need help after doing the worst mistake i could.

Cookz · Thursday at 7:24 PM

this happened about 2 years ago now. i was trying to restore my switch from its cfw state back to ofw. i did what i should and did the reverting to backup for the raw gpp, then i made the mistake of accidentally rebooting the console before reverting to the backed up boot files. i immediately turned it off again and redid the entire backup but to no avail. ever since its been stuck on the switch logo whenever i tried to boot it. i was still able to boot into hekate but never further that that. now it wont even turn on at all anymore, tho i dont know if thats an issue with the battery. ive had this issue on the backburner looking for an answer to what i could do. im considering replacing the motherboard but id rather know that would fix it before buying one. thanks in advance

tech3475 · Thursday at 7:39 PM

If it's been two years, I would first just leave it on charge for a while.

Second, I would try to get back into Hekate and check your fuse counts VS what OFW version you have on the backup.

randy_w · Thursday at 7:53 PM

Also if you had autorcm or the switch is chipped, leave it on official charger overnight, they will charge very slowly if stuck in rcm mode

Cookz · Friday at 10:33 AM

tech3475 said:
If it's been two years, I would first just leave it on charge for a while.

Second, I would try to get back into Hekate and check your fuse counts VS what OFW version you have on the backup.

i dont have the backup anymore at this point... i remember the firmware version being something after 15

tech3475 · Friday at 10:38 AM

Cookz said:
i dont have the backup anymore at this point... i remember the firmware version being something after 15

If the fuse count is above what the OFW expects, it wont boot.

It should be possible to update via CFW.

Cookz · Friday at 11:38 AM

tech3475 said:
If the fuse count is above what the OFW expects, it wont boot.

It should be possible to update via CFW.

i don't know how to do that

petspeed · Friday at 12:25 PM

Boot Sys CFW and use Daybreak to install the desired firmware version. You need to download the firmware first. Google to find it, we are not allowed to link to it here.

Cookz · Friday at 9:55 PM

petspeed said:
Boot Sys CFW and use Daybreak to install the desired firmware version. You need to download the firmware first. Google to find it, we are not allowed to link to it here.

but if i cant get any further than hekate? what am i supposed to do?

petspeed · Saturday at 3:30 PM

If the issue is because of fuse count then you should be able to boot yhrough Atmosphere.

tech3475 · 2024-11-17T10:03:00+0000

Cookz said:
but if i cant get any further than hekate? what am i supposed to do?

AFAIK if it's the fuse count (I believe this is viewable via Hekate), you need to boot to CFW, update sysnand and then you should be boot ofw.

Note: I don't know how safe this method will be for online afterwards.

Regardless, make a fresh backup before doing anything.

Cookz · 2024-11-17T20:26:04+0000

tech3475 said:
AFAIK if it's the fuse count (I believe this is viewable via Hekate), you need to boot to CFW, update sysnand and then you should be boot ofw.

Note: I don't know how safe this method will be for online afterwards.

Regardless, make a fresh backup before doing anything.

but the issue is that i couldn't boot no matter if its ofw or cfw

tech3475 · 2024-11-17T20:46:30+0000

Cookz said:
but the issue is that i couldn't boot no matter if its ofw or cfw

Just to confirm, you're running a compatible version of Atmosphere?

Cookz · 2024-11-17T20:47:23+0000

tech3475 said:
AFAIK if it's the fuse count (I believe this is viewable via Hekate), you need to boot to CFW, update sysnand and then you should be boot ofw.

Note: I don't know how safe this method will be for online afterwards.

Regardless, make a fresh backup before doing anything.

this is as much as i can provide as i haven't found the sd card yet

4d1xlaan · 2024-11-17T21:10:23+0000

randy_w said:
Also if you had autorcm or the switch is chipped, leave it on official charger overnight, they will charge very slowly if stuck in rcm mode

idk why anyone ever even does this, just hold down power for 30 sec after plugging in and you'll guaranteed be out of rcm and able to charge normally

it doesn't need to be 30 seconds, but 30 seconds guarantees that it will have been long enough

randy_w · 2024-11-18T01:46:42+0000

4d1xlaan said:
idk why anyone ever even does this, just hold down power for 30 sec after plugging in and you'll guaranteed be out of rcm and able to charge normally

it doesn't need to be 30 seconds, but 30 seconds guarantees that it will have been long enough

no it won't. if autorcm is enabled it will always boot into rcm and charge very slowly. with modchip it might get out of rcm if battery has enough charge for the modchip to finish glitching, but if it's completely dead it won't get out of rcm mode until battery has enough charge

The Real Jdbye · 2024-11-18T02:45:08+0000

Cookz said:
but the issue is that i couldn't boot no matter if its ofw or cfw

Most likely it's just out. Like others have said, it takes a while to get the console to turn on if it runs out of battery with AutoRCM turned on.

As for being stuck on the boot logo, if the boot partitions are mismatched with the firmware version, luckily it's not difficult to make replacement boot0/boot1 files without a backup. If you downgraded the firmware and the fuse count doesn't match, you'll have to upgrade again. Rest assured, both of those things are fixable using RCM. But first of all, you need to leave it on charge and get into Hekate again.

jkyoho · 2024-11-18T03:29:20+0000

FUSE count 18 you should be on 16~16.1.0 HOS

Cookz · 2024-11-18T11:19:22+0000

The Real Jdbye said:
Most likely it's just out. Like others have said, it takes a while to get the console to turn on if it runs out of battery with AutoRCM turned on.

As for being stuck on the boot logo, if the boot partitions are mismatched with the firmware version, luckily it's not difficult to make replacement boot0/boot1 files without a backup. If you downgraded the firmware and the fuse count doesn't match, you'll have to upgrade again. Rest assured, both of those things are fixable using RCM. But first of all, you need to leave it on charge and get into Hekate again.

im able to get into hekate i just need to find my sd card with the files

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