Can I update my wii to 4.2 without bricking?

Hello, I'm new to homebrew, but I am familiar enough with computers to follow a guide on how to bannerbomb a wii so I did. I also have bootmii on my wii. Well here's my question.

I can't get the wii shop channel or the nintendo channel to work because it asks me for the update.


I've tried updating officially but I just brick my wii and have to use bootmii to get back.

My wii is currently 4.0u



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2009 02:18PM by bentomo.

Don't bother updating, it doesn't have any new features, and will impair some homebrew. Use the Wii Shop and IOS61 Installer to get the shop channel back.

So how do I install those?

Its an app. Run it through the HBC.

Ok, so where is a trusted place to download them?

WiiBrew.org is a pretty good place to download homebrew...

Or did you mean IOS61 and Shop Channel? If the later, you run the homebrew and it uses your Wii's WiFi to download them, you dont have to manually download them.

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WiiBrew.org is a pretty good place to download homebrew...

Wiibrew is a good place to download homebrew. It is THE place to download homebrew. ;)

Mk, so I've got the folder extracted, now is all I have to do is put the folder in the apps folder in the root of the sd and change the dol and elf names to boot.dol and elf.dol

Is that it? Then just run it on the homebrew channel?

P.S. Will this also fix the nintendo channel?

It needs to be named either boot.dol or boot.elf, not elf.dol.

Make sure its in the apps folder and the directory looks like this:
ROOT:/apps/the_app_you're_using/boot.dol

Is that how you have it set up? If so, then it will load in the HBC. Good luck! :)

It seems that my version of the homebrew channel is old. It says that I need to upgrade from 1.0.3 to 1.0.6, I asked it to update and then it says the installer can not continue because there is no known vulnerable IOS on the wii. I have no idea what this means.

have you got cIOScrap or a load of patched IOS? Either is unnecessary, and HackMii Installer wont install using either, as Team Twiizers dont have the time to add support for every type of IOS patch, particularly seeing as they disapprove of such things.

I'm not sure I understand the question, do I need something on the sd card for it to work? I would think that the homebrew channel would just update itself just through the internet.

Have you installed cIOScorp? If not, have you trucha-patched your IOS?

If the answer to either of these is yes, that is why the update isnt working. HackMii Installer will not use a patched IOS (including the ones installed by cIOScorp), because it does not know what exploits will work on them and how stable they are. If it tries to install using an IOS that turns out unstable, it could potentially brick your Wii.

You need nothing on your SD card to perform the update. The ONLY reason HackMii Installer is failing is because of the patched IOS. To rectify the problem, download dop-IOS MODv7. Run it, and select to run on IOS36. Then install EVERY IOS without any patches. Install IOS36 last, overwriting all other IOS first.

Unfortunately the guide I used for bannerbomb was taken down so I don't know what the IOS was that I installed. I'll try to install those. I still have a problem though. When I boot into the homebrew channel it asks for the update and if I say no it just goes to the background and none of my apps appear. I guess I can try another sd card. But if that doesn't work then what else could be wrong?

*facepalm* I completely forgot to put it into the apps folder in the root. nevermind, i'll run the update.

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Have you installed cIOScorp? If not, have you trucha-patched your IOS?

If the answer to either of these is yes, that is why the update isnt working. HackMii Installer will not use a patched IOS (including the ones installed by cIOScorp), because it does not know what exploits will work on them and how stable they are. If it tries to install using an IOS that turns out unstable, it could potentially brick your Wii.

You need nothing on your SD card to perform the update. The ONLY reason HackMii Installer is failing is because of the patched IOS. To rectify the problem, download dop-IOS MODv7. Run it, and select to run on IOS36. Then install EVERY IOS without any patches. Install IOS36 last, overwriting all other IOS first.

Sorry about the triple post. So what about this one [wiibrew.org] it says that version 8 is the latest. Can I use 8? Or how do I download version 7?

no. dop-IOS MOD, not dop-IOS.

SifJar is talking about Dop-IOS MOD not the original. Get it here

Every time I try to install an IOS it gives me a frozen screen which looks like a bunch of text but distorted. I've tried to install different IOS's 9,10,12. It all gives me the same thing. I'm wondering if this is normal. I have to unplug my wii to get it to restart.

Yeah there is a bug right now in the wiki (officially released) v7 of Dop-IOS MOD. There should be a fixed version here. There are 4 different ones on that page and any one of them might work.