Why the ₣µ©₭ do noobs restore NAND at first sign of trouble?

That's the internet for ya

Is Idiocracy real?

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Have you read a newspaper lately?

Well cause they figured it will fix the issue. Usually like system restore on windows? Me, i'm not like that, i wanna find out why the problem exist and fix it. Restoring backups is only what i do last, never first.

So can't really speak for others, just let it be, is not your fault that people think that restoring nand backup is the only answer to everything.

It's just frustrating trying to be helpful when they do that. They could've saved everyone some trouble, including themselves if they do some Googling or ask first. Some people do and it's an easy fix, but there are so many that just screw it up.

You got to realise that some off us feels they're not explaining well enough or it's just feels easier for them to restore the backup and follow the guide again? Sometimes you get a feeling that a person is way out in the deepwater, so it's better to reel them back in.

I guess, i see you mean well but you can only help people willing to accept help, you can't do much against things especially from the internet. Had it been different like living together and secretly fixing it, that be different, but is not possible. If someone wants help, they will ask, if they break it, tell them to suck it up and don't complain if they didn't bother to ask help when they didn't know what they were doing.

Help can only do so much when offered, it takes 2 to actually do something about it. So is easier to just forget about it and then hope they learn from mistakes.

I'm afraid they won't learn and vote for crazy again.

SWIM DUMMY! You gonna learn today! Lol

LOL. I'm just going to ignore the self-harming noobs.

It is just n00bs...
When n00bs see problem:
-make a thread called 'PLZ HELP OMG!?!?!?!??!??!?!?!?!??!'
-buy a new 3DS

What should be done:
-read the guide and see if you followed the instructions correctly
-google or duckduckgo it
-if there is no result ask
-if everything else fails restore nand...

Because honestly hacking the 3DS has become too easy and that has invited more people without experience in hacking to take part in it. This happened in the DS scene as well when people were buying shit tons of cheap R4 clones and complaining that they weren't working or the site behind them no longer existed. When someone becomes too easy, people become lazy, and when they become lazy they panic when something becomes hard (phrasing.) Thus without thinking, they start troubleshooting in the dark. Restoring a NAND backup just seems logical to the illogical.
I am not trying to be discouraging. I am not against new people joining the scene, but I do with they would actually ask for help instead of shooting in the dark.

because its much easier to just tell people to restore their nand as its pretty much fool proof, when you start telling people to delete stuff or run through diagnostics steps they usually screw things up 100 times worse than they started with

I read a lot before I hacked my systems. I probably lurked here a good half a year before I got into hacking them. I guess I just don't have the noob mentality. I wanted to know what I was doing and why as much as I could.

But that's not going to fix anything if the problem isn't with the NAND. It's just going to screw up your system since noobs don't seem to make any backups before flashing a backup.

Maybe Plailect should go back to the 5 page Guide.

Spin it another way. Why is restoring the NAND not a cheap and easy way of being able to undo problems and give me a baseline to go from again? I go to the effort of restoring files and NAND and backups for anything else it pops up just as I imagine it will.

Sometimes the problem isn't on the NAND, but on the SD card. You just waste your time and screw things up some more especially if your NAND backup is really old.

...restoring their NAND backup without making a backup first.

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what?

How could they be able to restore a backup if they dont have one in the first place? You should fix that out...

What I meant was... people restore an old backup sometimes. It just screw things up more and you have no way of going back to a decent state because you didn't make a backup before restoring. It's always good idea to make a new backup before you restore especially if you don't know what you're doing.

Because it's the easy way out. Why bother trying to complain to some internet forumgoers who might fix your broken NAND, when you can just restore your old, still working NAND backup. I once bricked an emuNAND due to... I dunno, non-cooperative SD card? (It's been a while.) Because I didnt bother asking here, I just restored an old backup and cut my losses.

Restoring a NAND is fairly quick, so most folks do it as their first option. As for me, all I lost were some Homebrew CIAs I had installed because they were no longer valid. It also came with the happy suprise of restoring my NNID (which I thought I had lost during the EmuNAND install somehow), so that was kinda nice too.

Then again, I didn't complain here and then restored my emuNAND, therefore being a dick to those that wanted more info and a possible try to fix shit.

Nothing wrong with restoring your NAND. I've done it for various reasons and I knew what I was doing was the solution. If the problem is the NAND, sure restore even if it's an old copy. That's why you should make backups regularly.

But restoring your NAND isn't a cure all. It's not going to fix your corrupt 3DS save data or get rid of menuhax.