Hardware A9LH 2DS refusing to boot up

[opcnuggdaves]

Hey all,
I've had this 2DS of mine collecting dust for a while now, and it's on A9LH. The screen's broken, so I don't know the firmware version. It's probably somewhere around 11.0 - 11.2.
I do have a replacement screen though. I just want it to boot up before I make any unnecessary mistakes.
The original SD card is missing, and I know there's a tutorial on how resurrect these 3DSes, but it just isn't working for me no matter what version of "arm9loaderhax.bin" I put on my SD card.
Please help me if you can, and thank you in advance.

 

[Hayato213]

https://github.com/AuroraWright/Luma3DS/releases/tag/v7.0.5

Try this but you should try to fix that screen first, if the screen isn't fixed there is no point attempting to fix the custom firmware regardless. One more thing there are no bumping allow here on Gbatemp.

 

[opcnuggdaves]

Try this but you should try to fix that screen first, if the screen isn't fixed there is no point attempting to fix the custom firmware regardless. One more thing there are no bumping allow here on Gbatemp.

Thank you, however I've tried that release.
Sorry about that btw lol, I'll fix the screen ASAP.

 

[opcnuggdaves]

Alright, so something strange just happened. I fixed the screen, and I did all of that, right? So I put the "arm9loaderhax.bin" file on the root of the SD card, and the 2DS still does not want to boot.

 

[Hayato213]

You sure you installed A9LH or did you installed B9S?

 

[opcnuggdaves]

You sure you installed A9LH or did you installed B9S?

100% it was A9LH. It does the thing where you remove the SD card and can't boot it up.

 

[Hayato213]

100% it was A9LH. It does the thing where you remove the SD card and can't boot it up.

7.0.5 was the last luma3ds that support A9LH, if that doesn't help, im not sure, with the 7.0.5 arm9loaderhax.bin on the root of the sd, what happen when you hold down select while turning it on?

 

[opcnuggdaves]

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7.0.5 was the last luma3ds that support A9LH, if that doesn't help, im not sure, with the 7.0.5 arm9loaderhax.bin on the root of the sd, what happen when you hold down select while turning it on?

Nothing.

 

[Hayato213]

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Nothing.

Doesn't sound like you install A9LH. If you did had A9LH it should bring up the Luma3ds configuration menu. Perhaps you installed Boot9strap or you never had cfw.

 

[Kwyjor]

100% it was A9LH. It does the thing where you remove the SD card and can't boot it up.

But that also happens with b9s – i.e., when you don't install Luma to the NAND.

 

[TurdPooCharger]

Check if you have old boot9strap v1.0 installed. Rename and add SafeB9SInstaller to the root of the SD card.

• SafeB9SInstaller.firm → boot.firm
  • sdmc:/boot.firm