This has been a great help to getting my nephew's n3ds working again. He's had problems with the camera pretty much since I hacked it. The system still worked up till a couple weeks ago when he said it bricked. Can't believe it was all due to the camera.
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@Msama
Did replacing the camera work or was it in vain?
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@Msama
Did replacing the camera work or was it in vain?
@gisel213 I made an account just so I can thank you!
I got a N3DS XL that I haven't used it in a while. It was out of battery so i decided to charge it for a couple of hours. After awhile I picked it up i noticed that the back plate is bulging a bit so i decided to investigate. It turns out the battery was bloated (nani?!). I quickly removed it and ordered a replacement battery from Amazon. The battery arrived after a couple of days and I installed it, but alas, BSOD.
After searching for hours for a fix, i found this post. I opened the back and disconnected the camera ribbon cable and turned the 3DS on. It worked!! I turned the system off again and re-attached the camera cable and it booted! everything works again. Thanks!
I got a N3DS XL that I haven't used it in a while. It was out of battery so i decided to charge it for a couple of hours. After awhile I picked it up i noticed that the back plate is bulging a bit so i decided to investigate. It turns out the battery was bloated (nani?!). I quickly removed it and ordered a replacement battery from Amazon. The battery arrived after a couple of days and I installed it, but alas, BSOD.
After searching for hours for a fix, i found this post. I opened the back and disconnected the camera ribbon cable and turned the 3DS on. It worked!! I turned the system off again and re-attached the camera cable and it booted! everything works again. Thanks!
@gisel213 came here to thank you too, your tip saved a Majora's Mask Edition new3DS XL that was rotting in my attic since 3 years ago!! Now it fully works, I replaced the cameras and is like that time hasn't passed for it since then.
Thank you very much!!!
Thank you very much!!!
Well, I just wanted to share photos from the saved 3DS, for me, its one of the most beautiful Special editions alongside the Pikachu and the Samus editions. It even looks New Despite being purchased since 2016 
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This DID fix mine as well. Thanks gisel213 (and TurdPooCharger).
I'm also adding that this:
Did NOT work for me, but that is to be expected. That's because some people, like Benimaru, might just have a dirty/bad connection, which unplugging it and plugging it back in fixes. Most of us though, with bad cables, would not be so lucky that just a re-plug in would fix it.
I also want to shamelessly add that I predicted this fix back at the start of my thread. Since we knew this was only happening to "new" styles, I guessed that it had to be related to one of the new features. I picked the wrong one of the main two (brightness sensor instead of new camera assembly) though...
I had the same issue. Bought a new 3ds xl that wouldn’t turn on. Both screens black but can hear music in the background and bottling into safe mode turned the screens on. Couldn’t figure it out for days. Swapped motherboards to check and see if motherboards in a different working 3ds and they were fine. So I tried disconnecting the camera ribbon cable and the system turned on. My guess it had something to do with the sensor on the camera that wouldn’t turn the screen on.
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I had the same issue. Bought a n3dsxl from eBay that had both screens black but played sound in the background. Screen would only work when doing the L+R+up+A. I even swapped motherboards into working 3ds and they were fine. I fixed the issue by unplugging the camera ribbon cable and the system turned on. My guess the sensor that is on the camera went bad and won’t turn the screens on when booting.
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I had the same issue. Bought a n3dsxl from eBay that had both screens black but played sound in the background. Screen would only work when doing the L+R+up+A. I even swapped motherboards into working 3ds and they were fine. I fixed the issue by unplugging the camera ribbon cable and the system turned on. My guess the sensor that is on the camera went bad and won’t turn the screens on when booting.
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