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Instructions
Put a soft cloth on a table. Put the PSP face down on the soft cloth with the disc drive door facing away from you. Remove the battery compartment lid from the left side of the PSP with your fingers. Pull the battery out of the battery compartment with your fingers. Put the battery compartment lid back onto the PSP. Turn the PSP over. Put the PSP aside.
Cut off the USB connector from one end of the USB cable with the wire cutters. Make a 2-inch slit in the end of the USB cable with the wire cutters. Pull the outer insulation off the end of the USB cable with your fingers.
Separate the wires from out of the inside sheath at the end of the USB cable. Bend all of the wires, except for the white wire, down with your fingers.
Cut off the white wire and the inner sheathing from the end of the USB cable with the wire cutters. Unbend the wires from the end of the USB cable.
Cut a half-inch of insulation off the ends of the black and red wires. Wrap the other wires around the end of the USB cable.
Solder the end of the red wire to one of the two contacts on the back of the hard drive power connector. Let the solder cool for a minute. Solder the end of the black wire to the other contact on the back of the hard drive power connector. Let the solder cool for a minute.
Place the dead PSP battery on the soft cloth with the exposed battery plates at the top edge facing up.
Place the hard drive power plug against the top edge of the dead PSP battery so that the contact on the left bottom of the hard drive power plug makes contact with the battery plate on the left top edge of the dead PSP battery.
Place the hard drive power plug against the top edge of the dead PSP battery so that the contact on the right bottom of the hard drive power plug makes contact with the battery plate on the right edge of the dead PSP battery. Tape the hard drive power plug onto the dead PSP battery with duct tape.
Put the PSP face down on the soft cloth. Remove the battery compartment lid from the left side of the PSP with your fingers. Put the USB-powered PSP battery you have made into the battery compartment with the hard drive power plug facing up. Duct tape the battery compartment to hold the USB-powered PSP battery inside.
Turn the PSP over. Place the PSP next to a computer. Plug the PSP's USB cable into a USB port on the computer. Turn on and use the PSP, which is now running from the USB-powered PSP battery. Turn off the PSP and remove the PSP's USB connector from the USB port of the computer when you are done using the PSP.