psp 1000

[masterblaster]

hi,
i have just purchased a psp 1000 and i was wondering how i go on flashing this device ,i am new to this
is it easy to do ?
it is running on system software version 3.90
can i download the firmware i need ?
and what is the firmware i need ?
any info would be great !!
cheers
masterblaster
aka lee

[jarri]

This not mine Posted byThe Andriod on (pspiso com)

Create Pandora Battery & Magic Memory Stick to Install Custom firmware on your PSP


This guide will show you how to create a 'Pandora battery' that can be used to unbrick a PSP
or Install Custom Firmware onto your Original or Slim PSP.

Pandora will work on ALL Original PSP Systems (PSP-1000 Models)
Pandora will work on ALL 'Older model' Slim PSP systems (PSP-2000 Models with the Ta088-v1 and Ta-088v2 motherboards)

Pandora will NOT work on the 'Newer Model' Slim PSP (PSP-2000 Models with the Ta088-v3 motherboard)
Pandora will NOT work on ANY of the new Slim and 'Brite' PSP (PSP-3000 Models)

If your PSP came from the factory with version 4.00 or higher firmware / system software installed
there is a very high chance it is a new model that cannot be 'hacked' at the moment.
I will update this guide as soon as a working "Pandora" program comes out for the new Slim PSP and the Slim and Brite PSP


You will need:

* Windows Operating system on your PC and a user account with 'Admin' rights
* A 64mb or higher Memory Stick PRO DUO (The total size of the Magic Memory Stick files is about 50mbytes)
* A pre-made Pandora Battery (or a custom firmware fat psp and the original psp fat battery)



Making the 'Magic Memory Stick'

Making a 'Magic Memory Stick' will ERASE all files on your memory stick
Make sure you have copied the files from your memory stick to your computer.

You can make the 'Magic Memory Stick' with ANY official or custom firmware versions.

Required Files:

Pandora files to install 5.01 M33-4 (46.63mb)
Download Link 1 (iFile): Download - ifile.it
Download Link 2 (zShare): zSHARE - pandora-500m33.zip
Download Link 3 (SendSpace): Send big files the easy way. Files too large for email attachments? No problem!
Download Link 4 (Megaupload): MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

-- OR --

Pandora files to install 4.01 M33-2 (44.47mb)
Download Link 1 (iFile): Download - ifile.it
Download Link 2 (zShare): zSHARE - Pandora-401M33.zip
Download Link 3 (SendSpace): Send big files the easy way. Files too large for email attachments? No problem!
Download Link 4 (Megaupload): MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

Install Instructions:
1. Unzip the downloaded file to your computer.
2. Connect your PSP to your computer.
3. Make a USB connection using your PSP.
4. Run the "RainUltraLiteMMS" program, Windows Vista users will need to right click the program and choose "Run As Administrator".

5. Choose the 'Drive Letter' of your memory stick.
6. Tick the "Format Memory Stick" box.



7. Click the "Make MMS" button.
8. Confirm you want to format the memory stick
(all files on the memory stick will be erased)

9. Wait as it installs, this might take a few minutes.
(The memory stick light on your PSP should be flashing)



10. Once the program has finished, you will see "Make MMS Finished".



You are done making the 'Magic Memory Stick' and can close the Program


To turn your 'Magic Memory Stick' into a 'Normal Memory Stick':
1. Insert a 'Normal' Battery and the 'Magic Memory Stick' into your PSP
2. Turn on your PSP and select to the "Settings > System Settings > Format Memory Stick" option
3. Press 'X' and choose 'Yes' to format the memory stick.
4. Your 'Magic' memory stick will be fully erased and will work as a normal memory stick again.




Converting a 'Normal battery' <-> 'Pandora Battery'

If you have a pre-made pandora battery you can skip to the next section

You can only convert a Normal Battery to Pandora Battery with

* Any Custom Firmware Original Fat PSP
* Any Custom Firmware 'TA-085v1' Motherboard Slim.
(If your PSP Slim came with 3.60 firmware then you most likely have a Ta-085v1 Slim PSP)

Sony 'Removed' the 'Battery EEPROM' hardware on the motherboard of all other PSP systems.
PSPs Slims that have these motherboards will fail at converting a battery.

If you are not sure what motherboard your Custom Firmware PSP has,
start the battery creator (you can't start the program on official firmwares)
accept the agreement and look at the battery serial number in the top left,
if it is all 0's (0x00000000 autoboot battery) then you have one of the newer
PSP slim motherboards, this means you will not be able to convert a battery.


If your PSP has official firmware you CANNOT convert a battery with it.
(If you try and run the 'Battery Converter' program you will get a "Game Cannot Be Started" error message)

If you don't have a Custom Firmware PSP available, or cannot convert a batterythen you will need to buy a pre-made Pandora Battery.
(Tip: Google search "Dealextreme Pandora", they have a $7usd Pandora Battery, but you need Paypal to buy from them)

Required Files:

'Hellcat's Pandora Installer v4b'
Download 1 (iFile.it): Download - ifile.it
Download 2 (zShare): zSHARE - hellcats-pandora-installer-v4b.zip
Download 3 (Sendspace): Send big files the easy way. Files too large for email attachments? No problem!
Download 4 (Megaupload): MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service


Installing 'Hellcats Pandora Installer v4b':
1. Unzip the downloaded file to your computer
2. Connect your PSP to your computer and make a USB connection,
3. Copy the "pan3xx" folder to your memory stick in the PSP > GAME folder.
4. Close the USB Connection and disconnect the USB Cable.
5. Turn off your PSP.

