Hello GBATemp, first let me introduce myself as this is my first post. Jump to the "!!!!!!" to get directly to my problem, thanks!
I've recently fallen in love with the Vita, thanks to the awesome abilities the community around it has unlocked for everyone to enjoy, and the great piece of hardware it is.
I used to have a PsP on CFW (still got it but the battery died years ago) and I had this itch to get a "new" handheld, the Vita came naturally.
I've found a cheap PSV1000 to hack it, followed all the tutorials around, join the Vita reddits and discord servers, everything went well, used it on 3.68 Henkaku for a week installing plugins and everything, finally ended up downgrading to 3.60 once I got confident enough.
And I actually enjoyed doing this, so when I kept receiving notifications for second hand Vitas around me I asked a gamer friend if he were interested in getting one, he was, skipping forward second PSV1000 is hacked, no problems, bought the same SD card and sd2vita as everything went well before.
I ended up doing a third one for another friend, a PSV1000 again, they all came with different firmwares but this one had never been connected and was the first I wouldn't have to downgrade, also it had no modem, that's it for the differences.
I never managed to delete the previous account without the password so I hacked it, downgraded it and used simple account switcher on it. I also had a problem with a wrong displayed amount of free space on the SD card (in content manager or vitashell), I tried preloading a 256 GB full with games to gain time (on PC with a USB adapter), ended up having to start over the transfers multiple times and always had the issue.
Managed to get everything working but only after doing the transfers with vitashell but I thought I'd try again directly in the PC given the opportunity, it's in the field of possibilities that I could have screwed up a folder or something after all.
Now time goes by, another mate would want one but I was not finding decent Vitas until a PSV2000 at 70€ pops up near my home, I check it, it's in 3.70 but I know the next hack should come in about a month so I bargain it at 50€. Found another PSV2000 in pristine condition with the box and everything (a first) for 120€ but 3.70 again so I bargain it to 100€. I'm in no rush as the hack isn't available yet so I format them both, add an account, get ape quest demo and direction the closest drawer until theFlow finally releases the long awaited hack!!
So, so far I've successfully done 3 psv1000, the 3rd one which didn't need a downgrade ended up taking me the most time with the sd problems.
Once the hack hits, I apply it to both 2000s, took some tinkering on the first and a couple minutes on the second one. I'm a bit surprised too because the consoles I had turn off before putting in the drawer had their batteries drained, gotta admit I'm much less confident around those slims that I was with the Oled ones.
I head over amazon to get more SDs, the same ones as before, Samsung 256 GB EVO+ from same seller and 2 more sd2vita's, same seller too, along with NetDot Magnetic Series Micro USB cables x3 in a package because one of the slims has a very bad cable (I hate Micro USB, always have, tears down so fast, joke of a standard, pure crap, a tech to forget, I could go on).
A few days later I have received everything and thanks for reading so far.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've got 2 PSV2000's running Enso 3.60 ready to have their sd2vita installed with a Samsung EVO+ 256GB each, the hacked was installed a couple days before getting the SDs. One of the Vita was turned off after having been charged with NetDot Magnetic cables and the other just in sleep mode, the micro usb heads are left in the plugs as they're intended to. The one that was in sleep mode has blinking orange light, never had Slims before but I saw this mentioned online earlier so I'm very surprised it is drained but I plug it in and grab the other one that was completely off, turn it on, no problem but it's the other one I want to install the sd in first as it is for a mate and this one I intend to keep as it's in very good state compared with my scratched Oled.
I already had backed up my ux0 folders and put the one I needed in the 1st sd card . Once the Vita has charged for a while, I turn it on, I'm not sure at this point anymore, but I think it did turn off when I unplugged it. I proceed to inserting the sd2vita, change mouting point and reboot, I check in VitaShell, 238 GB as in windows (normal size for those cards). Next I put my tai folder from ux0 to ur0, I go to settings, reload TaiHen and I check in Auto Plugin if I'm cool, I am, I install a few more plugins, reboot the Vita and turn it off to finally add content to the card.
