Pandora Questions: PSP-110 Battery Small Board

[mikebot]

Sorry for asking nub questions.. But i have searched this forum/the whole internet for answers haha. I have a PSP-110 battery which i am dying to do the hardmod on to activate service mode. However my particular battery is one of them lame small board ones with the PCB at the top of the battery, which i have never seen a photo or a guide of which IC and which leg of the IC to de-solder...

Anyone have any ideas?
Advice or answers would be greatly appreciated ^_^.

PS. I tried to post some photos for clarification but i don't have 15 posts...

[moneymovitch]

here are two pics of the batteries:

large board(on top):

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...5/DSCF2043.jpg

small board (on top-side):

http://www.pspmod.com/forums/psp-har...t-fat-psp.html (How to create a Pandora's Battery and Slim MS without a Fat PSP)


Hope this helps.

[mikebot]

thanks for the reply ^_^

yeh ive seen those guides and my battery has a different layout, it has the PCB at the top like the slim battery but with a different layout. It is an official sony battery from about a year ago i assume. (I got the psp second hand so i dont know exactly when it was from). I have seen other people post on forums with photos and questions but i havent seen an answer.

[moneymovitch]

hmm, i 've never heard of anything like that. can you find where it has ICO4 printed next to it? if so that is the one you need.

[mikebot]

hmm yeh there is no IC04... however i have heard speculation that a chip named L02 may be the eeprom chip that needs to be desoldered.. i really need to get some pics up.. lolz

[dukepoth]

Why dont you upload the pic to photo bucket or something then post the url without the HTTP that way youll get the picture shown and we can help you better.

[mikebot]

ok well heres an attempt at posting my horrible photos haha

Top:

img39.picoodle.com/img/img39/6/10/28/mikebot/f_topm_6060512.jpg

Bottom:

img31.picoodle.com/img/img31/6/10/28/mikebot/f_bottomm_7e6ada9.jpg

Anyone had any experience with this battery?

[one]

it's the one on the bottom , more towards the top in the pic.

[mikebot]

yeh, i was assuming it was the L02... do u know which pin to desolder.. pin 4 or 5?

[jerry197666]

my battery doesnt look like any of the batteries posted on this thread, mine is the origianl that came with the PSP slim

[mikebot]

yeh, mine is one of the two variants of the original psp-110 battery i think. it seems to have not been covered in any guides, but lots of people ask about it.

I think this is the right ic:

img32.picoodle.com/img/img32/6/10/28/mikebot/f_bottomicm_8666d05.jpg

[Sussex_Chris]

Does this method work with fake batteries? or 2200mAh?

[mikebot]

Here is a link to a thread on pandora battery compatibility:

forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=75986

[danradnedge]

Hey i'm new to these forums so firstly hey.

Secondly i have this same problem.
I have the same type of battery judging from the pictures.
Have you found out which pin to remove??
If so i would be grateful if you could post a pic with the pin circled or something cause i don't understand all this pin 4 pin 5 business lol.

Also what's up with the font colour on the forum??? not in the actual messages but like when you wanna post a reply it's transparent and you have to highlight it to see what it says?

Anyway that's not important to me what is important is WWWHHATTT PIINNN!!???!!??!!??1111??1!!/!?/!?/1//!!!??? lol

[mikebot]

haha i feel ur pain... well first of all, we need confirmation that the L02 chip (that i have highlighted) is the eeprom.. then we need to find the pin layout and remove the grounding pin.. but until we get some confirmed information we might have to start lookin for a friend with a homebrew enabled psp haha.

also it appears some of the site's font colour isnt compatible with our browsers or sumthin.. haha i have no idea