Author Topic: NEW way to make Pandora's Battery w/o solder!!! (Read 47686 times)

custm_made · « **Reply #30 on:** December 12, 2007, 02:14:05 PM »

hopefully. ill try buying a batt this weekend and hopefully itll be the right one because i need a pandora batt BADLY!!!! i hate official firmware. you can't do anyting with it. anyways, thanks for the help!!! peace...

FreeK · « **Reply #31 on:** December 24, 2007, 12:27:55 PM »

stickied for easier ability to find

redryno1221 · « **Reply #32 on:** December 27, 2007, 05:14:18 PM »

^thanx

... it should help alot of noobs...

Candungo · « **Reply #33 on:** January 11, 2008, 12:18:44 PM »

I just mod my PSP battery like it says in the tutorial,what I will like to know is what files do I need to have on the memory stick so that I can downgrade to 1.50.Later I'm going to put CFW 3.80 M33 and I will also need some help.

I just couldn't wait so I put the mod battery and I see the green light go ON wait for a couple seconds and nothing happens,help me out guys before I take a BRICK hit it and I really Brick the PSP...

Candungo · « **Reply #34 on:** January 13, 2008, 03:31:44 PM »

Quote from: redryno1221 on December 02, 2007, 08:14:43 PM

I did not create this tut but wanted to share it

Ok, so you want to unbrick or downgrade your PSP but don't have a PSP capable of running homebrew apps. No problem! In this tutorial I will show you how to modify the battery's hardware to make it activate service mode.

This is our victim. Please note that while this concept may work on non-Sony batteries, only official batteries are guaranteed to have the same internals, so we recommend using one.

STEP 1:

The first thing you need to do is obviously crack open the battery. Surprisingly, the battery isn't very hard to get in to. In this picture you can see that I'm just using a guitar pick to slide in through an edge and slide around the perimeter of the battery to seperate the two halves.

STEP 2:

Next, we need to locate a certain chip. The chip has the model number S93C56 printed on it. We are going to need to desolder pin 5 and lift it off of the board. Here is a magnified view of the board, which shows where the chip is and which pin needs to be lifted.

Newer batteries have a much smaller board with a different layout. The same chip needs to have the pin lifted, but the chip is in a different position. Once you've located chip S93C56, the rest of the instructions are basically the same. This has been confirmed with the 2200 mAH Official Sony battery.

STEP 3:

If you are not confident in your soldering skills, have a less than steady hand or have a larger-than-optimal sized tip, please desolder the cell pack from the battery first. If you make contact between pins 5 and 6 then you will short ground to +3.6VDC! Not good! When desoldering the cell, only keep the iron on long enough to melt the solder. If you can, use a higher wattage iron so that the tip will be hotter, but you won't transfer as much heat to the cell pack. Remember that heat + Li-Ion battery = large explosion (t3h sux0r5, unless you get in on video. Twisted Evil Seriously though, this operation is not for the faint hearted, and should definitely not be your first soldering experience. I recommend trying your hand on lifting the pins on an N64 CPU chip. Surely if you spend enough time here you have a couple killed N64 mobos laying around. Razz)

Now is actually desoldering the pin. There are a few ways you could do this, but I think my method is the best because its less likely to damage components near by. Use an Xacto knife with a sharp tip and try to put it underneath the pin. Get somebody to hold a soldering iron (WITH A VERY FINE CONICAL TIP!) on the pin. When the solder melts you can pop the pin up with the knife. Be sure not to hold the iron on the board too long to avoid the lithium battery from getting too hot and exploding. When your done it will look something like this.

STEP 4:

Finally, close the battery's casing. Use some Krazy Glue to keep it closed, or just use electrical tape around the edges like I did. I don't actually recommend the electrical tape as it makes the battery very snug in the compartment and it takes a bit of force to get it out. You can use the battery just like a regular Pandora's battery. As for getting the Memory Stick files, I can tell you that they are out there and you can find them after a bit of Googling. However, I can't tell you exactly where to find them as they contain copyrighted Sony code, and sharing them is illegal.

How does this work?

The pin that we just lifted was actually the ground pin of the EEPROM. Removing this pin effectively shuts off the EEPROM. When the microcontroller inside the battery tries to read the EEPROM, it will think the EEPROM contains all 1s (in binary). This is because of the pull-up resistors on the data lines. So the microcontroller returns a serial number of 0xFFFFFFFF to the PSP, which then goes into service mode.

Thank you for reading this, and if you have any questions, make sure to post and I'll try to help you!

That's it..... Thanx to Iam7805 for the tut and Richlik for finding it....and myself for posting it.

P.S. can someone put this in the tut section???

How about adding:How to make a joystick memory card with 1 PSP only.

mootoo · « **Reply #35 on:** January 14, 2008, 01:36:51 PM »

Quote from: Candungo on January 13, 2008, 03:31:44 PM

How about adding:How to make a joystick memory card with 1 PSP only.

