ROM Hack Help my 3ds boots with black screens

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Hey so I'm having a problem where out of nowhere my 3ds is booting with both screens black.It seems to boot up fine and I can hear the home menu sounds but the screens are still black.My 3ds does have cfw installed.
Is there anyhing I can do?

*update* I can boot into luma.
 
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Also my 3ds is already up to date and boots into recovery mode successfully but still has black screens when I boot it up normally, so I know my screens are not damaged.

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Take out the battery, take out the SD card, and reseat them, see if that works.
Already did.
 
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The reason for content of the root of your SD card is for people to check to see if you are missing any key files, not sure if you messed up your nand.
 

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The reason for content of the root of your SD card is for people to check to see if you are missing any key files, not sure if you messed up your nand.
I have all the normal files and never deleted anything so I have no idea why it would.

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The reason for content of the root of your SD card is for people to check to see if you are missing any key files, not sure if you messed up your nand.
Anyway what do you want me to show you?
 

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It happens to me too sometimes but the screen will turn on after a few seconds, try leaving it on for a few minutes and see if anything happens
 
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Oh no. You're victim #6 of this BSoD soft brick.

Black Screens, Everything works in system update mode, Error when camera disconnected

N3DS XL Black Screen of Death

3ds bricked itself, can't figure out why or how to fix.

Big Problem with a possible Brick on New 3ds XL

Black screens on n3ds xl

Prognosis: really bad. Not fixable/no known work around.

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On August 22, 2018, gisel213 solved and provided the solution in fixing this BSoD brick.
 
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We could tell you try sysNAND (Full & safe) restore, CTRtransfer, and Lazarus3DS... but I haven't yet seen one person recover from this specific brick.
I'm gonna try to update luma and see what happens

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We could tell you try sysNAND (Full & safe) restore, CTRtransfer, and Lazarus3DS... but I haven't yet seen one person recover from this specific brick.
Yeah still nothing.
 
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Yeah still nothing.
I have a far fetched idea that I've been meaning to ask those in your spot to try, but only if they agree to the procedure and feel their 3DS is in purgatory at this point with no other options. I'm afraid to ask of this as this may make matters worse.

Before I consider sharing what it entails if you feel comfortable doing so, I would like to know if you've already tried:

- restoring in GodMode9 your sysNAND when you first installed CFW
- attempted CTRtransfer
- attempted Lazarus3DS
 

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We could tell you try sysNAND (Full & safe) restore, CTRtransfer, and Lazarus3DS... but I haven't yet seen one person recover from this specific brick.
nvm ask away I'll go through with it I guess, if it helps somebody else get theirs' fixed.

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I have a far fetched idea that I've been meaning to ask those in your spot to try, but only if they agree to the procedure and feel their 3DS is in purgatory at this point with no other options. I'm afraid to ask of this as this may make matters worse.

Before I consider sharing what it entails if you feel comfortable doing so, I would like to know if you've already tried:

- restoring in GodMode9 your sysNAND when you first installed CFW
- attempted CTRtransfer
- attempted Lazarus3DS
Also I'm still trying to figure out how to do the stuff you mentioned above.
 
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Also I'm still trying to figure out how to do the stuff you mentioned above.

When you first installed CFW using the 3ds.guide, you should have been instructed in dumping and backing up your sysNAND. The file should look like this:
######_QW########_sysnand_000.bin , with a size of about 1.20 GB. That file should have been kept in safe place on your computer, flash drive, or hard drive.

If you have that sysNAND file, you would place a copy on your SD card at /gm9/out/ folder. In GodMode9, there is script called Restore SysNAND (Full) you run by pressing Home button > Scripts... This would roll back the sysNAND on your 3DS to a good, working copy.

CTRtransfer, in case you don't have your sysNAND
https://3ds.hacks.guide/ctrtransfer.html
https://3ds.hacks.guide/ctrtransfer.html
Lazarus3DS, in case CTRtransfer and sysNAND restore fails.
https://github.com/AnalogMan151/Lazarus3DS/tree/master/scripts

All three methods utilize GodMode9 scripts. If those scripts are not already on your SD card, you can find them here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-godmode9-scripts-megathread.482150/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/gm9-script-all-in-one-megascript.496619/
 

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When you first installed CFW using the 3ds.guide, you should have been instructed in dumping and backing up your sysNAND. The file should look like this:
######_QW########_sysnand_000.bin , with a size of about 1.20 GB. That file should have been kept in safe place on your computer, flash drive, or hard drive.

If you have that sysNAND file, you would place a copy on your SD card at /gm9/out/ folder. In GodMode9, there is script called Restore SysNAND (Full) you run by pressing Home button > Scripts... This would roll back the sysNAND on your 3DS to a good, working copy.

CTRtransfer, in case you don't have your sysNAND
https://3ds.hacks.guide/ctrtransfer.html
Lazarus3DS, in case CTRtransfer and sysNAND restore fails.
https://github.com/AnalogMan151/Lazarus3DS/tree/master/scripts

All three methods utilize GodMode9 scripts. If those scripts are not already on your SD card, you can find them here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-godmode9-scripts-megathread.482150/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/gm9-script-all-in-one-megascript.496619/
You mean the NANDmin.bin?
 
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