i dont know what happened. but i am of course messing with the pandora battery trying to see what side effects u could possibly get by replacing serial number of battery 0*12345678
Originally posted by btjl90: i dont know what happened. but i am of course messing with the pandora battery trying to see what side effects u could possibly get by replacing serial number of battery 0*12345678
alas.. the battery cannot be charged at all
seems like the battery has fully bricked.
haha
What Pandora's Battery does is it flashes the batteries EEPROM, like a BIOS in a computer. What it flashes is the memory allocation target. When you use the app, it will tell you what the memory location of the batteries target is. It changes that value to xFFFFFFF or something. This value is a direct link to the flash. It sends a small burst of electricity to the flash, erasing it. When the PSP boots, it looks at the flash for the critical systems files to load. When it fails to load at that location, it will then look to the memory stick, which you have "emulated" on the memory stick. What happens, is people forget to backup that EEPROM code that is unique to many diiferent batteris. Afterwards, you are supposed to reflash the EEPROM to the original code. If you do not, it will generate a false code, in an attempt to force the electrical current from the battery to where it needs to go.
Results:
Dead battery
Trickle-charge (takes 2-10 times longer to charge)
Huge reduction in voltage it can hold per charge
Flashing of PSP without the homebrew app to direct it so.
This is why they tell you to use a spare battery.
Thanks to this info, I will never be silly enough to restore a SPARE battery to its original state. Plus, it comes in handy in case I need to revive my PSP, or if a freind wants to downgrade or unbrick his.
