Hacking Pls help. N3DS won't boot up

[NANDoNumber5]

My N3DS is using Luma but now it won't boot up. It just has a black screen. I think something happened with the SD card, How do I restore it?
Thank you very much,

 

[DaTank45]

What’s it doing exactly? Can you boot into luma or godmode by holding start or select while powering on the system? Did you install any themes? What was the last thing you were doing before you had issues? Do you have a NAND back up? If you take the sd card out does it boot?

 

[Mythical]

My N3DS is using Luma but now it won't boot up. It just has a black screen. I think something happened with the SD card, How do I restore it?
Thank you very much,

A9LH or B9S? Could you post a pic of your sd root? also if you hold select on startup does the luma configuration menu appear?

 

[NANDoNumber5]

A9LH or B9S? Could you post a pic of your sd root? also if you hold select on startup does the luma configuration menu appear?

a9lh. i think. im gonna chech the sd in a bit. pls look out for my next reply thanks.

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What’s it doing exactly? Can you boot into luma or godmode by holding start or select while powering on the system? Did you install any themes? What was the last thing you were doing before you had issues? Do you have a NAND back up? If you take the sd card out does it boot?

i'll try that. pls standby

 

[NANDoNumber5]

Hi! Yes it boots up without the SD card.
This is what the card looks like when I put it in my pc
https://imgur.com/a/XAsmI

 

[DaTank45]

Hi! Yes it boots up without the SD card.
This is what the card looks like when I put it in my pc
https://imgur.com/a/XAsmI

sorry I cant help with A9LH. One of the boot files has to be incorrect. You should be able to update to b9s but I'm not 100%sure on this

 

[NANDoNumber5]

A9LH or B9S? Could you post a pic of your sd root? also if you hold select on startup does the luma configuration menu appear?

Hi! Yes it boots up without the SD card.
This is what the card looks like when I put it in my pc
https://imgur.com/a/XAsmI

 

[DaTank45]

Hi! Yes it boots up without the SD card.
This is what the card looks like when I put it in my pc
https://imgur.com/a/XAsmI

you could try copying all of the files from your sd card to a pc and reformatting your sd card using gui format to fat32 with 32k clusters and then copy everything back over.

 

[NANDoNumber5]

I can still get to this screen when i press select and boot up.
https://imgur.com/a/I9RCg

 

[NANDoNumber5]

might just need an update on luma but i dunno how to do it.

 

[DaTank45]

https://3ds.hacks.guide/a9lh-to-b9s

 

[ThoD]

I think you are missing Luma's "boot.firm" from the root of your SD card, it's definitely that you are missing the Luma files, just can't remember if it was ".firm" in a9lh too.

 

[NANDoNumber5]

Something happened to the SD card. It seems it is corrupted.
I have another SD card but I don't know what files to put.

 

[Hayato213]

Can you boot into Luma chainloader holding down start while powering on or the luma configuration menu while holding select while powering on?

 

[NANDoNumber5]

Can you boot into Luma chainloader holding down start while powering on or the luma configuration menu while holding select while powering on?

Yes. Thanks for replying. Here https://imgur.com/a/I9RCg
It says its on luma v6.6

 

[Hayato213]

Yes. Thanks for replying. Here https://imgur.com/a/I9RCg
It says its on luma v6.6

U can try these files, it is file for A9LH boot.3dsx, arm9loaderhax.bin, and the luma config files. Also you can try copying your sd card content to another SD card, you would need to properly format the spare SD card to FAT32 with 32kb cluster size.

 

[NANDoNumber5]

U can try these files, it is file for A9LH boot.3dsx, arm9loaderhax.bin, and the luma config files. Also you can try copying your sd card content to another SD card, you would need to properly format the spare SD card to FAT32 with 32kb cluster size.

Thank you. Do I just extract to root?
The original SD card got corrupted so I don't have the files anymore.

 

[Hayato213]

Thank you. Do I just extract to root?
The original SD card got corrupted so I don't have the files anymore.

The boot.3dsx and the arm9loader.bin goto the root , and the luma folder goes on the root of the sd card, leave the luma folder content inside.

 

[NANDoNumber5]

The boot.3dsx and the arm9loader.bin goto the root , and the luma folder goes on the root of the sd card, leave the luma folder content inside.

You're brilliant! It worked! Thank you.
I think my ex-bf did something to it before returning it booo

 

[Hayato213]

You're brilliant! It worked! Thank you.
I think my ex-bf did something to it before returning it booo

You are welcome, you should follow this guide and update to Boot9Strap, A9LH is no longer supported.

https://3ds.hacks.guide/a9lh-to-b9s.html