I hacked my O2DS using "The Guide" about a week ago. 11.4. Everything was working great until today.
The home menu started freezing after just a few seconds of navigation, and not all installed icons would display.
I suspected my SD card had become corrupt somehow, so I took it out and scanned it using h2testw as the guide suggests. I got no bad sectors.
Booting the 2DS without the SD would work, but the home menu would still freeze. So at this point I was able to rule out the SD card as an issue.
Next I thought about trying the recovery/safe mode I've heard so much about. So I'd boot holding L+R+A+up, but all that would do would boot me to a black screen. No menu, no nothing.
So thinking my extdata was somehow corrupt, I tried L+R+A+down to rebuild the home menu icons. That would take me to a screen that said "Preparing to start the home menu. Please wait, and do not turn off the power." but this message would not go away, even after 2+ hours. So that was no help.
I next powered off and booted up normally, but could only see the "Preparing to start..." message. No more home menu at all.
At this point I considered myself semi-bricked, so I went for the nuclear option. I used the guide to do a full NAND restore.
Now I can't boot at all. I get black screens whether or not my SD card is in the slot or not.
I can still
- boot to goodmode9
- boot to luma3ds config
- launch the Rosalina menu from the black screens
That's about it.
There's probably an easy fix for this since "there are no bricks" these days, but I'm pulling my hair out over here. Any ideas?
The home menu started freezing after just a few seconds of navigation, and not all installed icons would display.
I suspected my SD card had become corrupt somehow, so I took it out and scanned it using h2testw as the guide suggests. I got no bad sectors.
Booting the 2DS without the SD would work, but the home menu would still freeze. So at this point I was able to rule out the SD card as an issue.
Next I thought about trying the recovery/safe mode I've heard so much about. So I'd boot holding L+R+A+up, but all that would do would boot me to a black screen. No menu, no nothing.
So thinking my extdata was somehow corrupt, I tried L+R+A+down to rebuild the home menu icons. That would take me to a screen that said "Preparing to start the home menu. Please wait, and do not turn off the power." but this message would not go away, even after 2+ hours. So that was no help.
I next powered off and booted up normally, but could only see the "Preparing to start..." message. No more home menu at all.
At this point I considered myself semi-bricked, so I went for the nuclear option. I used the guide to do a full NAND restore.
Now I can't boot at all. I get black screens whether or not my SD card is in the slot or not.
I can still
- boot to goodmode9
- boot to luma3ds config
- launch the Rosalina menu from the black screens
That's about it.
There's probably an easy fix for this since "there are no bricks" these days, but I'm pulling my hair out over here. Any ideas?