homebrewed 3ds takes a minute plus to boot

[st4ticbuzz]

i recently homebrewed an o3dsxl . i bought it very recently and it came completely hard reset , so there was nothing on it . i've homebrewed it and everything seems to be working fine , except it takes around a minute to boot when i turn it on . i have a 64gb sd card , formatted to fat32 with a 64kb cluster size . i have no games installed , just some homebrew apps and some themes/splashes . i tried with an empty 4gb sd card and it only took about 5 seconds to boot . i know larger sd cards have slower booting times , but this seems ridiculous . i've tried googling it , but nothing i've tried so far has helped . any advice ? thanks in advance

 

[Hayato213]

It been even worse if you used 32kb cluster though.

 

[Kwyjor]

Copy everything off the card, format the card again, test the empty card with h2testw, and then copy everything back if the test is okay. See if that helps.

Even a brand-new card can have problems.

 

[st4ticbuzz]

Copy everything off the card, format the card again, test the empty card with h2testw, and then copy everything back if the test is okay. See if that helps.

Even a brand-new card can have problems.

i already used h2testw when i got the card , and it didn't have any problems . will it work differently now that i've actually used it ? i've already has some weird formatting problems with this card before - i formatted it to fat32 with guiformat when i first got it , but the 3ds didn't reconize it at all . i had to use my friend's homebrewed 3ds to reformat my card with godmode9 before it actually worked . do you think this has anything to do with it ?

 

[Hayato213]

What card you are using ?

 

[Kwyjor]

i already used h2testw when i got the card , and it didn't have any problems .

That is a useful thing to mention.

will it work differently now that i've actually used it ?

It's possible, but kind of unlikely.

i've already has some weird formatting problems with this card before - i formatted it to fat32 with guiformat when i first got it , but the 3ds didn't reconize it at all . i had to use my friend's homebrewed 3ds to reformat my card with godmode9 before it actually worked . do you think this has anything to do with it ?

That is necessary in certain cases.

 

[st4ticbuzz]

What card you are using ?

sandisk ultra plus 64gb , purchased at target . not from like ebay or something

Post automatically merged: Aug 17, 2023

That is a useful thing to mention.

yeah , i realize that now , sorry ! i tried to include as much info as i could but of course i forgot something lol

It's possible, but kind of unlikely.

That is necessary in certain cases.

what would you recommend , then ? should i try doing what you suggested above and trying h2testw again ? i can't say i particually WANT to do that , but it's not like i have any idea what's even causing it , so if that's the best option i guess it wouldn't hurt

 

[Hayato213]

May want to try another card, I am able to get under 30 seconds with 64kb cluster.

 

[Kwyjor]

should i try doing what you suggested above and trying h2testw again ? i can't say i particually WANT to do that , but it's not like i have any idea what's even causing it , so if that's the best option i guess it wouldn't hurt

There's not a whole lot else you can do. Sometimes just copying files off the card and back again is enough to have some effect.

 

[AWESOMEGAMER]

What kind of microSd card so you have.
Samsung (maybe Sony) Scandisk and Kinston
Do not go below these and what about your adapter

I have had a whole lot of cheap cards and adapters break and just fall apart just by looking at them. Not a joke >-(

Also how big is your card the bigger your card the slower your games, HB and save file will load, and the DS (fam) will turn on.
16g-20g the 2-3ds(n3ds) it will start to run a little slaw and the save files *wow*
Remember these are not pin drives

 

[ghjfdtg]

About 13 seconds boot time on New 3DS with 64GB microSD here. If your 3DS takes that long to boot with a smaller card something is wrong with it. With 128GB or more on the other hand it happens.

 

[AWESOMEGAMER]

:-? Well ....... No you cot a point there. I have a Samsung, and do not even count the boot up time
128G 1-2min depending on what I had just done
3-5m and there might be a stall or something
I just expect the loading to be slow, and swim around in all that memory :-)