Hacking Hardware Picofly - a HWFLY switch modchip

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Unfortunately you'll have to send it back to him to get the dat0 adapter reseated, or ask for refund/partial refund and find someone else to do it for you. dat0 adapter is unreliable, best to find installer that do emmc dapter or kamikaze.

But there is a legendary installer here who claimed to have done 300 units using adapter without fail. Maybe you should get in touch with him :D
Yeah... Fuck that guy. Boy do I have a story to tell. To the amazing installers in here that work really hard, I'm sorry you're about to see what I've been going through from a "professional installer."

So last week I manned up and finally decided to open up my switch to take a look at the work of my FB Marketplace Brooklyn installer, and boy was I dissapointed. Here's the album.



Images were taken right after the 3rd failed dat0 adapter repair (well it did work for 4 days), within 2 months. To be fair his first install worked for 6 months no issues, after that it was just HELL.

  1. Completely stripped one of my screws. This is fine-ish to me, but I issue becuase he never told me. I wouldn't be mad but I feel like if you make a mistake you tell your customer.
  2. Flux on the board but points look dry on the waveshark... It works though!
  3. Leaving excess wire... takes 2 seconds to break off.
  4. CPU thermal paste all over the cables
  5. Bent my GODDAMN HEATPIPE, and now the heatsink is bent as well. >:( I'm REALLY pissed at this.
  6. Using needlessly thick double sided... MOUNTING tape?? Hello?? This is for nail-less photo frames and posters. The thinner stuff is WAY more afforable too. It's even thicker than the waveshark 2040... Explains why he had to bend the shield and make my switch more bode (sticking out) on the back-left side.
  7. Burned flux everywhere... I think kamikaze in the future may be difficult because of this mess.
  8. I found this piece of napkin paper stuck to the underside of the mounting plate. I had no idea why it was there.
  9. Until I took it off... and aligned it with the modchip... Instead of using proper kapton tape, (like 10 bucks for a roll??) this fool used a piece of a napkin to prevent shorts. Not glued down at all... I paid this man 100 dollars, and he self proclaimed he's done over 300 systems. But no kapton tape???
  10. This is just a wider board shot.
  11. Reusing thermal paste. Clear dry spots. This stuff is so cheap (7 dollars a tube?) so why do this to your customers?
  12. Bent up CPU shield absolutely ridiculous. It's probably another napkin paper underneath. the SP points. I didn't bother checking because of the rp2040 heavily stuck to the sheild.
  13. And of course the main issue to my problems... A CLEARLY misaligned dat0 adapter, with clearly a ton of left over flux. I brought the switch to this guy 3 times and all I guess he did was slightly shift the adapter instead of replacing it after a second visit. And it's the worst type of one too, with only 1 anchor... Of course its going to move! redoing the point he had me come in every 2 weeks just to "fix it." He didn't charge me but why would you want repeat walk-ins? Bastard.
  14. It's hard to see here but the display ribbon was slightly angled, and likely resulted the issue I had where sometimes I wake my switch, the joycons vibrate to indicate it's "on" but have no display. I would need to try 2-3 times every 10 wakes for the screen to work. It felt like something was inside the port preventing it from sitting correctly but "i fixed it" with canned air some 99% IPA. Feels like its still there but atleast its straight and not so angled.
Feel free to critique me if you feel I'm over reacting or if you see something I missed. I'd love to hear from more seasoned professionals.

But theres good news here! I decided that I would NOT go back to this guy as he clearly likes to cut corners, waste my time, and his time as well since he loves seeing my face repeatedly come back and complain to him.

I decided to JUST DO IT. I ordered a yellow 2 anchor dat0 adapter from AMZ for 9 bucks (I know, I couldn't wait for aliexpress. Let's call it a 2 day tax.) And got to work. Here are some install photos, reminder I am a complete noob. I just took my time is all.



