Hold+ v3.6

Posted by x3sphere at January 19, 2009, 12:16 pm


Homebrew developer Torch has issued an update to Hold+, a custom firmware plugin for PSP designed to save on battery life. When enabled, it turns off the LCD backlight and reduces CPU clock whenever the Hold switch is engaged, while still allowing critical keys to be pressed for music playback and XMB navigation. As soon as the switch is flipped back up, all settings are returned to their previous state. Think of it as an enhanced sleep mode.

Version 3.6 introduces a fast scroll mode, which allows users to browse through music playlists on their PSP at nearly double the speed. The author notes it isĀ  possible to scroll past 300 songs in 10 seconds.

Changelog

* Incorporated Fast Scroll Music functionality into Hold+. Increases the vertical scrolling speed of Music player by around 50% (scroll 300 songs in 10 seconds).

Download Hold+ v3.6

Release Thread

Read moreHold+ v3.7, Sleep’n'Wake PSP 1.2, Time Baby V12e, Tyrian PSP 0.6, Music PRX v0.55

Comments

Juliet says:

Can it be used within the internet browser? Especially while downloading something big? Or while listening to the radio? I mean reducing CPU speed won't interfere with these functions, is it true?

ArtfulDodger says:

any one know if the brightness (level 4) feature works on the PSP phat?

x3sphere says:

4th brightness setting will work on a Phat but not the 5th, as it is Slim only.

ArtfulDodger says:

that's great news...um, how do i activate 4th brightness? I pressed 'display' 4 times but it didn't work.

jc1cell says:

Can't seem to get it to work. I have 5.00 m33-6, never tried it with -4 though, so don't know if it worked with that one either. One thing I noticed is that although I have it in the seplugins folder I don't see it in the plugins section of recovery in order to enable it. It's added to the vsh.txt.

Anything I should be looking at in the XMB that would indicate that it's running.

jc

Torch says:

Make sure you add it like this in vsh.txt
ms0:/seplugins/hold.prx 1
According to the m33-3 format which changed.
It works anywhere.

jc1cell says:

thanks torch, after a bit of playing with it i had realized that i read incorrectly and it really wasn't in the vsh text. Added and its running just fine now.

fasijimoto-san says:

This sounds quite awesome. For comparisons sake, what does the PSP do when it' put into sleep mode. IOW, how big of a power savings/difference is this?

Torch says:

Sleep mode consumes almost no power except to keep the RAM alive. Sleep would probably only consume %1 battery every few days.

In Hold+ hold mode you should get atleast 15 hours of music playback.

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