Someone tried to mod the Switch. The moment I saw the eBay listing and it said "UNPATCHED", I knew straight away. It looks like the previous owner tried to mod it with RCM. The fact it also had a 256gb memory card inside also gives it away. Just as a side note... I've seen those exact memory cards on Wish and Aliexpress. Its most likely counterfeit and not 256gb. Its possible the previous owner didn't know this when trying to push a payload and it could have corrupted the SYSNAND.

Well done @My Mate VINCE, It`s not an easy connector to replace, You just needed a bit more solder on the pads ( like a nice puffy pillow on the whole pad) I use the edge of my table so I don`t have to deal with working in the air and my roll of solder to hold the board down on the far edge of the board, Thank you again for the mention. You're soldering skills are way better now, You can really call you`re self a pro now, Like I say anyone can do this just needs the basic understanding of electronics, "No one is born with knowledge it acquired and gained through experience "

I love how you went from being the repair guy that breaks the screen connectors to being an expert at fixing and replacing them. I think this video really shows how far you've come 😊

Already looking forward to the revisit where Vince fixes it.

awww - I was looking forward to the "YES!" moment!

That was very good thanks, seeing you improving along the way is the best part of watching your videos

This error is usually indicative of the internal memory being faulty. It is the chips to the right of the APU and are connected via solder balls. There are some vids on KZfaq that show this.

I love these switch videos. They are always so entertaining and informative!

Vince, you've really improved a lot with soldering !

Awesome vid Vince. It’s nice to see a repair being successful. You seem to be getting better at this fixing lark 😉

Mate, your soldering skills have improved so much! I remember the first ribbon connector you've burned to hell trying to desolder it from the board.. Always a pleasure watching your wheels spinning trying to figure things out! Also, dig the beard.

Never saw something before too. Very interesting. I'd love to see a revisit on that.

Hope you can get this up and running it seems so close! Can't wait to see if there's a revisit video. GOOD LUCK MATE!

I know I am way behind the times Vince, and I always forget to bloody comment because I normally watch you on the TV. But you really do give people hope that they can do this stuff and get better!

I have seen this error before. It, for me, was storage related. First of all, I echo the sentiments about that SD card: it could be fake. Try a known working one. I don’t think this will solve your issue, however. I believe that you need to get in contact with the seller. Unlike those commenting, I can ASSURE you 100% that this Switch is NOT banned. You showed as much when you checked if the Switch was up to date. On a banned Switch, you can’t access Nintendo servers at all. Not even to check if your system is up to date. I know this because I have a banned Switch. The eMMC module (internal storage) of the Switch is married to its motherboard. I was working on my nephews Switch using parts from my working one to diagnose the issue and I got mine and his internal storage modules mismatched. In this configuration, I got an error just like the one you’re seeing. Switching the internal eMMC modules allowed the Switch to opperate properly. If the seller took apart the two Switches, it’s possible the two eMMC modules got mixed up. Providing the seller was ignorant of the fact that the parts aren’t interchangeable, it is very possible that it was a simple, non-malicious, mistake. The seller may be able to facilitate the swapping of the eMMC modules between you and the other buyer if it proves correct that this is the issue. Or, if you get in contact with the other buyer, and highly dependant upon the generation of the Switches in question, the other seller and you could use Hekate to pull a backup copy of the nand and send it via email and then use that selfsame program to overwrite the nand on your respective eMMC modules. Or, this error may be caused by a faulty conntection of the storage mediums in question. Or it maybe be something else entirely. All I really know is that when I got this error (same exact issues-even the white screen) it was due to my putting the wrong eMMC module into the wrong Switch. No matter the issue, I hope you see success with a solution. Cheers.

Hmmm, that's proper strange about that last fault. If you have the kit to stick it in RCM mode ( hacking it ) see if it will boot up Linux, it could be something to do with the main NAND. As for your work with that screen connector, good effort indeed, I managed to do that tiny Apple one I was telling you about in exactly the same way, 36 pins of hell, I don't recommend it, but thanks to watching your videos, I knew how to remove it with a heat gun from underneath ;)

The previous switch killer is now the switch Archangel in the Nintendo world, well done bud GREAT VLOG.

I'm a PC guy, not so much Switches, but everything about that last issue just screams RAM issue to me. I look forward to a follow-up video :) It's fun to watch people fix things I normally don't, variety is the spice of life.

