How to update OFW

[Icy-Wolcerine]

So I was planning on updating my emunand to 10.0.4 and keeping my sysnand at 9.0.2. I checked and my OFW firmware was still at 9.0.2 prior to messing around. Also disabled all wifi in OFW and deleted wifi settings after SX os update to 3.0.3.

I had auto rcm disabled up until now. Prefer this due to charging issues, rumours about auto rcm causing banning, and my kid cant go into cfw wirhout me.

Updated SX OS to 3.0.3. Updated emunand to 10.0.4 all good. Was planning on keeping sysnand at 9.0.2.

All good so far. Got ahead of myself and upgraded to a bigger sd card. Should have done this through hekate but didnt realize I can do this way.

Created a new emunand on the new sd card. Got a warning after completed about enabling auto rcm due to fuse burning so I did that. Copied old content to new sd card. Now OFW and CFW are both 10.0.2 on new sd card and original sd card is 10.0.2 for OFW and 10.0.4 for CFW. I checked my fuses in hetake and have burnt 13 fuses (version 10 has 13 fuses burnt I read somewhere). So I must have burnt due to having auto rcm disabled at this point.

My questions are:

1) Does sx os 3.0.3 have firmware 10.0.2 built in as I thought this would only create an emunand with firmware from my current OFW? I am sure I checked that i had 9.0.2 running before commencing anything.

2) I read I should only update OFW through the proper nintendo channel so will this be a problem to get me banned running OFW 10.0.2 that was somehow installed through creating an emunand if I use my OFW online again.

3) Is there any difference between firmware update from darthsternie or through sx os firmware (like I think I have done and official nintendo?

4) Is there a way to check that my sysnand is clean or do I not understand the terminology. As in all switches that run CFW have a dirty sysnand?

5) What would be the best way to update my OFW now that I have done this. I was suggested using hetake to boot into OFW and then use settings -> system update through nintendo

6) Am I safe to disable auto rcm?

I know theres always a risk of being banned but been using this way for a year without issues.

Thanks for any help or pointers in the right direction

 

[excellen234]

So I was planning on updating my emunand to 10.0.4 and keeping my sysnand at 9.0.2. I checked and my OFW firmware was still at 9.0.2 prior to messing around. Also disabled all wifi in OFW and deleted wifi settings after SX os update to 3.0.3.

I had auto rcm disabled up until now. Prefer this due to charging issues, rumours about auto rcm causing banning, and my kid cant go into cfw wirhout me.

Updated SX OS to 3.0.3. Updated emunand to 10.0.4 all good. Was planning on keeping sysnand at 9.0.2.

All good so far. Got ahead of myself and upgraded to a bigger sd card. Should have done this through hekate but didnt realize I can do this way.

Created a new emunand on the new sd card. Got a warning after completed about enabling auto rcm due to fuse burning so I did that. Copied old content to new sd card. Now OFW and CFW are both 10.0.2 on new sd card and original sd card is 10.0.2 for OFW and 10.0.4 for CFW. I checked my fuses in hetake and have burnt 13 fuses (version 10 has 13 fuses burnt I read somewhere). So I must have burnt due to having auto rcm disabled at this point.

My questions are:

1) Does sx os 3.0.3 have firmware 10.0.2 built in as I thought this would only create an emunand with firmware from my current OFW? I am sure I checked that i had 9.0.2 running before commencing anything.

2) I read I should only update OFW through the proper nintendo channel so will this be a problem to get me banned running OFW 10.0.2 that was somehow installed through creating an emunand if I use my OFW online again.

3) Is there any difference between firmware update from darthsternie or through sx os firmware (like I think I have done and official nintendo?

4) Is there a way to check that my sysnand is clean or do I not understand the terminology. As in all switches that run CFW have a dirty sysnand?

5) What would be the best way to update my OFW now that I have done this. I was suggested using hetake to boot into OFW and then use settings -> system update through nintendo

6) Am I safe to disable auto rcm?

I know theres always a risk of being banned but been using this way for a year without issues.

Thanks for any help or pointers in the right direction

I will answer some of your questions :
4) No one can check this because no one know what kind of things that nintendo check in our system. So if you have use CFW without emunand then your sysnand has been compromised.
5) On OFW, go to setting and system update

 

[Icy-Wolcerine]

I will answer some of your questions :
4) No one can check this because no one know what kind of things that nintendo check in our system. So if you have use CFW without emunand then your sysnand has been compromised.
5) On OFW, go to setting and system update

Thanks for that, was worried updating through OFW channel could be an issue

 

[excellen234]

Thanks for that, was worried updating through OFW channel could be an issue

If you ever install CFW without creating emunand then there is chance nintendo could ban your switch. But the most safe method to update OFW is through system update on setting.

 

[Icy-Wolcerine]

If you ever install CFW without creating emunand then there is chance nintendo could ban your switch. But the most safe method to update OFW is through system update on setting.

Thats great thanks. Was worried because I updated OFW through the wrong channel as in through creating the emunand so was worried I would now get flagged. Thought there might be another way to do in this situation. I backed up my nand before i did anything so thought would have to restore that boot with auto rcm enabled so i skip fuse check revert back to OFW 9.0.2 then uodate to 10.0.4 through nintendo settings. Was a bit worried to downgrade so luckily wont need to to do this thanks to you