Tips, Tricks and Fixes

[Blu Lemmy]

Just after some advice, new to PS3, need a headset, which is the best to go for?

[Dead By Shaun]

Sadly it looks as though my 80GB backwards-compatible PS3 has finally joined the YLOD club. It happened last night as I was about to watch Dredd. It didn't even make it past the studio logo before it shut off with no warning with the disc inside. Fortunately I tried the old hair dryer trick this afternoon and it worked just long enough for me to retrieve my Blu-ray disc And here I thought I was gonna make it right up to the launch date for the PS4. Such bad timing, especially with God of War: Ascension coming out this week. I guess it's time to pony up and buy a brand new Slim

[PEDXING]

Does anyone know if it's possible to get the Coachella YouTube stream through PS3?

I can't seem to find a way to get it through the app on PS3 and YouTube through the web browser just won't play the live feed.

Does anyone know a way to get it?

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by Dead By Shaun

Sadly it looks as though my 80GB backwards-compatible PS3 has finally joined the YLOD club. It happened last night as I was about to watch Dredd. It didn't even make it past the studio logo before it shut off with no warning with the disc inside. Fortunately I tried the old hair dryer trick this afternoon and it worked just long enough for me to retrieve my Blu-ray disc And here I thought I was gonna make it right up to the launch date for the PS4. Such bad timing, especially with God of War: Ascension coming out this week. I guess it's time to pony up and buy a brand new Slim

You could always try the video in first post and reapplying the thermal paste. That worked for me for the first 6 times for at least a week worth of game play. After 6 or so times, the time span between reapplying the paste dwindled.

[GLaDOS]

*sigh* I never thought it would come to this.

My PS3 recently succumbed to the YLOD while in the middle of playing Fallout 3, just right after exiting Raven Rock in one of the main quests. The disc is still inside, and right now my problem is trying to get the disc out (before sending it to Sony, or probably buying the Slim).

I've tried doing the fan test trick, where you have to turn off your console, hold the eject button, turn it back on and let the fans spin like crazy while the disc pops out, but to no avail. It was originally a 60 GB PS3, but replaced the hard drive with an 80 Gig after the original hard drive got corrupted.

Please, anybody help?

[Scarriere]

I'm not sure how/why, but my cd import settings reverted to 128kb which I can't stand. I changed it back but don't know how many cd's I've imported with that setting. Other than listening to all of them, is there a way to see which ones were imported at whatever rate? I tried the select button but it only shows AAC and not the rate.
Any help is appreciated.

[Groo The Perverted]

I am sure this has been asked many times before (surely by myself as well) but what is the max capacity for a hard drive for the PS3 Slim and PS3 Super Slim?

I understand the whole 9.5MM and 2.5mm requirements. I have a 1TB, but I have read some people talk about having a 1.5TB or a 2TB in there.

Is that legit or is that someone just talking shit? If it is possible, can anyone link me with models to get?

I would love to just max it out at 2TB and never have to worry about hard drive space again. My friend has a 750GB one I believe, and his is getting close to maxed out.

Thanks everyone!

[Weirded Wonder]

Originally Posted by GLaDOS

*sigh* I never thought it would come to this.

My PS3 recently succumbed to the YLOD while in the middle of playing Fallout 3, just right after exiting Raven Rock in one of the main quests. The disc is still inside, and right now my problem is trying to get the disc out (before sending it to Sony, or probably buying the Slim).

I've tried doing the fan test trick, where you have to turn off your console, hold the eject button, turn it back on and let the fans spin like crazy while the disc pops out, but to no avail. It was originally a 60 GB PS3, but replaced the hard drive with an 80 Gig after the original hard drive got corrupted.

Please, anybody help?

I know it's probably a little late... but I use these type of tweezers to get jammed discs out.

[Weirded Wonder]

Originally Posted by Scarriere

I'm not sure how/why, but my cd import settings reverted to 128kb which I can't stand. I changed it back but don't know how many cd's I've imported with that setting. Other than listening to all of them, is there a way to see which ones were imported at whatever rate? I tried the select button but it only shows AAC and not the rate.
Any help is appreciated.

I would say on average that at 128kb you would get about 1MB per minute. A 4 minute song would probably be around 4.5MB, if it were 320kb it would probably be around 10.5MB - 12MB for a 4 minute song.

[videohead]

My wife wants me to take her somewhere, I don't know where to take her. Any ideas? We no have no kids needer!

[Weirded Wonder]

Originally Posted by videohead

My wife wants me to take her somewhere, I don't know where to take her. Any ideas? We no have no kids needer!

Do you own a Volkswagen?

[Groo The Perverted]

Originally Posted by Beard Esquire

Do you own a Volkswagen?

That would be a very uncomfortable place.

[Weirded Wonder]

Originally Posted by Groo The Perverted

That would be a very uncomfortable place.

[Groo The Perverted]

Originally Posted by Beard Esquire

[Don Barbiere]

My Ps3 is synced with my TV theough CEC HDMI port but my TV remote does not control my PS3? If i turn on or off PS3 or TV(LG47ls4600) the other one does the same!Any tricks to get the remote to control PS3 menu? Thank You!

[Azyiu]

I am having some audio issue on my slim, guys.

Since around 2 weeks ago or so, I started noticing the low / mid-range (or more specially vocal or the bass when viewing concert BDs) audio sounds a bit "distorted". I already checked and double checked my entire system, and even ran a "test" on a standalone BD player. I can confirm something is not right with the PS3 audio output (both HDMI and Optical). I even rebooted the PS3 twice over, and the audio sounds to "improve" a little, but not exactly back to normal. Any other suggestion? Or is it something fixable? Thanks in advance, guys.

[slick1ru2]

Weird. Today the game saves online didn't show up. Only one title did out of over 100. The data was still there, it still showed 400MB being used. I fixed it by uploading one file to the online storage and then they all showed up again.

[Havok83]

One of my DS3s stopped working this weekend. It wont even charge. Has this happened to anyone and what did you do? I have 3 of them and what I found odd was that it happened to the "newest" one, bought years after the first two

[BlackLightShark009]

Originally Posted by Havok83

One of my DS3s stopped working this weekend. It wont even charge. Has this happened to anyone and what did you do? I have 3 of them and what I found odd was that it happened to the "newest" one, bought years after the first two

Sounds like the battery went bad. If it's not that then i'm not sure. My oldest controllers are from 08 and still work. I'll probably have to get new batts for them soon.

[AlucardtheIII]

Hoping someone could help me out.

When using HBOGO or Playing games Audio is fine.

However when I playing a Blu-ray or Amazon Prime on my PS3. I can hear background music (soundtrack), but no spoken/audible audio (dialogue and sound effects). What is going on? It is not my blu-ray disc either. I play the same exact movie on my PS4 and it works perfectly.

If this information helps
I'm using a HDMI btw.