Hey Vince, I really appreciate the time you give us! I have learned so much! Also just a tip to try on some old stuff before you go trying it on a real repair. I found that using a long strip of kapton tape on stuck to a connector with a tail to pull on usually 4-5” to keep your fingers away from the heat gets connectors off easily without damaging them, same goes for reinstalling them you can line them up and put pressure with the tweezers and use hot air to heat the board and solder joints. Just a thought anyways. I hope it helps you in the future! I used to take good connectors from iPhone, iPad, iPod boards with kapton tape and just stick them right on where there used to be a damaged lego style connector. Thanks again! From North Carolina.

Great vid vince, tip, when applying solder for the LCD connector, ball the solder up on your tip and lot's of flux on the pads, you don't want the tip touching the pads, you'll get lovely pillows this way, if the tip touches you'll wipe them away. Minor criticism..... your quite rough with the wick, i only metion it because I've seen so many with pulled pads for people doing it like this, should be no resistance otherwise it's effectively sandpaper. Game-cart issues: check resistance to ground on a donor, i don't think it should be that low from memoy think it should be in the K's, remove chip and check again etc.

Love the fixing videos there always relaxing.

Please revisit this switch. Someone messed with the software. The previous comments explain the fix better than I can. I do like it that they sent a free hair

Great repair Mr. Mate-Vince!

Great fix vince although it isn't fully working it's not your fault you successfully changed the fpc connector which is a win as that is a really complex fix that requires a lot of skill and patience which you definitely have a lot of I'm a huge fan of your channel and you really inspire me congratulations again on the repair I really hope to see a revisit of this switch as its a really unusual glitch and will be very interesting to see a revisit you never know it could be something as simple as the charge chip causing a short keep up the great work vince

That was edge-of-seat/breath taking. I think I need a hot air gun. Never seen soldering from behind the board. I think this is your best ever repair, particularly given your history on those terrible connectors

Wonderful fix it video. Sorry to see you couldn't get revived to a game playable console. Hopefully the next video you can solve the problem

Well done!I think it’s your optimism that sees you though to a fix. Most of us, including me, would have given up well before getting to it at least displaying. Be great if you can fix that “software error”.

Just wanna say I love your content 😂🙂😁

another excellent and entertaining video vince! 🙂

woah new camera?? looks great man, nice video!!

Outstanding repair Sir!

my mate Vince keep up the good work. I have no idea how to work a switch.

well done dude, amazing wee fix. especially after all the switch fails :) lets hope you can figure out the non playing games

I’m thinking of getting into fixing electronics as a hobby as I love to watch these videos. I’ve never done soldering or anything like that but seen some kits an how to kits on Amazon so I’m thinking of starting their. Any ideas of where to start an what electronics might be good for beginners? Great job by the way! Can’t wait for a update on this switch

Love to see a follow up on this one

How frustrating. Definitely sounds like it has been previously hacked, and the fact that you've connected it to your account and updated the firmware has alerted the Nintendo police and the console has been banned. The 256GB card would also point to someone having alot of games (that they probably don't own) I think the only way to fix it would be to "update" it again, but with the latest custom firmware. Having said all of that, I'm obviously not an expert, but that would be my uneducated guess 😁

keep us to date about this switch, hope it ll work 100%.

First class! Was holding my breath when you turned it on, after soldering it..

despite the final result, the fixes you did were great. You have come a long way over the years. Pretty sure your other viewers will have the solution and I look forward to a revisit. Are you growing your santa face fuzz?

Finally another Switch 🙌🔥

What a shame . I even cheered when the screen came on undocked. Would love to this revisted in the future. Cheers vince

this looks like a not sucessfull jailbreak tentative, and now system is bricked

Great video vince, watched this on patreon, did you manage to save that file I sent you :) I've done 7 switches in the past 24 hours (6 successful) on live stream lol

Hope it’s not a stolen Switch? Another great video Vince, thank you.

Vince, I saw a video where a guy grabbed a length of solder wick with his soldering pliers. It heated up the wick enough that he could just drag it across the pads and it would absorb the solder. Just thought I'd leave that tip in case you wanted to try it.

