Hacking My Switch can't boot without CFW

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Hello all, thank you for reading.

I believe something is corrupted on my switch and I tried everything to fix it but with no success.

Here is a prefix - My autoRCM is OFF.

It started when I was on 8.1 with atmosphere, everything was running fine and I could install 3 games via tinfoil or goldleaf. After the 3rd game was installed, and I would install another game, I would get a blank loading icon on the main screen. I tried different combinations of games and it would still lead to the same fate. I.e.: I install mario kart, smash bros, odyssey, then mario party would not install correctly. Then I would install mario party, odyssey, smash, then mario kart which worked in the first trial would not work. When I would install via tinfoil I would get many "Failed to register NCA" errors.

I figured I should just restore and update my switch to the latest firmware but if I tried to update through the system settings, I would get error code: 2137-8007. Basically a server time out with nintendo. Regardless if I initialized the console I would still get this error.

I then manually updated my device via choidujour to 9.1 and then tried to install more than 3 games - no success. I tried restore and update through systems - no success.

I tried doing a full nand restore with biskeydump, memloader, and hacdismount but when I tried booting the switch up without the SD card I would not even get a switch logo, just black screen. I then tried to boot the switch with a clean sd card but again - black screen, no switch logo. I then loaded up CFW and was able to boot up the switch into atmosphere.

Thus my problems are:

• Can only install 3 games at the time
• My switch can't update through system settings
• My switch can now only boot up into CFW and get black screen otherwise

I would really appreciate any help with my problem.

Thank you
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[bad361]

Hello all, thank you for reading.

I believe something is corrupted on my switch and I tried everything to fix it but with no success.

Here is a prefix - My autoRCM is OFF.

It started when I was on 8.1 with atmosphere, everything was running fine and I could install 3 games via tinfoil or goldleaf. After the 3rd game was installed, and I would install another game, I would get a blank loading icon on the main screen. I tried different combinations of games and it would still lead to the same fate. I.e.: I install mario kart, smash bros, odyssey, then mario party would not install correctly. Then I would install mario party, odyssey, smash, then mario kart which worked in the first trial would not work. When I would install via tinfoil I would get many "Failed to register NCA" errors.

I figured I should just restore and update my switch to the latest firmware but if I tried to update through the system settings, I would get error code: 2137-8007. Basically a server time out with nintendo. Regardless if I initialized the console I would still get this error.

I then manually updated my device via choidujour to 9.1 and then tried to install more than 3 games - no success. I tried restore and update through systems - no success.

I tried doing a full nand restore with biskeydump, memloader, and hacdismount but when I tried booting the switch up without the SD card I would not even get a switch logo, just black screen. I then tried to boot the switch with a clean sd card but again - black screen, no switch logo. I then loaded up CFW and was able to boot up the switch into atmosphere.

Thus my problems are:

• Can only install 3 games at the time
• My switch can't update through system settings
• My switch can now only boot up into CFW and get black screen otherwise

I would really appreciate any help with my problem.

Thank you
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All that hassle just because you couldn't install more than 3 games? And more than likely the problem was just in your sd card alone. What nand fw ver. did your restore to? Probably lower than 9.1 thus you have fuse mismatch and can't boot into OFW without RCM.

Update to 9.1 with choi to match your fuse count since you burned them anyway. Change sd card (or check for errors/format it), or at least try another one to see if the "3 games" problem still occurs.