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Originally Posted by leonardfrye
My PRS505 seems to have passed away. When I slide the power switch
I get a Starting up... screen and the light turns orange and then
blinks and then goes out. I bought an AC charger and charged the
battery till the red light is off. When connected to a PC via the
USB cable Windows Explorer shows no files on the reader. I tried to
run the Sony updater and it reports that the reader is already at
version 1.1.00.18040 so it will not run. I have tried:
1 - Pressing the reset button and sliding the power button ... no
luck.
2 - Pressing the reset button and holding down the Bookmark button
and the Volume Up button ... all I get is the Starting up... screen.
Does anybody have any other ideas? Does anybody want to buy a used
PRS505? Thanks.
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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 will work at any time.