  1. Desoldered his shit adater. (Unfortunately lifting a pad, but I know stethix says the corner pads are unused. Thank God.)
  2. Dry fitted the amazon adapter (it actually stayed in place, and yes I'm on a chip box. Only because I know it won't burn.)
  3. Connected battery, and screen. Chipped trained and failed to glitch first boot, but every boot after glitched properly. Removed battery and retrained again with no issues. Got NO SD 30+ times on samsung emmc. Good connection.
  4. Soldered down the adapter in place with tweezers (not my best work, but decent for one hand and low heat? [I was scared to go higher.])
  5. Cleaned with IPA! Also cleaned dried heatsink and replaced it with the perfect amount of thermal paste.
  6. Applied kapton tape over the chip (with hole for LED) screwed what I needed, put the heat shield down and booted to be sure. SD files read perfectly and it autobooted. I did remember to take sd card out before putting on back cover. :)
  7. Repaired! :yayswitch:

And we're back. I feel comfortable doing this for myself now too. I wouldn't mind going back if the adapter fails. It's just those other points like the CLK being so tiny gets my nerves wild. I would love to try a kamikaze myself as I do have a dremel, but I don't have proper magnification equipment, for any skill or technique.

Summary is, if you're in NYC and you're looking for a local picofly install on FB Marketplace, the guy in Brooklyn will absolutely do the worst possible, and laziest job that will have you come in multiple times. Wait the couple extra days for a send-in repair or find someone else, or just a proper local repair shop willing to take the job.

I also had asked him to do a Kamikaze install, he refused and says he does not and will not support it, face to face. At that point I knew he wasn't serious and was a complete waste of time, and money. No reason if you're a so called "professional" to not be using the latest and more consistent options. Part of the money being made on each purchase should be going to making your operation smoother, not cheaping out on your customers. Maybe he just liked seeing my face. :rofl2:
 

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Yeah... Fuck that guy. Boy do I have a story to tell. To the amazing installers in here that work really hard, I'm sorry you're about to see what I've been going through from a "professional installer."

So last week I manned up and finally decided to open up my switch to take a look at the work of my FB Marketplace Brooklyn installer, and boy was I dissapointed. Here's the album.



Images were taken right after the 3rd failed dat0 adapter repair (well it did work for 4 days), within 2 months. To be fair his first install worked for 6 months no issues, after that it was just HELL.

  1. Completely stripped one of my screws. This is fine-ish to me, but I issue becuase he never told me. I wouldn't be mad but I feel like if you make a mistake you tell your customer.
  2. Flux on the board but points look dry on the waveshark... It works though!
  3. Leaving excess wire... takes 2 seconds to break off.
  4. CPU thermal paste all over the cables
  5. Bent my GODDAMN HEATPIPE, and now the heatsink is bent as well. >:( I'm REALLY pissed at this.
  6. Using needlessly thick double sided... MOUNTING tape?? Hello?? This is for nail-less photo frames and posters. The thinner stuff is WAY more afforable too. It's even thicker than the waveshark 2040... Explains why he had to bend the shield and make my switch more bode (sticking out) on the back-left side.
  7. Burned flux everywhere... I think kamikaze in the future may be difficult because of this mess.
  8. I found this piece of napkin paper stuck to the underside of the mounting plate. I had no idea why it was there.
  9. Until I took it off... and aligned it with the modchip... Instead of using proper kapton tape, (like 10 bucks for a roll??) this fool used a piece of a napkin to prevent shorts. Not glued down at all... I paid this man 100 dollars, and he self proclaimed he's done over 300 systems. But no kapton tape???
  10. This is just a wider board shot.
  11. Reusing thermal paste. Clear dry spots. This stuff is so cheap (7 dollars a tube?) so why do this to your customers?
  12. Bent up CPU shield absolutely ridiculous. It's probably another napkin paper underneath. the SP points. I didn't bother checking because of the rp2040 heavily stuck to the sheild.
  13. And of course the main issue to my problems... A CLEARLY misaligned dat0 adapter, with clearly a ton of left over flux. I brought the switch to this guy 3 times and all I guess he did was slightly shift the adapter instead of replacing it after a second visit. And it's the worst type of one too, with only 1 anchor... Of course its going to move! redoing the point he had me come in every 2 weeks just to "fix it." He didn't charge me but why would you want repeat walk-ins? Bastard.
  14. It's hard to see here but the display ribbon was slightly angled, and likely resulted the issue I had where sometimes I wake my switch, the joycons vibrate to indicate it's "on" but have no display. I would need to try 2-3 times every 10 wakes for the screen to work. It felt like something was inside the port preventing it from sitting correctly but "i fixed it" with canned air some 99% IPA. Feels like its still there but atleast its straight and not so angled.
Feel free to critique me if you feel I'm over reacting or if you see something I missed. I'd love to hear from more seasoned professionals.

