Vita: the annoying bugs Sony doesn’t seem to care about
The new firmware for the PSvita is a great new update and a step in the right direction with game save uploads with PS+, but I’m not here to talk about the new options. It seems that there’s a problem that Sony is not addressing with the PSvita and the Playstation store.
One of the downfalls in playstation store on the psvita is when you try to download a game,video,music etc.., it locks up on you. Then you have to restart the psvita and hope that the download is in your queue and has started to download. If not, you have to try redownloading it all over again and hope it does not lock up on you.
At first I thought it was just me having this problem. So I tried everything from making sure that the psvita has enough space on the memory card, to resetting my home network. Then I started to ask others psvita owners and found out that I’m not the only one having this problem with the Playstation store.
Other Playstation communities on the net seem to be reporting the same problems. I found these links while looking for more info:
- http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Vita-Support/Perpetual-quot-Preparing-to-download-quot-after-firmware-update/td-p/40107027
- http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/620272-playstation-vita/66776162
But Sony seemingly hasn’t addressed it yet. This problem with the Playstation store has been going on for a long time now, well for me since the New Year around February. I don’t know why, Sony still has not addressed this issue or even tried to fix it.
So Sony need to get off their butts and actually fix this problem. I’m just getting sick of the psvita locking up in the Playstation store all the time, maybe some pressure on them is necessary.
How about you? Are there any persistent defects on your Vita that make you wonder if it is still a beta product ?
What I’ve noticed is random almost-full freeze of Vita, only thing working is power button and it still only makes screen black, no sleep mode.
Also thing which was here since launch of PS Vita, sometimes touchscreen stops reacting, whole system works flawlessly but if you don’t have allowed controlling by buttons only thing which helps is hard-reset, it mainly happens on lock screen
Almost forgot about total blackout of PS Vita browser, everything is working but you can only see black screen, in background you can hear sounds if you perform any action but you can’t see it. This happened to me about 3 times
All those 3 issues have happened to me.
The weird thing is even thought I bought my Vita on day one, I never had this problem while downloading from psn. Thought it happened a few times when the downloads were from mediafire(videos and music in particular) -.-
i’m facing a similar problem ,when i’m downloading a game and the vita goes in sleep mode , i have to keep waking up my vita all the time in order to resume the download .
My only problem on my vita is that sometimes my touchscreen get all crazy, i mean, when i try to open an application it switch screen, or just respond like in touching in a screen corner or something, the only way to fix it is by turning it off and starting it again. i tryed to see if sony has a solution for this, but they just sayd to me that they cant help me at all. it sucks, i hope one day my screen doesn’t go crazy for ever… Btw my Vita never got lucked on the store, i never had any other issue with it… hope sometime they will fix it for you guys 😉
maybe dis vita wud b d beta ones or d fat one. dey wud release d slim vita? wat do u think?
Other than a shortsword’s hilt hitting my former Vita to the screen,thus making repairs costly,I did not have any problems with it,nor do I have with my new Vita.
I know if my Vita stuck in PSN or not by looking at the small icon that rotates near the Wifi icon. If it stops rotating for more than 5 seconds, I know it’s stuck.
Me too, i have the same problem
yep have had same problem… have to restart the vita and grab the download from the download list… sometimes it takes a couple tries to get the file… i havent been able to figure out what exactly causes it… i thought size…nope seems to happen with different sizes… so i thought maybe the type of file… nope ..minis psp games vita games …even mobile games will trigger it…its like its some sort of authorization time out that causes it to freeze up… i dunno just my 2 cents from what ive observed
Strange, I purchase a lot from PSN and I’ve never had the system or download lock up on me
Since updating to 2.60 while charging and idle, my Vita will randomly exit sleep mode.
Yes! I had the exact same problem earlier and was very confused, good to know I’m not the only one!
i think everyone has this.
I don’t have this problem, and I’m on OFW 2.60.
The worst for me is that when trying to download pinball arcade (or whatever that pinball game is on ps plus)my vita locked up and the download failed. Now when I go back to download it I cant. Every single time it says download failed and says try again later. Guess Ill just stick with Zen2 for now.
i get it most times downloading playstation mobile games.
never happened to me 🙂
YES!! So im not the only one, haven’t bothered to check if others were experiencing this, but i have for a long timeeee. I say this has happened to me atleast 5+ times, i hope sony fixes this, but i know that probably wont happen because it seems they could care less about the vita.
Anyone else notice that there isn’t a way to purchase psn avatars in the playstation store, you can change your avatar in settings but you cant buy new ones. I’ve been complaining about that on playstation twitter and sony forums, but no one cares.
