PSP Internal 3600mAh Battery

[Audioboxer]

I'm thinking of picking one of these up

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brand-New-3600-mAh-internal-battery-for-SONY-PSP_W0QQitemZ150078553644QQihZ005QQcategoryZ127742 QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Anyone know if they are safe/reliable?

Most battery packs I see for the PSP are external :confused:

Thanks

[DesertFox]

friend of mine got one, works like a charm, 80% longer battery power.

[naiLS1]

Do you know which seller he used? 80% more battery would be nice!

[overdriver]

I am not so sure if it is really 3600mAh capacity.

remember Datel X2 ? It was 3600mAh Lithium-ion battery but it was pretty thick.:( assuming it is SAME technology it cannot be much smaller than this. right?

or is it bigger than authentic sony internal battery? I understand that Sony has 2200mAh and there is a 3rd party 2600mAh one with SAME DIMENTION.

Now I see some flood of 3600mah in Ebay and it is said to be an internal battery. but one dealer said it is bigger than regular internal battery and it comes with battery cover. Other dealer just keep repeating it is internal battery but he doesn't say if it is same or bigger size at all.

unless it is made of alien technology If it is same size i assume that it should be 2600mAh at most - another ebay scam. If you have this battery I would appreciate your input if you measured comparing against 2600mAh one.

[Xenogears V]

Which is difference in times?.

[skreama]

The 3600 are the same size as internal ones i can post a screen shot if you want
but its hit or miss with them for realiability i bought 3 2 are perfect and one just stopped working

[overdriver]

Yes, Xeno. Since there is no home-brew app to measure exact battery time but I trust you guys experience on battery measure.

and thank you gentleman above for confirming the size of 3600mah one. I guess it is exact same size of Sony one then. Would you tell me if it doubled battery life since you changed ? I'd like to hear it from anyone who have used it. It has QC issue as you reported though..

oh and yes please, post the pic. Not because i don't trust you but I just want to see the picture of the brand or version that you bought. so if I buy it I would expect same quality since there are at least 3 different versions/brand of 3600mAh internal batteries on ebay..

[skreama]

@overdriver

It did double the life to 8hrs + in the one i kept which was also the one that died
The other 2 are fine but one does 8hrs the other 6
I personally wouldnt buy them or any other battery from ebay as even the Sony branded ones have Quality Control issues as 99% are fakes

I dont use it and it was left at work so i will post the pic monday but for your ref it was the ones that have the word MEGA on the front

On a second note these batteries have a circuit board inside thats has a type of battery memery chip installed, when it died it bricked my psp to a degree

Basically it ws on 1.5 and the battery died and then when i put the original back in it would still say 8hours play time availiable and then over a week different features started to break including the WiFi and the UMD drive
I upgraded to 2.0 and it wouldnt downgrade
I upgraded to 2.6 and it wouldnt downgrade
so i went to 2.71 and still nothing
It was only because of the second downgrader from DA that formatted the Flash (Which led to Custom firmware installer) that i was able to recover the unit as when it died according to the dump made after it had corrupted the flash
I now have the orginal 1800 one and i bought a desktop charger and a second original 1800 so i have enough power

hope this helps

[overdriver]

ugh.. if it dies within PSP it can brick psp?!? wow that sucked :mad:

Thanks for your input and please, post pic anytime. Even authentic Sony battery has QC issue as well.. remember dell notebook battery made by Sony ?:(

[Audioboxer]

Well the one I bought is working great!

Battery life at 100% now reads around 9.50.

Haven't ran it dry from a full charge yet to see how long I actually get.

[skreama]

Well your readout of the battery life prooves its not working 100% or correctly
The maths alone state that a 3600Mah battery cant do 9 hours and 50minutes
The standard can manage around 4hrs so double that and its should be reading around the 8hrs 30mins mark

Ive warned you thats all i can say, if your skilled enough to recover the PSP if it bricks then you have no worries

[naiLS1]

I just ordered up 2 so I'll let you know how they work.

[g8crapachino]

What is skreama smoking?! The battery would have absolutely nothing to do with bricking a PSP or any other firmware trouble. (unless you where stupid enough to do a firmware upgrade while running from a low battery and it lost it's charge halfway thru the flash).

[peter_poiuyt]

yeah i don't remember batteries with internal memories being actually connected with the device. and batteries with memories that i know of are Nicd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect

while lithium batteries don't have this issue. and last longer.

ifn ya got the 1800, unless ya travel by public trans and NEED to use psp everywhere, then get a 3600. but its iffy. i mean if ya travel by car, a car charger would help ya get yer energy fix. i myself haven't run out unintentionally, since a socket or car charger is never too far.

but the sony bat do have qc issues. that much is certain :D

[Xenogears V]

In my country sell 2200 mah original battery Sony.It cost 40 around dollars.

