Hacking Sx Core and Sx Lite , test Units Received

[jabz10]

"Did you turned off and on again " inside it joke.

Working micro sd with latest boot.dat is connected to the lite?
Damaged lcd connector ?
Post some pictures with your work maybe sameoane will see something wrong.

Yep turned off, and back on few times, left on for 30mins+

No microsd is in the system, shouldn't the screen be showing the red "boot.dat?" image? Its not showing anything..ill try with microsd

Nah, I was extra careful with it, the clip works fine.

Will do once I try with microsd

 

[Modificatorul]

Yep turned off, and back on few times, left on for 30mins+

No microsd is in the system, shouldn't the screen be showing the red "boot.dat?" image? Its not showing anything..ill try with microsd

Nah, I was extra careful with it, the clip works fine.

Will do once I try with microsd

Yes no need for micro sd for the boot.dat screen usualy but i stoped asuming anything

With no pictures i have no ideea what you have done wrong.

 

[jabz10]

Here are the pics of my install, I have a screen problem with the microscope so don't mind the green, red lines.

If I remove the modchip ribbon cables, and unscrew the modchip. The switch boots into OFW, I can hear the sounds, backlight works, and touch screen works, just the screen remains blank. What could be wrong..

 

[SonyUSA]

Here are the pics of my install, I have a screen problem with the microscope so don't mind the green, red lines.

If I remove the modchip ribbon cables, and unscrew the modchip. The switch boots into OFW, I can hear the sounds, backlight works, and touch screen works, just the screen remains blank. What could be wrong..

That's a known issue when you damage a certain resistor/cap... but I'm not sure which one, sorry

Edit: Take a photo of just above the shielding on the larger right hand side please (at the small cluster of components). I think that's the one you probably dinked off when removing the shielding...

 

[izy]

That's a known issue when you damage a certain resistor/cap... but I'm not sure which one, sorry

Edit: Take a photo of just above the shielding on the larger right hand side please (at the small cluster of components). I think that's the one you probably dinked off when removing the shielding...

as i told him the nand pads are really close to the data rails

he he bridges any of them even miniscule he can short the lcd or the chips that power it.

in the worst case like he got desoldering still persists and he will get a booting console with no lcd power but touch and sound works

 

[SonyUSA]

as i told him the nand pads are really close to the data rails

he he bridges any of them even miniscule he can short the lcd or the chips that power it.

in the worst case like he got desoldering still persists and he will get a booting console with no lcd power but touch and sound works

There's a vertical black cap next to a horizontal brown cap where the top clip is on the shield, people have knocked it off and it causes the LCD to not work but everything else including back light to be fine.

 

[izy]

There's a vertical black cap next to a horizontal brown cap where the top clip is on the shield, people have knocked it off and it causes the LCD to not work but everything else including back light to be fine.

this is the oppsite the may be working but the backlight doesnt
but its really hard to tell or impossible to tell because of the coating and the fact you cat really shine a light from behind

 

[Modificatorul]

Here are the pics of my install, I have a screen problem with the microscope so don't mind the green, red lines.

If I remove the modchip ribbon cables, and unscrew the modchip. The switch boots into OFW, I can hear the sounds, backlight works, and touch screen works, just the screen remains blank. What could be wrong..

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Looks good, i will try to make you a video maybe today with inspection for you to compare for missing components, maybe will help.

 

[Vidicappa]

I'm here to praise the good work @squee666 have done to mod my switch.
I've sent him mine disassembled and as soon he received it, in a day he shipped back.
Received it today, everything is working flawlessly.
Friendly yet professional, higly reccomended.

Now i have to learn something about sx core

 

[jabz10]

That's a known issue when you damage a certain resistor/cap... but I'm not sure which one, sorry

Edit: Take a photo of just above the shielding on the larger right hand side please (at the small cluster of components). I think that's the one you probably dinked off when removing the shielding...

I don’t think I’ve knocked any components off.. here’s a pic

 

[Modificatorul]

I don’t think I’ve knocked any components off.. here’s a pic
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Your oscillator lock strange compared with mine, solder on it or difrrent shiny revision?
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And you have some cotton on game card reader connector.

Can you remove nand qsb with no damage ? and check for shorts .
And test with no nand qsb soldered


See last picture is touching the nand shield ?

I'm not responsable for anything.

 

[Dezmond]

Also seem to have issue of not having it turn on at all. Not even the blinking light of the SX Core.
Will double check the soldering later - also no idea what it might be.

 

[Helidwarf]

Also seem to have issue of not having it turn on at all. Not even the blinking light of the SX Core.
Will double check the soldering later - also no idea what it might be.

the right joint of SP1 is covering 2 capacitors you'll need to redo it.

also make sure the NAND is connected to the chip and the chip is connected to the NAND mobo socket

 

[izy]

also make sure you use solder not cement

and also use flux

 

[Dezmond]

the right joint of SP1 is covering 2 capacitors you'll need to redo it.

also make sure the NAND is connected to the chip and the chip is connected to the NAND mobo socket

also make sure you use solder not cement

and also use flux

Thanks for the tips guys. Yeah will redo it in a bit. Have flux and solder. Almost wish mine was a V1. That V2 looks quite hard with how small it is.

 

[SonyUSA]

the right joint of SP1 is covering 2 capacitors you'll need to redo it.

also make sure the NAND is connected to the chip and the chip is connected to the NAND mobo socket

I think what you are seeing is uncleaned thermal paste. Also it's a Lite so it wont connect to any NAND socket.

 

[izy]

I think what you are seeing is uncleaned thermal paste. Also it's a Lite so it wont connect to any NAND socket.

i mean hes quoting desmond and his is clearly a core

 

[SonyUSA]

i mean hes quoting desmond and his is clearly a core

Oopsy

 

[besson37]

DM'ed you

Can you please send me a link as well

 

[ganons]

Arctic Cooling Thermal Pad 0.5 mm. It is above the cooling tube, this is internal side of the shielding.

Makes a noticeable difference?