According to the latest reports, Sony PS4 console uses CMOS battery as internal clock, and this battery is not accessible and not even visible to users. In theory, this prevents people from tampering with the console’s internal memory and trophies, but it also means that the console needs the CMOS battery to be present and working for games to run, so the moment the battery dies down. failure or works. out of battery, the console will be unusable because it will not launch any game of any kind: neither physical nor digital.
Dead CMOS battery will cause PS4 to crash
Since the PS4 uses the CMOS battery as its internal clock to control the trophy system, the moment it fails or the console is completely discharged, it will be left as an expensive and heavy clipboard because although the console starts, no game will run. , physical or digital.
This information comes from famous hacker Lance McDonald, who shared this disturbing information. According to him, the PS4 trophy system requires the internal clock – managed by the CMOS battery – to work properly, so that users cannot change the date and time on the console to change when they got them. trophies. or modify, in some way, the trophies they have.
This error is due to the fact that trophies on PS4 require the internal system clock (the one you can not see / change) to be correct, so people cannot change their PS4 date / time to donate. feel like they got trophies sooner than they really did. If your PS4 clock battery dies, all your games die https://t.co/8y9aZzL9vC
– Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) March 23, 2021
McDonald goes on to say that if the system clock is reset, the only official way to correct it is to connect to the PSN network, which implies that if Sony decides to remove the PSN in the future, the PS4 consoles will be. automatically locked. as they will no longer be, it will no longer be possible to reconnect to the PSN network to correct the clock. The statement was in response to a tweet from Doest It Play, an account dedicated to the preservation of video games, which stated that “when the PS4’s CMOS battery dies (and it will), all digital files on the PS4 will be unusable. Without reconnecting the server. ‘
It would be nice if Sony released a firmware update that would just look like “You can’t win trophies because of a clock error.” Login to PSN to unlock trophies ”and just let you start the offline game without trophies. I guess they never will because their priority is low.
– Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) March 23, 2021
Can the PS4’s CMOS battery be changed?
Replacing the PS4 battery really isn’t too complicated, but Does it Play told IGN India that there is concern that the internal clock is also affecting the PS4’s ability to read discs. CMOS can only have its time set by PSN network or hacks, that means even if you change the battery it can keep failing or running out of charge and we would have the same problem again.
Either way, the answer is yes, you can change the CMOS battery on the PS4 just like you can change the one on a PC’s motherboard. You just have to completely disassemble the console until you reach its motherboard, where you will see that the battery is there, accessible without too many problems and of course replaceable by a new one.
Once the battery has been replaced, you will just have to completely reassemble the console, turn it on and connect it to the PSN network so that the internal clock is synchronized.
Either way, it’s still very worrying that Sony created the console in such a way that the ability to run games, even without being connected to the internet to sync trophies or play online, depends on a simple CMOS battery. .
