Create pandora battery and patch firmware for sony PSP

So a PSP can be modified to work with loading games and home brew apps as you please. This will explain the step by step process in how to create a pandora battery.

What you need

1 x Sony (original) battery
1 x replacement battery for your PSP
1 x small pin
1 x 512mb memory stick

Step 1: Taking apart sony battery

So you get sony battery that you got with psp and start to take it apart. slide a exacto knife down both sides of battery slowly (cutting away from you) and repeat over and over on all 4 sides.

Be careful not to cut yourself or to dig to hard into the side of battery because there is chips in it and you should not damage them. (not sure what they do, but do not damage them).

next step....

Comments

[kingdom7893]

lol man no you dont need a disk in it after you install the custom firmware you just have to hit select in xmb and change it to the m33 option or the sony nap200 or you can change it from the recovery menu which can be accesed by holding r while turning it on and it dosent need a disk lol its so easy email me if you need more help people i hacked my psp a long time ago

[shaiks]

u r geniuse i need ur guidiance really can u help me in this matter plzzzzzzz plzzzzzzzz send me ur mail on my mail plzzzzzz <a href="mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</a> waiting for u dear take care ....

[joseph_2020]

can you please email me "kingdom7893" because his youtube videos arent available and i dont know how to make the pandora battery. [e-mail] or [e-mail]

[maxpower49]

can you reuse the memork stick normally? do you have the fat or slim? do you have to install old format for it to work or does it install a lower firmware automatilacy?

[G-Pow]

I do know that is a Slim battery because it is 3.6 v and 1200 mah

[ReCreate]

and fat psp where different?

[J Moneyman]

if u cut open a phat battery with knife, it blows up! i found out hard way

[pancho del rancho]

foo i used a macherte it worked fine i didnt use this though

[J Moneyman]

machette??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!???!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!???!?!?!!!!!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!!?!?!??!??!???!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?

[pancho del rancho]

hahahha jk man i used a big princess knife though it waS HUGE

[dont_bug_me]

Yea this pissed me off i followed this guide and mine got hot in my hand and i got scared and threw it away lol

[everywhere]

he is right it does it blew up in my hand

[J Moneyman]

thats not good!

[ReCreate]

so a phat psp battery is higher amperage?

[J Moneyman]

i guess... just be careful and make sure u have 2 batterys

[ReCreate]

I used a flat screwdriver to open mine,no scratches its almost good as new And that is my only battery,and it survived

[J Moneyman]

was it phat?

[ReCreate]

Erm...no. Its a slim,slim batteries are harder to take apart

[Seraph92]

WARNING DO NOT USE THIS METHOD! THERE IS A WAY TO HARD_MOD THE BATTERY AND RESTORE IT! WITHOUT GETTING A NEW ONE!!! PM ME FOR DETAILS

[daiatlus79]

yeah you etch one of the lines on the PCB then when you want to restore it you just rub over the gap with a graphite pencil.. no joke!

[cormac3050]

How??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[maxpower49]

do you have a link to the site

[Seraph92]

its not a site. do you have a slim or phat?

[maxpower49]

slim but i allredy made the battery with a spare i got off ebay for $10

[Sandisk1duo]

hey, i bought another psp, but it won't charge or turn on! what should i do?

[Numb-Nuts]

What is the point of this?

[ReCreate]

The Point? Everything!(and running CFW and Homebrew)

[zebbandflow]

Your videos rule... these are VERY helpful, and quite clear about what to do concerning hacks and the like. Thanks a ton for your work.

[maxpower49]

wot do i need to download the files it shows up as unknown file when i go to download it.

[codongolev]

just put them on the memory stick. your computer can't recognize them because that's the new firmware for the psp. actually, that happens a lot with homebrew and stuff.

[conradev]

add it to my group PSPHacks

http://www.instructables.com/group/PSPHacks/

[Sandisk1duo]

so um... did you put the jig kik battery together? where might i find ultra thin solder, as thin as ! looks on your monitor?

