Ovatsug09 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Hi everyone! A friend of mine is selling his PS Vita (PCH - 1101), which unfortunately is jailbroken. He said that he did it by himself by downloading some programs, and I was wondering: If I buy the console and factory reset it, would I be able to connect my account safely? Is there a ban risk or anything like it? I do not know if a factory reset is enough to "undo" the jailbreak, and I do not want to risk my account. I just want to enjoy the console and update it normally. Could you guys please help me? Thanks in advance and have a great day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaivRules Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 3 minutes ago, Ovatsug09 said: Hi everyone! A friend of mine is selling his PS Vita (PCH - 1101), which unfortunately is jailbroken. He said that he did it by himself by downloading some programs, and I was wondering: If I buy the console and factory reset it, would I be able to connect my account safely? Is there a ban risk or anything like it? I do not know if a factory reset is enough to "undo" the jailbreak, and I do not want to risk my account. I just want to enjoy the console and update it normally. Could you guys please help me? Thanks in advance and have a great day You can reset it (which you'll need to do anyway since only one account can be on a stock Vita) and it'll be fine. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost-Zeus514 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Pretty sure Sony doesn't care about the Vita, you should be fine 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zephrese Posted January 17, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2023 (edited) Jailbroken is the best (and cheapest, least annoyingly and unnecessarily restrictive) way to play it, though. Edited January 17, 2023 by Zephrese 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmoredSnowman Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 4 hours ago, Ovatsug09 said: Hi everyone! A friend of mine is selling his PS Vita (PCH - 1101), which unfortunately is jailbroken. He said that he did it by himself by downloading some programs, and I was wondering: If I buy the console and factory reset it, would I be able to connect my account safely? Is there a ban risk or anything like it? I do not know if a factory reset is enough to "undo" the jailbreak, and I do not want to risk my account. I just want to enjoy the console and update it normally. Could you guys please help me? Thanks in advance and have a great day Sony doesn't care about Vita. Would assume much of the top people on the leaderboard use a jailbroken Vita in order to region-stack games + use SD card for storage. That said, factory reset is enough to unmod the console. If you can find a PSTV for a cheap price (they have skyrocketed in pricing), that would be a good companion, so you can play on the TV (though it does have some blacklisted games.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VersuS397 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 I too would like to mod it, but I really care about my trophies and I never wanted to risk it :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lachstar619 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 I recently unhacked mine as it was linked to another account and have had no issues. As others said, pretty sure Sony doesn't care about the VITA anymore anyway. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MushuMixLipa Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 2 hours ago, Lachstar619 said: I recently unhacked mine as it was linked to another account and have had no issues. As others said, pretty sure Sony doesn't care about the VITA anymore anyway. 100% convinced Sony doesn't care about it anymore. The last software update was back last year which stopped jailbreaking after that point and now you can jailbreak the Vita by simply using it's own Web browser. You don't even need a laptop anymore etc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z1MZUM Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 12 hours ago, Ovatsug09 said: Hi everyone! A friend of mine is selling his PS Vita (PCH - 1101), which unfortunately is jailbroken. He said that he did it by himself by downloading some programs, and I was wondering: If I buy the console and factory reset it, would I be able to connect my account safely? Is there a ban risk or anything like it? I do not know if a factory reset is enough to "undo" the jailbreak, and I do not want to risk my account. I just want to enjoy the console and update it normally. Could you guys please help me? Thanks in advance and have a great day I modded my original PSTV to add the whitelist and it still runs today. I am on stock now but it is permanently whitelisted, So to do this I modded on my actual account for about 30 minutes to apply the whitelist hack and nothing happened. I've also added a account swap app back in 2020 to play a hk digital game, this has now been removed and back to stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovatsug09 Posted January 18, 2023 Author Share Posted January 18, 2023 Thanks everyone for the replies Really appreciate it! I will buy the Vita from my friend and reset it. Thanks again for being such an awesome community! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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