Which tutorial? Can you link it? I want to see what it entails. Most of those tutorials are quick and dirty methods that leave out important steps. BEWARE! The friends List CAN take a while to populate. If that's the case then you already know because it's working.
I HIGHLY recommend you do this the correct way. A shoddy install can jeopardize your 3ds. I recommend your next move to go B9S. Use the guide. I would back up your emunand first using Godmode9. Make a backup of your SD. Simply by installing B9S and going through the guide you will
- BOOT CORRECTLY: Boot 100% of the time! Boot time is identical to a stock system! Loading times too! You can even skip the system menu all together and install GodMode9 to your NAND with some tinkering!. (not for noobs)
- FINALLY BE SAFE!: Luma uses up to date safety checks. You can update, go online, do anything you want and you won't loose you exploit, lose homebrew or in general be stuck fixing your 3ds.
- RUN UP TO DATE SYSTEM SOFTWARE!: If you stay up to date your (Fre)E-Shop Will WORK! Your Friends list, NNID functions, Multiplayer and ALL OTHER FUNCTIONS will work (Excpet Miiverse Obviously.)
- RUN GAMES WITH NO PATCHES!: You can download directly from FREE-shop. Everything works. No Spoofing. No patching, no header issues. etc.
- PATCHING CODE ON THE FLY!: IPS patching support is fun! Swap game elements on the fly! Like SALTY SD. Lots of mods.
- ROSALINA!: Rosalina is a menu built in to Luma using a hot key combo. Lots of cool functions. You can inject FBI to a sys app. Way cleaner.
- RUN HOMEBREW!: In the Rosalina iteration of homebrew launcher you will enjoy much better compatibility! and be able to jump in and out using the Home key like a real app!
- BETTER BATTERY LIFE!: Even having the GW in the slot drains the battery to be fair. Even if its not engaged. But you'll see a large increase in play time over running anything off the GW cart.
- USE THE NEWEST HACKS!: There is all sorts of new things you can do. That AIO pack I keep mentioning has kept me entertained on its own for weeks. Lots of CFW's and everything.
- CHEAT!: You can boot in to NTR CFW and you can run and search cheats just like GW. The codes are different but can be converted from GW and the NTR cheats database is WAY more up to date than GW these days.
- PROTECT YOUR SYSTEM FROM THEFT OR UNWANTED EYES!: Luma has an optional PIN to lock the 3ds. You can put a custom message on it too! (Like REWARD IF FOUND (xxx)xxx-xxxx. with SD in and STOLEN!! DO NOT PAWN! without the SD!)
- RUN MULTIPLE EMUNANDS!: Luma supports multiple EMUnands including your GW one if you don't frankenfirm it! You can have EMUnand for different regions! Go online in different markets! You can have one for the KIDS!
- ACCESS THE BONUS DRIVE!: There is a small amount of space Ninty uses in the update process you'll be able to access and store files there. Super secret stealth drive for giggles!
- NO NEED TO HARD MOD!: You can easily recover you NAND!! You can mess around with pretty much anything and you'll be safe. Mistakes made in GW mode can cause your system to brick or become unhackable without an NTRboot compatible device (GW Blue support for BootNTR might be coming soon though! Some devs from here are CURRENTLY working on it. Progress seems to have been made in the last week or 2.)
Plus you can
STILL RUN YOUR GW!. I am really trying to sell you on moving to Luma for the most part but keeping GW in play too. It's by far the most sane way to do this. You could be in for a heap of trouble if you stay on GW as your primary.
The process below is easier than you think. under an hour to complete for me.
IF I WERE YOU I WOULD:
- FOLLOW THE GUIDE: THE MOST IMPORTANT AND WISEST THING TO DO TO YOUR SYSTEM. People are usually happy they did! I would definitely back up the EMUnand as soon as you have godmode9 (Do it now if you can run godmode9) Then finish the guide completing everything including the optional the move EMUnand section.
- REINSTALL EMUNAND. After the guide your EMUnand contents will be moved to the SYSnand and updated to 11.6. So, backup your 3DS SD, Use GodMode9 (hold START on boot) to "format with emunand" to make a new emunand partition (press HOME MENU BUTTON for emunand options in Godmode9). This will make a new EMUnand partition and format your SD. Copy the backup of your 3DS SD card you just made back to the SD. Boot in the GodMode9 and restore the backup you made before the guide.
- INSTALL GW! There are a lot of tutorials. I prefer using the "Gateway Payload converted to B9S" on the "official GW forum" (still not sure if ill get chastised for posting links to that place.) Inscripted's AIO pack from "that ISO site" will work to get you going in GW and all the other CFW's too and its install is SIMPLE if you like. PM me and ill get you going in 3 minutes once the guide is is done and your emunand is back.
- UNLINK NAND IF LINKED: Boot in to EMUnand using LUMA. (Hold SELECT on boot and enable Autoboot EmuNAND and Show NAND or user string in System Settings:) Make sure you are in EMUnand by going in to sys settings and making sure it says EMU. Install TINY FORMAT .CIA version on the EMUnand using FBI then run tiny format. MUST BE IN EMUNAND
The guide will get Luma going and copy your EMUnand to your SYSnand. Unlinking them is important for many reasons but you'll notice it wipes the EmuNAND clean. Emu will be empty with no NNID but will be fully functional OFFLINE for Gw. I would run most games in Luma anyway. You won't have issues online (unless you get banned cheater! Easy to unban anyway) No spoofing etc. Restoring your EMUnand back the way I said will already be GW compatible because it will still be 11.2. It will be empty but don't worry ALL THE DATA WILL BE IN THE SYSNAND(Luma). Then only use GW mode for games running off the RED CARD (mostly just to have an extra SD slot and use the GW. Non online games). Smart Clean Quick and Effective!
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO GO IN TO GW MODE ONLINE. (I don't recommend it. GW has no protection and you have to jump through hoops. Don't need to in Luma, Luma works) You can get online in GW mode using the tutorial I linked or possibly your method will be persistent and will already work. I don't know what tutorial you followed. Please link to it!