My Playstation Vita now lasts 10 hours. now with battery life test! Eric Wong / June 21, 2012. It was one of the worst days in my life. Especially when I was so deep into Mortal Kombat. UPDATE December 2014 See the same mod performed on a ycptech reader’s PS Vita 2000 slim.

Over the course of the next few days (hopefully) I will be bringing to you guys some tutorials on PS Vita hardware mods. This one today, courtesy of CPUzX on /talk, will allow you to install a second battery in PS Vita for increased battery life.DISCLAIMER: Any screw ups you make are 100% your fault and I nor CPUzX are to blame. Thank you and have a great day.What you will need:. Philips PH00 Screwdriver. Electrical Tape. Soldering Iron + Solder. A decent length of wire.

A genuine PSP battery (or a battery of the same size and voltage 3.6/3.7). Pliers. PS Vita WiFi Only console (3G is not supported).Note about the battery. A Lithium-Ion battery is recommended because they are much more reliable than others. Also remember, a genuine PSP battery. Soundmax adi 198x integrated audio driver for windows xp 32 bit free download. There are a lot of fakes out there. You have been warned.

Installing The batteryFirst, you’ve got to open up your Vita (go figure). You can follow tutorial on how to do that. Take out the battery and strip of a section of both the black and red wires, making sure that they do not touch each other.

Leave the white wire be.Now you have to open up the casing of your PSP battery, making sure not to pierce the battery. To do this, desolder the positive and negative wires of the PSP battery from the PCB. At this point, solder some short wire into the + and – pads of the PSP battery.

Twist the + wire from the PSP battery, onto the + wire patch that you stripped off on the PS Vita battery. Do the same with the.Now cover up the twisted sections with some electrical tape, do not use to much or else it won’t fit where we want it to. Pick up the back half of the PS Vita case. Take your pliers and twist and snap off several plastic grooves off the case. This shouldn’t harm anything because this is where you would find the 3G module on a 3G Vita.Most importantly, make sure that you put electrical tape on each and every single contact that you worked with. When you feel like there is a satisfactory placeholder for the battery, place it in.

Force may be necessary. It should look somewhat similar to this.image courtesy of decookaaronWhen you are sure that everything is safe and sound, put everything back the way you found it, and make sure that everything works.P.S. If you get confused trying to figure out which trigger holder goes on which side, you can use these pictures as a guide.Left:Right:That’s how it’s done folks. I want to say thank you to CPUzX, for figuring all of this work out and for providing the pictures.Well, that’s all for now from me, The Jay Doctor.Source.

Wish there was a way to use 2x64GB SanDisk micoSD cards in my Vita like my PSP. But I’m not gonna complain, as I recently bought a 64GB Vita mem card, and it’s great for having space for both official Vita content, and for TN-V content. 😀Oh, and I’m quite content with having a 3G model. This is a cool mod and all, but not really worth all the hassle and risk (for me at least anyways).

Now hopefully one day a larger capacity single battery (made for the Vita) replacement is available.Keep the mod news comin’ though. I’d love to put some LEDs in there (easy enough mod, but I’m not experienced at all really in hardware mods. I’d be fofraid to crack my PSV open, unless I had a secondary one). Also, maybe one day there’ll be a way to put L2/R2 triggers in there, and map the Vita to them. There’s def physical room for them, as far as I can see.

I recommend getting the nyko power grip. Makes the vita much more comfortable and increases battery life tremendously. But make sure you save your receipt because there are alot of faulty grips.

I had to send my first one back because it died only after a month. Nyko sent me a new one but I had to pay the shipping. I’ve had this new one for about a year. Decided to buy a second one when they stopped making them because I saw the price going up on ebay. So if you have the 3g model like, I would go this route.

Seems like the Vita has just enough battery to run out while finishing a gaming session. Great mod tutorial. Seems safe enough if you know what you’re doing. The vita should charge the two batteries as one.

I’ve done this type of thing with other less expensive devices in the past. Just don’t use generic!.