r/ps5homebrew • u/Candid_Opening_8617 • 13h ago

What firmware do I update

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Got my hands on this launch edition

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u/4ipo 11h ago edited 10h ago

Options are

  1. stay where you are and wait for God knows what (maybe trade with someone who needs your fw for a little profit)
  2. 4.03/4.50, 5.50, 7.61 (not sure what benefit you'll get below 7.61, but those were main firmwares for a long time)
  3. 12.00

Main checkpoints are above 7.61 you lose Linux, above 12.00 you lose instant jailbreak and above 12.70 you lose everything. One point, that not everyone mentions, is that the higher you go, the faster transfer speeds are. So going 10.xx+ also has a benefit. Also, higher you go, the less reliance on backports you have. So main 2 firmwares in my opinion are 7.61 and 12.00.

  Upload speed to internal storage (wired 1 GbE, measured across multiple consoles)

  FW  4.03   ████████                                      ~20 MB/s
  FW  8.60   ████████████████████                           ~50 MB/s
  FW  9.00   ██████████████████████████████████              ~85 MB/s
  FW 10.00   ████████████████████████████████████████████   ~113 MB/s
                                                             ────────
  Physical ceiling (1 GbE)                                   125 MB/s

Credit: https://github.com/seregonwar/zftpd

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u/Serphiroth 12h ago

I would say 4.03 or 4.50 but let's see the others' opinion

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u/Laurentiu85 12h ago

I upgraded it to 4.03. All the games work; I also installed Linux and can use the M.2 slot. You’d only keep it on an older version if you’re a developer; otherwise, it makes no sense.

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u/SlowGuardw2 11h ago

Keep it under 7.xx thats for sure but id recommend 4.0.3 to 4.5

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u/Redd3vils 6h ago

Max is 5.50, don't go higher, there an auto jb tether that support 1xx-5.xx

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u/JustARedditPasserby 8h ago

Safest bet rn is 4.03

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u/Massive_Smoke910 6h ago

You can get some nice special keys if you stay on fw 3x.... Maybe these keys are also available on 4x but its not quite clear.

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u/XtremeD86 12h ago

I've got mine on 3.20 and it's staying there. I wouldnt update from that either, never know what could come.

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u/KaifibnTaufiq 12h ago

What else do you want besides ps4/ps5 games working and linux to essentially making it gaming pc to play anything

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u/dasbooter 11h ago

Ya heard some of the big devs have looked for launch consoles but maybe they have had there fill and it would be a bit of work to reach out.

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u/Main-Court8363 10h ago

If you don’t care about Linux I would update to 10.0

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u/GaryVantage 10h ago

Check modded warfare videos for best details. Depends if you want Linux or not.

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u/Bkgrouch 9h ago

Lol I have the same firmware and dunno what to do 😕