Fantastic video👍

It looks like this switch was previously hacked and running a softmod, hence the reason it appeared like the switch had been factory reset when you first switched it on, as the last owner was maybe booting with those hardware jig things to start the tegra chip in service mode. It looks like the softmod has caused corruption or something very wrong with the software side, and now isn't starting games. Maybe if you can re-mod it you can get around the problem with softmods and such and get the switch to play games again Excellent work on fixing the switch physically though!! Great vid

"Nicely packaged and nice hair as well" xDD

I think it has been softmodded in the past due to the big memory Card.I would install the softmod again, Im pretty sure it Will fix the issue when doing a downgrade. I know i was reading something about upgrading the softmod to a newer update would put the gameslot inactive.

Amazing video!!!!

You can try and change the nand flash memory if you have spare switch boards ... But they are probably all differently programmed , but you could try, i dont know much about these switches. Nothing to lose here , or maybe there is a way to unbrick the system in some way. search around.Anyways excelent work with the connector , proud of you xD

Great video

Nice work, fixed an iPhone 7 plus screen camera and home button (camera and home button because i busted them taking it taking it apart) but its working now. Used to fix anything but my eyes are not as good as they were. Just fixed a hover board internal power lead .Big stuff i can see.

Another great job happy days

Hi vince, nice video as usual. I've been doing a lot of ebay switch refurbs to raise capital for a repair shop. In 30 or so repairs I've had this issue once, I managed to get it working but only by downloading all the ID keys and rebuilding the firmware on a brand new chip. I couldn't get it to work by rebuilding on the existing chip, I'm assuming there's some sort of artifact sector that remains even with a full wipe, but I'm not super versed in the nuisances of software. Hope this helps :)

Cool. Good work

Completely agree, the price of faulty electronics has gone up massively,

Nice job!

Hi Vince. Looks like the internal storage is corupted. Maybe you can try insert a known good sdcard and try install the game on it. I'm just guessing, but I don't think it's difficult to try

Idk why but these videos of you repairing things are like asmr for me

Hi dear Vince ... try to put in other emmc module if you have it ... best regards and stay safe.

So Vince I have a question. Is your personal switch named "my mate switch"

It's cool watching people with the passion to repair these electronics Also, I recently broke the 'L' button for the joy-cons and I don't have the skill to solder it so I was wondering where to buy it?

Handy little video

Unrelated to the switch issue, but that micro SD card is likely fake. Lots of those are being sold on ebay marketed with high capacities, but in reality they're only somewhere between 8-32gb and their firmware hacked to show the high capacity. One way to test this is with a tool called "h2testw", which will write to the whole thing, try to read it, and then figure out how much data the sd card could actually hold.

Its the internal mem storage, it can be replaced

The Switch killer is back.

I missed this type of videos lol

If you decide to explore the fault any further, you can probably append the extra footage to the end of this video instead of making a separate revisit video (since it’s unlisted).

Oh i spoke to soon.............but a great teaching vlog matey

That MMV Massive Tube tune sound almost exactly like Tree Dude in-game music :D

Vince you should have removed the emmc that can be unpluged without unsoldering anything and its vga if that breaks down the switch becames useless couse its paired to the board, you could try to unplug everything except of what you need to dock it even the screen couse that ribbon didnt look very good, switch can only be banned from online play it also can be a problem with the gpu and when it tries to display a game it gives the error and also the charge chip i dont know it might not be ok, anyway amazing video as always and pretty interesting, and i am very amazed on how you soldered that screen conector, keep it up vince :) i would like to see a revisit video, if you do it i hope you are lucky and fix the switch entirelly

I haven't finished watching the video but I think I already know what the problem is. It's possible they enabled something called "AutoRCM", which makes it more convenient to boot into hack payloads, but effectively bricks the Switch as far as normal booting is concerned. This would explain why it was drawing power as if it were turned on even though it doesn't appear to be; a Switch in RCM looks the same as a Switch that's turned off. Try following the instructions on switch.hacks.guide for booting a payload, except when it tells you to use the jig and hold down Volume+ and Power to boot into RCM, just push Power, no jig required. If I'm correct, it'll work, and you should be able to boot into a payload to disable AutoRCM. Or to boot CFW. *EDIT:* Actually now that I see it works in docked mode; this wouldn't be the problem.

This guy is amazing

Hi vince, I would look and see if the console is unpatched with the serial number. If it is unpatched then use one of those recovery mode clips that slot down the right hand side joycon rail. Look up using Hekate and follow the instructions with the recovery mode clip. You will be able to identify what is wrong with Hekate. Either read up or use KZfaq theres plenty of information. I strongly recommend backup the entire memory card, just in case the information is contained on there. Otherwise you might have a switch that you can not unbrick. If you have accidentally formatted sd card then use one of those sd recovery programs to try and find the files. Also gbatemp or maxconsole forum members may be able to help you. Best of Luck ....hopefully this is going to be interesting on the revisit.

