Hacking Error code C2-12848-3....

[susanoomon]

I'm getting the error code C2-12848-3 when I try to downgrade from 3.68 to 3.65... What does this error mean and how do I fix it?

 

[susanoomon]

Can somebody PLEASE help me? I'm starting to feel like no one ever wants to help me out on anything on this site anymore.....

 

[Dave_Chad]

Have you disabled your plugins prior to running the downgrader then rebooted? Running it off a sony memory card and not an adapter?

 

[susanoomon]

I renamed the tai folders in both locations and I did restart and I do not have an adapter just the Sony ps vita memory card

 

[kaymynd]

I renamed the tai folders in both locations and I did restart and I do not have an adapter just the Sony ps vita memory card

Have you downloaded and placed the firmware in correct folder?

 

[susanoomon]

I've downloaded the firmware and placed it in the right folder cause the downgader works up until it supposed to start the update part.....

 

[kaymynd]

I've downloaded the firmware and placed it in the right folder cause the downgader works up until it supposed to start the update part.....

Ok i see you said you have tai folders in both locations, you should only have one in ur0 otherwise i think it may cause errors. You should check both folders and transfer any necessary plugins from ux0 to ur0 and note down their path and location in config.txt file in ux0 as well. Add noted paths to correct locations in config.txt in ur0. Once done delete tai folder in ux0, and follow steps to downgrade. If this does not fix your issue it may be your downloaded firmware is bad try redownloading.
Hope this helps!

 

[susanoomon]

Ok i see you said you have tai folders in both locations, you should only have one in ur0 otherwise i think it may cause errors. You should check both folders and transfer any necessary plugins from ux0 to ur0 and note down their path and location in config.txt file in ux0 as well. Add noted paths to correct locations in config.txt in ur0. Once done delete tai folder in ux0, and follow steps to downgrade. If this does not fix your issue it may be your downloaded firmware is bad try redownloading.
Hope this helps!

Thanks for the help I'll be trying again tonight but I thought of something else in the meantime, I had renamed the tai folders to tai1 and tai2 could this be the problem?

 

[kaymynd]

Thanks for the help I'll be trying again tonight but I thought of something else in the meantime, I had renamed the tai folders to tai1 and tai2 could this be the problem?

No problem, and possibly, try renaming them to something without tai in it like folder1 and folder2, that may help. I have yet to test it on my 3.68 vita, I'm downgrading today after work though, I'll post here how it goes.
Also if you've used itls-enso or imcunlock apps in the past it could cause errors, be sure to uninstall the mods beforehand.

 

[RikuNoctis]

Some things to check first as the instructions mention:

• Battery at 50% at least (should be full to avoid any issues)
• No plugins enabled (easily done by renaming your tai folder to something else using Vitashell)
• IMCUnlock disabled
• The PSP2UPDATE.PUP file you download MUST be the full version one (check the files and pick the correct one; I think this may be your issue, as the update (downgrade, that is) only works with the full file)
• You SHOULD have installed modoru BEFORE copying the PSP2UPDATE.PUP file, or the update file gets removed (slim chance of this happening unless you messed and forgot this bit)

The last thing you should check is if your Vita can actually be downgraded to 3.60/3.65. The modoru.vpk tells you what is the factory firmware of your Vita, and if its higher than the target firmware that you want you won't be able to downgrade. For example, if modoru tells you that your Vita's factory firmware is 3.67, you won't be able to downgrade to 3.60/3.65 from 3.68 as the factory firmware is higher than your target firmware.

Sadly, there is no solution for this other than to buy another Vita or replace your board with another one downgrade-able; the eventual 3.69/3.70 exploits will only give you h-encore, but won't make your Vita downgrade-able to get Enso.

 

[susanoomon]

Some things to check first as the instructions mention:

• Battery at 50% at least (should be full to avoid any issues)
• No plugins enabled (easily done by renaming your tai folder to something else using Vitashell)
• IMCUnlock disabled
• The PSP2UPDATE.PUP file you download MUST be the full version one (check the files and pick the correct one; I think this may be your issue, as the update (downgrade, that is) only works with the full file)
• You SHOULD have installed modoru BEFORE copying the PSP2UPDATE.PUP file, or the update file gets removed (slim chance of this happening unless you messed and forgot this bit)

The last thing you should check is if your Vita can actually be downgraded to 3.60/3.65. The modoru.vpk tells you what is the factory firmware of your Vita, and if its higher than the target firmware that you want you won't be able to downgrade. For example, if modoru tells you that your Vita's factory firmware is 3.67, you won't be able to downgrade to 3.60/3.65 from 3.68 as the factory firmware is higher than your target firmware.

