Snayke62
Forum Noob
Sup guys. Yeah I know, this issue is all over the place and I have read a lot about the bricked fixes and all that pandora stuff. First let me say I'm fairly technically savvy with machanical things and electricity. But I am completely lost with this whole downloading and IPL and tht part of the deal. I haven't looked at a how to yet, but I can most likely make this pandora battery. So. Let's get to the fun stuff first. My brother left 2 psp in my car. Been there for some time. Anyways I cleaned em up and realized he had the charger and a battery and like 10 umd games. (I have never used a psp ever before this) so I charged the battery up all the way and blah blah. The psp 3000 fired up. Loaded read all the games and works fine. So far. The psp 1000 fired up ( I think with only the charger initially cause I only had 1 battery and forgot. Seemed okay. Come to find it won't read umd drive. Like it was not there at all. So I got to looking and doing some research and found that the umd door switch/trigger was broken off. So I assumed it just thought the door was always open/no disk to try and read. So I got out my small electronic tools and soldering station. Took the mother board out. Did some continuity testing and found it to be basically a normal on/off normally open switch. Looked like the pit in a redundant circuit is the only reason it hd 4 solder terminals. So I gutted the switch remnants and bridged the two copper contacts with wire and solder ( yes I used low solid non clean flux and good solder with lead in it). Now it has a closed circuit. Cleaned some things up while in there and put all back together. I put in a brand new umd movie before powering since I have it bypassed. Fired up.. the sony page came on. It started to load or go to the main screen then all of a suddon it froze, kinda blinked a few times then all of a suddon the whole display did a horrible rainbow of lines and craziness for about 2 seconds. Then the screen just went kinda dark but it was still on it looked like. Yeah. And the unit would not shut down with the switch. I had to remove the power and battery. After that all it does now is blinks one green light for a split second and that's it. ( Yes I seen the other post just like this.... LoL.) So I took back apart and checked things. All looked okay as far as what I had done and put back together. So I then realized the 5volt charging port was kinda corroded and the orange charge light was intermittent if you messed with it. Took back apart. Cleaned it. Spread the contacts a little at the charging/main power terminal on the board. I checked the little fuse (okay) when I was happy I put it back together. Tested for 5 volts through the wiring and to the board just past the fuse. All good. I took it apart again. Now I'm suspecting that the on/off switch on the sisterboard might be at fault. It feels kinda sticky. I cleaned it already before. So now I'm asking the pros since I found this place... Before I go wasting more time checking this and trying that should I say piss on it.... And go for a new board, try this pandora battery deal and hopefully someone can walk me through the formatting and download and all that nonsense. I don't know how to jailbreak or hack or any of that other crazy stuff that's all over the place for these things. Oh yeah. I de soldered my jumper. Made no diff. I unhooked the UMD driver and nope. So. Since I have a working psp 3000 am I able to use that to rewrite the boot up program? Also a good link at converting my battery to the pandora would be good. I'm tired of searching for psp online dead ends. Thanks. I'm jake by the way. Illinois. That was a a lot.
