This has been racking my brain out on how to do it. I have helped myself looking around the forums, looking at tutorials, searching Google and downloading various files to downgrade my PS3. I feel like I'm going around in circles making no progress whatsoever.
The files I've downloaded are: Rebug Toolbox (that hasn't seem to have done much), 999.pup (the file in order to downgrade but I get an error).
I just don't know what to do. Could you help me out? or at least point me in the direction of something that is simple and easy to understand?
I can only agree with libra7ry. The first time I let someone else do the downgrading, but they were a professional company so I knew theres no risk and my CID lasted for 14 months. The second time I decided to get a new PS3 from ebay and get an E3-Flasher to do it myself with the help of YouTube and sites like nextgenupdate. You just have to trust yourself.
Opening & Closing a PS3 requires no skills, just a screwdriver and a TORX T8 (Slim) and a TORX T10 (FAT).
Attaching the E3-Clip on the NOR Chip requires no skills, but putting pressure onto it needs a bit of your creativity and its crucial for the whole downgrading process.
To replace the Thermal Compound you just need toilet paper and an old credit card or something similar.
I recommend you do this on your own. Once you have an E3-Flasher you can do Downgrade Services yourself and after 2-3 Downgrades you have the money back that you spent on the Flasher. And you have the CIDs of the people. Everybody who does a Downgrade Service steals your CID.
IMO this is one of the best TUTs available at the moment:
However, I recommend going to Rogero Downgrader first, installing toggleQA afterwards and then install Rogero 3.55 v3.7.
Thanks for all your kind advice I will probably wait till there is an easy method. I only trust one person on these forums whom I've known for a long while.
There's ONLY ONE WAY to downgrade your PS3 Slim and that is by using an E3-Flasher. If this video is too hard to understand then only a Doc can help ^^