2600 or 3600 not exist.(In my country)

However I think that the 3600 thin it doesn't exist, perhaps it is a fake.:rolleyes:

[skreama]

What is skreama smoking?! The battery would have absolutely nothing to do with bricking a PSP or any other firmware trouble. (unless you where stupid enough to do a firmware upgrade while running from a low battery and it lost it's charge halfway thru the flash).

I have been smoking nothing
I didnt believe it possible either but there was no other possible reason as to why it happened

I took the faulty one apart and found the circuitry inside and a friend de-soldered the the chip of it and put it in a reader and was able to assetain that there was code on the battery that was telling the psp that it was a higher caacity battery than actually advertised

i will gladly take pictures and post them on monday as the battery is in my draw at work

Shockingly enough i dont come on this forum and decide its fun to make **** up (unlike scoop for instance) im simple passing on advise based on something that happened to myself

Whatever the QC or authenticity of these batteries was, at the end of the day one somehow managed to corrupt a section of my flash chip so you guys can do as you wish its your money not mine

@g8crapachino - 26 posts since April 2005 clearly you input a lot to this scene so your expert opinion should be valued

[skreama]

yeah i don't remember batteries with internal memories being actually connected with the device. and batteries with memories that i know of are Nicd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect

while lithium batteries don't have this issue. and last longer.

ifn ya got the 1800, unless ya travel by public trans and NEED to use psp everywhere, then get a 3600. but its iffy. i mean if ya travel by car, a car charger would help ya get yer energy fix. i myself haven't run out unintentionally, since a socket or car charger is never too far.

but the sony bat do have qc issues. that much is certain :D

There is a chance these are Nicad batteries as they clearly are not what they are advertising

as for QC with sony batteries there has only ever been one instance of this and it was with the laptop battery incident there are no reports of QC issues with the original PSP battery

@xenogears
your statement is right these are most likley fakes

[iazybandit]

In my country sell 2200 mah original battery Sony.It cost 40 around dollars.

2600 or 3600 not exist.(In my country)

However I think that the 3600 thin it doesn't exist, perhaps it is a fake.:rolleyes:
Sony only released 1800mAh and 2200mAh batteries. If its not in a Sony package, its aftermarket.

[ando]

i did a search a few days ago on the forums. and there was a thread like this, same exact battery, adn one of the people in the thread bought the battery and said it worked great. it just needed to be discharged completely once or twice


here was the thread i was talking about http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=43935&highlight=internal+battery

[Rogue_Zero]

omg look at this 3600 MaH battery i just found its ridiculous i mean who thew heck would want this thing sticking off the back of there psp

http://www.calcellular.com/psp-ba-2.html

lol its so big and stupid

[iazybandit]

Thats just as big as the Datel X2

[Kazuya]

There is a chance these are Nicad batteries as they clearly are not what they are advertising

The 3600mAH PSP batteries on eBay that are standard size are Li-Poly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_polymer_battery


A compelling advantage of Li-Poly is that manufacturers can shape the battery almost however they please

[kaisaa]

okay just some thoughts:

even if the battery packs have the same size than the ones with less power they can be more powerful (sb. said above that this is not possible, thats bs). but it's true that many of those 3rd party packs are not as good as promoted or that the manufacturers don't have the skills to make them that small.

i think that there are packs from 3rd party manufacturers labeld mit Li-polymer that contain other battery types like NiCd. these packs would suffer from memory effect (= they are crap, at least if you want to use them more than just a few times) and in general cheap 3rd party items can be dangerous (above all: batteries, look at these notebooks that burned out to see what battery packs can do ;), just as example, and the cheaper the item, the cheaper the production...).

at last: i could also think of firmware problems with these packs because it's not designed for such powerful packages (like the fw gets "confused" when you change the pack) but that should be no problem in general.

[jefflin]

I can't sure the really time the psp 3600 mAh battery can last, but i see a comment say that the Li-Polymer 3600mAh battery can play 12 hours, and he recommend a site which sell that:
http://www.sourcingmap.com/lipolymer-3600mah-rechargeable-battery-for-sony-psp-black-p-2542.html

I can't make up my mind, just come here for a suggestion.

[biyong_88]

I can't sure the really time the psp 3600 mAh battery can last, but i see a comment say that the Li-Polymer 3600mAh battery can play 12 hours, and he recommend a site which sell that:
http://www.sourcingmap.com/lipolymer-3600mah-rechargeable-battery-for-sony-psp-black-p-2542.html

I can't make up my mind, just come here for a suggestion.
Sony has the stamina battery right?! It lasts like for at least 45mins more than a normal one

[killerlemons]

guys i bought an 3600 MaH internal battery and it only last for 5 hours and 36 mins but i thought it lasted longer than that

[kaisaa]

many of those 3rd party packs are not as good as promoted
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