PS3 2.40 Update Problems And Solutions

Kotaku: While it seems like every time the PlayStation 3 undergoes a firmware upgrade is plagued by people trying to blame broken systems on the update, last night's 2.40 update seems to have caused genuine issues with many posters over at the official PlayStation forums. Owners of PS3s in all shapes and sizes have been reporting that their systems were loading to the initial PlayStation wave screen and simply hanging there after applying 2.40. No icons, no controller functions, no nothing, just the wave across the middle of the screen.

There doesn't seem to be any real pattern as to which systems are affected. 60GB, 40GB, 20GB, and 80GB systems alike have all been afflicted with the issue. We've contacted Sony for word on the issue, but in the meantime several of the more tech savvy forum posters have determined how to fix the issue, if you're willing to yank out your console's hard disk drive.

[UGA_1]

Kotaku strikes again

[NO_PUDding]

"Kotaku, making PS3 owners depressed on purpose since 1849."

[-EvoAnubis-]

Am I the only one that finds it interesting that this is, to date, the longest article on Kotaku regarding FW 2.4? They never even bothered giving their readers a list of features.

[Super-Brad]

at you :) bubbles

[Pornlord]

@ pudding: funny!

@Kotaku: Real cute, shame on you being such a biased rag these days. Try constuctive critisism at least, not just right out bashing the brand for the sake of doing it.

[Enterprise-E]

Man that just made my day.

[Spydiggity]

I knew PS3 fanboys had to be a buncha senile old men.

[Chris Bosh]

Jus kiddin LOL.
Kotaku can go F*ck themselves.
For some god damn reason they hate the ps3.
Dont know why?? Ps3 is 10x betta than xbox 360.

[Hellsvacancy]

i thought my update screwed up aswell - i started 2 download it and it got to 24% so i went 4 a spliff, when i came back it was still on 24% so i turned my ps3 off but on my tv it STILL said downloadin 24% complete, by accident i pushed the hold screen button on my remote, wot an idiot!!!!

[Snukadaman]

And just to throw it in you loyal droids faces.....I will be attending the sony e3 press event at the shrine auditorium on july 15th.... edit....after some thinking..I wont be the shrieking fanboy sony needs to fake enthusiasm for the ps3..

[PimpHandHappy]

well i have been playing MGS and having a back on forth with text. So far so good

atleast its not the Holidays and we PS3 owners cant get online...

~~zing~~

[Booourns]

Bubbles for that comment

Kotaku just loves bad PS3 news, why dont they just endorse the console like people would a presidential candidate. (OBAMA 08!!! YES WE CAN)

I guess you can't find any fair and balanced gaming news anywhere anymore and its sad too because it seems that even journalists act like 5 year olds

[NO_PUDding]

For example I was looking forward to the Bonus Round the other day, until I realised Brian Crecente was on it. As soon as Geoff or N'Gai bashed the 360 he or or Totilo would rush go to its rescue. Admittedly Totilo is much better than him, and so I wouldn't actually call him a fanboy. I'd say he has different ideas about the direction of the industry that's all.

I gotta say, I don't mind, because at least I know now the PS3 is safe, and that the only game I ever wanted on it will never lose exclusivity (TRICO or ICO3) but it just seems immature.

[doG_beLIEfs]

I was waiting to see Brian Crecente bash the PS3 and you know what? Not only did he NOT bash the PS3, he actually praised it...several times. He said he really likes what Sony is doing now and that the PS3 is poised to really take off.

Edit: for those of you wondering where Crecente praised the PS3, he did it in episode 2 of the Pre-E3 Bonus round.

Kotaku as a whole still rags on the PS3 24/7 but it appears to me that the editor in Chief Crecente has warmed up to the PS3. It is nice to see that not all of the bloggers on Kotaku are biased.

I still do not get it, we NEED the 360 to do well and we NEED the PS3 to do well. Otherwise all we will have is Mario does whatever and mini,mini,shallow mini-games from Nintendo on 8 year old overpriced hardware.

The more the 360 pushes the PS3, the more the PS3 pushes the 360...and gamers like me are the winners.

Go 360 and go PS3...keep gaminig on an ever evolving and technologically advancing slope and most of all....KEEP GAMING IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

Many thanks for the bubbles guys. I hope Microsoft has some cool new ideas for Live, that way Sony will have to follow suit. And of course I hope Sony has a few more surprises for the PSN as well. On the PSblog I cannot remember who but it was stated that 2.4 was just phase 1 of 3 on bringing PSN upto and past Live.

