Hey there, I've ran into a weird issue with a chip install. I've used a 4th gen HWFLY OLED chip for a switch lite (which I've done before many times) and the chip LED indicates that it is training. It pulses an orange/green LED and it does this for hours on end. Has anyone seen this issue before? The switch itself works fine and I've tried factory resetting the chip which didn't help. I've installed quite a lot of chips in switches so I'm confident the issue isn't the wiring, which I've re done multiple times.
Hardware HWFLY Modchip stuck in training
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I read somewhere that it might be a bug in fw 0.7.1 and try a older one for v4 chips.
It's not dead, just their website (chipnx.com) is gone. The last firmware they posted on that website is 0.3.0 beta, but the latest one I got from my seller is 0.3.1 which came after 14.1.1 update. I'll ask my seller later to see if there's any update. If so, I'll share it here since it seems like official firmware has better compatibility with non-oled consoles.
Just got a reply from the seller. Latest chipnx firmware is still 0.3.1, you can find it here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/what-happened-to-hwflys-official-firmware.616529/post-9899641
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Just got a reply from the seller. Latest chipnx firmware is still 0.3.1, you can find it here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/what-happened-to-hwflys-official-firmware.616529/post-9899641
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Please get a putty log and attach it, I have still never personally seen a mariko on 0.7.1 that does not boot.
They will be fixed soon
Where do you get this firmware? The one my seller sent to me is still 0.31. Can you share it?
Btw seller also gave me this link:
https://pan.baidu.com/s/1qtFAMxe4DyFPvSUrzpqyAw?pwd=kc14
You can find chipnx's 0.24 and 0.31 firmware here. I tried to download them but I think the website is asking you to register with a china phone number or something, and I can't get past it. If anyone knows how to use this website, please download and share these original chipnx firmware releases.
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZC9FjVZmWaF3Xyuhffhrm4T5KkRY5iyekCk
It is 0.32 link. It was obtained from sthetix.
I don't have any changelog. I did have some weird issues with my chip though. Not because of 0.32, but because of the things that happened to my OLED chip. Basically I was on hwfly-nx 0.6.0 or something and I did decide to update to 0.7.1 just because there was something like battery leak fixed on OLEDs in changelog.
So, because of being lazy, I decided to update using hwfly-toolbox to 0.7.1 - it immediately failed. Chip stopped responding to any option within the toolbox payload. On a next boot - no single LED - direct boot to OFW. I was scared that it died completely, but USB flash did help.
Sthetix recommends to use the chipNX (with a rocket) firmware because of being more stable or something. Especially on Hynix (I have Samsung though) emmc. At the end of the day I decided to flash 0.32 instead of hwfly 0.7.1 - it did work, but with really weird things happening. On NO SD screen it did never show fw version and glitching was fast, but it was taking like an extra 3-5 seconds after green light to show something on the screen. I did play with a series (10+) of reboots and I had 3 failed starts - chip would just turn green and show error on a screen, sometimes even with fancy visual artefacts. The thing is - my console did work and works flawlessly outside the weird glitching procedure. I thought it was faulty 0.32 or something, but flash to 0.31 led to the same exact results with the same issues.
Did not want to leave my console on something that unstable - flashed hwfly 0.7.1. Now everything works just perfectly - instant glitching, never any other thing like mentioned above. So, I guess, YMMV.
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Had a similar problem, my v5 oled chip was on 0.7.1
Every 3. or 4. boot the LED looked like this:
pulsing purple, flashing orange, pulsing purple, then pulsing red and then it boots to stock firmware.
So only 3/4 successful boots.
Flashed 0.31 firmware and bootlader from the sellers gdrive.
After that, It stucked in training mode.
Flashed 0.7.1 back, but still the same.. endless training mode.
Triple checked my solder, solder was ok. tried many firmwares, and finally found a working one.
Its a special 0.31 Firmware, uploaded from my seller today.
there is unfortunately no changelog, but for whatever reason it works.
Every 3. or 4. boot the LED looked like this:
pulsing purple, flashing orange, pulsing purple, then pulsing red and then it boots to stock firmware.
So only 3/4 successful boots.
Flashed 0.31 firmware and bootlader from the sellers gdrive.
After that, It stucked in training mode.
Flashed 0.7.1 back, but still the same.. endless training mode.
Triple checked my solder, solder was ok. tried many firmwares, and finally found a working one.
Its a special 0.31 Firmware, uploaded from my seller today.
there is unfortunately no changelog, but for whatever reason it works.
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