same here, stucked in factory mode on v3.56
i am ready to do strange things to the PS3 if anybody have some suggestions.
got also BGA equipment, so if someone thinks that it´s worth to desolders the flash IC´s and read the contents with a programmer, then i am ready to do it... but still would need somone who knows how to patch the code in order to get rid of that factory mode.
regards,