Hacking Restored NAND with hekate, now it does not boot

[DJravingMonkey]

Hey, I wanted to restore my nand backup of version 4.1 I made on a clean system. Everything went well. But now when I wanted to reboot I can just get into SX Menu or hekate, but trying to boot to original FW or custom firmware gets me only to a bright Black screen (OFW), A Bluescreen (SXOS) or a White Screen (hekate)

was my backup faulty or do I need to restore something else then rawnand? I still have 5 fuses burnt, so 4.1 should boot, shouldnt it?

 

[Crusatyr]

If restoring the system lowered your system version, try holding volume up and volume down while you boot into OFW. This should get you into maintenance mode. From there select "Reinitialize switch without clearing save data."

 

[DJravingMonkey]

Oh interesting, when trying to load OFW from hekate it says: Read package 2 and halts

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If restoring the system lowered your system version, try holding volume up and volume down while you boot into OFW. This should get you into maintenance mode. From there select "Reinitialize switch without clearing save data."

This gives me a blue screen... btw I have auto RCM activated

 

[Lumince]

Did you make the backup around the hekate 2.0-3.0 area? If you did it could be bad... What you could do is restore again, and then use choj on the pc to reinstall whatever fw you are going back too.... I have not been able to get my switch to boot 4.1 since I tried to restore it

 

[DJravingMonkey]

Could be that I made the Backup with one of this version. I also have another Backup which I made before going to 5.1 (it is also 4.1) this one was mad with hekate 4.0 but this one isnt clean
What do you mean with choj? Did not find it with google. Do you mean ChoiDujour ?

 

[jajamundo]

Well, try to restore that last Nand that you have. Is better to boot something that having a beatifull brick. I thought we cant downgrade our consoles already

 

[DJravingMonkey]

I am copying the other file to sd right now... I hope this one will work. Damn I should have done another backup on 5.1 just to be sure. Could there be problems because I am restoring a nonEXFAT Firmware?

 

[Slim45]

Hey, I wanted to restore my nand backup of version 4.1 I made on a clean system. Everything went well. But now when I wanted to reboot I can just get into SX Menu or hekate, but trying to boot to original FW or custom firmware gets me only to a bright Black screen (OFW), A Bluescreen (SXOS) or a White Screen (hekate)

was my backup faulty or do I need to restore something else then rawnand? I still have 5 fuses burnt, so 4.1 should boot, shouldnt it?

you sure the backup didnt have autorcm on?

 

[DJravingMonkey]

I first activated auto rcm during the non fuseburning update process to 5.1 my backups of 4.1 didnt have auto rcm, the first one was 100% clean

 

[bundat]

was my backup faulty or do I need to restore something else then rawnand?

Not sure if this could be a cause of not booting, but I think you also need to restore a boot0 and boot1 backup made back then as well? Especially if you're downgrading from a higher fw you upgraded to without burning fuses.

Also, yeah it can be an issue that your backup is corrupt if it was made in a hekate version where verification was not yet a thing (or was still buggy).

 

[Canna]

restore boot 0/1 of the same system version...
If you have burnt fuses you cannot load or restore a lower system version.. check your fuse count again for me please using briccmii and report back.. and also tell me the nand you are trying to restore

 

[Keylogger]

Did you make the backup around the hekate 2.0-3.0 area? If you did it could be bad... What you could do is restore again, and then use choj on the pc to reinstall whatever fw you are going back too.... I have not been able to get my switch to boot 4.1 since I tried to restore it

Why is it so bad?

 

[DJravingMonkey]

Restoring Boot0 and Boot1 did the trick!
Thank you guys! I thought that boot0 and boot1 were part of the nand and would be restored anyways.

 

[Garou]

Could there be problems because I am restoring a nonEXFAT Firmware?

glad you found the solution, but I just want to point out this it's perfectly fine to restore a non exfat backup
even if your system has been updated with exfat support or you're using an sdxc formatted as exfat, it's still fine. already tried that