My psp fat stopped charging my battery. I can still play if it's plugged in but as soon as i unplug it it turns off. When i go to the battery status screen it will say charging for a couple minutes and then say "charge complete" but my battery level is listed at 0%. I don't really know what happened. I've had the psp for about 3 years now. The only things i can think of are that the battery is just dead or got messed up the other day when my psp locked up when i was using the web browser and i had to pull the battery out to get it to shut-off. I tried putting a battery from a psp slim in mine but it didn't seem to work.
I would recommend getting a new battery, and check you PSP charging cable and make sure there are no slits in the wiring or rips, etc. The PSP Slim battery was never meant to work in a Fat PSP (to solve that part). If a replacement battery doesn't solve this, I would take your PSP to get it inspected or repaired. If worse comes to worse, purchase a new PSP. Try checking e-bay or a free ad-website near you area to get it cheaper.
ok the problem seems to be quite common and it seems to be quite common to buy a new battery to solve it but you dont have to. 1>psp only runs of ac 2>battery charging light(orange) lights only for short time then turns green again 3>battery status in xmb is charge level 0% remaining time - battery status - CHARGE COMPLETE ive checked the battery voltage through irshell it said charge level o% hours left 0.0 power source AC Battery status Charging Battery volt:4184mv ive googled and found out that there is the possibility to cross wire(short)the plus and minus of the battery to make it work again. i did try it on two of my batterys more than once and it didnt work. so i came up with another method. the voltage of the battery was so high it was (overcharged)full so I took a bulb of my motorbike and connected it to the battery. it was 12V and 21W. drained the battery (took a long time) and even left the bulb on there for another hour to make shure that it was totally empty. then after i put it back in the psp(without the bulb connected ;) it finally started to catch the charge back like it used to in the old days. i think the problem is that the chip in the battery is kinda crashed. the chip tells the psp that its got 0%. but the voltmeter in the psp tells the charger that its full and stops charging to prevent burning the battery. since the chip says 0% the psp wont even try using the battery to prevent data loss. whatever i hope i could help people with this. it sucks having to buy a new battery when the old one is still good. have fun. eddiedgar from germany
Omg thanks man. When my ac adaptor was in, it blinked orange and green until it was full. It stopped then it went to 0% battery. I kept playing and then it started to charge once again. I thought i needed a new adaptor, Thanks so much.
Take your PSP to a Sonyrepair shop first, if it works when they get you a new battery, you pay the money, if not, you'd better condider how much it would cost to get it repaired, then you decide to repair it or not. I always do this LOL
hi, I have had problem with my battery as well. when I plugged in the power cord to psp the orange light was just flashing and psp even didn't see the battery in. I did try to close + and - with a piece of wire, don't work. but there is three pins in total so I did put wire in to + slot, and another into middle one which i presume is ground. I've put the red (+) inside the charger plug and wrapped the black (ground) around charger plug, after 5 minutes i had 2.6v in battery. loaded battery into psp and it's charging now i will see how it go.
My brother just got a new PSP for Christmas and it won't charge. Last night it was working and he saw that it was going to die, so he just put it back in the case and planned on charging it the next time he wanted to play it. It won't even turn on if it is plugged in, it does not respond. I was curious to wonder if the battery would be loose in any way, but i cannot find a screw driver small enough to take the back off and look. Thanks for your help, its greatly appreciated!
Okay, we were looking in the wrong place for the battery, but we took the back casing off and messed with the battery and it still won't work. We have even tried a different charger, wonder if that was what was wrong, and it still didn't work. Any ideas?
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