Homebrew 3ds randomly black screens

[Kris1]

Sometimes my 3ds just black screens out of nowhere, this mostly happens when changing scenes in a game or going into sleep mode, the leds are still on so it isn't shutting off, is there anyway to fix this?


Edit in literally less than a minute after last black screen: This happens way to often, i literally opened settings waited.. and nothing, wanted to uninstall checkpoint because i remember that the last time this ever happened to me was after installing it (doubt that's actually the reason)

 

[Hayato213]

You can try to do a clean CTR NAND transfer, if that doesn't solve your problem might be a hardware issue.

 

[Kris1]

You can try to do a clean CTR NAND transfer, if that doesn't solve your problem might be a hardware issue.

i sent my 3ds to get hacked so idk what a ctr nand transfer is (reason for hacking my wii u on my own), also this started this year so i don't think it's a hardware issue

 

[Hayato213]

https://3ds.hacks.guide/ctrtransfer.html

You can try this to go to a clean NAND, just keep in mind you will lose what you have installed on the NAND, If this doesn't solve your issue of it randomly going to black screen, it might just be hardware problem.

 

[fmkid]

https://3ds.hacks.guide/ctrtransfer.html

You can try this to go to a clean NAND, just keep in mind you will lose what you have installed on the NAND, If this doesn't solve your issue of it randomly going to black screen, it might just be hardware problem.

Maybe it will be good to think first on a faulty/damaged/corrupted SD card than on a (CTR)NAND problem.

And, afaik, CTRTransfer normally doesn't delete any actual installed content (mainly because the major part of that content is installed on the SD card, except DSiWare and System titles)

 

[Kris1]

https://3ds.hacks.guide/ctrtransfer.html

You can try this to go to a clean NAND, just keep in mind you will lose what you have installed on the NAND, If this doesn't solve your issue of it randomly going to black screen, it might just be hardware problem.

damn, i have a lot of games on my 3ds so having to re-install everything will be bad, not to mention restoring the save data, i guess there isn't any other way to fix it

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Maybe it will be good to think first on a faulty/damaged/corrupted SD card than on a (CTR)NAND problem.

And, afaik, CTRTransfer normally doesn't delete any actual installed content (mainly because the major part of that content is installed on the SD card, except DSiWare and System titles)

i'll try to do it then, also i'll try to connect the sd card to my pc to see if it works

 

[godreborn]

damn, i have a lot of games on my 3ds so having to re-install everything will be bad, not to mention restoring the save data, i guess there isn't any other way to fix it

If you have a backup nand, you might be able to restore it instead. You'll only lose games you installed since then. That's assuming it wasn't always that way. Could also be an sd card problem.

 

[Kris1]

i'll try to do it then, also i'll try to connect the sd card to my pc to see if it works

So, i took the sd card out and back in and everything is smoother,before it took ages to close a game, now it's the normal time
i changed scenes in a game, went into sleep mode and changed games and no black screen yet so i guess that fixed it huh

 

[fmkid]

i'll try to do it then, also i'll try to connect the sd card to my pc to see if it works

Use quadruple format (to give to your SD card an appropiate re-format) and H2TestW (to analyze it and discard errors). But before that, try to make a backup of all your SD content.

Also, to see if the problem is with the SD card or not, use temporaly another SD (on FAT32 format, 32kB cluster size, MBR, primary partition) with merely the boot.firm file from Luma CFW (latest version) on root and try to replicate same situations that come on errors

 

[Kris1]

Use quadruple format (to give to your SD card an appropiate re-format) and H2TestW (to analyze it and discard errors). But before that, try to make a backup of all your SD content.

Also, to see if the problem is with the SD card or not, use temporaly another SD (on FAT32 format, 32kB cluster size, MBR, primary partition) with merely the boot.firm file from Luma CFW (latest version) on root and try to replicate same situations that come on errors

Thanks, i'll do this if it ever happens again