Nintendo Switch SD card issues (V1, prob broken connector)

[Deleted member 716285]

Just asking... I disassembled my console to fix the battery and i had to push down a bit hard to get the thing connected, so uh, after that, the console worked fine, but it had random weird SD card issues, I disassembled it again, the connector was loose, pushed it down a bit, it worked fine for a few days, but recently it has had many issues, can't even play batman for like 15 minutes without the console rebooting thanks to atmosphere error, or the game crashing after some time. I imagine cuz of the emuMMC

I changed the SD card to a known good one, and it just made the problem worse, now cannot play batman for 5 minutes. the game crashes, throws a atmosphere error, or hekate error, and almost always throws something about the sd card being initialized to 1bit instead of 4bit.

The connector looks fine? Although some pins may be funny? I did reseat it more gently, taking out the foam and prefectly centering it and then pushing it gently, I put the foam back. The thing still crashed twice, and on sleep too.

I have read that the SD card slot connector is actually very fragile and if you push it like I did at first (kinda forcefully which feels kinda natural ngl) it's going to break the pins of the slot or the motherboard, which is very cursed... Just posting the pictures here because I can't really note if the connector is actually fine, these were the best pics I could take. I took some photos of the slot and it also looks fine? Although maybe a bit worn out... Don't have the photos though

 

[Deleted member 681324]

Damaged pins, connectivity is intermittent with your details. I'm sure if you put the connector(s) under a scope or loop you'd have a better idea of which pins to alter to fix your intermittent issue.

 

[Deleted member 716285]

Damaged pins, connectivity is intermittent with your details. I'm sure if you put the connector(s) under a scope or loop you'd have a better idea of which pins to alter to fix your intermittent issue.

yeah, it's intermittent, it crashes randomly, sometimes during gameplay, sometimes during sleep, when i had the sd card issues i too pushed down on the connector hard to make sure it was connected properly, aparently i screwed up by doing that as the solder screws up..

funny thing is i might be able to get a microscope, bad thing is i have to wait a lot until i get to my lab in a few months, i dont have the tools and expertise for this so uh... ig the switch is dead. rip v1 unpatched switch.

 

[Deleted member 681324]

yeah, it's intermittent, it crashes randomly, sometimes during gameplay, sometimes during sleep, when i had the sd card issues i too pushed down on the connector hard to make sure it was connected properly, aparently i screwed up by doing that as the solder screws up..

funny thing is i might be able to get a microscope, bad thing is i have to wait a lot until i get to my lab in a few months, i dont have the tools and expertise for this so uh... ig the switch is dead. rip v1 unpatched switch.

You could have a shop repair the damaged connector(s) as an alternative rather than condemning your console.