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Old 12-02-2008, 05:07 AM   #153
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Originally Posted by Boyodublin View Post
I somehow messed up the flash and my prs 505 is stuck on the Reader Starting up... pg. I've tried everything....soft reset...hard reset... 10 times soft reset, etc. I'm fully charged and I'm able to connect the reader to my computer and it shows in the Connect Software and through vista hard disk management as connected. I'm also able to move books and files over to the reader, but when I disconnect the usb it continues to show that it is connected until I do a soft reset. When I do this, it again gets stuck on the start up screen. I've tried to reload the Sony firmware, but I only get as far as it telling me that I already have this version of the firmware loaded, so it doesn't allow me to reflash the firmware.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks folks...
If you are unable to run the Sony Updater because it complains that your Reader firmware is current you have two options.

1. Run Igorsk's Universal Flasher and choose option #7. This will put your Reader into firmware update mode. Then re-run the Sony Updater.

2. Uncompress the Sony Updater (it's really a big zip file) and change the file eBookUpdater/assets/updaterAssets/PRSVersion.dat so that 110018040 reads 110018041 - once that's done, the Sony Updater work at any time.

Good luck!
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