is it possible to get the cfw 5.00 m33 on psp 3004 with fw 4.21 to run???

if yes maybe could u tell me how^^

Installing the custom firmware varies in complexity depending on the model of PSP model and version of the original firmware. If you're fortunate enough to have an older "phat" PSP (e.g. the larger black model) that's running firmware 1.00 or 1.50, then installing the custom firmware is fairly straightforward.

If you know someone with a PSP who already has the custom firmware installed, then the installation process is still easy enough, because they can use their PSP to help you with yours.

If you've got a newer PSP Slim (the smaller white model, like the one in the picture above) and/or are running a newer firmware, then there are no easy options left, so get ready for the comically unpleasant experience below.

In order to install the custom firmware, you'll need a spare battery and a spare memory stick. For the love of Douglas Adams, please do not use this post as a guide! There are several web sites (here and here) that cover the entire installation process in far more detail and with the appropriate safety precautions. If you mess this up you will turn your PSP into a lifeless and possibly explosive plastic brick.

The basic, high-level steps are as follows:

1. Create a Pandora's battery. This is a battery that has been modified to make the PSP into boot from the memory stick.
2. Create a Magic Memory Stick. This is a memory stick that has been specially formatted to boot and perform a firmware upgrade. Note that there are some limits on the capacity and brand of memory stick that can be used; see the guides above for more details.
3. With the PSP powered off and the battery removed, insert the magic memory stick into the PSP.
4. Insert the Pandora's battery. The PSP will power on automatically boot from the magic memory stick.
5. Use the software on the magic memory stick to install the custom firmware. On the PSP Slim the display is blank, so you just have to hit X and wait. The lights on the front of the PSP will blink for several minutes. The PSP will automatically power off when the installation is finished.
6. Remove the Pandora's battery and the magic memory stick. The memory stick can be reformatted and used as usual. The Pandora's battery can not, because some of the battery's safety features are disabled as part of the conversion process. In other words, do not attempt to use the Pandora's battery as a regular battery unless you want your PSP to melt into a smoldering puddle of goo.
7. Power on the PSP using a regular battery or the power cable. Congratulations, you are now running the custom firmware.

The hardest part of this process is creating the Pandora's battery. If you know someone with a PSP that already has the custom firmware installed, then they can run an application on their PSP to temporarily "soft-mod" a regular battery into Pandora's battery.

If you don't know anyone with a PSP that already has the custom firmware installed, then the only way to convert a regular battery into a Pandora's battery is to "hard-mod" it; that means cutting open the battery casing and disconnecting one of the leads on the internal circuitry.

The guides I read (see above) have plenty of pictures, but I was still surprised by how small the pieces actually were. Here's a picture I just took of my Pandora's battery, including a ruler and quarter as size references:



Inside a Pandora's Battery

Creating a Magic Memory Stick is much simpler. Basically you:

* format the memory stick in a special way (using mspformat)
* copy the necessary firmware installation and upgrade files into place
* generates an Initial Program Load (IPL) file,
* copy the generated IPL file to the first sector of the memory stick (using mspinst)

If you're using Windows, the "TotalNewbi Installer" and "Pandora Easy GUI" tools can automate this process. In theory, anyway. When I tried to use them in my Windows XP VMWare instance, they both had problems. The TotalNewbi Installer simply refused to work, and the Pandora Easy GUI blue-screened XP each time I ran it.

Here's what finally worked:

* used Pandora Easy GUI to copy the firmware files into place and generate the installer definition file (mspinst.idl)
* used dd in Linux to copy mspinst.ibl into the first sector of the Memory Stick

The good news is that creating the Pandora's Battery and Magic Memory Stick are the hardest steps in the process. Once you get past them, everything else is relatively straightforward. Even better, the process can be used to install custom firmware on any PSP, regardless of hardware model or firmware version.


Source http://pablotron.org/?cid=1554


Actually you can just buy a pandora battery online for about $15

wow o.O youre a pro
on every site i found on google stood its just impossible
thanx very much but that sound complicated with the battery xD

To my knowlage I don't think that a psp 3004 cam be hacked because The Pandora menu wont boot up every time I try on my psp 3000 but it works fine on my psp 2000. :/ sorry

maybe u r doing something wrong^^

I found that when using a magic memory stick and a pandoras battery to instal custom firmware, it required specific firmware in correlation to the 'downgader'(for lack a better term) to instal properly. essentially all your doing is bricking it and then going to the recovery menu with some tools that allow the installation of a custom operating system.

is it possible to install the cfw through a psp with phat ?? so that i dont have to make all that way xD