Hardware Homebrew Misc Switch constantly crashing and freezing, among other issues

[Pyoro_]

Hello, so I just modded my Nintendo Switch a few days ago, but I keep having problems, games are crashing, atmosphere is crashing, (2002-3502) sometimes my games refuse to boot, random panics, freezing, I keep getting 1 bit mode in hekate (rarely but it happens) and the sd card test just gave me 32 read/write errors, I've tried multiple cards, is my switch at fault? Thank you.

 

[Ryab]

Hello, so I just modded my Nintendo Switch a few days ago, but I keep having problems, games are crashing, atmosphere is crashing, (2002-3502) sometimes my games refuse to boot, random panics, freezing, I keep getting 1 bit mode in hekate (rarely but it happens) and the sd card test just gave me 32 read/write errors, I've tried multiple cards, is my switch at fault? Thank you.

Was this a modchip install? If so then its definitely an issue there.

 

[Pyoro_]

Was this a modchip install? If so then its definitely an issue there.

No hardmod of any kind. all software mods.

 

[GunzOfNavarone]

The 1 bit mode usually refers to a problem with the sd card reader, either the removeable adapter or the socket. I repaired one of these for someone who was missing 2 pins from the socket side on the board. I had to bypass the missing pins with jumper cables from the test points on the board, to pins on the sd card adapter.

 

[HawaiianInTown]

Have you been using the same folders/files for all your SD cards? What firmware and CFW are you using?

 

[Pyoro_]

The 1 bit mode usually refers to a problem with the sd card reader, either the removeable adapter or the socket. I repaired one of these for someone who was missing 2 pins from the socket side on the board. I had to bypass the missing pins with jumper cables from the test points on the board, to pins on the sd card adapter.

oh, so my sd card reader is broken? great...

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Have you been using the same folders/files for all your SD cards? What firmware and CFW are you using?

same files for both sd cards, same folders when formatting, 17.0.1 OFW and latest atmosphere.

 

[GunzOfNavarone]

oh, so my sd card reader is broken? great...

Post automatically merged: Jan 2, 2024

same files for both sd cards, same folders when formatting, 17.0.1 OFW and latest atmosphere.

Quite possibly. I would try the following, in this order: a) A different SD card b) a replacement adapter (very easy to fit) c) look at the socket side.

 

[Ryab]

Also make sure you are using Fat32. Exfat has instability issues.

 

[Hayato213]

Should fix your SD card slot problem if you are getting 1 bit mode.

 

[Pyoro_]

UPDATE: turns out the FPC connector was missing pins, ordered another unpatched switch and it's working perfectly. thanks for the help!