Hacking What happens if wrong NAND is flashed?

[Henning B]

I didn't make my own Pandora battery either even though I know how to make one - why would I slice open an original (and expensive) Sony battery instead of buying a cheap no-name TOOL battery? It makes no sense to me at all, I want my original accessories to be in good shape.

I think he was referring to the recovery menu option to convert the battery.

 

[Foxi4]

I think he was referring to the recovery menu option to convert the battery.

It's my understanding that this function doesn't work unless you modify the battery. It also wasn't available to me either way when I needed my Pandora - I fooled around with the firmware already at that point and *cough cough* I needed a working Pandora there and then.

 

[bache]

I didn't make my own Pandora battery either even though I know how to make one - why would I slice open an original (and expensive) Sony battery instead of buying a cheap no-name TOOL battery? It makes no sense to me at all, I want my original accessories to be in good shape.

There was a homebrew app that would put your battery in service mode without opening it up. I used the ChickHEN exploit on my brother's PSP 2000, put in my 1000 battery, and used the service mode to downgrade and flash. From there, you could use Hellcat's Recovery Flasher to swap it from service mode to regular, and vice versa.

 

[blindseer]

I didn't make my own Pandora battery either even though I know how to make one - why would I slice open an original (and expensive) Sony battery instead of buying a cheap no-name TOOL battery? It makes no sense to me at all, I want my original accessories to be in good shape.

You didn't have to cut open the battery to make it into a pandora, you just had to flash the chip on it to make it into one, I fliped my psp 1000 battery back and forth to and from a pandora battery until it stopped holding a charge, and then left it as one.

Ninja'd

 

[Foxi4]

There was a homebrew app that would put your battery in service mode without opening it up. I used the ChickHEN exploit on my brother's PSP 2000, put in my 1000 battery, and used the service mode to downgrade and flash. From there, you could use Hellcat's Recovery Flasher to swap it from service mode to regular, and vice versa.

Fancy. I don't think that was a "thing" back when I modified my PSP - we had to play with razor blades, y'see.

 

[bache]

Fancy. I don't think that was a "thing" back when I modified my PSP - we had to play with razor blades, y'see.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't try that first, but I couldn't crack into it very well

 

[migles]

umad?

shame on you, my original psp battery was a pandora battery! who the hell buys one! (and yes i was safe against brick)

 

[migles]

It's my understanding that this function doesn't work unless you modify the battery. It also wasn't available to me either way when I needed my Pandora - I fooled around with the firmware already at that point and *cough cough* I needed a working Pandora there and then.

you could turn a normal battery to pandora with a homebrew... there was no need to modify phisically anything, the homebrew flashed the serial of the battery... all done through software, you just needed to borrow a psp already with cfw from a friend or something..

there was an alternative solution for thoose without access to an already softmodded psp, which was to open the battery with a knife and cut a connection on the chip... and the last option was to buy one from third party xD

 

[gamesquest1]

back on topic.....simple fix....dump the nands again and lable them properly

for bonus fun, dump the nand again on one console, open it up in a hex editor and compare the start of the file with the unlabeled dumps.....the one that matches is from that console, the one that doesn't is from the other console

 

[bache]

back on topic.....simple fix....dump the nands again and lable them properly

for bonus fun, dump the nand again on one console, open it up in a hex editor and compare the start of the file with the unlabeled dumps.....the one that matches is from that console, the one that doesn't is from the other console

I only needed his NAND because he downgraded from 9.2.0. Dumping his NAND now wouldn't achieve what I need. I figured if he ever wanted to go back to that, his NAND backup would be his only option.

I think I managed to determine which is which by injecting it into emuNAND, but I'll confirm with a hex editor just in case. Either way, they've been named properly now .

 

[pastaconsumer]

In a moment of stupidity, I've placed both my brother's backed up NAND in the same folder as my own, and don't remember which is which. I know flashing the wrong NAND is bad, but I'm wondering if the Gateway menu will stop me if the wrong file is selected? Not keen on trying myself in case it doesn't.

RIP IN PEPPERONI, 3DS...

 

[sanin6]

why not make a new NAND dump if possible?

 

[bache]

why not make a new NAND dump if possible?

Like I said, the NAND dump was made on 9.2 before he downgraded, so if he wanted to go back, he could restore the backup. Now that he's on 4.5, that's no good.

 

[HEX1GON]

Like I said, the NAND dump was made on 9.2 before he downgraded, so if he wanted to go back, he could restore the backup. Now that he's on 4.5, that's no good.

I was going to say they should still be on the original SD cards, but I'm guessing they were formatted?

 

[bache]

I was going to say they should still be on the original SD cards, but I'm guessing they were formatted?

Yup. Think I've got things sorted now though. I'll know for future reference!

 

[vinhdt]

In a moment of stupidity, I've placed both my brother's backed up NAND in the same folder as my own, and don't remember which is which. I know flashing the wrong NAND is bad, but I'm wondering if the Gateway menu will stop me if the wrong file is selected? Not keen on trying myself in case it doesn't.

Just delete both nands and redo the nand backup again.