Hacking Trying to jailbreak but can't deactivate

[ThaKarra]

Hi all,

I have an old PS4 console that I used to use as my main rig before I upgraded to a PS5.

I would like to jailbreak this old console. It was originally on firmware 8.00 and I successfully managed to update to 9.00.

I would like to fully format the PS4 before I introduce any kind of hack to it, as the console contains all my legit PSN accounts etc. I don't want to risk any kind of ban. -- I basically don't want to mix any of my legit stuff with jailbroken stuff.

So I'm trying to do a full format of my console but I keep getting the following error

"Cannot deactivate this PS4 for the following users:

Sign in to PlayStation Network with these accounts and try again."

The issue is that I cannot sign into PSN without updating to the lastest firmware... If I update to the latest firmware I can no longer jailbreak my console.

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions?

 

[KiiWii]

Don’t worry about it. You can’t go online with it to deactivate it without updating, and that would mean you can’t jailbreak. So just go past it, and don’t worry.

I believe you can deactivate linked consoles from the app, but I’ve never done it myself.

I’ve formatted hundred of consoles, it’s never been an issue.

 

[ThaKarra]

Don’t worry about it. You can’t go online with it to deactivate it without updating, and that would mean you can’t jailbreak. So just go past it, and don’t worry.

I believe you can deactivate linked consoles from the app, but I’ve never done it myself.

I’ve formatted hundred of consoles, it’s never been an issue.

Cheers man! I used the app on my phone to unlink all devices and it worked perfectly fine! However I'm having another issue now.

So I setup a manual internet connection with the PS4 (I tried both WiFi and LAN) and set the DNS as following:

165.227.83.145
192.241.221.79

When I go to the "User Guide" link it tries to redirect me to the "ithaqua" exploit menu page. But instead I get a PS4 error followed by a white webpage with some error codes and "couldn't resolve host name". --
I tried the same process but using my friends Wifi hotspot on his phone, worked perfectly, I was able to jailbreak my console fine. But the moment I connect the PS4 back to my home internet connection, the same thing happens.

So I tried something else. Instead of going to the "User Guide" link. I opened the web browser and went to knighthostking dot com. The page loaded and I was able to run the exploit using that website perfectly fine. -- I thought my troubles were over, but after rebooting my PS4 and trying to go there again. I was hit with the same error as above. In fact any website I try to visit on the browser just throws me the same error.

Any ideas?

 

[KiiWii]

Hmm, try delete all cookies and cached files etc, then maybe try http://prb123.ir/hen.html instead via browser.

 

[ZeroT21]

Try clearing your web browser cache and cookies before trying a new exploit host, if you already haven't

 

[eemcmCL]

If you want to initialize the console, reinstall the full firmware 9.00, doing that will format the internal drive and start the factory.