[PS3] Canāt login to the PSN? Hereās how you can still access Netflix
(Note: If you live outside the US, check this tutorial explaining how I can access Netflix from outside the US š ) A good friend of mine contacted me recently because his PS3 got banned from Sonyās PSN. He owns a PS3 for the sole purpose of playing Videos and music, and mostly runs Showtime (a media player Homebrew, far better than the official PS3 video player) and Netflix. If the default video player on the PS3 was decent, he wouldnāt have to run a CFW at all. As a matter of fact, he never played a single game on his PS3. Nevertheless, he woke up one day seeing that he couldnāt connect to the PSN anymore.
On a side note, this means that if your run a CFW, Sony will indiscriminately ban you, independently of the fact that you pirate games or cheat online.
Not having a PSN connection could have been a non issue, as I said, this friend never played or use any Sony product on his PS3 besides the PS3 hardware. Unfortunately for him, thereās a strange requirement to be logged in to the PSN if you want to run Netflix. Donāt ask me why, thatās the way it works. My friend was therefore left with the choice of giving up on Showtime, uninstall his CFW, and try to convince Sony to unban his account; or to stay on CFW and give up on Netflix.
But heās quite resourceful and found a way to get Netflix to work without having to be logged in to the PSN. The basic technique is to let Netflix believe that the PSN is down. This technique is already well known from people who want to avoid being banned for using CFW (which is what my friend should have done in the first placeā¦).
When Netflix believes the PSN is down, it will let you login without a problem. In order to do that, my friend blocked the following connections from his router (this list comes from psx-scene):
fus01.ps3.update.playstation.net > Update Server (sys updates)
mercury.dl.playstation.net > Whatās new ads
nsx.np.dl.playstation.net > playstation store preview
nsx-e.np.dl.playstation.net > ads
(main file exchange connections)
us.np.stun.playstation.net > on boot initiates connection
ena.net.playstation.net > SSLv3 connection after above connection
dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net > secondary update attempt (could force updates)
auth.np.ac.playstation.net > SSLv3 authentication server
(destination servers)
service.playstation.net (has multiple IPs if only the ip address is blocked)
(Error Reporting)
creepo.ww.hl.playstation.net (uploads crash reports etc.)
Since he lives in JP (and that was the trick here), he had to additionally block the following addresses:
djp01.ps3.update.playstation.net
jp.np.stun.playstation.net
This takes care of the use case in JP and the US. People in the EU might have to sniff network traffic in order to get additional addresses specific to their country.
Note: some people have contacted me with a technique that simply consists in ācancellingā the login step on the PSN several times in a row. That technique seems so far to be extremely randomā¦ feel free to give it a try as it is way simpler than blocking traffic on your router, but be aware that the results are not guaranteed. Report your feedback in the comments section š
Netflix and Amazon Instant Video are probably the 2 best video on demand services, and theyāre available on the PS3. Sadly, by default they are only available to people in the US. But Iāve been enjoying the US Netflix service and Amazon Instant Video on my PS3 from Japan for a while now š . If you are interested in accessing these services on your PS3 from any country, check our sister siteās tutorial on how to access Netflix from any country on your PS3
Guys. This method started working again!!! 3 cheers! It had stopped working for me around aug 24, 2013 and just as a last try I tried this again and gues what?!!!!!! It worked ! Iām sooooo happy! Ps3 is still the best media player for netflix that there is!
Worked for me, also found a workaround for Amazon on psx-scene site, but it does not work for me, you might want to give it a try:
Open:
dev_hdd0/game/NPUP10021/USRDIR/lithium.conf in a text editor,
Change this
# PSN login is a TRC requirement however it can be disabled by setting the following flag to false
requirePsnLogin=true
I JUST today have encountered an extremely annoying problem: Netflix is refusing to let me sign in without setting up a psn account. Here is the funny part: I never really have got into online gaming, and for the first year and a half I just used my ps3 to play solo games. I later got Netflix, and because I didnāt have a psn account I could skip it for quite a while, eventually it required me to so I did.
Hereās the tricky part: Knowing that many online sources arenāt secure, and PS3 has already been marred before and granted illicit access to peopleās credit card information, I decided to simply limit my exposure to any financial loss. I did it by simply legally buying a gift card and using safe credentials (read: one use, no loss) credentials. I used this information to set up a Netflix account, wrote all of the information down on a flashcard as well as the date at which all money on the card would be used up and it would be time to legally buy another card and put the same hibbedy hooplah information on it.
There was ONE MAJOR problem though: about 6 months in, Visa secretly changed up there payment system to disallow renewable payments to be made from the gift card that I was using. At that point I still had another 7 months left on my card, so it took about 2 hours calling back and forth between Netflix and Visaās helplines (getting shunted back and forth between them) before I found out without a doubt that the error was completely coming from the Visa side, which was a serious annoyance. So, I was basically then forced to link my netflix account to a minor bank account (which I seriously do not like doing, so much so that I have a free checking account that has the sole purpose of being used for transactions online and in stores and gas stations because I never keep more than a couple hundred dollars in it, so my exposure isnāt that great, but is still considerably more than a limited gift card with a random name that has been ziplocked away in a secure location with the only connecting information wrote down on a flash card in that same locationāparanoid? Maybe, but anyone who isnāt in this day and age is just another sheep being led to slaughter).
So, to the present: I just tried to sign into Netflix on my PS3 and it is trying to force me to update the PSN, and I tried to get through simply without signing in and it isnāt letting me, and Iām mad enough to punch a Vaio. Why should I be forced to do these updates, where I randomly see advertisements for games (never used to have them on my ps3) or randomly installed stuff like Amazon (me and Amazon have beef)? Not only that, but I hate even updating Netflix, they did that lame āoverhaulā a couple months back that basically made everything useless, I could care less about an interface with pictures of the highlighted shows and only displaying two rows (anyone else remember how useful the plain old interface with its 5 rows and plain writing were?) Now those lames update the boxcovers of shows every time they put out an update, which just makes it harder to find shows, but still have not done ANYTHING to improve the search function, probably because they want to distract people from how much content they are hemorrhaging . Iām pretty sure a lot of people think that but havenāt been saying it.
Long story short, I have bought every game Iāve ever used, and Iāve got a decent sized collection although I havenāt gamed in quite a while. But Iām so SICK of being forced to update, heck I donāt even want anything to do with the PSN, that it seems like these days the only reasonable approach is to hack it or jail break it or whatever. Iāve decided to just buy another PS3 and vivisect that mug, I guess this here is one of the first stops for learning how to do that, but is there any way I could simply remove/block pieces of the PS3ās software and all its security features? I donāt even care about voiding a warranty, Iām through with all this useless goop.
Rant over.
Hi, I got banned because a kid named Curt got me banned for him glitching spamming noobing hacking host booting & free winning & all that unnecessary BS, Iām martellecw, Iām wondering if my PSN account has been un banned yet because I got falsely banned for something I never did.
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The cancelation method does work ..you must first go to netflix , let the login to ps window appear then press O till it tells you to exit , after that exit the netflix app and open netflix , as soon as it loads press X till a show starts , them the psn windown will appear again, just press O
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