Hacking Interestingly, Nintendo is aware of the brick code...

[Xzi]

http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/532/p/430/c/181

I don't know when this page was created, but it's possible that problems causing this same error code/bricking existed before Gateway's code which leads to the same thing. I'm not sure if Nintendo can identify that a third-party modification caused it or not, being that everything is zeroed out, but I'd be very interested to see the results if somebody were willing to send their bricked device in to Nintendo for repairs.

Just thought I'd point out the page. It includes a link to begin the repair process at the bottom.

 

[Kippykip]

Like to see how this goes!

 

[tHciNc]

Probably old, blue screens for 3ds have been around 2+ years
http://gbatemp.net/threads/3ds-blue-screen-of-death.311186/

 

[gamesquest1]

$99 using gateways restore methods.......yeah they got cloned and undercut again XD

 

[Cyberdrive]

Preserved for future generations.

Spoiler

Not sure if it matters, but still: recent bricks have different ERRCODE, and the second line reads all F's instead of all 0's as stated by Nintendo on that page.

Also, this very brick was reported WAY before the whole shitstorm:

hi, can you help me? my 3ds have this errcode:
00F800EF
FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF
00000022 00000000
"DAT lines are connected to other DAT lines" what does that means? what are these dat lines and where they are?
can i fix it manually? i live in mexico, and my only option is to send it to te united states to reparation, and is a lot of money.
can you explain me how to fix it? (i'm new in this, so if you explain me with pictures an all, i will apreciate it a lot)i think you know a lot
and i will be extremely grateful with this. im really eager to play again!