Spicy pillow
Not my screnshot. A friend sent it to me.
#PSP #hardwaregore
The PSP battery is curved, this isn’t a failing battery. Also the battery is enclosed in hard plastic. There would be a large split where the clam shell is showing.
Ok so, my psp battery became a spicy pillow.
Yes, the battery is curved, but when spicy it becomes even more curved and the lid doesnt close anymore. On top of that, its very hard to actually see if its spicy because of that curve.
The enclosure is not hard plastic and it doesnt crack when the battery is spicy, it bends at first.
Ok one side of that is supposed to be flat…
Exactly haha. I quickly disposed of that when i found it xD
I recently had a work laptop battery die. This was during COVID so I didn’t want to deal with taking it to a place or having them send a technician. I told them to just mail me one and I’d do it myself. I assumed it would pop out like the picture and be easily replaced. It turned out that I needed a heat gun and had to get like 5 screws out, remove and replace a ribbon cable and a few other things. It was still doable, but thanks Dell for making that way harder than it had to be to sell services to people.
Odd for a Dell to need a heat gun, I’ve done a few of them (since the early 2000’s)and they were all screws.
Sounds like something from a consumer or compact model?
Maybe it didn’t need a heat gun. I’m going off memory from a few years ago and I might have added that thinking about phone batteries I’ve done. In any event, it was far more complicated than the last dell I’d changed (maybe 2010 ish which involved sliding a tab with your thumb like so:
I thought this was all I’d have to do. Fuck Tim Apple and Steve Jobs for starting all this bullshit. Tech used to be really fucking easy to do basic maintenance and small upgrades.
I don’t know if this is gore or not…
I remember the psp battery being slightly rounded on one side to fit the console.
It was not. There’s supposed to be a plastic case covering it. This is quite spicy indeed.
Alright, I am just confused as it has no visible cracks in the plastic.
There’s a seam you can’t see. It’s like a clamshell.
You’re not crazy, the PSP batteries are normally rounded/beveled.
it’s not gore. and yes it did have a rounded edge otherwise the cover the other commenter mentioned wouldn’t fit.
gore for a PSP battery would be cracks all over it or something
The battery is bulging out… which explains the title.
I remember one of the earliest ways to hack a PSP (to run custom firmware) was to use a pencil to draw on the PCB on the battery pack.
What
It seems I have misremembered slightly however in my defense it was over 15 years ago.
I think these were the instructions I was thinking of to make a “pandora battery” https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Your-Custom-Firmware-MOD-PSP/
The critical part seems to be severing some connection on the battery PCB. The pencil is later used to unsever the connection and restore the battery back to normal.
The use of a pencil to mod a psp must have been so novel and weird that that’s all that I remember about the process lol.
I don’t remember why this worked though.
For anyone wondering 3.6V is about typically what the PS2 ran most of its component at (3.3 - 5V range), despite being a 12V device, mostly because the peripherals needed higher voltages (e.g. gamepad) which the PSP doesnt need
It’s from the chemistry.
3.6, 3.7V is just what lithium-ion cells naturally give you. It can be as high as 4.1V when they’re freshly charged.
Also LCDs require a lot of voltage
Mostly irrelevant but thanks
Also, Shadow isn’t a clone of Sonic despite their similarities but was created from genetic material derived from alien DNA, and Dr. Robotnik simply shaped it into the form of a hedgehog
I ran one of those bad boys for thousands of hours and never had issue with one.
Hang on in there, little buddy.
