Hardware Issue with Nintendo Switch intermittently not reading SD card

bloodfalco · Dec 22, 2020

Hello everyone. I am not sure this is the right place to ask or not. As per the title said, I have an issue with my SD card on Nintendo Switch. I have formatted my SD card to FAT32, I am using Atmosphere 0.11, the problem is when I played games, the card reader intermittently cannot read SD card. When this happens, I need to turn off my Switch and use TegraRCMGUI to turn it back on, however when I turn it back on, sometimes my SD card cannot be read as well.

I changed SD card 3 pieces already and it still having the same issue, those 3 SD card themselves are having no problem, all of them formatted to FAT32 using guiformat and using my 3DS Luma3DS God Mode to format them into the format that Nintendo Switch recognize. Also, I have tested them in my PC using SD integrity and all of them are genuine SD cards and still working properly. I also have sent to my local game store to change the SD card slot, but currently it is still having the same issue. Anyone here has the same issue with me? If yes, then can you share with me how to solve it?

Anxiety_timmy · Dec 22, 2020

its prob dirty pins or something like that, if not try reinstalling ams
if thats not it just replace the sd card board

bloodfalco · Dec 22, 2020

wiiuepiccpu said:
its prob dirty pins or something like that, if not try reinstalling ams
if thats not it just replace the sd card board

I have replaced the SD card board, but the issue still persists. @wiiuepiccpu Do you have any solution for this?

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bloodfalco said:
I have replaced the SD card board, but the issue still persists. @wiiuepiccpu Do you have any solution for this?

I hope someone can shed some light on this.

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bloodfalco said:
I have replaced the SD card board, but the issue still persists. @wiiuepiccpu Do you have any solution for this?

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I hope someone can shed some light on this.

Also @wiiuepiccpu Thank you for at least replying.

mitcha · Dec 22, 2020

this problem happen when the sd card reader does not comunicate well with the motherboard.

mostly the problem is a pin(s) is/are about to disolder from the connector ( on the mother board )

take a photo of that conector , i bet you will see them in the right place , but if you touch , they can be disassembled.

it happen here , the guy's test some good pin's but it appear that those pins are about to detach , that why youncan play some times and out of no where the sd card it no longer redeable.

bloodfalco · Dec 22, 2020

mitcha said:
this problem happen when the sd card reader does not comunicate well with the motherboard.

mostly the problem is a pin(s) is/are about to disolder from the connector ( on the mother board )

take a photo of that conector , i bet you will see them in the right place , but if you touch , they can be disassembled.

it happen here , the guy's test some good pin's but it appear that those pins are about to detach , that why youncan play some times and out of no where the sd card it no longer redeable.

Bro @mitcha , is there any thread on this kind of solution or anything? Also the location is where? Do I need to open my back cover for this?

Hayato213 · Dec 22, 2020

bloodfalco said:
Bro, is there any thread on this kind of solution or anything?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/sd-card-port-issue.521485/

what you needs to is open up the switch and take a look at the pin on the board, if you are missing gold plastic it indicating your connector are dead, not making contact with the main board, where you need to solder wires.

mitcha · Dec 22, 2020

https://gbatemp.net/threads/about-the-microsd-card-connector.523130/

also i comenout with this issue too here :

https://gbatemp.net/threads/problem...eat-from-nintendo-switch-mother-board.552215/

take your time to read , if you are no familiar with tiny soldering , it's tricky.
i recomend to go to a phone/electronic reparation store with the diagram provided to solve it.

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mitcha said:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/about-the-microsd-card-connector.523130/

also i comenout with this issue too here :

https://gbatemp.net/threads/problem...eat-from-nintendo-switch-mother-board.552215/

take your time to read , if you are no familiar with tiny soldering , it's tricky.
i recomend to go to a phone/electronic reparation store with the diagram provided to solve it.

yes you need to open the cover , there are some youtube video for this kind of problem too.

bloodfalco · Dec 24, 2020

Is there anyone from Indonesia here? And can anyone help to solder this particular issue? Thank you

fvig2001 · Dec 24, 2020

bloodfalco said:
Is there anyone from Indonesia here? And can anyone help to solder this particular issue? Thank you

You're better off looking at stores that fix cellphones. That's my plan on mine since my issue is worse.

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