Hacking Softbricked my 3DS with the Pokémon demo

[yoshinatsu]

So... I installed a Pokémon demo through some means.
It booted fine without a seed file. I closed the lid of the system to go to standby.
When I reopened it, the game had frozen. I thought my SD card was just acting up.
Turned off the system. Tried to turn it back on. It wouldn't turn on!

Tried to see if I was able to access Decrypt9. Thankfully, I was still able to access it.
But my sysNAND wouldn't boot. I reverted to a quite recent NAND backup I had, and it still won't boot.
And now I'm getting paranoid.
What did I do wrong? And how do I fix this?

Thanks for any help guys.

 

[YourHero]

Well I just canceled my download. Should have guessed when the first install didn't wanna launch past the 3DS logo and I had to reboot the 3DS. Just wait for the official demo tomorrow.

 

[driverdis]

try renaming the "Nintendo 3DS" folder and see if it creates a new one and boots.

If not, maybe your NAND itself is bad and is corrupted enough to not boot.
since you can access A9LH payloads, you can try to make a EmuNAND and boot from that to work around that for now.

 

[yoshinatsu]

Well I just canceled my download. Should have guessed when the first install didn't wanna launch past the 3DS logo and I had to reboot the 3DS. Just wait for the official demo tomorrow.

I think the 3DS logo issue is just a seed thing. I didn't need to inject anything, so I just went and played the demo just like normal...
and then this happened.

try renaming the "Nintendo 3DS" folder and see if it creates a new one and boots.

If not, maybe your NAND itself is bad and is corrupted enough to not boot.
since you can access A9LH payloads, you can try to make a EmuNAND and boot from that to work around that for now.

If I do that, what do I lose other than the installed games I have in there? NNID? Or nothing?

 

[driverdis]

I think the 3DS logo issues is just a seed thing. I didn't need to inject anything, so I just went and played the demo just like normal...
and then this happened.

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If do that, what do I lose other than the installed games I have in there? NNID? Or nothing?

only installed games as it will create a new "Nintendo 3DS" folder.
they are tecnhically not lost, files from the old folder can be copied into the new folder's location and they will work.

 

[yoshinatsu]

only installed games as it will create a new "Nintendo 3DS" folder.
they are tecnhically not lost, files from the old folder can be copied into the new folder's location and they will work.

Oh god..... It won't boot.
Even tried making an emuNAND out of my 11.0 backup, and use Luma with that, and it still won't boot!
What the hell did I do?

 

[yoshinatsu]

Oh my god... So.................. It never occurred to me to remove my DS flashcart from the slot.......
I removed it and suddenly the console boots. What the hell...............

I'm so sorry for the false alarm guys.

 

[driverdis]

Oh my god... So.................. It never occurred to me to remove my DS flashcart from the slot.......
I removed it and suddenly the console boots. What the hell...............

I'm so sorry for the false alarm guys.

interesting, the cart must have issues, I would not use it if that happens. Mine boots regardless of what DS flashcart I have in the slot.

 

[yoshinatsu]

interesting, the cart must have issues, I would not use it if that happens. Mine boots regardless of what DS flashcart I have in the slot.

Maybe, it's just a cheap R4 3DS clone. It does the job, but I don't know why it did that now.
I wish I had tried that before I reverted back to a two month old NAND... Oh well.
Now that I "lost" some of the game backups I had installed (but they're still on the SD card), is there any way to recover them without reinstalling them for hours and hours?

 

[Mikemk]

Try reinstalling just the tickets and see if they're detected.

 

[Quantumcat]

Maybe, it's just a cheap R4 3DS clone. It does the job, but I don't know why it did that now.
I wish I had tried that before I reverted back to a two month old NAND... Oh well.
Now that I "lost" some of the game backups I had installed (but they're still on the SD card), is there any way to recover them without reinstalling them for hours and hours?

Didn't you make a backup of the "bricked" NAND before restoring the very old one?

 

[Wojton]

Oh my god... So.................. It never occurred to me to remove my DS flashcart from the slot.......
I removed it and suddenly the console boots. What the hell...............

I'm so sorry for the false alarm guys.

This exact thing has already happened to other people, I remember at least 1 similiar thread about A9LH "brick" which was fixed by removing DS cart from the slot. Someone has said that its an odd A9LH bug, but due to very specific cirumstances in which this problem occurs, he wasn't able to pinpoint the exact cause of it.

 

[yoshinatsu]

Didn't you make a backup of the "bricked" NAND before restoring the very old one?

Nah, because I thought it'd be somehow corrupted, and I already had a proper backup from just two months ago. It's not a huge deal, just annoying because of the Activity Log and the newly installed titles. I'm mostly concerned about my system's NAND, because I overwrote it twice, and I know it's not the best thing to regularly write so much data to it.

This exact thing has already happened to other people, I remember at least 1 similiar thread about A9LH "brick" which was fixed by removing DS cart from the slot. Someone has said that its an odd A9LH bug, but due to very specific cirumstances in which this problem occurs, he wasn't able to pinpoint the exact cause of it.

Hah, yeah, for me it was probably a series of unfortunate events. The Pokémon demo crashed (maybe because it lacked the seed or my SD moved a little, whatever), and then the system wouldn't boot. So I automatically assumed those two events were somehow correlated. Turns out they totally weren't... It was just me being stupid once more.

 

[Mikemk]

If I may ask, what flashcart are you using

 

[yoshinatsu]

If I may ask, what flashcart are you using

This one.

It has served me well so far. But I guess it's kind of problematic.

 

[thisisallowed]

My DStwo does the same thing...

 

[YayMii]

Well, Luma spits out an error code with "prefetch abort (svcBreak)" when trying to start the demo (hangs on the 3DS logo when error codes are turned off), but my n3DS still functions normally regardless of whether I have my R4i inserted or not.
I feel like it might just be a bad install, but I could upload a photo of the error code if anyone can decipher what the problem is.

 

[sj33]

I'm having no issues here using Luma. I did install through the Freeshop however, maybe try that?

 

[dpad_5678]

This one.

It has served me well so far. But I guess it's kind of problematic.

Definitely a clone of thevR4i Gold 3DS RTS..... That blue casing tho...

 

[yoshinatsu]

Definitely a clone of thevR4i Gold 3DS RTS..... That blue casing tho...

Heh, it's not blue. That's my shitty phone's camera.
It's the "legit" R4i Gold 3DS RTS.
But that's still a clone of clones of clones