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Name: eMMC reader for HAC-EMMC
SKU: 22851
Price: 18.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)

eMMC reader for HAC-EMMC

(8 Reviews)

Hardware eMMC reader capable of reading HAC-EMMC raw partitions including boot0 and boot1

Designed by Ignas Urba in Lithuania

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Hardware eMMC reader capable of reading HAC-EMMC raw partitions including boot0 and boot1

MmcblkNX Hardware eMMC reader capable of reading HAC-EMMC raw partitions including boot0, boot1 with rtsx Linux driver. About eMMC chips wear out, and recovery can be tricky. Luckily, the console has…

mmcblkNX

Hardware eMMC reader capable of reading HAC-EMMC raw partitions including boot0, boot1 with rtsx Linux driver.

About

eMMC chips wear out, and recovery can be tricky.
Luckily, the console has a removable eMMC board.
It is encrypted, but still readable and writable as raw partitions.

When the eMMC fails it often becomes read-only or worse - corrupt.
I have recovered a couple broken consoles this way, it might help you too!

How it works

Almost any SD card reader can read eMMC chips. However they only access the main partitions.
After discovering a Realtek card reader with rtsx Linux driver in an old laptop,
I could read the boot0 and boot1 partitions too.

Hardware

It is fully open-source reader based on Realtek RTS5170 card reader and designed in KiCad.
Uses the same Molex 500913-0302 connector.

Software

Requires Linux and rtsx drivers to be installed.
Works out of the box with Ubuntu 20.04.1
How to build the required drivers for Raspberry Pi 4 is here.

Read and write speed is about 20MB/s. (USB 2.0)

Usage

sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0boot0 of=boot0.bin
sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0boot1 of=boot1.bin
sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=rawnand.bin

Disable read-only mode

sudo su
echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0/force_ro
echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_ro
echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot1/force_ro
exit

Disclaimer

It does not decrypt your files or enable piracy of any kind.
It is created to make recovery possible.
In full support of the right to repair movement.

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (5.00)

Documentation: (4.75)

Shipping: (4.88)

Communication: (4.88)

Pablo | Feb. 25, 2022

Excellent product, 100% recommended. Works as intended.

I'll be using this to make it easier for me to fix bricked Switch units with corrupted eMMC data. I'll also look into ways to get this to work under Windows and eventually make the workaround public, if there's one to be found. Thanks!

Andy | Sept. 20, 2021

Great little product

Great little product if you need to access the hand without the console. Cant say much more than that. Thank you.

Martin | Sept. 17, 2021

Does exactly what it's meant to do

I don't really have anything to add, it works exactly like described, being able to dump the nand without actually using a switch console is super handy for backup purposes.

Loredana | July 27, 2021

Wooooow!

Crazy this tool is absolutely a must have.
Impossible to save my boot0 and boot1 and my Nand with Hekate I put the emmc inside this tool three line of command and boom that’s it everything is on the computer and I can put it back on a new Emmc incredible thank you so much

Jeremy | July 22, 2021

Fantastic

In conjunction with the keys I dumped from my old Switch before it broke, I was able to extract several saves that don't support the official cloud sync service and get them on my replacement Switch, as well as one final "definitive" NAND backup in case I ever need it again. Indispensable tool, thank you!

Anthony | May 25, 2021

Great Product

Shipping was fast considering where it was coming from and the current state of things. Works as advertised! I have only tested as far as connecting an eMMC to my computer and making sure I can read it, but I imagine at that point backing up and restoring should not be an issue.

Michael | April 6, 2021

Very nice tool! Fast shipping! Thank you :)

Fast shipping to germany, took about 1,5 weeks.
So far, no problems at all.
It's a very nice tool :)
Thank you very much.

Stepan | April 1, 2021

Mmcblknx

The package was not tracked and arrived in Ukraine after 3 weeks. Works well for ubuntu. Very good.

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eMMC reader for HAC-EMMC

Hardware eMMC reader capable of reading HAC-EMMC raw partitions including boot0 and boot1

mmcblkNX

About

How it works

Hardware

Software

Usage

Disable read-only mode

Disclaimer

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Excellent product, 100% recommended. Works as intended.

Great little product

Does exactly what it's meant to do

Wooooow!

Fantastic

Great Product

Very nice tool! Fast shipping! Thank you :)

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