How about adding:How to use search button or How to read

:D:D

Try this mate

https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?topic=12676.0

redryno1221 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 14, 2008, 08:18:20 PM »

Quote from: mootoo on January 14, 2008, 01:36:51 PM

How about adding:How to use search button or How to read :D:D

Try this mate https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?topic=12676.0

^LOL thanx mootoo

DemonBloode · « **Reply #37 on:** January 15, 2008, 12:02:27 AM »

cud u break the pin with plyers cus i dont now to solder and howfar down wud it need to go if i were to cut it

redryno1221 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 16, 2008, 03:57:50 PM »

Quote from: DemonBloode on January 15, 2008, 12:02:27 AM

cud u break the pin with plyers cus i dont now to solder and howfar down wud it need to go if i were to cut it

Just as long as the pin is not touching the contact it should work

DemonBloode · « **Reply #39 on:** January 17, 2008, 08:35:56 PM »

Quote from: redryno1221 on January 16, 2008, 03:57:50 PM

Just as long as the pin is not touching the contact it should work

i dont get it...

redryno1221 · « **Reply #40 on:** January 17, 2008, 08:59:59 PM »

If it looks something like this

then it should work.

DemonBloode · « **Reply #41 on:** January 19, 2008, 11:32:23 AM »

so wut ur saying is the plyers cant touch the pin?

redryno1221 · « **Reply #42 on:** February 12, 2008, 03:21:20 PM »

your thinking to hard just break the pin and pandora's battery is made...

lookkool3 · « **Reply #43 on:** February 20, 2008, 09:47:35 AM »

Quote from: redryno1221 on December 11, 2007, 06:18:17 PM

LOL ... but if you do order a batt from llama.com or buy one anywhere else then you should be able to do the pandora's batt and dwngrade any psp

all this just to downgrade a psp whats the point

wat you gona do now

CLOWNphobia26 · « **Reply #44 on:** February 21, 2008, 12:14:59 AM »

so do u need the magci memory stick to???

redryno1221 · « **Reply #45 on:** February 28, 2008, 06:05:16 PM »

yes you need the memstick too, but this tut shows how to make the batt.

helldemon · « **Reply #46 on:** February 29, 2008, 01:30:14 PM »

Looks like that on Boath sides lol Do i use top because there is nothing like that!?!?

helldemon · « **Reply #47 on:** March 01, 2008, 06:35:09 AM »

Good. You might what to add some more here and there. But yeah I would give it 4 out of 5

redryno1221 · « **Reply #48 on:** March 31, 2008, 09:01:40 PM »

Quote from: helldemon on February 29, 2008, 01:30:14 PM

Looks like that on Boath sides lol Do i use top because there is nothing like that!?!?

not sure...

That_personer · « **Reply #49 on:** April 04, 2008, 12:43:00 PM »

i did this and somke came out of my battery and now it will only work if i plug it in:censored:

redryno1221 · « **Reply #50 on:** April 06, 2008, 09:58:52 AM »

you fried your batteries microchip... nothing really you can do for now as far as I know...

That_personer · « **Reply #51 on:** April 07, 2008, 04:28:08 PM »

yea i kinda figured so i just took it all and started messing with it and it started to make weird noises so i threw it away and yes i desposed of it properly

im getting me a new one in a couple of days so its all good

dfsa415 · « **Reply #52 on:** April 08, 2008, 09:39:49 PM »

Here is a few images from other sites, i dont remember exactly where they came from. You break one of the pin on the IC04 chip (written on the board). Like stated when soldering be careful, lithium batteries are really dangerous when soldering, also try not to bridge pins or anything on there with something metal, so when lifting the pin make sure not to touch the next one. Srry for the big pict.

Slim:

Newer board (newer ones have this bord but does not have the pins, and have epoxy stuff all over):

Another way to hardwire (Disconnect the pin mention (red), or solder a wire to the two point that the blue line connect to:

Fake Sony, and a few other ones look like this (cannot be pandorized by hardware or software):
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y133/chrisw1/DSC01653-400.jpg

That_personer · « **Reply #53 on:** April 13, 2008, 04:05:19 PM »

well is there an easier way to get the pin off with out saudering

redryno1221 · « **Reply #54 on:** April 14, 2008, 06:10:41 PM »

Quote from: That_personer on April 13, 2008, 04:05:19 PM

well is there an easier way to get the pin off with out saudering

read the first page of this post it is a tut...

External Darkness · « **Reply #55 on:** May 20, 2008, 07:30:55 AM »

nice thanks man for the tutorial I will direct my friends who need this to your post...

<~External Darkness~>

sniper07 · « **Reply #56 on:** May 29, 2008, 08:30:04 AM »

Sa-weet ;D This will come in handy.

artyhacker2.0 · « **Reply #57 on:** July 02, 2008, 11:05:02 PM »

why go throug that work just use U.P.M.S.

redryno1221 · « **Reply #58 on:** July 16, 2008, 08:14:55 PM »

Quote from: artyhacker2.0 on July 02, 2008, 11:05:02 PM

why go throug that work just use U.P.M.S.

because you need a jigkick battery and a hacked ms in order to hack the psp...

MAG-123 · « **Reply #59 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:36:52 AM »

Those types of battery's were made months ago.

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Author Topic: NEW way to make Pandora's Battery w/o solder!!! (Read 47686 times)