Hwfly switch lite modchip blinks white noob help

[crazypete]

So I installed the hwfly lite mod chip and from the start it didn't want to boot into anything. All I got was a black screen and a solid red light. After some time I got a "Boot.dat?" Splash screen. I tried multiple different Micro SD cards and formats. I tried get Hekate to load but nothing. I followed the firmware update procedure and that's how I got where I am now. I had the console turned off with the Chip plugged into the USB and I used the flash.bat. it looked good everything finished fine but when I restarted it flashed a white light and I can't get back to the boot.dat screen or anything else. I checked all connections both the solder joints and the connectors and everything is good. Can I please get some assistance on what to do next and some guidance on what to install after. Thank you??

 

[binkinator]

So I installed the hwfly lite mod chip and from the start it didn't want to boot into anything. All I got was a black screen and a solid red light. After some time I got a "Boot.dat?" Splash screen. I tried multiple different Micro SD cards and formats. I tried get Hekate to load but nothing. I followed the firmware update procedure and that's how I got where I am now. I had the console turned off with the Chip plugged into the USB and I used the flash.bat. it looked good everything finished fine but when I restarted it flashed a white light and I can't get back to the boot.dat screen or anything else. I checked all connections both the solder joints and the connectors and everything is good. Can I please get some assistance on what to do next and some guidance on what to install after. Thank you??

The book says you messed up your solder joints to the caps. Look for bridged connections, blobs of solder, what have you. We can help you look but you will need to post some hi res magnified pics from different angles.

 

[crazypete]

The book says you messed up your solder joints to the caps. Look for bridged connections, blobs of solder, what have you. We can help you look but you will need to post some hi res magnified pics from different angles.

Sorry for the dirty and crappy solder joints
I reflowed some of the connection on the cpu caps to get better connnections and the ones next to the emmc nand chip and still the white light

 

[nekojosh]

Sorry for the dirty and crappy solder joints
I reflowed some of the connection on the cpu caps to get better connnections and the ones next to the emmc nand chip and still the white light

So, two things, I'd recommend you use some IPA to clean up the flux before taking the pics. I see one cap from the apu that looks a little discolored but it might be due to the flux, hence why I suggest you clean and retake pics.

Second thing, does the switch boot if you disconnect the chip?

 

[crazypete]

So, two things, I'd recommend you use some IPA to clean up the flux before taking the pics. I see one cap from the apu that looks a little discolored but it might be due to the flux, hence why I suggest you clean and retake pics.

Second thing, does the switch boot if you disconnect the chip?

The switch boots with and without it connected. The moment I tried to flash it that's when it stopped going to the boot.Dat splash screen. Before I flashed I disconnected the ribbon cables and I had the console turned off.

 

[nekojosh]

The switch boots with and without it connected. The moment I tried to flash it that's when it stopped going to the boot.Dat splash screen. Before I flashed I disconnected the ribbon cables and I had the console turned off.

Ok, that's good.
So now that makes me wonder if you got a flashable HWFLY or if something got borked during the flashing process. Have to you tried flashing a fork of hwfly-nx? I personally use this one https://github.com/KazushiMe/Spacecraft-NX-Mod

 

[crazypete]

Ok, that's good.
So now that makes me wonder if you got a flashable HWFLY or if something got borked during the flashing process. Have to you tried flashing a fork of hwfly-nx? I personally use this one

Nope but then again IDK if any of the flashing processes even did anything lol. It seemed it it never picked up the sd card whenever I had it in. I'll look into it and give it a shot. Thank you!!!

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One more question. What is the proper way of flashing these chips even if they have a USB?

 

[nekojosh]

If when you run flash.bat you get success it should have gone through without issues. If you boot to OFW and put an SD card in does the switch sees it? If it does not it might be that the SD card reader has become faulty or needs cleaning.

 

[crazypete]

If when you run flash.bat you get success it should have gone through without issues. If you boot to OFW and put an SD card in does the switch sees it? If it does not it might be that the SD card reader has become faulty or needs cleaning.

Yeah it read all of the SD cards that I inserted. So should I have an ad card on boot with the mod chip installed or should i first boot with the SD card and then add all of the bin files?

Sorry for all the dumb questions lol

 

[nekojosh]

So... your sd reader is working. The switch is able to boot OFW without issue.
This kinda of drives us back to an issue with the chip itself or maybe the files you have on the SD. Can you post a screenshot of how do you have set up your SD card and what do you have on your hekate_ipl?

 

[crazypete]

So... your sd reader is working. The switch is able to boot OFW without issue.
This kinda of drives us back to an issue with the chip itself or maybe the files you have on the SD. Can you post a screenshot of how do you have set up your SD card and what do you have on your hekate_ipl?

So in this I tried a bunch of different methods. I followed what the tutorial on the GitHub by renaming the Hekate bin into payload.bin on the root directory and nothing. Then I add the bootloader folder with the payload file in the payload and nothing. (Sidenote I tired this with boot.dat splash screen and the current status and still nothing.


I'll post a screenshot on the morning with the files and everything.

 

[nekojosh]

So in this I tried a bunch of different methods. I followed what the tutorial on the GitHub by renaming the Hekate bin into payload.bin on the root directory and nothing. Then I add the bootloader folder with the payload file in the payload and nothing. (Sidenote I tired this with boot.dat splash screen and the current status and still nothing.


I'll post a screenshot on the morning with the files and everything.

Ok, can you post a pic of the contents of the SD card and the contents of your bootloader folder? Also what's in you hekate_ipl (this is a file inside the bootloader folder)

 

[crazypete]

Figured out what it was and I think the board was bugged after I tried to flash initially. I used to putty to connect to it and did the factory reset in the terminal and that fixed the whole thing lol

 

[nekojosh]

Figured out what it was and I think the board was bugged after I tried to flash initially. I used to putty to connect to it and did the factory reset in the terminal and that fixed the whole thing lol

Glad you got it sorted out