Hacking [Help] Probably Bricked

[Wolfy]

Hi, so I was using Plailect's tutorial on getting the OTP, and got up to this step...

1. Following the options on the main menu, restore your sysNAND from sysNAND.bin.
2. Cross your fingers.
3. Reboot.
4. If there is a black screen on reboot, try deleting the extdata folder in /Nintendo 3DS/XXX/XXX/ on your SD card or booting with the SD card out and reinserting it after boot.

And now my N3DS won't start up, I've deleted both extdata folders, and taken the SD card out and tried starting it up and only stays at a black screen with only the blue light lighting up...

I'm bricked aren't I?

(Previously) New3DS 9.2 SysNAND 10.5 EmuNAND + ReiNAND
Tutorial Used
https://github.com/Plailect/OTP/blob/master/New_3DS_Spider.md

 

[wsquan171]

You probably did something wrong editing 2.1emunand or had a bad luck in the process of restoring. Did the python script print out anything or the window just flash and close in fractions of a second?

 

[Wolfy]

The batch file command prompt displayed text progressively so I believed it was working fine.

 

[Deleted User]

Did you make a copy of the emuNAND_bricked before you ran the batch file? If so, compare the two hashes.

Or easier, open sysNAND.bin you flashed in a hex editor as well as the NCSD header from the pack. Check the values from beginning to 0x200 offset, are they the same or different?

Also, did you have 2 separate padgens? Both 0x4 and the other in their respective folders?

Nonetheless. Sounds like you got yourself a brick. If you followed the guide, you should at least have your original sysNAND backup so you can at least flash it back via a hardmod.

 

[tipsytoto]

Could be a softbrick, try going into recovery mode A+R+L+Up(DPad) held while powering it on.

 

[Wolfy]

Could be a softbrick, try going into recovery mode A+R+L+Up(DPad) held while powering it on.

Very sad to say it seems to be a hardbrick as that does not work.
But yes, I do have all the NAND backups, anyone know of someone who would be willing to do a hardmod? (USA>Rest Of The World)

 

[Xenon Hacks]

Very sad to say it seems to be a hardbrick as that does not work.
But yes, I do have all the NAND backups, anyone know of someone who would be willing to do a hardmod? (USA>Rest Of The World)

http://gbatemp.net/threads/list-of-hardmod-installers-by-region.414224/

 

[cooroxd]

Very sad to say it seems to be a hardbrick as that does not work.
But yes, I do have all the NAND backups, anyone know of someone who would be willing to do a hardmod? (USA>Rest Of The World)

ship the 3ds and your nand.bin backup to hundshammer and he'll do it for you professionally

 

[Myert]

I had the same "issue" , so I found around here the Arm9L Binary test file, to test it out. And It was working. So I finally found out that I was missing a firmwire.bin file in a folder or something like that. After that I was booting up directly to my emunand

 

[Wolfy]

I had the same "issue" , so I found around here the Arm9L Binary test file, to test it out. And It was working. So I finally found out that I was missing a firmwire.bin file in a folder or something like that. After that I was booting up directly to my emunand

Care to share the magical file that'll fix all our problems?

 

[Deleted User]

@hundshamer is your man.

I had the same "issue" , so I found around here the Arm9L Binary test file, to test it out. And It was working. So I finally found out that I was missing a firmwire.bin file in a folder or something like that. After that I was booting up directly to my emunand

Read the OP again. He never got to the OTP part. He's bricked downgrading to 2.1

 

[Myert]

Oops, sorry!
Well, I wish you luck Wolfy

 

[thaikhoa]

Did you try to unlink your NNID from emuNAND by formatting system?

 

[Wolfy]

Did you try to unlink your NNID from emuNAND by formatting system?

I used TinyFormat on EmuNAND according to the guide.

Oops, sorry!
Well, I wish you luck Wolfy

Tis a sad sad world T-T
Apparently it could be weeks before he could get to it...
Either it magically works or I get a new 3ds, didn't really want to spend $100+ right now, but I might need to.

 

[thaikhoa]

I used TinyFormat on EmuNAND according to the guide.



Tis a sad sad world T-T
Apparently it could be weeks before he could get to it...
Either it magically works or I get a new 3ds, didn't really want to spend $100+ right now, but I might need to.

NM black screen :|

 

[Wolfy]

Does the error look like
00F800FF
F8F8FFFF FFFFFFFF
0000000 0000000
?

If it is it, your emuNAND is linked either NNID or sysnand or couldn't change theme correctly.

I can't even see anything on the screen, it's black, no backlight, only the blue light.

 

[link270]

I've gotten into soldering quite a bit lately and have wanted to try out some hardmodding. Haven't done it on my own 3ds yet because it's brand new and I haven't had the need with all these new software bits coming about. I would be happy to negotiate something with you and attempt a hard mod on your unit. (If you can find someone else who has more experience and can for sure get it working again that might be a better option, but if you're getting desperate and would like me to give it a whirl before going out and buying a new one shoot me a PM. I won't charge anything unless I can get it working again.)

 

[Xenon Hacks]

I've gotten into soldering quite a bit lately and have wanted to try out some hardmodding. Haven't done it on my own 3ds yet because it's brand new and I haven't had the need with all these new software bits coming about. I would be happy to negotiate something with you and attempt a hard mod on your unit. (If you can find someone else who has more experience and can for sure get it working again that might be a better option, but if you're getting desperate and would like me to give it a whirl before going out and buying a new one shoot me a PM. I won't charge anything unless I can get it working again.)

Nice offer but @Wolfy should pay a professional with rep.

 

[Sniffynose]

Same thing happened to me OP, I bricked my first "Cross your Fingers" attempt, had to hard mod it wait for the sd adapter etc, then I did the whole thing over again and it worked the second time. I have no clue what messed up but it did, I'd go as far as saying before attempting this be prepared to hardmod because if you don't have a nand backup and the ability to hardmod you might screw yourself over.

 

[link270]

Nice offer but @Wolfy should pay a professional with rep.

I totally agree. Just putting it out there, since he said the other guys were pushed out pretty far and that he was considering just buying a replacement. So Rather than spending the money on a new device or waiting forever for a pro, he could send it to me to attempt the fix, I'm pretty confident in myself and my abilities, but it is true that I don't have a rep yet, hence why I won't charge anything if I can't get it totally working again.

But yeah, if you're not that desperate @Wolfy theb you are going to be better if looking into someone a bit more pro