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mrSwitch · May 30, 2017

Okay I think I've bricked my system. Help!

So I have a new 3ds and a while ago I followed the 3ds guide to get a9lh installed on my SysNAND, all worked a-ok. I wanted to sell the machine which I tried with the CFW installed but ebay kept taking my listing down so I thought I would restore back to stock factory for sale. I booted into Decrypt9 by holding left when booting my device, in Decrypt 9 I then made a backup of my current system and then went on to restore the backup I made when asked to in the 3ds guide before installing a9lh ( I chose the option to restore backup out of the 3, restore, forced restore, restore keep a9lh). Decrypt 9 did its thing, I watched the % tick up, it then rebooted, blue light then turned off. Now it wont boot. Black screen and blue light comes on for around 12 seconds then it turns off. Ive tried holding left, start, with SD card, without SD card, with arm9loaderhax.bin on sd card and without. Was running 11.2

Any ideas greatly appreciated

EDIT: Found my Decrypt9 log, looks like I didn't copy the .sha over so maybe it was corrupted?:
You selected [NAND Restore].
!!! THIS WILL OVERWRITE THE A9LH !!!
!!! INSTALLATION IN YOUR SYSNAND !!!
If you wish to proceed, enter:
<Right>, <Down>, <Left>, <Down>, <A>
(B to return, START to reboot)
Selected: [NAND Restore]
Use arrow keys and <A> to choose a file
NANDmin.bin
Validating NAND dump NANDmin.bin...
Verifying dump via .SHA...
.SHA not found, skipped
Opening NANDmin.bin ...
Small NAND backup, using minimum size...
Restoring SysNAND. Size (MB): 1240
NAND Restore: succeeded!
Press B to return, START to reboot.

Quantumcat · May 31, 2017

mrSwitch said:
Okay I think I've bricked my system. Help!

So I have a new 3ds and a while ago I followed the 3ds guide to get a9lh installed on my SysNAND, all worked a-ok. I wanted to sell the machine which I tried with the CFW installed but ebay kept taking my listing down so I thought I would restore back to stock factory for sale. I booted into Decrypt9 by holding left when booting my device, in Decrypt 9 I then made a backup of my current system and then went on to restore the backup I made when asked to in the 3ds guide before installing a9lh ( I chose the option to restore backup out of the 3, restore, forced restore, restore keep a9lh). Decrypt 9 did its thing, I watched the % tick up, it then rebooted, blue light then turned off. Now it wont boot. Black screen and blue light comes on for around 12 seconds then it turns off. Ive tried holding left, start, with SD card, without SD card, with arm9loaderhax.bin on sd card and without. Was running 11.2

Any ideas greatly appreciated

EDIT: Found my Decrypt9 log, looks like I didn't copy the .sha over so maybe it was corrupted?:
You selected [NAND Restore].
!!! THIS WILL OVERWRITE THE A9LH !!!
!!! INSTALLATION IN YOUR SYSNAND !!!
If you wish to proceed, enter:
<Right>, <Down>, <Left>, <Down>, <A>
(B to return, START to reboot)
Selected: [NAND Restore]
Use arrow keys and <A> to choose a file
NANDmin.bin
Validating NAND dump NANDmin.bin...
Verifying dump via .SHA...
.SHA not found, skipped
Opening NANDmin.bin ...
Small NAND backup, using minimum size...
Restoring SysNAND. Size (MB): 1240
NAND Restore: succeeded!
Press B to return, START to reboot.

Maybe you still have a9lh - with a brick the light wouldn't turn off. Try putting the Decrypt9 bin file in the root of the card named arm9loaderhax.bin and turn on your console. If you get into Decrypt9 then you can do a 9.2 CTR transfer. After that, use SafeArm9Installer (if you can find it) to uninstall a9lh.

mrSwitch · May 31, 2017

Quantumcat said:
Try putting the Decrypt9 bin file in the root of the card named arm9loaderhax.bin and turn on your console

Thanks for the idea. No luck though same result, bluelight for 12ish seconds then turns appears to turnoff. Tried with latest version of Decrypt9 from GitHub too

Ricken · May 31, 2017

Dumb question; Does Fire Emblem; Shadows of Valentia run on O3DS?

Girafarig · May 31, 2017

KunoichiZ said:
What firmware is your system currently running?

11.4 (the latest one). 3ds.guide told me to update so I did

KunoichiZ · May 31, 2017

Girafarig said:
11.4 (the latest one). 3ds.guide told me to update so I did

Have you tried asking in the BootNTR Selector thread?

Ricken said:
Dumb question; Does Fire Emblem; Shadows of Valentia run on O3DS?

Yes it does.

Girafarig · May 31, 2017

KunoichiZ said:
Have you tried asking in the BootNTR Selector thread?

