Fix PS4 SU-41283-8 Update Loop - A Professional Repair Demonstration for System Software Errors

This video shows the repair of PS4 System Software Update Loop Error SU-41283-8. In this condition the PS4 will not pull out of the system software update loop and will endlessly continue to attempt to reinstall the system software. Safe Mode can be accessed but the OS will always fail to reinstall.

This issue is caused by a corruption of the BT/WiFi firmware stack within the Flash_Main NOR IC or potentially a complete failure of the hardware module. In this video we repair the firmware corruption at hand, re-program our NOR flash IC and finally we're allowed to complete the firmware upgrade procedure and get back to doing some gaming.

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As promised, below is the video tutorial series for repairing Flash_Main NOR corruption of the BT/WiFi firmware stack for SAA/SAB/SAC revision motherboards. Follow these closely - this is FIRMWARE and any mistake caused by not following these procedures to the letter may result in a permanently bricked device!!

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LINKED VIDEOS:
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Part 1 - building the programming hardware can be found here:

Part 1 - addendum for CUH-12xx series PS4s can be found here:

Part 2 - Installing and preparing our programmer hardware is here:

Part 3 - Removing the NOR, dumping the NOR, rebuilding flash and re-programming NOR can be viewed here:
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[Zooumberg]

Thank God for that mate, I'm ill in bed bored out of my skull. I've watched all your other videos.

[callumvtec]

Yay my ps4 is fixed :) great job buddy

[putinrah]

Really good work !! ive fixed mine today with your help !! i never thought that its possible.. thank you so much !!

[soothingandrelaxing]

thank you so much andrew, just used this video to fix a ps4 i acquired with this exact issue, only thing different is that i used a raspberry pi3 for reading and flashing the nor chip.
it is now working like a charm. cheers !!

[reparatiespelcomputers]

Andrew Paul, I have one ps4 with motherboard SAD-001 and module BT/Wifi AW-CB262 Rev 1.0, the console has the SU-41283-8 when installs the firmware Recovery 3.55

[paruthyrajakulam]

Andrew! Love your videos man!. Just wondering I have a ps4 which has a blod. What price do you think I can sell it for? Would you buy it?

[pgw]

If you have a NOR chip on a donor board and just about the soldering skills to take off and replace, could the donor chip be swapped in and then boot to Safe Mode to flash a new / latest / other firmware, or are there other contingencies / considerations that make that unworkable? Would a donor chip of the same FW level change that?

[oscardelgado]

Hello, I wanted to know if there is any way to identify if the failure is by module or by NoR firmware, thank. Perdón por la traducción.

[midonassri]

did you edit the update which is corrupt or what??

new number in hex you got from where??

[snakeomg-kogy]

Hello, very good video. I would like to know if I can pair the console's bd reader with this method? I remember doing something similar in xbox 360.I don't have the original ps4 reader.
thanks

[jameshunt]

Hi, Andrew, love your videos. I have Slim PS4 with SU-41283-8 error (SAD-001 motherboard), however the NOR flash chip is a Winbond 25Q256FV (not Macronix), and when I try to read it with Teensy, it doesn't work (only gives manufacturer, and the rest is unknown). My Teensy works perfectly fine when reading MXIC chips, so I know it's not a problem, so I think there is just no support in SPIway for these newer Winbond NOR chips used in Slim PS4s. Have you come across these chips when fixing Slim PS4s, and do you know what tools to use to read it? thank you

[Jersey_]

hi Andrew have a question my Ps4 plays games and streams for a short amount of time then the Internet cuts and sometimes it make a noise and cut off or it'll just cut off i noticed it get hot on the middle right on the top so i took the top off and it still gets hot and cuts off of course its in a ventilated area i watched your videos none of them talks about that i dont think its a power supply issue . but i have gotten a corrupted file from cod so i wiped the whole system 3 different times worked for a little like a week and start to overheat and shut down again . I have the first year system 2013 or 14 please help

[Paulmac]

hello matey how much do you charge for the nor dump and fix matey ive got a ps4 cuh 1216a

[SolidousMdz]

+Andrew Paul have you seen these where the FW corrupted itself from nowhere like during normal usage? Or most of these happen after system updates?

[BNE]

I've got 42118-6 but am getting the same results as you and the only option is reinstall. The hard drive is good and I've got the right update as well.

[kia]

If I already did this several times but I did not have good results always the same error, I will leave it filed for a while lol thanks a lot for your answers andrew thank you anything I consult you another day very grateful I am

[ianporter]

I have a ps4 in at present with a similar but different issue.

Customer stated that the console would randomly freeze and act weirdly before finally the software went so weird it wouldn't boot.

Now upon attempting to reinitialise, it states the file is corrupt (when it is not and it is the full 877mb file). This happens also if you try to download from the internet via option 3 in safe mode.

My theory is that there is a faulty ram chip somewhere, the file gets copied over to ram and then cannot be read.

Only thing I wonder is, would it be the standalone ddr3 2gb chip or one of the gddr5 modules?

[right-bia]

Can I turn off the IDU MODE through it or the only way is through nor chip?

[shadowneji]

Andrew do you know how to resolve this error su-30631-3? The ps4 boots up n begins to update immediately unfortunately it gets stuck at 64% Everytime and produces the above mentioned error. I'm in need of help

[antoniarosalesaraya]

Hi, do you know how to fix the su-30676-2 error?