to patch the firmware manually. Follow the manual patching method in the Guide.

PSN

Q. Can Sony ban my PSN account?
A. Yes, as Sony can't ban your Console ID, they can ban your account. But you can always create a new account, while unbanning the PS3 itself will be harder.

Q. Can I play online with all games?
A. You can't play online anymore. You need the 3.62+ official firmware to connect to PSN.

Q. FuckPSN is not working, what can I do?
A. You need .net Framework 3.5, and if you are using a firewall you need to open these ports : 53 UDP, 80 TCP and 443 TCP. You may need to close Skype.

Multiman :

Q. When I press start+triangle to enable NTFS it freezes
A. Your NTFS partition needs to be primary and active.

 

[Zorua]

Maybe you hit Quote instead of edit.
also, keep a full copy of the first post, sometime when editing you find yourself with ... a blank post !

Look at the first page. That's exactly what happened to me when I was editing my guide a long time ago. I've learnt my lesson and I've backed it up in multiple places on my computer.

 

[Cyan]

The guide as I see it :


Guide 1 : jailbreaking
Guide 2 : installing pkg (more like a tutorial to explain what the users will have to do later, to understand the guide quicker and better)

Spoiler: installing pkg

GUIDE 2 : INSTALLING PACKAGES TO XMB
1) Put your pkg file to the root of your USB drive.

2) Plug it in to your PS3

3) In the XMB go to Game -> "? Install Package Files"

4) Select the file you want to install and press X

NOTE : Some packages are signed and some aren't.
If you are using Geohot's Custom Firmware, only install signed packages. Usually you will find "Signed" or "GH" of "GEOHOT" in the filename.
If you are using another custom Firmware, do not install geohot's signed version of the packages.
[/p]

Guide 3 : Transferring files (needs pkg installation knowledge)
- FTP server. Transferring files over FTP (same as above, it's more a tutorial than a guide, there's no step like the jailbreak, as it will depend on the user's needs)

Spoiler: FTP guide project, unfinished

GUIDE 3 : TRANSFERRING FILES WITH FTP

- PRE-REQUISITES -


0) FTP Server

Download blackb0x FTP
or

Download OpenFTP1.5
[/p]
1) FTP Client

Download Filezilla
or your preferred FTP client.
[/p]

- PC STUFF -

Spoiler

PS3 stuff
0) Configure your PS3 network setting by going to Settings -> Network Settings -> Internet Connection Settings.
Note: If you want to enable FTP without internet access, just set 0.0.0.0 to the 'Default Router'
1) Extract your downloaded FTP Server and put ftpserver_11.pkg or openps3ftp-nopass.pkg to the root of your USB drive and install the package (see GUIDE2).
3) If you don't know your PS3 IP Addres, Go to Settings -> System Settings -> System Information.
4) Go to Game and launch the ftp server you just installed.

PC Stuff
1) Launch your FTP client.
2) Connect to the PS3 :
- Filezilla : In the top menu put your PS3 IP address in the 'Host' field, and 21 into the 'port' field, and click quick connect.
At the bottom right part you will see the PS3 Internal HDD content, and at the bottom left your computer's folders.
- FlashFXP : Click on the thunder icon at the top right and select Quick Connect. Server : put your PS3 IP and click Connect.
At the top right part you will see your computer's folders, and at the top left the PS3 Internal HDD content.
3) Navigate to the desired location
4) drag and drop the file or the folder you want to transfer from one window to another.
5) To disconnect :
- Filezilla : click on the red cross incon in the top menu.
- FlashFXP : Click on the power cord icon in the top menu.

PS3 Stuff
1) Shutdown the FTP Server :
- Blackb0x FTP : Press X to exit and retur to XMB.
- OpenFTP1.5 : Press Home button and select "Quit Game" to return to XMB.

- Comegenie's files Manager
Guide 4 : PSN (need pkg installation for blind_dev, and FTP knowledge), and/or Firmware Version spoofing. Explain why they need the spoof.
Guide 5 : Game Managers
- The main manager's list, and their differences (MM, Gaia, Rogero, .. and now Iris)
- installation
- folders explanation
- dumping internal/external
- transferring a game on external
- HDD format (FAT32 and NTFS difference. how to setup NTFS in MM)
- Loading the game from the list
- Problematic games (black screen games).
- Creating PSN-like games icon for XMB from PS3 games
- Fixing eboot for running games needed a newer firmware on a lower firmware (running Gran Turismo 5 on 3.41).

