Make a Pandora’s Battery without a hacked PSP
As if the risk of bricking your PSP wasn’t enough, now you can potentially blow your hand off in the quest to run homebrew on your PSP. A member of legendary console modder Ben Heckendorn’s forum has posted instructions for turning a standard Sony PSP battery into a Pandora’s Battery with a soldering iron, instead of another already homebrew-enabled PSP.
We’re not joking about the blowing your hand off thing either - please take note of the warnings and do not attempt this modification if you aren’t experienced with a soldering iron.
benheck.com forums via MaxConsole
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October 30th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
no offense but that sounds like a complete load of bullshit
November 4th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Pandora’s battery sounds like a load of bullshit, but I have one.
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Hello. I in need of help. I followed the instructions on doing the battery. But from there i’m lost. When u put the p battery in the green light on. but nothing else. What else is there to do. Is there a step by step that i can download? Please inform.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
You need thea magic memory stick. Google Pandora GUI 1.5 and find a download link. Then follow the directs once the get the program running. (You will need a PRO DUO Reader)
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
I did this and i had no experience with soldering iron and i did not blow my hands off then i used Pandora GUI 1.5 and downgraded my psp
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
lol i cut the battery source the white bag, made a flash but it still wokred for me, then it died a few days l8er… lol but i donwgraded…
January 13th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Can i just cut it with wire cutters or do I have to use a soildering iron
February 9th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Lol the only way you can blow your hand off is if you get a fully heated soldering iron and cram in straight into the battery till it melts through and explodes, now if you do that, then your an idiot trying to kill yourself.
another way is if you touch two pins at the same time, now this wont blow up your hand but it will melt your battery and have a chance of blowing up, but it’ll take time to melt through the battery and by the time that happens you can throw it away. Plus even when that happens it is very unlikely to explode.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
This works! I made my own Pandora’s battery with a psp fat battery and some sharp tweezers xD. (Didnt have a solder, cant afford one, im 15 =0) Got my PSP Slim 2001 running 3.90 M33-2
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
This works! I made my own Pandora’s battery with a psp fat battery and some sharp tweezers xD. (Didnt have a solder, cant afford one, im 15 =0) Got my PSP Slim 2001 running 3.90 M33-2. In the process, i accidentally poked the battery and some smoke came out, fortunately it still worked.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
omfg. i borrowed my bros solder and various other “precision” tools (precision here meaning a pliers, an old knife and an ancient microscope with a cracked lens lol). everyrthing seems to have been flawless so far, but it does take some concentration (the ic is damn small). also, don’t be worried if you have to punch holes in the battery casing, the real battery is inside it again. mine looks like a bit of a wreck but works fine. btw UNSOLDER THE BATTERY FIRST. just remove one of the power (plus or minus), cos i shorted mine during soldering, but it was ok cos there was no battery circuit so i could fix it with a needle…
I’m 13 gimme a break
March 26th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
dude, my batt doesnt look like this! its jus one small circuit board on top, nothing else! i cant find dmn chip…
March 30th, 2008 at 7:02 am
@lol101lol: It means u hve the slim battery… u need a phat battery. ur battery cannot be converted.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
oh, tnx, you have saved me alot of time googling
April 1st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
i have a FAT PSP and i got it opened with a razorblade but i dont know wut to do now
April 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
OopsIDied how did u make pandoras battery with a pair tweezers
April 27th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I SUCK & NEED HELP AFTER I CUT THIS WIRE WHERE DO I GO TO GET THE SOFTWARE TO CONVERT THE BATT & MEMORY STIX….
May 4th, 2008 at 3:42 am
@3593: They were the sharp LoReal kind. I kept scratchinng the battery til it was open. I ended up poking the cell, and smoke came out. The battery then failed for regular use, but I decided to continue. I put the tweezers under the chip leg and pulled up. Two legs made contact and a few sparks, but there was no apparent damage. Broke the leg off, taped the cover on, and pandora ran fine.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Hey is there anyway that i can downgrade my psp without doing a bunch of cutting. Right now i have a Pre made pandoras battery but don’t know what to do
May 9th, 2008 at 11:59 am
i honestly can’t find anything out there that will actually work. Could some one please tell me somthing that i can do that will work. I am about ready to give up I have searched every web sicte in the net. it is beginning to get anoying. Please help.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
i need help, i tried downgrading by opening it(mistake), i have 3 batteries and 2 phat psp’s (fully functional) , i want to downgrade using the pandora files(like the outflow.tif file which is part of the downgrading software), does anyone know what site i can get those files from?…im 13, i cant buy it off ebay(i was also raised as a “do-it-yourself-er”) and im not made of money so ebay again isn’t an option for me
May 27th, 2008 at 8:35 am
hi guys.i need help.i have a psp for 6 months now.but i still dont know how to play downloaded games…i know that i need custom firmware but i dont know how to install that…i also know that i need a premade “service battery” or a pandoras battery i think its the same but im not sure…so my questions are…at first i buy a “service battery” or make myslef a pandorasbattery…then i downgrade it and later install the custom firmware and the gaming can begin…i know that there are some installatoins via usb and similiar things with memory stick…so if im wrong or if u can help me pls respond because im really confused from all the stuff read on the internet.so pls help me…if u can
May 31st, 2008 at 2:47 am
i blew up my battery like a nuclear now my 1 finger is cut
June 4th, 2008 at 12:28 am
hi guys there seems to be a lot of information flying around about downgrading and pandoras batterys n what not. Now im a noob to anything like this and dont fancy my chances of messing about too much with internals and stuff, is there any other way to downgrade firmware 3.95 without all the complicated stuff. like a program or something?? if not do you think there will be in the near future? im bored of my psp now, i want to do something fun with it!!!
June 15th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Hello, I just bought a Pandoras Battery from PANDORASALES and i got a great deal cause it came with the 1 gig magic memory card fully programmed. delivered in 2 days.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:01 am
I got it to work with the psp slim, but still, it’s hard to get off without a soldering iron
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
im usin m psp 2 do dis an i wnt 2 no if i can use da pbattery wen ur done or do u throw it away
July 6th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Wat wire do you cut the fat psp battery the frist or the 2nd one
July 14th, 2008 at 10:00 am
roflmao, i fucked my batt up too!
darnit, need to get new one….
July 24th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
if any bodey is reading this i broke my battery two times. just ask sony or wherever you bought it from that it was broken when you brang it to your friend’s house and you coulnt have the chance to return it.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:24 am
I got a phat battery to downgrade my slim (that works, right?) but my razor slipped and it smoked a little. It didn’t work then as a normal battery, but it seems to be charging ok. Voltmeter says it has 3.7 volts, so I don’t think it was drained or something. I can’t get another battery for a while, so should I hard-mod the battery anyway? Is it broken?
August 11th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
i have a psp slim and i cut the right wire but when i put it in the green light turned on but the screen didnt help please what can i do for it to work
September 21st, 2008 at 1:08 am
i tried to open the casing but i swear to god it was made of titanium or something. Impossible to open also my bat is original but 1800 mah not 2200. when i tried to open it it smoked bad bad juju
November 18th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Guys get Datel tools its more easier there’s no cutting involve ,just 1 switch button that’s it . They convert to Pandora and Restore to normal … lolx just google Datel Tool for PSP batteries converter peepz .. Good Luck!