It's not a problem with my internet connection. It's the 3DS itself. When it attempts to connect to internet, it will give a black screen saying "An error has occurred." I've had this problem in the past with my 4.2 small O3DS and fixed it by turning off Wi-Fi and formatting. Since there's no way to format now without internet, I needed to try the Wi-Fi card workaround. While taking off the backing, I stripped my sccrews and now it's nearly impossible to take them out. With hardware fixes out of question, my options shifted to a software related fix. Now, I need to somehow find a way to:
1: Format without the use of internet,
2: Install rx without using internet to dump NAND and delete NNID files,
OR 3: Install Gateway without internet, downgrade, THEN format
If there are other solutions you may know of, please share!