Hacking PLEASE help me unbrick my wii!!!

[Livin in a box]

nope your fucked. Might as well send to nintendo and get it repaired. Just say I updated to 4.2 and the screen was just black

Do you think I can do that? Just send it to Nintendo and say it got broken by a normal update? Dont I have to pay for anything then?

You'll be lucky if you don't have to, I'll say that.

 

[knetten]

Lol...someone say I dont have to pay, and someone say I do. Who am I gonna belive?
And...do I have to call them? Can't I just send my wii and atach a letter or something?

 

[linuxares]

No you need to make a RMA on it.
Sorry, but you are bound to pay for your mistakes.

But if you are lucky, they will not charge you.

 

[G0dLiKe]

Lol...someone say I dont have to pay, and someone say I do. Who am I gonna belive?
And...do I have to call them? Can't I just send my wii and atach a letter or something?

Anyway its better to pay the repair costs than buying a new Wii...

 

[xzxero]

[sarcasm]aha yea attach a letter and just link em to this thread and send it to N headquarters[/sarcasm]

 

[HellFireXS]

wow xzxero is a dick, just WOW.

Anyway Nintendo of America charges $80 for a repair, if you are under warantee you may not have to pay, if you are not under warantee you will have to pay.

 

[smf]

wow xzxero is a dick, just WOW.

Anyway Nintendo of America charges $80 for a repair, if you are under warantee you may not have to pay, if you are not under warantee you will have to pay.

Pretty sure they said that if the brick was caused by updating to system menu 4.2 that they wouldn't charge.
However this wasn't really caused by the update, so they would be justified in charging.

About the only other way would be to hope you have the boot1 with trucha bug & remove the flash chips from the motherboard and write bootmii/boot2 to it, then resolder them. I'd pay $80 instead of doing that myself.

At some point people will realise that downgrading or using "safe" updaters has a much higher risk than installing from Nintendo.

 

[illinialex24]

If you manually upgrade and know what your doing is very safe, safe compiled packages really aren't in my mind.

 

[longtom1]

HELLO!
Exadently I updated my wii to 4.2. Then I couldnt use homebrew channel to launch coverfloader anymore!
I downloaded something so I could downgrade my wii to 3.2, and then upgrade it to 4.1. I did, and when I upgraded it to 4.1, my wii wouldnt start!
When I press the power button, the green light comes up, but not the picture on the tv. And when I pressing some buttons on the wii remote, it wont reakt. The lights just flashing, and the remote turns off. The wii can eject discs, but thats allmoust all.
To turn the wii off, I need to push the butoon on the wii.
Is there a way to fix this? Can I reboot my wii or something? And if there is nothing to do, can I send it to where I bought my wii then? I havent done any illegal...have I?
PLEASE help me solve this problem! I really want to play wii again!

It sounds to me that the IOS 60 version you installed is the latest, stub one. Do you have a modchip, Preloader or BootMii as Boot2/IOS (and HBC, of course,

) installed?

P.S.: downgrading the Wii is illegal, you know...

if downgrading is illegal why does nintendo still have all the previous versions of IOS's and system menu's and other channels stored on there servers surely they would delete them so you couldn't downgrade????

 

[razorback78]

if you installed bootmii as boot2 you should be able to hold reset when you turn on the wii to the preloader

I am considering adding this to my signature.

lol

i think me too...