You need to either reflash the entire stock firmware or reinstall a softmod. If it was modded and the system was updated it'll clock down the game slot so no type of game will work.

You shouldve tried to play games the first time you saw it was docking because the seller said it was unpatched so maybe he tried some sort of jailbreaking and wasnt succesfull and it was playing games fine and when you updated it , you bricked it or something, if you are not succesfull with fixing it with official software ,i suggest to you , maybe you can try jailbreaking it idk , there is no loss if it doesnt work properly with official software.Hope you see this comment great fix btw you are awesome

Buddy be careful from the fumes from solder they are toxic be safe ✌️

That microsd card might be a counterfeit try using h2testw to check the real capacity (might take a long time tho)

Nice video Vince. Great to see you get back to switches. What are the brushes you use to clean boards with IPA called? I've been looking to get some but can't find any that look like the one's you use.

Thismight of been a softmod that caused issues, can you check the serial number and see if it was one of the earlier switches that could be jailbroke??

As i mentioned about half year ago, with that soldering method you MUST unplug NAND it's creates tension on the NAND-connector and when you heat it from the other side it can get loose, check it, mb that the reason why it can't play games. Look from PC what is on the SD card that will give you an idea if console was Jailbroken.

Current Firmware version for the switch should be 11.0.0 though, as of December 1st, so perhaps taking out the memory card and then resetting the console to factory defaults could help?

The errors at the end were very interesting, were you using the 256gb sd card that came with it? If it was a no brand card maybe it was fake.. Also I think switch bans only apply to online things, if this switch had been banned you wouldn't be able to access the eshop at all. This could also be an issue with the NAND chip, if it is its actually possible to swap it out too. In any case good luck figuring it out!

Holy moly Recently tried soldering and it's collosal blob of solder compared to that Also my gc joycon is still going crazy

Nice, love the 25% discount with purchase of SD card

That may not actually be at 256 gig SD most the time people buy really cheap SD cards that say they’re this huge amount but really they’re only a small amount they’ve been tricked on the control to read something that they’re not actually now that I think about it it is technically I don’t know for sure possible that that could’ve caused the problem that we have on the switch.

@25:55 with the lighting change I honestly thought that was some sort of flash back clip haha As others have said this almost looks like dodgy ram. The switch doesn't have any memory to use for caching information.

I like when you fix nintendo things such as the ds 3ds and switch

A new "My Mate Vince" video - wohoo . Just wondering if it's better to disconnect the battery to get a more meaningful measurement of current going in - detecting short circuit etc. - watching too much Rossmann maybe.

Vince: Ok lets turn it on... switch: * doesnt turn on * Vince: I said lets turn it on

Nintendo can either "ban" the entire console from any online activities or "simply" ban an account. In your case I don´t think that your switch is really banned for you could not update your console to the newest firmware version in that case - and definitely you could not download or buy new games. I guess it must be some software (firmware) modding which has gone wrong somehow and now the system software simply is somehow corrupted so the console acts in the strange way you have experienced, very hard to tell, really...

maybe should of pressed down on the connector while it was hot to get them pins seated properly, but great fix and great ebay find this one, could of been bricked jailbroken or something

That free bonus 256gb SD card...

7:40 i Thoght he was making noise by screwing it

@My Mate VINCE I know that behavior, it happens when a Switch board has been de-modded but one forgot to run the clean-up utility before removing the modchip from the Switch board. I think it's safe to say this Switch will be useless, unless you wanna reinstall the mod only to run the cleanup utility, then remove it again and see how it goes.

Its either one of two things, the internal memory chip is damaged or someone has hacked the OS before. I ended up with one that was bricked and used software from the homebrew community to reflash the official software. When I initially reflashed the software it was an older version than what it originally had installed so I could only boot it with the rcm jig and it gave a similar error and and refused to play games of any kind till I made it update to the newest OS version. It quite honestly could be an error with the fuse check.

If you face similar issue next time would you try to jail break it first then check if it is banned or other software issue before you update it with latest firmware. Jail break might give you a last chance to fix software.

On the eBay listing at the end it did say unpatched so it could of been soft modded and that could be causing your issue

First time ever being here early enough to comment