Hi everyone.
I bought today a second hand 3DS from eBay which I am about to return to the seller. However, I wanted to give a couple of things a try before doing so.
Let me quickly describe the situation.
The system came without an SD card. At first it would not turn on at all. It would hang at a black screen with blue light on. I tried a number of 'hacks' found online (on here and Reddit), for example closing the lid, holding down the power button until it shut down, and also removing the battery and inserting it again.
This latter trick helped because at least the system turned on after removing the battery. However, things are even more weird from here on. While the menus load, no options can be run (from music app, to system settings): everything does the 'click' sound but nothing actually loads. If I press the brightness button at the top, the system hangs. Also, I had the system randomly hang on me without pressing anything, as well as randomly shut down. It does not read game cartridges at all. It can't go into settings. Pressing L+R does not turn the camera on. In fact nothing seems to work software-wise. The 3D slider works fine, and I can see the stereoscopic effect fine. Buttons, Dpad, and analogue all work fine. Sound/audio also work.
I also seem to be unable to enter the recovery menu altogether.
Any ideas if this is some kind of software brick that can be fixed? As I said, I have no idea about the history of this device, nor if it even had homebrew on or not. The behaviour however seems erratic enough to suggest that something really bad happened to it.
Any ideas?
I bought today a second hand 3DS from eBay which I am about to return to the seller. However, I wanted to give a couple of things a try before doing so.
Let me quickly describe the situation.
The system came without an SD card. At first it would not turn on at all. It would hang at a black screen with blue light on. I tried a number of 'hacks' found online (on here and Reddit), for example closing the lid, holding down the power button until it shut down, and also removing the battery and inserting it again.
This latter trick helped because at least the system turned on after removing the battery. However, things are even more weird from here on. While the menus load, no options can be run (from music app, to system settings): everything does the 'click' sound but nothing actually loads. If I press the brightness button at the top, the system hangs. Also, I had the system randomly hang on me without pressing anything, as well as randomly shut down. It does not read game cartridges at all. It can't go into settings. Pressing L+R does not turn the camera on. In fact nothing seems to work software-wise. The 3D slider works fine, and I can see the stereoscopic effect fine. Buttons, Dpad, and analogue all work fine. Sound/audio also work.
I also seem to be unable to enter the recovery menu altogether.
Any ideas if this is some kind of software brick that can be fixed? As I said, I have no idea about the history of this device, nor if it even had homebrew on or not. The behaviour however seems erratic enough to suggest that something really bad happened to it.
Any ideas?