Guide 6 : Homebrew
- run-able homebrew (.elf form), where to place them, etc.
- Installable homebrew (explain the genre, like games, media player, FTP, applications, etc.)
- explain here how the media players/homebrews are working ? Or point to their wikitemp page (we need to create them too!)

Annexe : Additional knowledge
- Version spoofing
- Pkg Manager installer (from team rebug)
- getting games updates (game manager 1.4x)
- other ? (lan with Xkai ?, update spoofing with proxy?)



Some part are clearly tutorial-type on how a homebrew is working (like FTP server), than a guide telling the user "copy this file here, push this button without knowing what you are doing, congrats it's jailbreaked!".
I understand that some users prefer the noob style guide, with detailed step by step without understanding what they are doing, but I like explaining things to users. I think it's better that the users understand, first for their own knowledge, it will prevent brick, etc., and then for us as we won't have to answer the same thing all the time.


What do you think about this layout ? do you have any idea to add/change?
I'm asking to users like Slimmm, originality, the one always helping other users.
It's the layout I proposed to Zorua few days ago (I added few things in this post).
Let's work together to make a complete guide to PS3. (wiki is also a good choice to work together).

The page will be maybe too long, it needs a good layout.
I think too many spoiler looks ugly (like modmii guide, it's mostly spoilers without main guide out of spoiler)

 

[Lee060282]

hi, ive not used my ps3 for some time but it is below 3.55, last time i was looking at CFW you needed a disc in the drive in order for it to work (was some time ago). is this still the case? as my ps3 drive is shot and I cannot be arsed to replace it yet. Thanks for the help.

 

[lolzed]

hi, ive not used my ps3 for some time but it is below 3.55, last time i was looking at CFW you needed a disc in the drive in order for it to work (was some time ago). is this still the case? as my ps3 drive is shot and I cannot be arsed to replace it yet. Thanks for the help.

Some loaders support no disc...but it's not perfect(Some games might still require disc).

 

[Zorua]

hi, ive not used my ps3 for some time but it is below 3.55, last time i was looking at CFW you needed a disc in the drive in order for it to work (was some time ago). is this still the case? as my ps3 drive is shot and I cannot be arsed to replace it yet. Thanks for the help.

Don't install KMEAW. Install Waninkoko's v2pup. It can run 80% of the games without a disc.

 

[Originality]

"Don't install KMEAW"... bad advice. It works, so why not offer it as an option? I don't care if I need to keep a disc inside to play games, because all the games still work.

EDIT: I formally accuse you, sir, of being a bit biased. Ok, more than a bit. You are a very biased person, as reflected in many of your posts and in people's initial responses to your posts (see the second post of this thread for an example).
...not that it'll change anything.
EDIT2: OK, I missed the point of it. I stand corrected.

 

[Zorua]

hi, ive not used my ps3 for some time but it is below 3.55, last time i was looking at CFW you needed a disc in the drive in order for it to work (was some time ago). is this still the case? as my ps3 drive is shot and I cannot be arsed to replace it yet. Thanks for the help.

QUOTE(Originality @ Apr 8 2011, 04:07 PM) "Don't install KMEAW"... bad advice. It works, so why not offer it as an option? I don't care if I need to keep a disc inside to play games, because all the games still work.

 

[Paddy1979]

I have a fat 40gb ps3 to mod would you recommend upgrading the hard drive first before installing cfw or is it safe to upgrade the drive when custom firmware is installed

 

[Originality]

As long as it's on OFW 3.55 or below, it's safe either way. I'd recommend upgrading the HDD before going to 3.55 CFW though.

 

[Paddy1979]

Thanks for the quick reply what's the largest you can use for an internal drive??

 

[Originality]

Thanks for the quick reply what's the largest you can use for an internal drive??

I've no idea myself, but I'm happy sticking with 250GB stock and 1TB Samsung S2 external (2.5").

 

[Cyan]

I made some Wiki pages to list all available homebrews (and maybe PC utilities if requested by users).
Each Homebrew will have its own page.

Do you know any homebrew I forgot to add to the list?

What do you think about the Homebrew page layout?
Do you think of any other informations to add in the infobox on the right?
I think hosting the homebrew on filetrip will be better than linking to other forums or website news when there's no official website, right? (Only when the dev is not against it).

Feel free to edit or add new pages using the same layout as Pongus. (I'm currently working on the Demos and will add some Games after that).

