[krazywhiteguy310] let me know about the announcement of the Pandora battery hack. It’ll cost you a Sony PSP battery to pull off the hack, but once you’re done, you can use it to jump start your bricked PSP to load up a memory imaged designed to unbrick the PSP. (I haven’t tested it, so I’m taking this on faith) Excellent news if you’ve bricked your PSP.
Can someone explain what the battery has to do with any of this? What’s Sony’s logic for putting programming code in the battery in the first place? I bet they have a good reason, but to us laymen it certainly seems odd.
Im not totally sure on this but its from what i have read around a few sites/forums.
The idea is that the battery would not only be something that most people wouldn’t suspect (which up until recentally was true) but would also be something that could change the power levels going into the system to drop the chip into a debug mode allowing a more direct way of programming or flashing the main firmware chip.
To those with much better knowledge on this subject please do feel free to point out where i am wrong. This is just a very simple explanation from what i have read online.
With that being said. This is exelent. I have a bricked PSP motherboard just sitting right here…on my desk… Ill be getting a new cam this week and will make a pic/video tutorial on the process and post back with the location.
-Eureka
If u have already done this with out savin the info from ur battery no problem. Grab a friends battery and run pandora and save the their battery info. Pop out that battery, turn on the psp with charger plugged in and and put the Pandora battery back in the psp after the psp has booted and run the program again with the triggers held down.
Bye bye bricked PSP prices, up you go now.
I’d be interested in a ROM dump / more information about how the battery is programmed… then I could just bit-bang it on my laptop and wouldn’t even need a modified PSP to begin with :)
A lot of people are saying this method can be used to downgrade ANY PSP firmware to 1.50. Is this true?
i think this is fake ive taken apart the sony battery after my psp got “accidentally” burned and all there is is a li-ion battery safety circuitry and a battery lvl indicator that adds resistance during the battery’s drain (works like a motor controller) it has an eprom but theres no way it can be reprogrammed with the psp
I used this and it worked like a charm. I couldnt believe it at first but it works. It can downgrade any PSP firmware so far up to 3.52 as I know of. Though when you use this method I heard that it isnt a full 1.5 firmware so you have to update to like FW2.0 and downgrade to 1.5 again so you can get a full fw1.5. It also works for TA-082 and TA-086 motherboards and another thing your PSP doesnt need to be bricked to use this hack.
lol@alex mccown
If I remember correctly, Lithium ion batteries have control circuitry on the battery to help keep from over charging them, which could be pretty disastrous, thats why some batteries have extra terminals even though they dont supply a different voltage ;)
Are they reprogramming the interface? I thought those where read-only but guess not. And a few eeprom have voltage sensing to detect if its in programming mode or standard mode. unless I read that wrong.
If dark_alex worked on it, thats good enough for me…and it does work.
The “Pandora’s Battery” as they call it, is just a regular psp battery. The battery of a psp has flash memory on it with boot information for the system. When converting the battery for this downgrade procedure, the psp program that you use actually dumps the batteries flash and puts a bin image with official sony firmware 1.50 and some developer code. When you place the converted battery into the psp it boots and runs the developer code and downgrades the psp. At this point, they say that the battery is useless. They have come out with an update that will convert the battery back and thats why they dump the flash first. After the psp is downgraded, if you use the converted “pandora’s battery” as your power source, it will only run a partial of the 1.50 firmware because of the missing battery flash files. in order to have full 1.50 you must convert your battery back into a normal one. hope that all clarifies
hehe well i was modding psp about 3 months back i had the luck to be working at the local walmart at the time and have a friend in electronics dept. so i actually was a ble to leaf through and pick out a 2.0(i think?) and then i tried firmware downgrade and then S#!t power outage and instant $170 paper weight so i was crying my eyes out!!! then i turned it in and got a replacment and i bricked that one too! i was ripping my freaking hair out because ppl said u cant redo the firmware! i ask why? isnt there like a technicians debug port on the board!?
well anywho now ill be looking into buying bricks off ebay!
my gods i hate to love tech!
