Hacking [RCM Payload] Hekate - CTCaer mod

[Matalok]

4.1.0 Switch, 128GB Samsung SD card (FAT32), full NAND dump completed in 66 minutes.

Thanks for your work CTCaer!

 

[whyyes]

God damn it, full dump got the error 1 at 90%, it was roughly an hour in. When I retry will it do the entire thing again? It was dumping in 2GB parts

 

[CTCaer]

God damn it, full dump got the error 1 at 90%, it was roughly an hour in. When I retry will it do the entire thing again? It was dumping in 2GB parts

That's the clever thing the partial dumping does.
It will continue from the last part it was trying to dump.

I'll put a guide tomorrow in OP for all these tricks.

 

[whyyes]

That's the clever thing the partial dumping does.
It will continue from the last part it was trying to dump.

I'll put a guide tomorrow in OP for all these tricks.

But you said you have to edit some file with hex editor to do this right?

 

[CTCaer]

But you said you have to edit some file with hex editor to do this right?

Only if you have exfat, enough space and you want to force partial dumping.

And another time I said it, it was because there was a need for the dumping to restart from a certain point in an older version. Which now it's obsolete.

 

[whyyes]

Only if you have exfat, enough space and you want to force partial dumping.

And another time I said it, it was because there was a need for the dumping to restart from a certain point in an older version. Which now it's obsolete.

Yeah I'm on FAT32. It looks like its restarting from 0% but its going quicker so it might just be checking the files I guess

 

[CTCaer]

Yeah I'm on FAT32. It looks like its restarting from 0% but its going quicker so it might just be checking the files I guess

Strange. Did you ignore the error instead of aborting?

 

[Justin20020]

I'm always getting this fatal error 1 when I'm reaching around 80 - 88%. I'm only getting 10 parts and the 11th isn't full dumped. I don't know what to do. I tried to type on the partial.idx "0B" (what stands for 11) but it starts from the beginning again

 

[karloz25]

Steps to dump on 2.01 Fw?

 

[whyyes]

Strange. Did you ignore the error instead of aborting?

No, I aborted. The files were still on my SD card. Currently halfway through the dump. Hopefully it completes this time.

Edit: nope, it happened again at exactly 90%. I even did the whole chkdsk thing before attempting a second time. It's the 13th part it always errors on if that makes a difference

 

[CTCaer]

And both @whyyes and @Justin20020 the dump starts from the beginning instead of the failing part when you try again? Hmm..

Edit:
I'll check the code when possible. Maybe I botched the logic somewhere.

Edit2:
OK found the problem.
I write the idx file after the fatal error. And because the sectors there are problematic, it can't write it.
I'll change it to write it on the start of every part. This will fix it.
I'm away from my build machine, so it will take some hours.
But still creating the file should force it anyway, if there's not enough space.

Anyway, I'll change the logic and it will fix the starts from 1st part after fatal error bug.

 

[kamo]

How about adding exfat support like here https://github.com/sweetlilmre/hekate/releases I've just tried that payload and it allows me to use exfat for nand backups even though my Switch doesn't have the exfat patch and complains about it in the OS.

 

[CTCaer]

How about adding exfat support like here https://github.com/sweetlilmre/hekate/releases I've just tried that payload and it allows me to use exfat for nand backups even though my Switch doesn't have the exfat patch and complains about it in the OS.

What?
https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate/commit/8a327030bdaadcdbd2c2b38673b1a4dbc254a3f1

Since the first release..

 

[kamo]

What?
https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate/commit/8a327030bdaadcdbd2c2b38673b1a4dbc254a3f1

Since the first release..

Sorry, this is so weird. i think I might having a brainfart here. Let me try the card with your payload again, lol

edit
And of course it's working, I'm an idiot.

 

[CTCaer]

Hello all.

We need some help testing some changes in hekate in all Switch update versions.
The changes are about adding 3.0.0 support. But all versions should be checked.
The test is about launching the Switch OS either in Normal or CFW mode.
In CFW launching of hbmenu through album is also needed.

The update versions that need testing

• 1.0.0 (?)
• 2.x.x (?)
• 3.0.0 (New, this should work now)
• 3.0.1-.2 (This probably wont work, missing SE patches)
• 4.x.x (This should still work, like before)
• 5.x.x (This should still work, like before)

You can find the testing payload attached.

EDIT:
Current results:
3.0.0
3.0.1 Needs SE patches
5.x.x Still works

I want to remind that I'm searching for testers for the above.
Specifically, if 1 and 2.x work and if 4.x still works.
Use the special payload attached there.

 

[DevMau5]

Hi, I did a dump of my 4.0.1 switch nand and the rawNand.bin file (after joining back all 15 spare parts together) appears to be only 30,845,304,832 bytes instead of the 31,268,536,320 bytes that it should normally be... Does that mean there is something wrong with the dump file ?
(When dumping i got 3 errors but only with 1 try each and the dump was done completely)
Thank's

 

[CTCaer]

Hi, I did a dump of my 4.0.1 switch nand and the rawNand.bin file (after joining back all 15 spare parts together) appears to be only 30,845,304,832 bytes instead of the 31,268,536,320 bytes that it should normally be... Does that mean there is something wrong with the dump file ?
(When dumping i got 3 errors but only with 1 try each and the dump was done completely)
Thank's

Part 13 is wrong. But maybe others also.
You remember what the errors said?

 

[DevMau5]

Part 13 is wrong. But maybe others also.
You remember what the errors said?

Thank's, nope sorry I just remember that there was 3 of them at the end (95%) with only 1 try, but anyway I did it with your 1st release, will do it again with the new one

 

[CTCaer]

Thank's, nope sorry I just remember that there was 3 of them at the end (95%) with only 1 try, but anyway I did it with your 1st release, will do it again with the new one

Can't have me looking at code for old versions bugs. :/
v1.3 the way to go.
If you still have problems, mark the error.

 

[DevMau5]

Can't have me looking at code for old versions bugs. :/
v1.3 the way to go.
If you still have problems, mark the error.

Sure, thank's !