How to Jailbreak Your PS3 on Firmware 4.90 or Lower with Flash Writer (Self-Hosted)

The Flash Writer returns, this time updated to work on firmware 4.90! If you have a compatible PlayStation 3 on firmware 4.90 or lower, you can easily jailbreak your PS3 using only software! No hardware flashers, no need to take apart the console, not even a need to downgrade! As long as the updated 4.90 Flash Writer can be accessed on your console, a compatible PS3 can be patched to allow for Custom Firmware (CFW) installation.

If you have a CFW capable PS3 the first thing you should do is backup your console's NAND or NOR flash to a FAT32 formatted flash drive. This should be done on every install, just in case your system needs the flash restored at any point in the process. After verifying your flash dump is proper, you can patch your console for CFW within the browser! This process will download a specific file to your console and "patch" the console so it's ready for CFW. After verifying your PS3 has been patched successfully, you can simply reboot your console, take a 4.90 CFW of your choice, and install it directly through the XMB!

In order to do all of this you MUST have a compatible PS3. All Fat/Phat models work! If you want to perform this on a Slim console, 20XX and 21XX models are all compatible. 25XX models that have a 3.56 or lower minimum firmware version will work, any console with a higher minimum firmware will not. ANY PS3 MODEL HIGHER THAN 25XX WILL NOT WORK! This includes newer Slim (30XX) models and all Super Slim models.

If you do not own a CFW compatible PS3, give PS3HEN a try!

Alternative Jailbreak Using the PS3 Toolset:

#PS3Jailbreak #PS3Xploit

This video has been made with Fair Use in mind and has been created as an educational piece of media.

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Timestamps!

0:00 - Introduction
2:15 - Prerequisites & Downloads
5:36 - USB Drive Setup
10:02 - Flash Writer Setup
13:22 - Installing HFW
17:27 - Accessing the Flash Writer
21:39 - Dump Console Flash
22:47 - CFW Downloads
25:36 - Verify Console Flash
28:20 - CFW Software Setup
30:56 - Patching Console
31:37 - Installing CFW
33:20 - Installing Homebrew
34:52 - Outro & Thanks

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Downloads & More!

PS3 4.90 Release Thread:

Rufus:

Md5Checker:

XAMPP:

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4.90 HFW:

4.90 Flash Writer:

PyPS3checker:

4.90 EVILNAT CFW:

multiMAN:

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How to Backup & Play PS3 Games with multiMAN:

PS3 Channel Playlist:

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[SkullatorNZ]

Awesome to see the PS3 scene is still strong enough to defeat 4.90 in under a week. As well as some less sketchy support for installing CFW on the highest firmwares with the trusty domains no longer offering bgtoolset.

[seguramlk]

Awesome. The community is the best part behind these projects. From a dev to another one, thank you so much guys 👏👏👏👏👏

[chielwildemors]

literally an hour after this video released i found out 4.90 cfw was available, this video came in clutch af

[KingGarlock]

Was waiting on this, but got too excited last night to get CFW working.

Got everything working but with a bit of trial and error, would have been less annoying if I waited on your video.

Always awesome stuff!

[tifoufou]

I have been waiting such a long time for this!.. This tutorial was 100% simple, loud and clear. Cheers!

[Denjiki]

You make the best videos for PS3 jailbreaks. I have jailbroken 3 CECHA PS3 over the past 3-4 years, and each time I immediately go to your channel to see the new methods and homebrew. You make it very easy for the newbies, but also for people like myself that have done it but want a refresher. Worthy of a subscribe and like

[PRXFpv]

Lets Mr. Mario you are always on top of the news for everything in this scene and I truly appreciate the quality, effort, and information you pack into all your videos. You’re the number one reason all my consoles have the best life they have can have years from launch. Thank you so much!!! ❤

[j.salinas]

Awesome video tutorial Mr. Mario. Appreciate all your contributions to the CFW scene.

[paradx-]

So excited to see a release and I can see you were excited too. Great video goes into perfect detail and even refreshened me up a bit since it has been so long since I had to install CFW on a PS3. Good to know the flash writer I just bought is mostly obsolete again lol.

[ulrblitzer]

Thank you so much for this! I accepted the 4.90 fw update and didn't think much of it until I wanted to run a game file. Was able to follow your directions (I had to boot up in safe mode to find the cfw each time tho for my system) and got it installed on my PS3. Now to load NCAA14 Revamped!

[TravisStamper]

Was excited when I saw this last night I was excited. Had to update immediately. Thanks Mario

[insomniacluna]

Exactly what I needed. Much appreciation for this video and all the developers that made this happen :)

[chad]

I followed this for a PS3 Fat and it worked perfectly! Thank you!!!

[wim]

Thanks a lot man, I recently screwed up my PS3 harddrive and had to jailbreak my PS3 for the first time from OFW... back in 2010 I could just install the CFW directly, so I wasn't really looking forward to this, knowing it would be complicated... thanks to your video however, it was a breeze :)

[westinmcleod]

Thanks for always updating ! Without these tutorials alot of us would be stuck man !

[raidenz]

Just followed your tutorial, it worked flawlessly. CFW 4.90 Evilnat running strong on my CECHK PS3. I can't believe the quality of your content, man please keep it up ! You're doing good thing for the community !

[rossmyers]

What a wonderful guide you've put together to get this done, thank you. And massive thanks to all the developers behind this, amazing job.
I can confirm following this video step by step my CECH-2002A now has 4.90 CEX running on it.

[JunkTardis]

This tutorial was perfect. Very well explained and demonstrated. I live in the US currently, but I just got back from my parents house in the UK last weekend and brought my UK spec PS3 fat in my luggage to the US and wanted to play non-compatible games and thus, needed a jailbreak. This video successfully allowed me to jailbreak my CECHK03 PAL PS3 fat. Thank you!! (For those wondering, my 240v PS3 runs just fine on 110v here in the US with no modification - display also works just fine on an ancient Vizio 50" TV I am using at this time)

[megacide]

After a year of being stuck on 4.89 Hen. I can finally upgrade my PS3 Slim.
Kudos!

[Jesse-wucm]

Hey Mario, when I try to update it says "No Applicable Data Found" but in the Photo, Video, Music etc, the usb showed up. can you help? Thanks. P.S I tried the recovery mode as well