PS5 Exploit Guide

FateNightroad · Feb 24, 2026

Blythe93 said:
I've updated the browser cache so that my etaHEN version updates from 2.3B to 2.4B and now my console fails to launch etaHEN toolbox for some reason. I'm on 5.00 and I have an SSD in the M.2 slot if that matters. I've tried sending the payload from my PC (my console and my PC are on the same network and PS5 is blocking updates and redirecting the User's Guide to the UMTX2 exploit website) but that fails as well. I've tried Payload Injector v1.4 and NetCat GUI v1.3 and the both freeze or say that my PS5 can't be reached so I'm not sure what to do anymore. Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong?

EDIT: I've tried cleaning the cache and after a few retries still nothing. Interesting thing, though, is that I had 0 KPs which is really nice but makes me wonder if they fixed the stability over time, was I just that lucky or does the jailbreaking even works properly? I believe that it does since I do get access to debug tools, just not the toolbox.

After a while, I tried zeco's UMTX2 webkit exploit which has the latest etaHEN on it (2.5B) and... it works! Which is again weird but not that I'm complaining. I've been on 2.3B for a while, but at least now I can continue to test Y2JB to see if that will work better in my use case.

I'm still unable to send ELF payloads from my PC to the console. Both PC and the console are on the same network, both of them are using the custom DNS settings but I'm not sure if that's the issue. From what I understand, as long as they are on the same connection, they should be able to see each other.

EDIT#2: And yes, now it suddenly decided to work. Troubleshooting these issues isn't really an easy task for me. Hahahaha

I'm using etaHEN 2.5B and the injection success rate of the Toolbox is like 1/10. It's not just you.

heisenberg7 · Feb 24, 2026

5.50 user too, etahen 2.5 and 2.6 had low success rate with umtx2, but with Y2JB (and autoloader) and 2.6 etahen is very high like 80-90%. Injecting payloads from etahen builtin plugin options automatically.

FateNightroad · Feb 24, 2026

heisenberg7 said:
5.50 user too, etahen 2.5 and 2.6 had low success rate with umtx2, but with Y2JB (and autoloader) and 2.6 etahen is very high like 80-90%. Injecting payloads from etahen builtin plugin options automatically.

The injection success rate is 80-90% even recovering from rest mode?

playerman · Feb 24, 2026

A little off topic guys. I hope you dont mind

From time to time im fixing dualsense controllers for friends/family and other interested people. Im using https://ds.daidr.me/ for full test of the controllers as it have everything including haptic test vibrations speaker etc. As for calibrating new sticks im using https://dualshock-tools.github.io/ . So far everything was great but yesterday i have encountered something very strange. After connecting controller to pc it didnt set to one color asalways it was just flashing all colors available. Test websites were showing everything ok for buttons but haptic test didnt work and vibrations when tested were starting and stopping right away with something looked like short on the controller because lights corresponds to that test. Speaker was also crashing. So first thing i have done was desoldering all the wires and nothing changed. Disconnecting flexi ribbon. Nothing changed . Trying different triggers. Same. Disconnecting touchpad. Same. I have even changed mainboard from a known working controller and it was still the same.I was even thinking that maybe conductive film is making some kind of short as i was having few situations in the past that analog stick was pressing itself when using triangle or sqare. So i have decided to connect my own personal controller and with my surprise it was doing the same. After googling thru the web i have tried many different solutions including setting up dualsense in audio devices and even uninstalling all usb devices ever connected to my pc using usbdeview https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html .But that didnt change anything. So i started checking my installed aplications and updates to them. Finally after 2 days of struggling i have found out that signal rgb https://signalrgb.com/ that i have installed on my pc was a culprit. After uninstalling it everything went back to normal so happy days. Maybe some of you will find this informative. I didnt try to run it and changing setting as that wasnt my goal. I just wanted for everything to work as before. Its important for me. I know you can check your controller with astrobot playroom but connecting it to pc for a first quickcheck its much faster. Thanks

CALL-151 · Feb 24, 2026

FateNightroad said:
I'm using etaHEN 2.5B and the injection success rate of the Toolbox is like 1/10. It's not just you.

etaHEN 2.5 finally fixed the issue for me on 7.61+m.2
as workaround: avoid kstuff being loaded via etaHEN, instead put the no_kstuff file in place and let kstuff be loaded at the end of autoloader.txt with a delay 5-7sec after toolbox-launch

smf · Feb 24, 2026

Wolf85 said:
If a scalper buys 1000 units at launch price, that's still 1000 units sold. It doesn't change the numbers because they resold them, but do keep making assumptions like that. The ones in the pawn shops are the ones that were already sold, so they were already counted at the time of the original sale. The prices changed because of the lack of availability and like they say, if you control the supply and the demand, you've got yourself a monopoly... don't forget about all those pirates robbing freight trains, that reduces the total number of retail sales.

Can you make your point a bit clearer, because you seemed to originally claim that scalpers artificially increased the sales numbers. Yet none of this proves that the sales were inflated at all, only the price was.

xZenithy · Feb 24, 2026

CALL-151 said:
etaHEN 2.5 finally fixed the issue for me on 7.61+m.2
as workaround: avoid kstuff being loaded via etaHEN, instead put the no_kstuff file in place and let kstuff be loaded at the end of autoloader.txt with a delay 5-7sec after toolbox-launch

If understand well what you said:
1º Run etaHEN without kstuff
2º Put kstuff the last payload
3º And put 5-7 seconds delay to force toolbox to run after these 5-7 sec (because toolbox need kstuff first)

Is that correct?

smf · Feb 24, 2026

Adam512 said:
ith the hv exploit it would theoretically be possible to have linux and kldload if I'm not mistaken

You could run linux without HV, it just wouldn't be as good and it's a lot of work either way.

CALL-151 · Feb 24, 2026

xZenithy said:
Is that correct?

1º Prevent etaHEN from immediately loading kstuff by making use of the no_kstuff file
2º Put a 5-7sec delay inbetween etaHEN and kstuff in autoloader.txt to avoid kstuff from disturbing the toolbox bootup process

in addition the workaround is useful for np-fake-signin too, but in my case this led to toolbox being unable to launch itemzflow directly

xalfie · Feb 24, 2026

KiiWii said:
Afaik it’s just system stability after jailbreak.

100% on 10.00. After jailbreak. Any other possible detail ?

Blythe93 · Feb 24, 2026

I've finally managed to set up Y2JB Autoloader and most of the issues I experienced were due to the poor WiFi signal that I have in my room. Ended up uploading files from USB via PS5 Xplorer instead which worked like a charm. Now I just have to figure out how Back Pork and UFS2 thingy works so that I can finally play Astro Bot.

Modded Warfare videos were helpful but I had to gather info from three separate videos in order to get the full picture and understanding about how all these things work together.

I'm on 5.00 and so far Lapse didn't work only 1/10 times which is awesome. etaHEN at first didn't load because of my mistake, but after that it was successfully loaded ~7/7 times so far which is great. Before that, KPs occurred maybe 30% of the time, which is a HUGE improvement and I hope it stays that way and that I wasn't lucky so far.

xalfie · Feb 24, 2026

Blythe93 said:
I've finally managed to set up Y2JB Autoloader and most of the issues I experienced were due to the poor WiFi signal that I have in my room. Now I just have to figure out how Back Pork and UFS2 thingy works so that I can finally play Astro Bot. Modded Warfare videos were helpful but I had to gather info from three separate videos in order to get the full picture and understanding about how all these things work together.

I'm on 5.00 and so far Lapse didn't work only 1/10 times which is awesome. etaHEN at first didn't load because of my mistake, but after that it was successfully loaded ~7/7 times so far which is great. Before that, KPs occurred maybe 30% of the time, which is a HUGE improvement and I hope it stays that way and that I wasn't lucky so far.

nobody want to say it, ok, I will.

'Most of the issues' are because the etaHEN. If you don't use etaHEN, that in fact it is not required for the different purposes, there are no issues at all, at least with FW 10.0x.
Only problem is on lapse, that some very few times, is not doing the job at first sting and will required the console to be rebooted. Neither KPs are happening on 10.0x.

FateNightroad · Feb 24, 2026

CALL-151 said:
etaHEN 2.5 finally fixed the issue for me on 7.61+m.2
as workaround: avoid kstuff being loaded via etaHEN, instead put the no_kstuff file in place and let kstuff be loaded at the end of autoloader.txt with a delay 5-7sec after toolbox-launch

Forgot to mention that I'm on 4.50 so I'm still using UMTX2 webkit exploit and not autoloader.txt.

CALL-151 said:
1º Prevent etaHEN from immediately loading kstuff by making use of the no_kstuff file
2º Put a 5-7sec delay inbetween etaHEN and kstuff in autoloader.txt to avoid kstuff from disturbing the toolbox bootup process

in addition the workaround is useful for np-fake-signin too, but in my case this led to toolbox being unable to launch itemzflow directly

What is your autoloader.txt set up look like?

BobaFett_UK · Feb 24, 2026

Blythe93 said:
I've finally managed to set up Y2JB Autoloader and most of the issues I experienced were due to the poor WiFi signal that I have in my room. Ended up uploading files from USB via PS5 Xplorer instead which worked like a charm. Now I just have to figure out how Back Pork and UFS2 thingy works so that I can finally play Astro Bot. Modded Warfare videos were helpful but I had to gather info from three separate videos in order to get the full picture and understanding about how all these things work together.

I'm on 5.00 and so far Lapse didn't work only 1/10 times which is awesome. etaHEN at first didn't load because of my mistake, but after that it was successfully loaded ~7/7 times so far which is great. Before that, KPs occurred maybe 30% of the time, which is a HUGE improvement and I hope it stays that way and that I wasn't lucky so far.

Did you use Gezine's backup image and restored that or did you do it the manual way and install the YT 1.03 app and copy across the download0.dat file etc? If you did it the manual way then well done.... I tried the manual approach and kept doing something wrong and got fed up and then resorted to the backup

You are right about one thing, you have to follow a number of videos to get the steps exsctly right...

