Pandora battery fix for non-Sony pack ?

Cross_ · Post by **Cross_** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:04 am

After an unfortunate event involving a flash and smoke, I now only have a 3rd party PSP slim battery. However, I would still like to install custom firmware if possible. The no-name battery looks like this :

After opening the case (no smoke this time around- I have learned my lesson!), however, I am stuck with poorly labelled SMT parts. Two of them clearly are integrated circuits- a 10-lead one with this label:
9202
802PL
7

And a smaller 8-lead one which reads
4A
.78MB

Can anyone tell me what products these might be ? Do they match the MCU+Eprom setup found in Sony's batteries ? Any ideas ?

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Wally · Post by **Wally** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:56 pm

This is why you don't use third party batteries..

I doubt they will work.

If you are from australia I will post you one for $20 which you may keep.

Wally

totaljerk · Post by **totaljerk** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:17 am

Hi Wally4000,

These pandora batteries are badly manufactured from china, and are badly labelled and probably are a bit different to official PSP batteries.

If you can, try and work with datel batteries, as they are closer to the original sony batteries and are properly labelled. On the other hand you can try and take a small risk it with a pandora tool battery, and take a risky with some with zinc exploding in your face.

Wally · Post by **Wally** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:30 pm

Ugh I didn't ask for a pandora battery.

GORETHRASHER · Post by **GORETHRASHER** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:25 pm

I have cut open my 'original' Australian PSP battery which didn't have the required chip in it, so I think your out of luck.

I ended up borrowing a friends battery which he got from from thailand, this had the correct chip to mod.