Brewology

Description: Only have 1 psp? Don't have any friends with a PSP already running a custom firmware? Need no fear... this nifty tutorial is here! Follow this guide to install a custom firmware using a hard-modified battery and a magic memory stick.

This tutorial is separated into 3 parts: Creating the battery, creating the memory stick, and installing.

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Warning! This will require opening your psp battery and modifying your memory stick. Neither I nor PSPbrew will be held responsible if you damage yourself or your battery, memorystick, PSP, etc. Proceed at your own risk.
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Creating The Battery

You can go about this one of three ways.

1. Permanently modify an extra PSP battery. (Easy)
2. Add a switch to your current PSP battery. (Intermediate)
3. Buy a premade battery. (Super Easy)


1. Permanently modify an extra PSP battery.


Materials:
- Extra battery (Not all batteries work. To be sure buy an official Sony battery. The older the better!)
- Non-conductive, thin, hard object. (i.e. plastic knife, guitar pick, fingernail)
- Razor blade

Step 1: Open the battery using your "Non-conductive, thin, hard object". Do this by applying pressure along the seam where the 2 halves of the case meet. I used my fingernail to open my fat battery. The slim battery seems harder to open, so use a sharp object but be VERY CAREFUL not to cut anything inside of the case.

Step 2: Using your razor blade, cut where marked.

- For fat batteries cut the pin shown in fat-battery pictures A or B (depending on what your battery looks like).
- For a slim you have 2 options. Cut the pin shown in slim-battery picture A, or cut the PCB trace in slim-battery picture B. Cutting the trace MAY be repaired by using a circuit writing pen or by soldering.
- If your battery does not match any of the pictures, I'm sorry but I can't help you. You can try proceeding by looking for a chip on the PCB that looks like the chip pictured below and cutting the 5th pin. Use the following pictures to compare to. I cannot guarantee this will work though.

WARNING: WHEN CUTTING THE PIN OR TRACE BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE! THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR CUTTING THE LEG ON THE CHIP OF THE PCB. YOU COULD RUIN THE BATTERY IF YOU TOUCH MORE THAN ONE LEG AT A TIME!

Fat A *1


Fat B *2


Slim A *3


Slim B *4


Chip *5



Step 3: Close up the battery by using some electrical tape on the sides or super glue it back together. I personally went the tape route in case I needed to easily open my battery again.

Step 4: Test the battery by inserting it into the PSP. If the PSP immediately turns on, then it works. Without the magic memory stick the screen will stay black, but if the green power light is on you are in business.


2. Add a switch to your current PSP battery


FAT: See my tutorial "Pandora's Battery w/ a Switch"
SLIM: Tutorial in progress


3. Buy a pre-made battery.

There is 1 retail product that I know of that works for sure, the Datel Tool Battery. You can search around the net for it or buy it from your favorite retailer. There are also some people that privately sell pre-made pandora batteries. I suggest you do not buy a battery that is not around the retail cost of a new battery. You may have to pay a little more, but that's to be expected... you're lazy!

Find and buy at your own risk!



Creating the Memory Stick

Materials:
- Memory stick (128mb to 1gb RETAIL MS. i.e. Sandisk, Sony, etc. Others may work, but I can't guarantee they will.)
- Total Newbie Installer *6
- A working PSP to connect to your computer through USB or an MS card reader

Step 1: Download the installer and unpack it. For total noobies that have no knowledge of WinRar see this tutorial by DarkPacMan77.

Step 2: Run the program and follow the on-screen directions.



Installing Your Custom Firmware

Step 1: Insert your modified MS into the PSP.

Step 2: Insert your modified battery.

Step 3: The PSP should automatically turn on and load a menu. I highly suggest you backup your NAND just in case before proceeding. For a video tutorial you can see the install process from my FAT psp. Slim works as well. Click here.




*1- Photo care of 'blizz407' at eliteforums.info
*2- Photo care of 'Pirate-M.Lifnen' at pspmod.com
*3, 4, 5- Photo found by 'drew00629' at pspmod.com
*6- If the link doesn't work, copy and paste this original URL: http://dl.qj.net/TOTALNewbi-easyInstall ... ies-(on-PC)/pg/12/fid/14749/catid/193

ughmm i followed it all exactly
i did teh installer and everything

and when i pop the battery in it doesnt turn on automatically, but i can turn it on manually using teh switch
but nothing happens or anything

any tips?

i had teh second type FAT battery
and i took both sides of the batery casing off of it if that matters

if there is any way u could figure it out plz tell me

when i was cutting the leg thingy i did see a spark if that matters :\

ok so i might of f**k up big time

im makign the battery for my friend
i followed everything u did
but i geuss i didnt need to because i do have custom firm ware

is there any way to sodder the wire back on my battery?

bout time someone did this on here...good job bretbizzle...you even added the slim battery yay...hopefully this will help n00bs who only hav one psp...lyk me until i hacked it. Again good job

ok i think ill leave the battery to my friends from no on, i managed to fix the bridge between the leg with ametal piece wrapper off a mini reece's pieces
so it turns on normally now, hopefully it wont fall of if it gets banged around.

That spark you saw was you breaking your battery...

sorry i didn't explain that you should be careful moding electronics while a power source is connected...

its cool man i fixed it works fine now

So how do you back up your NAND?

This should work on any firmware.

Hey,
I just did your tutorial, and when I inserted the MS and the battery, nothing happened.
The power light was green, but the screen just stayed black.
I'm using a Tool service mode battery and a 4 GB Memory Stick PRO Duo from Sony.
I was hoping you could tell me what I did wrong.
The PSP I own is a Slim model and the Firmware verion is 3.80.
I'll just tell you exactly what I did.
I started by formatting my Memory Stick.
Then I unzipped the totalnewbieeasyinstaller, and executed the START application.
Entered all the information, picked 3 on Pandora Menu (Slim Pandora).
Then at some point I got :
Target DRIVE is 3
Check partation Sector
Cannot open \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE3
And that's the only part I think would have caused it to fail.

I hope you can help me because I've been trying to get CFW on my PSP for months now.

Same thing happen to me and im using a 4 GB memory stick PRO Duo.I think I need to re-do my magic memory stick and pandora battery, well maybe not the battery because it works.

for you 2 guys i read everywhere that it says yoru sapose to use above 215mb and under 1g for the memory stick so im not sure if the 4gig will work or not

Are you sure a 4 GB will not work? because I heard it does work as long as its a PRO Duo.

My 2 GB pro duo SD brand doesn't work for me. But my 1 GB pro duo Sony works fine.

Did you READ my tutorial?