good, you give us hope! at least this method is confirmed as working!
LOL, kinda suicidal approach to fixing something! You were lucky that the shorted pins didn't burn out the fuses in your 3DS, otherwise you'd have had another thing to fix between your hands Anyway, I'm happy that it worked.So, I thought I should share with you guys what ive been going through with gateway instead of voting and stay silentxD.
So this time I decided to use solder wire rather than heating the 6th pin. Im suffering from essential tremor?(shaky hands) so it was like a hell to melt solder wire to 1 single tiny pin without touching the other pins. I thought I did a good job but apperantly it wasnt good enough. The problem wasnt fixed for me. So I kept trying to place solder perfectly over the whole 6th pin but even then still no luck. After 30 mins of frustration I decided to yolo and put solder all over the 6th pin, 7th pin and 5th pin. I filled the whole gap and stuff. so as you may guess, that was causing short circuit(i think?)
Whenever i placed the gateway card inside, the 3ds turned off. So I took a needle and scratched the spaces inbetween the pins a bit. And checked again. No luck. Tried to clear it more. This time the card was working but the diagnostic test failed all over the place. So I kept scratching untill the gap between the pins was perfectly clear and tried diagnostic again. everything turned to Ok!. So I tried to update gateway card and guess what. @.@ the card was updating.
Now everything works fine, I can play animal crossing(see link for image) http://postimg.org/image/8stz6t8oj/
I dont recommend anybody my method. Only if you dont care about screwing your gateway card. Hell even then I still wouldnt recommend since it might damage your 3ds. So its definetly worth going to a store or someone else and let them do the job if you arent good at soldering small pins.
I havent tried the card long enough to say if anything else is malfunctioning but I played animal crossing, saved the game, reloaded it and everything works fine :3. I wish all of you best of luck
Hey guys, tried tried the tape method for like the 5th time. This time, it actually worked! I used lots of tape though, maybe 7-8 layers (just over the estimated area), so I did have some trouble getting the card out afterwards, but the card updated! Once the update was done, and I managed to get the card out, I took off the tape and it works fine now.
. Did you happen to take a picture of what you did?Hey guys, tried tried the tape method for like the 5th time. This time, it actually worked! I used lots of tape though, maybe 7-8 layers (just over the estimated area), so I did have some trouble getting the card out afterwards, but the card updated! Once the update was done, and I managed to get the card out, I took off the tape and it works fine now.
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look at the video here http://gbatemp.net/threads/gateway-3ds-spi-fail-quick-fix.365436/, its not for fixing the 00000012/19 errors, but you could use the little cellotape tab trick to help getting the card in and out so it doesn't get stuckwell, I guess I need to keep trying. I already got the card stuck in the slot twice, though... I'm afraid to ruin something.
p.s. can you please take another photo? >_> it would/may help greatly.
some people don't have the option i.e dodgy resellers, limited warranties ....or simply not wanting to XDWhat I find hard to absorb in this thread, if so many are having troubles with there Gateway cards then why not send them back to their retailer for a replacement instead of going through hard trials and tribulations just to get it to work! . That's what I would be doing in that situation, not messing about with sticky tape and solder irons etc..!!!
some people don't have the option i.e dodgy resellers, limited warranties ....or simply not wanting to XD