Hardware nand flash dump (3ds xl)

[pelago]

a nearly solderless (on the 3ds side at least) alternative
here http://imgur.com/gallery/9OHjU
can someone maybe build some kit like that and sell it ?

This is n1ghty's mod from early in this very thread.

I did a bit of research into pogo pins, but couldn't find any for sale new which were small enough. n1ghty took some from an old Xbox modchip.

 

[aliak11]

If anyone wants their 3ds moded, I will do it for a small price. If you are interested, send me a pm.

Edit: http://imgur.com/a/kZk36

 

[lordofthereef]

Yes, i did this two days ago The problem is that it will arrive after three weeks maybe. Also after trying so many different card readers i really doubt that this one will do the miracle for me...

I tried three card readers. None ofthem worked until I tried that one...

 

[Moquedami]

Hello

I'm one of the "lucky" ones with bricked 3ds XL from R4i card.
For three days I'm trying to restore my NAND without success. I have tried with three different cable types, with different SD adapters also. Also i have tried about 6 different card readers and several PCs. The best result i have so far is - on the two of the card readers Windows sees unformatted drive but when try to read or write it says "device not ready". I'm trying with win32diskimager and usb image tool.
The error on 3ds screen when i'm powering with card reader attached to PC is
errcode 00F800FE
00000000 00000000
00000400 00000000
but i'm sure that cmd is not connected to clk
Actually, I'm attaching photo of my current cable with numbers of SD pins that each cable is attached to.

I'm starting to think that you can't restore NAND if the 3ds is bricked from flash card.
Any ideas?

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I'm in the same situation man. Bricked by flashcart, waiting for a confirmed working sd reader to arrive.
I don't want to lose hope but the news of the brick being deliberated, and the detail they intentionally reprogram the eMMC to have 0 bytes to make it irrecoverable , that's a low blow....

 

[inian]

I'm not really sure how this whole eMMC controller thing to 0 bytes works, but my PC sees correct size of NAND in "disk management", usb image tool also reports correct size... but in the same time the fact remains that i'm unable to perform any read/write operation - drive not ready error is displayed

 

[olfa]

I'm not really sure how this whole eMMC controller thing to 0 bytes works, but my PC sees correct size of NAND in "disk management", usb image tool also reports correct size... but in the same time the fact remains that i'm unable to perform any read/write operation - drive not ready error is displayed

can you try with a linux livecd and dd command ?

 

[inian]

not at the moment, tonight at home i can. but i've tried with win 7, win 8, win vista and win xp and it doesn't look that my problem is OS related

 

[illicit]

If anyone wants their 3ds moded, I will do it for a small price. If you are interested, send me a pm.

Edit: http://imgur.com/a/kZk36

What kind of adapter is that? Micro usb?

 

[aliak11]

What kind of adapter is that? Micro usb?

Yes

 

[cearp]

If anyone wants their 3ds moded, I will do it for a small price. If you are interested, send me a pm.

Edit: http://imgur.com/a/kZk36

nicest/cleanest mod i have seen so far! hope you get some customers

 

[drfsupercenter]

Is there anyone here who has SMALL 4-pin connectors that can fit under the battery cover who'd be willing to install one for me? Pretty much anyone I've found has no idea where to get the proper size connectors, and I'm really picky about this - I don't want it to be obvious at all that there's anything non-stock inside once the battery cover is back on.

 

[tomiga]

I'm not really sure how this whole eMMC controller thing to 0 bytes works, but my PC sees correct size of NAND in "disk management", usb image tool also reports correct size... but in the same time the fact remains that i'm unable to perform any read/write operation - drive not ready error is displayed

I almost wonder if, instead of the NAND being zeroed out, if it's just being set read-only, and the 3DS isn't booting because it can't write anything to the NAND.

 

[the-green]

a nearly solderless (on the 3ds side at least) alternative
here http://imgur.com/gallery/9OHjU
can someone maybe build some kit like that and sell it ?

This is really amazing !!! yeah, I like the soldress solutions

 

[Coto]

Hello

I'm one of the "lucky" ones with bricked 3ds XL from R4i card.
For three days I'm trying to restore my NAND without success. I have tried with three different cable types, with different SD adapters also. Also i have tried about 6 different card readers and several PCs. The best result i have so far is - on the two of the card readers Windows sees unformatted drive but when try to read or write it says "device not ready". I'm trying with win32diskimager and usb image tool.
The error on 3ds screen when i'm powering with card reader attached to PC is
errcode 00F800FE
00000000 00000000
00000400 00000000
but i'm sure that cmd is not connected to clk
Actually, I'm attaching photo of my current cable with numbers of SD pins that each cable is attached to.

