The only thing I can think of at this point is that your SD card could potentially be dying. If you're absolutely positive you've followed everything correctly, you might need to buy a new card
Do you mean that you saw an error message the last time you were able to get it to boot? This is unclear.
This suggests some kind of hardware problem. Have you tried using a different SD card already?
i saw an error message, it was a exception error bla bla bla arm11 or something just by being on the home menu.
hi im back, so i left my 3ds without the batery for some time, today i pop in the batery and it did the thing that you told me to, but now when i power it on the screen is black
sooo, i remember you rold me to change the boot.frim to the boot.firm from the recent luma but now the notification led flashes red with the sd card and purple without the sd card
I have an Old 3ds XL, and do as same as yours. Sometimes on middle of playing if I move it a bit too hard, it turns off, and most of the time when try to turn on again, does the blinking blue light and not turn on (sometimes turn on, but detect as low battery and turn off after some seconds). I suspect it has a bad battery, and problably for what you told now, may be your case.
That is not even remotely like the problem described by the OP. Why would you say that?
Also, in the future, when you need help, please try to be more precise than "exception error bla bla bla arm 11 or something".
oh shit it worked, i just saw your post, cus i was repairing a old 3ds a friend gave me, but it work,
srry i just dont remember at the time the exception error and when i search it, i think it was the better and shortest way of telling.
I Misread the messages about the color lights, so I only got the part where the console will blink blue then turn off. With that in mind, what I wrote (the symptoms, not the part where I move the console and turn off) made sense, and so make note of it.
I don't know what worrying is going to do..? You should probably consider backing up your save data with Checkpoint; that's never a bad idea.
No, it'll flash yellow if boot.firm is missing on the SD card but present on the NAND, even with no buttons held
Have you personally ever actually seen it flash yellow..? It is extremely common for SD cards to fail and for the 3DS to boot from the NAND (leading to much confusion and reports of "help all my homebrew vanished"); I don't think I've ever heard of anyone reporting the light as flashing yellow.
yes, I've had it personally flash when I booted after forgetting to reinsert an SD card a few times. Simply reinserting the card fixed it. In this case, I assume they either mistyped or failed to put the boot.firm on the root of their current SD card, or the card is possibly failing
Yes. The reason you probably don't hear about it too often is because the status colored were added in b9s 1.4, which I can assure you most noobs aren't running
