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Hacking Switch Suddenly Won't Boot Past Logo When Attempting to Launch CFW
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I'm going to say that you should just cut through the BS and use Kosmos. It downloads everything you need to extract to your FAT32 micro SD card (even if you have the luck of getting EXFAT to work, you're better off just using FAT32 because to save yourself future headaches), along with any programs you want to have as part of your CFW package. Not to mention, those emulator crashes? Kosmos has an error handler that, if you push the volume up button, it reboots the Switch with the CFW you already injected into it, rendering the need to use TegraRCM on Windows or the one on Android unnecessary unless the Switch is powered down completely!
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i personally use kosmos because it comes with everything (except sigpatches) to get you started, its just a simple drag and drop
Hey OP back again after trying some methods what did it for me was the one i thought was just nonesensical. anyways you maybe want to try if you havnt fixed it yet, i let the battery drain waited overnight without charging it until i woke up. Plugged in the charger that came with the Switch i did not charge it in docked mode just plugged it into the Switch, until it was 100% or until i was done with work and got home. started it up (with or without the sdcard your choice i had mine inside) held the Volume + and Volume - Buttons down when the Switch Logo came up and booted into maintenance mode (which i previously was not able to do also make sure autoRCM is off so you can boot into stock version) when in recovery mode if you wanna keep your save data choose "Restore factory settings without deleting save data" let it do its thing your switch should be as it was when you bought it but with the New firmware... backup the stuff you want before this btw cause the SDcard will be formatted if im not mistaken i didnt have anything so idk. But my switch is able to boot normally now Even after turning it off or going into sleep mode hope this works for you OP and best of luck. Do note that you will lose everything (Well mostly except your save data) saved on the switch but then again its a factory reset so ya. Maybe use this as a last resort if you want.
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My problem is fixed i was using exFAT but after doing more research after this "incident" i know FAT32 is the more stable one and will stick to that from now on.
FYI - Kosmos is just a pre-packaged Atmosphere with some neat patches.
Really appreciate you responding. and glad to hear you got things sorted out. I've had my switch dead for the past few days and am currently charging it, so I'm definitely gonna give this a shot in a bit. Thankfully I have all my saves & stuff backed up so it's perfectly fine if I end up loosing everything.
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If anyone has the trouble where nothing shows up, follow this video:
it's very likely two things, format of your SD card and Hekate_ipl // FS_510 :
--------------------------------------------- Some points first ---------------------------------------
* Do SD card modifications fearlessly as long as you back them up, since they won't affect your NAND.
*AFAIK If you don't see your CFW or FW in your launch menu YOU WILL have problems booting, even if you manually load it from the load menu in Hekate.
* If it shows the switch logo but then screen turns black, it means you need to follow this tutorial, probably clear the USER nand and replace it with the firmware folder contents. (mine had 700 or so mB instead of what was meant to have).
* Your SYSTEM NAND and USER NAND SHOULD BE BACKED UP as many times as needed .
1. Check the troubleshooting at 23:29.
2. If it doesnt work (it didn't for me) it may not mean you have a faulty switch, if u made it this far your partitions are probably good.
3. Check the format of your sd card, make sure it's FAT32, sometimes there's a problem with exfat, if you double check the sd card contents you might even see files getting replaced, this doesn't happen with FAT32.
3.5 AFAIK you don't really need the backup folder that might be created inside your switch, but i recommend you to save it in case u ever need it.
4. Follow the guidelines to fix your USER and SYSTEM NAND locations, as described in the troubleshooting section (23:29).
5. With that done, obviously with your "FS_510" file in the correct folder (root of SD CARD also payload folder inside your BOOTLOADER folder), Use the following lines in your "hekate_ipl" after you made sure it's .ini and in the right place.
6. If you followed the ATMOSPHERE GUIDE and modified the hekate IPL within :
{------ Atmosphere ------}
[Atmosphere FSS0 EmuMMC]
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
kip1=atmosphere/kips/*
icon=bootloader/res/emu_boot.bmp
{}
[Atmosphere FSS0 SYS]
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
kip1=atmosphere/kips/*
emummc_force_disable=1
icon=bootloader/res/sys_cfw_boot.bmp
{}
{-------- Stock ---------}
[Stock SYS]
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
stock=1
emummc_force_disable=1
icon=bootloader/res/stock_boot.bmp
then you just need the hekate from the firmware folder, and add that piece of text to the bottom, so it looks like what i pasted above, and right below that it has the text OF the hekate WITHIN the Firmware folder.
Good luck.
it's very likely two things, format of your SD card and Hekate_ipl // FS_510 :
--------------------------------------------- Some points first ---------------------------------------
* Do SD card modifications fearlessly as long as you back them up, since they won't affect your NAND.
*AFAIK If you don't see your CFW or FW in your launch menu YOU WILL have problems booting, even if you manually load it from the load menu in Hekate.
* If it shows the switch logo but then screen turns black, it means you need to follow this tutorial, probably clear the USER nand and replace it with the firmware folder contents. (mine had 700 or so mB instead of what was meant to have).
* Your SYSTEM NAND and USER NAND SHOULD BE BACKED UP as many times as needed .
1. Check the troubleshooting at 23:29.
2. If it doesnt work (it didn't for me) it may not mean you have a faulty switch, if u made it this far your partitions are probably good.
3. Check the format of your sd card, make sure it's FAT32, sometimes there's a problem with exfat, if you double check the sd card contents you might even see files getting replaced, this doesn't happen with FAT32.
3.5 AFAIK you don't really need the backup folder that might be created inside your switch, but i recommend you to save it in case u ever need it.
4. Follow the guidelines to fix your USER and SYSTEM NAND locations, as described in the troubleshooting section (23:29).
5. With that done, obviously with your "FS_510" file in the correct folder (root of SD CARD also payload folder inside your BOOTLOADER folder), Use the following lines in your "hekate_ipl" after you made sure it's .ini and in the right place.
6. If you followed the ATMOSPHERE GUIDE and modified the hekate IPL within :
{------ Atmosphere ------}
[Atmosphere FSS0 EmuMMC]
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
kip1=atmosphere/kips/*
icon=bootloader/res/emu_boot.bmp
{}
[Atmosphere FSS0 SYS]
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
kip1=atmosphere/kips/*
emummc_force_disable=1
icon=bootloader/res/sys_cfw_boot.bmp
{}
{-------- Stock ---------}
[Stock SYS]
fss0=atmosphere/fusee-secondary.bin
stock=1
emummc_force_disable=1
icon=bootloader/res/stock_boot.bmp
then you just need the hekate from the firmware folder, and add that piece of text to the bottom, so it looks like what i pasted above, and right below that it has the text OF the hekate WITHIN the Firmware folder.
Good luck.
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