There is a alot of noise and nonsense, wanna-be experts, and just those who skim read and post to get their post counts up.
Despite this, I finally got my PRS-T1 back to fully functional state, with working USB and Wifi using this genuinely helpful post, from a genuinely smart user, who took the time to detail the steps properly.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=18
For this, you are going to need a couple of external files, some of which are quite hard to come by, with many broken links, and dead websites. I have shared the versions I eventually found The main 2 are:
RuporRescue:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1i7o2...=veo8f5zs&dl=0
Sony original firmware (EU):
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gnu0q...=7k9iembi&dl=0