Lemme clarify the battery confusion. The only thing that pandora changes on the battery is the serial number of the battery. There isn’t any ‘code’ in the eeprom of the battery, just information about the battery (i.e. manufacturer data, capacity, serial number, etc). The pandora battery changer just changes the serial number to all 1′s in binary. The rom firmware in the PSP reads this serial number when you power it up. If it sees that serial number, it looks for the IPL code on the memory stick instead of the system flash. That’s why pandora’s ‘battery’ isn’t just a battery. It’s a battery and a memory stick. That’s also the reason you can’t use the battery like a normal battery, because it always tries to load the IPL from the memory stick if you boot with that battery in, which obviously won’t work if you have a regular memory stick in. Plus it won’t boot whatever firmware you may have installed on your PSP. It just boots the IPL on the pandora stick. Hope this clears some things up.
excuse me but i just learned about pandora’s battery. i just downloaded it and really the explanations arent that clear to me. if someone can guide me through this, i will be very happy. so in order to do this opperation, do i need a whole new battery and a psp that is at 1.5 right? or can i simply use the current one? im really confused here.
i knew i should have stopped updating my psp when my friend told me he put windows vista on his. for some reason i didnt care but now i really do. i want to be able to pimp my psp.
i have another question that has nothing to do with pandora’s battery. i wanted to know why the 8gb memory stick would not work with version 2.80 and below. is there a way to make it work with those versions?
The reason a PSP running 1.50 or custom firmware is required to create a pandora’s battery is that you have to run some unsigned (i.e. homebrew) programs from the PSP itself to create the battery. Also, a memory stick pro duo is also required. Most people are suggesting to use a 256MB one, as it is the smallest pro duo you can get, plus it’s guaranteed to work on one that small. You can’t create a ‘jigstick’ (that’s what they call the memory stick that works with the battery) out of a 4GB or larger one. A jigstick will work as a normal memory stick, but you have to have a jigstick to use the pandora’s battery. Creating the jigstick is part of the process of creating the battery in the first place, so if you get a spare battery, a 256mb-2gb memory stick pro duo, and have access to a 1.5 or custom firmware PSP, just follow the instructions and you’re set.
Heey people…right jus a quick question..i have a psp on custom firmware and it bricked whilst trying to install pandoras battery aka “jigstick” i was jus wondering if i have a pandoras battery and mem stick, can i still use the battery that was in the bricked psp after ive unbricked it using pandoras battery ?
Please comment back
thanks :)
Raelik: Thank you very much for the explanation (comment number 14). I wanted to know a little more about how it worked since the whole “jump starting” the psp analogy sounded somewhat dangerous. But this sounds good!
Hey Frank if you still need assistance running pandora just im me at yahoo messenger id wildbill2004hidden
19. excuse me but i just learned about pandora’s battery. i just downloaded it and really the explanations arent that clear to me. if someone can guide me through this, i will be very happy. so in order to do this opperation, do i need a whole new battery and a psp that is at 1.5 right? or can i simply use the current one? im really confused here.
i knew i should have stopped updating my psp when my friend told me he put windows vista on his. for some reason i didnt care but now i really do. i want to be able to pimp my psp.
i have another question that has nothing to do with pandora’s battery. i wanted to know why the 8gb memory stick would not work with version 2.80 and below. is there a way to make it work with those versions?
Posted at 12:43PM on Sep 10th 2007 by Frank Castle
hey guys,anyone know if the pandora battery will work on the newest psp available now in stores.(the thiner version of the psp) greatly appreciated if anyone could let me know.email=ses319@gmail.com
PSP Slim don’t allow Pandora’s battery to unbrick… But M33 team (famous hacker/custom firmware creators) use Pandora’s battery (with a modified magic-memory-card) to install the last 3.60 M33 into PSP Slim….
what psp color should i buy let me know
I prolly got a new version of PSP SONY battery.. Mine battery doesn’t have those pins nor the looks like others..
