Sony Warning: Use Only Sony Battery for Your PSP! |
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Sony issued a warning to all PSP owners not to use third party battery to power up their PSP. The company urged the use of genuine Sony battery pack to protect against "the danger of ignition and explosion etc." Sony said while they can guarantee the standards of their battery pack, other brands could cause "accident and breakdown and it is dangerous".They also said to be on the look out for fake Sony battery packs since any damage caused the company cannot be held responsible for any damages cause by these knock-offs and third party battery packs. If you have experienced any kind of damage from using party battery packs other than Sony's, you may tell Sony about it. We don't think they will replace your PSP, but at least they can tell other PSP users "we told you so."
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Is there an actual risk or are sony just trying to get people to buy thier battery packs instead
(PS hopefully ive denied a n00b the ability to say OMFG First post !!!!!!!)
just to spite you #1...
SECOND POST! ZOMG!
Ah well, another ploy in sony's vast armament to lock down people into fear of blowing up their technology if/when they're not using their own so-damnexpensive-ny batteries.
Then again, age old adage "buy only from trusted, proven worthy sources". Nothing wrong with 3rd party, just make sure you did some research into reliability.
What's next, using non Sony memorysticks can make your wifi fail?
that's what i thought too... prolly sony is just trying to make ppl buy their hyper expensive products and not the 3th party ones. shame on urself, $ONY!
sony tested their batteries to be 100% comptabile with the psp. other brands were not supported by sony, so sony can say their brand works 100% and other brands don't. In reality, any battery should be fine. this is just popping up cause sony wouldn't replace someones psp who had a different battery pack.
Please only use our expensive batteries. I've had one of the extended power batteries for a while now without any problems and it's not a Sony brand battery. I think it's just Sony trying to fool people into buying their overpriced batteries.
(P.S Every time they are denied the first post ability somewhere a n00b dies)
After only some months of use, the connections that the battery uses (using only the official sony battery) are becoming corroded (at the mainboard/soldered connection itself on the positive lead) and have that nice white grit associated with battery leakage and corrosion between 2 types of metals.
"our more expensive, shorter life batteries are better and wont damage your PSP".. yeah, sure, anything you say Sony...
Use only official batteries? Ha Ha, wait for the unofficial Firmwares...........
I can hear them crying already.
One must know that battery tech is sometime difficult to master correctly.
It happened that battery in mobile phones exploded already... and more than one customer.
That's why all big makers of battery (most of them japanese) take care of their building process to avoid customer trouble.
But for "small" makers trying to make money out of the mobile market, I bet quality test, quality of process is most likely to be weaker than big makers with huge customer base.
Personnally, I understand why Sony would issue such warning. But yes, it is still better for them that you buy their battery instead of competitor ones
While the risk is may be 1 over millions with a known brand company. It may divided by 4 or 5 with small makers.
Sounds like they want to avoid lawsuits to me
In other words, 'We don't want you buying cheaper batteries from other companies buy ours so we get the profits!'
USE OF NON-SONY HEADPHONES WILL DAMAGE YOUR HEADPHONE PORT QUALITY OVER TIME DUE TO USING CHEAPER, MORE RELIABLE AND DURABLE HEADPHONES THAT SOUND BETTER
and yes...the fake firmware warnings will be simply splendid to hear.
btw, laxer3A(TYL) , if that is really you, then just for *****s and giggles, i love your work.
DarkPacMan77
I saw Sony's 'new' battery on ebay once, yeah that one with 20% more capacity (2200mAh)
It looked real and was cheap ($25) (the seller was from china)
So I bought it, when I recieved it that package looked real
but when I used it, my psp turned off after a while but without warning (the green light blinking)
So I recharged it and used it watching the 'Battery Information'
I saw that the battery emptied just before it said 25%
So, my conclusion is that MY PSP BATTERY IS FAAAAAAKKKKKKEE EEEE!!!!!
DO NOT BUY ANYTHING ON EBAY COMING FROM CHINA!!!!!!
EVERYTHING COMING FROM CHINA IS 100% FAKE!!!!!!!!
(i also bought some 2GB mms from china, all fake)
They just want more money.
Now I woudl onyl trusts sony batteries anyway. Not because sony is so great, but because the only other PSP batteries are either chinatown ***** or datel and datel sukks monkeyballs, so i gotta stick with sony
Does this mean that if I put a duracel in an energizer bunny doll, will it explode?
maybe.....the battery it has a hole security in this systeme for all psp version... hahahahahhaha lol
i bet most of your house's appliances are made in china...unless your psp was from japan it's prolly from china too=] nice its a fake=].
i haven't tried any third party batteries, i just use the original, the batteries have short life=[
Seriously though, remeber the 3'rd party battery that was recalled about 2 months ago? (pelican? I think) There were issues with them exploding during a recharge, and from the pics I saw, the PSP came off second best. ( well, the bits I could see....)