But theres good news here! I decided that I would NOT go back to this guy as he clearly likes to cut corners, waste my time, and his time as well since he loves seeing my face repeatedly come back and complain to him.

I decided to JUST DO IT. I ordered a yellow 2 anchor dat0 adapter from AMZ for 9 bucks (I know, I couldn't wait for aliexpress. Let's call it a 2 day tax.) And got to work. Here are some install photos, reminder I am a complete noob. I just took my time is all.



  1. Desoldered his shit adater. (Unfortunately lifting a pad, but I know stethix says the corner pads are unused. Thank God.)
  2. Dry fitted the amazon adapter (it actually stayed in place, and yes I'm on a chip box. Only because I know it won't burn.)
  3. Connected battery, and screen. Chipped trained and failed to glitch first boot, but every boot after glitched properly. Removed battery and retrained again with no issues. Got NO SD 30+ times on samsung emmc. Good connection.
  4. Soldered down the adapter in place with tweezers (not my best work, but decent for one hand and low heat? [I was scared to go higher.])
  5. Cleaned with IPA! Also cleaned dried heatsink and replaced it with the perfect amount of thermal paste.
  6. Applied kapton tape over the chip (with hole for LED) screwed what I needed, put the heat shield down and booted to be sure. SD files read perfectly and it autobooted. I did remember to take sd card out before putting on back cover. :)
  7. Repaired! :yayswitch:

And we're back. I feel comfortable doing this for myself now too. I wouldn't mind going back if the adapter fails. It's just those other points like the CLK being so tiny gets my nerves wild. I would love to try a kamikaze myself as I do have a dremel, but I don't have proper magnification equipment, for any skill or technique.

Summary is, if you're in NYC and you're looking for a local picofly install on FB Marketplace, the guy in Brooklyn will absolutely do the worst possible, and laziest job that will have you come in multiple times. Wait the couple extra days for a send-in repair or find someone else, or just a proper local repair shop willing to take the job.

I also had asked him to do a Kamikaze install, he refused and says he does not and will not support it, face to face. At that point I knew he wasn't serious and was a complete waste of time, and money. No reason if you're a so called "professional" to not be using the latest and more consistent options. Part of the money being made on each purchase should be going to making your operation smoother, not cheaping out on your customers. Maybe he just liked seeing my face. :rofl2:

Congrats for the succeed.

The screw are easily broken. The noob usually broke that. Use an exact screwdriver, to avoid break it.
I bought a 2nd switch and one of the screw are totally broken, but he didn't tell me.
I couldn't open it, with whatever method. Still not yet found a method to take out the broken screw, without damaging the case.
I kind of angry but i couldn't return it. So....

The fpc connector also easily broken. Treat it seriously like its a bomb connector. If you slightly wrong doing on it, it will kaboom. Its pricey connector, and replacing it, will need experience.

People says that nintendo paste is crap. In contrary in my opinion is the high tech one. Yupz its solid not slimey. I don't change it as much as possible. Its one of my reason i don't want to open the cpu.

The heatpipe are easily bent. So treat it carefully. I also bent it the first time experience with switch.

The copper top of the cpu is easily peeled so careful when cleaning using alcohol on it.

The audio speaker cables are easily broken. i alredy broke it twice. But its easily fixed.

The lcd lack of protection from corrotion.
If you have something like oxygen arbsorber put it into the switch. You got it usually when bought some expensive cake or something like that. Or you could also get from inside some broken outdoor cctv. They usually put some oxygen arbsorber to prevent oxidation.

If the pcb full of flux its looks dirty but its actually safer, since it will protect the pcb from corrotion.
I myself prefer cleanness. So clean the flux, and put some oxygen arbsorber its more pretty in my opinion.