Edit :
Some homebrew have multiple download for the same version, like 3.41, 3.55, 3.55-signed.
I think the infobox should contains only 1 "download" link, usually the latest release.
So, these homebrew should have a download section to list all available pkg type. Either in the changelog (keeping a link to every version?), or a "latest release" section only.

 

[Zorua]

I made some Wiki pages to list all available homebrews (and maybe PC utilities if requested by users).
Each Homebrew will have its own page.

Do you know any homebrew I forgot to add to the list?

What do you think about the Homebrew page layout?
Do you think of any other informations to add in the infobox on the right?
I think hosting the homebrew on filetrip will be better than linking to other forums or website news when there's no official website, right? (Only when the dev is not against it).

Feel free to edit or add new pages using the same layout as Pongus. (I'm currently working on the Demos and will add some Games after that).

Wow Cyan! You must have spent a really long time working on it!
I don't think that you forgot any homebrew.
The layout is really clean. It looks very good.
Filetrip becomes kinda slow some times so I'd prefer mediafire.

 

[Cyan]

Creating the list and page layout wasn't too long (2 days). The longest part starts now, filling all the pages

It's a long job (if you add everything, like screenshot, changelog, etc.), but I think it will benefit the users to have all the homebrew in one place and not on a forum-like website. (most website news are using a forum and Post-like messages, we need to search in older pages to find everything).

If anyone can contribute, even without adding any section details, only the infobox, it will be great

 

[Zorua]

Creating the list and page layout wasn't too long (2 days). The longest part starts now, filling all the pages

It's a long job (if you add everything, like screenshot, changelog, etc.), but I think it will benefit the users to have all the homebrew in one place and not on a forum-like website. (most website news are using a forum and Post-like messages, we need to search in older pages to find everything).

If anyone can contribute, even without adding any section details, only the infobox, it will be great

I wanna help but I've never used wiki before. How do I create pages for individual homebrew?

 

[Cyan]

There are 2 ways :

1)
If you go to a page which is not created yet, you will have the choice to do so.
For example :
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/w/index.php?title=...an_exemple_page
Then you can select "Create the MultiMan_nonexistant page" to add content.

2)
Go to a page with links.
On the list, when you click on a red link (page not created yet), it will go directly into the page creation for that link.

Then just Copy/paste the content from another page, like pongus (click edit on Pongus page to see the content), and change the data.
Do a preview, and if everything's fine before posting add a comment at the bottom like "page creation" "adding this or that" etc.



I prefer using the 2nd method, that way I'm sure there's no error in the pagename (upper/lower case). If a link is not yet present and you want to add one :

link to MultiMan with this link MultiMan : On wiki do [[MultiMan]]
link to MultiMan with this link Multi Manager : On wiki do [[MultiMan|Multi Manager]]

 

[Zorua]

Thanks for the info!
I'm going to try making some homebrew pages in a while.

 

[ThatDudeWithTheFood]

I made some Wiki pages to list all available homebrews (and maybe PC utilities if requested by users).
Each Homebrew will have its own page.

Do you know any homebrew I forgot to add to the list?

What do you think about the Homebrew page layout?
Do you think of any other informations to add in the infobox on the right?
I think hosting the homebrew on filetrip will be better than linking to other forums or website news when there's no official website, right? (Only when the dev is not against it).

Feel free to edit or add new pages using the same layout as Pongus. (I'm currently working on the Demos and will add some Games after that).

Edit :
Some homebrew have multiple download for the same version, like 3.41, 3.55, 3.55-signed.
I think the infobox should contains only 1 "download" link, usually the latest release.
So, these homebrew should have a download section to list all available pkg type. Either in the changelog (keeping a link to every version?), or a "latest release" section only.

AmazingLarry apps like CFWload and others aren't there but those are mostly for devs.

I can help updating authors of homebrew maybe.


EDIT:Updated Utilities so every app has a description and author

 

[Cyan]

Even if it's for the devs only, it can be useful to list it.
If you can add the ones I missed and their descriptions and authors it will helps.

Thanks

Oh, I forgot USB FirmLoader too

 

[ThatDudeWithTheFood]

Even if it's for the devs only, it can be useful to list it.
If you can add the ones I missed and their descriptions and authors it will helps.

Thanks

Oh, I forgot USB FirmLoader too

No problem I'll add a whole bunch I have nothing to do but first im just going to finsh completing all the apps that currently have no description/author.

All System tools have description/author now.

Almost all back up managers have description/author now. I couldn't find anything on Thank you manager suprisingly.

Everything from Libraries down to Demos has an author/description besides Thank you manager.