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6016/dsc00753mw0.jpg
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/1096/dsc00751wp6.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7864/dsc00750wf0.jpg
Yeah its an authentic sony battery – it was inside my SEALED box. So WTF its going wrong ?
My God- Had I known it was this difficult… I have been reading up on the whole pandoras this, firmware that.. is there a place to set out specific directions, as I have firmware 3.60 and some say I just need pandoras batter, others say it cant be downgraded, and some say it has to be.. I am to say the least..LOST!… anyone who actually knows what I should do, so I dont end up with a spacer for the corner of the couch with the broken leg… I dont wanna fry this thing.. I just bought it-
WiL
i have the new psp slim/lite w/filmware 3.71 and want to get homebrew 3.71 m33 installed onto it. i have been doing research about pandora battery and the magic mem stick. one site says i can do it i even seen a vid on youtube. one sec a guy had 3.71 and swapped batteries turned it on hit a few buttons swapped in the original battery and poof he had the 3.71 m33 custom filmware. does this sound right or am i going to end up “bricking” my new psp?
I have a problem, I did not back up the battery information that’s why I cannot restore my pandora to normal battery…. please send me your battery info so that I can revive my battery….. please share the link
Ok i have used my shiny white psp (3.52 M33 fw) to create the pandora’s battery, unbricked a friends psp, so i know it works. i tried to dg mine back to 1.50 so i could do the all psp downgrader to help a friend with his slim and lite, and some where along the line, my ms messed up leaving me with a white psp brick (bugger) i have a mates psp fat running 3.52 M33 fw and am trying to recreate the ms side of it as my battery never changed (well dont think it did) and every time i try to run the PB firm installer, i get a “incorrect or corrupt updater file”, im assuming its the 1.50 eboot thats at fault, and i have several versions of the pandora files, i have evern tried mixing and matching, im getting to the piont where im about to throw my psp at the nearest wall with great force, please someone help me???????
btw my psp is less than a year old
J
To number 20, there is a way to use the pandora battery and mem stick on the newer version of psp. Just google it to find out how to do it. Or head to qj.net and do a little research on that site. You will need a mem stick and battery then special files to allow your mem stick to run 3.60 m33 instead of 1.50.
hey nah yeah you can change a Pandora battery back to normal easy……..you leave your magic memory stick in the unit with the pandora files still on it take your (pandora) battery out……plug in Charger wait for PSP to Boot….then put battery in im assuming you have used it to downgrade to 1.5 or CFW run the battery installer program and convert it backfollowing the options given on the menu
Um one question though……. i have two PSP one Bricked, 1 downgraded to 1.5…..used Pandora for Downgraded 1 ….WORKED…..tried on Bricked???????
downgrade Procedure follows through and press X to shut down then when Manual Restart required with normal battery screen doesnt come on and still bricked……ran pandora on it heaps of times still no luck
Anybody that can help:
Email:poo.u.farted@gmail.com
Or comment me:http://www.bebo.com/HonEst-2-Hu
PLEASE REPLY!! but will any changes go on with my psp if i put a 4gb memory card in my psp,cause i already had it downgraded,i already have the pandoras battery and the jigstick thing,but will my psp change??cause im tryin to fit more music and games and vids,and with this small 1gb i cant,only one game(homebrew),maybe4-5 vids,and about 13-14 songs,and i wanna fit about 4 more games
can someone post the steps in downgrading a psp using a pandora’s battery? Mines an old psp fw3.71 TA-082 board.tnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx..
Silly question (maybe)…
My bricked PSP was running one of the more recent official firmwares – Can I create the Pandora battery on another hacked machine and use it to fix mine?
Equally, is there no way just to download an image of the memory card already set to go ?
Cheers
when i done everything right to convert my batt into a pandora batt, i run the pandora’s battery firmware installer, it says updater file could not be read. how can i fix this problem?
can anyone tell me how to unbrick a bricked(not semi-bricked) psp version3.71M33?
