[jack_rudolph]

Originally Posted by dogafin

you are a life saver! my battery was fine after all! you were right, my psp was in blind mode - so i pressed the x button and saw indicator lights go on for like a minute or so and let it do its thing and prayed to god my psp hasnt been bricked. i thought my battery was completely useless so i did everything i could possibly do to it, cut the 5th pin and derailed, i also took off the switch! had i known it was perfectly fine i would have left it like that! ppl need to be reminded that a blind install could be a possibility, someone from youtube had told me im pretty much effed if i only see a green light with a black screen, i guess he doesnt know about the blind install and have led alot of ppl to think theyve done it completely wrong. now i dont know how to fix my battery lol! i guess its a permanent pandora now, w.c is still great since now i know i could still put it to good use. wow, im completely amazed! my psp is now running on 3.71 m33 from a 3.93 official fw!! my nickname is now Xi-Bit. i used the totalnewbieinstaller to make the memstick, i didnt even have to touch the memory stick or run whatever was on there, honestly i still dont understand it, im still researching actually! i dont know what happened but your information have helped me alot!!! aside from not knowing anything with what im doing. im comfortable with the hard mod since ive been modding gameboys in my time and soldering all kinds of things broken.. wow i so could hug you right now! im a chick btw w.c is funny, i shouldnt know anything about soldering right? lol. well anyway i guess hacking the motorola v3 help me understand quite a bit about downgrading and stuff like that, its the process that i have trouble with. but thank you so much. that little piece of information really saved my life i am forever indebted to you!


now, i shall try to revive my battery lol

what i did to it was overkill! but it still worked! i guess u cant go wrong in pandorizing it. it is the psp that is tricky! thanks sony. i think they did that in purpose. sure did fool me!

I'm glad i could help ......... & BTW since you have cut the 5th pin i would not recommend you to resolder it back in place to revive your battery back to normal if you are thinking about it.... cos very few people managed to successfully resolder it back to place without shorting the nearby pin ....... If you want to use your hard modded pandora battery as a normal battery, one way is (Which you have been using) to start the psp with power cord and then inserting the battery........... The other way is to install Dark Alex's TIME MACHINE software in your memory card...... It's main use is to load previously released firmwares from the memory stick using a Pandora's battery.. but it could also be use to normally boot the psp from internal flash memory using pandora battery & memory stick with time machine software in it ......... It'll be helpfull to use your pandora battery like normal battery when you are on move & there's no power adaptor........ But since you are new to whole psp hacking scene i would suggest you to do a lot of research if you want to attempt this .......... Well then ..... GOOD LUCK & Have Fun with your CFW !!!