C'mon 360 punch, Sony counterpunch...we win.

My PS3 is fine after the 2.4 update as well. I have not checked out the PS Store yet (at work now) but I will soon to see how much faster it is. I did send some in-game messages back and forth with a few of my PSN friends. (Killjebus...add me if you want) I checked out a few other things as well. I hope that devs really get cranking with the in-game music and trophy patches, for me in-game music is more important. HSG with my OWN music would be so fracking much better than the happy/get/lucky Japanese music that makes my ears bleed.

Bubbles for those of you who have replied as well.
I smell something, something cooking...E3 baby yeah.

[iceman2885]

Well said, too bad not enough people realize this. Without competition you get stuff like EA's latest Madden games, no effort and no innovation, aka a pile of flaming dog poo.

[Booourns]

You are correct, we need both of the next-gen systems to trade blows and continue to push each other in technology. Its the only way the gaming can evolve for generations to come

Bubbles for you!

2.4 has been great to me so far after work/gym I will be home bashing some home runs on MLB 08'

Add me: Booourns

[NO_PUDding]

He praised it (when?), cus he'd get picked up on it on the Bonus Round.

But I agree ultimately, despite that little fanboy rant. The harder they fight, the better Sony's online will become.

[jamesrocks3147]

sony will be on the case on all problems and will bring a FW 2.41 out to fix issues i have no problems but id like to see stability of the XMB in the fix. they will be a fix. just has to be. who agrees?

[shelbygt33]

While a 2.41 update would be nice, I am in the number of people who now have to either a) remove the HDD and reformat a new one, or b) let Sony repair it for me. I'm taking route B. But for me, even if they do release 2.41, I can't boot my PS3 up to install it :(

Dang, now I have to replay Act 1 again in MGS... well, that isn't too bad. At least I've got practice now.

[yaboi]

the update last night and im good so far (knock on wood) but ithink that the reason that it is messing up is because most people did update when they woke up menang that everyone at one time tried to update so that effed everything up. because i know people who did it last night like at 2am (i did) and everything is working good. but who knows. (just a guess)

[Le-mo]

Kotaku is trying real hard to rain on Sony's parade.

[khellendros1]

My buddy and I downloaded the update last night. I have a 60 gig and he has a 40 gig. We both started back playing games and sending messages. No hangups what so ever.

[alphabet]

My PS3 is fine, so leave me alone kotaku.

[Armyless]

No looking back now, folks, I'm officially a gaming addict now and I'm here to stay.

[Rythrine]

Get ready for a barrage of "Smack talk" messages. mwahahahahahah!

[Armyless]

Hahahaha

[Sir_Ken_Kutaragi]

The Problem = It's all LIES
The Solution = Don't Believe this Cr*p!!!
;)
I have never had a Problem with the Updates??? Ho Hum...

[Dc4eVeR]

bullshit , works good for me

[wolfehound22]

Go figure kotaku have yet to say something good about update 2.4. But they just can't wait to post negative news about it.

[lil Titan]

its a little messed up and kinda slow on loading but its nothing that another firmware update cant fix so be patinet, and its amazing after some people been begging for this to happen and when its here all they do is complain

[meepmoopmeep]

plagued? in all shapes and sizes? lol

[Rice]

i think its a small fraction of people who have problems... As for me, no problemo....

[juuken]

kotaku...you're a bunch of freakin' crybabies. How is it that hardly anyone who owns a PS3 had this problem?

What a way to make a small something out of nothing. I suppose you guys were tripping over each other, just rushing over to a computer to spin negative news.

[Aclay]

I haven't had any issues with my PS3 after downloading 2.40, but I just downloaded it like 10 minutes ago.

All of these issues is making me want to backup my hard drive right now because there's no way in hell I'm going to reformat my hard drive if something does occur and loose all of my saved data.

[psycho360]

Prob: Unable to get accomplishments and score in games or game invite and ingame custom music tracks.

Solution: buy xbox 360.

[Sez]

hay dude. you are going to need alot of kleenex, and maxi-pad for the crying and b!tchie sonyfanboys in this thread.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

hahaha!

Achievement Unlocked Psycho!

