How To Create a Pandora Battery

If you have a PSP with official firmware and you want to enter the magic world of custom firmware, chances are great you need a Pandora battery. The Pandora battery can unbrick a PSP and/or put your PSP into Service Mode. This Services mode enables you to install CFW. There are several way for obtaining a Pandora Battery:

• softmod a normal battery (requires a PSP that already has CFW)
• hardmod a normal battery
• buy / borrow / steal /… one

 

Softmodding a normal battery

This requires :

• a normal battery (fully loaded)
• a PSP that already has CFW and that is capable of creating a Pandora
• the Pandora Installer software
• a Magic Memory Stick

Make sure your PSP can create a Pandora battery. Every PSP fat and a PSP Lite with a TA085v1 motherboard can do this. More info on

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To create a Magic Memory Stick (MMS) go to

How To Create a Magic Memory Stick

 

OK, now let's do do the hard work (ahum):

• Download and unzip the Pandora Installer software
• Connect your PSP to your PC and enable the USB Connection
• Put the folder you unzipped inside X:/PSP/GAME
• Insert your Magic Memory Stick.
• Insert the battery you wish to "pandorize" (fully loaded!) and start your psp.
• On your psp go to Games >> Memory Stick >> Pandora Installer for 3.XX R4b.
• Press X and select the Battery Options.
  
   
• Select dump battery serial to file and press X
• Now select the option Make Battery Pandora
  
   
• Once Pandorized (it only takes a second!) go back to the main menu.
• Once there choose Quit.

 

Hardmodding a normal battery

I don't recommend doing this as if often goes wrong.

For hardmodding your battery you'll need following :

• a safety pin / nail scissors
• a cutter
• (a pencil)
• steel nerves
• an original battery (slim or fat) see list below

If you're still certain to go on with this. Here's how it goes:

• Use the cutter to seperate the 2 halves of the battery. Don't use too much pressure. Cut a few times on the shortest side (left side)

• Put away the plastic casing.
• Now we need to locate the right chip on the battery. It has the number S93c56 on it. It has the letters IC04 next to it.

SLIM BATTERY :

 

FAT BATTERY :

 

• Cut the leg as indicated on the pictures by using nail scissors. Be very careful !
• Put the battery back together using some tape.
• Now you have a Pandora battery

 

List of working batteries:

1. Sony "standard" Li-ion 1800 mAh
2. Sony PSP-280 2200mAh
3. Datel, PSP Battery 3600 mAh (X2)
4. Datel, PSP Battery 1800 Max Power
5. Datel, PSP Battery GO MAX (Model # GM1000, uses AAA batteries) note: If you remove the batteries, it resets the serial back to all 0's

NOT working batteries:

1. 3.6v 3600 mAh Battery Pack (Silver letters) (Model PSP-360) (Fake)
2. 2600 mAh Mega Battery Pack (Fake)
3. Atomic Battery Pack 3.6V 1800mAh
4. Sony PSP-280 2200mAh (Fake)
5. Sony PSP Bloc-Battery pack 3.6v 1800 mAh
6. Battery 3600mAh, unknown brand, (china made model NK-RH008) (Fake)
7. Battery Pack, unknown brand, (lithium) 3.6v 3600 mAH (Fake)
8. Intec 1800 mAh Li-ion
9. Intec 2200 mAh
10. UltraLast e-Boost 3.7v 2200mAh Li-PO battery