ZOMG!!! My PSP magic Memstick is working WITHOUT the battery!!!!!
Dont know how it happened!
I was following http://my.afterdawn.com/larrylje_red...entry.cfm/2316 guide and some of my own experimentation because for some reason, the extra battery i bought wouldn't convert to a pandora battery.
I messed around with the EEPROM a bit, copying my working Jigkick battery's Serial/Flash and trying to write it to the new battery. still no luck with the battery but something super strange happened:
I plugged in the charger to my PSP w/out the battery to boot to the XMB to try to check the pandora battery's charge by starting up the PSP without a battery and then putting it in once i was into the XMB, but i never made it that far. The Magic Memory Stick that I had made myself caused the psp to boot in Service mode.
I tried a few different things to make sure it was the Memstick itself that was doing this.
The original Magic memstick from Ebay wouldn't do this for me but the one I made did
Well anyway, im gonna try to use (what i'm calling the Pandora Stick) it in another PSP and see if it does the same thing...
ANYONE HAVE EVEN A SLIGHT CLUE AS TO WHAT I DID?????
edit:
OK here are some of the senarios iv run:
1.) Pandora stick + Regular battery = boot to xmb
2.) pandora stick + charger = boot to service mode
3.) pandora stick + charger + battery = boot to xmb
4.) no memstick, only battery = boot to xmb
5.) no memstick, only charger = boot to xmb
6.) pandora stick + pandora battery = boot to service mode
7.) magic stick + pandora battery = boot to service mode
8.) magic stick + charger = boot to xmb
9.) magic stick + pandora battery + charger = boot to service mode
10.)magic stick + regular battery + charger = boot to xmb
I ran all of these on the same PSP
Oh and fixed link btw
edit2x:
damn, it stopped doing it
Im going to experiment some more!
edit3x:
omg noobism
as it turns out, if u have the charger in the PSP when u put the Pandora battery in, the PSP will never actually shut down. instead it goes to sleep. that's why when i removed the battery while the charger was still pluged in and then turned it on without the battery it went into service mode again. after i disconected teh charger and reconnected it, it stopped booting into service mode. BUMMER!
I thought i was on to something.
It's still a worthy thing to note:
Dont plug in charger until after the flashing process is finished and the pandora battery has been removed.
...
that would be cool tho, to have a memorystick that activates service mode instead of a battery. then people could set up a pandora battery on there own with a cardreader and without another homebrew ready psp
OH WELL my stupidity is worth some LULZ at least
edit again:
this reminds me:
does the pandora battery have to be made from an official sony psp battery.
I have these generic batteries that are useable in a PSP but i couldn't flash the EEPROM.
In fact, when i tried to backup the EEPROM of these batteries, i only got a single 0x28 number backed up instead of the whole 256byte EEPROM.
