One of my vitas isnt activated with no psn id on it and it has homebrew/backups

 

Or if you wanna use bought digital content. If you buy a digital game you must have your Vita activated to use that content in its original form

 

Yeah I'm using QCMA, Ive installed henkaku and offlineinstaller.

Not sure if activation is required to some degree like, certain games will ONLY let you play if the VITA's activated.

 

When you boot up the VITA for the first time and it asks do you have PSN, do you actually log in? OR do you say skip step?

 

No? That's strange, cause yeah I set up, ask for birthday, skip PSN login or creation. When I plug my PSVITA in, it doesn't ask me to activate.

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Maybe you need to install HENKAKU first, THEN you use QCMA

 

TRY this

0. INSTALL QCMA LATEST VERSION ON PC (GOOGLE QCMA AND SCROLL DOWN TO WINDOWS INSTALLER)
DO NOT CONNECT VITA TO PC UNTIL STEP 8
1. FORMAT PS VITA (USING RECOVERY METHOD IF NEED TO)
2. SET UP WITH NO PSN
3. CONNECT WIFI
4. GO TO BROWSER and INSTALL HENKAKU
5. FTP and TRANSFER OFFLINE INSTALLER AND THEN BOOT UP OFFLINE INSTALLER TO INSTALL IT (MAKE SURE WIFI IS ON)
6. REBOOT PS VITA (POWER OFF POWER ON)
7. BOOT UP OFFLINE INSTALLER (MAKE SURE WIFI IS OFF)
8. ONCE HENKAKU IS UP AND RUNNING (CONNECT PSVITA TO PC)
9. RUN QCMA
10. OPEN MEDIA MANAGER on PS VITA
11. (OPTIONAL): Activate PS VITA in system settings WHILE running HENKAKU

THESE ARE THE EXACT STEPS I DID WITH MY BRAND NEW PS VITA 2000 WITH 32GB MEMORY CARD FORMATTED.

 

Ill try this when i get home

 

still better than this apple-like shit. plus, vpk installation hogs up a lot of overpriced space.

 

If you are talking about activating device, as in logging into PSN to activate. It has nothing to do with homebrew, ("PIRACY") or online modes. Activation simply allows your Playstation store bought content to work on the device. Is a DMC function. You must activate it to play a game you bought from PSN, that is all it does. IF you deactivate it, you can't play the games from PSN. Doing this has no reason or effect on anything else but permission to play games. Since you plan using Vitamin or homebrew, don't concern with activation.

 

Are you asking me for help? I don't understand the reason why you are quoting me. Your response does not have any thing to do with what i said in the quote.