I go full on data transfer mode, app folder, addcont folder, pspemu folder, the SD card shows 80 free GB of storage in windows, I eject it, to the Vita, which doesn't take a solid 2-3 min rebuilding db as it should but only a few secs. I go to VitaShell and the card shows only a few GB left.
In content manager it only detects data in psp, and only the psx games. And at the bottom of the screen I can see 160GB of data listed as "other". I've had this issue before on my 3rd Vita but I thought I hadn't been careful enough, so now Idk wtf I did wrong and starts losing faith in installing SD cards.
I've deleted a few Vita game folders, I see the "other" size reduce accordingly in the manager. I check the card in the PC, it shows as it should, 80GB+ of free space.
I would like to understand what causes this, so I put the SD back to the vita, I try various things like DB reconstruct after booting in recovery, reloading plugins, nothing.
I end up manually deleting all the folders I had added using vitashell, I still have like 60GB listed in "other". I try looking at Henkaku settings and unlink the card then reboot and after the DB reconstruct at boot, I check VitaShell, my SD card is back to showing almost empty, like before I added games in it.
I try again making a big transfer using the usb adapter, doing only Vita games, same thing happens, 180GB in "other", no game showing, so I don't believe I'll keep doing this with an adapter from now on, still in Vitashell I try to unmount ux0: and remount it
just after and some magic happened I got 60GB back, still have 60GB read as "other" in the manager...
Time to format the card, do the zzblank img thing again, this time I'll do it all school with VitaShell all the way, so here I am, picking up the files I want to, must have lost 20 hrs to that by now, launch the transfer via usb Vitashell, yay 5MB/s instead of 30, time to get some sleep, confident it'll be alright once the 5hrs for 100GB of data transfer is over.
And no, that's not Ok, at this point the Vita has turned off several time on its own, having to force start it and then it asks for date and time, hard to put back in the timeline, as I've been manipulating, plugging in and out the cable and the card, exactly when/why that happened .
So transfer is over, the console is plugged in I check it like this, i have the "other" problem again, a first using Vitashell, I'm puzzled, then I unplug the console, it turns off, asks for date and time again at reboot, so I check the port again, I just have time to hear the windows USB sound before it turns off again.
I check another cable, same thing, I check plugging the vita to my ps4, same thing.
I can turn on the console once it's plugged, but it'll turn off at some point, if I unplug it it turns off. I think the very first times it happened I got the orange blinking light and had to recharge a while, but after a few minutes it was able to start and the battery was showing its previous state, almost full.
Between the SD card problem and this usb problem I don't know what to think, and there are new variables, first time with slims, first time with magnetic cables, my 2nd PSV2000 that hasn't sd2vita installed yet has asked me a couple time for date and time, I've stopped using the magnetic cable in case that's it but this Vita didn't turn off randomly, I've updated plugins with autoplugins, installed a game with pkgj, no sudden errors or shutdown.
I need help, am exhausted with this, I've watched a teardown video and opened up the problematic Vita, I think it's been opened before, it doesn't show signs of internal damage though but it was very dusty for such a confined space. The battery has no leakage but it looks to have a couple very tiny dents, might be from the console body when it's assembled, Idk, it was my first time opening a vita.
I can deduct stuff and follow tutorials but this is beyond me, do you think a dying battery could do this? It doesn't make sense to me, plus it doesn't lose charge once it goes back on, I'm afraid it could be the usb port, if not the board. Unless it's a problem with the hack itself?
Anyway, I've left the Vita opened up, I don't know if can try to boot it without the back cover plugged in, if I should order a battery right away or reassemble everything and try to format everything. I'd rather avoid opening up my "good" 2000 if I can, I guess trying the other battery would make sense but I'm not convinced at all the battery is the culprit.
Edit: I forgot to add that I tried the SD (after deleting the id.dat and before formatting it once more) in my PSV1000 which despite its old age and scratches works flawlessly, I could see the bubbles but nothing would launch from it. I got an error code I couldn't find the meaning of too at some point while on the slim: c0-13007-1
Also all those SD problems only come second to me, I want to fix the vita itself first. I don't know what the next best thing to do is, if it's doable maybe turn it on while opened up and see if something happens inside when I plug the cable. Or reinstall enso, or format everything, or ....
