PSVita System Update V1.66 Coming Soon

[masterchan777]

PSVita System Update V1.65 will be released shortly, bringing a few minor enhancements such as :

- A "Notification Alert" option will be added to Settings, so you can toggle alerts on or off.
- "After 10 minutes" will be added to the time options under Power Save Settings.
- An Arrow icon will now appear when PS Vita finds new activities in the LiveArea.
- Caps Lock will be supported in the On Screen Keyboard.

Source

Update: The System Software Update Is now available to download (97 MB).

Update: Check this link for screens of the new enhancements available with the new system update.

Update: The following "hidden" features have been reported : improvements to how often Near updates, a percentage bar when installing a game, and the ability to background download when manually selecting sleep mode. Source.

Update: Sony has confirmed that the update has been taken down temporarily due to a technical fault, and issued the following statement :

PS Vita system software update 1.65 has been taken down temporarily due to a technical fault.
For any customers who may have already downloaded the firmware, they can continue as normal.
We will notify you once the latest system software update is available to download again.

Update: Sony issued another statement detailing the technical fault behind taking down the update :

We identified a symptom that users can not play adhoc play in PSP titles if they download the system software,
so we have taken down the system software temporarily. The system software will be available to download again soon.

Update: PSVita System Software Update V1.66 is now live, it is also a 97MB download

Update: Sony has released details some new features of the latest 1.66 update including :

- The [System Music] setting in Settings > [Sound & Display] now affects BGM in PS Store, near and Sign-Up screens as well as the Home menu.
- When searching for location data, users now have the option to ‘Retry’ and ‘Cancel’ when a failure occurs.
- A progress bar is introduced for application installation.
- A direct link to PlayStation Store is made available for new applications that users may discover on near.
- Users can now update data at any time within near, provided they are within the same location.
- The display time of notification alerts has been reduced from 5 seconds to 3 seconds.
- Functional improvements have been made in the following games and applications: Unit 13, Gravity Daze, near.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

Nothing usefull then...

 

[Luigi2012SM64DS]

ps vita is already at 1.65?
and the keyboad never supported caps?
kule

 

[Opium]

You got my hopes up. I was thinking we'd finally get the PS1 support they promised, or perhaps more of my PSP games would be compatible.

 

[jamesaa]

Yay caps lock... I needed that once, remember thinking that I must of been missing the trick to enable it - HOW ELSE AM I MEANT TO SHOUT AT PEOPLE ONLINE!!!!!

Otherwise, meh nothing of interest, not that I really expected much for the small version number increase.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Yaaaay. Caps.

WHY YOU NO PS1 SUPPORT DAMMIT!

Those have been the only games I've purchased on PSN, like 4 or 5 different PS1 games.

 

[soratheultima]

Yaaaay. Caps.

WHY YOU NO PS1 SUPPORT DAMMIT!

Those have been the only games I've purchased on PSN, like 4 or 5 different PS1 games.

same here. i bet you $ony is probably going to do some stupid little deal where you have to pay a tiny amount just to get them on the vita *i really hope not*

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Apparently the update has been released.

 

[BasedKiliK]

Meh, this is why I still have a PSP. Nothing the PS Vita offers right now is appealing to me, and I still have full access to PSP and PS1 titles.

 

[chris888222]

The only good addon is the caps lock.

Well, better than nothing. Updating mine now.

 

[EnigmaBlade]

They STILL haven't fixed the remote play compatibility issue? Almost nothing plays...

 

[431unknown]

Apparently the update has been released.

No update in U.S. yet I just checked.

 

[Just Another Gamer]

Great but not gonna bother to update until I really have to, I don't know if PSN works on lower FW or not though.

 

[Devin]

Apparently the update has been released.

No update in U.S. yet I just checked.

Hm? I downloaded it last night before I went to bed. By trying to put some music on it using Content Manager.

 

[431unknown]

Apparently the update has been released.

No update in U.S. yet I just checked.

Hm? I downloaded it last night before I went to bed. By trying to put some music on it using Content Manager.

I just tried to do an update through the system settings and it said it was up to date?

 

[xist]

Apparently (according to Wololo's blog comments) they pulled the update for some reason.

 

[Devin]

Apparently the update has been released.

No update in U.S. yet I just checked.

Hm? I downloaded it last night before I went to bed. By trying to put some music on it using Content Manager.

I just tried to do an update through the system settings and it said it was up to date?

Strange. Well I'm positive I have the latest one, since I have the feature described in the first post. I suppose you should just wait for it to realize there's a update.

(Or what Xist said.)

 

[431unknown]

Apparently (according to Wololo's blog comments) they pulled the update for some reason.

Wonder what they screwed up.

 

[chartube12]

They left a whole in the psp player allowing full PS Vita control.

 

[Just Another Gamer]

If that was true then i wished I updated D: