Hacking psvr2 black screen during setup

[udo4ever]

Hi everyone, I searched the boards on here as well as reddit and could not really find a clear answer. I am trying to set up my psvr2 headset on the ps5. My firmware is 7.61 on the ps5. My firmware on the psvr2 is 6.0. After loading Orionhen 0.9.0 and then connecting the psvr2 I get a message telling me to setup the hardware. I get to the part where it asks me to put on the headset on but all I see is a blackscreen. The VR headset is on and the lenses are also working. However, there is no image that are projected on them. I can hear sound but no image. Any ideas what is going on? Should I update to a higher firmware on my ps5? If so, which one?

update: I should mention that I did connect the psvr2 to my pc in January 2025 so it likely updated. I checked the version and it is definitely on 6.00 right now.

 

[ViRGE]

Unfortunately, there isn't a concise table of PSVR2 firmware versions. But I am reasonably confident that firmware version 6.00 is newer than your PS5's firmware. Firmware 5.00, which enabled official PC connectivity, was released a full year after PS5 FW7.61. And PSVR2 headsets generally don't like working with PS5s running firmwares older than they are.

Your options are to either downgrade the headset, or upgrade the console. The good news is that, unlike the console, the headset can even be downgraded in the first place. The bad news is that 6.00 is kind of the golden firmware for the PSVR2 in general since that's the version that the PSVR2 jailbreak is designed for.

If you don't intend to use the headset on your PC, you may want to consider downgrading the headset. Otherwise, 10.01 is the PS5 firmware most often reported to be used with PSVR2 FW 6.00 headsets.

(And please ignore Vortex above. That is a bot)

 

[udo4ever]

Unfortunately, there isn't a concise table of PSVR2 firmware versions. But I am reasonably confident that firmware version 6.00 is newer than your PS5's firmware. Firmware 5.00, which enabled official PC connectivity, was released a full year after PS5 FW7.61. And PSVR2 headsets generally don't like working with PS5s running firmwares older than they are.

Your options are to either downgrade the headset, or upgrade the console. The good news is that, unlike the console, the headset can even be downgraded in the first place. The bad news is that 6.00 is kind of the golden firmware for the PSVR2 in general since that's the version that the PSVR2 jailbreak is designed for.

If you don't intend to use the headset on your PC, you may want to consider downgrading the headset. Otherwise, 10.01 is the PS5 firmware most often reported to be used with PSVR2 FW 6.00 headsets.

(And please ignore Vortex above. That is a bot)

Would happen to know what entry points for JB my ps5 I would lose if I upgraded to 10.01? I currently use Blueray jailbreak which loads payload manager. It is fairly stable. How stable is 10.01 (Kernal panics)

For downgrading my psvr2, how would you do it? I tries going to the github for jailbreaking my psvr2 but the instructions to downgrade did not seem to work for me. Thanks for all your help!

 

[ViRGE]

Would happen to know what entry points for JB my ps5 I would lose if I upgraded to 10.01? I currently use Blueray jailbreak which loads payload manager. It is fairly stable. How stable is 10.01 (Kernal panics)

Your prime entry point for jailbreaking a 10.01 console would be the latest version of Y2JB Autoloader. Using YouTube to run the Relapse exploit is proving to be extremely stable. And because you're already on a 7.xx firmware, you can setup all of this now.

10.01 is a very good firmware for jailbreaking. It has known userland vulnerabilities for Webkit, YouTube, Netflix, and BD. And for kernel exploits we have Lapse, Poopsploit, and Relapse.

For downgrading my psvr2, how would you do it? I tries going to the github for jailbreaking my psvr2 but the instructions to downgrade did not seem to work for me. Thanks for all your help!

Unfortunately I cannot help there. I have not needed to previously downgrade a PSVR2. Though I am surprised you hear you had issues; it has always sounded pretty fool-proof.

 

[udo4ever]

Your prime entry point for jailbreaking a 10.01 console would be the latest version of Y2JB Autoloader. Using YouTube to run the Relapse exploit is proving to be extremely stable. And because you're already on a 7.xx firmware, you can setup all of this now.

10.01 is a very good firmware for jailbreaking. It has known userland vulnerabilities for Webkit, YouTube, Netflix, and BD. And for kernel exploits we have Lapse, Poopsploit, and Relapse.

Unfortunately I cannot help there. I have not needed to previously downgrade a PSVR2. Though I am surprised you hear you had issues; it has always sounded pretty fool-proof.

For the downgrade, I followed it to the letter. The only mystery is where to find the 5.0 firmware which the guide does not link to (it only links to 6.0). I found that on internet archive. I set my psvr2 to recovery. I then update my firmware with the 5.0. However, after doing so the firmware remains at 6.0. Here is some pics. Pic 1 is the starting firmware, pic 2 is putting psvr2 in recovery, pic 3 is sending the firmware, pic 4 is me asking of the firmware which is still 6.0. No dice unfortunately. I think I will likely move on to 10.01.

 

[trondvegardk]

I got the same problem after updating my headset to 6.0 and I'm on 7.61 as well. Black screen when entering the setup etc.
Where did you find the 5.0 pup file? Edit: Found it.

BTW, if you want Linux on your PS5 10.1 (8-10.x) it's not yet supported. Must be on 11.x or newer for now

 

[trondvegardk]

I tried to downgrade and same problem for me it stays on 6.0.Looks like this could be a workaround: https://github.com/BnuuySolutions/vr2jb/issues/3