Personally, I use Sony's 2200mAh battery and keep the original for a spare. Simply for the reason that it fits inside the PSP, not like some of the cheap external "booster packs" that are available.
Yeah but the chinese will even make knockoff of their own items. there was a post letting users know about the knock off Memory sticks a while ago... they look just like the real things... very hard to tell. I was a victom of the fake sony battery, but i got a full refund ^_^
i wonder if my battery (exactly the same one in the picture) is compatible (or a fake) from ebay (japan)
HAhHAhAH uhhh...anal.
Milking the cows, eh Sony! >=D
u cows love T3H S0NY.
ZOMG BBQ WTF U 137 S0NY S1A5H U!
Sony has no other option but to only support their own products. They have no/very limited control over what 3rd party products are out there. From a liability standpoint, they cannot be held responsible for the failure of someone else's products. Someone here mentioned that they were trying to dodge lawsuits. And why shouldn't they? Just because they are Sony doesn't mean they should stand in front of every legal freight train that comes along.
They're simply saying they're not going to cover damages from SOMEONE ELSE'S PRODUCT.
Here's a scenario for you: Let's say you run a store of your own. Someone buys a cheap-ass knock-off accessory from someone else and it breaks. They come to your store, complain, and ask you to replace it. What would you do? Hand out free stuff to every jerk that walks in? I doubt it.
when paying $20 for one gives me more. I've been using rechargeable batteries for 10+ years, I've never had a probelm with any of them.
Both psp batteries put out the same power, both are the same size, nothing leaks, sony is just trying to get us to buy their ever expensive non-selling batteries.
Hey sony, offer an internal battery that's 3000mah or higher and I'll buy it, but only if it's not higher than your current batteries.
... yeah, bs, get whatever- I'm sure a sanyo battery pack is prolly better than sonys.... Ive never had a battery blow up on me- and we all know how sony are money grabbing gets
LEAVE OUR HOMEBREW ALONE! (FREEEEDOM!)
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uh-oh, i have a sandisk memory stick. Does that mean my warranty would be voided if it didn't expire already?
actually 3rd party stuff is far superior to $ony's cheaply made, expensively sold sh*t
i bought fake battery and 2gb mms the battery at 20-25% go at 0% in like 10sec...
11. » watch out, beware
USE OF NON-SONY HEADPHONES WILL DAMAGE YOUR HEADPHONE PORT QUALITY OVER TIME DUE TO USING CHEAPER, MORE RELIABLE AND DURABLE HEADPHONES THAT SOUND BETTER
and yes...the fake firmware warnings will be simply splendid to hear.
btw, laxer3A(TYL) , if that is really you, then just for *****s and giggles, i love your work.
DarkPacMan77
hey i did this and my headphone port really broke haha!the right side of the port was pushed in and the left platic snaped and now i cant use sound (i used headphones because my speakers broke too :@)
As we all know, all china does is rip off our products. Why you ask...simple they are all thieving yellow bellied tards that couldn't actually come up with an original idea when it comes to hardware. No offense to some of the talented homebrewers out there but we have to relize that were selling out to china and we should start bringing back our jobs to our country both here in the US o A and Canada. Some 3rd party companies are good including the ones here in the US so why not buy a good home grown product from your own country instead of a oppressive theiving country like china!
Support your country and support the soldiers
Come back home safe!
From Gamerush, though it seems so many people either don't know about what Gamerush is or simply don't have one in their area.
I don't know if the sale is still going on :(
Just don't use a battery made by Pelican. Remember the exploding power brick?
Meh.
Yeah, this seems more of a ploy from Sony to trick you into buying there products. But there is some truth to what they say, some batteries will cause damage to your PSP. I can tell you how pissed I get when I'll open up some device I have and see that there is white gritty sh*t all over the place. It sucks. But at least it hasn't happend to my PSP. And what the hell? They won't replace your PSP if their own batteries explode?
Other battery packs should be safe, f*cking money hungry sony just wants you to buy their product, Next their going to tell us that Sandisk's memory sticks will brick your psp =-/
well sony has got to be the piggiest console company out of all three (even microsoft) to use BS like this. They should instead warn us against products from china
keep in mind here that YOU bought their system.. so if you say sonys quality is sh** then you are saying PSP is sh**! lmao this is hilarious.. you bash the company then you say i love my psp.. conflict of intrest!
On the episode of mythbusters where they tested to see if a cell phone could cause a fire at a gas station (or something like that) they determined it wasnt the cell phone itself, it was the cheap knock-off replacement batteries exploding.
My battery is only 1800mAh.. where do I get a sony 2200mAh..
