Hacking [Warning] Do not mess with coldboothax please

[NexoCube]

nah screw that, blame smealum.

so... not to sound exploitative. but how much are you looking to get for your gamepads and power supplies?

Don't blame smea, that's actually our fault, but smea should have deleted it from his readme ...
Even if the NOTE was self-explanatory

 

[TheZander]

Don't blame smea, that's actually our fault, but smea should have deleted it from his readme ...
Even if the NOTE was self-explanatory

i was joking, he shouldnt delete anytjing that would be lame.

if you knew enough and were capable of editing that thing and uploading it back to your wiiu. then you could of stopped at the xml you knew had the function of loading your wiiu.

if you even have any nanddump or rednand then maybe once the writing process is nailed down you can do that

its not like he said go and delete your system32

 

[pwsincd]

Well , I bricked even though I'm pretty sure I installed everything as I should have.

If I had to take a guess , I think it was because I installed the "Haxchi title" on USB where It should have been on NAND.

I can upload my system.xml , if you want.

EDIT : On RedNAND , I tried setting the default title id as system config tool and it worked perfectly (because the title was on NAND ?)

And don't get me wrong , the only person I blame is MYSELF.

you have nand backup

 

[Exavold]

you have nand backup

I do , but I can't hardmod for shit.

 

[ItsKipz]

Well , I bricked even though I'm pretty sure I installed everything as I should have.

If I had to take a guess , I think it was because I installed the "Haxchi title" on USB where It should have been on NAND.

I can upload my system.xml , if you want.

EDIT : On RedNAND , I tried setting the default title id as system config tool and it worked perfectly (because the title was on NAND ?)

And don't get me wrong , the only person I blame is MYSELF.

do you have standby/quick menu enabled? i might be able to help you, if you can help me with a test.

 

[KevinX8]

Just realised something, we can actually use the flashing yellow/blue light bug to our advantage. It still allows us to use quickstart but it completely freezes the wii u on standby. This means we can have the best of both worlds, quick start and no secret updates!!

 

[Davi5Alexander]

of course, but the dumb part is that i haven't any usable NAND backup

Make hardmod, extract damaged nand, decrypt nand and modify the xml file. Encrypt and flash nand

 

[erikas]

Again just get a replacement console. the're cheap

 

[Psi-hate]

You do realize that the nand backups you made with the public tools aren't suitable for sysnand restore, right ?

 

[depaul]

I am sorry for you unlucky guys who bricked their consoles. I personally didn't try the coldboothax because I found the tutorial too complicated. If I brick my Wii U the only thing I will regret are the upcoming Zelda BOTW and maybe Yooka Laylee.

 

[thaikhoa]

From what I read, the last 3 people on bricking list had their high quality paper weight Wii U because the default title was on their USB instead of NAND. There are some have successfully done the coldboothax when properly moving DS VC with haxchi to NAND.

A guide from a guy on hacking FB group
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jrYy2RTaZtWKEnVt8ZYun46S4TEckC9RGSZf_uIJR-o/edit

 

[rw-r-r_0644]

I may be wrong but.....It looks like that "trick" only works on US console
So far seems like the people who bricked had an EUR console.
If anyone with EUR ran it successfully on rednand (DO NOT TRY ON SYSNAND) please reply

 

[netovsk]

Thanks man you put your wiiu on the line so cowards like myself can have some dumbproof all in one cfw package in the future

Best wishes and hope you can get another wiiu soon, great console

 

[aljpn91]

people who install coldboothax are permanently locked out of sysnand
and there's no way to revert back the changes done to the xml, is that right?

 

[xtheman]

people who install coldboothax are permanently locked out of sysnand
and there's no way to revert back the changes done to the xml, is that right?

Both of those are correct yes

 

[ItsKipz]

Both of those are correct yes

NO, you can get back into the xml if you have wupserver, which you should anyways to install it.

 

[xtheman]

NO, you can get back into the xml if you have wupserver, which you should anyways to install it.

How?
Proof?

 

[ItsKipz]

How?
Proof?

I dont have proof, but i assume if you have a way to boot back to wupserver (which is part of the unbrick method im testing) you can modify sysnand again

 

[ADS3500]

I dont have proof, but i assume if you have a way to boot back to wupserver (which is part of the unbrick method im testing) you can modify sysnand again

If there was a way to boot into wupserver you wouldn't be bricked because you could just boot into rednand which would mean coldboothax installed successfully. The brick completely blocks you out of sysnand, so even if you could boot a sysnand fw.img it would try booting the DS title again.

 

[ItsKipz]

If there was a way to boot into wupserver you wouldn't be bricked because you could just boot into rednand which would mean coldboothax installed successfully. The brick completely blocks you out of sysnand, so even if you could boot a sysnand fw.img it would try booting the DS title again.

Yeah, so it would only work with rednand users. Still, its worth a shot.