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eLoader v1.000 ZIP

Whenyou don't have a nand backup but your PSP is a fat, get a nand backup from another PSP. It may be of any fw version, although only 1.50 will boot instantly. The important part is the partitioning, not the nand contents. Before doing anything to your bricked PSP, use Pandora or any Cemetery stick to create a full backup of your nand! Store it safely on your PC, and maybe a copy on another media. After making sure your nand backup is safe, use Cemetery V3 to restore the other nand dump. Pandora will not work because you need a physical restore, not a logical. When you restored a 1.50 dump, your PSP should now boot again. With any other firmware, it will still be a brick. You should now be able to use Pandora or Cemetery to unbrick it. All that remains is to restore your own IDStorage, or your PSP will be homebrew only. Use the dump you created from your own bricked PSP and Cory's upNandTool to restore IDStorage only without overwriting the other nand contents. Now your PSP should be fully functional again.

However, the Unbricker or "El Despertar del Cementario" also writes your data "physically" and not "logically". If you write data physically to the NAND it means that you write exact cloned data to the exact same positions as before. If you got a bad block since the image creation then that data is lost forever on your PSP. That is why Dark_AleX says in his readme to only use this option in emergency cases. In order to up/downgrade your PSP you should always follow the explanations for up-/downgrading and not just restore NAND images since it can be dangerous, at least with "El Despertar del Cementario". Now, don't think I'm bashing on Dark_AleX - he has reasons to use physical writing because he *wants* to be able to clone NANDs *exactly*. The Pandora set by Team Prometheus already allows logical NAND restoration anyway, no need to offer it again. I am just trying to explain the differences.