Hacking Question Booting Hekate directly with SX Dongle

SpaceJump · Oct 5, 2019

I'm trying to directly boot into Hekate using the SX Dongle, but none of the methods I tried work. Here's what I tried:

Using the SX Gear boot.dat to chainload the Hekate payload renamed to payload.bin
Using https://sx-boot-dat-creator.herokuapp.com to convert the Hekate payload into a boot.dat
Using the Python script to convert the Hekate payload into a boot.dat

In all cases the dongle's light flash green/blue, but the screen stays black.

Shouldn't this work? Am I missing something?

thaikhoa · Oct 5, 2019

I'm using python payload converter to boot.dat it works just fine.

Jayro · Oct 5, 2019

Why not hack into the dongle using a PC and USB cable and have it inject hekate.bin directly, in-place of boot.dat?

SpaceJump · Oct 5, 2019

Jayro said:
Why not hack into the dongle using a PC and USB cable and have it inject hekate.bin directly, in-place of boot.dat?

Afaik that's not possible, is it?

P3T3 · Oct 5, 2019

Just the hekate bin is needed, put on sd card, boot other payload... You don’t need the script! Use the bin you get with hekate

SpaceJump · Oct 5, 2019

P3T3 said:
Just the hekate bin is needed, put on sd card, boot other payload... You don’t need the script! Use the bin you get with hekate

That cannot work. The standard SX dongle always boots the boot.dat on the SD card.

P3T3 · Oct 12, 2019

The original I have, boot hacket of it as I said!

mav2010 · Oct 13, 2019

Can you try to put hekate 5.0.2 into SD root directory and boot normal SXOS with volume + pressed? Then you can load the hekate.bin from the SXOS menu. This at least works for me. Will try chainloading with the SXGear boot.dat later on.

mav2010 · Oct 13, 2019

Just did the test with an SD card formatted to FAT32, the only files in root directory being boot.dat from SX Gear and hekate 5.0.2 bin renamed to payload.bin. Works perfectly fine!

Remark: I actually have the SX Gear dongle (the red one), but I don’t think that the normal (black) dongle should behave differently.

ELY_M · Oct 15, 2019

can you try my boot.dats I have two custom boot.dats 1 will boot atmosphere and it have been tested by my friend and it booted atmosphere for him. other 1 is to boot hekate.
https://github.com/ELY3M/sx-custom-boot.dat-maker/releases

gnze796 · Oct 15, 2019

I think you have something wrong with your Hekate setup then. I am using the boot.dat creator for a long time now and I have 0 problems.

Fadzly · May 9, 2023

ELY_M said:
can you try my boot.dats I have two custom boot.dats 1 will boot atmosphere and it have been tested by my friend and it booted atmosphere for him. other 1 is to boot hekate.
https://github.com/ELY3M/sx-custom-boot.dat-maker/releases

could you update the boot.dat with the latest hekate version at github?

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