[JurassicPunk]

Hello everyone,

I'd appreciate if you could look at my problem and maybe offer suggestions as to what I can do before sending the unit over to Sony...

I have a prs-505, with the 1.1.01.25200 firmware on it. It all started in Mongolia, where I noticed that sometimes plugging the usb to a computer would not charge the unit... It would say that windows didn't manage to install a correct driver for it, or that there was a malfunction with the device and it appeared as "Uknown Device". Sometimes when the battery was very low it did manage to charge but other times no.

Coming back home, I wanted to add new books so I connect it to my computer and laptop - it used to work on both of them - but the same message crops up - a malfunction - and no drives appear under my computer.

It kind of bummed me so I thought maybe the problem was that a virus put itself on the book (since some of the computers in Mongolia fucked up my disk on key and iaudio player that way), so I wanted to flash the device.

I downloaded the latest universal flasher, and it loaded the menu, but then I accidently pressed the "enter update mode" option. And since then, the prs-505 is stuck in that mode and I can't get it out.

I bought a PSP charger so battery is no problem. Tried the soft reset 10 times, tried a hard reset (doesn't do shi*), tried to put the same SD card in - no luck.

It is either in the "update failed" screen when not connected to a computer through usb or in the "updating now" screen when connected - but since as a usb device it "malfunctions", the official updater doesn't recognize the device.

Is there some way for a lower access through the usb? forcing it to install a driver or something? An even harder reset? Anything?? Is there a way to reverse the "enter update mode"?

Hopefully someone can help I'm open to ANY suggestion...

E.W.