Hacking BSOD Hekate ok, help needed.

[resurrecta]

Hey guys,

I need some urgent help as it seems I screwed up heavily.
What I did - I got the 9.0 firmware installed and I was tired on waiting for new REINX.
So I launched Hekate ctcaer 5.0.2 and did a restore of my rawnand.bin. It said that process was succesful, I reboot into OFW and bam, BSOD.
Now, what I can do, is still get into Hekate... What do I need to do to get my Switch working again?

 

[Gizmo2k]

Try turning off auto RCM in hekate or in wherever you have the option available

 

[Hayato213]

What firmware was the raw nand on, how did you update, via Nintendo server or choidujourNX?

 

[resurrecta]

The raw nand was on 8.1.0 when backupped. So, the firmware 9.0.0 got installed (by my son accidentally) through the Nintendo server.

 

[Hayato213]

The raw nand was on 8.1.0 when backupped. So, the firmware 9.0.0 got installed (by my son accidentally) through the Nintendo server.

Did you restore both boot0/boot1 and the rawnand?

 

[resurrecta]

Did you restore both boot0/boot1 and the rawnand?

Only Rawnand was. Well, I backupped that one using a tutorial. What to do?

 

[Hayato213]

Only Rawnand was. Well, I backupped that one using a tutorial. What to do?

You can't restore the nand if you don't have a matching pair of boot0/boot1 and the rawnand, just the rawnand isn't enough. You can try to see if you can rebuild your nand with choidujour, the pc version.

 

[resurrecta]

I'm trying to pick up on what you said. But in choidujour I get Error Section 0 is corrupted and Section 1 is corrupted.

 

[arianadark]

you should have just waited for cfw to get updated instead of making a huge mess to fix.

 

[resurrecta]

Yeah obviously, but none of the games ran anymore of course. I'm stuck now in choidujour that the keys don't match. This is suffering indeed.

 

[arianadark]

making the games run was an easy fix

 

[resurrecta]

How so? I used REINX specifically to play all games. For example SM Deluxe simply didn't run on Atmosphere here.

 

[arianadark]

did you use signature patches? works for me

 

[Kafluke]

Read the psa in my signature. You seem to misunderstand the process of downgrading.

 

[resurrecta]

making the games run was an easy fix

Yeah I did. All games run perfectly on REINX but only SMDeluxe didn't run on Atmosphere.
Kafluke, I will. I finally got through choidujour to setup the 6.1 package, thanks so far guys.

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Hey Kafluke, I have 11 burnt fuses... So this means that I can't downgrade but only install 9.0.0 all over again?


EDIT: THANKS GUYS! My Switch is back alive, choidujour back to 6.1 and directly update back to 9.0 and it boots even again with the original Bootloader.
Now I'll give that Atmosphere a go again. THANK YOU ALL!

 

[XaneTenshi]

Yeah I did. All games run perfectly on REINX but only SMDeluxe didn't run on Atmosphere.
Kafluke, I will. I finally got through choidujour to setup the 6.1 package, thanks so far guys.

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Hey Kafluke, I have 11 burnt fuses... So this means that I can't downgrade but only install 9.0.0 all over again?


EDIT: THANKS GUYS! My Switch is back alive, choidujour back to 6.1 and directly update back to 9.0 and it boots even again with the original Bootloader.
Now I'll give that Atmosphere a go again. THANK YOU ALL!

I'm glad you managed to resolve your issue, but let this be a lesson: ALWAYS backup both your rawnand.bin AND the boot0/1 files. Also, I am curious, you said you used a guide to backup. May I ask which guide? I'd like to know if the guide actually did state to also backup boot0/1, because you are by far not the only 1 to make this mistake, and I want to know why people keep making the mistake of only backing up the rawnand.bin.

 

[resurrecta]

I'm glad you managed to resolve your issue, but let this be a lesson: ALWAYS backup both your rawnand.bin AND the boot0/1 files. Also, I am curious, you said you used a guide to backup. May I ask which guide? I'd like to know if the guide actually did state to also backup boot0/1, because you are by far not the only 1 to make this mistake, and I want to know why people keep making the mistake of only backing up the rawnand.bin.

Well, keep in mind that despite my noob level, I was more noob when I followed it. So I'm definitely not going to say that I might nog have missed out on something. But here goes:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2GBlA6OaMDJb/

 

[XaneTenshi]

Well, keep in mind that despite my noob level, I was more noob when I followed it. So I'm definitely not going to say that I might nog have missed out on something. But here goes:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2GBlA6OaMDJb/

Well, the "good news", if you can call it that, is that you didn't miss out on anything. The idiot that made the guide specifically mentions backing up the rawnand.bin and even explains the GPP Partitions, but doesn't at all mention the boot files. Every person that follows that video and have to restore their nand backup at some point will semi-brick they Switch because of this...

1 more thing: Never follow a video guide for your first Switch hacking tutorial. I know it seems tempting, but when you have absolutely no experience with switch hacking, you won't catch on to any mistakes or question anything the uploader does. There have been alot of people who have bricked their Switches while following a video guide where the creator either makes a mistake or accidentally cuts something important from the video.

EDIT: Thanks for fueling my curiosity BTW XD

 

[resurrecta]

At least, my lesson might be a useful one to others.