Hacking safesysupdater vs sysupdater? share your brick story!

which do you think is better?


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Updated N3DS to 10.3 using julian's sysupdater (it was on 9.5 prior) then downgraded using safesysupdater.
No major problems luckily, just had to replace a few CIA files with dev manager. Not all tiles matched with downgrade_checker report
 
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Updated N3DS to 10.3 using julian's sysupdater (it was on 9.5 prior) then downgraded using safesysupdater.
No major problems luckily, just had to replace a few CIA files with dev manager. Not all tiles matched with downgrade_checker report
wait why did you bother upgrading and downgrading?
 

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wait why did you bother upgrading and downgrading?
There's supposedly an increased risk of soft bricking if you try downgrading 9.8 and lower.
No one really knows if that's a 100% true or not but I didn't want to take any chances.
 
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There's supposedly an increased risk of soft bricking if you try downgrading 9.8 and lower.
No one really knows if that's a 100% true or not but I didn't want to take any chances.
my buddy was at 9.9 and safesysupdater decided to derp out on him midway. he was able to md5 check all the files first and when the DG started it just broke.
 

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my buddy was at 9.9 and safesysupdater decided to derp out on him midway. he was able to md5 check all the files first and when the DG started it just broke.

Same think happened to me on 9.4. I have never tried downgrading on 10.3 so I can't say for sure it helps, but I'd definitely do that next time around. Can you use the same sysupdater to upgrade as you use to downgrade?
 

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I used tuxsh's version and it took seven tries (only, thankfully) before I could finally hit downgrade. Went smoothly, no soft brick or incomplete downgrade. I didn't realize until a few days later that I got pretty lucky. had no idea at the time that it uninstalled everything first. Guess I have good luck I suppose
Edit: downgraded from 10.3 on O3DS
 

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Reading up lots on this atm. I just got a n3ds with 10.1 on it. Is there a way to update it to 10.3 now that 10.5 is out? I see more success rate with 10.3 than I do with lower fws.
 

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Reading up lots on this atm. I just got a n3ds with 10.1 on it. Is there a way to update it to 10.3 now that 10.5 is out? I see more success rate with 10.3 than I do with lower fws.
10.1 isn't that much different from 10.3 though, i think it'll be fine.
 

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I Decided to use Safesysupdater today and it froze half way and now i'm stuck with a Black screen. Can anyone help me out or is it done...?
 

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I Decided to use Safesysupdater today and it froze half way and now i'm stuck with a Black screen. Can anyone help me out or is it done...?
take out your SD card and boot? does it go to the home menu? if not, can you go into the recovery mode?
 

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Yeah it booted into The 9 .2 firmware. Thank god do i try the downgrade again or do Something with the SD cards??
best to use a blank SD card to downgrade. and you probably know now that safesysupdater is prone to stopping halfway. maybe try to downgrade again but this time, use sysupdater only.
 

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best to use a blank SD card to downgrade. and you probably know now that safesysupdater is prone to stopping halfway. maybe try to downgrade again but this time, use sysupdater only.
That was my problem for some reason Sysupdater kept giving me an error before downgrading. It gave me that
"getting cia file informations"
" title exception: main.cpp:148 Result: 0xD900182f failed to get CIA file info"

After downoading the correct and right firmware. That i use to down grade other 3ds
 

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