Funny that the only person who I know that owns a PS3 did the update and now whenever he tries to update Stardust HD or download anything the system goes to about %5 and then gives 3 beeps and reboots.

Gheeettooo!!!!

[Beg For Mercy]

funny when there is a little updated it seems to not break anything but when a big update comes it just magicly bricks systems i smell bs

[SL1M DADDY]

Shameless hate for Sony and their intrepid venture into complete and utter fanboyism has made me realize that they are the scourge of the internet and no longer benefit from my visits to their site. Sorry, but if it says Kotaku, throw it back.

[doG_beLIEfs]

Kotaku and Joystiq cannot I repeat CANNOT report positive Sony news without some little quip of negativity in the title of the post or a statement in the post. If I were Sony, I would seriously consider taking them out of the loop for news. Why can't they just REPORT the news without the hate?

Like I said in an earlier post, we NEED Sony, we NEED Microsoft if we want to see gaming continue to evolve in both technology and gameplay. If these two companies battle it out neck and neck for the rest of this generation then we are bound to see better software, more functionality and better prices (hint Microsoft on making Gold FREE)

[Beg For Mercy]

you should remove a girl like that off yo girl off yo avatar since you prob couldnt afford her since you only can afford a cheap a$$ 360

[Booourns]

Megan Fox is quite the beautiful lady indeed

Would give bubbles just for that but the fanboyism brings it down a notch lol

[Snukadaman]

who needs to afford a girl....do you do prostitutes? stop trying to be the "gangsta sony fanboy"..they don't exist.

[s1lens3]

Like 3 or 4 weeks ago that happened to me because I removed the disk without quiting the game and then forced the system to shut down ( I was in a hurry). When I restarted back my PS3 none of the icons appeared, I was very scared, thought that it was the end for my ps3 since I tried restarting it like 3 times and didn't start normally, so I just holded the power button for like 20 seconds desconected everything and then started again and my PS3 started normally again.

Luckly I updated yesterday at 11:30pm and didn't have a problem it downloaded realquick, I only had problems with SSHD but then it worked like it used to.

[aiphanes]

I tried out all the features and found no slowness or anything. This update is solid...for those having issues...sony will correct this is firmware 2.41, which will probably be out next week.

[kingOVsticks]

I haven't had any problems with the 2.40 firmware update but i am having problems with my ps3 in general like when ever I go to sites like youtube or N4g It locks up my Ps3 and then Im forced to turn it off from the back that kinda thing has been happening for months but just a few days ago im getting a "DLNA error 2114" I think and it seems now the freezing gotten worse and I don't know what to do. I remember somethi9ng like this happened before the 2.20 firmware update fixed it but I didn't get those kinda problems until just recently.

[kazuma]

my ps3 must have been blessed or something since i've never had a problem with it

[INehalemEXI]

same here.

[achira]

lol, kotako tries very hard. but i am sure all ps3 users know that there are no problems with the update. nice work sony!

[McErono]

we have a closed board - no fanboys, no trolls - NOT A SINGLE PROBLEM with 2.40. its a shame that sites like kotaku are giving xbox fanboys a platform.

[Says you]

I'll give you a hint it breaks and it charges you for online and doesn't even have a level up system and they force you to buy add on"s whenever you want to by accessories instead of building it in.

[Spike47]

they are making this sh!t up. What a bunch of immature fanboys.

[Lumbo]

The usual, there are about 10 unique users posting they have the issue, the thread is much larger but because lotsa unaffected gamers try to offer help by suggesting possible solutions or flame the poor affected few.

It is interesting how Kotaku translates 10 to "many". as far as i am concerned the real headline would be "a selected FEW users seem to experience a HDD problem while updating to 2.40"

And you don't have to "yank out" the HDD, the process to remove the HDD is easy and smooth and is explained in the freaking MANUAL.

Trust Kotaku to talk out of the A

[snakeater]

when i click
for the update my ps3 says i have the latest version 2.36 what the hell

[yaboi]

taking 2.40 off for right now because of the errors.
but a lot of people hasn't had any problems so i don't know what the hell is going on!

[KatanaSteel]

Can Kotaku please hurry up and change it's name to Xbox World or something appropriate in regard the trash it publishes daily.

These exaggerated PS3-bashing stories are getting very old.

[hideo kojima]

Also change N4G to N4SG ... News4sony gamers