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]

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[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

[alex-sharetskiy]

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/

[alex-sharetskiy]

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).

[alex-sharetskiy]

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?

[alex-sharetskiy]

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)

[alex-sharetskiy]

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

[alex-sharetskiy]

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