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    picofly black screen with sd card / no card sd screen without card

    The symptoms being discussed here (boot to black screen or blue screen upon pressing Vol + -) seem to be due to miscommunication (or lack thereof) between the APU and the memory chips. If you're positive your APU is fine and nothing's been done to the firmware chip, try this: replace this chip...
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    Issue with 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth, or it it the adapter's fault?

    So, I have investigated a little further, and I thought it would be a good idea to remove the crystal oscillator and see how the board would react. After removing the crystal, I measured across the pads, and while I got a high resistance, which is expected, I then did a cross measurement, and I...
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    Issue with 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth, or it it the adapter's fault?

    I was having a good time last weekend playing Far Cry 4 on my LCD Deck, then I tried it again this weekend but to my surprise I was let down by a miscommunication between the adapter and the controller that would manifest itself over and over again. I'd like to figure out how this mini-board...
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    New Issue with Picofly (RP2040) on Switch Lite

    Thank you for replying. Right now I'm waiting on the eMMC stencil to arrive, so I can reball and solder it onto my board. Additionally, I've been measuring a few components and I figured I'll swap the 77812 for a donor, because there's a cap that was beeping both ways and when my board was...
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    New Issue with Picofly (RP2040) on Switch Lite

    I went with that theory before, and no caps are damaged compared to a donor board I have. I've investigated the caps from the APU as well, and even though one was looking very burned, so much so I replaced it with another cap from the same location, the issue still persists. I try to be very...
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    Hardware Nintendo Switch no display, not charging, stuck at around 0.50A

    I believe 500 mA indicates there's a problem with your LCD or backlight. Try removing the backlight chip to see if anything changes. You won't see anything on the display, but you can increase the volume and press some buttons to see if there's any interaction. Then, it's just a matter of...
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    New Issue with Picofly (RP2040) on Switch Lite

    All that was done was a daughterboard replacement because the handheld was not registering the left d-pad and my stick would move horizontally, not vertically. I resoldered a new connector onto the board from underneath the board, so I had to desolder RP2040 to do the job. However, because this...
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    New Issue with Picofly (RP2040) on Switch Lite

    EDIT: Sorry got that wrong, it goes blue when glitching the APU. When it successfully tricks the APU, it blinks RED and then goes off. If it does green then off, something is wrong and usually that leads to poor soldering/wiring. That's my experience with it, Picofly ver. 2.61. EDIT #2: The...
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    New Issue with Picofly (RP2040) on Switch Lite

    No, not at all. For context, as I said, this is the second time I had this picofly soldered. At the end of the process, I always make sure those wires are 1) reaching and touching their own spots and 2) do not touch each other. But perhaps the one measurement I didn't mention is that now, DAT0...
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    New Issue with Picofly (RP2040) on Switch Lite

    Thank you for replying. All values in voltage drop (Diode Mode, black probe on ground). The one point missing above "3V3" is GND, all other values are here.
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    New Issue with Picofly (RP2040) on Switch Lite

    Moderators, I have searched for this similar issue on this forum, but found none that replicates my exact problem. Context: So I was happy playing some games on my Switch Lite, this is a modded (Picofly on RP2040) Switch Lite. All of a sudden, a few buttons stopped registering, which prompted me...
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    Picofly issues on Switch Lite

    Yes, I have. It was about the cables I soldered. Look at the pic. Somehow the end of these two (CMD & CLK) were touching; As soon as I got that fixed, I then managed to get to write data and the "your emmc is initialized in slower mode" error message was no more. Here's how it was before: And...
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    Is my SD corrupted? Getting Error 2123-0011

    Hi, I just wanted to share my experience here, which I believe could lead us to a more concrete conclusion. I've been struggling to install 10GB+ games (take Rocket League as an example) using Awoo, it's too unstable. Switched to DBI. Now the base game, which is less than 4GB installs just fine...
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    Picofly issues on Switch Lite

    I soldered a Picofly (RP-2040) onto my Switch Lite board. When the process was done, I was excited to power on the device and see the "No sd" screen, which didn't happen and my Switch Lite was booting straight to OFW instead. I then tested both ends from every single cable for continuity. I...
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    Hardware No backlight Switch Lite (no 17v)

    Assuming the backlight IC has an enabler pin, so that this chip wakes up and switches the inductor in order to boost voltage to ~17V, what enables it? Is it the APU? If it is, would you happen to know which pin is it and how many volts does it get to enable?
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