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How to Make Pandora's Battery Without CFW

If you are trying to create a Pandora battery for your Sony Playstation Portable in order to install custom firmware, but you do not have an extra PSP already running custom firmware, you really only have one option: soft-mod your PSP's battery. Once you do this, the battery will only be able to be used as a Pandora battery, so make sure you have an extra battery available to use with your PSP during its normal operations.

Things You'll Need

Safety pin
Knife
Extra PSP battery

Instructions

- 1
  Remove your Sony Playstation Portable battery. Remove the cover of the battery by using the knife to carefully open the battery. Place the battery cover to the side and hold onto the other side that has the connector pins and circuits.
- 2
  Locate the connector that is labeled ICO4 or CO4. This will depend on the battery that you are using. A few different companies make batteries for the PSP.
- 3
  Grip your needle or safety pin tightly with one hand, and with your other hand securely hold your battery. Carefully, remove the fifth pin located on the battery's circuit board. The pins will start from the bottom left of the battery. Pin number five will be the one all the way on the right.
- 4
  Use tape or glue to reattach your battery's cover and you now have a brand new Pandora battery.
- 5
  Test your Pandora battery by inserting your freshly made Pandora battery into the PSP without any memory stick in the card reader, making sure your PSP is off when you insert the battery. If everything went correctly, your PSP should automatically turn on. If it does, you have successfully created a Pandora battery.

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