Hacking List of possible ways to brick your 3DS/2DS/N3DS.

[jimmyleen]

I heard that the reason that emunand bricks on downgrading to 2.1 is that CFW just doesn't support it. So in theory, downgrading Sysnand to 2.1 is safe on an o3ds. N3ds never had 2.1 so it'd brick.

As of today luma3ds and reinand both support 2.1 downgrade on new and old 3ds.

 

[DHall243]

As of today luma3ds and reinand both support 2.1 downgrade on new and old 3ds.

Thats awesome, less chance of Sysnand brick now.

 

[Ricken]

Here's another way to brick;

Spoiler: Bricked

Roasting your system like a marshmallow

 

[DigitalDeviant]

Yeah. Learned that the hard (mod) way.


[citation needed]

May I ask what tutorial did you use after you hard modded your 3DS that actually worked well for you?

 

[Autz]

Here's another way to brick;

Spoiler: Bricked

Roasting your system like a marshmallow

You did microwavehax? Or campfirehax?

 

[yoshinatsu]

May I ask what tutorial did you use after you hard modded your 3DS that actually worked well for you?

You'll need to have kept a NAND backup of some sort. sysNAND or emuNAND, it doesn't matter.
I followed this tutorial to do the actual mod, and after reaching the error code with the blue screen, this video.
But instead of dumping your NAND like the video shows, you rename the NAND backup you have with a .img extension, and you flash it with Win32 Disk Imager.
I was lucky enough to have kept an old 10.3 emuNAND backup, and as such, I managed to downgrade again to 9.2 without buying extra software.

Note that I didn't drill the back of my system like the guy on the video has done. I just unscrewed and removed the R button, and passed the cables through there. I only wanted to use the hard mod once anyway.

 

[Sumea]

Step 667:
Get concrete, make your 3DS into a concrete brick.

 

[Bedel]

One more: updating the stage two. I did it in my brother's 3DS and now it's hardbriked.

 

[pbanj]

As of today luma3ds and reinand both support 2.1 downgrade on new and old 3ds.

I just checked lumas commits and don't see that.

 

[pbanj]

One more: updating the stage two. I did it in my brother's 3DS and now it's hardbriked.

Updating stage 2 only can lead to a brick if the forks have been changed. Safea9lhimstaller no longer allows for it

 

[DHall243]

I just checked lumas commits and don't see that.

Yea I did also, and couldnt find anything. Didn't want to say anything incase she released 5.5 later on.

 

[Bedel]

Updating stage 2 only can lead to a brick if the forks have been changed. Safea9lhimstaller no longer allows for it

We I don't remember to have changed anything. Eather way, it's a way to brik and I think it should be listed.

 

[Voidsickness]

Was hoping someone could help. Was attempting to use SafeA9LHinstaller on my 2ds and it shows "Successful" but after I reboot it just shows the SafeA9LHinstaller screen...over...and over...and over and I cant go anywhere else...just there.

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Was hoping someone could help. Was attempting to use SafeA9LHinstaller on my 2ds and it shows "Successful" but after I reboot it just shows the SafeA9LHinstaller screen...over...and over...and over and I cant go anywhere else...just there.

It just shows press select to update A9LH or shutdown and when I reboot it shows this screen again, hard reboot, nothing works

 

[Autz]

One more: updating the stage two. I did it in my brother's 3DS and now it's hardbriked.

With Stage two you mean... what? I'm not too cult about it.

 

[pbanj]

Was hoping someone could help. Was attempting to use SafeA9LHinstaller on my 2ds and it shows "Successful" but after I reboot it just shows the SafeA9LHinstaller screen...over...and over...and over and I cant go anywhere else...just there.

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It just shows press select to update A9LH or shutdown and when I reboot it shows this screen again, hard reboot, nothing works

You need to replace the arm9loaderhax.bin file that's in the root of your sd card with the one from luma.

 

[pbanj]

With Stage two you mean... what? I'm not too cult about it.

With a9lh there is 2 files that get flashed to the nand. Stage 1 and stage 2. If you update just stage 2 it can brick

 

[Autz]

With a9lh there is 2 files that get flashed to the nand. Stage 1 and stage 2. If you update just stage 2 it can brick

nice. Silly me i don't hace A9LH.

 

[Margen67]

nice. Silly me i don't hace A9LH.

Filthy peasant.

 

[Bedel]

With a9lh there is 2 files that get flashed to the nand. Stage 1 and stage 2. If you update just stage 2 it can brick

Also, it can't be restored by recovery or anything. Hardbriked as hell.

 

[Autz]

Also, it can't be restored by recovery or anything. Hardbriked as hell.

Well, now i get why. Without the Stages properly installed the payloads won't work.