Hwfly v5 stuck on a blinking blue light

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Recently I've received my order from Ali and installed hwfly v5 on my patched erista. However the chip is just constantly pulsing with a blue light for 30+ mins and nothing happens. Does someone have a clue what could be wrong? Is there a way to test if soldering has been successful?
 

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Recently I've received my order from Ali and installed hwfly v5 on my patched erista. However the chip is just constantly pulsing with a blue light for 30+ mins and nothing happens. Does someone have a clue what could be wrong? Is there a way to test if soldering has been successful?
From what I understand of some of the previous posts, you can measure if the soldering was done correct.
Read up on some of the previous post regarding a hwfly installation.
 
It seems the chip damaged my console somehow. I left it to train for more than 1 hour but in meantime battery ran out. When I turn on the console the screen lights purple now.
 
It seems the chip damaged my console somehow. I left it to train for more than 1 hour but in meantime battery ran out. When I turn on the console the screen lights purple now.

Purple screen is kernel panic with the boot loader either can’t read it or it’s corrupted.
 
Recently I've received my order from Ali and installed hwfly v5 on my patched erista. However the chip is just constantly pulsing with a blue light for 30+ mins and nothing happens. Does someone have a clue what could be wrong? Is there a way to test if soldering has been successful?
99% Related to your soldering job. You need a multimeeter to test for continuity and check for any possible bridges. Ofcourse there's always the possibity you knocked one component off the Board like a resistor. I'd desolder everything and start over again. Check if you Switch works without the chip installed, if so, try again.
 
99% Related to your soldering job. You need a multimeeter to test for continuity and check for any possible bridges. Ofcourse there's always the possibity you knocked one component off the Board like a resistor. I'd desolder everything and start over again. Check if you Switch works without the chip installed, if so, try again.
I executed the same setup a day before for like an hour without an issue. Nevertheless, I disconnected the chip. Sadly the purple screen is still there.
 
I executed the same setup a day before for like an hour without an issue. Nevertheless, I disconnected the chip. Sadly the purple screen is still there.
Ok that's bad for now, check for bridges and compare your board with a image and maybe look for missing components.
 
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Ok. The story so far. After I got the purple screen I decided fully remove the hwfly chip but accidentally knocked off the SP1 capacitor... Had to order a new one and solder it. But the purple screen hasn't gone away. Is there a way to check if everything works properly from the hardware perspective? I would appreciate if someone could share what points I should check and what numbers schould be.
 
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Ok. The story so far. After I got the purple screen I decided fully remove the hwfly chip but accidentally knocked off the SP1 capacitor... Had to order a new one and solder it. But the purple screen hasn't gone away. Is there a way to check if everything works properly from the hardware perspective? I would appreciate if someone could share what points I should check and what numbers schould be.
Did you compare the board with images online? Maybe you have more components missing.
 
Ok. In the end, it was just a nand corruption caused by the hwfly chip. Had to rebuild the nand using a donor. :switch:
 

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