[ianlikescake]

You dont have to use a solder. You can just do what namit said except dont hack it off. Just use a blade and push down on the top of t till it breaks. be very careful not to touch any two legs together with the blade or youll fry the battery (youll know you fried it when you hear hissing and smoke comes out).

[Sandisk1duo]

i wanted to turn it back into a regular ol' battery but due to an unfortunate series of events i bought a new battery

[ReCreate]

you stabbed it?

[Sandisk1duo]

the pin broke off i stabbed a different battery

[ReCreate]

If you did stab the battery,then you have an excuse to remove it and put another. did you crack or brake the little circuit board? if not connect it to an external battery pack that is 3.? volts my dvd player has a huge lithium ion battery,its two 3.? volt cells inside like 1 inch wide 9 inches wide and 1 cm thick its a lithium ion battery since you stabbed it ...did you stab it by accident? or you just freaked out and stabbed the dang thing?(anger,it happened to me)

[Sandisk1duo]

well, the problem is that, it was this one guy's battery, he payed $10 for me to mod his psp so i took his battery, started to pry it apart, and accidentally stabbed it, smoke came out along with sparks i took my battery and turned it into pandora, modded his psp, the pin broke off the chip and i couldn't save it. i bought him a new battery, gave him his old one back Li-ion/polymer batteries are between 3.0-4.2 volts, depending on how much it is charged i don't really have anger issues... :/

[ReCreate]

The cell voltage is usually 3.7 volts,if it goes to 3.8 KABOOM yeah just a tenth of a volt lithium ion batteries are never charged to their full capacity so a 3.7 is charged to 3.5 to stay safe also you can cut the trace that comes prom the pin of the battery that needs to be removed by cutting it off with some flat screwdriver or knife then you could put a bit of soldir(is that right?) or write on it with a pencil or something

[Sandisk1duo]

the charging cut-off voltage of li-ion is 4.2v
so when the battery charger charges the battery, and sees that the battery is at 4.2v, it shuts off

cutting the trace might be a good idea.... but i don't remember if you could, the trace might go under the chip, or something....

if you could cut the trace, you could bridge it back with solder, but you would have to scrape the green 'stuff' ^epoxy off of the circuit board

[ReCreate]

is does not go under the chip it goes around,thats how i did it for my psp also is should be easy to scrape that stuff off with a sharp knife or something

[namit]

just use a blade and hack off the leg.

[Sandisk1duo]

ya, i can do that, but i don't have $50 to spare, so i would love to fix it

[cormac3050]

I have 5.01 ofw, will this work for me??

[DaPaulness332]

yep, as long as you have a magic memory stick ...i think

[ReCreate]

a little clarification you can do it on any psp 1000 the 2000 series but not the new psp 3000 yet

[cormac3050]

Cheers, I'm getting a pandora and a 2gb magic memstick for Christmas, just wanted to check first.

[ReCreate]

NO you can still use the Pandora as a normal in CFW but you gotta make the magic ms first you only NEED one battery

[daiatlus79]

unless you use the ChickHEN hack! (TIFF exploit that negates the need for the Pandora and MMS) it will work on many but google it and consult the compatibility chart. Mine is a Piano Black PSP-2001 that came with OFW 3.80. after using the ChickHEN hack i now have 5.00M33-4. was no hassle at all. but sometimes you have to try more than once for the exploit to kick in! but i must stress this: quadruple check to make sure your psp is compatible... if not IT WILL BRICK (then you will need the pandora lol)

[ReCreate]

Ah well, The new exploit probably just came recently, i had OFW 3.78 and at the time i got my psp there was no exploit for my firmware

[DaPaulness332]

i need to know how to make a magic mem stick, the pandora's useless without it... how much memory should it have if i decide to make one?

[ReCreate]

First you need a couple of files. Rains MMS Maker , And a 5.00.pbp(A SONY Update File). First We Must extract both Folders,Then Rename the EBOOT.pbp to 500.pbp and place it in the Rains MMS Folder.

Just run Rains MMS maker and it should be easy as pie

[DaPaulness332]

p.s. ive got cfw 5.01 M33-3

[ReCreate]

i recommend at least a 128 meg one about 60 megs is required

[Teh_Fluff]

can you do this with the original psp with version 3.73?

