Anyone on 20.1.1 that did not perform the SD card update?

[ceevee]

Now that 20.1.5 is out, I'm wondering if you can receive the SD card update without updating system firmware to the latest. If you have a microSD card (non-express is fine) and are on 20.1.1, you can test this by:

• Format microsd card as exfat
• Connect to internet (do not perform system update/disable automatic system updates)
• Go to Settings -> Data Management -> Manage Screenshots and Videos -> Import from a Nintendo Switch microSD Card
• Insert microsd card
• Install SD card update, which should also result in a reboot. This is not supposed to be a system firmware update.
• Go to "Import from a Nintendo Switch microSD Card" again. It should no longer prompt an update, which means SD card update was installed.
• Check if firmware is still 20.1.1.

Any testers?

 

[d_eediot]

I just tried this.. unfortunately I got pushed to 20.1.5.

That'll teach me for being lazy with getting the sd-card sorted

 

[ceevee]

I just tried this.. unfortunately I got pushed to 20.1.5.

That'll teach me for being lazy with getting the sd-card sorted

That's really unfortunate! Thanks for reporting. Just to confirm:

• You were already on 20.1.1 before trying the sd card update?

• This screen actually updated the system firmware to 20.1.5?:

• And you did NOT update through here?:

 

[itsboot]

Can confirm it puts you on 20.1.5. I was waiting for my SDcard to arrive from Amazon, got here today and what do you know there's a new update. Thought I could get around it like OP suggested, but no. Forced an update 1.5. Unlucky. I decided to do it anyway since I think you'll need the SD card update for it to be hackable.

 

[Marc_LFD]

I wish we could cancel a firmware update like on PS4, but we can't. Sucks about your Switch 2. :/

 

[d_eediot]

That's really unfortunate! Thanks for reporting. Just to confirm:

• You were already on 20.1.1 before trying the sd card update?

• This screen actually updated the system firmware to 20.1.5?:

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• And you did NOT update through here?:

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Yes to all the above!

 

[itsboot]

I'm hoping the eventual hack will still work, but we'll see. Definitely a bummer, and I'm wondering now if I should hold or sell.

 

[kylum]

That's really unfortunate! Thanks for reporting. Just to confirm:

• You were already on 20.1.1 before trying the sd card update?

• This screen actually updated the system firmware to 20.1.5?:

View attachment 511960

• And you did NOT update through here?:

View attachment 511961

Same thing happened to me last night/ early this morning before any posts about 20.1.5 were making the rounds. I can confirm that the MicroSD update pushed me to 20.1.5. I did not opt to update through the system update menu. Difference was I was on 19.X.X that it ships with. I was willing to go to 20.1.1 but if I would have know 20.1.5 was about to release I would not have done it.

Here is my post about what happened. I’m mad at myself. Hopefully it will work out in the future. https://gbatemp.net/threads/best-pr...-switch-2-exploitability.671473/post-10676549

 

[itsboot]

Same thing happened to me last night/ early this morning before any posts about 20.1.5 were making the rounds. I can confirm that the MicroSD update pushed me to 20.1.5. I did not opt to update through the system update menu. Difference was I was on 19.X.X that it ships with. I was willing to go to 20.1.1 but if I would have know 20.1.5 was about to release I would not have done it.

What are the odds 20.1.5 would work with any eventual software hack? I suppose it's all guessing, but in the past systems with at least the first 3-4 firmware updates have been hackable.

 

[kylum]

What are the odds 20.1.5 would work with any eventual software hack? I suppose it's all guessing, but in the past systems with at least the first 3-4 firmware updates have been hackable.

True, my issue now is I have two consoles. #1 is on 20.1.1 with account linked with NSO plus digital content without the SD update and #2 on 20.1.5 that’s has only ever been turned on for the sole purpose of getting the SD Update and going back in the closet. I don’t know which to continue to use online and which to go back in the closet. What’s even worse is I just sold my 3rd console to a coworker yesterday as well. Guess I should have waited and no I didn’t scalp it to him. I sold it for the amount on the receipt.

 

[Dudeikoff]

Ok. I just checked and I'm actually somehow on 19.0.0 on my backup Switch 2? Bought at Nintendo in NYC.

Edit: Nvm, I'm silly. I thought they shipped with 20.1.0, but others have said they got them with 19.0.0 as well.

 

[Ondrashek06]

I'm on HorizonOS version 20.1.1, but idk if I had done the SD card update - I have already inserted my classic SD card to copy stuff from my Switch 1, but haven't inserted a SDe card to use with Switch 2 yet.

 

[subcon959]

I'm on HorizonOS version 20.1.1, but idk if I had done the SD card update - I have already inserted my classic SD card to copy stuff from my Switch 1, but haven't inserted a SDe card to use with Switch 2 yet.

Easy to find out, if the SD card is FAT32 then you didn't do the update. If it's exFAT then you did.

 

[Doomswitch]

I just updated dropping my 256gb sd card in.I think it's a good idea to update now before they drop another update. There won't be no exploits patched yet because they don't know how to product the exploit.