I've recently fallen in love with the Vita, thanks to the awesome abilities the community around it has unlocked for everyone to enjoy, and the great piece of hardware it is.
I used to have a PsP on CFW (still got it but the battery died years ago) and I had this itch to get a "new" handheld, the Vita came naturally.
I've found a cheap PSV1000 to hack it, followed all the tutorials around, join the Vita reddits and discord servers, everything went well, used it on 3.68 Henkaku for a week installing plugins and everything, finally ended up downgrading to 3.60 once I got confident enough.
And I actually enjoyed doing this, so when I kept receiving notifications for second hand Vitas around me I asked a gamer friend if he were interested in getting one, he was, skipping forward second PSV1000 is hacked, no problems, bought the same SD card and sd2vita as everything went well before.
I ended up doing a third one for another friend, a PSV1000 again, they all came with different firmwares but this one had never been connected and was the first I wouldn't have to downgrade, also it had no modem, that's it for the differences.
I never managed to delete the previous account without the password so I hacked it, downgraded it and used simple account switcher on it. I also had a problem with a wrong displayed amount of free space on the SD card (in content manager or vitashell), I tried preloading a 256 GB full with games to gain time (on PC with a USB adapter), ended up having to start over the transfers multiple times and always had the issue.
Managed to get everything working but only after doing the transfers with vitashell but I thought I'd try again directly in the PC given the opportunity, it's in the field of possibilities that I could have screwed up a folder or something after all.
Now time goes by, another mate would want one but I was not finding decent Vitas until a PSV2000 at 70€ pops up near my home, I check it, it's in 3.70 but I know the next hack should come in about a month so I bargain it at 50€. Found another PSV2000 in pristine condition with the box and everything (a first) for 120€ but 3.70 again so I bargain it to 100€. I'm in no rush as the hack isn't available yet so I format them both, add an account, get ape quest demo and direction the closest drawer until theFlow finally releases the long awaited hack!!
So, so far I've successfully done 3 psv1000, the 3rd one which didn't need a downgrade ended up taking me the most time with the sd problems.
Once the hack hits, I apply it to both 2000s, took some tinkering on the first and a couple minutes on the second one. I'm a bit surprised too because the consoles I had turn off before putting in the drawer had their batteries drained, gotta admit I'm much less confident around those slims that I was with the Oled ones.
I head over amazon to get more SDs, the same ones as before, Samsung 256 GB EVO+ from same seller and 2 more sd2vita's, same seller too, along with NetDot Magnetic Series Micro USB cables x3 in a package because one of the slims has a very bad cable (I hate Micro USB, always have, tears down so fast, joke of a standard, pure crap, a tech to forget, I could go on).
A few days later I have received everything and thanks for reading so far.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've got 2 PSV2000's running Enso 3.60 ready to have their sd2vita installed with a Samsung EVO+ 256GB each, the hacked was installed a couple days before getting the SDs. One of the Vita was turned off after having been charged with NetDot Magnetic cables and the other just in sleep mode, the micro usb heads are left in the plugs as they're intended to. The one that was in sleep mode has blinking orange light, never had Slims before but I saw this mentioned online earlier so I'm very surprised it is drained but I plug it in and grab the other one that was completely off, turn it on, no problem but it's the other one I want to install the sd in first as it is for a mate and this one I intend to keep as it's in very good state compared with my scratched Oled.
I already had backed up my ux0 folders and put the one I needed in the 1st sd card . Once the Vita has charged for a while, I turn it on, I'm not sure at this point anymore, but I think it did turn off when I unplugged it. I proceed to inserting the sd2vita, change mouting point and reboot, I check in VitaShell, 238 GB as in windows (normal size for those cards). Next I put my tai folder from ux0 to ur0, I go to settings, reload TaiHen and I check in Auto Plugin if I'm cool, I am, I install a few more plugins, reboot the Vita and turn it off to finally add content to the card.
I go full on data transfer mode, app folder, addcont folder, pspemu folder, the SD card shows 80 free GB of storage in windows, I eject it, to the Vita, which doesn't take a solid 2-3 min rebuilding db as it should but only a few secs. I go to VitaShell and the card shows only a few GB left.
