Hacking Hardware Picofly - a HWFLY switch modchip

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hello people, I would like to ask you a question, I made 3 switches with picofly and using 1 mosfet connected to the two cpu point capacitors, and I got a light blue led by the error code, it is a cpu failure, so I put 2 mosfets using a drain on each capacitor and it worked normally, my question is this problem is caused by using only 1 mosfet on both capacitors? what do you recommend? use the 2 mosfets or use only 1 mosfet in only 1 capacitor the wire I am using is AWG32, this error happened in 1 switch lite, 1 switch oled, 1 switch V2
 

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hello people, I would like to ask you a question, I made 3 switches with picofly and using 1 mosfet connected to the two cpu point capacitors, and I got a light blue led by the error code, it is a cpu failure, so I put 2 mosfets using a drain on each capacitor and it worked normally, my question is this problem is caused by using only 1 mosfet on both capacitors? what do you recommend? use the 2 mosfets or use only 1 mosfet in only 1 capacitor the wire I am using is AWG32, this error happened in 1 switch lite, 1 switch oled, 1 switch V2
Well, the flex cable uses 2 mosfets so there must be a reason for that otherwise they would have just used one to keep the manufacturing costs down.
That being said, Rehius said that he is doing some research and on the next update the mosfet requirement will (most likely) be lower, so this will not be an issue anymore.
So for now the best thing to do is 2 mosfets on 2 caps which eliminates any possible issue on that point.
 
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Well, the flex cable uses 2 mosfets so there must be a reason for that otherwise they would have just used one to keep the manufacturing costs down.
That being said, Rehius said that he is doing some research and on the next update the mosfet requirement will (most likely) be lower, so this will not be an issue anymore.
So for now the best thing to do is 2 mosfets on 2 caps which eliminates any possible issue on that point.
Thanks for the answer and clarification, I will do that and test further, thanks
 
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Hi i finally managed to install rp zero but when i turm it on it lights up blue than changes to red and turns off. What it can be? In tutorial theres no anything about red light
 

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Hey guys I need your help.
I got these two little things lost of my OLED switch near the rst point.
...sad...
The photo was taken before I lost both of them...
Could you please tell me what they are ?(50k resistors? or something else?)
Thanks.View attachment 367780
Oled.
Nearby the rst point
I'll be back in I couple hours if nobody has gave u the value I'll measure them for u
 

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Hi i finally managed to install rp zero but when i turm it on it lights up blue than changes to red and turns off. What it can be? In tutorial theres no anything about red light
Did you get red light when flashing? (just checking to see if your rgb is right).
Can you post a short video so we can see it
If its leaning toward purple color it might be the emmc connection
 
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Did you get red light when flashing? (just checking to see if your rgb is right).
Can you post a short video so we can see it
If its leaning toward purple color it might be the emmc connection
Rgb must be right i was solidering this pins i will post video when i get home
 

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@rehius (or if anyone else knows), what components NEED to be left on the PZero for glitching? I know we can remove the port and regulator to make it thinner, but what about cutting the chip and\or moving components around, to make the whole package smaller? I have successfully cut it down before but now I'm wondering just how far I can take it.
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I screwed up, accidentally i remove every component of the front face of the Rp2040, this still work? It’s already programmed.. the back it’s normal every component it’s there.
 

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hi guys, I'm having problems with firmware 2.65, the chip lights up that the clk is wrong, but it's ok, the same thing happened to me yesterday and when I put flex instead of mosfet, it worked, now I have double mosfet placed but only connected to a capacitor, Is it necessary to use the 2 capacitors as in the flex?

Ícono de validado por la comunidad
 

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It's still not working. Tried 2.66, 2.67 but no lock. Updated to 2.67 via toolbox, removed sd card.

Restarted to the "no sd card" screen, presses Vol+- to boot OFW but it blackscreens.

I also get slow emmc errors when backing up emmc. Maybe thats the problem?

Any other ideas?
Got it working now. Slow Emmc was caused by a too long DAT0 cable. Routed it originally around the CPU. No it is connected directly (~ 5cm shorter).

Slow Emmc fixed and thus OFW Black Screen fixed.

Recreated EmuNand and no longer package1 Error.

Thanks at all
 

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Got it working now. Slow Emmc was caused by a too long DAT0 cable. Routed it originally around the CPU. No it is connected directly (~ 5cm shorter).

Slow Emmc fixed and thus OFW Black Screen fixed.

Recreated EmuNand and no longer package1 Error.

Thanks at all
if the cable was already short, just add one more resistor DAT0 solved
 

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The cable should be as short as possible to avoid line interference.
 

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I screwed up, accidentally i remove every component of the front face of the Rp2040, this still work? It’s already programmed.. the back it’s normal every component it’s there.
led indicator and capacitors may be not required but the small chip in center of the board is flash chip (where the code store) is very important, Idk resistor is required or not
 

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