Hacking Is it safe to upgrade to official 4.2?

[SanzioSan]

Hi im having problems with my wii can be found here: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=187252
and ive decided im going to try to get a "clean" install. I was thinking maybe i should downgrade and upgrade to officially to
4.2. But whats the risk in this? I know it erases the homebrew channel and such but is it still hackable?
and do you think this would solve my problem?

 

[DarkMatterCore]

The risk is that the Boot2 gets corrupted by the update, no one can save you.

 

[Pakatus]

after you reading 1000000000000001 post in this forum, you might get your answer...

"no"....it's "not" safe

 

[FenrirWolf]

There's not a whole lot of risk in updating to 4.2. The boot2 update can go wrong, but really hasn't for too many people.

DOWNGRADING, however, does pose risks and I advise you don't do it. Just do the upgrade.

 

[2yugimoto]

these people are just scaring you just update your wii to 4.2 and use xzxeros guide to hack it easy and painless

 

[wrettcaughn]

Not sure I'd trust this ^ guy to provide you with any safe answers.

Some people have bricked (unrecoverably) from this update because it uses a buggy updater to update the boot2. When I say some people, i'm referring to people have haven't even modded their wii also.

 

[2yugimoto]

mi9ne was a vergin 3.1 updated offically to 4.2 and has hombrew channal and bootmii as boot 2 backed up aswell....

 

[wrettcaughn]

I hate to quote my own post but some people can't seem to process what they read.

Not sure I'd trust this ^ guy to provide you with any safe answers.

Some people have bricked (unrecoverably) from this update because it uses a buggy updater to update the boot2. When I say some people, i'm referring to people have haven't even modded their wii also.

If that's a chance anyone is willing to take...I hope they have money to burn replacing their Wii. It may happen, it may not...

And to the OP, I don't think that doing an "official" update would solve the issue you're having. I would double check the SDHC card because it seems that it's more of a hardware failure than a software failure since it connects and disconnects like it does.

 

[SanzioSan]

There's not a whole lot of risk in updating to 4.2. The boot2 update can go wrong, but really hasn't for too many people.

DOWNGRADING, however, does pose risks and I advise you don't do it. Just do the upgrade.

ive already downgraded my wii i just need to upgrade to fix all my ios problems.
I think my ios's are whats wrong with my wii... all i wanted to do is pretty much install
all clean ios's and rehack it from scratch. Downgrading it and upgrading it is the only
way i know how... if any1 knows another way.. be my guest! cause i really doont feel like updating
my wii now.

 

[dai-a]

If the update goes wrong, just call nintendo and say you bricked updating to 4.2 it's that simple and it's the truth.

 

[jazvdb]

There's not a whole lot of risk in updating to 4.2. The boot2 update can go wrong, but really hasn't for too many people.

DOWNGRADING, however, does pose risks and I advise you don't do it. Just do the upgrade.

ive already downgraded my wii i just need to upgrade to fix all my ios problems.
I think my ios's are whats wrong with my wii... all i wanted to do is pretty much install
all clean ios's and rehack it from scratch. Downgrading it and upgrading it is the only
way i know how... if any1 knows another way.. be my guest! cause i really doont feel like updating
my wii now.

You could use DOP-IOS

 

[SanzioSan]

There's not a whole lot of risk in updating to 4.2. The boot2 update can go wrong, but really hasn't for too many people.

DOWNGRADING, however, does pose risks and I advise you don't do it. Just do the upgrade.

ive already downgraded my wii i just need to upgrade to fix all my ios problems.
I think my ios's are whats wrong with my wii... all i wanted to do is pretty much install
all clean ios's and rehack it from scratch. Downgrading it and upgrading it is the only
way i know how... if any1 knows another way.. be my guest! cause i really doont feel like updating
my wii now.

You could use DOP-IOS

yeah... ive tried using that dunno wat the function is really but i followed a guide but when i use it the whole screen gets all
these lines. after that i just restart the wii and im not sure if it did anything.

 

[DarkMatterCore]

yeah... ive tried using that dunno wat the function is really but i followed a guide but when i use it the whole screen gets all
these lines. after that i just restart the wii and im not sure if it did anything.

Are you using Dop-IOS MOD or the original one from Marc? The v8 works like a charm for me, though...

 

[SanzioSan]

yeah... ive tried using that dunno wat the function is really but i followed a guide but when i use it the whole screen gets all
these lines. after that i just restart the wii and im not sure if it did anything.

Are you using Dop-IOS MOD or the original one from Marc? The v8 works like a charm for me, though...

im using mod v7 is that bad?

 

[DarkMatterCore]

yeah... ive tried using that dunno wat the function is really but i followed a guide but when i use it the whole screen gets all
these lines. after that i just restart the wii and im not sure if it did anything.

Are you using Dop-IOS MOD or the original one from Marc? The v8 works like a charm for me, though...

im using mod v7 is that bad?

I have that problem, too, but the original version works for me.