Homebrew Automatic update ?! What happened ?!

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Hi all,

Yesterday night, I was talking with my friend, he informed me that he was surprised that his 3DS sysnand was updated to 10.4 even if he did not accepted it.

The fact is, he was playing a pokemon game, and when he went to sleep, he kept his 3DS on sleep mode for the night, and by morning, he found it updated to 10.4. The 3DS was on emunand 10.3 (with which he was playing) and its sysnand 7.1.

At this point, he did not believe what happened, he assured to me that he never accepted the update, even if he was on emunand.

Is this normal ?! Or should we be careful to this ?! Does nintendo forced update when the 3DS was on sleep mode ?! I decided to report it so people can take caution of this and the professionals can investigate on.
 

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I thought only the Wii U does this.
it does
i have never seen anyones 3DS update in sleep mode, also considering the fact he would have had the 3DS in Emunand Sleep mode its an even taller tale, mines been prompting me to update forever even when it sleeps but it ONLY ASKS once i take it out of sleep then you just hit no.

If anything his emunand should have updated even if this was plausible

Unless the magically faeries have tampered with your friends 3DS while he slept i'm calling shenanigans
 
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he or someone else in his household hit a and updated hopefully just his emunand, probably days ago already.
there is no auto updating. it specifically requires user input since low battery could screw up an update and nintendo doesnt risk that

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why would he leave it to sleep mode?

why not? as long as its just emunand, who cares
 

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he or someone else in his household hit a and updated hopefully just his emunand, probably days ago already.
there is no auto updating. it specifically requires user input since low battery could screw up an update and nintendo doesnt risk that

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why not? as long as its just emunand, who cares

None touched his 3DS, as he was alone in the house. And there is no risk that he updated sysnand, as he use exclusively emunand, and in that situation, he was playing on it, he kept the game ON and he kept the 3DS on sleep mode just for the night.


10.4? No way your 3DS autoupdated or else it would be 10.5.

That's what he was asking himself, why 10.4 when 10.5 was already there if he had accepted the update, what he didn't of course.


Its possible the System Already had 10.4 Cached

Hmmm, that's can have some sense. But, even if he was always prompted for update by the system, he never accepted it. So, when this update has been cached ?! I asked him many times and he assured to me that HE NEVER ACCEPTED ANY UPDATE since 10.3 on emunand, keeping his sysnand as it was on 7.1.

But even if his sysNand was updated, doesn't he have a nand backup? Can't he just use a hard mod and restore it?

He have a nand backup I think, but I don't know if he can do a hardmod restore. I will ask him about that. I need just to be sure to know if it's possible restoring nand backup from 10.4 to something else with that hardmod.
 
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None touched his 3DS, as he was alone in the house. And there is no risk that he updated sysnand, as he use exclusively emunand, and in that situation, he was playing on it, he kept the game ON and he kept the 3DS on sleep mode just for the night.




That's what he was asking himself, why 10.4 when 10.5 was already there if he had accepted the update, what he didn't of course.




Hmmm, that's can have some sense. But, even if he was always prompted for update by the system, he never accepted it. So, when this update has been cached ?! I asked him many times and he assured to me that HE NEVER ACCEPTED ANY UPDATE since 10.3 on emunand, keeping his sysnand as it was on 7.1.



He have a nand backup I think, but I don't know if he can do a hardmod restore. I will ask him about that. I need just to be sure to know if it's possible restoring nand backup from 10.4 to something else with that hardmod.
why 10.3, restore the nand from 7.1
 

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10.4? No way your 3DS autoupdated or else it would be 10.5.

That's what he was asking himself, why 10.4 when 10.5 was already there if he had accepted the update, what he didn't of course.
Its possible the System Already had 10.4 Cached

Hmmm, that's can have some sense. But, even if he was always prompted for update by the system, he never accepted it. So, when this update has been cached ?! I asked him many times and he assured to me that HE NEVER ACCEPTED ANY UPDATE since 10.3 on emunand, keeping his sysnand as it was on 7.1.
following this line of thought its still very likely he hit "A" instead of "B" when he woke up and is too ashamed/embarrassed to admit it (or he did it before fully acclimated to the new day and does not know if he was still dreaming . . . lol)
 

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May I ask just what a fake internet connection is?
Thing is, if you do not set up any internet connection in sysnand, but then setup a working one in emunand, it will be copied over to sysnand. I don't know why, but that's how it is.
So solution is to set up three fake connections in Sysnand (just click manual setup and enter a fantasy SSID and password), then go to emunand and change the first one to a working connection. This way the fakes will stay in Sysnand, so Sysnand won't be able to get online at all.

You can of course also use TubeHAX DNS or go the violent route and just block access to eShop/Updates entirely in your router.
 

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It automatically downloads updates in sleep mode, yes, but it shouldn't ever INSTALL them. If it did, we'd probably have heard about it earlier.
 

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My 3DS has been in sleep mode for 2 days now, connected to internet, and having the update downloaded and prompting me to update...

Just checked, and it's still 9.2, if you want to prevent accidental update, shut down the console in a folder, never prompted me to update being in a folder at start.
 

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Thing is, if you do not set up any internet connection in sysnand, but then setup a working one in emunand, it will be copied over to sysnand. I don't know why, but that's how it is.
So solution is to set up three fake connections in Sysnand (just click manual setup and enter a fantasy SSID and password), then go to emunand and change the first one to a working connection. This way the fakes will stay in Sysnand, so Sysnand won't be able to get online at all.

You can of course also use TubeHAX DNS or go the violent route and just block access to eShop/Updates entirely in your router.
That is only true if the Sysnand and emunand are linked. If they are not linked the Internet connection is not copied over from the emunand to sysnand. I know this because I have that very setup
 

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