How to update the OFW in SYSNAND?

chiwai716

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May 7, 2020
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Hi, may i know if it is alright to upgrade the OFW in SYSNAND? As i still want to play legit game in online mode with friends. Will it affect the SXOS or the EMUNAND?

Thanks for the help.
 

jedl1012

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Nov 17, 2019
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Mexico
Hi,

I believe it wont affect your emunand. I have the firmware 9.2.0 on emunand and the 10.0.2 on OFW and it works correctly.
 

chiwai716

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May 7, 2020
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HK
Can you share how you upgrade your SYSNAND? Using the built-in OTA method, or surely to go by offline upgrade only? Thanks.
 

safcalibur

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May 1, 2020
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Can you share how you upgrade your SYSNAND? Using the built-in OTA method, or surely to go by offline upgrade only? Thanks.
Check out this guide here, step by step instructions on how to update your switch offline


Just as a warning many people and myself included are having trouble with firmware 10.0.x and sxos 2.9.5b which seems to have a lot of bugs and crashes frequently when exiting out of in game guides. I personally wouldn’t recommend upgrading until the bugs have been fixed. Earlier f/w and sxos versions seem to be ok.
 

chiwai716

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May 7, 2020
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HK
This guide applies to the OFW in SYSNAND as well? It seems for updating the CFW in EMUNAND only. Thanks!
 

safcalibur

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May 1, 2020
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This guide applies to the OFW in SYSNAND as well? It seems for updating the CFW in EMUNAND only. Thanks!
Yes as long as you are not running an emunand your ofw will be updated. You need to use home brew apps like choidujournx to push the firmware update to your switch. Choidujournx enables you to update the firmware offline so no risk of being banned.

Boot into your cfw use choidujournx to update and your sysnand will be updated.

Btw the guide I linked to does not show how to update your emunand. It specifically says that this guide is NOT for information on emunand.