A few months ago, the EMMC board on my unpatched hacked Switch stopped working.
I was managing some screenshots in the Album, and when I tried returning to my suspended game, the Switch crashed, and I had to do a hard shutdown. After rebooting to Hekate, it said that it failed to initialize the EMMC. I could not dump or restore the NAND, or use payloads to browse the filesystem. I even bought a mmcblkNX, but Linux was unable to detect the board. This leads me to believe that, rather than the NAND being corrupted, it could actually be a problem with the board.
I recently bought a replacement board (which Linux was able to detect), but rather than reformat it with my Switch's keys, I would like to replace the EMMC chip on the board with my old one. I was not in the habit of regularly backing up my saves with homebrew apps, so I really want to get my NAND from a few months ago up and running again. I assume the process would be similar to this, but the EMMC chip would have to reballed before trying to apply it to the working board.
I have a soldering / hot air rework station, but this is way beyond my skill level. My dad, who has more experience with soldering and fixing electronics, does not think that he can pull it off, either, and completely refuses to attempt it. Here is an idea of the work that this involves:
https://www.tronicsfixforum.com/t/n...g-the-emmc-chip-switch-it-is-functional-again
Does anyone here have experience with reballing a EMMC chip? I would be willing to ship it to someone to fix it for me (preferably in the U.S.), and since I accidentally ordered 2 mmcblkNX units, I can send you a free one (if you do not already have one) to help sweeten the deal.
Just to clarify, I want to move the (black) chip (highlighted in the attached image) off of the current (green) board to a new board.
I was managing some screenshots in the Album, and when I tried returning to my suspended game, the Switch crashed, and I had to do a hard shutdown. After rebooting to Hekate, it said that it failed to initialize the EMMC. I could not dump or restore the NAND, or use payloads to browse the filesystem. I even bought a mmcblkNX, but Linux was unable to detect the board. This leads me to believe that, rather than the NAND being corrupted, it could actually be a problem with the board.
I recently bought a replacement board (which Linux was able to detect), but rather than reformat it with my Switch's keys, I would like to replace the EMMC chip on the board with my old one. I was not in the habit of regularly backing up my saves with homebrew apps, so I really want to get my NAND from a few months ago up and running again. I assume the process would be similar to this, but the EMMC chip would have to reballed before trying to apply it to the working board.
I have a soldering / hot air rework station, but this is way beyond my skill level. My dad, who has more experience with soldering and fixing electronics, does not think that he can pull it off, either, and completely refuses to attempt it. Here is an idea of the work that this involves:
https://www.tronicsfixforum.com/t/n...g-the-emmc-chip-switch-it-is-functional-again
Does anyone here have experience with reballing a EMMC chip? I would be willing to ship it to someone to fix it for me (preferably in the U.S.), and since I accidentally ordered 2 mmcblkNX units, I can send you a free one (if you do not already have one) to help sweeten the deal.
Just to clarify, I want to move the (black) chip (highlighted in the attached image) off of the current (green) board to a new board.
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