Does the Power light stay on for a few seconds then go off ?
Does Your Screen Freeze after you boot your PSP ?
Does nothing come on after you see the opening screen ?
Did you try to flash your PSP and now it doesn't work ?
Does your PSP have the Blue Screen of Death ?
Would you like to Downgrade or Upgrade your PSP Firmware?
Would you like to be able to play Retro Games and Homebrew ?
Would you like to be able to backup your UMD Games ?
Any of these Symptoms means your PSP is Bricked.
The trickiest part is to set the Battery in to Service Mode or Tool Mode
and to do this you need to program the battery.
Trying to do this yourself could result in damaging the battery.
Usually this only happens if you use an incompatible battery.
You can use the Battery to upgrade the Firmware you can then install homebrew
software and much more. Note that you need both the Pandora Battery and Magic Memory Stick (MMS) to be able to do this
Basically to give you an idea what needs to be done to upgrade or downgrade your PSP Firmware. Your PSP needs to be unlocked from Normal Mode and Switched over to Service Mode. To do this you need a special battery (Pandora Battery).
I say this to make it seam simpler whereas in fact all that needs to be done is to program the battery to work in a different way.
Once the battery is switched into the Service Mode it can not be used in Normal Mode and needs to be switched back in order for you to play games etc.
This is not a problem either as the Battery can be switched from Service to Normal
as many times as you like. If you have a better spare battery then I would just keep one in Service Mode. The Higher the mAh by rule the longer the battery will last, i.e. 1800mAh is better than 1200mAh and 3600mAh is Very Good. Don’t be tempted to buy the 4950mAh as it is Fake.
This is what you need:
(A Sony Battery & 256Mb Pro Duo Stick)
PSP (Any Version) Please don’t send your actual PSP with to me.
256Mb Sony Pro Duo Memory Stick
(256Mb Minimum and should be Pro Duo Version)
This needs to be Set to MMS Mode (Magic Memory Mode) I Can make you one, See below.
A Spare Battery (Unless you want to wait while its re programmed back to normal and then sent back to You) I Will do this free of charge if you send me a SAE. The Battery Must be Branded Sony and be one of the following: 1200mAh, 1800mAh, or 2200mAh, NOT Many others will work.
Make a Payment to me Via PayPal. (My address will be given once payment is placed) Send me your lowest mAh battery (Must be Sony branded) along with
Your Pro Duo Stick.
Normal = Gaming Mode
Service = To Repair or Flash
As a Total Service to Make the Battery into Pandora and the Pro Duo Stick into Magic Memory Stick (MMS) so that you can flash your PSP (All you will need)
Total Price of £18 postage included.
My PayPal ID# is colin@truestate.com
Please note that all payments must be in British Pounds Sterling.
Address and Details will be received upon Payment.
If you get stuck then please email me. colin@truestate.com
Your Battery and or MMS will be posted back the same day by 1st class Postage
Note: This procedure will in not invalidate your battery warranty and it can be switched back.
Note: that the M33 Firmware allows you to switch the
“UMD needed in drive required mode to off.
” Otherwise you need a UMD in the drive to run anything.
From Off state, Hold the Right Trigger Button and switch on, after 5-8 Seconds a screen with options will appear.
Select [Configuration] then
Select [UMD Mode Currently: Normal –UMD Required] so that it says no UMD required. This wont disable your UMD in any way though.
