Hacking [RCM Payload] Hekate - CTCaer mod

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Don't forget your console into RCM. This will drain your battery without a cable. And because, it does not have a battery cuttoff, it will completely drain it.
If this happens, you should power off (if it didn't all ready) your console, and let it charge into normal mode (red battery icon top-left) for 20-30 minutes, to open.

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I found my switch yesterday dead empty. If I press the power button, nothing happens, it won't accept payloads from a dongle, refused to boot at all. I know the battery was at about 90% as I powered it off via the menu. I've put the switch into the dock and saw a green battery icon top left for a second, then black screen for four seconds, then again the green battery icon, then black screen and so on. The LED from the dock flashs green for a second, same time the green battery icon showed up. I guess the switch thinks that the battery level is good and trys to boot, but it is dead empty!?

Then I decided to push hekate payload via PC/TegraRcmGUI. That worked, I got a red battery icon top left / blackscreen for about five minutes, then hekate comes up and shows 92% battery level!?

Are the battery stats messed up, is that a hardware fault? Hekate says autoRCM is off. What could be wrong, any insight?
Thank you.

Edit/Update: Disconnecting the battery finally fixed the mess.
 
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Trying to install Switchroot, and I think I finally got it (it shows up, at least), but it won't boot into TWRP. XP Turns out you need Hekate 5.0.1 to load into Android, so I tried to downgrade to that (I'm on 5.3.2), but I got nothing but a black screen after injecting the 5.0.1 payload. XP I did keep the fusee primary payload an an android ini file in the bootloader, but other than that, I replaced the bootloader folder, but I'm sure there's more to it that I missed.
 
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Anybody know why I'm getting "Trojan Script/Foretype.A!ml" on Windows defender when I scan hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2_nyx_0.9.3.zip?
 

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Anybody know why I'm getting "Trojan Script/Foretype.A!ml" on Windows defender when I scan hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2_nyx_0.9.3.zip?

I just checked my Defender logs, and it looks like I did actually get that, so I must've allowed it and then forgotten. I just submitted it to Microsoft as a false positive. Hopefully they get it taken care of.
 
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For the first time ever, hekate actually crashed on me. It was weird seeing an exception screen. I don't know if it's any help, but i'll describe it here.

I rebooted into hekate from AMS, removed the mSD, updated AMS files on the mSD via my PC to 0.14.2, reinserted the mSD. Hekate/Nyx reloaded as usual.
I went on to make a Boot/RAW backup and finished it without problem. I then went into the MMC restore option for Raw, thinking maybe it could check and validate the dump i made once more and tell me. I backed out of the "Are you sure you wanna do this?" prompt with a VOL button though.
I navigated back to the main menu and clicked on "Launch", and then...


An exception occurred (LR 8103E704):

UNDEF

Press any key...
 

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I just checked my Defender logs, and it looks like I did actually get that, so I must've allowed it and then forgotten. I just submitted it to Microsoft as a false positive. Hopefully they get it taken care of.

I got a response back from Microsoft. hekate_ctcaer_5.3.2_nyx_0.9.3.zip should be fixed.

Microsoft said:
We have removed the detection. Please follow the steps below to clear cached detection and obtain the latest malware definitions.

1. Open command prompt as administrator and change directory to c:\Program Files\Windows Defender
2. Run “MpCmdRun.exe -removedefinitions -dynamicsignatures”
3. Run "MpCmdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate"

Alternatively, the latest definition is available for download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/definitions

Thank you for contacting Microsoft.
 
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I’m on an ipatched switch on OFW 4.1.0 running the pegascape exploit to boot into CFW, my CFW is on the latest 10.2.0 and my Atmosphere version is the latest 0.14.4. My Hekate was set to Auto Boot so I’m unable to get back to Hekate - which I’d like to do. I am unable to push the Hekate payload as my switch is patched, I do have the “Payload Launcher” app in my homebrew album (which I use on an unpatched switch to get back into Hekate) but I’m unsure if it’s safe to use this on the patched switch. Can anyone help please?
 

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I’m on an ipatched switch on OFW 4.1.0 running the pegascape exploit to boot into CFW, my CFW is on the latest 10.2.0 and my Atmosphere version is the latest 0.14.4. My Hekate was set to Auto Boot so I’m unable to get back to Hekate - which I’d like to do. I am unable to push the Hekate payload as my switch is patched, I do have the “Payload Launcher” app in my homebrew album (which I use on an unpatched switch to get back into Hekate) but I’m unsure if it’s safe to use this on the patched switch. Can anyone help please?

IIRC you can hold the volume down (-) button to ignore autoboot. If that fails, you'll have to edit the configuration file (hekate_ipl) on your SD, I think.
Also, pushing the Hekate payload manually would use autoboot anyhow since it reads the same configuration from the SD card.
 
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IIRC you can hold the volume down (-) button to ignore autoboot. If that fails, you'll have to edit the configuration file (hekate_ipl) on your SD, I think.
Also, pushing the Hekate payload manually would use autoboot anyhow since it reads the same configuration from the SD card.
Thanks I solved it. I added my solution to this dedicated thread where someone was having the same issue as me.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/autoboo...hekate-vol-on-atm-0-10-1.554121/#post-9203524
 

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Ok I’m using an RCM Loader. So what goes where? I put the Hekate bin file on the root of sd and rename to payload then all other bin files go into payload folder? Cuz I just upgraded FW from 9 to 10 and so far was only able to boot into Atmos using Tegra and fuse primary in pc. I’m using emuMMC btw too
 

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Ok I’m using an RCM Loader. So what goes where? I put the Hekate bin file on the root of sd and rename to payload then all other bin files go into payload folder? Cuz I just upgraded FW from 9 to 10 and so far was only able to boot into Atmos using Tegra and fuse primary in pc. I’m using emuMMC btw too
Are you trying to get into Hekate on an unpatched switch? If so open Tegra on your pc, make sure your switch is switched off, connect your jig, go into rcm plug the usb cable into your switch - then into your pc, you should see RCM OK notice in green in Tegra, then simply push the Hekate payload and your switch should boot into Hekate. Remove the cable and jig and you’re good to go.
 

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Hi I recently switched to booting atmosphere through hekate and fss0. What has immediately astonished me was its speed in booting. One thing I noticed is that the sept's boot screen isn't showed whereas fusee-primary shows it on every single boot. I thought that for booting 7.0+ sept was mandatory and that the sept payload was precisely designed to always shows that screen but why on hekate doesn't show up?
Another unrelated thing I'm curious about is which patches are applied when atmosphere=1 is set?
 

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