So I recently discovered that my switch (Icosa - Erista) doesn't boot anymore (completely black screen), which I initially thought was a dead battery but turns out it was entering RCM mode automatically.
Pushing the Hekate payload revealed that the eMMC had failed (title error message), and unfortunately I never planned to mod my switch so no backups whatsoever. Bummer.
Reading around it seems to me I have a few options:
1. Buying a switch eMMC reader and try to dump in linux (mmcblkNX)
Should this even be tried? I had the thought that maybe this can read stuff off of the eMMC module and I can salvage some of my data (saves...), but is it realistic to expect this to work at all?
2. Follow ewabc886's NAND rebuilding guide to swap in a new eMMC to use as offline-only
This is the best looking-option to me right now; plan to get all the hardware required and then do it with PikaFix Pack.
3. Build an emuMMC, possibly ignoring the dead sysMMC and just run off of the emulated storage
I think I read somewhere that this is not actually possible? This would be a better option since I don't have to deal with the hardware side of things.
Is that it? Is there any other avenue I haven't explored yet that I should look into?
Thanks!
Update:
Success! Follow link: https://gbatemp.net/threads/init-emmc-failed-no-nand-backups.607779/post-9794192
Update2:
If you get an error (2105-0584) when updating to system versions 14.0.0+, see https://gbatemp.net/threads/init-emmc-failed-no-nand-backups.607779/post-9875271
Pushing the Hekate payload revealed that the eMMC had failed (title error message), and unfortunately I never planned to mod my switch so no backups whatsoever. Bummer.
Reading around it seems to me I have a few options:
1. Buying a switch eMMC reader and try to dump in linux (mmcblkNX)
Should this even be tried? I had the thought that maybe this can read stuff off of the eMMC module and I can salvage some of my data (saves...), but is it realistic to expect this to work at all?
2. Follow ewabc886's NAND rebuilding guide to swap in a new eMMC to use as offline-only
This is the best looking-option to me right now; plan to get all the hardware required and then do it with PikaFix Pack.
3. Build an emuMMC, possibly ignoring the dead sysMMC and just run off of the emulated storage
I think I read somewhere that this is not actually possible? This would be a better option since I don't have to deal with the hardware side of things.
Is that it? Is there any other avenue I haven't explored yet that I should look into?
Thanks!
Update:
Success! Follow link: https://gbatemp.net/threads/init-emmc-failed-no-nand-backups.607779/post-9794192
Update2:
If you get an error (2105-0584) when updating to system versions 14.0.0+, see https://gbatemp.net/threads/init-emmc-failed-no-nand-backups.607779/post-9875271
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