Ye my bad, when I saw "ear plugs" I thought they were those things on old ear phones (I mean ear plug, you "plug" them in your ears), and not the sleeping protection ones. In what exact place do I have to put them, because I think I put them in the wrong one.
Lol, I got the English terms wrong, too. What I referred to early as "earphones" (lmao) is supposed to be called "earbuds", and the rubber or silicone gel pieces that go in the ears are called "earbud tips" or "earbud caps".
Sandwich the cap between the plastic housing (like the one shown below) and game cart board around where the circled
TG is found. Move the cap as close as you can towards the (DOWN) of the d-pad. Feel for squishiness when test fitting the shell housing, earbud cap, and game cart board.
- If it takes a lot pressure to push them together, you'll need to use a smaller or shorter cap.
- If the fit is 'too loose', try stacking layers of note card paper underneath the cap to raise the height.
- You can also try adding two or more neighboring caps if there's enough space around that square area. This might help apply a more even distribution of pressure.
Ran eMMC Status Checker like 3 days ago and it passed all tests.
Maybe the NAND chip has broken BGA joint(s) that are usually connected to the motherboard when the n3DSXL is cooler. After using the n3DSXL for a short duration, the chip gets hot enough to cause it to shift out of place where those joint(s) briefly lift up. When that happens, Luma3DS stops talking to the 3DS firmware which then leads to the random crashes.
The problem with BGA joints is that you can't see they're broken with the naked eye.. since they're under the chip. The only way to tell they're broken is by x-ray.
On other devices where reflowing a motherboard isn't an available option, some people try to fix broken joints using pressurizing techniques. An infamous example would be the early made XBOX 360 and its
Red Ring of Death caused by CPU / GPU having crappy solder joints that broke when the chips overheated due to poor air cooling. People 'fixed' this by replacing screws for the heatsink with shorter ones, allowing the user to torque the heatsink closer to the chips. This does reconnect the CPU / GPU on the XBOX360's mobo, but at the expense of permanently warping and shortening the overall lifespan of that board.
Wedging a piece of sponge on top of the n3DSXL's NAND chip might provide a short term solution. If it works, don't expect the n3DSXL to last that long. Maybe 1-2 years tops before the NAND chip burns itself out when it has no surface area to radiate the heat. Maybe you can get away with the poor cooling issue by using
thermal pad as the stacking material.
EDIT - And because one can't see or know which BGA joint(s) are bad, any chips (not just the NAND) on the motherboard are suspects.
Welp rip my eshop access then (Yes I do actually care about that).
What if I just CTRTransfer from the bad MB to the working one?
It's possible to decrypt and clone your EUR n3DSXL's NAND image on a different USA n3DSXL motherboard but due to console unique identifiers found in a file called the
otp.bin that's burnt directly into the ARM CPU (can't be overwritten or reflashed),
* you can't fool Nintendo server side check. They'll know that NAND image doesn't really belong on that replacement motherboard, which can lead to a super ban.
* It's supposedly be possible to spoof the
otp.bin from a different system using a Luma3DS fork by truedread. Because no one has yet to attempt cloning their NAND image on a different region motherboard, spoof the OTP, accessed eShop and play online games, and report back their outcome, we don't know if this idea works or not.
NAND cloning is one of the few 3DS softmodding subjects I rather not provide one-on-one help because of a previous encounter with someone else who misused it.
Getting a new/refurbished console I don't think it's gonna happen, they cost some what over 100 euros (maybe?? atleast the one that don't have phisical damage, correct me if I'm wrong, I just wanna avoid buying anything oversea) here. Transferring the NNID is not a big deal if it's the same region I just change the serial code in SecureInfo or formatting from System Settings, that unlinks NNID afaik.
Was going to write something about performing System Transfer between two 3DS systems that aren't from the same regions.
Old 3DS series can region change the 3DS firmware with access to the new region's eShop; New 3DS series not so much.