Hardware Did I bricked the 3DS with the hard mod?

CoolAlpha · Dec 5, 2016

Hello,
yesterday I tried to hardmod one o3ds but the card reader was unable to read the NAND.
I was getting the 00F800FE 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 error code but my PC was not able to recognize the NAND.

I already made 3 hardmods (eur consoles) with that reader, but maybe the NAND type also influence the reader?
All previous were Toshiba, maybe this one is Samsung (usa console).

The bad thing is that I removed the wires and reassembled the 3ds but it still shows the blue screen with the 00F800FE 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 error.
Is possible that I bricked the 3ds?
I have not written any file to the memory, maybe some of the left pads (dat0/cmd) make a short with a board?

mashers · Dec 5, 2016

Does the blue screen error show even if the SD card reader isn't attached to the 3DS when it boots?

CoolAlpha · Dec 5, 2016

Yes, i removed the wires, but left the pads.
But I was wondering if is possible because some short of some pad with the board?

mashers · Dec 5, 2016

CoolAlpha said:
Yes, i removed the wires, but left the pads.
But I was wondering if is possible because some short of some pad with the board?

Yes. If the blue screen error shows even with the hardmod wires removed, then you have damaged the board in some way. Either a short, a damaged trace, a burned component, a lifted pad... there are numerous possibilities really. If possible, upload some high resolution photos of the board so your work can be examined for faults or damage.

CoolAlpha · Dec 5, 2016

Thanks for the reply, I'll do it after work when I find some free time

mashers · Dec 5, 2016

No problem

Dennis G · Dec 5, 2016

CoolAlpha said:
Hello,
yesterday I tried to hardmod one o3ds but the card reader was unable to read the NAND.
I was getting the 00F800FE 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 error code but my PC was not able to recognize the NAND.

I already made 3 hardmods (eur consoles) with that reader, but maybe the NAND type also influence the reader?
All previous were Toshiba, maybe this one is Samsung (usa console).

The bad thing is that I removed the wires and reassembled the 3ds but it still shows the blue screen with the 00F800FE 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 error.
Is possible that I bricked the 3ds?
I have not written any file to the memory, maybe some of the left pads (dat0/cmd) make a short with a board?

you're right about the samsung/thoshiba, i had a EU console and it had toshiba, and my US motherboard has samsung and yes indeed, some readers can read the one but not the other, that's why i recommend the anker 3.0 reader always because it's pretty cheap and read's them all, but sucks that you probably fried it :s

CoolAlpha · Dec 6, 2016

OK, I found time to clean the pads, cleaned GND, CMD and DAT0, still blue screen, cleaned the CLK and the 3DS booted

I scratched a bit of the board while trying to clean the point with a scalpel and I bridged it.
I'll try again on weekend with the natural light

CoolAlpha · Dec 10, 2016

OK, I resoldered the wires,
but instead of
00000200 00000000
I got the error
00000002 00000000

I read the memory and the dump is of the correct size and it contains the NCSD string at offset 0x100
The reading was pretty slow, 0.68 MB/s
Am I safe to write the patched nand?

Dennis G · Dec 10, 2016

CoolAlpha said:
OK, I resoldered the wires,
but instead of
00000200 00000000
I got the error
00000002 00000000

I read the memory and the dump is of the correct size and it contains the NCSD string at offset 0x100
The reading was pretty slow, 0.68 MB/s
Am I safe to write the patched nand?

sounds good, but keep a backup of the original nand, you'll always be able to re-write to the nand with hard mods so you can't really mess up with faulty writes as long you have a good valid original nand restore.

CoolAlpha · Dec 12, 2016

OK, I made it, just to notify that the error 00000002 00000000 is also fine as long as the dump is valid

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