A few days ago, my SNES N3DS started crapping out. It began with the blue light turning on just for a little bit, before fading out. No boot.
I re-inserted SIM card, battery, and that did the trick, but not always.
Then, every day it got worse, with random crashes after a few seconds getting into the home screen (various forms of ARM11 crashes, I have some logs), so I suspected that the SD card might be corrupt. I followed the advice here for error checking and reformatting it (it's a Samsung 128gb from Amazon that had no issues in over 2 years).
It did nothing. It started crashing without SD card. It crashes during godmode9, with or without SD card.
Everything is up to date, Luma 10.1 (I tried older versions to no avail), Godmode9 1.9.1
In my despair I attempted to reflash the stock CTRNAND via Godmode9. The process started alright, but in the middle of the process, GodMode9 just froze (no error message). Now it boots straight into an ARM11 error (I guess because of the interrupted CTRNAND transfer).
I'm able to launch into GodMode9 still, but I fear that the unit might suffer from some severe hardware damage that is not related to the SD card, or a corrupted SYSNAND. The most worrysome sign is a GodMode9 crash without error message during CTRNAND transfer.
Is there any hope for repair? I have a backup of the SYSNAND, and the essentials, from the 3ds.hack.guide procedure.
I re-inserted SIM card, battery, and that did the trick, but not always.
Then, every day it got worse, with random crashes after a few seconds getting into the home screen (various forms of ARM11 crashes, I have some logs), so I suspected that the SD card might be corrupt. I followed the advice here for error checking and reformatting it (it's a Samsung 128gb from Amazon that had no issues in over 2 years).
It did nothing. It started crashing without SD card. It crashes during godmode9, with or without SD card.
Everything is up to date, Luma 10.1 (I tried older versions to no avail), Godmode9 1.9.1
In my despair I attempted to reflash the stock CTRNAND via Godmode9. The process started alright, but in the middle of the process, GodMode9 just froze (no error message). Now it boots straight into an ARM11 error (I guess because of the interrupted CTRNAND transfer).
I'm able to launch into GodMode9 still, but I fear that the unit might suffer from some severe hardware damage that is not related to the SD card, or a corrupted SYSNAND. The most worrysome sign is a GodMode9 crash without error message during CTRNAND transfer.
Is there any hope for repair? I have a backup of the SYSNAND, and the essentials, from the 3ds.hack.guide procedure.
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