Hacking Lockpick question

[grubgrub]

Hey Guys

i was following the switch hacking guide and dumped my keys with Lockpick_RCM.bin.
It completed but had a messages:
"Unable to open SD seed vector. Skipping."
"Unable to get SD seed."

I was not too sure what these errors mean and what i have to do about it

 

[Shadow#1]

Hey Guys

i was following the switch hacking guide and dumped my keys with Lockpick_RCM.bin.
It completed but had a messages:
"Unable to open SD seed vector. Skipping."
"Unable to get SD seed."

I was not too sure what these errors mean and what i have to do about it

get a better faster SD card

 

[LyuboA]

Hey Guys

i was following the switch hacking guide and dumped my keys with Lockpick_RCM.bin.
It completed but had a messages:
"Unable to open SD seed vector. Skipping."
"Unable to get SD seed."

I was not too sure what these errors mean and what i have to do about it

you sd card is probably corrupted

 

[grubgrub]

Aww I just bought this one, arrived in the post today!
Probably should have spent more on a better one >.<
I got this one
https://www.shoppingsquare.com.au/p..._SDXC_Memory_Card_UHSI_U3_100MBs_4K_Ultra_HD_

 

[Zinonr]

maybe a fake SD? go and check with H2testw

 

[grubgrub]

Testing with H2testw, so slow using a USB2.0 adapter, gonna take 10 hours writing at 3.5mb/sec
My USB 3.0 adapter is just causing drive to disconnect every time it starts to do a check.

 

[Zinonr]

ok seems to be fake u can try another pc/laptop but i think its a fake sd.
u can try diskpart but be carefull!! if you dont know what to do with diskpart otherwise google

 

[grubgrub]

Ok managed to get it to run on my surface pro with a built in SD reader,
its going at around 59 MB/sec
Will take 35 minutes

 

[Shadow#1]

Ok managed to get it to run on my surface pro with a built in SD reader,
its going at around 59 MB/sec
Will take 35 minutes

U need to do full scan will take longer then 35m

 

[urherenow]

iirc init of Samsung cards is a bit different, and it may not work correctly whether it's fake or not. Many people report errors with EVO cards.

I've occasionally had a bad Sandisk Extreme card, but Sandisk is cool about sending a replacement, so I stick with them. They make you take a close picture of both sides of the card (sometimes it's hard to get it where you can actually see the serial number), then again after you've cut the card in half to prove it's bad and you've destroyed it. This saves you from having to return the old one.

 

[grubgrub]

U need to do full scan will take longer then 35m

Thanks, the writing portion took 35 minutes, now the verifying portion is taking another 35 minutes

Edit, this is the result,:
I guess the card is ok, but will need to get a faster one

Warning: Only 122234 of 122235 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 60.5 MByte/s
Reading speed: 80.7 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

 

[LyuboA]

Thanks, the writing portion took 35 minutes, now the verifying portion is taking another 35 minutes

Edit, this is the result,:
I guess the card is ok, but will need to get a faster one

Warning: Only 122234 of 122235 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 60.5 MByte/s
Reading speed: 80.7 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

the card is fine you dont need to spend insane amount of money for fastest cards cause you wont see any different in daily use on Switch and you can get faster speeds in Fat32 by setting max Allocation Unit Size 64k i think and for ExFat you need to test best speeds are between 256kb and 4MB

you can test your sd card with
ATTO Disk Benchmark Tool

formatting the card in Fat32 Always get you slower speeds but for Switch homebrew Fat32 is best

 

[grubgrub]

the card is fine you dont need to spend insane amount of money for fastest cards cause you wont see any different in daily use on Switch and you can get faster speeds in Fat32 by setting max Allocation Unit Size 64k i think and for ExFat you need to test best speeds are between 256kb and 4MB

you can test your sd card with
ATTO Disk Benchmark Tool

formatting the card in Fat32 Always get you slower speeds but for Switch homebrew Fat32 is best

Thanks, ill format to Fat23.
I followed the advice in the thread below and ran chkdsk and it seemed to have fixed the issue
https://gbatemp.net/threads/lockpic...-latest-1-8-2-firm-9-0-1.564016/#post-9038172

I typed start>run>CMD>
"chkdsk H: /f /r /x"
If anyone is having issues as well
H is my usb drive

 

[howardc64]

Had the same problem. There are quite a few repositories out there. Am newbie so can't post links.

Found codeberg.org one that worked for me. YT video by Kristofer provided the link

One from Decscots on github had SD seed problem on 2 different SD card I tried

 

[urarabface]

Had the same problem. There are quite a few repositories out there. Am newbie so can't post links.

Found codeberg.org one that worked for me. YT video by Kristofer provided the link

One from Decscots on github had SD seed problem on 2 different SD card I tried

Can you please expand on this point? I couldn't find any video by Kristofer were he solved this problem. I assume you found a solution? chkdsk won't work for me and I am lost at this point

 

[Kerjon]

Hi, same here, try with 2 differents cards, two Samsung 256gb, formated on exFat, then fat32, no difference.

Tried with different version of hekate.

Chkdsk doesn’t solve the issue.

I get the prod.key, not the title.keys…

Has someone solved the issue? Many thanks

 

[pj_hack]

Hi, same here, try with 2 differents cards, two Samsung 256gb, formated on exFat, then fat32, no difference.

Tried with different version of hekate.

Chkdsk doesn’t solve the issue.

I get the prod.key, not the title.keys…

Has someone solved the issue? Many thanks

having 0 title.keys is fine as far as you do not have titles installed on the original fw.
do you also have the "unable to open sd seed vector" error?

 

[jkyoho]

Launch OFW with same SD card once, then run L0ckpick should solve "SD seed vector" missing issue

 

[pj_hack]

Launch OFW with same SD card once, then run L0ckpick should solve "SD seed vector" missing issue

omg it worked! thnx!

 

[johw]

What is the most current version?