This is because the encryption system on version 3.55 was cracked, allowing custom firmware updates to be seen as official software updates on consoles.

Monitor temperatures, and control fan speeds.Ĭustom firmware installation requires a system that is running firmware 3.55 or earlier.

With custom firmware a PS3 can do many things, including: This section is a brief overview of the custom firmware background information I wrote about in my last PS3 custom firmware post. Custom firmware allows the PS3 to run homebrew software. What is custom firmware, what is it used for, and what are the installation requirements This post goes into more detail on the same custom firmware installation process with a CECH-2001A PS3 slim console. He hasn't put a firm date on the release of the hack, but simply divulging its existence was probably more than enough to get Sony's lawyers drawing up the paperwork for a cease and desist.In March I wrote a post about installing custom firmware onto a CECHA01 PS3 fat, and a CECH-2101A PS3 slim. The YouTube video we've embedded after the break purports to show Geohot's PS3 booting Linux thanks to his custom v3.21 firmware. It's possible this CFW will also work on the slim to actually *enable* OtherOS.' He also takes Sony to task for removing the feature in the first place, saying it is 'potentially turning 100000+ legit users into 'hackers.'' Geohot writes on his blog that 'this can be installed without having to open up your PS3, just by restoring a custom generated PUP file, but only from 3.15 or previous. Enter Geohot, the person who in January claimed to have ' hacked the PS3.' He now claims to have created a custom firmware update that not only reintroduces the Other OS feature to original PS3 units, but potentially the Slim systems as well.

The feature has been absent from the PS3 'Slim' since its release, but owners of the original form factor probably never expected to lose the functionality. What the PS3 homebrew community hoped was an April Fool's joke by Sony turned out not to be, as the latest system update for the console (3.21) axed the ability to install another operating system, i.e.

Ps3 slim custom firmware