I'm sure you wasn't writing this stuff, Prea, if was your dongle the one bricked. Me and Patrickbatman are, (expecially me, the older to post some tests) the one with the most unexpected way to brick. Patrick just did a direct boot load. I did plently times for MW2 and rebug, no bricks. He did 1 time, semi bricked. I did an NTFS transfer. As i did for every other TB game. So no reason for assume NTFS is not supported, don't use it. The theory besided "The dongle was thinking you was attempting a clone" is pure theory. No base, no confirm from TB team, just a "Maybe is the reason" wrote from someone here. Noone of us know why my dongle and Patrick's one are ruined. His one is still alive, giving him dev installation (rofl). Mine, dead. So, if noone know the real reason, till when a reset tool is released, i would not consider safe a daily use of TB products. You know why you don't see tons of post of bricked dongle? Because is arrived few days ago, for most. Give time. Trust me, you will trow worst than me, when your dongle will brick. We just don't have enough info and more bricked dongle for figure out a common reason, one day we will. If a reset tool is released, any brick created from a random reason or a common one will be a bad luck. Fixed in 2 minutes. Not like now, with customers with a DOA dongle, Patrick with a dev dongle (lol) and me refreshing this page waiting a GaryOPA post with some links of this damned tool. The only one who don't care if his dongle will brick is bubba, his dongle was free. We paid, a lot.
Last edited by Bartholomy; 12-19-2011 at 04:26 AM.
Yeah, it's me Dj Barth "One TrueBlue to rule them all, One Browser to find them,
One TB CFW to bring them all and in the Internal HDD bind them
In the Land of BarthMordor where Modding lie"
Um, actually no! Yes TB did tell us what works and what doesn't. How? By saying "Our product can launch games from HDD that are 3.6x - 3.7x based." Not "Our product can launch games, homebrew, PS1 backups, PS2 backups, PS4 backups on NTFS, FAT, FAT16, FAT32, UTFS, etc, etc, file systems and on 1TB, 500TB 1,000TB HDD's." - TB didn't say any of that. Which is why I know my TB dongle can do the following "Launch backups through multiman using the X button that are compatible with TB."
It's called process of elimination. They tell you what it's designed for, you know it has DRM, therefore you can wager a guess that XYZ won't work because it only does ABC and the rest get's blocked by DRM." - Process of elimination.
I agree with you mostly, but with that "strict" reasoning then games < 3.56 *wouldn't* be playable just because TB didn't say that, and we all know they play fine with the 3.55 Dongle - TB combo.
There's a difference between trying to reverse engineer the chip with a programmer and it bricking itself (GREAT!) and Direct Booting by mistake in MultiMan and it eating the dust just for that (WRONG!)
So both you guys bricked your dongles doing something that you had done before?
Sorry Im not going to pretend I pay too much attention to TB talk so I missed out on a lot of this bricking stuff.
I wouldnt worry though mate, it may take a bit of time but I'm 90% certain you will get the tool you need to fix your dongle. There are some factors that may be holding things up, size of team, making sure they dont make their secret method vulnerable, etc.
Unfourtunately their focus may have shifted on to trying to protect their dongle from cloners again now.
That is all speculation but I dont think they are holding back the 'tool' for any sinister reason.. as I said further back, shit takes time..
Thanks Gravox. I hope Tb team will do something Not just for me and Patrick, but either for every user with a DOA dongle, electronically alive.
Yeah, it's me Dj Barth "One TrueBlue to rule them all, One Browser to find them,
One TB CFW to bring them all and in the Internal HDD bind them
In the Land of BarthMordor where Modding lie"
Um, actually no! Yes TB did tell us what works and what doesn't. How? By saying "Our product can launch games from HDD that are 3.6x - 3.7x based." Not "Our product can launch games, homebrew, PS1 backups, PS2 backups, PS4 backups on NTFS, FAT, FAT16, FAT32, UTFS, etc, etc, file systems and on 1TB, 500TB 1,000TB HDD's." - TB didn't say any of that. Which is why I know my TB dongle can do the following "Launch backups through multiman using the X button that are compatible with TB."
It's called process of elimination. They tell you what it's designed for, you know it has DRM, therefore you can wager a guess that XYZ won't work because it only does ABC and the rest get's blocked by DRM." - Process of elimination.
So yes, I've known all along what my dongle can and can't do. I knew without a shadow of a doubt it could run 3.6x/3.7x backups from HDD, and it COULD potentially do a whole slew of other things that you guys tested. but at the end of the day I knew without a shadow of a doubt that it did ABC. So if people do XYZ, and it bricks, well that's their problem. . And as a result I've never even tried doing anything past "launching games via multiman with X from int hdd." that's all I've done. Hell that's all I ever do unless I'm testing homebrew, linux, etc to which I'll go for a firmware dedicated to it. See I've always done exactly what the thing was designed for at it's core. You guys have always tried to push the limits. Now where did that lead? A brick.
Note : Sorry about any grammar issues, I'm running a fever so ya. Also apologize if this comes off as being an ass. See first excuse. So eat me ROFLMAO!
Not2: I only say HDD because I bought mine when the HDD firmware was out. So I don't include any potential BD support.
So you don't play 3.55 and lower games on yours (cause you didnt mention they said they supported that), cause I can tell you that works HAHAHAHHA! (Just noticed Ghostbusting Dan Akroyd already mentioned this)
DOn't get me wrong I don't think they should list everything you can't do with the dongle like "Dont submerge in liquids, don't eat." But when saying themselves use with backup managers (Which they do say) they should give a heads up like dont do this in manager this may BRICK you dongle or whatever. Because what they said makes it sounds like the dongle is fully compatible with whatever the backup manager has to offer.
Oh well guess i shouldn't care my dongle works so screw everybody else right
EDIT: And Prea sorry your sick friend I'd be a little bitch on here if I was. Get well soon card!
Last edited by PatrickBatman; 12-19-2011 at 10:42 AM.
PS3 Slim w/ Rebug Rex 4.30.2, 500GB Internal, 1TB/3TB External; PS2 Fat McBoot w/ Hard Drive; Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
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We just don't have enough info and more bricked dongle for figure out a common reason, one day we will. If a reset tool is released, any brick created from a random reason or a common one will be a bad luck. Fixed in 2 minutes. Not like now, with customers with a DOA dongle, Patrick with a dev dongle (lol) and me refreshing this page waiting a GaryOPA post with some links of this damned tool. The only one who don't care if his dongle will brick is bubba, his dongle was free. We paid, a lot.
Originally Posted by xPreatorianx
Not just for me and Patrick, but either for every user with a DOA dongle, electronically alive. 
. And as a result I've never even tried doing anything past "launching games via multiman with X from int hdd." that's all I've done. Hell that's all I ever do unless I'm testing homebrew, linux, etc to which I'll go for a firmware dedicated to it. See I've always done exactly what the thing was designed for at it's core. You guys have always tried to push the limits. Now where did that lead? A brick. 
