Homebrew Disabling 3DS LED Lights with Homebrew?

[Urbanshadow]

It's kinda hard, but you can dim the lights with nail polish. Better to let your sister/gf do that, as it may be harder to do it nicely than a hardmod.

Dissasembling the transparent plastic piece to paint it separately is advised.

 

[Sono]

I just RE'd how to disable the other LEDs I won't write a program for that, since you can ONLY use the mcu::HWC service, which may be more dangerous than using a wrapper for it, so be careful!

 

[vb_encryption_vb]

I was more interested in why mcu crashes andva hardmod can't fix it is all.

Thanks

 

[Urbanshadow]

I was more interested in why mcu crashes andva hardmod can't fix it is all.

Thanks

Afaik, the MCU unit also manages acpi power states with i2c, so if you brick the MCU, the system is not able to redistribute acpi states. A correct power on cant be achieved so I asume bootrom would not boot. Hardmod uses a bootrom error. Hardmod wont help.

 

[Sono]

Welp, I found a way to dim both the wifi LED and the power LED using software

 

[SomeGamer]

Welp, I found a way to dim both the wifi LED and the power LED using software

Awesome! What's next?

 

[Sono]

Soooo? What's next?

Dimming the 3DS out of existance
Bricking your 3DS

Dimming the charging LED, I guess I doubt that's possible, but seeing the stuff I found, and knowing Ninty, it might be possible

Edit: no, it's not possible

 

[SomeGamer]

Dimming the 3DS out of existance
Bricking your 3DS

Dimming the charging LED, I guess I doubt that's possible, but seeing the stuff I found, and knowing Ninty, it might be possible

I haven't found anything related to the charging LED in CTRAging. BTW, will you be adding WiFi and power LED settings to this app?

 

[Sono]

will you be adding WiFi and power LED settings to this app?

Well... since it's my program anyways, I can put in sleep timers, so I guess it might be worth a shot to add them in

 

[Sono]

Oh cool, it looks like it also affects the 3D light!

Spoiler: Big images

 

[SomeGamer]

Oh cool, it looks like it also affects the 3D light!

Spoiler: Big images

Can't wait for this to become an universal LED manager!

 

[Sono]

Can't wait for this to become an universal LED manager!

Well... even though I have stress tested the MCU functions (calling it 60times a second) with success, I doubt I'll include the LED dimmer, since it writes directly as possible to an MCU register, but I may change my mind

 

[SomeGamer]

Well... even though I have stress tested the MCU functions (calling it 60times a second) with success, I doubt I'll include the LED dimmer, since it writes directly as possible to an MCU register, but I may change my mind

The pattern editor alone would be quite awesome!

 

[ih8ih8sn0w]

Interesting stuff... It would be cool if you could safely gain control of the notification light.

 

[Sono]

Interesting stuff... It would be cool if you could safely gain control of the notification light.

The RGB LED is already 100% safe to use, so you don't need to worry about that

 

[nooby89]

What is a MCU brick ?

 

[ih8ih8sn0w]

What is a MCU brick ?

An unrecoverable brick basically, which is caused by messing with MCU related stuff (most notably the LEDs, you can find more information on 3dbrew)

 

[nooby89]

An real unrecoverable brick is eerie.
Because, habitually the hardmod can solve the problem.

 

[Sono]

As I said countless times, it is safe!

I have risked my old3DS to stress-test the MCU functions at 60fps, and I didn't brick! yellows8 must have had an extremely bad luck, because I didn't manage to brick with SetInfoLEDPattern (arbitrary values are allowed as long as the changes are not rapid), nor with WriteRegister (I knew what parmeters to use, using arbitrary values is a GUARANTEED brick)

 

[Skyshadow101]

I think someone tried, and it is possible (see ctraging) but if you do it incorrectly, you can get a MCU brick (cannot be recovered by NAND backup)

1st. What is an MCU brick?

2nd. It can't even be recovered by a hardmod?

Sorry, I just love to learn about these sort of things!

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