Napkin? This is the first time i heard someone use napkin on electronic. It looks fragile.
Usually use kapton tape or paper tape.

If you indeed goes to kamikaze, practice first with some dummy pcb. If i have doraemon magic door, i just give you lot of junk pcb to practice.

My experience with flex method is, it easily slipped. You shake your switch around, it will again failed. Bring your switch on train. Or car, or goes outside. Even throwing your switch to pillow might broke it. Yupz, its thats annoying. Hence i use emmc adapter. And its stable, from the first time installation until now, theres no problem.

Or maybe my skills on flex are not that good. Who knows, maybe someone could master the technique.
 
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Yeah... Fuck that guy. Boy do I have a story to tell. To the amazing installers in here that work really hard, I'm sorry you're about to see what I've been going through from a "professional installer."

So last week I manned up and finally decided to open up my switch to take a look at the work of my FB Marketplace Brooklyn installer, and boy was I dissapointed. Here's the album.



Images were taken right after the 3rd failed dat0 adapter repair (well it did work for 4 days), within 2 months. To be fair his first install worked for 6 months no issues, after that it was just HELL.

  1. Completely stripped one of my screws. This is fine-ish to me, but I issue becuase he never told me. I wouldn't be mad but I feel like if you make a mistake you tell your customer.
  2. Flux on the board but points look dry on the waveshark... It works though!
  3. Leaving excess wire... takes 2 seconds to break off.
  4. CPU thermal paste all over the cables
  5. Bent my GODDAMN HEATPIPE, and now the heatsink is bent as well. >:( I'm REALLY pissed at this.
  6. Using needlessly thick double sided... MOUNTING tape?? Hello?? This is for nail-less photo frames and posters. The thinner stuff is WAY more afforable too. It's even thicker than the waveshark 2040... Explains why he had to bend the shield and make my switch more bode (sticking out) on the back-left side.
  7. Burned flux everywhere... I think kamikaze in the future may be difficult because of this mess.
  8. I found this piece of napkin paper stuck to the underside of the mounting plate. I had no idea why it was there.
  9. Until I took it off... and aligned it with the modchip... Instead of using proper kapton tape, (like 10 bucks for a roll??) this fool used a piece of a napkin to prevent shorts. Not glued down at all... I paid this man 100 dollars, and he self proclaimed he's done over 300 systems. But no kapton tape???
  10. This is just a wider board shot.
  11. Reusing thermal paste. Clear dry spots. This stuff is so cheap (7 dollars a tube?) so why do this to your customers?
  12. Bent up CPU shield absolutely ridiculous. It's probably another napkin paper underneath. the SP points. I didn't bother checking because of the rp2040 heavily stuck to the sheild.
  13. And of course the main issue to my problems... A CLEARLY misaligned dat0 adapter, with clearly a ton of left over flux. I brought the switch to this guy 3 times and all I guess he did was slightly shift the adapter instead of replacing it after a second visit. And it's the worst type of one too, with only 1 anchor... Of course its going to move! redoing the point he had me come in every 2 weeks just to "fix it." He didn't charge me but why would you want repeat walk-ins? Bastard.
  14. It's hard to see here but the display ribbon was slightly angled, and likely resulted the issue I had where sometimes I wake my switch, the joycons vibrate to indicate it's "on" but have no display. I would need to try 2-3 times every 10 wakes for the screen to work. It felt like something was inside the port preventing it from sitting correctly but "i fixed it" with canned air some 99% IPA. Feels like its still there but atleast its straight and not so angled.
Feel free to critique me if you feel I'm over reacting or if you see something I missed. I'd love to hear from more seasoned professionals.

But theres good news here! I decided that I would NOT go back to this guy as he clearly likes to cut corners, waste my time, and his time as well since he loves seeing my face repeatedly come back and complain to him.

I decided to JUST DO IT. I ordered a yellow 2 anchor dat0 adapter from AMZ for 9 bucks (I know, I couldn't wait for aliexpress. Let's call it a 2 day tax.) And got to work. Here are some install photos, reminder I am a complete noob. I just took my time is all.