Excellent resource, well explaine, you guys totally rock!!!!
so what is the purpose of hacking a psp battery?
With a hacked PSP battery (Pandora Battery) and M33 magic memory stick you can install custom firmware. With custom firmware you can run free homebrew software, emulators, apps and games from the memory stick.
Hello my man!
you are the best
…just thank you!
Can anyone help, i’m new to all this tech stuff and i’m very confused? I have a psp 1000 (phat) running ofw v4.0 and want to install cps2psp emulator. Do i need to downgrade the firmware and if so which is the best version suited. I have purchased a pandora battrey and 2g mem stick pro duo but dont know where to go from here. Do i need to create a magic stick? Where can i get step by step instructions?
fuck you all
hi ijust got a new slim psp last week with a 3.90 official firmware. i want to install the 3.90 m33 version bt evrywhere i read they say that i need to already have a custom firmware to do so. cud anyone tell me exactly what to do as im very confused about the whole pandoras battery and 1.5 firmware.
Guy’s how do you get into your psp’s batory memory chip (> _<)
is it posible to like reuse your psp battery as a normal one
reply please
no unless you soft mod it
my psp has version 4.05 in it. can anyone help me to downgrade my psp’s version.
Just make a standard 3.71m33 Pandora and that should put you onto CFW 3.71M33-3 directly (no need to downgrade). Btw the new PSP Slims that come with 4.00 firmware or over cannot be hacked with Pandora (for now anyway) so until a hack is made everyone is better off staying at their current firmware until DAX works his magic again =P. Plus the PSP-3000 is gonna make things interesting.
i have a fat psp with no custem firmware but it has regular firmware so will a pandora battery work(i was in the middle of downloading verson 5.01 and the battery fell out)will it work if i take the battery apart and make the pandora battrey (and i dont care if i spell some thing wrong im only 11 fucking years old damn it!)
i did the exact same thing as freak
naaaa hey guys I wanna know why most most of you here want to downgrade the firmware?
as far as I know the latest firmware is will be the best… currently I upgrade my firmware from 3.90MM-3 to 5.00MM-3 firware and it was working fine I can play all the EBOOT games and it’s compatible to all previous firmware games as long as you’ll going to update the SEPLUGGINS of the PSP. I’ve got all this resources at http://www.pspiso.com go to games section and look for the account of HAKO everything regarding to the instructions of upgrading your firmware and using the pandoras battery is there. check it out and see it for your self…
naaaa hey guys I wanna know why most most of you here want to downgrade the firmware?
as far as I know the latest firmware is will be the best… currently I upgrade my firmware from 3.90MM-3 to 5.00MM-3 firware and it was working fine I can play all the EBOOT games and it’s compatible to all previous firmware games as long as you’ll going to update the SEPLUGGINS of the PSP. I’ve got all this resources at http://www.pspiso.com go to games section and look for the account of HAKO everything regarding to the instructions of upgrading your firmware and using the pandoras battery are there. check it out and see it for your self…
ive seen an advert for a battery that can be used for pandora but has a switch that lets it be used as a normal battery how can this work
Sweet – thanks for the info.
I agree 5.00MM-3 firmware is the best at the moment! I’m waiting for the breaking news ” the latest psp version can be hacked!!” sounds impossible huh..
Pearce- Yes there is a battery that allows you to switch back and forth between Pandora mode and regular mode.
hi i’m new to all this i have read bits about how this is done i have a slim psp2003 v4.01. i have also bought a pandora battery i have a 1gb mem card and a 8gb mem card can someone please help on how i can start to play games of my memory card
thanks.
I’m a newbie, have a pandora battery and new 4gb memory card from dealextreme.com
Can someone recommend a specific site or email me instructions on what to do next.
wmchaffins@Yahoo.com
Thank you
hi. i have a older psp (fat one) with firmware 5.00. i have a magic memory stick with all the requird files on and a pandora battery. When i insert the pandora battery the power light shows theres a battery there but the screen wont come on at all, just stays black. Is there anyone who can help me?
great post! thanks man..
