Are new Sony batteries Pandora-proof?

**Anger** · September 25th, 2007, 13:33

yeah i bought a battery i thought was a sony original but it was a fake - the only way to tell was to give it several charge/discharge cycles and then test it against my original battery. my orig battery outperformed the new one by 100%+ as my battery gave me roughly 2.5 hours gaming while the fake gave me 50 mins and no more - and my orig battery is well over 2 YEARS old.
on a side note it also couldnt be converted to pandora but i didnt try that until i had tested the life of the battery - it came up with a single error and that error means the flash was non writeable (the serial number would not change after writing). however i do think sony will stop producing batteries with writeable flash inside to try and combat pandora but the psp has been out for years now and that means theres plenty of batteries around, not to mention other manufacturers (like datel) are still making pandora capable ones.

**souledge2k5** · September 25th, 2007, 13:36

u can risk turning your single battery to pandora. when converting your battery u given a menu where u can turn a normal into pandora, pandora to narmal, and pandora to always on normal. all u gotta do is turn it normal after downgrading.

**hounddog** · September 25th, 2007, 14:30

sony be tryin to hard to stop homebrew

**mcdougall57** · September 25th, 2007, 15:03

whos slagging off datel now? we finally found a use for theyre third party battery

**jonezybaby** · September 25th, 2007, 16:04

im all good, i have 3 psp's and 1 doesnt work so the battery from that psp is pandora

**Lwiggy** · September 25th, 2007, 17:21

Sony will never block the PANDORAS BATTERY because its hardware related not like when they find out a downgrader has been been made (e.g 3.50 lumines) they just patch it up with a update. sony have quickly made this battery cheap and people think PANDORA is usable but its not NOTE TO EVERYONE check before you buy!!