Hacking Luma3ds Stuck on 7.1

[Articuss]

Recently started using my 3ds again so I decided to try to update luma3ds so I could later update to 11.5 - I replaced arm9 with sighax, and reached luma 7.1, but now when I try to update to 8.1.1 it shows "Update Complete" but after launching the updater again, it says that the current version is 7.1, any help? Thanks in advance, sorry for bad english

 

[The Catboy]

Have you tried manually downloading it and replacing the boot.firm using your computer?
https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/releases
Also make sure you have the latest updater
https://github.com/KunoichiZ/lumaupdate/releases/tag/v2.1.2

 

[Majickhat55]

Could also be a dying SD card. If you followed the guide you would have copied the boot.firm to CTRNAND (unless you didn't) so the console might be loading your CFW from there VS the updated one on the card either because it's corrupted, or it can't be read by the console.

Newer nightly versions of Luma tell you where your B9S is loading from (SD/CTRNAND) so that will make it pretty useful for situations like this.

 

[Articuss]

Could also be a dying SD card. If you followed the guide you would have copied the boot.firm to CTRNAND (unless you didn't) so the console might be loading your CFW from there VS the updated one on the card either because it's corrupted, or it can't be read by the console.

Newer nightly versions of Luma tell you where your B9S is loading from (SD/CTRNAND) so that will make it pretty useful for situations like this.

What do I do then? Replace old with new boot.firm on CTRNAND?

Have you tried manually downloading it and replacing the boot.firm using your computer?

Didn't work :c

 

[Majickhat55]

What do I do then? Replace old with new boot.firm on CTRNAND?

Replace the boot.firm in both places, yes.

 

[Deleted User]

Maybe there are still luma.firm files from Luma 7.1 in the luma payloads folder?

 

[Articuss]

Replace the boot.firm in both places, yes.

Now my 3ds won't turn on, LED turns on for a second then switches off

 

[Majickhat55]

Now my 3ds won't turn on, LED turns on for a second then switches off

That's odd, you should have B9S 1.2 which supports the newest Luma version. Obviously switch it back if that won't even let your console load correctly. Once you can, then update your console and THEN update Luma.

 

[Articuss]

That's odd, you should have B9S 1.2 which supports the newest Luma version. Obviously switch it back if that won't even let your console load correctly.

How? Switched it back on SD card, still can't turn on

 

[Majickhat55]

How? Switched it back on SD card, still can't turn on

Put the 7.1 version back on the SD card and in CTRNAND, then update your console to 11.5, and then try to update Luma again.

 

[Articuss]

Put the 7.1 version back on the SD card and in CTRNAND, then update your console to 11.5, and then try to update Luma again.

How can I put it back on CTRNAND? It won't start up, even pressing power+start

 

[KunoichiZ]

If the blue LED switches off immediately after turning the system on and you just updated the boot.firm to Luma 8.1.1, you don't have boot9strap v1.2. Get that by following https://3ds.guide/updating-b9s.

How can I put it back on CTRNAND? It won't start up, even pressing power+start

Try a different SD card. It sounds like your system was reading the boot.firm from CTRNAND. After doing that, follow the guide I linked to properly update Luma.

 

[Majickhat55]

How can I put it back on CTRNAND? It won't start up, even pressing power+start

Put the Godmode9.firm on the root of your SD card and rename it to "boot.firm" and see if that boots you to Godmode, if it does then copy the Luma v7.1 "boot.firm" to CTRNAND.

 

[Articuss]

Put the Godmode9.firm on the root of your SD card and rename it to "boot.firm" and see if that boots you to Godmode, if it does then copy the Luma v7.1 "boot.firm" to CTRNAND.

That worked, thanks in advance.

If the blue LED switches off immediately after turning the system on and you just updated the boot.firm to Luma 8.1.1, you don't have boot9strap v1.2. Get that by following https://3ds.guide/updating-b9s.

Try a different SD card. It sounds like your system was reading the boot.firm from CTRNAND. After doing that, follow the guide I linked to properly update Luma.

I'll try that, is there any way to check if you have boot9strap and/or check its version?

 

[KunoichiZ]

That worked, thanks in advance.

I'll try that, is there any way to check if you have boot9strap and/or check its version?

Luma 8.0+ only works on boot9strap v1.2. Luma 7.1 only works on boot9strap v1.0/v1.1. There was a special version of Luma v8.0+ (nicknamed the "legacy" version) that didn't contain a certain feature (Rosalina) but it displayed as v7.1. If you followed the guide, you most likely wouldn't have that version though. You have either boot9strap v1.0/v1.1 and therefore need to update to boot9strap v1.2 to properly update Luma.