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Hacking Reinstalling System Menu then Brick!

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Can somebody help me because i was gonna remove the custom theme so i just decided to go back to the original theme by reinstalling the whole system menu by wad manager so after i uninstall then install it, what is happens to my wii is just showing a black screen and I have bootmii installed on it but i don't know how to boot it up...PLEASE HELP ME & REPLY ANYONE!
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You just bricked yourself. You should have overwritten your systemmenu, not delete it.

Do you have Bootmii as Boot2, or IOS ?

If IOS, I guess your screwed.
 
Do you have BootMii installed as an IOS or boot2? Do you have a NAND backup, and your keys?

If you have BootMii as boot2, do you have a "bootmii" folder on the root of your SD card?
 
franz029 said:
Can somebody help me because i was gonna remove the custom theme so i just decided to go back to the original theme by reinstalling the whole system menu by wad manager so after i uninstall then install it, what is happens to my wii is just showing a black screen and I have bootmii installed on it but i don't know how to boot it up...PLEASE HELP ME & REPLY ANYONE!
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Do you have PriiLoader? Or better yet, BootMii as an boot2. I guess if you only had BootMii IOS, then you could go into it through Priiloader?
 
joelozy said:
franz029 said:
Can somebody help me because i was gonna remove the custom theme so i just decided to go back to the original theme by reinstalling the whole system menu by wad manager so after i uninstall then install it, what is happens to my wii is just showing a black screen and I have bootmii installed on it but i don't know how to boot it up...PLEASE HELP ME & REPLY ANYONE!
sad.gif
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Do you have PriiLoader? Or better yet, BootMii as an boot2. I guess if you only had BootMii IOS, then you could go into it through Priiloader?
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Uh, no. Priiloader will do NO good in this situation. Uninstalling System Menu will remove Priiloader. Unless you have BootMii/boot2, you can only fix it with a NAND programmer (which requires you to buy a NAND programmer, take your Wii apart, solder stuff, and flash stuff to the NAND, preferably a NAND dump taken with BootMii/IOS. This process requires a fair bit of skill with soldering AFAIK).
 
There is one guy in US that can fix this kind of issues as SifJar said.
But I better let him post in here if he can/want to.

EDIT: XFlak just posted his info
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SifJar said:
joelozy said:
franz029 said:
Can somebody help me because i was gonna remove the custom theme so i just decided to go back to the original theme by reinstalling the whole system menu by wad manager so after i uninstall then install it, what is happens to my wii is just showing a black screen and I have bootmii installed on it but i don't know how to boot it up...PLEASE HELP ME & REPLY ANYONE!
sad.gif
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Do you have PriiLoader? Or better yet, BootMii as an boot2. I guess if you only had BootMii IOS, then you could go into it through Priiloader?
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Uh, no. Priiloader will do NO good in this situation. Uninstalling System Menu will remove Priiloader. Unless you have BootMii/boot2, you can only fix it with a NAND programmer (which requires you to buy a NAND programmer, take your Wii apart, solder stuff, and flash stuff to the NAND, preferably a NAND dump taken with BootMii/IOS. This process requires a fair bit of skill with soldering AFAIK).
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if u don't have a vulnerable boot1 (ie. if bootmii can only be installed as IOS), a nand dump is REQUIRED to use infectus to fix this brick

if u have a nand dump, email [email protected], and he will take very good care of you

edit: of course if u have bootmii as boot2 INSTALLED, u can fix this yourself
 
If you have a bootmii folder on the root of your sd card that is properly titled then
you have bootmii installed as ios. If you had bootmii installed as boot2, with a bootmii folder on
the root of your sd card, it would autoload to bootmii on startup. Looks like you should follow xflak's advice.
 
But is there a way of setting the bootmii as IOS to autoboot? because I see something in my Wii's SD Card that it has something a "bootmii.ini" but I don't think that would work...
 
techboy said:
franz029 said:
But is there a way of setting the bootmii as IOS to autoboot?
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No. Only the boot2 version runs at startup.

Priiloader is required if you want Bootmii IOS to be useful for unbricking.
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Even that wouldn't matter as he erased his SM. Only hope AFAIK is an infectus as mentioned above.
 
Agreed. Still useless if he deleted the SM...

As for an infectus...probably not worth it. He'd probably be better off sending it to Nintendo. Since it's fully bricked, they'll probably replace it.
 
techboy said:
Agreed. Still useless if he deleted the SM...

As for an infectus...probably not worth it. He'd probably be better off sending it to Nintendo. Since it's fully bricked, they'll probably replace it.
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they can find illegal content without a system menu. you'd just waste time and get it sent back, unfixed.
 
bwillb said:
techboy said:
Agreed. Still useless if he deleted the SM...

As for an infectus...probably not worth it. He'd probably be better off sending it to Nintendo. Since it's fully bricked, they'll probably replace it.
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they can find illegal content without a system menu. you'd just waste time and get it sent back, unfixed.
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They are not going to dump his nand and examine it, he would do well to send it to N.
 
Does IOS Bootmii put a bootmii folder on your card? Maybe he just deleted his armboot.bin or ppcboot.elf files. Unlikely, I guess.
 

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