lol hey bud, RealG187, i've noticed everyone has been flaming this kid.....
well n e way a bricked psp there is no way to unbrick it if u never had a custom firmware (implying that u don't have a custom firmware since u had a 2.81 ta-082....) well n e way u can't downgrade it because there is no kernel exploit in 2.81+ thats including 2.80. I have seen that there can be flash0 access to a 2.80 but thats about it i dont' think there is no downgrader *I really doubt they will even take the time to make a downgrader for a 2.80 because anybody who is at a 2.80 either has a ta-082 or has no intention of ever using hombrew*
well n e way u probably read of someone buying a bricked psp over at psp3d because i read that too... they wanted a bricked psp because they were going to replace the motherboard with a 2.60 motherboard not sure if it was a ta-082 or not.... well n e way if u didn't read the same thing as i did then the person who was selling the psp wanted it because they were gunna get another motherboard because thats the only reason i would think someone would want a bricked psp
and one more thing there is downgraders for 2.71 the D_A generic downgrader but if u have a ta-082 motherboard then you could only downgrade to 2.50 but i see no point for downgrading from 2.71 since even with a ta-082 motherboard a 2.71 can still load all homebrew emulating 1.5......