Hacking [IMPORTANT] PSA: AutoRCM battery warning

[Creatable]

aaannnnddd my switch is fucked... goddamn it.

 

[NeoSlyde]

aaannnnddd my switch is fucked... goddamn it.

What?

 

[Creatable]

What?

I used AutoRCM and my battery died while using it. Not booting into RCM or anything.

 

[NeoSlyde]

I used AutoRCM and my battery died while using it. Not booting into RCM or anything.

Can you give some actual proof?
This got debunked to be fake

 

[Creatable]

Can you give some actual proof?
This got debunked to be fake

Okay, hold on.

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YES, FINALLY! AA!
So I put it into the dock for a few minutes and after than it just kinda... started to work. So that's good I guess.

 

[NeoSlyde]

Okay, hold on.

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YES, FINALLY! AA!
So I put it into the dock for a few minutes and after than it just kinda... started to work. So that's good I guess.

Lmao

 

[link42586]

Watched ktemkins stream with the mod chip and she said the battery stays at 100% in RCM mode and seems to be at the very least holding charge. She has it hooked up to charge so it does at least send power?

 

[jakkal]

My switch was at 9 percent when I was doing a nand backup and I plugged it in to charge. When I booted into horizon the battery went up to about 30 percent

In my case it did charge while it was in RCM mode

 

[Deleted User]

My switch was at 9 percent when I was doing a nand backup and I plugged it in to charge. When I booted into horizon the battery went up to about 30 percent

In my case it did charge while it was in RCM mode

or the battery indicator is off.

 

[jakkal]

or the battery indicator is off.

I never ran Linux or anything. The only thing I booted into RCM for was to do a nand backup.

 

[Deleted User]

I never ran Linux or anything. The only thing I booted into RCM for was to do a nand backup.

If I recall correctly, if your in rcm mode for extensive amounts of time, that too can throw it off.

 

[SomeGamer]

If I recall correctly, if your in rcm mode for extensive amounts of time, that too can throw it off.

Yeah, if you are not in Horizon (and using the Switch, of course) the indicator becomes unreliable.

 

[Deleted User]

Yeah, if you are not in Horizon (and using the Switch, of course) the indicator becomes unreliable.

But to make it reliable again, you pretty much have to drain the battery, that's what I did. Essentially, I fully charged the system up, waited about 30 minutes, then unplugged it left it on the home menu screen. And payed attention to the percent. Once the system decided to for no reason shut off. I then used rcm mode to quickly drain the rest of the battery. Once it shut off. Horizon correctly detected the battery levels, and the unexpected shutdowns stopped.

 

[FahQ]

Yep, but if using autorcm it will not charge if you plug the charger in when you power off from hekate, it will just boot into RCM, so you need to boot into Hekate / Horizon first, and then charge it, and then power it off when you are done charging.

No... He clearly means that he runs the payload plugs in his charger and then uses the power off option within the hekate payload so that it doesn't reboot to rcm. If there is already power it will not magically turn back on unless you press the power button or unplug it and plug it back in.

 

[Deleted User]

does this brick?

 

[Centergaming]

does this brick?

That's the whole point of AutoRCM...... you do realize that right?

 

[guily6669]

So the validation is a bit odd...

I have mine fully stock, as soon as it shutdown from battery draining or even a complete system OFF holding power button until it turns OFF, as soon as I put the charger it always go to Nintendo FW, but then I shut it off again while holding power for a few seconds and though the switch is completely black OFF it still charges...

So the validation lasts until we stop providing power while the system is off, since if we re-connect the power cable from charger it will boot again to Horizon.

But anyway none of this are big cons to me, I can connect the battery to my IMAx B6 charger and even see if the battery has really the reported capacity...

 

[Deleted User]

So the validation is a bit odd...

I have mine fully stock, as soon as it shutdown from battery draining or even a complete system OFF holding power button until it turns OFF, as soon as I put the charger it always go to Nintendo FW, but then I shut it off again while holding power for a few seconds and though the switch is completely black OFF it still charges...

So the validation lasts until we stop providing power while the system is off, since if we re-connect the power cable from charger it will boot again to Horizon.

But anyway none of this are big cons to me, I can connect the battery to my IMAx B6 charger and even see if the battery has really the reported capacity...

it's a false alarm, a trickle charge occurs.

 

[Cencil]

Just wanted to report I can charge my switch when it's *off* while having AutoRCM installed. Apologies in the case someone else already mentioned how to do this.

While I'm in CFW and I want to turn my switch off and charge it;
-I hold the power button until I can select the "Turn off" option in the drop down menu.
-Knowing it's not actually *off* yet, send your payload to boot hetake menu
-Now once in hetake menu scroll down to "Power off" but do not press it yet
-Dock your switch
-Now while it's docked, press the power button to confirm the "power off" option in hetake's menu

Your switch is now off and charging

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This. Hekate was fun to mess with... But there's no practical reason to use autorcm at this point and time.

I'm confused how there isn't a reason to use it? I figured saving the wear and tear on your switch's pins is good enough reason - considering like i've said many times previously; after only a few days of doing it the pins on my switch don't even look the same anymore. I see no cons to AutoRCM when comparing to jig methods.

 

[I_AM_L_FORCE]

Can you just not replace the battery?