Lets say I had a wire. I used scissors on the outside to peel the "skin" of the wire off. If I was able to wrap all the little tin pieces of metal around the connectors without touching another one to prevent shorting and taped it down very securely would it be possible?
), it's good to test and learn - but soldering exists for a reason, it's basically fusing metal together.
Maybe? I doubt that it'll work for a long time, though, and you may end up damaging your console in the process. You have three options:
Alright one more thing. Lets say it worked, and I got tinfoil and homebrew and all the basic stuff. If I install .xci onto my switch, then remove the mod chip, will is still work?I'm not going to say it's 100% impossible, it just wouldn't be dependable, and to do it so it worked would be more difficult that soldering.
Of course you can try out the experimental solutions (I recommend with other things first, not your switch
Pressing contacts together with tape isn't dependable.
At the very best until your console turns off, crashes or reboots. When updating firmware, you need to reboot. When updating sys-patch, you need to reboot. Game crashes? Reboot. Random stuff? Reboot. If it was easy to maintain such a system, you'd see tutorials and stuff all over the place. It's not good practice for more than a handful of reasons. Pay someone to install a modchip for you or get yourself an unpatched v1 Switch.
Not sure about "custom backgrounds", but if you install Tinfoil to your sysNAND and reboot, it should stay but it won't work without sigpatches and, if you connect to the Internet (and Nintendo servers), congratulations - you just banned your console. Seriously, get someone to install a modchip for you unless you'd like to have an expensive paperweight on your hands.
If you "unhack" your switch you won't be able to load cfw anymore, and so you won't have the signature patches applied that hacks the system to allow for the custom content you installed - so no it won't work.
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The «tape joint» connections is not reliable and introduce inductance on the circuit, the mod is heavely affected by inductance.
The only secure way to connect pads and wires to mod a Switch console, is by microsoldering them.
If you "unhack" your switch you won't be able to load cfw anymore, and so you won't have the signature patches applied that hacks the system to allow for the custom content you installed - so no it won't work.
I think the app will still show up in your home menu, but you won't be able to open it.
As for custom backgrounds, I'm not sure. Things like custom profile icons I guess would still work but I'm not sure about backgrounds.
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If you want to see what the modchip install process looks like, here's a video.
It's not a simple thing at all (honestly, I failed the first time I did it
You need to do it the proper way, and practice a lot before hand.
Keep in mind he has lots of experience doing it. An experienced person will make difficult tasks look easy because they've already learned from their failures. That said, a V2 is relatively easy if you have the proper tools and a steady hand. OLED is more difficult having to cut and scrape away material to get to the needed points.
Believe it or not, even if it was possible to do the mod that way and get it to work reliably, it would be much harder than soldering, not easier.