Well not EVERYTHING is fake. What you should've done was contact the seller and ask him/her questions about the product because I mean come on its from China and its on eBay... Watch out next time
every day i,m gonna hate sony more, this is just a stupid money isseu, like they do with every consumer products
the same stupid thing like the mobile phones, the hold for 6 months maybe 1 year but then it is total destroyed and to much used, ive got like 2 or 3 phones in a year, that explain also why the netherlands has more mobile phones than people (really, this is proven)
i remember the days i had a very strong nokia which was at the size of a psp and was that strong you can let fall 1000 times, and it was not broken. you could even beat up people with it
now they make al the consumer stuf at a rate that people have to buy a new one very soon, now when i buy a phone and hold it between my two hands and when i twist it, it crackles and noizles and is gonna break very easily
btw if the mobile phones last for 4 years then all the evolution will be out the phones, then we dont have 1 million differenth modedls cause no one will buy one if his phone would longer then 1 year, thats ofcourse the downside
lol, there probably scared coz some 3rd party stuff is better than sonys tat they peddle,
I have the third party battery pack that you can open up and put AAA batteries in. It was useful on a 10 hour plane trip, but it only lasted an hour/half of playing then it froze and wouldn't turn off untill I took the pack out. That could've done some damage after excessive use I guess.
been using 2 chinese MEGA lithium 2600mAh replacement batteries for 6 months... they only seem to get better...
they do have a warning on them: if long period not use, please take out the battery pack from console. avoid leakage.
But that counts for all li-ion batteries I guess...
stuff from china is low quality because its cheap. if u dont like that u should just buy stuff made by sony, but then you'd just complain that its too expensive. it appears that u people want a product thats both cheap and high quality... lol dream on
Sony can jump off of a bridge. Their lame-ass overpriced battery isn't selling - at all, so they release some bulls*** misleading statement that implies "buying a third-party battery will make your PSP explode."
wow renfeild, you are a racist prick.
Do you guys remember the exploding cel phones? Or the ones that just burst into flames? Or the exploding laptops? They were all battery failures.
The laptops are usually a manufacturing defect in a batch of batteries, where the exploding and burning cel phones you hear about are people buying cheap batteries, and having them short out, or overheat becaues they don't have the slightly expensive monitoring and shutoff hardware.
Look up the use of Cobalt Oxide in Lithium batteries, and you will find some scary stuff about how it overheats - basically it can hit a point of no return, then whatever you do, it's going up in smoke.
Just like 3rd party memory cards MIGHT work, and might corrupt after the 5th use like so many of us have seen firsthand, 3rd party batteries MIGHT work, and then again, they might just explode. Your choice which you use, but when dealing with miniaturized hardware like PSP, phones, and laptops, things are generally engineered about as tight as they can safely get, and quite simply, when you take shortcuts manufacturing, your product is cheap but dangerous.
Do you guys remember the exploding cel phones? Or the ones that just burst into flames? Or the exploding laptops? They were all battery failures.
The laptops are usually a manufacturing defect in a batch of batteries, where the exploding and burning cel phones you hear about are people buying cheap batteries, and having them short out, or overheat becaues they don't have the slightly expensive monitoring and shutoff hardware.
Look up the use of Cobalt Oxide in Lithium batteries, and you will find some scary stuff about how it overheats - basically it can hit a point of no return, then whatever you do, it's going up in smoke.
Just like 3rd party memory cards MIGHT work, and might corrupt after the 5th use like so many of us have seen firsthand, 3rd party batteries MIGHT work, and then again, they might just explode. Your choice which you use, but when dealing with miniaturized hardware like PSP, phones, and laptops, things are generally engineered about as tight as they can safely get, and quite simply, when you take shortcuts manufacturing, your product is cheap but dangerous.
it's normal that they want to make profits isn't it?? how would they survive otherwise... where would money come to develop new products??? just think before posting... things like .."oh sony wants us to buy their expensive products...sony s*cks etc...
if i had a company i would want to make big profits!!! honestly!!!
so is the sony psp battery 3.6v 2200 mah battery a fake the one that is pictured
@30
do you realize how racist you sound :/ fyi alot of the good stuff you use are from china and are not rip offs. some of yer homebrew coders could also possibly be chinese! Our economy in the US are extremely dependent on China right now, so why don't you put some more thought into your posts next time.
Your reading comprehension skills are below Kindergarten level, I swear.
Look. The statement above does not say, "non-Sony batteries will explode." The statement does say, "non-Sony batteries *could* explode." That's the only stance they can take on the matter. They're not in the business of testing batteries from other companies and they cannot guarantee their safety or their functionality since they haven't been tested. They didn't make or sell the product, so why should they stand behind it?
Yes, they are saying that to get you to buy their batteries, but it's for your and their own protection. See, if you happen to have an after-market battery in there and it happens to wreck your PSP, it would cost Sony money to fix it under warranty if they were to cover it. But they won't cover it if it fails because it's not their product. That's essentially what they're getting at. They won't cover it and you'll have to either cover the repair bill yourself or buy a whole new PSP if it is damaged beyond repair.
