Hello,
This might be a bit long because I have run into numerous problems along the way.
The other day I posted this https://gbatemp.net/threads/might-have-bricked-my-console.547819/ and luckily discovered I had NOT bricked my switch, the act of trying to update a game made the system download the new update for 9.0. So here I am trying to downgrade it again to 8.0 (my previous firmware). I can f-g it since it an older model of the switch, so at least there's that.
Okay so here goes;
So I tried running hekate and going for the eMMC... This for some reason gave the error (4). I then tried moving the files around in the "/backup/<emmc s/n>/restore/" as according to; https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate/issues/110 but still the same issue, even after ptting the files in different places. Well I didn't take it too much to heart because this would reset everything anyway, and there might be other ways, so I decided on trying to revert my firmware.
I followed the guide https://switch.homebrew.guide/usingcfw/manualchoiupgrade and everything seemed easy and straightforward until I discovered you needed the keys from lockpick or some similar program. I had already gotten the keys previously because I needed them to convert some xci files to nsp with 4nxci back when my homebrew was working. But when I ran the command "ChoiDujour.exe --keyset=keys.txt fw" as stated I run into this error: (Removed image because full set of keys was stated).
Then again according to the marvelos gbatemp forum I found some other people with the same troubles I had;
https://gbatemp.net/threads/problem-in-choidujour.527729/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/lockpick-switch-key-derivation-homebrew.525575/
Especially on the second link, I noticed "ChoiDujour will complain about extra keys and fail. for this just provide a key file edited to contain only the following:" and tried doing as stated and deleted all unnecessary keys. This still results in the same failure, every time. So I thought maybe I needed a new key and booted up hekate and tried going for lockpick-rcm in the payload option. Extracted the keys, renamed them tried again, same error on the cmd-prompt. So i tried with deleting the unnecessary keys once more, but still to no avail. I have to note when I extracted the keys it came with an error; Failed to decrypt Package2. (It said it found 84 keys).
I thought maybe I could boot into homebrew so I tried launching the system from hekate loader but this will only give a black screen and anything else will result in a blue screen.
So does any of you kind people out there have any suggestions as to how to solve any of the 2 problems?
This might be a bit long because I have run into numerous problems along the way.
The other day I posted this https://gbatemp.net/threads/might-have-bricked-my-console.547819/ and luckily discovered I had NOT bricked my switch, the act of trying to update a game made the system download the new update for 9.0. So here I am trying to downgrade it again to 8.0 (my previous firmware). I can f-g it since it an older model of the switch, so at least there's that.
Okay so here goes;
So I tried running hekate and going for the eMMC... This for some reason gave the error (4). I then tried moving the files around in the "/backup/<emmc s/n>/restore/" as according to; https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate/issues/110 but still the same issue, even after ptting the files in different places. Well I didn't take it too much to heart because this would reset everything anyway, and there might be other ways, so I decided on trying to revert my firmware.
I followed the guide https://switch.homebrew.guide/usingcfw/manualchoiupgrade and everything seemed easy and straightforward until I discovered you needed the keys from lockpick or some similar program. I had already gotten the keys previously because I needed them to convert some xci files to nsp with 4nxci back when my homebrew was working. But when I ran the command "ChoiDujour.exe --keyset=keys.txt fw" as stated I run into this error: (Removed image because full set of keys was stated).
Then again according to the marvelos gbatemp forum I found some other people with the same troubles I had;
https://gbatemp.net/threads/problem-in-choidujour.527729/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/lockpick-switch-key-derivation-homebrew.525575/
Especially on the second link, I noticed "ChoiDujour will complain about extra keys and fail. for this just provide a key file edited to contain only the following:" and tried doing as stated and deleted all unnecessary keys. This still results in the same failure, every time. So I thought maybe I needed a new key and booted up hekate and tried going for lockpick-rcm in the payload option. Extracted the keys, renamed them tried again, same error on the cmd-prompt. So i tried with deleting the unnecessary keys once more, but still to no avail. I have to note when I extracted the keys it came with an error; Failed to decrypt Package2. (It said it found 84 keys).
I thought maybe I could boot into homebrew so I tried launching the system from hekate loader but this will only give a black screen and anything else will result in a blue screen.
So does any of you kind people out there have any suggestions as to how to solve any of the 2 problems?
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