... is only 6 hours? that is what i am getting. worried that it is a fake battery?

anyone else can comment on the battery life of their psp?

is there anyway i can increase it? switching off wifi and lowering brightness helps, right?

I think is not faked battery because PSP slim is around that range about 5-6 hours... U can try use PSP fat's battery which will increase 5-6 hours extra compare to PSP slim's battery...

my one is 6 hour same as yours...

phew. thanks people. feeling a lot better now.

anyone knows is there any option to save battery?

shit.. mine with full charge only show 4:30 hours!!! gosh... how do u recognize if it's fake?

didja try switching of wifi and lowering brightness a bit?

why not take pix of your battery and i'll take a pix of mine?

How to save your PSP battery life

1. Don't put your PSP into sleep mode. Totally quite the game and shut it off by holding the ON/OFF switch button more than 5 secs.

2. Don't play any movies.

3. Set the screen brightness to the lowest level.

4. If you really want to have more than 10hrs of battery life, don't play any game, make it as a mp3 player.

How to save your PSP battery life

1. Don't put your PSP into sleep mode. Totally quite the game and shut it off by holding the ON/OFF switch button more than 5 secs.
oh ya...thk for imformation
2. Don't play any movies.
em em...
3. Set the screen brightness to the lowest level.
this will make my eyes pain
4. If you really want to have more than 10hrs of battery life, don't play any game, make it as a mp3 player.
omg...this is psp not MP3...lolx

you can buy any compatible Fat battery, put that in, phew extra hours.. although it will make the Slim uglier

Cool.. I will try to take a pic later and PM to you

its not a fake batt, thats the right amount of hours you're getting for the slim batt.
Let me explain, the original phat batt is 1800mAh. when put on the phat psp, lasts about 5 hours playing games STRAIGHT.
The original slim batt is ONLY 1200mAh, when used on the slim lasts abour 5-6 hours playing games STRAIGHT.

the difference? Slim has an added advantage because:
1) It is designed to consume less battery power thus making it lasts longer
2) with a smaller battery capacity, you take LESS time to fully charge the batt and get to play MORE or equal compared to the phat.

Let me note that when the psp is in sleep mode, it DOESNT take alot of battery at all. you can leave your psp in sleep mode for 24 hours without charging and it wouldnt even move 1%

Also, you can leave your wifi switch on as it doesnt take up batt. it takes up batt ONLY when you connect the wifi or use Ad-hoc.

Lowering brightness helps, maybe 1 or 2%? It is worth it if you're willing to hurt your eyes playing with less backlight for hours.

Its possible to have 10hours of gaming with the slim. Go get the 3600mAh phat batt and buy the new phat batt cover for the slim. The cover and batt is done by third party companies. Go google it.

This post has been edited by Ryuuga: Nov 8 2007, 09:40 PM

i can play 7-8 hours using a UMD to play MHF2 with background loading.. backlite set to LOWEST volume set either to 3 or using headset...

havent tried with fat batteries tho...

6.02 hours on my PSP Slim on full charge. And thats on Full brightness as well...

How long do we need to charge the psp slim untill its full....1st day is 8 hours b4 u on it rite?

nah, mine from low batt(auto switch off) one hour plus at most 2 hours full de =P
See the orange light, if it goes off then you'll know its full ^^

This post has been edited by Ryuuga: Nov 10 2007, 12:13 PM

Well, AFAIK, the 8hours thingy applies to almost every single electronic components with battery nowadays. From handphones, to cameras and now, even to PSP. How effective and true or they, i certainly do not know but of course, i still practices this trend

Anyway, as what Ryuuga said, it took me around 1 hour + to fully charge the Slim. Just see until the orange light goes off...

I really think the 8 hour thing is unnecessary because
1) by one hour or so, the batt fully receives enough power thus cutting off extra incoming power to the machine
2) Overcharging the batt will cause the lithium battery to bloat up like a puffing fish and eventually unusable

Ways to overcharge:
1) Charge the batt until it is full
2) Plug it out and plug it back in again, you will see the orange light lighting up
3) When the light turns off it is full, repeat step 2.

Keep repeating those steps everyday for a month or so, the batt will overcharge and spoil. it DOESNT give you extra batt power, so be careful of that. Don't go thinking "eh? still can charge la" then plug it back in again. Your batt spoils faster =P

That applies to ALL the handhelds, Ipods, hp, DS etc etc

hmm my batt can last 5 and a half hours only wor

haha not that much diff la. are there any high capacity batt for the lite yet ???

last time i checked , its almost 6hours

If you are hardcore gamer, suggest you to have an extra battery then

My fat psp last me the whole day...

u play more than 12 hrs eh

ei...a noob question here
seldom use the battery will let the battery can use more longer?

technically, yes, but if u hasve the iem u shud play it

y wanna buy if u wanna keep? just buy extra batt then

i love lay at my bed to play my psp...
batt...how much for it?

Lol i play almost 12 hours a day(morning till night) and I only have to take 1 hour or so to charge it once mid day. So technically even if you're hardcore, you don't need an extra batt for psp lol. It should be more than adequate.

Not sure bout Slim batt, The last time i bought my fat batt(2200mAh) was about rm80 if im not mistaken. Even that is overpriced. I was desperate cause my original batt was bloated up =/
Now i use my original batt(modded with 3 AAA batts) as a pandora battery

This post has been edited by Ryuuga: Nov 12 2007, 10:28 PM

Just use earphone to play. It really last very long.

Of cause it helps with Switching off wifi and lowering brightness. Remember, the PSP slim is runing with a 3.6v, 1200mAh battery, check it out with urs, the old psp is also 3.6v but with 1800mAh so the battery life spend is longer compare with the slim PSP. Don't worry, it is not fake

For a better solution, u can got to the settings then battery save mode, then turn on the wireless save mode. second, of cause, using UMD games can save more life spend then playing games with memory card.

Hope it helps, and is the answer u want.

Huh? I thought it's the other way around?

I know you're trying to help, but youve got it all wrong >.<
1) First of all, it doesn't matter if your wifi switch is on as long as you don't connect it.
2) PSP slim uses LESS batt power compared to phat therefore it lasts relatively longer even though it has a smaller batt capacity (Slim approx 6 hours game play, phat 4 to 5 hours game play)
3) playing games through the memstick uses less batt power compared to using UMD because the machine doesnt have to use extra power to constantly read the UMD disc and saving it in the cache

^^