Pandora Battery
Pandora Battery for PSP - places the PSP into service mode, for repairing purposes + custom firmare
You will also need a "Magic Memory Stick " which is required to use with the Pandora Battery.
Why Pandora Battery?
The Pandora Battery allows users to recover PSPs from a bad flash, you might have downgraded the PSP incorrectly, or failed an update, which left the PSP completely dysfunctional, the key is not to worry because with a Pandora's battery you can recover ANY PSP back to it's original state.
What Else can i do with The Pandora Battery . Pandora battery also provides the ability to uniquely customise your PSP, and install chat, radio, msn, wifi-catcher, homebrew capabilities onto your PSP so that you can run software straight off the memory card, this allows you to carry up to 8 or 9 UMD worth of games and movies that you own onto 1 sony duo pro memory stick. Which is tonnes more convenient for you, and the saves battery life as there aren't any UMDs that constantly need to be read and spun.Device Compatibility Check
PSP Fat / 1000 All versions supported PSP Slim / 2000 Firmware versions up to 3.95 supported, Versions 4.01 onwards not supported PSP Slim / 3000 Not supported For more info if your PSP is compatible take a look at this Article
The table below lists the Psp's motherboard model's and codes and if they are compatible with the pandora battery and magic memory stick.
Downgrading.
The PSP has seen numerous hacks in its still relatively short lifespan, however the latest development promises infinately more in it's latest development, it promises to unbrick ALL PSPs and what's interesting is that you don't even need a working PSP to set it up . The key to the unbrick is to turn an ordinary PSP battery into a "service mode trigger battery" aka "Pandora Battery". What's interesting is that you don't even need to go through the daunting process of programming your battery, you can buy them ready made from this website. After running a few programs on your PC, you should have a battery/memory stick combo that'll let you get any PSP back up and running with any firmware. Those looking to explore their PSP capabilities can look to installing a custom M33 firmware.
