How To Do a Factory Reset on PSP 3000 Console

If you want to do a factory hard reset on your Sony PSP 3000 console and restore it to factory settings, you will need to comply with the instructions. Please be fully aware doing so will not remove any installed homebrew custom firmware and won't revert it back to the original one.

How Do You Reset a PSP 3000?

1) Turn off the PSP console.

2) Hold the following buttons 'Square', Triangle', 'Start' and 'Select' together all at once.

3) While holding all four buttons, flick on the power switch to turn on the console. Don't let go of them until the XMB menu appears on screen.