Hacking Bricked my 2ds

Povka · Feb 16, 2019

So the story is kinda long but I will try to make it clear.

I was using my 2ds for about 3 years now. My stock sysNAND is still 9.8 or 9.2 (can't remember. basically the browserhax version

)
I was using menuhax with aureinand (or something like that) for about a year until it stopped working, looked online and changed to Luma3ds. Still menuhax. All good.

After not using my 2ds for couple months, I turned it on today and updated my emuNAND. Tried launching homebrew launcher (failed to update payload).
I looked online, tried updating Luma3ds. Didn't work, still was 6.6 Luma
Updater said to switch to boot9strap, followed a tutorial and... bricked my 2ds.
After installing boot9strap with safeb9sinstaller my 2ds boots into this crash screen (I can also boot into godmode9 (whatever that is, it was in tutorial)).
Also, I cannot even boot into my sysnand. Holding R doesn't work, and booting without SD card just makes the blue light turn off immediately. Is this fixable or am i totally screwed?

EDIT: HOLDING L WHEN BOOTING PUTS ME INTO MY emuNAND

(This actually gives me hope now)
EDIT2: I can go into my sysNAND (Which is 9.2 btw, by booting with SD card with write-protection locked (the little switch on micro-sd card adapter)). It boots me into my sysnand with error message saying write protection is on, but i can just click ok. So maybe I can actually disable menuhax from here.

Shadd · Feb 16, 2019

At what step exactly did you get this error in? This would be a great help to unbricking your console (or at least your console's system) and possibly successfully upgrade your LumaCFW.

You might be able to get the backup of your system before you bricked it if you delete your "boot.firm" in the "luma" folder in "SYSNAND CTRNAND" with Godmode9 (just make a backup of that for whatever reason) and rename the "boot.firm.bak" to "boot.firm".

Povka · Feb 16, 2019

I had this error as soon as I installed boot9strap. However now, things are even worse, now I cannot do anything. When I turn on I just have a black screen that goes forever. I'm currently copying back my sd content from couple tries ago when it was still giving me this error

Povka · Feb 16, 2019

Okay, I'm in my godmode9 sysnand ctrnand. Where do I look for boot.firm?

EDIT: If it's supposed to be in top folder then only emuNAND ctrnand has one. I think maybe that's why it doesn't boot without SD card anymore :/

Amapola62 · Feb 16, 2019

Wait... maybe you're not bricked but getting an error because of Menuhax... have you tried clearing your home menu extdata?

Clear Home Menu extdata

Power off your device
Insert your SD card into your computer
Navigate to the /Nintendo 3DS/<32-character-id>/<32-character-id>/extdata/00000000/ folder on your SD card
Delete the extdata file corresponding to your region:
- EUR Region: 00000098
- JPN Region: 00000082
- USA Region: 0000008f
- CHN Region: 000000A1
- KOR Region: 000000A9
- TWN Region: 000000B1
Reinsert your SD card into your device

Povka · Feb 16, 2019

Thanks, deleting the folder now boots me into my sysnand. So what is my next objective? I don't know if I am in my real sysnand, or the b9s luma. It says "sys" instead of just numbers so i assume it's not an actual one. Should I follow the guide importing my emunand into this sysnand and update ir if I am on cfw sysnand?

EDIT: I can still boot into my emunand with L, godmode with start and luma options with select if that matters.
EDIT2: Rosalina menu works which means I am in custom cfw

Amapola62 · Feb 16, 2019

Well it says sys... so it would seem you are on Luma Bs9 sysnand... try pressing select before booting to see if you get Luma's config screen to be sure you have Luma installed

Povka · Feb 16, 2019

Okay, all fixed. Succesfully booted and imported data from my previous emunand. Thank you

Somari128 · Nov 24, 2020

My 2ds had cfw on it it said it had a system update and now it has a blue light no WiFi light and a black screen can someone please help me

lone_wolf323 · Nov 24, 2020

Somari128 said:
My 2ds had cfw on it it said it had a system update and now it has a blue light no WiFi light and a black screen can someone please help me

Did you update luma to 10.2.1? If not grab that file and put it on sd card root.

Somari128 · Nov 24, 2020

No I mean a 3ds system update because the eshop said it needed a system update to load

KleinesSinchen · Nov 24, 2020

Somari128 said:
My 2ds had cfw on it it said it had a system update and now it has a blue light no WiFi light and a black screen can someone please help me

Somari128 said:
No I mean a 3ds system update because the eshop said it needed a system update to load

Did you by any chance disable the ARM11 crash handler (not a good idea)?
All version 10.x of Luma except for the new v10.2.1 should crash with an ARM11 exception (process pm) on latest firmware 11.14.
It should not go black screens (except for when ARM11 crash handler is disabled).

Replace boot.firm with latest version and see if this fixes the problem.
https://github.com/LumaTeam/Luma3DS/releases/tag/v10.2.1

Remember to update the failsafe file on the NAND as well → CTRNAND Luma3DS

Good luck and have fun!

lone_wolf323 · Nov 24, 2020

Somari128 said:
No I mean a 3ds system update because the eshop said it needed a system update to load

Did you complete the latest firmware update?

Somari128 · Nov 24, 2020

A no I didn’t disable it and b it completed but it went to restart and now I’m here

Somari128 · Nov 24, 2020

I’m screwed aren’t I

KleinesSinchen · Nov 24, 2020

Somari128 said:
I’m screwed aren’t I

Have you already updated Luma3DS? This is the very first thing to try. Only v10.2.1 (and v9.1) will boot on latest official firmware.

If there is a softbrick from bad update there are troubleshooting methods as well.

Somari128 · Nov 24, 2020

This is my firmware version and I can’t access safe mode

KleinesSinchen · Nov 24, 2020

Somari128 said:
This is my firmware version and I can’t access safe mode

See… you disabled ARM11 crash handler (last checkbox) and still have v10.2 instead of v10.2.1

Removing (x) Disable Arm11 exception handlers should make your console boot into ARM11 crash instead of black screens and replacing boot.firm with latest version should make everything go back to normal.

Somari128 · Nov 24, 2020

Can you link me to that please

KleinesSinchen · Nov 24, 2020

Somari128 said:
Can you link me to that please

I already did:
https://github.com/LumaTeam/Luma3DS/releases/tag/v10.2.1

Download zip and extract boot.firm on your SD overwriting the previous version.

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