Brewology

Hey guys. I followed the tutorital http://www.pspbrew.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11609 here and I made the hardware mod to my PSP Slim battery. Unfortunately, I have failed in my attempt. I have a Pandora battery (I think) but when I put it in the Slim the green LED comes on but the screen is black. I don't see the memory being read either. What am I doing wrong here? Did I ruin this battery?

Like I said.

You have correctly made a pandora.
Now you need to make the memory stick.

I'll tell you how to do it when I get home.

Okay. I tried the link in your sig Fox, but I guess something got lost in translation. I also made the stick that the tutorial said to make and it didn't work, so I figured the problem was the battery. -waits for reply- Thanks.

When you use the DCV4 auto installer.

Have your memory card in your PSP, and press and hold up on the d-pad as you put the battery in.

Hold up until a menu appears.

Well, I guess my Pandora is busted...it won't light the LED now. Probably because I punctured it yesterday...I knew the sparks and smoke weren't a good sign. I can always try to use the FAT battery again when I get back to my parent's place. I'm getting so frustrated haha I've been trying to do this for months now...

What hardmod method did you use?

just order a pandora. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12472

$10.50, free shipping

I used the mod shown in the tutorial in my original post. I wound up piercing the battery itself when I was trying to get the case open...that's why it's not holding a charge or charging now. I'm glad I got the Walmart 2 year warranty.

And buying a battery is lame...why not just buy a modded PSP then? If you're going to spend money, I think that kind of defeats the purpose. I want to hack it to say "I hacked it" not to say "I bought this and it did it for me" ya know?

Now here's whats wrong with that logic:

#1 Pre Modded battery = $10
Pre Modded PSP $150+

#2 No warranty will cover an opened battery, because thats obvious a consumer opened it, or it was accidental. Neither Accidents, nor Consumer Mishaps are covered in ANY warranty. >B(

you can't really say "you hacked it" when you use programs written by other people and follow guides written by others to do it. crack it open and start soldering and you've got some bragging rights.

besides, you might as well buy a batt if you couldn't get passed the first step of moding a battery correctly.

You know, I know of a very simple method of making a magic memory stick...

http://dl.qj.net/TOTALNewbi-easyInstall ... /catid/193

The file is 135 MB. But it's so big because it has all of the necessary files needed to make it into custom firmware.

It'll automatically take you to CFW version 3.71M33

The stick is the easy part. he's having trouble with the battery.

I think I've realized what I did wrong here...

The fact that the LED turned on on my Slim shows me I did have a Pandora battery. BUT I don't think I loaded the program into the battery to make it work...in other words, I put the battery into service mode, but it didn't know what to do after that. I think that I forgot to load the pandora program onto the battery or something...am I on the right track with this? That's why I never got a menu. Also, I'm researching and I'm seeing that you need to hold L while inserting the battery or something like that to make it display on the slim? Is this true?

Sorry if I sound like a total moron...I'm an EE so I'm just trying to understand what I'm doing so that I can find my error. Thanks so much for the replies, we'll figure this out!

you dont load anything onto the battery... you need to make the magic memory stick. there's several tutorials on our own forum on how to do it.