PSP Battery hack question.

**indirect76** · 02-17-2012,10:02 AM

OK, so I've never owned a PSP. But I do follow gaming/hacking news. Long ago the PSP was hacked via it's battery. I've always wondered exactly how a battery or power source could be used as a vector for an attack/hack. I see lots of tutorials explaining how to do the hack, but I'm more interested in how it works. Does any have the time to give a brief explanation of how it works?

Thanks!

**badboyz80** · 02-17-2012,10:14 AM

it is used with files on a memory card look up pandora battery in google you will find all your answers i used a pandora battery to bring my sons bricked psp back to life there was many guides around to tell you how to make one as its not just a standard battery it has to be modified

**indirect76** · 02-17-2012,10:19 AM

Thanks, but like I said, I'm not interested in how to do it (I don't even own a PSP). I'm more interested in the technicals on how a power source is used as a vector for attack.

**Godoakos** · 02-17-2012,11:43 AM

It's something along the lines of a JIG for the PS3. I'm not really sure but since I've done it many times, the battery seems to have an EEPROM and a unique ID stored in it. If that ID gets flashed to a specific number in hex (I think it was 0000000F) then the PSP would boot up in "service mode" where we could boot the unsigned code and run a flasher application that flashed the CFW. So as you can see it's not the actual power source but the rom in it that was used as a vector.

**indirect76** · 02-17-2012,11:46 AM

Thanks Godoakos, that is kind of what I figured. The battery unit was more than simply a battery.

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