Is it just me? or is this update downloading eexxttreemmeell yyy slllloooww.....

speed up the in game xmb? its so annoyingly slow!

Have some *****ing patience kid. Go out and maybe look at the sun or something. The download will finish in a few minutes.

i wish they would atleast try and combat the NXE..i mean it realy blows the xmb out of the water. Sony does put out all these updates but they realy dont do much features wise. I personally want to know why the ps3 is the most powerful system right now...but cant support in game chat..never mind parties, and i dont think they'll ever let you play your own music in games...but hey o well...thas y i have both consoles

Did you know that M$ patent a few of those features so no other company "Competition" would be able to top feature but making it better. Sony needs to come up with another way to introduce all of those features without it infringing on those BS!!! patents. As you have seen over the last few years. Companies that don't make much money love suing larger companies for using something that they claim to have patent for.



That update only took me 5 - 7 minutes. Did you not think there would probably be a shiznit load of people trying to get this update at the same time as you? That could have been ya'll issue. IMO I like the current XMB. Yeah it could be improved on but I like that I can use my own theme and not be stuck with some limited theme or pay somebody $$$$ for some *****ty one.

Before I get bashed, let me say something: My bro has a 360 Elite literally one room away from me, and I've tampered with the NXE and it's not really anything too special. Sure, it was hyped up to hell but it's nothing special at all. It's basically just a new version of the dashboard with creatable cartoon characters.



Home looked epic before I actually got into the beta. I've been in the beta for about 3-4 months now and without breaking the NDA, it's a complete borefest, even with friends on board. We can't even do half the stuff you've seen in trailers that were released over a year ago.



Yes, the XMB is just fine how it is and if you don't like it, feel free to download literally thousands of other themes from the net or just make your own.



If the update took too long, either it was a lot of traffic on the servers or you should just consider upgrading.



And yes, these minor updates are great, just because we're getting them, but they should just release stuff like this in a bigger update. I won't use either one of these features and don't even know what the 2nd is. What they can do (because I know for a fact that it can be done) is speed up the atrociously slow in-game XMB, and let us do more with the in-game XMB, such as in-game voice chat. Voice messages are a must as well. We need a lot of stuff but meh.

on sony's site 2.52 is the latest they have to download.

http://www.us.playstation.com/Support/SystemUpdates/PS3

my update is not working,Keep getting Error messege

and for good reason, im getting a crappy bug error that was fine beforehand. whenever i connect my psp it says it has 500mbs free when i clearly have 1919mb or so and when i copy picture albums from ps3 to psp the folder will show up in the psp but it says there are no pictures but when i go into that folder on the psp FROM the ps3's file browser they show up. the wierd thing is i connected it to a computer and the files ARENT on the psp at all, i even tried looking using irshell and they dont show up. its stupid and its happening for almost every album i copy. only one worked, and its still taking up memory on my psp but ONLY the ps3 can detect that they are on it i just dont get it

its because, if you missed one of the earlier updates, the features of thet update is still in the nxt update...

Go to XMB Music



At the top of the list highlight USB Device (Ipod), press triangle and select

Display All.



Select Ipod_Control folder and then select the music folder



Inside the music folder you'll find a series of folders that start with an "F", select any one of these and you'll notice that all of the songs are renamed to four letters if they are songs you ripped with iTunes. I think this only applies to the AAC codec, correct me if I'm wrong.

Example: DHRS, EXFY, etc.



Press X on any of them, you'll have to play the guessing game with all of your songs unless they are MP3's because they have different ID3 something or other..



You can copy them onto the PS3's HDD if you want, but you can't copy onto the Ipod with the PS3.

WTF are you talking about?



Each firmware update is it's own file. If you are behind one update then your PS3 downloads TWO FILES. The current one and the previous. Then installs them both.....and so on...



It's not rocket science.

What makes you NOT look foward to any of the PS3 updates? ***** if maintenance was free from the dealer of my brand new car, I'd take take it.

If you hate the dload times of the update,, grab a fricken usb stick,, dload the firmware via ur pc and transfer. Stop sooking,, use ya brain!

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the update took like 1hr and 30min for me..... but i live in idaho and have a $hitty modem so...

...You do realize that the NXE is a cheap M$ knock-off of the XMB, right? --On the XMB, you select categories by scrolling left/right. You select specific items by scrolling up/down. On the NXE, you select categories by scrolling up/down. You select specific items be scrolling left/right. ....Wow. What "ingenuity" from M$! ...And, they couldn't even make up their mind. Because on the NXE if you hit the Xbox button, you get a miniaturized version of the old, painful "Blade" interface. Not to mention that (once you navigate past the handful of "pretty icons" on the XMB-alike interface), you're essentially back at the same exact interface that the 360 has had all along (selecting movies, games, demos, etc). ...I'm sorry: Sony doesn't need to make their extremely user-friendly and elegant interface (XMB) more like the Frankenstein + unintuitive 360 NXE interface.

To everyone who thinks 15 minutes is long for an update, try having it take 4 hours with my 100KB/s connection. That's how long EACH update, minor or major, takes.

I originally got broadband internet for online multiplayer gaming with the PS3 and I play online quite a bit so I make great use of it. I have an intenet browser because the PS3 just happens to have one and I also have Firefox on Linux. So I'm still on the internet without a PC although Sony would like to think that the PS3 dubs as a Cell computer. Sony should make an the updating process a little less boring. I mean make it so you can listen to music or something while the update downloads in the background or download it and start it when the user wants. Similar to updating the PSP where updates can be stored on the Memory Stick but on the HDD instead. Just a little thought to toy with!

a few of the media server issues that they broke with the last update. I updated in about 5 min, but that was before it was announced.

@mse369 - It seems YOU ALSO need to turn your brain on.



Many devices now offer internet, not just PCs.



Most of my comments come from my phone.



Think bro!

NXE took me 3-4 minutes to download, no joke. 20MB fibre optic connection.



This simple PS3 update took me 3 failed attempts and around 30 minutes of downloading to work. Clearly something's wrong with their update servers - they should REALLY invest in some new update servers. Or make it available on PC to download immediately - usually takes a few days for the PC download to become available.