Hacking Will this guide help for every softbrick Switch to restore to stock?

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Hello, I softbicked my Switch completely, I deleted my Nand accidently.
My question is will this guide help for every hardware functioning unpatched Switch to restore the System to stock, or is there any condition.
I know my hardware is correct because I can run android.
Have you made any experience with guides like this?

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That requires a NAND backup which you probably don't have.
I think I saw a guide the other day that doesn't require a NAND backup.
I have to ask, how on Earth do you accidentally delete the NAND?
The guide i saw doesn't 100% restore to stock. You can't boot OFW, and you can't go online. There's probably no way to fix online sadly. Being able to boot OFW with a donor NAND is something that can probably be fixed (just nobody has figured out the steps required yet), not that it's that important since online wouldn't work anyway.
 

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Do anyone know if the prodkeys or BOOT-Files can change?
Cause i made a backup of them 1,5 years ago, the time as the system worked.
 

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Do anyone know if the prodkeys or BOOT-Files can change?
Cause i made a backup of them 1,5 years ago, the time as the system worked.
They do change, but they aren't that important, most of the data is not console unique and most of it can be dumped without a NAND anyways. The only thing you need from your own NAND in order to restore a fully working Switch is a PRODINFO backup. It contains the unique IDs/keys needed for online use. Everything else can be obtained from another Switch, dumped without a NAND, or generated. Without a PRODINFO backup then as I said you can still make a working NAND again but without online support.
 

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They do change, but they aren't that important, most of the data is not console unique and most of it can be dumped without a NAND anyways. The only thing you need from your own NAND in order to restore a fully working Switch is a PRODINFO backup. It contains the unique IDs/keys needed for online use. Everything else can be obtained from another Switch, dumped without a NAND, or generated. Without a PRODINFO backup then as I said you can still make a working NAND again but without online support.
Thank you very much for your awnser, can I use my Prod.Keys from Spring 2020 (my old original Nand)?
 

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Thank you very much for your awnser, can I use my Prod.Keys from Spring 2020 (my old original Nand)?
Yes. The only thing that changes is extra keys are added with new FW (but they aren't console unique and you can find them online), the keys might be needed to build a NAND with newer FW than what you had on the console already but if you build the same FW version they aren't needed.
 

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It's been figured out, sorta.
However you always need Atmosphere to boot, since it does the magic. So you can never go 100% OFW.
Yes, that was my point. Supposedly it's possible to re-encrypt everything correctly so that it's possible to boot a donor NAND into OFW. But that's just speculation though, nobody's actually done it.
 

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I am now in a tutorial where I have to use memloaderv3, I dropped the files to my Switch, started the payload and selected “ums_boot0.ini” but BalenaEtcher doesn’t show my Switch.
Should I have to install any drivers?
 

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That's the one I posted.
I switched the system into RCM-Mode and installed the driver with Zadig like this.

I started MemLoader and selected BOOT0.
Now BaleaEtcher doesn’t show me the Switch but if I connect and disconnect the Console, Windows brings now the typical USB-connect/disconnect sound. It seems like Windows notice a device but not BalenaEtcher.
What die I wrong, the picture shows which driver I installed?
Is it may the wrong diver?
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