Thread: Have I Bricked My 505? :(
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Old 02-13-2010, 07:51 PM   #5
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Device: Sony PRS 505
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Originally Posted by netseeker View Post
Ok. What color is the LED on your reader showing? Red or Orange? Does it blink?

Anyway, charge your reader using a dedicated wall charger overnight (PSP charger will do). Remove the SD card, connect it to your PC and try the update using Sony's firmware updater again. And btw. i doubt that a hard reset would help, though you could try it. Details here...


Well, please keep in mind that you tried an unsupported software update using software from a 3rd party source. It isn't primarily Sony's fault...
That's the part I don't get, how is charging it overnight any different from charging it until it is fully charged?
I have charged it until the red light goes out using a PSP charger, and that doesn't seem to have made any difference.
Sometimes I can get it to reset, but I don't know what it is I'm doing because resetting seems to be an art not a science.
I doubt a hard reset would work, because even if I could get it to hard reset, I presume that would require firmware to be on the device.

I didn't mess the device up by trying to use a 3rd party piece of software. The 3rd party software worked exactly as advertized, but wasn't compatible with my firmware.
The device was fine until I tried to use the Sony software to update the firmware.

The whole reason I was trying to do this in the first place is because the original OS that the device ships with is frankly s**t.
I have a lot of books, and thus found the book practically unusable because of the inexcusable lack of a browse by folder feature, so I was naturally pretty excited about this modified firmware.

When you look at how easy it is to, for instance, restore a non working ipod, the hassle I'm experiencing with my book is indefensible.

Anyway, back to the lights
Sometimes I get flashing yellow, sometimes not. I can't figure out a pattern to that.
When I plug in the PSP charger, sometimes I get a solid red light, sometimes flashing yellow, sometimes no light.
When it's hooked up to the PC, sometimes I get solid yellow, sometimes I get red/yellow flashing, sometimes solid red.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to this, and although I have got it to reset three times, it seems to be entirely at the device's whim.
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