My son travels a lot by train and has retained an insane passion for videogames, so I gave him a PSVita for Xmas. Upon unboxing it and starting one of the free games, it crashed with error C12828-1; unlike his dad he’s a great tinkerer with all things “real” and “physical”: you can ask him to fix the garage door, but has zero patience with electronics.
So the PSVita comes back to me to see if I can get it to work.
Them boards opinate that C12828-1 error could be related to a database corruption when attempting to write a status to the memory card (which we don’t have, but why the hell do they sell the console WITHOUT it if it’s mandatory?) which in turn could be originated by a faulty network connection: when the PSV tries to synch with the PS Network, the faulty connection returns a bogus error message which then screws the database and crashes the whole system.
So, in this order (and multiple times):
- buy a memory card
- format: NO JOY
- hard reset the PSV
- uninstall game
- re-download it
- re-install: NO JOY
- restart it in Safe mode
- format the memory card
- restart in Safe mode
- rebuild the database
- restart in Safe mode
- reinstall the OS
- restart in Safe mode
- shut off and on: NO JOY
- disable the DHCP function and configure the PSV to a fixed IP address
- open my wireless router admin panel
- create a DMZ for the IP address of the PSV
- restart the wireless network
- repeat #7 to #14: NO JOY
- buy another game (Assassin’s Creed III)
- start from hard card
- repeat #7 to 14: NO JOY
At which point I run out of options, and I do what my wife suggested five minutes after my son reported the problem: return it to the store, get another one, works like a charm.
Women will rule the world!
they already do. you just don’t get it.