Homebrew Boot9Strap/SigHax Install Success Rate

[Deleted member 381889]

SigHax/B9S Success Results

Boot9Strap
937 successful installs
8 bricked installs
0.85% chance of bricking

There should be 0% chance of bricking with B9S. There are no reports other than this poll that bricks have occured. These results may be false. If you genuinely think you have bricked, please contact @d0k3. More info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/comments/6dpox0/psa_there_are_no_legitimate_bricks_via/

Derrek's SigHax Installer 0.1
13 successful installs
13 bricked installs
50% chance of bricking

Derrek's SigHax Installer 0.2
37 successful installs
22 bricked installs
37% chance of bricking

These bricks are most likely due to user error. Please use this guide to install Derrek's SigHax: https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-how-to-install-derreks-sighax.471680/
If you genuinely think you have been bricked, and it wasn't due to user error, please contact @derrek.

These results are as of Saturday 27 May, 21:46 GMT

Spoiler: Polls

Apologies for making so many options, before making this poll, I had been told that what you used to upgrade had an effect. I now realise that it probably doesn't but I just included to options just to make sure.

Boot9Strap and SigHax Installer 0.1
http://www.strawpoll.me/13004775
SigHax Installer 0.2
http://www.strawpoll.me/13006934/

 

[Stephano]

I did it three times on o3ds and it worked fantastically.

 

[skullkeeper94]

I voted :b Can't wait to see how many people messed up somewhere along the line.

 

[Agent Moose]

I've done two and both were successful. Just have to follow 3ds.guide

 

[Treeko]

I am in the process and its already giving me trouble, SafeB9Sinstaller keeps giving me this error "SigHaxed FIRM was not installed!, check lower screen" I am following 3ds.guide update method BTW

I am trying this with a o3ds with A9lh and luma v6.6 with it setup to only boot when the SD card is inserted into the 3ds if anyones curious.

 

[Kingy]

Voted! I presume it'll be very rare to brick, but we'll see

 

[Bmsortiz]

I am in the process and its already giving me trouble, SafeB9Sinstaller keeps giving me this error "SigHaxed FIRM was not installed!, check lower screen" I am following 3ds.guide update method BTW

I am trying this with a o3ds with A9lh and luma v6.6 with it setup to only boot when the SD card is inserted into the 3ds if anyones curious.

Maybe try to update to a newer version of Luma?

 

[Deleted member 381889]

I am in the process and its already giving me trouble, SafeB9Sinstaller keeps giving me this error "SigHaxed FIRM was not installed!, check lower screen" I am following 3ds.guide update method BTW

I am trying this with a o3ds with A9lh and luma v6.6 with it setup to only boot when the SD card is inserted into the 3ds if anyones curious.

are you sure you have all the correct files?

 

[Treeko]

are you sure you have all the correct files?

Yep checked them thrice.

 

[Deleted member 381889]

Yep checked them thrice.

you got boot9strap.firm and boot9strap.firm.sha and secret_sector.bin in your boot9strap folder?

 

[Treeko]

you got boot9strap.firm and boot9strap.firm.sha and secret_sector.bin in your boot9strap folder?

Yep

 

[RocketRobz]

I installed boot9strap from A9LH v2 via 3ds.guide. All working fine.

 

[Cuphat]

Why are there 1000 poll options?

 

[retrofan_k]

I'd say 100% safe so far, updating from A9LH using the 3ds.guide, as I have done 3 consoles of my own and my neighbors today. Not seen any bricks using the 3ds.guide update today??

 

[Majickhat55]

Can you even brick using boot9strap considering it won't even start the install unless all the conditions are met? It doesn't have a force install like sighax.

 

[Deleted member 381889]

Why are there 1000 poll options?

because I wanted good answers

Can you even brick using boot9strap considering it won't even start the install unless all the conditions are met? It doesn't have a force install like sighax.

Using the installer from sighax.com there have been 3 bricks.

 

[Cuphat]

Can you even brick using boot9strap considering it won't even start the install unless all the conditions are met? It doesn't have a force install like sighax.

The only way you could brick using SafeB9SInstaller is by using a bad boot9strap.firm (would have have to malicious or maliciously stupid given that it checks the hash with the .sha file) or a one in a million catastrophic failure in the middle of installation.

It is effectively 100% brick-proof.

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because I wanted good answers

Using the installer from sighax.com there have been 3 bricks.

Yes, because derrek's installer doesn't protect against stupidity.

 

[kedest]

Flawless installation, updated from A9LH V2 using the 3ds.guide

 

[Deleted member 381889]

To everyone who voted
"It didn't work"
Please try again, it should work fine. Make sure you have the correct files in the correct places, and triple check the guide.
To the one person who tried sighax.com and it didn't work
gg you dodged a bullet, try using 3ds.guide

 

[arc13]

Upgraded from A9LH v2 on 2DS + O3DS + N3DS using 3ds.guide, everything is fine.