  1. Desoldered his shit adater. (Unfortunately lifting a pad, but I know stethix says the corner pads are unused. Thank God.)
  2. Dry fitted the amazon adapter (it actually stayed in place, and yes I'm on a chip box. Only because I know it won't burn.)
  3. Connected battery, and screen. Chipped trained and failed to glitch first boot, but every boot after glitched properly. Removed battery and retrained again with no issues. Got NO SD 30+ times on samsung emmc. Good connection.
  4. Soldered down the adapter in place with tweezers (not my best work, but decent for one hand and low heat? [I was scared to go higher.])
  5. Cleaned with IPA! Also cleaned dried heatsink and replaced it with the perfect amount of thermal paste.
  6. Applied kapton tape over the chip (with hole for LED) screwed what I needed, put the heat shield down and booted to be sure. SD files read perfectly and it autobooted. I did remember to take sd card out before putting on back cover. :)
  7. Repaired! :yayswitch:

And we're back. I feel comfortable doing this for myself now too. I wouldn't mind going back if the adapter fails. It's just those other points like the CLK being so tiny gets my nerves wild. I would love to try a kamikaze myself as I do have a dremel, but I don't have proper magnification equipment, for any skill or technique.

Summary is, if you're in NYC and you're looking for a local picofly install on FB Marketplace, the guy in Brooklyn will absolutely do the worst possible, and laziest job that will have you come in multiple times. Wait the couple extra days for a send-in repair or find someone else, or just a proper local repair shop willing to take the job.

I also had asked him to do a Kamikaze install, he refused and says he does not and will not support it, face to face. At that point I knew he wasn't serious and was a complete waste of time, and money. No reason if you're a so called "professional" to not be using the latest and more consistent options. Part of the money being made on each purchase should be going to making your operation smoother, not cheaping out on your customers. Maybe he just liked seeing my face. :rofl2:

The audacity to charge / sell a service when the quality of work is so poor 🤦
 

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Yeah... Fuck that guy. Boy do I have a story to tell. To the amazing installers in here that work really hard, I'm sorry you're about to see what I've been going through from a "professional installer."

So last week I manned up and finally decided to open up my switch to take a look at the work of my FB Marketplace Brooklyn installer, and boy was I dissapointed. Here's the album.



Images were taken right after the 3rd failed dat0 adapter repair (well it did work for 4 days), within 2 months. To be fair his first install worked for 6 months no issues, after that it was just HELL.

  1. Completely stripped one of my screws. This is fine-ish to me, but I issue becuase he never told me. I wouldn't be mad but I feel like if you make a mistake you tell your customer.
  2. Flux on the board but points look dry on the waveshark... It works though!
  3. Leaving excess wire... takes 2 seconds to break off.
  4. CPU thermal paste all over the cables
  5. Bent my GODDAMN HEATPIPE, and now the heatsink is bent as well. >:( I'm REALLY pissed at this.
  6. Using needlessly thick double sided... MOUNTING tape?? Hello?? This is for nail-less photo frames and posters. The thinner stuff is WAY more afforable too. It's even thicker than the waveshark 2040... Explains why he had to bend the shield and make my switch more bode (sticking out) on the back-left side.
  7. Burned flux everywhere... I think kamikaze in the future may be difficult because of this mess.
  8. I found this piece of napkin paper stuck to the underside of the mounting plate. I had no idea why it was there.
  9. Until I took it off... and aligned it with the modchip... Instead of using proper kapton tape, (like 10 bucks for a roll??) this fool used a piece of a napkin to prevent shorts. Not glued down at all... I paid this man 100 dollars, and he self proclaimed he's done over 300 systems. But no kapton tape???
  10. This is just a wider board shot.
  11. Reusing thermal paste. Clear dry spots. This stuff is so cheap (7 dollars a tube?) so why do this to your customers?
  12. Bent up CPU shield absolutely ridiculous. It's probably another napkin paper underneath. the SP points. I didn't bother checking because of the rp2040 heavily stuck to the sheild.
  13. And of course the main issue to my problems... A CLEARLY misaligned dat0 adapter, with clearly a ton of left over flux. I brought the switch to this guy 3 times and all I guess he did was slightly shift the adapter instead of replacing it after a second visit. And it's the worst type of one too, with only 1 anchor... Of course its going to move! redoing the point he had me come in every 2 weeks just to "fix it." He didn't charge me but why would you want repeat walk-ins? Bastard.
  14. It's hard to see here but the display ribbon was slightly angled, and likely resulted the issue I had where sometimes I wake my switch, the joycons vibrate to indicate it's "on" but have no display. I would need to try 2-3 times every 10 wakes for the screen to work. It felt like something was inside the port preventing it from sitting correctly but "i fixed it" with canned air some 99% IPA. Feels like its still there but atleast its straight and not so angled.
Feel free to critique me if you feel I'm over reacting or if you see something I missed. I'd love to hear from more seasoned professionals.