Sadly, there is no solution for this other than to buy another Vita or replace your board with another one downgrade-able; the eventual 3.69/3.70 exploits will only give you h-encore, but won't make your Vita downgrade-able to get Enso.

Any chance of you posting a pic of what one is the full one? I thought it was the 3rd one out of the 3 in the archive but I might be wrong

 

[RikuNoctis]

Any chance of you posting a pic of what one is the full one? I thought it was the 3rd one out of the 3 in the archive but I might be wrong

It's the one with the largest size as it's a full update.

 

[susanoomon]

Also what's the recommended way to transfer the update to the vita? I was trying ftp but I'm starting to wonder if that's part of the problem....

 

[RikuNoctis]

Also what's the recommended way to transfer the update to the vita? I was trying ftp but I'm starting to wonder if that's part of the problem....

It may be. I know a lot of people state that FTP works perfectly, but I've encountered at least 2 issues while transferring files using FTP (one of them deleted some other files from the memory card somehow), while I've had zero issues using the USB option from Vitashell, and I've used it a lot on the 4 Vitas I have (2 Phat, 1 Slim and 1 PSTV) with a lot of games, DLCs, ROMs and the like that I've dumped myself on Vita memory cards, SD2VITA and the 1TB HDD for my PSTV.

So, from experience, FTP can fail and it did in my case. The USB option hasn't failed me even once since I started using it. I just copy over all of the files I want with it now, so you can try that.

 

[susanoomon]

It seems that neither the 3.65 or the 3.60 firmware that I downloaded from the darthsternie site work for me..... I'm not sure where else to go for the firmware.... Could you possibly point me in the right direction? Or is that against the rules too?

 

[RikuNoctis]

It seems that neither the 3.65 or the 3.60 firmware that I downloaded from the darthsternie site work for me..... I'm not sure where else to go for the firmware.... Could you possibly point me in the right direction? Or is that against the rules too?

That's pretty much the place "to go" to for old Vita firmwares besides private collections that someone could share.

Did you check if your Vita is downgrade-able with the modoru tool? It should say that the factory firmware is lower or the same than 3.60/3.65 (as these are the firmwares you want).

 

[susanoomon]

It says that the factory version is 1.61 so I'm totally at a loss.... I did however notice that there's another psp2updat.pup in gro0: but I'm unable to delete it.....

 

[RikuNoctis]

It says that the factory version is 1.61 so I'm totally at a loss....

That's really weird, then.
You have the files, you have modoru installed and downgrade-able Vita, the correct firmware files, no plugins enabled.

The only thing that may be causing the issue is if you are using a Vita 1000 and you are not using a Vita memory card as it's required for modoru to work. The SD2VITA won't work with this (as you have plugins disabled).

Other than that, I don't know what else could be causing the problem. Maybe you can wait a bit and see if anyone else reports the same issue, or you could open a ticket on modoru's github, posting everything you have done along with your full setup so it can be solved (if it's an issue with modoru itself, that is).


***EDIT***
Nevermind. I saw your post on the github.
Do what Yohoki mentions: run h-encore (you should still have it on your Vita while you do this whole process) BEFORE running modoru for the downgrade. That should do it.

 

[susanoomon]

I noticed that gro0 has an update in it too. It might be a case of conflicting updates.... Not sure how to remove the gro0 one though.... As you saw on my github post I have to run it anyway or I can't run the downgrader....

 

[RikuNoctis]

I noticed that gro0 has an update in it too. It might be a case of conflicting updates.... Not sure how to remove the gro0 one though.... As you saw on my github post I have to run it anyway or I can't run the downgrader....

The gro0 partition can't be deleted as it's the read-only partition from the game card (or SD2VITA which shouldn't be used while downgrading anyway).