Homebrew Question Is my Switch Bricked? Need help with it

juuza91 · Feb 27, 2019

Hello everyone, I've been following this forum for a month now and I've been trying to customize my switch since I bought it with, mostly, unsuccessful results. Said so, in the last attempt to restore my NAND, after the process was over I went straight to boot SX OS, installed emunand (which did not work) and from here my console was not able at all to turn on past a purple screen. After an attempt to turn it on using Hekate and a normal boot (without CFW) the screen just went black and now (charged or not) the switch wont do absolutely anything.

The switch is in AutoRCM but TegraRcmGUI (4.6) wont read it. My dongle wont inject the payload and trying to press the power button for 15+ seconds it does not work. The screen is simply BLACK. Any hope that is not bricked, any suggestion on how to shoot some life into it?

Thank you for your patience.

a7mag3ddon · Feb 27, 2019

Sounds like your battery is flat to start with, pmug power cable in, press and hold power button 15 seconds, release, press and hold again for 15 seconds. Wait 1 or 2 hrs...

Remove power cable, attach payload injector/ dongle etc etc.. boot the console, if you can get into any firmware either custom or official finish charging..

eyeliner · Feb 27, 2019

Slap the Usb cable on the switch and your pc. Does your computer recognize something plugged in?
Not? Let it charge for a while.
It does?
It's in RCM.

juuza91 · Feb 27, 2019

eyeliner said:
Slap the Usb cable on the switch and your pc. Does your computer recognize something plugged in?
Not? Let it charge for a while.
It does?
It's in RCM.

It doesn’t, I’ve charged it with both PC and wall plug. The PC doesn’t read the switch at all. And, usually, I can exit RCM mode by pressing the power button for long enough.

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a7mag3ddon said:
Sounds like your battery is flat to start with, pmug power cable in, press and hold power button 15 seconds, release, press and hold again for 15 seconds. Wait 1 or 2 hrs...

Remove power cable, attach payload injector/ dongle etc etc.. boot the console, if you can get into any firmware either custom or official finish charging..

I’ve charged the switch with different accessories and overnight but this didn’t made any difference. I started thinking that it could be the actual USB-C port of the switch the problem. But it is quite new...

XaneTenshi · Mar 2, 2019

juuza91 said:
It doesn’t, I’ve charged it with both PC and wall plug. The PC doesn’t read the switch at all. And, usually, I can exit RCM mode by pressing the power button for long enough.

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I’ve charged the switch with different accessories and overnight but this didn’t made any difference. I started thinking that it could be the actual USB-C port of the switch the problem. But it is quite new...

Alright, I don't know how much I can do, but I can atleast give it a shot. I think the reason you haven't got a solution yet is because this issue goes deeper than what most people on gbatemp can deal with, and that includes me, but i'll try anyway. I have a possible fix in mind for the purple screen, but we can't do anything until you get some life into that Switch.

You are saying that AutoRCM is enabled, yes? Please try and connect the Switch to your pc and check under device management that the switch is displayed as "Linux UMS disk 0". If it is displayed as anything else, the driver isn't installed and you must install that through TegraRCM (I'm sure you've already installed it before, but right now, just check if the device shows under the name I specified).

juuza91 · Mar 2, 2019

XaneTenshi said:
Alright, I don't know how much I can do, but I can atleast give it a shot. I think the reason you haven't got a solution yet is because this issue goes deeper than what most people on gbatemp can deal with, and that includes me, but i'll try anyway. I have a possible fix in mind for the purple screen, but we can't do anything until you get some life into that Switch.

You are saying that AutoRCM is enabled, yes? Please try and connect the Switch to your pc and check under device management that the switch is displayed as "Linux UMS disk 0". If it is displayed as anything else, the driver isn't installed and you must install that through TegraRCM (I'm sure you've already installed it before, but right now, just check if the device shows under the name I specified).

I'm going to sound so stupid but I found out why I could not put my switch in RCM, probably the overuse of the jig bent the metal pieces that used to work before and I've tried with my old good bent paper clip and now RCM is available and bootable. sorry for the hustle.

XaneTenshi · Mar 2, 2019

juuza91 said:
I'm going to sound so stupid but I found out why I could not put my switch in RCM, probably the overuse of the jig bent the metal pieces that used to work before and I've tried with my old good bent paper clip and now RCM is available and bootable. sorry for the hustle.

But...you said the Switch was using autoRCM???? You wouldn't need to use the Jig if it had autorcm enabled XD. Also, this is exactly why you use autoRCM, to avoid stuff like this happening.

Oh well....is everything good now then? I take it you restored your old nand backup to make the switch function again?

juuza91 · Mar 2, 2019

XaneTenshi said:
But...you said the Switch was using autoRCM???? You wouldn't need to use the Jig if it had autorcm enabled XD. Also, this is exactly why you use autoRCM, to avoid stuff like this happening.

Oh well....is everything good now then? I take it you restored your old nand backup to make the switch function again?

Yup I will restore my old nand backup now because it fail to boot into CFW any how I'm trying.

HyeVltg3 · Mar 17, 2019

Dont mean to necro(if that even) this. saved me today.

XaneTenshi said:
Alright, I don't know how much I can do, but I can atleast give it a shot.

Please try and connect the Switch to your pc and check

You sir are great. very tiny fix, but every single post or subreddit post I read was saying the ol' "Press 15 sec" "charge for 1-2hrs". I spent all day today trying every search result to get some sort of reaction out of the Switch
I have been away from the SWHax scene since the beginning. Bought a launch switch and just hanged back after getting my fill of the only interesting game; Zelda BOTW.

Yesterday I finally decided to just peek and get an update of where we were and saw the huge amount of progress, so I dived in with my still 3.0.0 ofw Switch.

Got all the way up to ChoiDujourNX and installing 6.2.

Now it was time for keys and other “things”. Was on this all day, powered off switch (or so I though), removed sd and went to bed. Woke up and added more things to the SD. But like are normal people, morning aint my thing. Turned on Switch without SD, then my nightmare started.

Now we’re here.

Plugged into PC, *blong* !

TegraGUI says RCM Mode green, pushed Hekate 4.9, switch lights up with 88% battery and Hekate Menu.

Not sure if I should make another thread but if I select Reboot Normal or RCM, it still comes back to RCM.

Im stuck here. What exactly can I do next? will it be safe to Restore my 3.0.0 NAND backup on top of 6.2?

EDIT: Well, I've no idea what happened but: Hekate > Launch > "Kosmos" > CFW > Power > Nintendo Logo, everything working ....fine whatever, thank you SWhax gods for the intervention.

cole36912 · Mar 17, 2019

juuza91 said:
Yup I will restore my old nand backup now because it fail to boot into CFW any how I'm trying.

Well if the nand backup you restored had autoRCM off, then when you restore it, it will revert to that setting. So if it is a possibility that you had autoRCM off when you made the backup, it might not be in RCM, and if the backup was an earlier version and you have burnt fuses or something else is keeping stock horizon from booting, that would explain it refusing to turn on now. Either way try using a jig to get it into RCM mode, make sure to hold down the power button for like 12 seconds to ensure its off first.

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