But theres good news here! I decided that I would NOT go back to this guy as he clearly likes to cut corners, waste my time, and his time as well since he loves seeing my face repeatedly come back and complain to him.

I decided to JUST DO IT. I ordered a yellow 2 anchor dat0 adapter from AMZ for 9 bucks (I know, I couldn't wait for aliexpress. Let's call it a 2 day tax.) And got to work. Here are some install photos, reminder I am a complete noob. I just took my time is all.



  1. Desoldered his shit adater. (Unfortunately lifting a pad, but I know stethix says the corner pads are unused. Thank God.)
  2. Dry fitted the amazon adapter (it actually stayed in place, and yes I'm on a chip box. Only because I know it won't burn.)
  3. Connected battery, and screen. Chipped trained and failed to glitch first boot, but every boot after glitched properly. Removed battery and retrained again with no issues. Got NO SD 30+ times on samsung emmc. Good connection.
  4. Soldered down the adapter in place with tweezers (not my best work, but decent for one hand and low heat? [I was scared to go higher.])
  5. Cleaned with IPA! Also cleaned dried heatsink and replaced it with the perfect amount of thermal paste.
  6. Applied kapton tape over the chip (with hole for LED) screwed what I needed, put the heat shield down and booted to be sure. SD files read perfectly and it autobooted. I did remember to take sd card out before putting on back cover. :)
  7. Repaired! :yayswitch:

And we're back. I feel comfortable doing this for myself now too. I wouldn't mind going back if the adapter fails. It's just those other points like the CLK being so tiny gets my nerves wild. I would love to try a kamikaze myself as I do have a dremel, but I don't have proper magnification equipment, for any skill or technique.

Summary is, if you're in NYC and you're looking for a local picofly install on FB Marketplace, the guy in Brooklyn will absolutely do the worst possible, and laziest job that will have you come in multiple times. Wait the couple extra days for a send-in repair or find someone else, or just a proper local repair shop willing to take the job.

I also had asked him to do a Kamikaze install, he refused and says he does not and will not support it, face to face. At that point I knew he wasn't serious and was a complete waste of time, and money. No reason if you're a so called "professional" to not be using the latest and more consistent options. Part of the money being made on each purchase should be going to making your operation smoother, not cheaping out on your customers. Maybe he just liked seeing my face. :rofl2:

You're lucky the device still works.
 

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Still not yet found a method to take out the broken screw, without damaging the case.
There is a tool called a 'screw extractor'.
I have only used the ones for normal sized screws but they do sell them for small screw as well :
https://www.ifixit.com/products/precision-screw-extractor-set
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Damn, bro. I feel for you.
I haven't seen this much carnage in a long time.

Did he also manage to chip off a part of your emmc in the middle?!
I don't mean the shield, but even the emmc itself.
How would you manage to achieve that.

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There is a tool called a 'screw extractor'.
I have only used the ones for normal sized screws but they do sell them for small screw as well :
https://www.ifixit.com/products/precision-screw-extractor-set
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Damn, bro. I feel for you.
I haven't seen this much carnage in a long time.

Did he also manage to chip off a part of your emmc in the middle?!
I don't mean the shield, but even the emmc itself.
How would you manage to achieve that.

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I'd guess it's just some flux on top
 

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Damn, bro. I feel for you.
I haven't seen this much carnage in a long time.

Did he also manage to chip off a part of your emmc in the middle?!
I don't mean the shield, but even the emmc itself.
How would you manage to achieve that.

