Nintendo Switch OFW not booting. I can boot emuMMC

Nikroz · Apr 1, 2023

So, i bought an unpatched nintendo switch that is not booting into OFW. It gets stuck at the nintendo logo. I cant go into maintence mode to update it. I downloaded the latest atmosphere (1.5.1) + hekate (6.0.2). when trying to boot CFW on Sysnand, same thing, stuck at nintendo logo BUT after setting up emuMMC i can boot CFW just fine.
In terms of using the switch, yes i can but it really bothers me not being able to understand why i cant go into OFW. I can tell the Nand is not corrupted as after creating a copy of it to use in emummc it works just fine.
Any ideas on what might be going on?

Cheers guys,

meha · Apr 1, 2023

I think it is definitely nand problem. well quickest way to find out is swap out nand and test. it is easy to do so on erista console

Nikroz · Apr 2, 2023

meha said:
I think it is definitely nand problem. well quickest way to find out is swap out nand and test. it is easy to do so on erista console

Wouldnt that make the console unable to go online? If that is the case it would be sort of pointless as i could just set up auto RCM and go into emuMMC to play games

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My goal would be to have OFW restored to play an original game online if desired

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meha · Apr 2, 2023

Nikroz said:
Wouldnt that make the console unable to go online? If that is the case it would be sort of pointless as i could just set up auto RCM and go into emuMMC to play games .
My goal would be to have OFW restored to play an original game online if desired .

i don't know. does same capacity emmc also results in ban?
anyways i had similar problems while installing picofly where my switch won't turn on, or shut down after boot logo, or boots fine but then shuts down shortly after. It turned out to be mis-soldering on the emmc board even though the multimeter testings were fine.
so my guess is that some kind of circuit short in emmc board is causing problems so reading emmc is fine but writing or some other signal is problematic??

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