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[binkinator]

Perfect makes complete sense! I use tegra to inject payload but was not sure about changing my boot.dat file.

Thanks!

If you don’t want to use the dongle you certainly don’t have to.

A big step in the guide is the conversion of the emunand from SXOS to atmosphere so run through everything just the same.

(Once you get it all working, since you’re comfortable with using tegra* to inject, you can take the next step and inject Hekate and call it a day.)

 

[DonAndy321]

If you don’t want to use the dongle you certainly don’t have to.

A big step in the guide is the conversion of the emunand from SXOS to atmosphere so run through everything just the same.

(Once you get it all working, since you’re comfortable with using tegra* to inject, you can take the next step and inject Hekate and call it a day.)

All worked perfectly!

Thanks. Gonna look through the guide on updating firmware now.

 

[DonAndy321]

If you don’t want to use the dongle you certainly don’t have to.

A big step in the guide is the conversion of the emunand from SXOS to atmosphere so run through everything just the same.

(Once you get it all working, since you’re comfortable with using tegra* to inject, you can take the next step and inject Hekate and call it a day.)It says

It says delete contents folder in atmosphere folder before updating. Should this be there as its not in my folder structure apart from the Nintendo folder?

 

[Nintendai1]

Seems to be a regular head scratcher. Have you tried all the stuff in this thread already?

Seems like all the stuff that happened to this user is the same stuff currently happening to me. I'll try the solutions on the thread and report back. Thanks!

 

[binkinator]

It says delete contents folder in atmosphere folder before updating. Should this be there as its not in my folder structure apart from the Nintendo folder?

They are talking about the /atmosphere directory at the top level of your sd card. Atmosphere won’t boot without it. I always back it up to atmosphere.bk and then give it a try by unzipping and overwriting. If there are lingering issues I can always subsequently remove the entire directory and unzip it again to ensure a clean /atmosphere directory.

 

[binkinator]

Seems like all the stuff that happened to this user is the same stuff currently happening to me. I'll try the solutions on the thread and report back. Thanks!

That’s what I’m hoping…they hit all my initial thoughts.

 

[DonAndy321]

They are talking about the /atmosphere directory at the top level of your sd card. Atmosphere won’t boot without it. I always back it up to atmosphere.bk and then give it a try by unzipping and overwriting. Mid there are issues I can always subsequently remove the entire directory and unzip it again to ensure a clean /atmosphere directory.

I have the atmosphere folder but there is no contents folder in there. I have other folders but not contents folder(apart from the Nintendo folder)

 

[ghostbitxd]

Has anyone ran into an issue where their SD card, even though it has enough disk space available on it, keeps reporting that there's not enough space to install application to?

For example, I tried installing an application via ns-usbloader and Awoo Installer on my SD card which both Windows and the Switch reports it as having 124GB of space available. What was happening was the install was failing at the same exact spot every time, but the error said something about the USB thread was expiring. So then I attempted to install over the internet, which it got to the same exact spot in the installation progress and failed saying it had timed out.

Finally I just decided to copy the application file over to the SD card directly and install it right off the SD, but then even Windows said there wasn't enough room even though there clearly is. I'm so confused as I've never seen anything like this - Switch related or anything PC related.

Available Disk Space:

File Size:

Windows transfer error:

 

[binkinator]

I have the atmosphere folder but there is no contents folder in there. I have other folders but not contents folder(apart from the Nintendo folder)

Thats why I’m saying you should be ok to just unzip and overwrite…you’ve not trashed your /atmosphere directory with a bunch of system modules and patches.

 

[DonAndy321]

Thats why I’m saying you should be ok to just unzip and overwrite…you’ve not trashed your /atmosphere directory with a bunch of system modules and patches.

OK i get you!

Thanks

 

[binkinator]

Has anyone ran into an issue where their SD card, even though it has enough disk space available on it, keeps reporting that there's not enough space to install application to?

For example, I tried installing an application via ns-usbloader and Awoo Installer on my SD card which both Windows and the Switch reports it as having 124GB of space available. What was happening was the install was failing at the same exact spot every time, but the error said something about the USB thread was expiring. So then I attempted to install over the internet, which it got to the same exact spot in the installation progress and failed saying it had timed out.

Finally I just decided to copy the application file over to the SD card directly and install it right off the SD, but then even Windows said there wasn't enough room even though there clearly is. I'm so confused as I've never seen anything like this - Switch related or anything PC related.

Available Disk Space:


File Size:


Windows transfer error:

So couple things are going on.

1) you have probably filled up your emunand and are writing to it (~30G) rather than your sd card. Check that you are not installing it on “system”
2) copying files larger than 4G to a FAT32 partition will fail. Kirby is 7.3G so you will need to split it if you want to put it on your sd card manually. Installers know how to work around this btw…so no big deal.

 

[ghostbitxd]

So couple things are going on.

