As you guys know, my old PSP broke because it fell one too many times; when fully charged I only had about two hours of battery usage; however, on this new one, I can get around ten hours on a full charge.
So I'm not the only one that read the title and thought CFW There is a piece of me that really wants to hard mod for USB charging, but I'm not all that good with a soldering iron.
Lol dude its me we are talking about, of course I would think about CFW. And yeah I know the feeling, I suck at it.
You don't need to hard mod for USB charging. My PSP is running 6.60 Pro-C, I can enable USB charging from the recovery menu.
My fault for not being clear. You can charge with a USB normally. However, the PSP needs to actively route power to the battery. This means that the PSP needs to be on and it needs to decide to do it. It turns out that a PSP will only decide to USB charge if it sees a data connection, so it will only work if you connect it to a computer, PS3, or anything that can recognize it really. However with a rather simple mod you can make the system passively route USB power to the battery. Then you could charge a PSP that is off with a wall USB charger for instance. I came real close when my charger broke. The first replacement I ordered turned out to be a lemon and the second was mislabeled and turned out to be an external battery charger (i.e. you need to take the battery out to charge it)
