Creating a 'Magic' Battery to Downgrade / Unbrick any PSP.
This guide will show you how to create a 'Magic' battery that can be used to
un-brick a bricked PSP or downgrade ANY PSP Firmware version to 1.50.
To make a Magic Battery you will need:
* Windows operating system on your PC (Used to write the 'boot code' to the memory stick
* a PSP that can run homebrew programs (Any Custom Firmware or Sony Firmware 1.50 will work)
* a spare 64mb or higher Memory Stick PRO DUO (256mb or higher is recommended, must be PRO DUO)
* a spare battery (An official Sony battery is recommended as some other brand don't work)
This Guide Contains these sections:
* Required Files you need to Download to make a 'Magic Battery'
* Checking if your Memory Stick is Compatible
* Checking if your Battery is Compatible
* Converting your 'Memory Stick' into a 'Magic Memory Stick'
* Converting your 'Battery' into a 'Magic Battery'
* Testing your Magic Battery
* Downgrade / Un-brick a PSP using the Magic Battery and Magic Memory Stick
* Restore a Magic Battery back to a Normal Battery
* Restore a Magic Memory Stick back to a Normal Memory Stick
* How To Recharge the Magic Battery
Required Files you need to Download to make a 'Magic Battery'
Pandora Battery Creator Files
Download:
http://www.zshare.net/download/33195938d2606f/Mirror :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jxs466Checking if your Memory Stick is Compatible:
Any memory stick Pro Duo will work as long as its 64mb or higher.
The 32mb Duo that some PSP systems come with will not work.
You should be able to buy a 128mb or 256mb memory stick for cheap
as not many people want to buy low capacity memory sticks anymore.
Checking if your Battery is Compatible:
The Official batteries (Battery Models 'PSP-110' and 'PSP-280') are known to work properly with the 'Pandora' Files.
Your PSP System should come with either a PSP-110 or PSP-280 battery.
Its best to use a spare battery as you will not be able to use the magic battery to start the PSP normally.
Pictures of the two batteries that I have sucessfully made into a 'Magic' Battery'
PSP-110 (1800mah): PSP-280 (2200mah):
Converting your 'Memory Stick' into a 'Magic Memory Stick'
You will need to work with MS-DOS to prepare the memory stick so you will need to type a few commands into an MS-DOS Window.
You don't need any knowledge of MS-DOS or know what it is as this guide will tell you what you need to do.
Note:
You can't use CTRL-V to paste as it doesn't work in MS-DOS, you can paste by right clicking in the window and choosing 'Paste'.
You can copy by right clicking, choosing 'Mark', dragging the mouse over the part you want to copy and then Right click.
The commands you need to type in will be in a Red Bold Font.
example: CD Pandora.
Text that gets displayed in the window that is written by a program will be in a Blue Bold Font.
example: You are about to format the drive E.
All data will be lost. Do you want to continue? [Y]
1. Download and extract the files, copy the 'Pandora' folder to your C:
(Open My Computer -> Local Disk (C -> and Paste the Pandora folder.)
2. Turn on your PSP and insert the memory stick you want change to a 'magic' memory stick.
3. Go to the Settings -> System Settings menu on your PSP
4. select the 'Format Memory Stick' option and press 'X', choose the 'Yes' option and press 'X'
5. Connect your PSP to your Computer using a USB cable and create a USB connection.
6. On your 'Windows XP' computer, click 'Start' then 'Run' (or hold the Windows Key and press 'R' on your keyboard)
7. In the 'Open' Box type in CMD and press Enter or click OK and a black MS-Dos window will appear.
8. Type in: CD \ and press Enter, this will take you to your C:\> Drive.
9. Now type in CD Pandora and press Enter, this will change the folder to C:\Pandora>
10. Open My Computer and find the drive letter of your PSP Memory stick.
There should be an Icon that says 'Removable Disk (E' or something similar.
You need to know letter in the brackets e.g: the (E means the letter I need is E
11. Switch back to the Black MS-DOS window and type: MSPFORMAT E and press Enter.
Replace E with the letter of the drive you found in step 10.
If your Drive letter is (I then you will need to type in: MSPFORMAT I
12. you should see something like this appear on the screen:
You are about to format the drive E.
All data will be lost. Do you want to continue? [Y]
13. Press Y and then press the Enter Key
If you see something similar to this on your Screen then MSPformat worked:
Drive succesfully formatted, and partition moved.