I have. I haven't gotten a response yet.

djalmafreestyler · May 31, 2017

What is LocalFriendCodeSeed_B? details if possible?
thanks

Girafarig · May 31, 2017

aight so apparently the thing I want to do is able to be done with just Luma, using the layeredFS feature. But that ain't working either. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Please help me. I am trying to install THIS. Here are some pictures, which I assume will make everyone's life easier.

EDIT: NEVER MIND I'M JUST AN IDIOT

Quantumcat · May 31, 2017

mrSwitch said:
Thanks for the idea. No luck though same result, bluelight for 12ish seconds then turns appears to turnoff. Tried with latest version of Decrypt9 from GitHub too

If you can't work it out then don't worry - you'll be able to unbrick using a DS flashcart soon :-) (only certain kinds, not sure if you'll need a working CFW 3DS to flash stuff to it. See Lia's or SciresM's posts).

KamiNoRyu · May 31, 2017

hi i got a friend who is asking about CFW and wants to know why cant any one use a pirated DSi ware to do the DSi ware hax transfer... he has no online access and was asking me and i looked but couldnt find any info about why you cant use a pirated DSi ware game todo anyting

Quantumcat · May 31, 2017

KamiNoRyu said:
hi i got a friend who is asking about CFW and wants to know why cant any one use a pirated DSi ware to do the DSi ware hax transfer... he has no online access and was asking me and i looked but couldnt find any info about why you cant use a pirated DSi ware game todo anyting

It won't get transferred if it wasn't bought.

aldo220 · May 31, 2017

Does anyone still working on another hack method for 11.4 version that wasn't the dsiware or harmod?

KamiNoRyu · May 31, 2017

Quantumcat said:
It won't get transferred if it wasn't bought.

can you explain in better detail?

Quantumcat · May 31, 2017

KamiNoRyu said:
can you explain in better detail?

Game tickets (what allows the game to work) are not transferred straight from 3DS to 3DS. The source console says to Nintendo servers, "hey, I'd like the target console to have all my stuff ". The servers say,"ok, let me check what I have on file here for what you bought. Game A and game B? Ok. I'll tell the target they are allowed to play those games." Then the target says, "Cool, so I can play game A and game B now? Thanks dude". Game C, the pirated DSiWare game, is not recorded on Nintendo's servers so it is not part of this process. If you want it to get transferred you have to buy it so the servers know to tell the target console it is allowed to play it.

Garou · May 31, 2017

KamiNoRyu said:
can you explain in better detail?

I believe what he meant was system transfer only move legitimate titles purchased from eshop
So that means even for other 3DS titles like FBI, etc won't be transferred to the new device. That includes pirated DSi games

KamiNoRyu · May 31, 2017

Quantumcat said:
Game tickets (what allows the game to work) are not transferred straight from 3DS to 3DS. The source console says to Nintendo servers, "hey, I'd like the target console to have all my stuff ". The servers say,"ok, let me check what I have on file here for what you bought. Game A and game B? Ok. I'll tell the target they are allowed to play those games." Then the target says, "Cool, so I can play game A and game B now? Thanks dude". Game C, the pirated DSiWare game, is not recorded on Nintendo's servers so it is not part of this process. If you want it to get transferred you have to buy it so the servers know to tell the target console it is allowed to play it.

ah ok is the DSi ware hax straight forward like buy the DSiWare on the source 3ds and transfer to the targeted 3ds or is it more to it if there is a detailed guide to do that?

Uumas · May 31, 2017

KamiNoRyu said:
ah ok is the DSi ware hax straight forward like buy the DSiWare on the source 3ds and transfer to the targeted 3ds or is it more to it if there is a detailed guide to do that?

3ds.guide has a section for dsiwarehax

mrSwitch · May 31, 2017

Quantumcat said:
If you can't work it out then don't worry - you'll be able to unbrick using a DS flashcart soon :-) (only certain kinds, not sure if you'll need a working CFW 3DS to flash stuff to it. See Lia's or SciresM's posts).

Thanks again for your help. Quick question I have a little progress I have managed to get some kind of boot into recovery mode by holding (L) + (R) + (A) + (Up) while booting with SD card out(doesn't work with it in). It then asks me to update systems settings. Would I be correct in thinking this should be a safe try(nothing else to lose) as in theory a9lh is not installed anymore because of the inability to boot into decrypt9 etc?

Quantumcat · May 31, 2017

mrSwitch said:
Thanks again for your help. Quick question I have a little progress I have managed to get some kind of boot into recovery mode by holding (L) + (R) + (A) + (Up) while booting with SD card out(doesn't work with it in). It then asks me to update systems settings. Would I be correct in thinking this should be a safe try(nothing else to lose) as in theory a9lh is not installed anymore because of the inability to boot into decrypt9 etc?

Should be ok. It might end with an error (I have a bricked console that can get into recovery mode but always fails. I tried to downgrade to the wrong region)

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