View attachment 464947
Its not that bad though. My first try way more ugly than this.
 
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Looks nice. Let's see how long it lasts.

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I have 2 grinder tool the one is same this silver the other one is adjust Speed from slow to speed i use both the problem for expinsev one the silver is not slow for the first grind that is will be worest for the person never do kimkaze so becurefull. Very risky need pin very small under microscope if it not it will grind the line 4.7v resistor. 👏
 

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I have a v1 patched. I installed a modchip and the the problem is the following:
If the console is "cold" (means powered off at least 30 minutes) it boots to OFW normally but is not stable. If I try to play a cartridge after a few minutes it crashes with 2002-3540 error.
If the console is not cold (power on for 10-20 minutes) NEVER boots to ofw. It passes Nintendo logo and then black screen or stuck on Swith logo. I tried Reboot-->OFW and sysMMC cfw.
On the other hand emuMMC CFW seems to work flawlessly, without crash or errors at any circumstances. I played Mari0 for 2+ hours without any problem.

Any idea ?
 

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I don't understand Picofly, a modchip for Nintendo switch lite and Nintendo switch Oled. Last year I bought a Nintendo switch lite that had Picofly installed and jailbroken it, installed emuNAND and since then went into Stock Sys and out of Stock Sys without being banned. There was a time when I removed CFW and used it as a normal Switch and later jailbreak it again, of course I installed emuNAND all over again, I'm still not banned. Have now updated it to the latest firmware and then only the Nintendo logo came up and I couldn't get into Hekate, use it like a normal Switch, have just bought a game and don't know if it's still jailbroken or that atmosphere was deleted on it after I have updated to the latest firmware.
 

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I don't understand Picofly, a modchip for Nintendo switch lite and Nintendo switch Oled. Last year I bought a Nintendo switch lite that had Picofly installed and jailbroken it, installed emuNAND and since then went into Stock Sys and out of Stock Sys without being banned. There was a time when I removed CFW and used it as a normal Switch and later jailbreak it again, of course I installed emuNAND all over again, I'm still not banned. Have now updated it to the latest firmware and then only the Nintendo logo came up and I couldn't get into Hekate, use it like a normal Switch, have just bought a game and don't know if it's still jailbroken or that atmosphere was deleted on it after I have updated to the latest firmware.
The atmospfer 19.0.0 are still pre-release
https://gbatemp.net/threads/atmosph...-8-0-adds-support-for-firmware-19-0-0.662054/

The Nintendo logo came up and hang its explainable since atmosphere not supported.

But you couldn't go to hekate thats weird.
Try to release the microsd, are the picofly logo comes up (nosd) ?
If it is then your hekate installation are broken. CMIIW.
To be safe, just download the current hekate that support 19.0.0
https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate/releases
 
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The atmospfer 19.0.0 are still pre-release
https://gbatemp.net/threads/atmosph...-8-0-adds-support-for-firmware-19-0-0.662054/

The Nintendo logo came up and hang its explainable since atmosphere not supported.

But you couldn't go to hekate thats weird.
Try to release the microsd, are the picofly logo comes up (nosd) ?
If it is then your hekate installation are broken. CMIIW.
To be safe, just download the current hekate that support 19.0.0
https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate/releases
I have not tryed to get into Hekate after I update it, I might try it later. I don't feel like it now.
 

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I have not tryed to get into Hekate after I update it, I might try it later. I don't feel like it now.
It's never be picofly or modchip issue if you cant go into homebrew. Once you glitch success, the rest issue is outside picofly/modchip. Stop complaining for such nice handwork and show your respect by learning how to use bootloader/software
 
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It's never be picofly or modchip issue if you cant go into homebrew. Once you glitch success, the rest issue is outside picofly/modchip. Stop complaining for such nice handwork and show your respect by learning how to use bootloader/software
I didn't mean it like that, I just want to learn more about Picofly and I was just curious why I was not banned yet. I can boot into Hekate fine I believe.
 

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I didn't mean it like that, I just want to learn more about Picofly and I was just curious why I was not banned yet. I can boot into Hekate fine I believe.
when you using emunand offline or dns_mitm protected, plus sysnand clean, you should have no way to be banned.
 
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