Homebrew Custom theme help

[BetterDuck]

Alright so I'm having this issue. I had a custom theme for a while, it worked fine, no issues. But just now I tried to install a new one that someone made for me and now none of my themes work in the slightest. I tried installing using anemone and chmm2 multiple times and after lots of failed attempts and reboots, I'm stuck. I have no idea what's causing this or how to fix it.

 

[TurdPooCharger]

How many themes are in your 'Themes' folder? Does your 3DS crashes when you try to install a single theme or 10 shuffle themes?

 

[BetterDuck]

I have 3 themes, the 3ds doesn't crash but the apps refuse to install them.

 

[TurdPooCharger]

I have 3 themes, the 3ds doesn't crash but the apps refuse to install them.

When you try installing them, do you mean that you install them with Anemone3DS and then they don't appear at HOME Menu or if they do appear, they disappear later?

* The themes do not not show up in HOME Menu despite Anemone3DS supposedly installing them without crashing?

 

[BetterDuck]

That's pretty accurate. It says "installing theme" and shit but I exit and nothing. I reboot, nothing. I replace the theme on the sd card, same results.

 

[TurdPooCharger]

That's pretty accurate. It says "installing theme" and shit but I exit and nothing. I reboot, nothing. I replace the theme on the sd card, same results.

Okay, I got some bad news for you but don't freak out. What you have is a corrupted theme ext data. Those happen either from having too many themes all at once, changing SD cards with 32 KB to 64 KB cluster sizes (vice-versa), or even installing out of region themes different from your 3DS native region. Whatever the causes are, they happen.

This (may) be fixable [I have not been able to prove this outside my own 3DS].

Follow the instructions found in my signature here. Look for the post called "How to Properly Setup Anemone3DS when Changing Allocation Size".
You can skip steps 1, 2, and 3 as you're not or haven't reformatted the SD card. I make no promises that it will work in fixing your problem.

Skip steps or adjust according as you only have 3 themes.

 

[BetterDuck]

Well I haven't changed sizes or installed out of region themes as far as I know. I'll try your suggestion though.

 

[TurdPooCharger]

Well I haven't changed sizes or installed out of region themes as far as I know. I'll try your suggestion though.

* Start at step 4.

 

[BetterDuck]

Oh boy that's a lot of steps. I'll do that tomorrow since I'm drunk and it's almost 12. I hope it works. Thanks for the help bud.

 

[BetterDuck]

Fuck it took a while to figure out my issue. It was a counterfeit sd. Must've been a pretty good one because it passed a lot of tests. But yeah I've got it all settled now. Got a transcend 32gb card and it works flawlessly. Thanks for the help bud, I appreciate it a lot.