Playstation Vita Error C2-12828-1 Help

Always on the road I really enjoy a casual mobile gaming experience. Of course a tablet and a smartphone is great for gaming. But I do use a Nintendo 3ds and a Playstation Vita every now and then.Recently though I ran into a strange issue while playing 'Uncharted Golden Abyss' on my Playstation Vita.While using the game and occasionally while booting up the game I received a tough error and the game would crash.The Error Code: C2-12828-1Time to find a solution.Unfortunately the official Playstation Support Site is not of much help. Really misleading it describes a NAT / networking / demilitarised zone issue: http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PS-Vita/Fixing-the-Error-c2-12828-1-issue-on-your-Vita/td-p/15328217But I don't believe this C2-12828-1 is a networking issue at all.From my experience with the issue (very random occurrence, usually involving large chunks of data being loaded, game-brraking) I do not believe it is networking related at all.I would rather side with the other sources I've found on gamefaqs and reddit and the like. There you read a lot of warnings that this bug might get worse over time and it might destroy download data and save data. As in my experience game crashes are mentioned and worse: random shutdowns of the whole system. From all these reports this seems to be a nasty memory/file system error. The Vita uses a proprietary file-system plus heavy encryption. Something along side of heavy use, constant Vita-standby-mode and quick switching between big games may case defects in memory which worsen over time due to read/write activity. Ultimately the whole partition gets damaged and a Vita showing this bug should not be used but rather should be 'fixed' quickly. So how could this bug be fixed?FixBased on: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/656455-madden-nfl-13/64026055In short the only known fix is to backup the data of your Vita and then thoroughly wiping and rebuilding the console's memory and then restoring.Prerequisites for the fix:

• Vita System and Data Cable
• Sony Content Manager Assistant software for Windows or Mac
• Free space on your PC/Mac (if you have a 16GB memory card the. At least 16GB free)
• time and patience

 Steps to fix C2-12828-1 :

• Delete all games and apps you no longer need
• Sync trophies / save-data with PSN server and do a full backup of your Vita using Content Manager Assistant. Basically hook up the Vita with a PC running Content Manager Assistant and copy over everything.
• Remove any game card from the system.
• Turn Vita off completely -> turn Vita on in SAFE MODE -> using Power button, PS button + R trigger to start it up.
• At SAFE MODE screen select option (3) to Format Memory Card
• Afterwards turn Vita on in SAFE MODE again, and select option (4) to Restore PS Vita System
• Once again, get your Vita back to SAFE MODE and select option (2) to Rebuild Database
• Turn your Vita on regularly and it should look fresh again. Icons everywhere. Don't bother with changing any settings as the backup has it all; though you will have to re-arrange icons. At this point, go into Settings -> Format -> Format Memory Card (one last time).
• Then get back to Settings and connect the Vita to your usual internet connection and sign in to your PSN so that it is authenticated.
• Open Content Manager application on the Vita and Restore From Backup - connect to where your backup is stored.
• After all is done, the icons are shufffled so get them re-arranged, make sure your time is set right using the internet

For some games the data was apparently so corrupted so it could not be restored. This happened for round about 5 out 30 games. I re-downloaded these games and downloaded save-data from PSN.After all that was done, I was able to use my Playstation Vita as expected. The whole procedure especially re-downloading some larger games was cumbersome but in the end I seem to have a stable system now.