Nand-Aid Alignment Error

GlueTenFree · Apr 28, 2024

Hello.

I installed a nand-aid on working a soft-modded (Aroma) WiiU. I know I shouldn’t have tried to do this because there was no nand issue before, but I just wanted to see if I could do it. I repair console and wanted to see if I could accomplish this but I’ve failed. Ultimately, I can just use this console as parts if I bricked it completely.

I backed up everything except for the MLC when I soft-modded the console. I powered down the console, installed the nand-aid, connected the nand to the computer via the SD pins on the nand-aid and used Win32DiskImager to read the entire nand three times. I compared the dumps with diff and all were the same.

I booted the console and it goes straight to minute. When I try to use option “patch (slc) and boot IOS (slc)” I get “Abort type: alignment”.

I assume that means SLC and MLC are out of alignment.

What can I do to fix this? I tried restoring SLC but still can’t get the WiiU OS to boot.

I tried with the DSB jumper closed and opened on the nand-aid but still no luck.

Thanks for any help in advance.

SDIO · Apr 28, 2024

You probably don't have the wafel core and isfshax patch on the SLC, but on the SD, so you need to choose the third option: "Patch (sd) boot IOS (slc).

Since the patches are missing, minute tries to execute garbage (when it means to execute the main in the patch) and that is causing an unaligned memory (RAM) access. Since ARM can only do aligned memory access, this is causing a crash.

V10lator · Apr 28, 2024

GlueTenFree said:
tried restoring SLC

That probably brought SCFM out of sync, so you have to rebuild the MLC now.

BTW: What's that micro SD shaped PCB on the 2nd picture and how much did you pay for it?

GlueTenFree · Apr 29, 2024

I solved it. Thanks for the replies. The forum is not letting me post certain words so I can’t post the solution. I’m too new I guess. So see the image for solution. That sd card breakout was expensive and I think some people sell a similar device with the nand aid but the one I got from violator only came with the nand aid.

V10lator · Apr 29, 2024

GlueTenFree said:
I think some people sell a similar device with the nand aid

Yea, rising the NAND-AID costs to around 20 times of what it's worth. These SD shaped PCBs need gold fingers and these are damn expensive in production, so around $7 for such a PCB is a good deal: I remember PCBWay wanting around $60 for a single PCB (costs would probably go down when ordering hundrets to thousands of such PCBs but who needs that much?).

Not only do they need gold fingers but also a special angle which a normal CNC can't do. So even the ones who sell NAND-AIDs with this PCB tell you that you have to modify the PCB to get that correct angle cause PCB manufacturers would take a lot of money for doing that.

So thanks for the tipp with these adapter PCBs.

GlueTenFree said:
the one I got from violator only came with the nand aid

Yea cause else the NAND-AID would be way more expensive and to be fair: Most of the times you don't need that micro SD shaped PCB (in your case you could have dumped from ISFSHax instead of in hardware, for example).

It's btw V10lator, not violator...

GlueTenFree · Apr 30, 2024

V10lator said:
Yea, rising the NAND-AID costs to around 20 times of what it's worth. These SD shaped PCBs need gold fingers and these are damn expensive in production, so around $7 for such a PCB is a good deal: I remember PCBWay wanting around $60 for a single PCB (costs would probably go down when ordering hundrets to thousands of such PCBs but who needs that much?).

Not only do they need gold fingers but also a special angle which a normal CNC can't do. So even the ones who sell NAND-AIDs with this PCB tell you that you have to modify the PCB to get that correct angle cause PCB manufacturers would take a lot of money for doing that.

So thanks for the tipp with these adapter PCBs.

Yea cause else the NAND-AID would be way more expensive and to be fair: Most of the times you don't need that micro SD shaped PCB (in your case you could have dumped from ISFSHax instead of in hardware, for example).

It's btw V10lator, not violator...

Oh sorry, I didn’t realize I was posting a reply to you. Yeah, I understand the cost of things like that can get out of control. I realize now it’s not very necessary to have the sd card PCB. I originally just wanted to try the nand-aid only and found that sd adapter later. the cost with the sd card breakout from other vendors were much more expensive. Thanks for the parts and the help!

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