Switch OLED teardown V1/V2

[lufeig]

If anyone needs a Switch OLED donor board DM me. I also have an HWFLY Lite as well. Probably need another cable set for it though.

I killed my OLED too attempting to hack it.

Sent it to a qualified and experient technician to revive it.

Don't give up, there's a good chance that it could be fixed.

 

[kerelenko]

Yea, so if that's the case what can I do? Just buy a new one?

Use a microscope to clearly see the CLK point and the sorrounding GND copper. The size of the CLK point is about 0.6mm small with a gap to GND about 0.2mm it's very close and very tiny point. Wick the solder in that area and use a solder mask to mask the GND copper before working back on the CLK point. This was the point where I was having issues soldering even with a microscope as my hands were just shaking too much. I sent mine to @de9ed. He did a great job fixing my work.

 

[KaiN69420]

Use a microscope to clearly see the CLK point and the sorrounding GND copper. The size of the CLK point is about 0.6mm small with a gap to GND about 0.2mm it's very close and very tiny point. Wick the solder in that area and use a solder mask to mask the GND copper before working back on the CLK point. This was the point where I was having issues soldering even with a microscope as my hands were just shaking too much. I sent mine to @de9ed. He did a great job fixing my work.

Yea I tried the solder mask and it would melt when iron got close. I removed the chip and install board back in case and nothing comes on, no screen, no fan, cpu doesn’t heat up. I tried with battery and charging cable. I plan to buy a new one and new chip and have a different installer do it.

 

[doom95]

If anyone needs a Switch OLED donor board DM me. I also have an HWFLY Lite as well. Probably need another cable set for it though.

What happened?

 

[TheUnknownOne]

So far my oled chip has worked great.

Console gets a bit warm (but has not over heated) and I haven't heard the fan spinning up when I hold it up to my ear. Took the back off this morning and will run it for a bit to see if the fan kicks in as maybe it's just really quiet and efficient compared to the regular models...

 

[doom95]

Do joycons charge? You can use a tesla overlay to see if fan is being told to spin.

 

[TheUnknownOne]

Do joycons charge? You can use a tesla overlay to see if fan is being told to spin.

Yes they do. That was the first thing I checked. I've never used that overlay so need to see how to use it.

Thanks

Does it have an option to manually control the fan speed?

 

[jv_233]

So far my oled chip has worked great.

Console gets a bit warm (but has not over heated) and I haven't heard the fan spinning up when I hold it up to my ear. Took the back off this morning and will run it for a bit to see if the fan kicks in as maybe it's just really quiet and efficient compared to the regular models...

Which one did you install?

 

[Cajacava]

Hi all, I need your support, I install the hwfly lite chip in my oled switch (is not my first time), but when I test it, the led blinks in purple and at the end, stay in solid orange and then turns off. I check all the willings and looks good.
Later I uninstall the chip and now, the oled do not turn on, stay in black screen in portable and in the dock. Someone knows what can I do? There's a way to unbrick it?
Thanks in advance

 

[TheUnknownOne]

Do joycons charge? You can use a tesla overlay to see if fan is being told to spin.

Stupid me, I took it half way apart to check the fan connector, I forgot to lock it and left it open... Everything works fine now.

Which one did you install?

The 6 wire one. The one that at first cost $90USD

 

[ViOTeK]

Hi all, I need your support, I install the hwfly lite chip in my oled switch (is not my first time), but when I test it, the led blinks in purple and at the end, stay in solid orange and then turns off. I check all the willings and looks good.
Later I uninstall the chip and now, the oled do not turn on, stay in black screen in portable and in the dock. Someone knows what can I do? There's a way to unbrick it?
Thanks in advance

There have been some issues with the lite and core chips, could be related, but you'd need to read back through some pages, I don't recall the exact symptoms or cause, but, did just see this on twitter doing an unrelated search:



Looks like the old core/lite chips can be reprogrammed! He also recently fixed a dead chip, but it required re-balling it. Looking forward to the details in a proper post/video on his site.

 

[lufeig]

There have been some issues with the lite and core chips, could be related, but you'd need to read back through some pages, I don't recall the exact symptoms or cause, but, did just see this on twitter doing an unrelated search:



Looks like the old core/lite chips can be reprogrammed! He also recently fixed a dead chip, but it required re-balling it. Looking forward to the details in a proper post/video on his site.

There’s a thread here about it

Only a few can be reprogrammed by now.

 

[Cajacava]

There have been some issues with the lite and core chips, could be related, but you'd need to read back through some pages, I don't recall the exact symptoms or cause, but, did just see this on twitter doing an unrelated search:



Looks like the old core/lite chips can be reprogrammed! He also recently fixed a dead chip, but it required re-balling it. Looking forward to the details in a proper post/video on his site.

thanks for your answer, but the problem is not with the hwfly chip. The problem is with the Oled. I remove the hwfly chip and all the wires and try to use it without modding but the switch is dead. The screen is black and do anything

Do you know some way to unbrick the the Switch?

 

[Donnie-Burger]

thanks for your answer, but the problem is not with the hwfly chip. The problem is with the Oled. I remove the hwfly chip and all the wires and try to use it without modding but the switch is dead. The screen is black and do anything

Do you know some way to unbrick the the Switch?

It's not that simple. You have to take motherboard out and inspect all solder points. Check for bridges, solder splash etc.

 

[Cajacava]

There’s a thread here about it

Only a few can be reprogrammed by now.

Hi all, I need your support, ai install the hwfly chip y my oled switch (is nos my fisrt time), but when I test it, the led finish not in green but in otange and then turns off. I uninstall the chip and now, the oled do not turn on.
Smeone knows what can I do? There's a way to unbrick it?
Thanks in advance

There’s a thread here about it

Only a few can be reprogrammed by now.

the problem is with the switch, the chip was removed with all the wirings but still not working

 

[Cajacava]

It's not that simple. You have to take motherboard out and inspect all solder points. Check for bridges, solder splash etc.

I did it, i let the switch as at the begining but is not working

 

[kerelenko]

I did it, i let the switch as at the begining but is not working

Your Switch could have been fried/bricked. There was a PSA recently that says hwfly chip are using old spacecraft nx fw that redirects 5v to the Switch if there is no payload.bin detected while turning it on.

 

[Donnie-Burger]

I did it, i let the switch as at the begining but is not working

Put up some high res pics for help.

 

[Cajacava]

Your Switch could have been fried/bricked. There was a PSA recently that says hwfly chip are using old spacecraft nx fw that redirects 5v to the Switch if there is no payload.bin detected while turning it on.

Ok, and it means that is nothing else to do? Or there are somenthing to unbrick it

 

[lufeig]

It could be a faulty capacitor, resistor, a fried m92t36 ic, who knows…