Hello all, first time poster here. My Wii U has been bricked for a while, and I recently found out about NAND-AID. In my case, I hit the memory error screen as soon as the wii u logo goes away.
I already had a pico, so I was going to try dumping nand and doing the prep before I actually bought a nand-aid and attempted the soldering. I hit an interesting problem though. In the original guide I was following (not the one from this forum), the person got theyre nand dumped, had about 900 errors in MLC, and remarked that that was quite a few. With this reference point to expect some errors, I began dumping. About 6 hours later, I was only around 5% of the way through the dump, and had close to 7000 errors. (I later stopped the dump when it was at about 4 GB and 14000 errors).
In this time, I had found better instructions in this forum, and messaged @SDIO about the errors to get some reference if this was normal. They replied that it's a miracle that I could still load the recovery menu...lol. SDIO then recommended that I create a thread about this and that I could potentially try just rebuilding MLC, instead of trying to repair mine. They also mentioned trying to build a recovery that doesn't retry on errors, so dumping would go much faster.
Now, I'm not really sure how to do any of this, but I'm good at following instructions, so please advise on how to proceed. Also, if it matters, I don't care about losing game saves, as I kept all of them on external storage afaik.
I already had a pico, so I was going to try dumping nand and doing the prep before I actually bought a nand-aid and attempted the soldering. I hit an interesting problem though. In the original guide I was following (not the one from this forum), the person got theyre nand dumped, had about 900 errors in MLC, and remarked that that was quite a few. With this reference point to expect some errors, I began dumping. About 6 hours later, I was only around 5% of the way through the dump, and had close to 7000 errors. (I later stopped the dump when it was at about 4 GB and 14000 errors).
In this time, I had found better instructions in this forum, and messaged @SDIO about the errors to get some reference if this was normal. They replied that it's a miracle that I could still load the recovery menu...lol. SDIO then recommended that I create a thread about this and that I could potentially try just rebuilding MLC, instead of trying to repair mine. They also mentioned trying to build a recovery that doesn't retry on errors, so dumping would go much faster.
Now, I'm not really sure how to do any of this, but I'm good at following instructions, so please advise on how to proceed. Also, if it matters, I don't care about losing game saves, as I kept all of them on external storage afaik.