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Old 08-23-2007, 08:22 AM
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HOW-TO: Restore a battery used for unbricking - unbrick without buying a spare!

If you only have one battery and want to unbrick your PSP, you can.

1) Convert your battery into a jigkick one using "Pandora's Battery Creator", but before you press X, press TRIANGLE to backup your battery's EEPROM to ms0:/eeprom.bin
2) Unbrick your PSP as normal
3) When you are done unbricking, take out the battery and the magic memory stick. Start up the PSP using the AC adaptor (do not try to use a USB charger, it will not start up)
4) Insert the magic memory stick and the magic battery
5) Run "Pandora's Battery Creator" again
6) Press L+R to restore the ms0:/eeprom.bin to your battery - you may get an "0x14 write error" when doing this, it doesn't seem to be a problem.

NOTE: You can also restore a battery without having made a backup, by pressing SQUARE at step 6. This will generate a fake serial for your battery (0x12345678) which allows it to work normally, but there could be side-effects.

Have fun, and thanks to everyone in the Prometheus/C+D team.

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Old 08-23-2007, 08:24 AM
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Old 08-23-2007, 08:35 AM
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Old 08-23-2007, 08:45 AM
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Old 08-23-2007, 08:51 AM
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If you only have one battery and want to unbrick your PSP, you can.
You would need a spare psp (with 1.5 or cfw) though! (or borrow one)
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Old 08-23-2007, 08:53 AM
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Yes, that's true, can't run the battery changer or the IPL extractor without that
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Old 08-23-2007, 09:43 AM
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If you only have one battery and want to unbrick your PSP, you can.

1) Convert your battery into a jigkick one using "Pandora's Battery Creator", but before you press X, press TRIANGLE to backup your battery's EEPROM to ms0:/eeprom.bin
2) Unbrick your PSP as normal
3) When you are done unbricking, take out the battery and the magic memory stick. Start up the PSP using the AC adaptor (do not try to use a USB charger, it will not start up)
4) Insert the magic memory stick and the magic battery
5) Run "Pandora's Battery Creator" again
6) Press L+R to restore the ms0:/eeprom.bin to your battery

NOTE: You can also restore a battery without having made a backup, by pressing SQUARE at step 6. This will generate a fake serial for your battery (0x12345678) which allows it to work normally, but there could be side-effects.

Have fun, and thanks to everyone in the Prometheus/C+D team.

i tried this before your lil tut but got an error "could not write at 0x14" when i restored eeprom.bin.....
the battery works as normal, but is this a problem??

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Old 08-23-2007, 09:49 AM
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Wowzers! So as long you have a a psp running 1.5 or cfw then you can unbrick/downgrade ANY psp and then restore the battery to it's normal state? What about the "magic" mem stick? Can that just be formatted and it's working as normal?
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Old 08-23-2007, 09:55 AM
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Am I missing something?
You need a working psp to create a magic battery and magic MS, if you restore the magic battery back to ordinary battery, what happen if you brick your psp?
I think a spare magic battery should be in your draw just incase there's a sudden brick...am I right?

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Old 08-23-2007, 09:59 AM
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Does this actually works?!!?
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Old 08-23-2007, 10:11 AM
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Does this actually works?!!?
Tested and works fine here.

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Old 08-23-2007, 10:33 AM
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Does this actually works?!!?
NO THEY'RE JUST LYING
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hey, i avent started yet but i wanna know that is the memory stick modified in any way? can i use it after the unbrick as a normal stick for isos etc
You can use it as a normal gofuckyourself for ISOs, yes.

Just reformat it in the system settings menu.
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Old 08-23-2007, 10:35 AM
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NO THEY'RE JUST LYINGYou can use it as a normal gofuckyourself for ISOs, yes.

Just reformat it in the system settings menu.
Has the step 4 of the readme been incorrectly stated....

Can I go ahead and try it?
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Old 08-23-2007, 10:36 AM
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i'd rather choose turn on psp with AC adapter and put the magic battery in then unplug the power cable then the PSP will work with magic bettery but remember not to power it off.
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Old 08-23-2007, 10:39 AM
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one question more:
what memory stick can i buy the best: please pm me the full name...
Since i'm going away now, im not in the mood to look over this whole thread...

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