What we need is a simple document which tells us all the steps... Now there's a thought? Hmmmmm

heisenberg7 · Feb 24, 2026

FateNightroad said:
The injection success rate is 80-90% even recovering from rest mode?

I never use rest mode. I follow this from ps4 jb era. I tried some times in 2018 with my 5.05 ps4, I saw that was buggy and "defective" so I never use it again.

Blythe93 · Feb 24, 2026

BobaFett_UK said:
Did you use Gezine's backup image and restored that or did you do it the manual way and install the YT 1.03 app and copy across the download0.dat file etc? If you did it the manual way then well done.... I tried the manual approach and kept doing something wrong and got fed up and then resorted to the backup

Thanks! Yeah, i used the manual way and it was a bit of a pain to set everything up but now that I've done it I feel like it's pretty much straightforward, it's just that it isn't documented well enough for newbies such as myself.

Not that I'm new to jailbreaking the consoles in general but I love to have a good written guide for everything I do as YouTube videos get outdated quickly. Restoring backup is probably the best way to go but I didn't want to reinstall and/or restore everything afterwards.

BobaFett_UK said:
You are right about one thing, you have to follow a number of videos to get the steps exsctly right...

Indeed. ^^ Sometimes he forgets to mention a thing or two here and there which is completely normal, we are humans after all. But it annoys me to hell and back that I somehow manage to run into a couple of bugs every time I try something new.

Thankfully, I manage to figure it out somehow or someone replies back and I fix the issue so it's all good and it's a good learning process. Sucks that it's a completely different thing every time I update my PS5 setup.

BobaFett_UK said:
What we need is a simple document which tells us all the steps... Now there's a thought? Hmmmmm

I'll make a short guide on how I went from UMTX2 to Y2JB Autoloader setup once I confirm that I've done everything correctly with BackPork and ShadowMount as well. If not, you'll hear my pleas for help once again.

BackPork and ShadowMount should be pretty straightforward but you never know where I'll run into an issue again.

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Well, ShadowMount and BackPork were simple enough (only one KP so far) and I've learned how to update kstuff properly.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to copy Astro Bot to the internal storage, probably via external HDD, once I make a FFPKG file of it. Glad that something went smoothly enough.

BobaFett_UK · Feb 24, 2026

Blythe93 said:
Thanks! Yeah, i used the manual way and it was a bit of a pain to set everything up but now that I've done it I feel like it's pretty much straightforward, it's just that it isn't documented well enough for newbies such as myself. Not that I'm new to jailbreaking the consoles in general but I love to have a good written guide for everything I do as YouTube videos get outdated quickly. Restoring backup is probably the best way to go but I didn't want to reinstall and/or restore everything afterwards.

Indeed. ^^ Sometimes he forgets to mention a thing or two here and there which is completely normal, we are humans after all. But it annoys me to hell and back that I somehow manage to run into a couple of bugs every time I try something new. Thankfully, I manage to figure it out somehow or someone replies back and I fix the issue so it's all good and it's a good learning process. Sucks that it's a completely different thing every time I update my PS5 setup.

I'll make a short guide on how I went from UMTX2 to Y2JB Autoloader setup once I confirm that I've done everything correctly with BackPork and ShadowMount as well. If not, you'll hear my pleas for help once again. BackPork and ShadowMount should be pretty straightforward but you never know where I'll run into an issue again.

Post automatically merged: Feb 24, 2026

Well, ShadowMount and BackPork were simple enough (only one KP so far) and I've learned how to update kstuff properly. Now all I have to do is figure out how to copy Astro Bot to the internal storage, probably via external HDD, once I make a FFPKG file of it. Glad that something went smoothly enough.

Use drakmor's ftp server to copy over from external HD to internal. I'd copy the files to your pc first and then from there ftp to the data/homebrew folder.... His ftp is much faster than JT's ftp... unless JT has updated his already...

https://github.com/drakmor/ftpsrv

playerman · Feb 24, 2026

Hmm. Does anyone know what that is used for?? https://github.com/neonmodder123/PS5-WebKit-11.x

Wolf85 · Feb 24, 2026

smf said:
Can you make your point a bit clearer, because you seemed to originally claim that scalpers artificially increased the sales numbers. Yet none of this proves that the sales were inflated at all, only the price was.

How do you not realize that someone buying 1000 units inflates the sales numbers? One person bought 1000 units, but Sony thinks that means 1000 people bought their shit. Imagine if the politicians thought all citizens were stupid just because they know a few who are...

Axido · Feb 24, 2026

Wolf85 said:
How do you not realize that someone buying 1000 units inflates the sales numbers? One person bought 1000 units, but Sony thinks that means 1000 people bought their shit. Imagine if the politicians thought all citizens were stupid just because they know a few who are...

I get where you're coming from, but unless you can name 1000 scalpers who did that, the number is meaningless in comparison to the amount of consoles that actually found their way to customers. Even then we'd talk about less than 2 per cent of total PS5 sales worldwide.

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