This has probably been covered loads of times previously and I am in need of advice. I bought a psp with custom firmware 3.51 m33 installed, i tried to upgrade to 5.00 m33 having read through many tutorials on how to do this but something went wrong and i ended up bricking my psp. I have bought a hot wire battery operated pandora battery and downloaded all files to create a magic memory stick, despite following the step by step guide numerous times on unbricking my psp it still wont unbrick and all i get is the green power led and nothing else, this really is frustrating and would welcome any help or advice on how to resolve this issue
Many thanks for replying to my thread, I am looking at buying the battery tool but given the information regarding my pandora battery would you say its faulty with nothing happening despite being used with a mms? Also i dont know if its user error but i dont have another psp i can use and currently just creating the mms using my pc running Vista and trying to get my bricked psp to display service menu?
First, there's no such thing as a pandora stick or a jig stick or any of that other crap. Don't post made up terms claiming to be 'technical' to other users.
Jigkick battery. Magic Mem stick. Pandora battery. That's it. Want to argue it? Here's Dark-AleX's page on it. Go tell the god of the PSP he's wrong...
That being said, if your system is fully bricked (which is what it sounds like) then take your jigkick battery (or go here for a very decent tutorial on making one. Just fast foward past the first 5 minutes of him opening the damn thing lol) and then download this easy MMS maker to make your magic mem stick.
Here's how bricking works.
Your internal file system (flash0) got jacked up. It happens. No worries. Even though the system is fully corrupted it's still recoverable and here's why:
The jigkick battery makes the psp read from sector 16 which is your memory stick. A magic memory stick has all the needed files to boot the PSP. So even if the PSP IS fully bricked you should be able to get it running b/c the battery and memstick bypass all the internal files. Once the PSP is started up and your memstick is running just tell it to write itself to the psp. Hence an unbrick. :)
You'll know your jigkick battery is working if, when you put it into the psp, the power comes on without you having to hit the switch.
When you make your magic mem stick the very last thing you should be asked is:
"Write ABS Sector 0x10 to 0x1E7
Are You Sure ?[Y]"
If you don't get that then the mem stick wasn't made right.
Also, I'm 99.9% sure you have to make the magic mem stick on a windows XP system. Something about vista not working right with it. Not a 100% sure on why that is but...meh.
After that, just follow the instructions and it will flash the 3.71 firmware onto your system. Then you can upgrade to whatever you want (such as 5.00 M33-3 hint hint...here's a download for that should you decide to use it). :)
Thanks again for the info, just contacted my friend who is gonna come over with his laptop running XP, dont think my vista is creating the memorty stick right, he is also bringing his psp but this has official firware on, i hopefully will get my psp unbricked soon as the wife is bending my ear as she bought it for my 30th birthday 1 week ago
Hey while you're at it hack his for him :) He'll love you long time. I mean hell you have the jigkick battery and memstick right there right?
Just make sure that mem stick is made proper and you'll be golden mate.
