Is boot.dat on the root of your SD card?Hello- I have messed up the installation of SX OS! I believe I am missing files that were generated during the initial set up. The firs thing I did was make a full raw nand backup. Copies this to my conquer and deleted from SD. I then got the system to generate the activation code request which I submitted online for the activation file. I think I saw an 'SX OS' folder on the SD that must have been generated automatically but it's apparently been deleted. Currently I use jig and dongle and the red SX screen pops up for a second, then the switch attempts to boot into regular firmware, but won't unless I pop out the SD. Help?
Install them using SX OS' built in title-installer or use Tinfoil.How do I update/install DLC's .XCI games I have on my SD card? I have 5.1 firmware and using SX OS 2.0.1. The updates and DLC's come in .NSP format.
I want to update and get DLC WITHOUT connecting my switch to internet!
Basically the Switch has pretty bad exFAT drivers that when combined with homebrew make corruption an inevitability. The corruption can occur with FAT32 as well but because it has a backup, you will never notice it on the Switch but your computer may pick up on it. If you want to avoid corruption as much as possible, only close homebrew applications by using their respective exit buttons; do not exit homebrew by using the Home button.Hey, So my Sd card got corrupted today. I just wanna go over what happened to see if it was avoidable or just bad luck. Or if there's anything I can do to reduce the risk of it happening again. A couple days ago I installed ReiNX for the first time, and installed a couple of NSPs. Today I installed their updates and one more NSP. Then I used ReiNX tools for the first time and enabled autoRCM. Shut off Switch plugged sd card into PC, tried to transfer files to it... Failed with error# indicating corruption. Doing a low level format indicates that it has an innumerable amount of bad sectors.. Totally fried.. I'm on 5.1.0, ReiNX 1.7, the card is an almost new Sandisk ultra 128gb that was fat32 formatted.... I read that fat32 does not actually lower the risk of corruption, just that it has ways of preventing data loss... is this the case? ............So even homebrew such as tinfoil and a basic tool suit has the ability to corrupt so quickly? But not often right - I was just unlucky right? .....I used homebrew a grand total of 3 times lol.
Hello everyone,
I am very sorry if my question has been asked a hundred times before but I want to be 100 % sure
on how to do it. So in August I bought a second Switch that is being used solely offline - it
never connected to the internet when I started modding the console, personally I dont even care about
being banned since this console is only being used for offline purposes.
I don't know why but I did not create a NAND-backup - many of you guys advice thoroughly to do it
and I think that it is absolutely essential.
Excuse my nooby question and let me ask:
If I have games installed on the internal storage of the Switch, do I need to delete them so the internal storage
is completely emtpy or could I proceed in creating a NAND-backup with games installed on the internal storage?
Is there any risk of doing a NAND-backup with installed games on the sd card (NSP'S, XCI'S)?
Once again a big thanks to all of you guys trying to help on this forum!
Any help is greatly apprecaited.
- You can backup the NAND with or without games installed into the internal system memory. The only difference is that if you try compressing the NAND after you dumped it with content installed, it will be slightly larger than if you had no content installed.
- Not sure what you mean by risk. It is completely safe to do a NAND backup regardless of whatever content is on the NAND.
Firmware updates only update the SYS partition of the NAND. The only other difference between a normal system update and one with ChoiDujourNX is that official system updates remove AutoRCM while ChoiDujourNX lets you re-install it after the firmware is updated.I have another question.
When updating, does the firmware update remove anything? AutoRCM, homebrew launcher, or anything of sorts? Is there anything that should be cautious with when updating, or we can just update?
Also, for example: if i have a 3.0.0 witch and use ChoidujourNX to update it to 5.1.0, it won't blow any fuses, right? Therefore, i can go back and forth between any firmwares released after 3.0.0 but before 5.1.0 (4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.1.0, 5.0.1) without blowing any fuses and without any problems?
And the last one:
What is Hekate? I get it is a bootloader and not a CFW, but how does it work? It boots first, and then boots the CFW? can you use it simultaneously with Reinx, Atmosphere, etc? Or does it conflict?
Correct as long as you are using AutoRCM to turn off the console because booting into non-RCM OFW will burn fuses.
Hekate is a payload that doubles as a bootloader. Once in RCM, you cannot turn on the console by normal means hence the need for a bootloader. CFW are files on an SD card that cannot be loaded by themselves; they need a bootloader to patch the firmware so it reads those files. Hekate can also now load any CFW you put into it besides Atmosphere either by configuring it under launch configurations or by using Hekate to launch their respective bootloader to load their CFW (e.g. ReiNX or SX OS).
If you don't mind having the second console risk a ban, there is no problem.Hello everyone,
I bought a second Switch so i could use the one that I already have (SN XAJ70023X FW 4.1.0) for hacking, while keeping the newer one clean.
Turns out that the Switch i just bought should be hackable too (SN XAJ10026X FW 4.1.0).
Since both of them have the same firmware and a good SN there should be no problem in using the newer one for hacking, right?