In content manager it only detects data in psp, and only the psx games. And at the bottom of the screen I can see 160GB of data listed as "other". I've had this issue before on my 3rd Vita but I thought I hadn't been careful enough, so now Idk wtf I did wrong and starts losing faith in installing SD cards.
I've deleted a few Vita game folders, I see the "other" size reduce accordingly in the manager. I check the card in the PC, it shows as it should, 80GB+ of free space.
I would like to understand what causes this, so I put the SD back to the vita, I try various things like DB reconstruct after booting in recovery, reloading plugins, nothing.
I end up manually deleting all the folders I had added using vitashell, I still have like 60GB listed in "other". I try looking at Henkaku settings and unlink the card then reboot and after the DB reconstruct at boot, I check VitaShell, my SD card is back to showing almost empty, like before I added games in it.
I try again making a big transfer using the usb adapter, doing only Vita games, same thing happens, 180GB in "other", no game showing, so I don't believe I'll keep doing this with an adapter from now on, still in Vitashell I try to unmount ux0: and remount it
just after and some magic happened I got 60GB back, still have 60GB read as "other" in the manager...
Time to format the card, do the zzblank img thing again, this time I'll do it all school with VitaShell all the way, so here I am, picking up the files I want to, must have lost 20 hrs to that by now, launch the transfer via usb Vitashell, yay 5MB/s instead of 30, time to get some sleep, confident it'll be alright once the 5hrs for 100GB of data transfer is over.
And no, that's not Ok, at this point the Vita has turned off several time on its own, having to force start it and then it asks for date and time, hard to put back in the timeline, as I've been manipulating, plugging in and out the cable and the card, exactly when/why that happened .
So transfer is over, the console is plugged in I check it like this, i have the "other" problem again, a first using Vitashell, I'm puzzled, then I unplug the console, it turns off, asks for date and time again at reboot, so I check the port again, I just have time to hear the windows USB sound before it turns off again.
I check another cable, same thing, I check plugging the vita to my ps4, same thing.
I can turn on the console once it's plugged, but it'll turn off at some point, if I unplug it it turns off. I think the very first times it happened I got the orange blinking light and had to recharge a while, but after a few minutes it was able to start and the battery was showing its previous state, almost full.
Between the SD card problem and this usb problem I don't know what to think, and there are new variables, first time with slims, first time with magnetic cables, my 2nd PSV2000 that hasn't sd2vita installed yet has asked me a couple time for date and time, I've stopped using the magnetic cable in case that's it but this Vita didn't turn off randomly, I've updated plugins with autoplugins, installed a game with pkgj, no sudden errors or shutdown.
I need help, am exhausted with this, I've watched a teardown video and opened up the problematic Vita, I think it's been opened before, it doesn't show signs of internal damage though but it was very dusty for such a confined space. The battery has no leakage but it looks to have a couple very tiny dents, might be from the console body when it's assembled, Idk, it was my first time opening a vita.
I can deduct stuff and follow tutorials but this is beyond me, do you think a dying battery could do this? It doesn't make sense to me, plus it doesn't lose charge once it goes back on, I'm afraid it could be the usb port, if not the board. Unless it's a problem with the hack itself?
Anyway, I've left the Vita opened up, I don't know if can try to boot it without the back cover plugged in, if I should order a battery right away or reassemble everything and try to format everything. I'd rather avoid opening up my "good" 2000 if I can, I guess trying the other battery would make sense but I'm not convinced at all the battery is the culprit.
Edit: I forgot to add that I tried the SD (after deleting the id.dat and before formatting it once more) in my PSV1000 which despite its old age and scratches works flawlessly, I could see the bubbles but nothing would launch from it. I got an error code I couldn't find the meaning of too at some point while on the slim: c0-13007-1
Also all those SD problems only come second to me, I want to fix the vita itself first. I don't know what the next best thing to do is, if it's doable maybe turn it on while opened up and see if something happens inside when I plug the cable. Or reinstall enso, or format everything, or ....
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and deleted the evil tai folder that never should have been.
He/them/IT does