If you get an error about not being able to read or write to the memory stick (this usually happens on Windows Vista)
Open 'My Computer' -> 'Right Click the Removable Disk and choose Format' -> 'Tick Quick Format' and then click 'OK'
To check if you have done everything correctly your MSDOS window should look a little bit like this:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd \
C:\>cd pandora
C:\pandora>mspformat E
You are about to format the drive E.
All data will be lost. Do you want to continue? [Y]Y
Drive succesfully formatted, and partition moved.
C:\pandora>
14. you can now minimize the black MS-DOS Window (We will need to use it later)
15. Open My Computer -> Local Disk (C -> Pandora -> PSPSoftware folder.
16. Select the PSP folder and the UPDATE.PBP file and choose 'Edit -> Copy'
17. Open your Memory stick (Which should be empty) and choose 'Edit -> Paste)
Wait until the files have been copied to your memory stick.
18. After the files have been copied to your memory stick, close the USB Connection.
19. If you are using 'Custom Firmware' you will need to set the 'Game Folder Homebrew' to '1.50 kernel'
To do this:
a. Hold the Power Button on your PSP for 4 seconds until your PSP turns off.
b. Hold the 'R' button and turn on your PSP and you will enter the recovery menu.
c. Select the 'Configuration Menu' and press 'X'
d. Select the 'Game Folder Homebrew' Option and press 'X' until it reads '1.50 Kernel'
e. Highlight the 'Back' option and press 'X' to go back to the main menu
f. highlight the 'Exit' option and press 'X' to go back to the XMB.
20. Go to the GAME -> Memory Stick menu on your PSP.
21. Highlight the 'Pandora's Battery Firm. Installer' program and press 'X' or 'Start'
22. When the program starts, press X (Cross) to install the firmware to the memory stick.
This process takes about 1 to 2 minutes, wait until the program exits back to the XMB.
23. Go back to the 'Settings' menu and make a USB Connection to your Computer.
24. Open the MS-DOS window you minimized in step 14.
If you accidently closed the window, follow steps 6, 7, 8 and 9.
You should see: C:\Pandora> on the screen.
25. Type in msinst E E:\msipl.bin and press Enter.
(If your memory stick drive letter is not E then replace E with the letter of your memory stick)
Example: if your memory stick Drive letter is I you would type in: msinst I I:\msipl.bin
26. You should see something very similar to this on your screen:
(This is what i see when I used my 256mb Lexar Memory Stick)
PSP MS IPL Installer
Load IPL code E:\msipl.bin
241664 bytes(59 block) readed
Target DRIVE is 2
Check partation Sector
boot status 0x80
start head 0x09
start sec/cyl 0x0006
partation type 0x06
last head 0x0F
last sec/cyl 0x8EE0
abs sector 0x00000810
ttl sector 0x000715F0
signature 0xAA55
Check BPB Sector
signature AA55
Check free reserved sector:OK
Write ABS Sector 0x10 to 0x1E7
Are You Sure ?[Y]
27. Press Y and then press Enter, if you see a line that says
Write MS BOOT CODE then it worked and your memory stick is now ready.
28. Close the USB Connection on your PSP and remove the USB Cable.
Converting your 'Battery' into a 'Magic Battery'
1. Turn Off your PSP and remove the memory stick.
2. Insert the Battery you want to change to a 'Magic' battery into your PSP and turn it on.
3. Once you are in the Main Menu (XMB) insert your 'Magic Memory Stick' into your PSP.
4. Go to the 'Game -> Memory Stick' menu and start the 'Pandora's Battery Creator' Program.
5. When the program starts, Press the 'Triangle' button to save your battery information to the memory stick.
6. The program will now exit to the XMB Menu.
7. Go back to the Game -> Memory Stick menu and start the 'Pandora's Battery Creator' Program again.
8. This time when the program starts, press 'X' to 'Convert your Battery into a Service Mode One'
9. The Program will now exit back to the XMB menu.
10. your Battery has now been converted to a 'Magic Battery'
11. Turn off your PSP by holding the power button for 4 seconds
12. Remove the 'Magic Battery' and 'Magic Memory Stick' from your PSP.
Testing your Magic Battery
1. Turn off your PSP by holding the power button for 4 seconds.
2. Insert the 'Magic Memory Stick' into your PSP, this must be done before you insert the battery.
3. Insert the 'Magic Battery' into your PSP and your PSP will turn itself on automatically.
If your PSP doesn't turn on automatically then your battery is not compatible with the 'Pandora' Software.
