Hacking HBL and large SD cards - issues

[jhonnypolak]

Using HBL 2.0 on switch 3.0.0 and ive tried two cards:
Lexar 200GB and Evo 256GB.
I've tried formatting both to FAT32 and ExFAT and both 256k and 32k block size, and I always get HBL menu showing me there are no apps on the SD card.
However, when i setup a 32GB samsung card identically to the two above, it works flawlessly.

Is there a limit for HBL and its support for larger SD cards ?

 

[Loke]

Yes, the switch needs a patch to run SDXC.
Use a smaller card, there no use for large cards anyway.

 

[leonmagnus99]

hey mate, i use a fat32 formatted sandisk mSD 200gb and it seems to work fine with hbl/and shows the nros within it e.g vba.
but it is quite unstable, both hbl/and the homebrew.

it is just fun for the first few times you get it running, wait for it to become more stable.

 

[jhonnypolak]

My switch is patched for SDXC as the switch itself recognises both 200gb and 256gb cards. The hbl menu wouldn't load otherwise.
So that's not the issue.

 

[leonmagnus99]

My switch is patched for SDXC as the switch itself recognises both 200gb and 256gb cards. The hbl menu wouldn't load otherwise.
So that's not the issue.

try the trick where you directly extract the hbl zip into the root of your mSD.
i did that and it launched fine and shows the stuff within the hbl.

 

[RichKK]

I am using a 128GB SanDisk SDXC microSD card with my 3.0.0 Switch running HBL and it works just fine.
I used a third party app to format the card called 'guiformat' if that helps. (Can't post links as a newbie, sorry)
I bought the switch second hand so I have no idea if the previous owner installed the small update to enable the use of SDXC cards but since I got it, it has never been connected to the internet.
I read in another thread here that the update to use the card is not the same as a system update and you will stay on your current FW after the card update, maybe research that option a little bit :-)

 

[notimp]

Here are instructions on how to hopefully use guiformat to hopefully solve the problem:
https://switch.hacks.guide/

Not tested myself, but others say it works (fat32 clustersize and link to guiformat is in the guide).

 

[jhonnypolak]

Ok so what I did was (on Mac):
- Used Paragon Hard Disk Manager (10 day trial) to REMOVE the existing partition off the microsd card. That's right. I didn't set a new partition or format it into ExFAT or FAT32, i just remove the partition and left the card unformatted.
- I then inserted the microsd card into the switch. The switch automatically said this card needs to be formatted. I said yep, go ahead. The switch then restarted.
- Once the switch came back up, i turned it off completely.
- Took out the microsd card
- Put it in the PC and extracted hblmenu and ftp directly from zip files to the microsd card (which the switch formatted into exFAT by the way)
- Inserted the card back into the switch and installed pegaswitch as per usual.
- Console restarted
- I then tried to run pegaswitch activation and two times i got the 0002 error but then third time it launched perfectly fine seeing all apps

So I'm up and running

 

[Kerbangman]

Anybody know if you accept the update for SDXC it updates the firmware above v3.00?

 

[Socke81]

With some SD cards the 64kb block size works better.

 

[studio1b]

Anybody know if you accept the update for SDXC it updates the firmware above v3.00?

3.0.0 firmware would need to connect to online to get the sd card update and this will update your firmware to the newest on the nintendo server

 

[Kerbangman]

3.0.0 firmware would need to connect to online to get the sd card update and this will update your firmware to the newest on the nintendo server

Cheers

 

[KingBlank]

Make sure that your partition style is MBR, I formatted my 64 GB micro sd as MBR, FAT32, 32kb allocation size with EaseUS partition manager (free)

 

[JoseUg]

hi , im having some issues with the hbl , the thing is that is not recognizing the card at all , i already try with fat32 , exfat and the clusters but it says that there are no apps on the sd card i dont know what to do

 

[Draxzelex]

hi , im having some issues with the hbl , the thing is that is not recognizing the card at all , i already try with fat32 , exfat and the clusters but it says that there are no apps on the sd card i dont know what to do

Have you tried the following?

Connect your sd card to a windows PC and select everything inside.
Right click, properties, advanced, disable "folder/file is ready for archiving". Done.