After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (2024)

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (1)
  • Dec 29, 2022
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So heres the deal, AUTORCM is on, the latest updates work, when I turn off the console and try loading it with RCM Loader, the blue light goes on indicating that its injecting, the console turns on but the screen is completely black. I tried turning it off by holding the power button and then injecting the payload with Tegra Rcm, it works!
I tried resetting the loader multiple times, made sure the Hekate file is the latest, tried using an older Hekate, but nothing seems to work.
Would love some help!

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (3)
  • Dec 29, 2022
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update the hekate payload on your injector
Edit Try rename to just payload.bin

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (4)
  • Dec 29, 2022
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Knash24 said:

update the hekate payload on your injector
Edit Try rename to just payload.bin

Its what I did, I moved the new hekate file into the hekate folder on the rcmloader, deleted the old one and renamed the new one to payload.bin per how I always did it.

  • Dec 29, 2022
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Soler37 said:

So heres the deal, AUTORCM is on, the latest updates work, when I turn off the console and try loading it with RCM Loader, the blue light goes on indicating that its injecting, the console turns on but the screen is completely black. I tried turning it off by holding the power button and then injecting the payload with Tegra Rcm, it works!
I tried resetting the loader multiple times, made sure the Hekate file is the latest, tried using an older Hekate, but nothing seems to work.
Would love some help!

What version of hekte are you using on the loader? In had this issue last week with version 6.0.1 i ended up having to go back to 5.9.0 on the loader and using the latest version on the sd card

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (6)
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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (8)

Still deosnt work, tried 5.9, it shows a screen that looks corrupt and then the backlight stays on.

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (10)
  • Dec 29, 2022
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Use hekate payload version 5.8.0 for your loader. It's a known issue since 5.6.0. The latest payload somehow breaks loader code, so we could use previous version of payload but keep the latest version in SD because hekate has a way to detect which one is newer and use it instead of one from loader

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (14)
  • Dec 29, 2022
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@marhalloweenvt beat me to it. The answer is to NOT put the latest on your loader (because whether you believe it or not, your loader is a clone). IIRC 6.0.0 should work fine, but 5.8.0 will also work. The bit that's posted above is right in front of your face when you download the latest hekate. You just need to take a few seconds to actually read it. If you didn't just try to use an AIO updater that is... then I dunno if you're getting the entire release, which includes a second copy of hekate as /bootloader/update.bin.

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (15)
  • Dec 29, 2022
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marhalloweenvt said:

Use hekate payload version 5.8.0 for your loader. It's a known issue since 5.6.0. The latest payload somehow breaks loader code, so we could you previous version of payload but keep the latest version in SD because hekate has a way to detect which one is newer and use it instead of one from loader
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I tried, same thing as I showed in the video.
Wtf could I be doing wrong, Ive tried so many things, this is so godamn frustrating.

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (17)
  • Dec 30, 2022
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Same happened to me when I updated Hekate too, the way I fixed that problem was to put the 5.9.0 bin file of Hekate in the RCM Loader, but I can also see that your payload.bin is named "Payload.bin", I don't know if it's case sensitive but better write it in lowercase. Also, I put a copy of the 5.9.0 payload.bin file in the SX and Reinx options and everything's just working fine now for me, hope it helps.

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (19)
  • Dec 30, 2022
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Soler37 said:

So heres the deal, AUTORCM is on, the latest updates work, when I turn off the console and try loading it with RCM Loader, the blue light goes on indicating that its injecting, the console turns on but the screen is completely black. I tried turning it off by holding the power button and then injecting the payload with Tegra Rcm, it works!
I tried resetting the loader multiple times, made sure the Hekate file is the latest, tried using an older Hekate, but nothing seems to work.
Would love some help!

Buy new one? Since tegrarcm is still working count yourself lucky that the damage is minimal

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (20)
  • Dec 30, 2022
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rodrihalo117 said:

Same happened to me when I updated Hekate too, the way I fixed that problem was to put the 5.9.0 bin file of Hekate in the RCM Loader, but I can also see that your payload.bin is named "Payload.bin", I don't know if it's case sensitive but better write it in lowercase. Also, I put a copy of the 5.9.0 payload.bin file in the SX and Reinx options and everything's just working fine now for me, hope it helps.

I did this exactly but in all of them it shows the same type issue.

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (22)
  • Dec 30, 2022
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Hardware can fail and sometimes it happens at a inconvenient time that makes people suffer more than the price of the new hardware. The affected person sometimes blame themself for unrelated action they did, would be worst if they blame an innocent bystander.

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (24)
  • Feb 2, 2023
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The answer is, let your sd card hekate latest version, and rcm use Hekate ver. 5.5.8

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After updating my switch CFW and hekate to latest, RCM Loader no longer works (26)
  • Feb 2, 2023
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what is the checksum (crc32) of your /bootloader/update.bin? Should be AEECBD36...

Also when you plug your dongle into your PC, what is the size of the "disk"?

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