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hi guys, I have this case, have a patched gray switch, honestly I'm not sure if it's mariko or not what if we knew it was not compatible with sx pro, then we installed the sx core, the console started perfectly, until the switch menu, the sx core was updated to 1.3 and the sx os is in 3.03, so far so good, the console is updated with Choi Du Jour NX to firmware 10.04 and everything perfect the console was restarted and all good, I already had the console with sx core in 1.03, sx os in 3.03 and the nintendo firmware in 10.04, BUT to put another micro sd I had to turn off the console, after that moment the light of the sx core chip turns on only in pink, according to the manual is due to a bad solder but it is not like that since everything was working perfect, however I connect the chip to the pc to update again to 1.3 and the pc doesn't detect anything, I even put another sx core chip and nothing, already I just need to re-chip again but I am sure that is not the problem, now well i have the backup of the console nand, can i do something with that backup using pc utilities for restore the console ?? thousand apologies for the long post but I wanted to explain the case in detail, thank you very much for any help
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I already removed the chip completely and the switch still does not turn on
 

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try to use sx os 2.9.2
edit : 3.0.3 it didnt work with my sx os pro i get pink screen too but when i used 2.9.2 it work then i updated to 3.0.3
 
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hi guys, I have this case, have a patched gray switch, honestly I'm not sure if it's mariko or not what if we knew it was not compatible with sx pro, then we installed the sx core, the console started perfectly, until the switch menu, the sx core was updated to 1.3 and the sx os is in 3.03, so far so good, the console is updated with Choi Du Jour NX to firmware 10.04 and everything perfect the console was restarted and all good, I already had the console with sx core in 1.03, sx os in 3.03 and the nintendo firmware in 10.04, BUT to put another micro sd I had to turn off the console, after that moment the light of the sx core chip turns on only in pink, according to the manual is due to a bad solder but it is not like that since everything was working perfect, however I connect the chip to the pc to update again to 1.3 and the pc doesn't detect anything, I even put another sx core chip and nothing, already I just need to re-chip again but I am sure that is not the problem, now well i have the backup of the console nand, can i do something with that backup using pc utilities for restore the console ?? thousand apologies for the long post but I wanted to explain the case in detail, thank you very much for any help
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I already removed the chip completely and the switch still does not turn on
Yes, you can't remove the SX chip. It modifies the NAND to work so to remove the chip, you first need to undo those modifications. The backup is probably modified as well.
 
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yes of couse,and no turn on at all,even i already remove the sx core,so now i just wnta to know if i can fix the console with the backup NAND
Didn't they say don't use ChoiJourNX with SX Core?
That's probably where your brick comes from.

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Didn't they say don't use ChoiJourNX with SX Core?
That's probably where your brick comes from.
If your Backup is from before the install and updates. A Nand restore would probably help.
 
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Check your battery. The setup was probably fine before, just not powered properly. Now with all the changes you did, who knows if things really got broken now

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Yes, you can't remove the SX chip. It modifies the NAND to work so to remove the chip, you first need to undo those modifications. The backup is probably modified as well.

This is just false. As you can read in my other posts, you can remove SX chip just fine. The NAND modification of SX Core does not prevent booting when the chip is removed.

BUT. If you run things like ChoiDuJourNX on SysNAND, then yeah, you've modified NAND to prevent it from booting when the chip is removed. But that's on the user, nothing SX Core can do about that. They explicitly state not to run apps like Choi and Incognito
 

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Yes, you can't remove the SX chip. It modifies the NAND to work so to remove the chip, you first need to undo those modifications. The backup is probably modified as well.

well i already remove the sx core,so i will install it again,now i make the NAND backup BEFORE de update,so the NAND backup is clean,but how i can make the restore then??

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Didn't they say don't use ChoiJourNX with SX Core?
That's probably where your brick comes from.
they say if you use ChoiJourNX AFTER update sx core to 1.03 and sx os to 3.03 you can update safe

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If your Backup is from before the install and updates. A Nand restore would probably help.
yes i make the backup before the install,but how can make a nand restore then?? i cat find any tutorial,the ones i see use a NAND files difrents from sx os backput nand utility

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Check your battery. The setup was probably fine before, just not powered properly. Now with all the changes you did, who knows if things really got broken now

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This is just false. As you can read in my other posts, you can remove SX chip just fine. The NAND modification of SX Core does not prevent booting when the chip is removed.

BUT. If you run things like ChoiDuJourNX on SysNAND, then yeah, you've modified NAND to prevent it from booting when the chip is removed. But that's on the user, nothing SX Core can do about that. They explicitly state not to run apps like Choi and Incognito
ok i see so ,


What options do I have then ?, I already removed the sx core, do I reinstall it? .I have the clean backup of the nand because I did it before updating with ChoiDuJourNX , but I cannot find tutorials to restore the nand with the sx os files
 
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Your only options are to restore sysnand with an external eMMC dongle OR install the chip again to boot into SXOS boot menu to restore a backup nand
 
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Check your battery. The setup was probably fine before, just not powered properly. Now with all the changes you did, who knows if things really got broken now

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This is just false. As you can read in my other posts, you can remove SX chip just fine. The NAND modification of SX Core does not prevent booting when the chip is removed.

BUT. If you run things like ChoiDuJourNX on SysNAND, then yeah, you've modified NAND to prevent it from booting when the chip is removed. But that's on the user, nothing SX Core can do about that. They explicitly state not to run apps like Choi and Incognito
I see. Someone else said the modifications prevent OFW from booting, guess they were wrong.
 

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Your only options are to restore sysnand with an external eMMC dongle OR install the chip again to boot into SXOS boot menu to restore a backup nand[/QUO

but before removing the chip the sx core the console did not give an image of anything, it only turned on the pink light on the chip, so I can reinstall the sx core but when connecting it to the pc the chip turns green but does not detect it the pc, remember that before the brick I had already updated the sx core to 1.03 and sx os to 3.03 then i update with ChoiJourNX, that's why I find it strange that the machine would jump if after updating if everything was fine,the console brick when i need turn off for change de sd card
 
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Since it turned green with USB it's probably working, and your PC is just not recognizing it due to a driver issue. It was pink because you probably had a flat battery
 
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Since it turned green with USB it's probably working, and your PC is just not recognizing it due to a driver issue. It was pink because you probably had a flat battery

Hi,battery is full of charge,and where i can find those usb drivers?? because in the TX web wont say nothing about the sx core need drivers to works,Also remember that just before restarting the console, in the sx os menu when I clicked on the sx core option, I received a message saying "you cannot get information from the sx core, please check your connections" so it is not a problem battery how do I get my pc to recognize the sx core? what if i do with that? because the sx core was already at 1.03 before the brick
 

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