By buying a Sony battery, it's like getting a better warranty included with their higher price. If a Sony battery leaks on you, you can be fairly sure that Sony would cover the repair bill without too much hassle, perhaps even after your warranty has expired since it would be considered a safety hazard. I call that cheap insurance.
When it comes to batteries, you get what you pay for. I'm a mechanical engineer and I can tell you that without any degree of doubt. The reason Sony's batteries are more expensive is because they use better materials than most aftermarket companies. The aftermarket guys have less at stake by cutting corners on the product, so they try to maximize profits by minimizing costs. They do that by using the cheapest materials and processes they can get away with. What I'm getting at is just because it works doesn't mean it's just as good.
everyone should still move here because we have everything.
beware of the metally ill people, usually make up around 75% of north amercia.
my datel battery burned out a few months ago. it didn't leak in my psp, it stopped working and it smelled burnt.
I can see where Sony's coming from by releasing that PR. I remember when Nokia had the fake battery debacle (Which is why all new Nokia lithium batteries have that holo-sticker on them). I even had one of those batteries rupture in my phone, took me a week to get the thing replaced and a new SIM card for it. If there are reports of 3rd party batteries failing/rupturing/exploding, then I'll stick with Sony batteries that have been through decent QA. I'm not going to risk my PSP for have more playtime if it means risking the very life of my PSP.
But what can I say, I shove them up my A$$.
Yeah, I have the battery from my Datel 4gig HDD and that's working perfectly fine. If my battery ruptures/explodes/sprays acid on my face, I'll yell at Datel about it and not SOny. Sony just getting pissed at emails from people who've had they're PSP wrecked by something that wasn't even made by them.
Well I usualy use offbrand batteries, but then theres that whole thing with the pelican powerbrick recall. I guess they were melting in peoples hands.... unlike an M&M
sony sony sony what next "looking at your psp for too long well cause lung cancer"
China is kewl (exect for people, tradition, language, attitude and colour) I bought a 2gb mms (PRO duo (high speed)) off ebay for $100 (ages ago). and it wrks.
I think I bought my 2GB MSPD for even cheaper. It's certainly not an original, but I'm glad that it works well.
Third party batteries are at far higher risk of malfunction than the Sony originals.
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/partone-5.htm
^ Is lithium-ion the ideal battery?
Quote:
Despite its overall advantages, lithium-ion has its drawbacks. It is fragile and requires a protection circuit to maintain safe operation. Built into each pack, the protection circuit limits the peak voltage of each cell during charge and prevents the cell voltage from dropping too low on discharge. In addition, the cell temperature is monitored to prevent temperature extremes.
I ARGUED WITH SONY FOR AN HOUR ABOUT RMA MY PSP. THEY SAID YOU USED AN AFTERMARKET MEMORY STICK AND THAT WHY IT DOESN'T WORK. THE DAMN THING HAS NEVER WORKED.
I'm done with the caps. I just see people saying "what's next my San-Disk memory card is gonna void your warranty" The answer is yes if Sony has its way. The rep told me, " I know for a fact that aftermarket memory cards will damage the PSP" I said has it ever happened to you personally. Then how the hell do you know for a fact....
It just goes on from there.
well yeah sony wants there money why not there a big greedy corp. i mean look how much the ps3 is but to get down to the point yes you can buy a 2600mah mega lithium for your psp and it dosent have to be a sony product but that ***** is cheap and it would ***** up for a PERIOD of time and when it *****s up buy another one like lets be simple a 2200mah battery sony is selling is about $50 and its only gives you 5hrs of game play and the non sony battery thats a 2600mah gives you 12hrs ok lets see 5hrs or 12hrs i think i'll go with the cheaper one its only $20 and its not from sony so meaning its not from a big corp. that likes it up the butt so i'll go with the cheaper one so next time you want a battery a 2600mah mega lithium just type it in to google but dont get it from ebay like that other douche bag but thats all you need to know dont read all the other bull***** ppl are telling you trust me i know im black or am i =b
i got a futureonics psp battery it doesn't even fit in properly, which doesnt make the lid close tightly.
Sometimes when i play a game the damn system just shuts off
so this might be true =S
I thought Dell recall the battery made by SONY to have caused fire or explosion......now they are warning others to use their battery??
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2006/2006_08_14_rr_002?c=us&l=en&s=corp
Come on guys, how much money are we talking? The difference between official and unofficial batteries' prices aren't that big. Plus, it really is true that bad batteries could harm your electronic devices, no questions asked.
Plus, you can't get your warranty if you've saved a few bucks buying PSP-destroying batteries. I for one will buy the official battery once my current one is dead. Probably, I'll buy the big one.