Tutorial Simple Guide to Downgrading your 3DS

Have you been able to successfully downgrade your 3DS/2DS?


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JacerX

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Anyone downgraded succesfully from 10.1 N3DS USA?
I just got it to work. So a format is mandatory for it to work the first time. I used julians latest build. Once everything installs you will get a rebooting in 10 seconds...but it wont reboot, so you have to manually do it. It will then work like it should :)
 

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I just got it to work. So a format is mandatory for it to work the first time. I used julians latest build. Once everything installs you will get a rebooting in 10 seconds...but it wont reboot, so you have to manually do it. It will then work like it should :)

Formatting will also format my SD card?
 

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Thanks folks just downgraded to 9.2.0-20E version on my first try everything went smooth and witouth issues. Now I just need to get menuhax back and install RxTools orsomething so I can install cia games.


Since I used a new SD card(32GB) compared to my old 4GB I believe it was asked her as wel but what about streetpass data? And other save Data thats saved on my old 4GB card? Can I just copy context or not?

FeelsBadMan when the topic is so active that you're post gets buried instantly. If anyone can give me a answer?
 
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Ok, so I've been trying to figure this out for a while now. Earlier I downgraded my Japanese 10.3 3DS to 9.00. After completing the downgrade, menuhax and browserhax have stopped working. My question is does browserhax support a 9.00J console? I'm trying to get back to the Homebrew Launcher. I've been reading possible solutions but none of them have worked. If I were to upgrade back to 10.3, everything would be working fine. Any suggestions?
 

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Someone's spreading around an image saying this will brick your 3DS
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Doing a little investigating shows however that it's from a French site from 2014
http://www.logic-sunrise.com/news-6...-brick-les-consoles-utilisant-des-clones.html
(Image is in the comments)
 
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Formatting will also format my SD card?
When I did a format, I checked the card to see if everything was erased. Homebrew launcher and everything including the updates folder was present. So all I had to do was reinstall themehax and everything worked from there. I don't know about actual saves, those will probably be lost, along with your linked ID, so you would need to relink it. I hope this answers your question.
 

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I just got it to work. So a format is mandatory for it to work the first time. I used julians latest build. Once everything installs you will get a rebooting in 10 seconds...but it wont reboot, so you have to manually do it. It will then work like it should :)

Wait, so a format is required to downgrade 10.1? Then what's the point if I have to lose my stuff? And why only 10.1?
 

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I keep getting a titleException error, it fails to get CIA file info.
titleException:
main.cpp:150: Result: 0xd900182f
Failed to get CIA file info!

I have a folder named updates at the root of my sd card. It's full of cia files. Is that the proper way to have them? Are they supposed to be in a zip format?
 

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@julian20
Thanks for your contribution. However, I have a bit of a snag....
I used your upload with SUlib
I'm on N3DS, 10.3 U
The kernel exploit loaded fine, I see #1->#8
I pressed Y to downgrade
And ... Nothing.
Nothing has shown up on the screen, no "Getting xyz information."
Tried to press B to go back, looks like it's locked up.
Should I power down and retry?
 

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Well, i got a weird error that tell me that installation faild because there is no cia file in the updates, i got panicked, i did restart to my N3DSXL and apparently the downgrade was successful and i'm on 9.2.0, WTF!?!
 
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