I'm starting to think that you can't restore NAND if the 3ds is bricked from flash card.
Any ideas?

View attachment 5897

how about you try this? http://gbatemp.net/threads/has-anyone-with-a-brick-been-able-to-recover.360647/#post-4887258

 

[lordofthereef]

Hello

I'm one of the "lucky" ones with bricked 3ds XL from R4i card.
For three days I'm trying to restore my NAND without success. I have tried with three different cable types, with different SD adapters also. Also i have tried about 6 different card readers and several PCs. The best result i have so far is - on the two of the card readers Windows sees unformatted drive but when try to read or write it says "device not ready". I'm trying with win32diskimager and usb image tool.
The error on 3ds screen when i'm powering with card reader attached to PC is
errcode 00F800FE
00000000 00000000
00000400 00000000
but i'm sure that cmd is not connected to clk
Actually, I'm attaching photo of my current cable with numbers of SD pins that each cable is attached to.

I'm starting to think that you can't restore NAND if the 3ds is bricked from flash card.
Any ideas?

View attachment 5897

I just want to say that I was getting these SAME errors... until I bought the SD reader from eBay that I linked. I don't know why but it is very picky with the reader you use.

 

[olfa]

Hey guys. I just wanted to point out that my eBay SD adapter came in and it WORKS as intended. I am only pointing this out because I had so many issues with this install, and it turned out it was always my card readers (I tried 3 different brands). Anyway, THIS EXTREMELY CHEAP reader is what I now use!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALL-IN-1-USB-2-0-Multi-Card-Reader-SD-XD-MMC-MS-CF-SDHC-TF-Micro-Mini-SD-M2-SDHC/400484519653?_trksid=p3693.m2452&_trkparms=aid=333005&algo=RIC.FIT&ao=1&asc=265&meid=4029881656694134504&pid=100102&prg=1140&rk=1&rkt=1&sd=400484519653&

i tryto have a look but i got this message from ebay
"Unfortunately, access to this particular item has been blocked due to legal restrictions in some countries. "
WTF ? It s a sdcard reader !

Can you tell what model it is
(or look here to see if you find it
http://www.ebay.fr/sch/sis.html?_nk...TF Micro Mini SD M2 SDHC&_itemId=271286213249 )

 

[Sean Rynearson]

Any way to salvage a trace. Or possibly another CLK trace on the board ?

 

[lordofthereef]

i tryto have a look but i got this message from ebay
"Unfortunately, access to this particular item has been blocked due to legal restrictions in some countries. "
WTF ? It s a sdcard reader !

Can you tell what model it is
(or look here to see if you find it
http://www.ebay.fr/sch/sis.html?_nkw=NEWBlack Multi Card Reader USB 2 0 SD XD MMC MS CF SDHC TF Micro Mini SD M2 SDHC&_itemId=271286213249 )

I am unable to find a model number because I don't know that there officially is one. I think this is just a knockoff. haha.

They do have some shipping restrictions...

. WORLDWIDE SHIPPING. (Except China,Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany and Croatia)

 

[TheBorg]

Hello

I'm one of the "lucky" ones with bricked 3ds XL from R4i card.
For three days I'm trying to restore my NAND without success. I have tried with three different cable types, with different SD adapters also. Also i have tried about 6 different card readers and several PCs. The best result i have so far is - on the two of the card readers Windows sees unformatted drive but when try to read or write it says "device not ready". I'm trying with win32diskimager and usb image tool.
The error on 3ds screen when i'm powering with card reader attached to PC is
errcode 00F800FE
00000000 00000000
00000400 00000000
but i'm sure that cmd is not connected to clk
Actually, I'm attaching photo of my current cable with numbers of SD pins that each cable is attached to.

I'm starting to think that you can't restore NAND if the 3ds is bricked from flash card.
Any ideas?

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Hi,

Excactly the same happend to me.
I tried 6 different laptop's and 4 card readers withoud any results.
I also tried the All in 1 Mini Card Reader they said on this forum it's working, this is not working by my to and doesn't sees the flash.
Only 1 laptop is seeing the 3DS in correct size with the internal sd reader of NAND in "disk management".
win32diskimager give me an read and write error.

I think there's an other problem.

Sorry for my bad english.....

 

[aXXo]

I wonder if anyone tried using MS-DOS or Free-DOS to try and restore the missing data? Though I don't think it will work, since the actual controller chip (emmc) for the nand is the problem, not the nand itself. Still, DOS is pretty useful, and I still use it to flash my 360 DVD drive with the latest hacked firmware.