Improve Trophy Sync. Speed

[Ly91]

We all know the problem. While your trophy list grows and as more games you install, the synchronize process of the trophies becomes slower and slower. Now I found a simple solution to fix this problem and speed it up.

Here the How-To:

1. Shutdown PS3
2. Hold the power-button till the PS3 shuts down by itself after some beeps
3. Hold the power-button down again, till you hear a "double beep"
4. Unhand the button; now the service menu starts
http://elhabib.at/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ps3service.jpg

5. Choose option 4 "Rebuild Database"
6. Done, now your PS3 updates the trophies very fast again.

Source: http://streetskaterfu.blogspot.com/2009/07/improve-trophy-sync-speed.html

[Transcendence]

Holy shit. This is really good help for a lot of people on the site. Thanks a lot.

[Jaytech]

did anyone try this yet apart from the poster?

[imahobo]

i just tryed it and it works (Y)

[ajrobson]

Yeah I saw this yesterday on streetskaterfu.blogspot.com hes pretty well known for his ps3 hacks (well what little hacks there have been)

Only question I have is does it mess up all your folders for videos and music?

The odd time I have had to rebuild the database, not sure why but a few times i turned on the ps3 and was told it needed rebuilding, anyway when i have rebuilt it all my folders with my videos have gone and the music and vids are in a list again instead of in the folders I used like "tv", "films" etc.

[Ly91]

Yeah I saw this yesterday on streetskaterfu.blogspot.com hes pretty well known for his ps3 hacks (well what little hacks there have been)

Only question I have is does it mess up all your folders for videos and music?

The odd time I have had to rebuild the database, not sure why but a few times i turned on the ps3 and was told it needed rebuilding, anyway when i have rebuilt it all my folders with my videos have gone and the music and vids are in a list again instead of in the folders I used like "tv", "films" etc.


Just back up game saves, pictures etc.

[NB]

So just to clear it up will it lose all your data if you rebuild database?

[Jaytech]

don't think so. it's like defragmentation on a pc.

[Arun.]

don't think so. it's like defragmentation on a pc.

Don't think so thats not good enough :P

[Jaytech]

i tried it. it said it will delete certain data on your hdd. i don't know if your save data is included. i didn't do it in the end.

[grzegorz]

Yer I have heard this before elsewhere, but I am very weary to do it incase I lose any data that I don't want to. Unless my PS3 syncing gets almightily slow, I'm not gonna bother.

[NoStylezOrFreeStylez]

hmm...gonna stick with the slow syncing until more people show their opinion :D

[thegreatadam]

hmm...gonna stick with the slow syncing until more people show their opinion :D

yeah, me too. Although it is getting annoyingly slow.

[D3L1NQU3NT]

thanx just tried this. the only data you will lose are messages and any playlists you've created (you can backup playlists). also if you create folders for your video, music etc. they will need to be created again. everything else you had on there before will still be on there, they will just be put into one folder.