SD Card ate it. I need help restoring VitaShell and other homebrew apps

[Stroopwaffel]

Reinstalled Molecular Shell so should be good. Still wondering if it's worth updating to 3.65 since I'm already fixing the install.

Apologies for the vague title, my brain's tired today and it's been a long day.

Many years ago, circa 2017~2018, I bought an SD2Vita and jailbroke my 3.60 Vita 2000 system with HENKaku.

Today, I went to use it, and apparently the SD card I was using gave up the ghost. It's been a couple years since I've last played with the system, so I didn't see any warning signs.

The problem is that all my homebrew stuff, like VitaShell and all my plugins, resided on the SD card. The Vita's still jailbroken with HENKaku and on 3.60, but I'm a little lost on how to reinstall VitaShell. Would it be best if I follow the guide and install Vita Deploy, like a fresh install?

Also, should I upgrade my Vita to 3.65?

It's just been a long day with this ontop of it, and a little help would be nice. Thank you.

 

[lightwo]

Don't update your firmware. 3.60 is best supported for homebrew and plugins exist that spoof the firmware version (VitaDeploy adds them automatically), so there's no point upgrading.

The only notable addition I remember was support for TLS 1.2, which you can install on 3.60 with iTLS-Enso.

While I don't know how downgrading/upgrading to OFW should be done and the precautions for that, I would advise against doing it unless you absolutely have to, as restoring system backup is apparently not possible even with a hardware flasher.

Whatever case may be, I recommend refering to vita.hacks.guide

 

[Stroopwaffel]

Don't update your firmware. 3.60 is best supported for homebrew and plugins exist that spoof the firmware version (VitaDeploy adds them automatically), so there's no point upgrading.

The only notable addition I remember was support for TLS 1.2, which you can install on 3.60 with iTLS-Enso.

While I don't know how downgrading/upgrading to OFW should be done and the precautions for that, I would advise against doing it unless you absolutely have to, as restoring system backup is apparently not possible even with a hardware flasher.

Whatever case may be, I recommend refering to vita.hacks.guide

Yeah, I decided to stay with 3.60 in the end, I was just noticing that Vita.Hacks.Guide's current walkthrough recommended upgrading to 3.74 for every potential version number (1.03 to 3.73) for use with HENIo. That's what got me curious about the potential upgrade in the first place.

It's definitely one of those I wouldn't touch it if it was working (if it ain't broke, don't fix it,) but since it was broke and needed fixing I was wondering, know what I mean?

 

[VincentC]

I've never bothered to upgrade to 3.65 either, as there's not much point in doing so. For any future screw ups, you can just replace Near with VitaShell or VitaDeploy. Hell, might as well replace some other apps like Messaging since Sony killed that too.

 

[Stroopwaffel]

I've never bothered to upgrade to 3.65 either, as there's not much point in doing so. For any future screw ups, you can just replace Near with VitaShell or VitaDeploy. Hell, might as well replace some other apps like Messaging since Sony killed that too.

I'll go looking when I have free time later, but have resources on the Near/Messages replacement? That's new to me.

 

[VincentC]

VitaDeploy's Miscellaneous Menu has an option to replace Near with VitaDeploy

- https://github.com/SKGleba/VitaDeploy/releases

&

- https://github.com/gnmmarechal/VSOI/releases

I think VitaDeploy comes with Vitashell so it's better to use that release.