Converting a 'Normal battery' to a 'Pandora Battery':
1. Insert the Battery you want to convert into your PSP and turn your PSP on.
2. Go to the Game menu, then run the "Pandora Installer for 3.xx+ -R4b-"



3. Once the program starts, press "X" to go to the main menu.
4. Scroll down to "Battery Options" and press "X"
5. Scroll down to "Dump Battery Serial to File" and press "X"
(this will backup the battery serial to the batser file on your memory stick)

6. Select "Make Battery Pandora" and press "X"
7. The Battery serial in the top left should change to "0xffffffff"
(If the battery serial doesn't change then your psp can't write to the battery or the battery is not compatible)

8. If the battery serial is "0xffffffff" then your Normal Battery is now a Pandora Battery.
9. Scroll down to "Back to mainmenu" and press "X"
10. Choose "Quit" and press "X" and the program will exit
11. Turn off your PSP and remove the battery (which is now a Pandora battery)

Converting a 'Pandora Battery' to a 'Normal Battery':
1. Insert the Pandora Battery into your PSP, your PSP will turn on automatically.
2. Go to the Game menu, then run the "Pandora Installer for 3.xx+ -R4b-"
3. Once the program starts, press "X" to go to the main menu.
4. Scroll down to "Battery Options" and press "X"
5. Scroll down to "Set Battery Serial from File" and press "X"
6. Scroll down to "Back to Mainmenu" and press "X"
7. Choose "Quit" and press "X" and the program will exit.
8. Turn off your PSP and remove the battery (which is now a Normal Battery)



Making a Backup of your PSP NAND Chip (optional)

The NAND chip is the place where the PSP stores all its firmware files and other settings
like region codes, Wifi MAC Address and other Security Keys.
I recommend to make a Backup of the NAND in case something happens to these settings.

1. Insert the 'Pandora Memory Stick' into your PSP
2. Insert the 'Pandora Battery' into PSP while holding the 'L' button
(You will need to keep the 'L' button pressed until you see the menu below)

3. Your PSP should automatically turn itself on.
4. In a few seconds you should see a few options on the PSP screen if you have a compatible PSP.


If your PSP just stays on a black screen then you probably have a PSP Brite (PSP-3000)
-OR- one of the newer model PSP Slims (PSP-2000) that Pandora is not compatible with,
this means your PSP can't have custom firmware installed on it at the moment.



5. Select the "NAND Operations" options and press 'X'
6. Select the "Dump NAND" option and press 'X'
7. Wait for the PSP NAND memory to be saved to your memory stick.
8. After the dump has finished, press "O" to go back to the NAND Operations Menu.
9. Press 'O' to go back to the main menu.
10. Choose "Shutdown" from the main menu and press 'X'
11. Insert your normal battery and turn on your PSP.
12. Go to the Settings and make a USB connection.
13. Open 'My Computer' then open your memory stick
14. right click the "nand-dump.bin" file and choose 'Cut'
15. Make a folder on your computer and paste the "nand-dump.bin" file into the folder.
16. Close the USB Connection and shutdown the PSP.

* Keep the "nand-dump.bin" safe, as you can use it to restore
your PSP back to the way it was when you did the NAND-DUMP.


Installing Custom Firmware using the Pandora Battery & Magic Memory Stick

1. Insert the 'Magic Memory Stick' into your PSP
2. Insert the 'Pandora Battery' into PSP while holding the 'L' button
(You will need to keep the 'L' button pressed until you see the main menu)

3. Your PSP should automatically turn itself on.
4. If you have a compatible PSP, you should see a few options on the PSP screen In a few seconds...

If your PSP just stays on a black screen then you probably have a PSP Brite (PSP-3000)
-OR- one of the newer model PSP Slims (PSP-2000) that Pandora is not compatible with,
this means your PSP can't have custom firmware installed on it at the moment.

5a. Choose "Install x.xx M33" to install the M33 Custom Firmware.
5b. OR choose "Install x.xx OFW" to install the Official Sony Firmware.

6. A installation progress bar should appear on the screen.



7. When it gets to 100%, Press "O" to shutdown.



8. When your PSP has shutdown, remove the Pandora's Battery and Memory Stick and insert your normal ones.
9. Your PSP now has custom firmware installed.

10. You might want to update to the latest custom firmware version.
Latest Custom Firmware can be found here: PSPISO

[JTH]

just buy a pre made pandora m8
and use rains mms maker (in downloads)

[masterblaster]

cheers jarri for the help m8..
worked a treat...

[Sikander]

excuse me but im tryng to downgrade my psp version i currently have version 5.03 and i cant play any cso or iso files on the psp 1000. is it possible if i could convert my battery into a pandora battery???? it says in the post by jarrri that i could but dont kno how to please could someone try and point me into the right direction as im not so good and technical with this stuff. much appreciated !!!

[cunny]

Check to see if you cant do it the old fashioned way by buying either gta or lumminies, i've done 2 with this method and works well.

Just google psp hacks

[katana750]

I bought a Pandora battery from DealExtreme for $6.35 free postage. Delivery time was reasonable.I used psp grader to make mms all worked well. Hope this helps.