Tutorial for Pandora (+battery recovery, +autoinstaller link)

**acn010** · August 23rd, 2007, 19:46

no worries guys!!
ill help you guys out on pandora
i will give instructions step by step so here it is:

1.- connect psp to usb (not bricked) with the retail battery and the MS..

2.- Format the MS via psp or computer

3. - We open a MS-DOS (Start-Run-CMD.EXE) and decompressed in algun accessible place the folder of Pandora.

4. - From CMD, we once made the one of the following image in pandora:

and we execute this in order to format the PSP logically. (Being G our unit of PSP)

it will appear the following thing:

You are about to format the drive G.
All data will be lost. Do you want to continue? [Y]

press "y"...

Drive successfully formatted, and partition moved.

and done.

5. - remove the MS and it disconnect connection USB.

6. - again connects the MS by means of connection USB of the PSP.

7. - manually create (New Folder) a folder and subfolders PSP/GAME (or PSP/GAME150 if your fw requires it) in the MS.

8. - Battery copies the folders and to installer of our unloaded pandora folder to PSP/GAME (or PSP/GAME150 in its case)

9. - It copy the EBOOT to updater to firmware famous official 1,50 to UPDATE.PBP to the root of the MS. (You can obtain it already famous and verified here or here)

10. - disconnect connection USB, like in the step 5º (without removing the MS, we needed it)

11. - In the PSP that we have put the previous folders, we loaded from GAME-Memory Stick the application Pandorás Battery Firm. Installer.

press X and it will unpack the archives of the UPDATE.PBP in bin. This will create a file called msipl.bin, which contains the archives of fw of the PSP that we have. remember that this cannot be requested freely, since contains illegal data.

** If by anything process fails, rename UPDATE.PBP to UPDATE (without extension) and try again **

12. - again connect the MS by means of connection USB of the PSP.

13. - Msipl.bin must be inside folder pandora/msinst/, open the CMD instance again and you do the following thing:

so that it will copy the dump IPL previously to the MS (being G our unit of PSP) It will give back something similar to this:

C:\pandora\msinst>msinst G msipl.bin
PSP MS IPL Installer
Load IPL Code msipl.bin
241664 bytes (58 block) readed

Target DRIVE is 7
Check partation Sector
boot status 0x80
start head 0x05
start sec/cyl 0x0004
partation type 0x06
...
...
Are You Sure ? [Y]
press "Y"...

Write MS BOOT CODE

and ready. MS ready.

14. - disconnect connection USB.

15. - In the PSP, in GAME-Memory Stick, we execute the application Pandorás Battery Creator.

This will allow us to modify the battery.

[ Optional ] Press /\ to do backup of the flash of the battery in a file of the MS; the program will leave and again have to be executed.

This step is NECESSARY if it is wanted to make return to the battery to his original state.

In other case, it is optional. press X in this Battery Creator to transform it into a JigKick. The program leaves automatically.

** Once finalized all this process, you will have a battery of development, to call it somehow, and "a magical" MS, that will serve to open us to the box of Pandora **

The use is very simple, consists of 2 steps:

1. - introduce "the magical" MS in the PSP

2. - introduce the Battery "of development" in the PSP (without cord AC) and ignite the PSP.

specific use: unbricking

1. - copy a UPDATE.PBP (the previous bond) of fw official 1,50 in the root of our "magical" MS

2. - In the bricked PSP, introduce our "magical" MS and the modified Battery.

3. - ignite, and the lights of Wifi+MS+Baterry will ignite temporarily and a menu will appear.

4. - press X and it will do check of the file of update.

5. - press X again (with the new menu) and will write fw 1.50 in your PSP..

its done..... enjoy

please correct if im wrong in any step and ill edit XD
here is an auto-installer on this following link:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72056
way easier for noobs XD (spanish, sorry)

In order to return the battery of Pandora into normal:
Plug the PSP with the connected cable, but with the battery (Pandora) and memory not Once in the XMB, put both (pandora battery and memory) In GAME, execute the Pandorás Battery Creator, firmware installer In the Menu press [] square

**alexvander** · August 23rd, 2007, 20:11

i havnt tried this yet since i have no need or spare battery but i hope this will help lots of people who dont understand the direction givin in the unbricker

**kcajblue** · August 23rd, 2007, 21:49

nice tut acn.
this should help a lot of people.

offtopic: nice sig. the video is old but funny.

**acn010** · August 23rd, 2007, 21:57

your welcome (^-^) lol
and in my sig, i just had to put that on XD

**pt9087** · August 23rd, 2007, 22:13

Great tut! you should add how to change from service to normal! saves people buying new batterys!

**acn010** · August 23rd, 2007, 22:48

your welcome

**mexicansnake** · August 24th, 2007, 04:00

I dongraded 3 psp and recovered 1 with this stuff today

, it worked like a charm thanx pandora´s coders!.

**ian h** · August 24th, 2007, 08:22

i changed my battery by pressing x (aka pandoras battery) in the battery creator. my battery did not work but i put the charger in without the battery in run the battery program again when pandora battery creator menu came on i put the battery back in and pressed [ ] and the battery now works! i read that there are side effects after converting the battery back does any1 know what these are?