just decided to focus on reading more books and not hacking on hardware for too long every night - so I flashed to US.
Anyway - thanks for the help and sorry for the noise
Btw, there is _NO_ snapshot option when the device is in firmware mode - just for user searches. If your device is in firmware mode the Sony flasher is only able to flash the reader and is not able to detect the firmware version on the device. (However, this is nothing new
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