PSP-3000: unboxed, scrutinized, disassembled, and stripped for everyone's pleasure |
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As they've noted, the LCD indeed gets a hardware upgrade, but what they didn't seem to mention (and what's of more concern for the most of us in the homebrew community) is its life-saving TA-090 motherboard which we've all found to be compatible with Pandora.
Yep, you can see the motherboard's model code displayed clearly in some of the pics. Here's just a handful. If you want to see more, you can head to the Via link.
A shout out to Mohf for submitting us the tip!
Related articles:
- There is hope: PSP-3000 has TA-090, Dark AleX working on it
- New PSP motherboard alert: TA-090 PSP Slim, Pandora compatible
- Dark AleX explains why PSP TA-088 v3 cannot be hacked yet
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That was quite fast! This is my first time seeing a tip of mine uploaded on QJ and it only took like a hour!
QJ, I sent you a english translation, but you uploaded the chinese version?
Anyway, everyone the english translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpc.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fdocs%2F2008%2F1016%2Fpsp.htm&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en
The main board is so tiny! Surprising to me really.
Wonder if you can remove the PSP3000 lcd screen and attach it to other models, seeing how its better.
Dats wat i was gonna do if it isnt going to be able to put cfw on it
Tried it already.
This is NOT the Pandora-capable TA-090. It's more like a TA-090v2. The Pandora battery doesn't even make a PSP 3000 turn on, and if you try to read the EEPROM/serial # off a PSP 3000's battery, you get all null bytes (0x00). They've significantly changed *something*.
damn! Where do you get these things so early? I'm kinda jealous at the moment...
Sounds like progress is being made, for which I'm glad since I plan to buy a 3k unit to replace my 1k soon enough and I hope that before I do I can have the option of installing custom firmware on it.
It came out yesterday. I got it at Gamestop.
How is it good to hear, and where did it sound like progress is being made?
You can't use any existing Pandora, and we can't access the EEPROM of the new battery...
I think at what he means is that you were fast to take it apart, and try everything
Seeing that you are the only person crazy enough. +P
Love ya FreePlay
Clicked the wrong Reply link...
Reply goes to Sythun's post.
Sorry. +\
wow that quick?
looks like analog a lot tougher (coming from a phat owner)
Amazing how news tips work great for you but not for everybody.
I'll wait until pandora to work. then I buy it
my phat still works good.
I don't know if someone has already made ths before, but what if any homebrew developer coded an app that allows you to manually change the battery serial number by each number or letter instead of just having the option of making your battey normal or pandorizing it? Just a thought though. Wouldn't it make sense because even on TA-88v3 OxFFFFFFFF it still powers on the PSP but on the 3000 it doesn't do anything and there still must be a away to activate service mode because Sony still needs a method to unbrick the 3000 model.
Is it really going to kill everyone to run ofw on their units for a month or two or a little longer than that? If you already have a 1000 or 2000 with cfw then you're fine for now. Everyone keeps on complaining that they won't buy the 3000 until DAX or somebody else hacks it sucessfully. You know it's inevitable so why not? It's probably the pirates that are complaing the most because if you actually own any umds at least you should be content with your purchase. It's not like you're buying a defective unit or anything.
i figured since pandora wont even start psp and returns null
the trigger serial is more than likely still 0xFFFFFFFF
but the electrics on an actual 3000 service batt would be slightly different
well this is my belief anyway
they've changed something and now i dont thnk its the serial