[ReCreate]

you can do this with any psp 1000 and 2000 but not the uber-new 3000s yet

[synthblade]

Before I attempt to try this, it is ok to use this method with a PSP v3.8 correct? I see that you have a link for 3.80 m33-5 but I would just like to make sure this will work.

[Andruha1123]

ok, to mod my psp, i have to make the Pandora battery, Pandora memory stick and install the custom soft from the stick?? am i right? can i still use that battery after i'm done installing, will i have to resoulder it back together?? if i'm wrong can you give me easy step to do everything. thanks

[jjsasha]

I just bought a Pandoras Battery from http://www.pandorasales.com/index.html and i got a great deal cause it came with the 1 gig sd card fully programmed. i got it in 2 days. i unbricked my psp (cause i screwed it up last year) then i downgraded to 1.50 from 1.90 with the pandoras battery. then i added the homebrew software. now i play game rips from my memory card.... easy as pie.

[Sandisk1duo]

i get an open error what do i do?

[namit]

Where you getting this error on black screen?

[Sandisk1duo]

no, in cmd prompt

[namit]

What step are you on need more information on this.

[Sandisk1duo]

logically formatting the memory card

[namit]

Come on alex more info than than, what you you running to get this error what is the memory card is anything else coming up. Just saying logically formatting the memory card is not really good enough

[Sandisk1duo]

it just says "open error " 2gb memory card i run mspformat through command prompt and i get this error

[namit]

Hope that explains your problem.

[namit]

Googled it

[Sandisk1duo]

oh ya, you don't NEED a umd disc in your drive, just hold SELECT for 3 seconds, then you will see a menu, on that menu, umd iso code, and press the right arrow on the pad till you see m33 driver! post it!

[Sandisk1duo]

Thanx, oh btw, you can get ultra-thin solder @ radioshack $4.88 including tax

[DrZDA]

my psp will just turn on normal and i dont know what the problem is. if i didnt use a solder and just used a razor will it do th same thing?

[DrZDA]

Nice video 2 questions. 1. after i use that memory card can i delete that stuff and put my old stuff back on it? 2.what do i do after that black screen with white text? Email me at: [e-mail] if you know any of these questions thanks

[namit]

1. yes once its flashed you can delete the file 2. click yes and go with the instaler

[kingdom7893]

when you use the universal unbricker downgrader it is for both slims and for fats after the battery and magic memory stick are made then you just put them in and run the installer it should come up as soon as you put in the battery

[namit]

i think am right in saying slim battery does not fit in fat battery psp

[xACIDITYx]

It fits, but you will only get about half as much time. the fat battery fits in slim, why wouldn't the slim fit in fat?

[namit]

I fit one in but it did not even turn on my psp or my mates one

[Sandisk1duo]

um, does the 1800ma battery work?

[overfunclac]

Hi,
my PsP i bricked, and my motherboard is damaged so i will buy a new one ( a new motherboard). i would know if this work on official firmware cause i didn't have a Custom firmware PSP to put the special file on the Memory card.

**note: F*ck DATEL,they sell TOOL BATTERY without the file for the memory card**

Thank to Dark Alex for making nice downgrader...
Thank to AcidMods
Thank to all the PsP communitie

I like to say thanks..

[kingdom7893]

use the 3.71 one it is way better and faster

[kingdom7893]

use the 3.71 m33-2 one it is the best and it is also universal and works with all psp's even the new firmware can still be downgraded but if you have befor version 3 there are easyer ways

[Capm_Crunch]

how can i do this with a psp slim?

[namit]

This is psp slim

[poolshark162006]

Ok, wonder if i have the phat PSP with firmware 2.81 what would i use??

[namit]

the instructructions should work for all firmwares since you are replacing them.

[poolshark162006]

yeah but what one should i download the 3.80 or the 3.71 and do you know how to do all of this i have some questions, maybe you could give me a hand?? leave me a message and maybe you can help me a little...

[namit]

When i did this it was 3.71 vertion and i upgraded to 3.71 M33-2