You will need to follow the 'Restore a Magic Battery back to Normal' to go back to the original battery.
If your PSP turns itself on then your battery is now a 'Magic Battery' and you should see a recovery menu on your PSP Screen.
To turn off your PSP when in the recovery menu, hold the power button up for about 4 seconds.
Downgrade / Un-brick a PSP using the Magic Battery and Magic Memory Stick
1. Turn off your PSP by holding the power button for 4 seconds.
2. Insert the 'Magic Memory Stick' into your PSP, this must be done before you insert the battery.
3. Insert the 'Magic Battery' into your PSP and your PSP will turn itself on automatically.
4. You will see the 'Pandora`s Battery Recovery Menu' and will have 3 options.
X = Will downgrade your PSP using the UPDATE.PBP on your memory stick. (Usually its firmware 1.50)
O = Will Backup the Entire 32mb of Flash Memory to the memory stick in a file called nand-dump.bin.
[] = Will Copy the contents on the nand-dump.bin file onto your PSP Flash Memory.
5. Usually you will only need to Press 'X' to start the downgrade / repair of the firmware.
6. Follow the instructions on the screen to downgrade the PSP to firmware 1.50.
7. Once the downgrade has been completed, you will need to remove both
the magic memory stick and magic battery from the PSP and insert a normal battery.
8. Once you have inserted a normal battery, turn on your PSP.
You will get a 'blue corrupted settings' screen.
Press 'O' a few times and your PSP will restart with fixed settings.
The PSP will then go through the settings setup process again, e.g setting time / date / name etc.
9. the downgraded version is not a full 1.50 install, its only a minimal install.
Most homebrew programs will not run properly on a minimal 1.50 install so you should update to a custom firmware of your choice.
Restore a Magic Battery back to a Normal Battery
1. Remove the Memory stick and Battery from the PSP.
2. Plug your PSP into the AC Adaptor (e.g Wall Plug) and turn it on.
3. While the PSP is turned on and is in the XMB,
Insert the magic battery and then the magic memory stick.
4. Go to the Game -> Memory Stick menu and run the 'Pandora's Battery Creator' program.
5. When the program loads, press [] (Square) to convert the battery back to a normal one.
6. The program will now exit back to the XMB.
7. Start the 'Pandora's Battery Creator' program again.
8. This time, press the L and R buttons at the same time.
This will restore the backup of the battery flash memory you made earlier.
(Note: I got an 'Error writing to #14' message when I tried restoring my battery
my 'Restored' Battery seems to be working fine)
9. The program will exit back to the XMB.
10. Turn off your PSP by holding the power button for 4 seconds.
11. Take out the Battery and then Re-Insert it.
If your PSP doesn't turn on itself on automatically, then the restore was successful.
To make sure, turn on the psp manually and if the XMB starts then the restore was successful.
If your PSP turns itself on automatically then the battery was not restored successfully.
Try to restore the battery again and if it doesn't work then your battery might be stuck as a magic battery.
Restore a Magic Memory Stick back to a Normal Memory Stick
/!\ Warning: /!\
Make sure you have restored your battery back to normal. If you do this first you will not be able to change
the 'Magic Battery' back to a 'Normal Battery' as the Battery Information is stored in a file on the memory stick.
1. Insert a normal PSP battery in your PSP and turn it on.
2. Insert the magic memory stick you want to change back to a normal memory stick.
3. Go to the 'Settings Menu' and choose 'System Settings'
4. Choose the 'Format Memory Stick' option and choose 'Yes' and 'Yes' again
5. Once the memory stick has been formatted is it back to normal.
How To Recharge the Magic Battery
1. Take out the Battery of the PSP.
2. Insert the Wall Plug and turn on your PSP.
3. Wait until the PSP loads the XMB menu and then insert the 'Magic' battery.
4. The battery light should turn Orange to indicate that the battery is charging.
5. Turn off your PSP by holding the power button for 4 seconds.
6. Make sure the power light is still orange after the power is off.
7. Once the Recharge has finished (Power light turns off) you can remove the 'Magic' battery from the PSP.