1) you have probably filled up your emunand and are writing to it (~30G) rather than your sd card. Check that you are not installing it on “system”
2) copying files larger than 4G to a FAT32 partition will fail. Kirby is 7.3G so you will need to split it if you want to put it on your sd card manually. Installers know how to work around this btw…so no big deal.

If I'm understanding what you're saying in regard to (1), I thought this might be the case. So what I basically did was boot into the "CFW - sysMMC" and delete almost everything I had installed because I simply didn't want the games anymore. Then booted into "CFW - emuMMC" and deleted a lot more games from there as well. So I emptied out a ton of space on both the sys/emuMMCs. I'm also confirming I'm not installing it on the system because I even intentionally tried installing it on the system just to see if it worked and I got the same error about the USB thread dying.

As far as (2) goes, I've never had an issue installing an application 4GB or higher via ns-usbloader and Awoo. I think it has something to do with it doing a "USB install" which acts differently than say if you were to just simply "copy" the file over to the USB card. However, this is probably why Windows itself was giving me the error regarding the file being too large though. But that aside, using ns-usbloader and Awoo has worked and seems to work for others on 4GB+ files according to Google results and GBAtemp results.

Any other possible ideas?

 

[binkinator]

If I'm understanding what you're saying in regard to (1), I thought this might be the case. So what I basically did was boot into the "CFW - sysMMC" and delete almost everything I had installed because I simply didn't want the games anymore. Then booted into "CFW - emuMMC" and deleted a lot more games from there as well. So I emptied out a ton of space on both the sys/emuMMCs. I'm also confirming I'm not installing it on the system because I even intentionally tried installing it on the system just to see if it worked and I got the same error about the USB thread dying.

Very thorough testing. You knocked out a couple of next steps as well. Going to have to think about this for a bit.

As far as (2) goes, I've never had an issue installing an application 4GB or higher via ns-usbloader and Awoo. I think it has something to do with it doing a "USB install" which acts differently than say if you were to just simply "copy" the file over to the USB card. However, this is probably why Windows itself was giving me the error regarding the file being too large though.

Correct. Was only talking about the 4G limit of FAT32 as it pertains to the windows error. You are correct that ns-usbloader and awoo handle this limitation properly.

But that aside, using ns-usbloader and Awoo has worked and seems to work for others on 4GB+ files according to Google results and GBAtemp results.

Any other possible ideas?

After everything that you did, did it get a little further and at least stop at a different place this time?

 

[DonAndy321]

Thats why I’m saying you should be ok to just unzip and overwrite…you’ve not trashed your /atmosphere directory with a bunch of system modules and patches.

Weird issue. Everything seems to have updated fine but I have gone into album and everything bar my backed up games are showing, Am i in the correct location to boot up games?

 

[ghostbitxd]

After everything that you did, did it get a little further and at least stop at a different place this time?

Yup, same place. It doesn't give a percentage or anything, but the bar at the bottom is most certainly at least near the same place considering I emptied about 80GB of space during my uninstallation of other games. And just for reference sake, whether it helps or not, this is the error I keep getting in Awoo. And for the record, I've tried a different USB cable and port:

USBThreadFunc:72: USB transfer timed out or failed

 

[binkinator]

Yup, same place. It doesn't give a percentage or anything, but the bar at the bottom is most certainly at least near the same place considering I emptied about 80GB of space during my uninstallation of other games. And just for reference sake, whether it helps or not, this is the error I keep getting in Awoo. And for the record, I've tried a different USB cable and port:

USBThreadFunc:72: USB transfer timed out or failed

Some folks reporting that it doesn’t do well with USB 3.0. Pretty finicky. Reboot and switch ports on your PC?

 

[binkinator]

Weird issue. Everything seems to have updated fine but I have gone into album and everything bar my backed up games are showing, Am i in the correct location to boot up games?

Can we get a screenshot shot of this? You should be able to launch games from the main screen.

 

[DonAndy321]

Can we get a screenshot shot of this? You should be able to launch games from the main screen.

Its a bit tricky but I am in the HBmenu accessed via the album and its only shwoing daybreak,snes,reboot to payload and tinfoil .

 

[binkinator]

Its a bit tricky but I am in the HBmenu accessed via the album and its only shwoing daybreak,snes,reboot to payload and tinfoil .

That‘s your HB Menu. That’s perfect. Hit the Home button to get out of there.

Games should be on the main page. If not we might have to reinstall them. If you want to grab game saves before reinstalling games we can do so with NXNandManager.

 

[DonAndy321]

That‘s your HB Menu. That’s perfect. Hit the Home button to get out of there.

Games should be on the main page. If not we might have to reinstall them. If you want to grab game saves before reinstalling games we can do so with NXNandManager.

Ok so the games dont load via the album menu like sx os? I tried loading them via the home menu but it keeps asking me for a game card