I’ve already tried:

• Different batteries
• A new charging port
• A new button board
• Reseating the grey ribbon cable

Power is getting through (even to the LED board), but the LEDs never light up. Hold switch moves fine. Same result every time.

Before I drop like $50 on a replacement motherboard, does anyone know any common PSP-1000 issues that cause this? Bad ribbon cable? Blown component? Something dumb I’m overlooking?

Any help would be appreciated

⟐ Answered 四月 21, 2026 at 22:24 GMT-7

I am unable to get into safe mode, or make anything display on screen. I verified that the battery is alright by checking its voltage manually, and it sits at 4.18-4.2 volts.

Thus far, my only troubleshooting has been checking for water damage (none that I could find), and re-seating all the ribbon cables inside, which resulted in no change to the symptoms. It should be noted that this obviously included disconnecting the battery, which was what I originally tried thinking the issue may have been related to the previous firmware issue with Vitas.

Visually, I am unable to find anything wrong aside from some cosmetic scratches. Does anyone have any idea what the issue might be?

⟐ Commented 四月 18, 2026 at 21:22 GMT-7

⟐ Answer edited 四月 17, 2026 at 0:37 GMT-7

⟐ Answered 四月 15, 2026 at 7:01 GMT-7

Hi these are the photos .First time i open a psp device,

Here are the pictures

And the motherboard

⟐ Commented 四月 11, 2026 at 23:57 GMT-7

⟐ Answered 四月 04, 2026 at 15:29 GMT-7

⟐ Answered 四月 03, 2026 at 7:55 GMT-7

All of this started when my psp ran out of battery for a long time and turned it on again, the time setting prompt appeared and accidentally let the battery run out of power, since then it doesn't accept any kind of charging.

⟐ Commented 四月 02, 2026 at 19:23 GMT-7

⟐ Answered 四月 01, 2026 at 3:53 GMT-7

⟐ Commented 三月 28, 2026 at 15:19 GMT-7

I followed several tutorials and my screen is actually working, but I get this weird display with a pixelized view and an oversized display scale (see the truncated upper status bar):

I read several times that a tiny bridge had to be made by soldering pads or one of the orange spots, but I don't know if this is related to my issue. My backlight fuse seems to be ok.

This is what my PCB looks like:

⟐ Commented 三月 24, 2026 at 7:33 GMT-7

⟐ Answered 三月 16, 2026 at 7:35 GMT-7

Worked on PS Vita 1000 3G and lost SMD capacitor by Hot Air gun.

I wanted to ask if anyone knows the rating of the lost capacitor near to the

proprietary charging port. I wanted to put type-c, but without a capacitor I can't install mod

⟐ Answered 三月 01, 2026 at 8:23 GMT-7

⟐ Answered 二月 25, 2026 at 23:27 GMT-7

Are you going to sell the Playstation portal battery?

Thank you and have a great day!

Sincerely,

Corey

⟐ Answered 二月 21, 2026 at 21:49 GMT-7

⟐ Answer accepted 二月 13, 2026 at 16:42 GMT-7

⟐ Answered 二月 13, 2026 at 1:32 GMT-7

first currently my biggest issue. The power button on my device seems to work. While charging, before the battery has enough power to turn on when I press the button, the light flashes orange, which is my indicator that the button isn't broken. This is consistent with both the original one and the replacement purchased.

The device may power on if I hold the button down; no matter what I do, the button will not power off the device.

The Home button on the device seems to be completly non functional other than in rare moments. Hoping the replacement board for the left side fixes that.

The entire right controller board has just stopped working. may have been the ribbon cable.

⟐ Commented 二月 10, 2026 at 10:25 GMT-7

Since putting it back together the menu's work ok with the directional pad but when I load a game the character just runs to the right all the time in Dexter. Tried with another game that boots to the menu and it keeps scrolling downwards in the menus (could be due to it going right?)

I've tried removing the analog stick, but the character still goes right in game. Also tried cleaning the connections on the d pad and the analog connection and still is the same.

Also I have to press down hard of the dpad for it to work (just the down arrow). Everything else seams to work ok on the psp 1000.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

⟐ Commented 二月 09, 2026 at 23:16 GMT-7

I opened the device and saw most ribbon cables detached and I plugged them , but it doesn’t light orange or get power at all , is there something wrong in the picture that I didn’t notice ? (I tested the DC-In Power Jack in another device and it powered on so I guess it isn’t the problem)

⟐ Commented 一月 30, 2026 at 8:13 GMT-7