Fix Bad Wii U Theme

[Lazr1026]

I did some digging (really it was just installing a theme and seeing what was going on in the logs) and figured out what was causing all of these menus freezing.


I coldboot Tiramisu/Aroma:
1. Set up Wupclient.
2. Run these commands in the terminal(NOTE: Replace the X with your region console. 0 = Japan. 1 = USA. 2 = Europe):
*** w.chmod("/vol/storage_mlc01/sys/title/00050010/10040X00/content/Common/Package/Men.pack", 0x660)
*** w.chmod("/vol/storage_mlc01/sys/title/00050010/10040X00/content/Common/Package/Men2.pack", 0x660)
*** flush_mlc()
*** ios_reset()
3. The Wii U should restart and the menu should load.

I dont have any coldboot CFW installed:
Getting the Wii U Menu WUP
1. Download JNUSTool and extract it on your computer.
2. Open the config file in a text editor and replace [COMMONKEY] with the Wii U Common Key.
3. Open a CMD window or Terminal in the same folder as JNUSTool and run java -jar JNUSTool.jar 0005001010040X00 -dlEncrypted.
*** Replace the X with your region console. 0 = Japan. 1 = USA. 2 = Europe
4. Copy the .app, .h3, and title.* files to the install folder on the root of your SD Card.

Installing the Wii U Menu WUP
1. Set up UDPIH with the README on github.
2. Once in recovery_menu, navigate to Install WUP and select it.
3. When it is finished installing, press any button to go back to the main menu and then navigate to Shutdown to shut off the console.
4. Wii U Menu should now load. Dont fuck with themes anymore or just use SDCafiine for the love of god.

 

[SDIO]

If you have cold boot into tiramisu enabled hold + during boot and select homebrew launcher, from there you can start the theme installer.
If you have some you need to hold y during boot, select tiramisu and then follow the tiramisu instructions.

 

[Lazr1026]

If you have cold boot into tiramisu enabled hold + during boot and select homebrew launcher, from there you can start the theme installer.

that wouldnt work since the root issue is actually a permission error

 

[SDIO]

Good to know. But reinstalling via nuspli should also help. The only downsite to that is that the CB title get's reset and so you lose that backdoor (and have to use the pico ifit goes wrong)

 

[Xpl0itU]

I pushed an update to ThemeMii that should fix the permssions issue by setting them correctly

 

[SDIO]

I pushed an update to ThemeMii that should fix the permssions issue by setting them correctly

so reinstalling the theme with ThemeMii should now also fix the error?

Here someone took the time two write detailed instructions for wupclient:
And here for udpih:

 

[Negetive3DX]

THANK YOU MAN, SERIOUSLY THANK YOU SO MUCH, I ACCIDENTALLY BRICKED MY WII U WITH A BAD THEME. BUT THANK YOU

 

[BaamAlex]

I did this. But I can't remove the theme with this. How do I get the original look back?

 

[SDIO]

Maybe you used SDCaffine for the Theme. Try booting without SD and see what happens.
Else you can just download the Wii U Menu from NUS, with JNUS or MLCRestorerDownloader and then install it. If you want to use the WUP Installer GX2, you have to use the one with has the check removed, which prevents installing of system applications. But there are also other WUP Installers Like NUSspli Lite. You could also use NUSspli to download and install it, by enthering the title ID there manually.
If you can't boot to the menu anymore, but you have UDPIH, you can also install it with from the recovery menu.
If you have ISFShax, you can also use the wafel_install plugin with the Wii U menu title: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-blinking-blue-light-no-image.640588/#post-10259653

Make sure to get the Wii U menu for the correct region. Also note that this will remove the Aroma autoboot.

 

[BaamAlex]

I fixed it somehow yesterday. Don't ask me how. At first, it didn't seem to work. After a while, I turned on the console again to send a few files through ftp and the theme was gone. Later today I check if it works without an sd card. Because I have the men.pack and men2.pack and put them on my sd. Dunno if the console booted that. I'll report back later.