Hacking n3DSXL has gave up on life

TurdPooCharger · Oct 5, 2020

am714 said:
I can guess both the CTRNAND and OTP hold this DeviceID thing then?

Clues of DeviceID are signed right in the legit tickets for eShop purchased titles, and the OTP is part of the bootrom(?) found on the ARM CPU.

It's why someone can't just dump their legit tickets, publicly upload them somewhere like to that ticket site, have others install the tickets on their 3DS systems, and then they (re)download your games. Nintendo would be suspicious from that (1) am714's copy of Pokemon Sun has been requested to be downloaded 125 times this past week, and (2) each request has a different DeviceID for the 3DS system from who requested it.

This is how Nintendo is able to ultra ban someone's 2DS/3DS from ever using their online services if they try to do a credit charge back or a person reported theirs was stolen / used by someone else who's not him/her.

am714 said:
P.S Wasn't OTP One Time Programmable?

Correct. It is. I get this acronym wrong all of the time. Thanks for the correction.

Aquadraws · Oct 5, 2020

TurdPooCharger said:
Correct. It is. I get this acronym wrong all of the time. Thanks for the correction.

There is one time for everything xD, anyways I'll to move the "whatever that thing is called" near the dpad

Aquadraws · Oct 5, 2020

I managed to stick two of these things together and they are making so much pressure lmao, hope they work.
EDIT: Don't be surprised if I tell the gamecard slot isn't working anymore.

The Real Jdbye · Oct 5, 2020

am714 said:
I hope you guys can help me with this one.

Since a while (around 2 years by now) my console is having crash issues. It can go from power light fading on and off(the micro sd card with a working boot.firm is inserted) to unable to load CTRNand firm. The weirdest thing is that console starts "working properly" only if I slap it very hard on the back (No, I'm not kidding). Here's a list of the things it does the most commong one being power light fading off:

- Blue Light fades away like if boot.firm wasn't detected
- Unable to mount ctrnand firm use an external one
- External firm payload too big (what?)
- <insert random system process> crashes on boot
- Black screen but powered on
- Most of times system freezes when I try to go to the home menu from a software
- Using the volume slider might occasionally crash the system
- Tilting the top screen might occasionally crash the system
- This also happens in external firm payloads (like godmode9) rarely
- DS mode isn't affected

It's not really a problem for me if I end up using this as a paperweight I dumped all my games and saves to Citra, but still hope you can help me.

It sounds like at the very least you have some issue with the upper screen ribbon cable being damaged or not seated properly, which would cause the issues with the volume slider and tilting the screen. If the cable is damaged you'll need to replace the upper screen entirely.
The blue light shutting off instantly (not fading out as you said) would also be a symptom of that so make doubly sure it's indeed fading out.
The other issues may be firmware or corruption related issues that are fixable with software. TurdPooCharger is the most qualified to deal with that and it looks like he's already on it. Or they might be indications of some deeper hardware problem like the internal flash going bad.

Aquadraws · Oct 5, 2020

The Real Jdbye said:
The blue light shutting off instantly (not fading out as you said) would also be a symptom of that so make doubly sure it's indeed fading out.

Some times it fades off when attempting power on and sometimes while booted up to home menu / game it just completely shuts off like if battery was removed

The Real Jdbye said:
It sounds like at the very least you have some issue with the upper screen ribbon cable being damaged or not seated properly, which would cause the issues with the volume slider and tilting the screen. If the cable is damaged you'll need to replace the upper screen entirely.

I would have heard popping sounds if that was the issue, correct if wrong.

The Real Jdbye said:
The other issues may be firmware or corruption related issues that are fixable with software. TurdPooCharger is the most qualified to deal with that and it looks like he's already on it. Or they might be indications of some deeper hardware problem like the internal flash going bad.

This might indeed be eMMC problem but does not answer me how DPAD and Game Card slot are correlated and how these two not phisically touching will make the console unusuable

The Real Jdbye · Oct 5, 2020

am714 said:
Ssometimes while booted up to home menu / game it just completely shuts off like if battery was removed

Definitely a bad or not properly seated ribbon cable, I can't think of any software issue that would cause that, especially if it's also shutting down when you tilt the screen (there's no tilt sensor in the upper screen)

am714 said:
I would have heard popping sounds if that was the issue, correct if wrong.

That doesn't always happen.

am714 said:
This might indeed be eMMC problem but does not answer me how DPAD and Game Card slot are correlated and how these two not phisically touching will make the console unusuable

It might be multiple separate issues. Like some people said, it might be easiest just to get a new console.

Aquadraws · Oct 5, 2020

The Real Jdbye said:
Definitely a bad or not properly seated ribbon cable, I can't think of any software issue that would cause that, especially if it's also shutting down when you tilt the screen (there's no tilt sensor in the upper screen)

That doesn't always happen.

It might be multiple separate issues. Like some people said, it might be easiest just to get a new console.

probably right, might be easier to get a refurbed n2dsxl

Aquadraws · Oct 5, 2020

[deleted], ignore. I f'd the motherboard and anyways I can't find a cheap console from the New family (Unless from China, Nintendo Refurbished Consoles shop) so thanks anyone who tried to help, rip my New 3DS XL 25/12/2016-5/10/2020

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