I have a question about running ISOs. I downgraded my psp to v1.5 bout a year and a half ago and haven’t really done much ever since. I have the Devhook 0.46 which allows me to switch between 2.71 and 1.5. I wanted to play homebrew games and it worked great for me so far. However now that I found out you can play ISO files, I can only get couple ISO files to run on it. I’ve been out of this for a while now and looks like everything has changed. I just downloaded Pandora Deluxe 3.0. Will running that program change anything for my psp? And what the heck is a Pandora’s battery. When I was downgrading mine I never had to worry about anything like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I just went fron devhook 0.56 on a 1.50 OFW to 5.0 M33-4 CFW last weekend. I hadn’t fooled with it for a while, like you.
You need to go get Despertar del Cementerio version 8 and it helped me create a pandora battery and ramp up to 5.00 M33-4.
I might have gone to 3.71 M33-3 before I went to 5.00. I forget.
But one of the upgrades did TAKE OVER AN HOUR, so be patient, it really takes that long especially on a psp-1001.
how will i know if my psp is bricked?
and whats the difference with semi-brick and brick?
how to unbrick semi-brick psp or brick psp?
please reply..thanks!
Let me google that for you!
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If you want a Pandora Battery for 16€ contact me!
We also have Memory Stick pro duo 8Gb (22€)
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Ok, so i read your post and everything. The first thing someone needs to do before editing firmware and downgrading is purchasing a Pandora Battery and MMS if you haven’t gotten one already.
One site that I recommend is this: http://www.psppandora.net
I usually buy from there when I mod and hack for others, but that your choice if you want to get from them. It pretty cheap compared to everywhere else.
After buying, if you need help let me know.
Can we use a pandora’s battery to downgrade the latest PSP version 5.03?
Also is it a risky operation in general?
Thanks a bunch in advance for the replies.
aadit – Yes you can downgrade the 5.03 firmware as long as your PSP isn’t the 3000.
can i crack a PSP3000 which is version 5.02?
if i could, will it be risky?
Hi, i got a psp 1001 and i was updating to the latest firmwere its 500 something, its downloaded on my duo card, but power went out and my upload did not take! The psp is not got cfw just what sony gives you, i dont want cfw, can i use pandora batt with my duo with the upgrade from sony to unbrick my psp? ” my brick is were only green light is on for 30-60 sec no pic/no sound”
hi everybody, i have a problem with my psp, its brick, when i insert mmc and pandora battery all leds turn on (wireless,memory and power) after 15sec nothing happen please help me (sorry for my english)
How can I rehack my psp? My screen cracked and I had to replace it. It is not running like it used to. What can I do?
my psp will not work with the memory stick in it will only work when the memory stick is out even if the battery is out and it is running on ac adapter it will not work when you put the memory stick in it shuts down then will not come back on it will light up but then shut off right away please help
thank you
ray
without any of this this hack, what’s wrong with just leaving your psp-3004 alone and running Sony made games from that small CD?
my 3k is perfect the way it is and i can get so many used games on umd for $10 at the pawnshop i’ll never be able to play them all. new titles too.
and the 3k screen is so much better than the 2k. the colorspace mode is superior. the interlacing hype is a total lie.
yeah, just get a 3k and use it, it does enough things well.
Hello,
I have been trying to make my own memory stick for about 2 weeks and can not get to the custom firmware screen. I am to the point where I just want to buy one. Can anyone recommend a website?
I was looking as PandoraSales.com or Pandorabattery.net?
Thank for any advise. Just do not want to ripped off.
omg i got a new battery an its way diffrent then the last one i hacked the model number is missing but i got this BP- an you help me find out what it is thanks
u know what i hate this keybord lolol
well u know what pandora battery kit should be must for everyone…iam in love with my psp now..recently i installed custom firmware on my psp offical firmware when i bought pandora battery kit with 16 gig stick from http://www.pspoverhaul.com/ and now i am running all fricken games without umd shit…lot of homebrew tutorials are also there..
