Homebrew Downgrade crashed at "getting CIA INFORMATION" brick? N3DS

[Harvest God]

Gee I wonder how much money Nintendo is making from bricks, than piracy

 

[The Real Jdbye]

NATIVE_FIRM partitions got corrupted. You have a hard-brick unfortunately. Also, until KTM comes out, REMOVE SAFE MODE TITLES FROM YOUR DOWNGRADE PACK!!!.

Unless you are downgrading an o3DS to something older then 6.0 or a Japanese console back to 8.1 (Not sure why you'd ever want to do that though... ), the safe mode stuff do not need to be touched as they haven't been updated since 9.0 on n3DS and 6.0 on o3DS. It will greatly reduce the chances of a hard-brick.

Though if NATIVE_FIRM gets borked you will probably still end up with a hard-brick. At least then the odds are much lower since there is more chances of stuff going wrong if you are needlessly downgrading safe mode stuff.

What's the title ID on the safe mode?

It won't touch any titles that are of the same version as the CIA, so it wouldn't matter.

Hello tempers i am having an issue where my NEW 3ds xl is not turning on fully after it crashing during the getting cia information stage of the downgrade. It will turn the blue light on but not the yellow one and recovery boot isn't working either. i have tried removing the micro sd and no luck but now it has had its battery removed for like 2 days... what should i do? i will get it again tomorrow as i live in a group home and they are angry about me possibly bricking it. they told me fix it or else we will have to buy a new one and you will pay for it. Please help me out,
Thanks,
NicholasCullihall

It sounds like you didn't use the newest version but used an old version without the safety improvements. The old version uninstalls everything at the "getting CIA information" stage before it starts installing the CIAs.

okay, thanks for everything guys. Time for a job i guess

If the 3DS is still under warranty just tell them it ran out of battery in the middle of an update and won't turn on anymore. They'll probably replace it free of charge.