PSP bricked (?) after trying to setup ARK-4

[light27]

My PSP 1000 is bricked, as you can already tell. Light turns on, then off, black screen, no backlight, etc etc... But there's a problem. Nothing I do seems to work!

Things I tried:

• Home + Power
• Home, Select, Start, Square, Triangle + Power
• Removed memory stick and did the above
• Removed battery and used AC and did the above

Things that happened before the brick:

I installed ARK, and wanted to use the cIPL flasher, but I had to uninstall Infinity first, so I did that. For some reason, the downgrader thinks I'm in 6.60, and tries to "downgrade" to 9.9.9. In System Info, the version is 6.60∞. Did this multiple times (which was my bad) and it bricked.

Can anyone help?

 

[ILuvGames]

My PSP 1000 is bricked, as you can already tell. Light turns on, then off, black screen, no backlight, etc etc... But there's a problem. Nothing I do seems to work!

Things I tried:

• Home + Power
• Home, Select, Start, Square, Triangle + Power
• Removed memory stick and did the above
• Removed battery and used AC and did the above

Things that happened before the brick:

I installed ARK, and wanted to use the cIPL flasher, but I had to uninstall Infinity first, so I did that. For some reason, the downgrader thinks I'm in 6.60, and tries to "downgrade" to 9.9.9. In System Info, the version is 6.60∞. Did this multiple times (which was my bad) and it bricked.

Can anyone help?

Try the steps in the recovery part here.

https://github.com/PSP-Archive/ARK-4/wiki

 

[duffman2k]

If you can find a Pandora battery you can use that to recover. If you have a original battery and a PSP with cfw you can make one yourself

Edit link. And apparently the name changed to jigkick battery
https://consolemods.org/wiki/PSP:JigKick_Battery

 

[light27]

If you can find a Pandora battery you can use that to recover. If you have a original battery and a PSP with cfw you can make one yourself

Edit link. And apparently the name changed to jigkick battery
https://consolemods.org/wiki/PSP:JigKick_Battery

I really don't want to use anything like that. But... would I need another battery?

 

[ILuvGames]

I really don't want to use anything like that. But... would I need another battery?

If your psp wasn't bricked, you could have soft modded the battery to make a pandora battery then you would only have needed to make the magic memory stick but you can't soft mod the battery now as you cannot boot into cfw.

 

[light27]

So… what do I do?

 

[duffman2k]

So… what do I do?

You need help from someone with cfw.
I made a jigkick battery when they first came out. It was quite easy.