Atmosphere stopped working out of the sudden. (error code 2002-4373)

[Iionut73]

Went into OFW to play sp3 and the next day when I wanted to enter emummc I kept getting this error

 

[linuxares]

Try ejecting your SD Card and boot OFW. It might be a corrupted sd card.

 

[Iionut73]

Try ejecting your SD Card and boot OFW. It might be a corrupted sd card.

done, did nothing. Also how could it get corrupt anyways? I didn't do anything to it.

 

[linuxares]

done, did nothing. Also how could it get corrupt anyways? I didn't do anything to it.

Welcome to the world of nands and sd cards. They can corrupt for any reason.

Can you enter Recovery Mode? Vol +, Vol - and Power when you boot it up.

 

[Iionut73]

Welcome to the world of nands and sd cards. They can corrupt for any reason.

Can you enter Recovery Mode? Vol +, Vol - and Power when you boot it up.

did and done, it showed up but honestly can't do much there

 

[linuxares]

You might need to factory reset it. Does your emunand still boot and works?

 

[Iionut73]

You might need to factory reset it. Does your emunand still boot and works?

yeah it boots but it shows the atmosphere logo and the Nintendo Switch one and after sitting at the last one for a while it shows that

 

[linuxares]

yeah it boots but it shows the atmosphere logo and the Nintendo Switch one and after sitting at the last one for a while it shows that

Can you eject it and put it in your computer?

Can I ask if it's Windows you run?

 

[Iionut73]

Can you eject it and put it in your computer?

Can I ask if it's Windows you run?

im using a hackintosh rn so I can boot both Mac OS and windows yet that as not the problem.
My sd card reader broke.
Since september my only way of accessing the sd card data was hekate or tcp

 

[linuxares]

im using a hackintosh rn so I can boot both Mac OS and windows yet that as not the problem.
My sd card reader broke.
Since september my only way of accessing the sd card data was hekate or tcp

Hmm... not sure if you can test the sd card if you mount it via Hekate sadly. In theory it should.

Just for shit and giggles, since it might be something wrong with Atmosphere.

Download the latest atmosphere and hekate, and copy over. See if that does anything else.

 

[Iionut73]

Hmm... not sure if you can test the sd card if you mount it via Hekate sadly. In theory it should.

Just for shit and giggles, since it might be something wrong with Atmosphere.

Download the latest atmosphere and hekate, and copy over. See if that does anything else.

ok so it has been a while because I ran into a lot of issues.
But for short installing new atmosphere and hekate did nothing

 

[k7ra]

There was a post on reddit with same error and what solution they find:

I just found the solution, and it’s pretty straightforward. Assuming your hardware isn’t faulty, it means that your console’s files are corrupt. To fix it, power the Switch off and turn it on while holding both volume buttons. Then, tap initialize console without deleting save data. This will not delete your users and save data, but your software yes so make sure you can redownload it later from the eShop. Once that’s done, it should be back to normal again.

But you would lose your emunand or games installed on ofw I think, so sdcard need to be backuped.
Bcs it's reset itself? I never done it, so I'm not sure. Try to do it without sdcard first

 

[Iionut73]

There was a post on reddit with same error and what solution they find:

But you would lose your emunand or games installed on ofw I think, so sdcard need to be backuped.
Bcs it's reset itself? I never done it, so I'm not sure. Try to do it without sdcard first

alright ill try that, I don't really have much to lose on my ofw except having to log back in into my Nintendo account

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ok so its been a while, I have whiped everything out of my sd card and my switch Nand
when trying to boot into emummc after restoring files I get pkg2 decryption failed

 

[k7ra]

alright ill try that, I don't really have much to lose on my ofw except having to log back in into my Nintendo account

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ok so its been a while, I have whiped everything out of my sd card and my switch Nand
when trying to boot into emummc after restoring files I get pkg2 decryption failed

Do you boot in ofw?
You was need just to backup them, not delete. And try restore stock ofw with combination that I mentoned
It's only show:

pkg2 decryption failed

or there more?

Here forum post with similar thing
gbatemp
and

corrupted pkg2 (normally happens on emuMMC with fake cards), if it happens in ofw - I hope you have nand backup with needed files for restoring in
Fixed by using a proper sd card and recreating emuMMC (if it's emunand, then it's fine. Bcs you wiped microsd)

 

[Tesh3934]

Welcome to the world of nands and sd cards. They can corrupt for any reason.

Can you enter Recovery Mode? Vol +, Vol - and Power when you boot it up.

What if you've got no SD card and the switch won't enter maintenance mode no matter what you try?

 

[linuxares]

What if you've got no SD card and the switch won't enter maintenance mode no matter what you try?

get it to a repair person.
Its hard to say whats fault without additional info.

 

[Tesh3934]

get it to a repair person.
Its hard to say whats fault without additional info.

It's all the info I have as well as the error code. 2002-4373, if I remember correctly.