I just went in and opened the battery and cut a line
and fixed it with a pencil and some tape and it was good as new.
im wondering if anyone has the blue led pandora battery from http://www.wholesale-elite.com ? I got the battery into pandora mode but for some reason my PSP will not load the magic memory stick i made with Rain’s MMS Maker lite…any suggestions?
is pandora original battry working on psp 2004
I have a PSP3000 and it bricked itself, how can i unbrick it?
ive got a dagital pandora battery and created my own mmc. .
when i try them on, it doesn’t work. .the PSP’s screen is just blank. .
what am i doin wrong ?
HELLP PLZz !
Just wait, something should pop up like PRESS X TO INSTALL or something. I’m 11 and I sucessfully created a MMC (easy!) and pandoras (almost shorted it, thank god that most shorts fix themselves overnight) and I got 3.71 M33 to 5.00 M33-6 and it rocks
I have a psp (fat), it was running the official sony firmware 5.00, i decided to update it, during the update, the psp froze, and i took out the battery, now it won’t start, power indicator is on, but the screen just stays black. I dont know whats wrong, could somebody explain to me the procedure to fix it, and can i use the pandora battery+Magic mem to fix it, plz get back to me via email__-it’s Gurtej.s.gambhir@live.com
hi, i recently update my psp3000 with chicHen R2 and and gen A full but unfotunitly i meshe with flash0 and my psp didnot working what can i do plz help me. My big Brother gona kill me
HELP
hi i have firmware 3.80 is it still possible to downgrade? pls help
hi…… i buy yesterday psp 2004 system software 5.50 . now i dont understand what to do to play free games on it. but first of all i want to ask some question? what if you have system software version 5.50????
n what is pandora battery? i dont get it? what do you use of it?
what is Magic MS????? memory stick? can any one want to tell me plz?xxxxxx
add me . d3vil_to_3vil@live.com
where do u download the software?
hi ive got a fat with ver 6.00 and want psp youtube i know i need a costum firmware but whitch one and what is the point of the pandore and magic stuff thanks ben
will it just show files and i click on one? I tried hacking and it wouldnt let me. someone please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can anyone help me
I just tried to upgrade from 5.50 GenB to Gen C and by mistake used the second option, Now my psp is at 5.50 and wont read my iso’s when i clicked on the xgen to try it again it says file was corrupted. I am using a slim Ta-85.
Please help
I need help please.. I need a explanation and suggestion could anyone can help me on my problem on my psp 2000 Ta 088v3. yesterday i upgrade my system version 5.03 to GEN 5.50 GEN A and I bricked my psp. I read all guide to make pandora battery and using magic memory stick but before i do it could you explain to me. It is possible to unbrick my psp using this method?
i need a fulll explination on how to even open up my fat psp battery let alone how to do the mod plz can u send me the stuff i need to this email killkill1@hotmail.com thx
guys is the psp battery a memory to does it have the flash0 if i buy a new 1 is der a flash0 there for da psp?cause mine bricked
I brought a PSP-1000 from cousin. He did that pandora battery thingy crap. If I buy a regular un-modded battery will my PSP work regular again?
HI…I HAVE PSP 3004 OF VER 5.03 AND IT GOT BRICKED WHEN I TRIED TO CONVERT IT INTO VER 5.51 SO PLS TELL ME WAT TO DO
Hey, does this work on a PSP 3000??
fuck me, does no-one know how to use google anymore.
this is why fuckwits should not be allowed near electronics…
or oxygen
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WAIT!!! yes this works but you can save your battery!!! just hit triangle while in the pandora’s battery program to back up your battery info, then hit x, follow instructions. then start up the psp w/o battery (meaning on power cord) and put the battery back in. run pandora’s battery again but hold down l+r shoulders and it will restore your battery!