Mine does it too, i thought my Vita was going bad, nice to know it is not, hope they fix it soon
This happened to me yesterday
sometimes i get this problem too n’ have to turn off n’ download again..but it doesn’t happens everytime, its +/- 20% of the times.
other problem that happened twice w/ me is the black screen while playing: “an error has ocurred n’ the system will be powered off”
:/
I may be the odd-one-out here, but none of these problems have ever happened to me and I have had my vita since launch…
Totally unrelated to topic but why are some comments disappearing? If wololo is deleting them then I don’t understand why are you also deleting regular comments which were not OT?
it think its a bit different for US and JAP store but for Europe(South Africa at least) often when u click on a game in the store 95% of the time there’s no screenshots so i often have to google as well which is such a bother; there’s nothing to fix rly, Sony should just make it a prerequisite to post screenshots when it goes in the store, surely developers wants to market their game as much as possible so wth?
#1 this. Also when i was using an eu account you couldn’t see the size of the download, which basically means Sony assumes you have a one petragzillion petabyte memory card.
this is still the case. it mentions the memory requirement of the savegame, which is pretty irrelevant since it is usually just 1 megabyte, but never mentions the download size of the game itself so you always have to google search it.
I hate having to dl psone classics from the ps3 in order to get them on the vita. Luckily I do have a ps3 but it shouldn’t be that way. If it will work on the vita it should be on the store.
This was intentionally done by sony on a few titles, Legend of Dragoon being a big one, appently some of the ps1 classics had some overlooked backdoors that allowed hackers access to the psvitas OS code, and instead of taking months to patch the vita OS, they just removed the offending games from the vitas direct access side of the store. I dont know why its any different via ps3 transfer but still…
mine too…the same happens when i tried to download a game..it locks up and I need to turn off the vita again and restart again….i thought its my connections fault or connection failing and here it is, others are experiencing the same and now i know that its a bug…thank you…sony should fix this…
Ok, so I boot up my PSV and I hate that I have to wait for the console to check the inserted game card before I can use the system interface. Can’t this be done on the background? Or at least while the unlock screen is on? It’s annoying but it also suggests to me that a big secret in CFWing the console lies there.
oh come on.. it takes two seconds..
hasnt happened in a while, but my web browser will sometimes intiate a refresh on its own while im reading or scrolling. almost as annoing as the flickering screen issue i noticed a couple of times, also on the web browser by the way.
yeah this is common too.. and it’s really annoying
there are little annoyances that go back even before the 2.60 upgrade like notifications about somebody commenting on a friend’s activity and when you check it, it says ‘that activity no longer exists.
Wow crazy I thought I was just me!
An issue I have with the Vita, and I don’t know if they fixed it yet because I haven’t updated (and they most likely havent fixed it) is the brightness setting. It’s too bright.
I wish it could be dimmer.
My iPod can. My PSP can. My DS can. But expecially that iPod… it can REALLY be dimmed down. Why can’t the Vita?
I haven’t bought more than 10 games on the playstation store, but it never locked up on me!
Theyre to lazy to fix it i think they will be working much more on ps vita when ps4 releases remote play etc i think you need to wait for the release date
Yup, ever since v2.12, this bug appeared. My Vita also awakes and shows the start page while in sleep mode, this happened some firmwares back, V1 something also but disappeared some firmwares back. Which was a good thing, it just wastes the battery.
Another really annoying thing is the screen dim, there’s no way to turn it off.
It happens in certain games and it even happened when watching a video. Also as always, NOW! PSP games are loud and Vita games are not.
Also the browser has lost compatibility, video sites that finally worked through streaming, you need to once again download them.
All in all, $ony only comes out with an update once an exploit is released.
Than we see suddle changes that should have been there from the start.
It’s sad that a “big update” consist of AA on the bubbles and a button for uploading saves with PS PLUS.
I’ve had both this issue with the PlayStation Store on my Vita as well as the issue brought up in a previous comment about the Vita coming out of sleep mode randomly when charging and idle. I don’t see that as a big problem, but the fact that last night, I needed to reboot my Vita when it was stuck after pressing the Download button… that’s not the first time it happened. I hope they fix this. I’m on the latest FW.
The hang on the store happens to me only when attempting more than 1 download at once.
If the system won’t support it, Sony should at lest avoid us from trying. Just saying.
For me the problem seems to be worse. I became a plus member yesterday and I tried to download Uncharted (heavy game). I let the vita downloading and two hours later vita started the famous blue light of the death.. And I tried to access the safe mode but it showed a japanese safe mode with only two options… It was scary. I couldnt even restart, restore, format, etc.. Then , I waited it to finish charge the battery (yellow light desappear) and when I turned Vita on, it was OK but restored (with no data). Ok, because I didnt have too many games there. The problem were when I tried to download Uncharted again when I see the same problem happened… The error code in japanese language was C1-11164. Vita really seems to be in beta version yet… And I dont know how to solve this problem…