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April 10, 2008 10:52 AM

If you removed the battery during the update then you basically bricked the unit and will need to call Sony to get it repaired.

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April 10, 2008 11:26 AM

will they do it for free

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April 10, 2008 12:23 PM

I believe if it's still under warranty it will be covered. If not it's around $90.00 to get it fixed.

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April 10, 2008 3:20 PM

Your PSP is definitely bricked at this point. There may be hope, though...

It depends on whether you reflashed it with a custom firmware at any point. If you did, holding down the right trigger (R) during startup may bring you into a recovery mode, at which point, you may recover from a flash file on your Memory Stick. You can Google around for directions on how to do this.

If you didn't install a custom firmware at any point, you will probably have to send it in to Sony like pardizzone said, since there is no recovery mode available in Sony's official firmware.

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