Aftermarket Battery

kyomagi · 10-24-2008, 02:15 AM

Ok heres my story. I have a psp battery that i bought on amazon. the circuit board looks different from the offical. the chip with the 8 pins in at the top and the big chip is on the bottom. can this chip be made into a pandora? i dont want to do it if it cant be cause i dont wanna mess up my psp.

looneytoon · 10-24-2008, 02:27 AM

Does the outside look like the original psp battery. If it doesnt I do not think you can convert it into a pandora battery.

kyomagi · 10-24-2008, 02:31 AM

what do you mean outside? if you mean the outer casing then yes t is the same as the psp battery, its just the ciruit board in there looks like the chips are in different locations

kyomagi · 10-24-2008, 02:51 AM

nevermind i found out that the battery dont work, its a fake

kyomagi · 10-24-2008, 03:19 AM

is there a way that i can make my offical sony battery a pandora and then switch it back?

crazyeye941 · 10-24-2008, 11:27 AM

Yes there is a way to make your official sony battery a pandora battery.

1: make sure it is able to be turned into a pandora.
2: Lift the leg off of the chip
3: install CFW using pandora
4: Solder the leg back on OR lower the leg making sure there is contact.
or
5: Do what I did and just put a huge glop of solder on the spot where the leg was (i messed up soldering but it still worked). <-- I might not recommend that one =P

kyomagi · 10-24-2008, 08:30 PM

well i tried to open my battery and puff of smoke came out, is it dead?

Syph · 10-24-2008, 09:50 PM

Well if you saw smoke, you shorted or damaged something. I personally would never use the battery again, not worth the risk of a fire.

Did you use a sharp knife? I really wish all the guides for this did not show using a sharp knife its the worst idea. I use a dull butter knife, way more leverage and you wont slip and cut anything that way. Just wiggle it in on one side and pry hard, then it pops open.

Bewood · 10-24-2008, 09:54 PM

Mine smoked, and I even threw it at the wall.

It's been 5 months later and it has yet to burst into flames.

kyomagi · 10-24-2008, 11:01 PM

can the slim battery pandora work in a phat psp?

Stgdemon · 10-25-2008, 05:04 AM

Yeah, I modded the battery that came with my slim, and bought an extra off e-bay incase I botched it... it sucks. The damn thing doesn't hold a charge worth a damn (I didn't botch my mod btw, so this one is a back-up when the other is charging). It only stays charged for about 4 hours. One minute the indicator will show about 50%, the next it's dead. Pisses me off everytime I'm in the middle of a game I haven't saved, and have to go through pluging it in to change the battery so I don't lose my info!

kyomagi · 10-25-2008, 01:13 PM

to be honest, i have a battery comming from sony, and there is a guy about 7 miles from me that sells after market batteries for 5 bucks. so im using the slim to get the boot started and thats all

ydobp · 10-26-2008, 12:05 AM

i know with psp4noobs you can make a pandora's batt. then, back up the serial info for the proms? i think. then put it back on the battery to restore it! no hard-mod at all! it's pretty cool.