@YukidaruPunch Your first post in this thread is a little reproachful. We all do our best to help with any problems (and as long as you don't start randomly deleting things when encountering problems chances are the problems can be solved). I agree with
@Kwyjor that a minimum of reading and learning should be done when using custom firmware. 3DS CFW is as safe and NOOB-friendly as CFW can get. There are so many safety nets that one really has to do some nonsense on purpose to
really software-brick a 2|3DS. And then there still is ntrboot.
For future reference:
"Updates are always safe. boot9strap can't be patched through a firmware update." is not a wrong statement. Just incomplete.
B9S uses a vulnerability in the boot
ROM. → Since it is ROM it can't be updated/fixed.
Luma3DS protects B9S from being overwritten by the official updater. → Access to Luma3DS, GodMode9,… will stay.
B9S tries loading
boot.firm from SD first. → Incompatibility with newer official firmware can be fixed. Updating will not do permanent damage (unless the SD reader is shot)
Sometimes short statements like: "Updating with B9S is safe." aren't sufficient. The heavily used phrase
"Google it!" could even backfire. A person describing themselves as:
Please understand this is not my world. I don't understand a thing about programming, hacking and homebrewing. […]
using a search engine with "Is updating a 3DS with custom firmware safe?" may stumble across: "Updating with B9S is always safe!" (I didn't search this now) and might conclude that there can't be
any problems.
lmfao. do you know whatthe definition of bricked is? Theres been dozens of these threads about the console with the PM error. You need the latest luma boot.firm on your sd card root.
My definition of "bricked" is: A device doesn't work (and essentially is as useful as brick or paperweight in its current condition). You know it, I know it, anybody active in the GBAtemp 3DS section knows it: The incompatibility of Luma3DS v10.x (< v10.2.1) can be solved by manually updating
boot.firm to latest version.
If I would give a 3DS in with the PM error to some random people on the street, I guess many would agree on "It is bricked." after turning it on and off three times. (I might try this)
I like to take feelings in account – which isn't the case when saying (100% correct from technical point of view) :
Does not matter as it's not permanent
(This is from another, older thread)
Good luck and have fun to you all!