So last night my 3DS just stopped working. I couldn't figure it out, but just assumed my NAND fucked up. So restored one from last week, still broken. So I restored an older one than that, still broken. So I complained in the shoutbox about my 3DS being broken. Finally after looking it up, I discovered it my Wifi card that was having issues, but at 5 in morning, I decided to go to bed.
Today I spent the day trying to fix it, but a crackhead stole my tools. So I was SOL until my boyfriends got home from work, since they had my card for their lunches. After they got home of course, I went up to Wal*Mart and bought my a jeweler's kit to repair it.
Upon opening the system, I noticed the piece was loose and fixed it. Which it was working for a short period of time, but I couldn't get online. So I opened it again to see what was up and the top of the cord for that connected the card to the antenna broke off. Which I was like, "Fuck~~~ damn it!!" Which left me in a pretty shitty mood until I remembered I had my old 2DS just laying around doing nothing. So I opened that up to find the antenna was different, but I thought, "Fuck it!" and took it out.
Placing it into the system was a real bitch, but once I got it set up, my system actually worked! From there it was just about putting back together. First, the metal cage for the battery was in the way, so that had to go. Then there was this annoying glob of solder that was preventing the battery from getting into place. So I noticed the 2DS battery was basically the same battery, just 3.7V instead of 3.6V and slightly thinner. So I put that into my system and tested it out, it worked! But glob was still there. So I filed that shit down a bit until it was just below the plastic shell, but still there. And boom! Battery sat perfectly and worked perfectly!
Now everything is back together and I tested everything out to make sure it all worked. First, connected to my internet worked just fine. Including browsing the internet and downloading from my pirate apps. Next I tested out the hardware switch, which turned the wifi on and off, like it was suppose to. Finally, I dropped it on my floor a few times to make sure everything held together like it suppose to. First test, the R button stopped working, so I had fix that and used a little tape to hold it in place (internally,) and it survived the other other tests after that.
So all and all, looks like 2DS parts can work on an old3DS. It just requires a lot of work to get everything set up properly. Still here's a picture of my antenna inside of the battery compartment.
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Today I spent the day trying to fix it, but a crackhead stole my tools. So I was SOL until my boyfriends got home from work, since they had my card for their lunches. After they got home of course, I went up to Wal*Mart and bought my a jeweler's kit to repair it.
Upon opening the system, I noticed the piece was loose and fixed it. Which it was working for a short period of time, but I couldn't get online. So I opened it again to see what was up and the top of the cord for that connected the card to the antenna broke off. Which I was like, "Fuck~~~ damn it!!" Which left me in a pretty shitty mood until I remembered I had my old 2DS just laying around doing nothing. So I opened that up to find the antenna was different, but I thought, "Fuck it!" and took it out.
Placing it into the system was a real bitch, but once I got it set up, my system actually worked! From there it was just about putting back together. First, the metal cage for the battery was in the way, so that had to go. Then there was this annoying glob of solder that was preventing the battery from getting into place. So I noticed the 2DS battery was basically the same battery, just 3.7V instead of 3.6V and slightly thinner. So I put that into my system and tested it out, it worked! But glob was still there. So I filed that shit down a bit until it was just below the plastic shell, but still there. And boom! Battery sat perfectly and worked perfectly!
Now everything is back together and I tested everything out to make sure it all worked. First, connected to my internet worked just fine. Including browsing the internet and downloading from my pirate apps. Next I tested out the hardware switch, which turned the wifi on and off, like it was suppose to. Finally, I dropped it on my floor a few times to make sure everything held together like it suppose to. First test, the R button stopped working, so I had fix that and used a little tape to hold it in place (internally,) and it survived the other other tests after that.
So all and all, looks like 2DS parts can work on an old3DS. It just requires a lot of work to get everything set up properly. Still here's a picture of my antenna inside of the battery compartment.
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