Hacking [RCM Payload] Hekate - CTCaer mod

[tecfreak]

Do you think there is a possibility to dump the data directly to the PC ?. Like adding a driver to the useful load that allows to explore the data or transfer it to the connected PC after loading the Payload

There might be one. Boot a linux image, get the wifi working, mount a network share and use dd to dump the nand.

 

[salamandrusker]

I have dumped the nand several times but part 6 is always skipped... I use a 32 gb sd and I dump all parts until part 6 hat I have to copy all contents of the sd to my pc and then boot again hetake to finish part 6 and 7 but 6 is always skipped. Anyone knows the reason?

Regards,

when you say that you dump until part 6 I understand that you dump 5 parts and take the sd to record those 5 parts to the pc and then start from 6 but the 6 is not recorded and if it makes the 7 truth? if you use 32 gigabytes 5 parts x 8 gigabytes are 30 gigabytes, I think you will need at least 64 gigabytes to complete the process. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like that. See if someone confirms it

 

[CTCaer]

I have dumped the nand several times but part 6 is always skipped... I use a 32 gb sd and I dump all parts until part 6 hat I have to copy all contents of the sd to my pc and then boot again hetake to finish part 6 and 7 but 6 is always skipped. Anyone knows the reason?

Regards,

Really? Don't tell me that I uploaded the version that I had commented out the part 6 for testing...

I'm away from my build machine now.
Tomorrow I will update it, along with other quality patches.
Sorry for that :/


Edit:
@salamandrusker
Certainly it does not fit as a whole in a 32GB sd card. But his problem is probably not this.

 

[salamandrusker]

Really? Don't tell me that I uploaded the version that I had commented out the part 6 for testing...

I'm away from my build machine now.
Tomorrow I will update it, along with other quality patches.
Sorry for that :/

this week I try it myself and I expose it here, it would be good to know for sure if it can be done as you comment, I was attentive in case someone comments something

 

[Carlos Escobar]

Really? Don't tell me that I uploaded the version that I had commented out the part 6 for testing...

I'm away from my build machine now.
Tomorrow I will update it, along with other quality patches.
Sorry for that :/

Thanx!!! as you can see in the picture, Im always missing part 6 when dumping.

Regards,

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when you say that you dump until part 6 I understand that you dump 5 parts and take the sd to record those 5 parts to the pc and then start from 6 but the 6 is not recorded and if it makes the 7 truth? if you use 32 gigabytes 5 parts x 8 gigabytes are 30 gigabytes, I think you will need at least 64 gigabytes to complete the process. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like that. See if someone confirms it

Actually as first post says : Join them by using "copy /b part_0 + part_1 + part_2 + part_3 + part_4 + part_5 + part_6 + part_7 rawnand.bin" = 32gb (8 x 4gig files)

Also at github : The USER dumping is done in 4 8GB parts (splitted in 4GB files, max for FAT32).

Regards,

 

[wblhornet]

I have the same problem: Part 6 is always skipped.
I tried a 32GB SD and a 64GB SD Card. Part 1-5 and Part 7 works.

 

[HtheB]

Dumped fine!
Maybe adding an option to select which partitions we want to dump would be fine, I already had all the other dumps apart from the user partition before, but had to dump everything again since there was no option to dump only user partition..

 

[Naminave]

I wish you could add an option that allows you to automatically detect the capacity of the MicroSd and automatically configure how many parts the Dump will be divided, or an option that can be manually chosen the size of each divided part (not to exceed the size available in the MicroSD) . Useful for users who have 2/4/8 / or 16Gb in the MicroSd

 

[CTCaer]

Some clarifications:
As USER partition, I mean the emmc partition USER.

So the partition layout of the emmc is "BOOT0, BOOT1, RPMB, USER".

This emmc partition called USER is divided to many partitions, including one that is called user.

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About the state of this payload:

• Any user that has a 32GB (at least 31,500 MBytes available. It can barely fit it ) should use the latest hekate commit. rajkosto upstreamed all his changes there.

• For any user, with smaller than 31,500MB sd cards, I'll release a special version based on the latest commits that lets you choose manually the parts to dump. Probably today.

Again, any user with adequate available space should use the official hekate.

 

[ken28]

part 6 is always skipped

 

[Naminave]

For any user, with smaller than 31,500MB sd cards, I'll release a special version based on the latest commits that lets you choose manually the parts to dump. Probably today.

Thank you very much!. You really implement the suggestions of the users.

 

[ken28]

is the update out yet?

 

[CTCaer]

Not yet. The code is finished and I'm doing the final dump testing.

After that I'll clean the debug code.
If everything goes well I'll publish in a couple of hours.

 

[PatrickJr]

Nice I'll have to give this a try at some point

 

[CTCaer]

v1.1 released.

Thanks to @rajkosto it is now working better and correctly with no hacks and hard coding. It can even support, future Switches with bigger eMMC.
Read OP for more.

 

[ken28]

So how do i use this if i only have 20gb free?

 

[CTCaer]

So how do i use this if i only have 20gb free?

Read the release description in the GitHub download link

 

[Maximilious]

So I can boot the fusee.bin file, if I wanted to run this instead do I simply replace the fusee.bin filename with the hekate-ipl_partial_dumping filename instead to start it? Or does this require linux be installed on the Switch before using like the other methods we currently have?

 

[Soluble]

So I can boot the fusee.bin file, if I wanted to run this instead do I simply replace the fusee.bin filename with the hekate-ipl_partial_dumping filename instead to start it? Or does this require linux be installed on the Switch before using like the other methods we currently have?

Just use whatever you're using to launch fusee.bin(I'm using Android) but use the Hekate bin instead

 

[CTCaer]

So I can boot the fusee.bin file, if I wanted to run this instead do I simply replace the fusee.bin filename with the hekate-ipl_partial_dumping filename instead to start it? Or does this require linux be installed on the Switch before using like the other methods we currently have?

For all RCM payloads, you just replace the fusee.bin filename with what you want to boot into.

So yeah.