Hacking Bricked :(

[V0LT!GE]

The real reason why he failed and bricked his n3ds is that he updated 2.1 basta.

 

[royant1]

Should have come to this forum and ask for help when failing to restore backup instead of upgrading the firmware assuming it will be okay.

If that was a viable option, it would've been mentioned as alternative in the guide.

You are absolutely right, completely dumb from my side. At least I will have a hard moded device to play with

 

[mgrev]

But what do you suppose caused you to fail upgrading to begin with? That's the real issue. You wouldn't be where you are now if that hadn't happened. Did you use the newest version of OTPhelper linked to in the Plailect guide?

I have no way to try this, and i won't reccomend it to anyone, but i think you can update to 4.5 via cart. then set up a cfw on sysnand with no firm patch(like rxtools devmode). and then use sysupdater with the N3ds files.

 

[LuigiXL]

Just to be clear.. I shouldn't use 2.1 on my N3DS? As the guide im following seems to say i can?

 

[V0LT!GE]

Yes u can and u must use 2.1 but u know that 2.1 was only for o3ds right? And that why u needed to patch the bricked emunand with 2.1 and if u update form 2.1 on n3ds u will brick and why? because the n3ds never had 2.1 update

Without 2.1 u would never be able to dumb ur otp.bin

 

[regnad]

Wouldn't this have been prevented if he used the sysnand backup validation in otphelper? Not sure if it's in plailects guide, but it should be.

What does this do? Does this check immediately after a dump if everything went well?

 

[LuigiXL]

Currently trying my first A9LH on N3DS

 

[Just Passing By]

Yes u can and u must use 2.1 but u know that 2.1 was only for o3ds right? And that why u needed to patch the bricked emunand with 2.1 and if u update form 2.1 on n3ds u will brick and why? because the n3ds never had 2.1 update

Without 2.1 u would never be able to dumb ur otp.bin

I think you're scaring the guy too much. Now OTPhelper does all the patching for N3ds users, so no need to worry.

Currently trying my first A9LH on N3DS

You got this man!

 

[V0LT!GE]

I know that sorry that i scared a bit but its the point... but if u do what the guide says u'll be fine like me or others

U can do it @LuigiXL

 

[royant1]

Currently trying my first A9LH on N3DS

Good luck. I successfully did it twice. Just make sure to come here in case something weird happens, don't make my mistake. I could have easily avoided bricking if i came here first when i wasn't sure what to do.

 

[EarlAB]

Sorry to hear that...

\/↓↓Screw him↓↓\/

 

[XxShalevElimelechxX]

IKR

 

[gkoelho]

The update seemed to work fine. The device did a reset and didn't load. I do see the blue light on.

I have a sysnand backup.

You can not update from 2.1 N3DS, even it updating, it brokes the firms. Your nand backups are probably invalid due to some kind of corruption or fragmentation.

- If you downgraded to 2.1.0 on New 3DS but for some reason have no functional NAND backups(with or without a functional browser), I am working on a possible solution involving EmuNAND + NCSD / Crypto trickery.

https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/3DS-Stuck-(2.1.0-Without-Functional-Browser)

https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/NAND-Size

 

[regnad]

Does SysNAND validation checker on OTPHelper check to make sure the dumped NAND is okay, i.e. the kind of corruption/fragmentation/dumpingerror that probably caused OP's problems? Can this be checked immediately before advancing to the next step?

I've successfully A9LHed my O3DS, but I'm nervous to do my N3DS. If OTPHelper can do this, it would make me a lot less nervous.

 

[XxShalevElimelechxX]

You can not update from 2.1 N3DS, even it updating, it brokes the firms. Your nand backups are probably invalid due to some kind of corruption or fragmentation.

- If you downgraded to 2.1.0 on New 3DS but for some reason have no functional NAND backups(with or without a functional browser), I am working on a possible solution involving EmuNAND + NCSD / Crypto trickery.

https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/3DS-Stuck-(2.1.0-Without-Functional-Browser)

https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/NAND-Size

But he BRICKED..!
He said he updated his 3DS and now he has a BLACK SCREEN.

 

[gkoelho]

Does SysNAND validation checker on OTPHelper check to make sure the dumped NAND is okay, i.e. the kind of corruption/fragmentation/dumpingerror that probably caused OP's problems? Can this be checked immediately before advancing to the next step?

I've successfully A9LHed my O3DS, but I'm nervous to do my N3DS. If OTPHelper can do this, it would make me a lot less nervous.

U can check Nand sizes, they usually all have the same.

https://github.com/Plailect/Guide/wiki/NAND-Size

The nand backup I Did during the otp process was just 844mb and was not being recognized(probably cause was corrupted and D0ke wrote code to protect from it).
Fortunately I could use my initial 9.2 backup just fine thanks due to the multiple backups Plaleict's guide instructs you to do. Actually this is one of the reason I truly think the guide is mostly Safe, He double protects you from basically everything that can go wrong, all should be fine if u do everything as stated.

But he BRICKED..!
He said he updated his 3DS and now he has a BLACK SCREEN.

Several users have reported done the same as OP and bricked afterwards. probably some corruption happens when over-ridding the unbricked 2.1 nand for the 9.2 on the N3DS(system which actually was produced way after 2.1 was gone)

 

[Graham182]

Why were you trying to restore sysnand from 2.1 to 9.2, when it should have been emunand that was downgraded to 2.1?

 

[gkoelho]

Why were you trying to restore sysnand from 2.1 to 9.2, when it should have been emunand that was downgraded to 2.1?

U have to flash Emunand to Sysnand in order to get the OTP

 

[Graham182]

U have to flash Emunand to Sysnand in order to get the OTP

Ok, downgrade emu first just so if it fails it's a whole lot easier to recover from? I thought the idea was so you could extract otp directly from the emunand (which should have the otp as well?)

 

[Cuphat]

Ok, downgrade emu first just so if it fails it's a whole lot easier to recover from? I thought the idea was so you could extract otp directly from the emunand (which should have the otp as well?)

You can't extract the OTP from EmuNAND, in fact, there is no CFW that can load a 2.1 EmuNAND. It's just for safety, to make sure the downgrade process goes smoothly, since it doesn't always and a failed downgrade is a brick.