Hacking Hardware Picofly - a HWFLY switch modchip

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I installed rp2040 zero and when I turn on the console after the normal blue led, an orange light appears, what should I check?
 

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ah okay then check for soldering bridges

hwfly flex isnt alot easyier then installing mosfets :-)

but better for "unexperienced" people
This is the soldering job. While definitely not the cleanest one, There's a gap for sure between every solder point. Don't think I've shorted anything here.
Is it really possible that a capacitor has blown but everything keeps working flawlessly? I mean, it's an APU capacitor, I would expect it to be fairly important
 

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This is the soldering job. While definitely not the cleanest one, There's a gap for sure between every solder point. Don't think I've shorted anything here.
Is it really possible that a capacitor has blown but everything keeps working flawlessly? I mean, it's an APU capacitor, I would expect it to be fairly important
left cap i guess?
no they are not that improtant afaikbut it there is a short it should be resolved
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White can mean a cap blew. It also can be flux that got heated up and evaporated.
really think it can be flux at such a low temp?
 

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left cap i guess?
no they are not that improtant afaikbut it there is a short it should be resolved
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really think it can be flux at such a low temp?
Hmm true, I don't know which component it came from after all. But since everything seem to work?
I personally would look for a damaged component.
 

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left cap i guess?
no they are not that improtant afaikbut it there is a short it should be resolved
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really think it can be flux at such a low temp?
I mean, It's all so tiny that it's not so easy to tell where smoke was coming, but the left one definitely looks worse. But there's still an obvious gap, even if little, between the solder points
 

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Can someone tell me what to do? I already get green led, but still boot back to normal. Thank you in advance
 

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hey the title for this post says "a hwfly switch modchip" does this just mean i can use instructions for the hwfly like those on the rentry guide.
 

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just got everything installed but instead of booting into hekate I keep getting a yellow led indication.

I believe everything is connected well and tried to change a few solder point for D0 (cuz yellow for bad D0) but I’m getting the same issue.

anything I did wrong?
No idea about the issue itself, but replace your GND wire.. a thick 3.3V wire is no good if the return line (GND) is too thin again.
 
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can we update from 2.5 to 2.61 via hekate with pico toolbox 0.2?
i tried flashing update.bin with toolbox and although it says success, no bootlogo change and toolbox cannot read firmware info. i think i saw bootloader cannot be flashed with toolbox so is this why?
 
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can we update from 2.5 to 2.61 via hekate with pico toolbox 0.2?
i tried flashing update.bin with toolbox and although it says success, no bootlogo change and toolbox cannot read firmware info. i think i saw bootloader cannot be flashed with toolbox so is this why?

No, the upgrade feature was added in the 2.6 version.
 
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