VHBL has locked up my Vita.

[Seaking]

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Recently I rediscovered Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
I am/was using Snes emulator Wololo posted the link to on his blog post about the SC3 VHBL update. (A couple weeks ago.)

Last night, after playing for about 35 minutes the system froze. It kept playing the same note continuously, as if it crashed.
I hit the PlayStation button and it slowly closed the tab.

Just now, I was playing the snes emulator again, and it froze/crashed after about an hour.
It took 2+ minutes for it to register I pressed the PS button, then I closed the tab. The main screen was very unresponsive and sluggish. I relaunched SC3 and it froze on the warning screen. I tried pressing the PS button, but nothing. So I tried turning it off. It came up with the five loading dots icon and eventually the screen turned black, as if in sleep mode. The PS button is still blue.

Anyone else know what is going on?
anyone had a similar experience?
Is my $300 disappointment a brick now?
I'm hoping when the battery dies all will return to normal...

[fate6]

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1. you cant brick anything with HBL/VHBL

2. keep holding the power button till its fully off

3. I like lists

(and yes this has happened to me)
(BTW if the Vita is not working right again close SC3 and give it a 5min break and it usually returns to normal)

[jvhellraiser]

yeah it happen to me,

like above hold the power button for 40 seconds
this was told to me by sony tech themself a menu should
appear on the screen Just choose restart psvita or rebuild.
psvota will be as good as new.

[Seaking]

Thanks for your help guys. I didn't see this lock up issue posted anywhere else, so I freaked out.
I didn't realize that it took that long holding the power button down.

[StepS]

SNES9xTYL does some magic I found a similar, easily reproducible freeze (and fps lowdown to 8) when running wmenu.bins of apps through SNES9xTYL (that requires two particular bins, and the sequence of launching them must be intact)
I can post the needed info

[renzuko]

Hey

Have you guys had any issues with snes locking up while locking the device/leaving it locked for hours?


-Ren

edit: overlooked your post.

[thevoiceover]

Doesn't sound like Vita issue, maybe the emu or combination of both (maybe the VITA doesn't think a program is loaded and going into some sort of sleep mode?) Have you had this happen on anything else other than this emu (anyone have anything else created by Ahman?)

[fate6]

Hey

Have you guys had any issues with snes locking up while locking the device/leaving it locked for hours?


-Ren

edit: overlooked your post.

press L&R to go in to the menu before going to sleep mode

[renzuko]

Hey

Have you guys had any issues with snes locking up while locking the device/leaving it locked for hours?


-Ren

edit: overlooked your post.

press L&R to go in to the menu before going to sleep mode

k cool. Thanks ill keep that in mind.

-Ren

[zoraktorok]

Might not even be vhbl... my vita locks up randomly anyway... heh, should have seen the week of feb 15-22... i went to buy a game at gamestop and they had told me half the people returned theirs due to lockups.. I guess the FIRST firmware update was real :->