Hacking Suggestion For those who also have trouble with homebrew (atmosphere 2168-0002 error)

Treskatae

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If you get error 2168-0002 or similar errors when trying to use homebrew apps, or trying to install any .nro's or nsp's, this is what I did to fix it. After days of throwing everything at the damn thing, I'm up and running and back to normal. I'll list everything I did, but I'm pretty sure what fixed it is installing ReinX and removing atmosphere AND/OR upgrading my firmware.

  • First thing I did was remove Atmosphere and tried setting it up from a fresh download.
  • After that didn't work, I tried launching the homebrew app store by running the nro through goldleaf (people online were saying you have to do this because there's not enough memory in applet mode).
  • After that also didn't work and I tried to weasel my way around it 6 ways from Sunday, I nuked my sd card totally reformatted. First I formatted through the Switch's options, then I formatted to FAT32 via PC. Then I tried building a whole new SD card from the set-up. Surely it would work this time.
  • You get the idea by now it didn't work of course it didn't. So then I tried just installing ReinX and hbmenu to see if I could do that.
  • It worked! Just kidding. It didn't work either. At first. First it wouldn't let me into the menu at all. Title override was not functioning. I read that you can get around this by using hekate, so I installed all that stuff. This caused ReinX to hang after the first splash image. Something told me I should try again, but copy over the ReinX files from the sd builder with the files I had downloaded directly from ReinX's website.
Finally I was able to get into the menu, get into the app store, and tried installing something. After homebrew installs causing my Switch to crash 379 times I just knew it was going to crash again. But it didn't. What a freaking escapade just to use a different SD card.

Only problem I have now is that Goldbricks either freezes when I connect to USB, or it can't find any files. I'm using an alternative method that works fine, though.


The problem started after I tried using a new SD.
 

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I was not able to do a title override, it just launched the app as normal no matter what. I ended up completely stripping the sd card completely, and putting vanilla atmosphere on there instead of kosmos and haven't had issues since.
 

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im getting this kind of error on awoo and goldleaf: When i start on Applet Mode it shows this crash i have to press R over a game to awoo works installing the nsps , but goldleaf crash atmosphere when i pick updates on the goldleaf updates i dont know whaat could be the problem recently i instaled salty sd and a lot of cheat carpets and start to happen.
 

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im getting this kind of error on awoo and goldleaf: When i start on Applet Mode it shows this crash i have to press R over a game to awoo works installing the nsps , but goldleaf crash atmosphere when i pick updates on the goldleaf updates i dont know whaat could be the problem recently i instaled salty sd and a lot of cheat carpets and start to happen.
Goldleaf is arguably the worst title installer because of the reasons you just mentioned.
 

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