anyway to unbrick?

[Paulhommie2]

Hi Everyone,
I'm hoping someone has had this problem or knows a solution to fix it. My son accidently updated his switch to 17.0 without updating hekate or atmosphere. The switch has a modchip in it so I thought this would be an easy fix but I cannot get into hekate or atmosphere or anything. When the switch starts up the screen is black for a while, then it gives the nintendo screen for a second and then back to black. On my switch if I start it up without the sd card I get the typical no sd card screen but when I turn his on without the sd card Im just getting black then eventually the nintendo logo for a sec then black again. Its not acting like it should with no sd card. His modchip is going from purple to green like normal. I have completely remade his sd card but I am completely stuck. After a few hours of googling I wanted to ask the community for help. Is this completely bricked? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[HawaiianInTown]

Have you tried modchip bypass boot? Hold both volume +/- buttons while powering on till Ninty boot splash logo... it should boot into OFW.

 

[Paulhommie2]

Have you tried modchip bypass boot? Hold both volume +/- buttons while powering on till Ninty boot splash logo... it should boot into OFW.

Yes, I have tried that for a few times with no luck. It will flash the Nintendo logo then go black again. The mod chip is flashing green while this happens.

 

[HawaiianInTown]

Sounds like it's coincidence that the modchip started to give errors after update, did you have someone install modchip? If so, I suggest you take it back to them if you can't even bypass modchip to boot OFW.

 

[Paulhommie2]

I was just reading how a flashing green light means it may be stuck in toolbox mode. I think your right, I did have someone install it so I will reach out to then. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it!

 

[Hayato213]

What chip you got?

 

[misterion]

Just a thought. Could the early alpha of Atmosphere for 17.0 be the problem?

.. please check if it is this issue :

Just rcm after 12-15 sec of holding the power button. Then update to atmosphere 1.6.2 .
This updates:

An improved solution to the problem that would cause consoles which had previously re-built their SYSTEM partition to brick on update-to-17.0.0 was added.

• In particular, booting atmosphère will now automatically detect the problem and unbrick any consoles which have fallen into this state.

I hope that this was the problem ...! Good luck!

 

[linuxares]

Have you updated your files afterwards? Because the chip (if it's a picofly) just checks for a payload on the sdcard called payload.bin in the root of the sdcard.

EDIT: If you need a guide - https://rentry.org/EristaSXCoreSysNAND