Im not quite sure, but from what ive heard there are mixed reviews. Some say that you cant downgrade a 3.90 firmwire. Some say that you can downgrade any firmwire with a pandora's battery. Its quite confusing to me. I havent do it because im not sure what will happen. I, too, have a 3.90 firmwire. I dont want to waste a perfectly good battery trying to make a pandora's that might not even work. But i am getting closer to my answer. Im still leaning toward making the magic memory stick and pandora's battery. Ive read so many instructions on how to do it I can make my own forum and tell people how to do it.
Make or buy a pandoras battery
you will need to make or by a pandoras battery (normally from eBay) or get it from a friend who has the original psp here's some links to help you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwxq1mJZ2G4 http://www.pspmod.com/forums/psp-hardware-guides/23428-guide-making-pandoras-battery-new-method.HTML hope that helped
To Work a Pandora's Battery (PSP) Just put it in. If that doesn't work then put the battery in hold R1 and still holding it switch psp on. IF YOUR PSP GETS BRICKED I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE. DO IT AT OWN RISK
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U have to use pandoras battery, that's the only way
It depends on what update version you have if you have 5.00 then you are going to need the pandoras battery you can make it on your own!!! its not that hard... You can also buy it ... And you are also going to need to get a magic memory stick... you can also make that on your own anything you do is your fault... im not taking any credit for this... if your psp gets briked you can also unbrick it using the pandoras battery, you can also downgrade it gives you an opption Andrew
Firstly, a 'Pandora's Battery' is a modified battery and a specially prepared memory stick. Both of these can be created on most PSPs, but some recent motherboards are unable to do it - it will be part of Sony's anti-piracy countermeasures.If you are unable to hard-mod your battery, then the only option is to softmod it on another PSP, as well as using that one to create the 'magic memory stick' component too.
Cause you need to make you PSP Go To the lowest firmware (kinda like downgrade) Then you can install you custom firmware
definitely no the best u can downgrade without a Pandora battery is 3.03.... what you can do is use the Pandora battery to downgrade and the results will be great I've done it on my psp and when i downgraded my psp i got to download as many games that can fit into my psp(full games of course) so downgrade your psp using a Pandora battery:)
MY MATE SAID IT JUST RESTARTS IT SELF AFTERWARDS, WHEN IT DOES TAKE THE BATTERY OUT AND PUT NORMAL ONE IN. IF YOU BRICK YOUR PSP I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE.YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
you will need a pandora's battery and a magic memory stick with DC installed. the guide is here: http://www.pspmod.com/forums/psp-hardware-guides/28839-easy-use-pandoras-battery-guide.html