Markings on my New 2DS XL

[DragonMals]

Okay so uh... I woke up and my 2DS had a little bit of water on the top, and I dried it off and haven't touched it for a while. I turn it back on to see the markings Indie of the console, using the image as a reference.

I have had 3 DSses die on me due to situations like this, and while it can still turn on, I don't even know what to do at this point. The bottom screen looks unaffected and lighting can make it confusing to look at, but it's affecting a good majority of the screen.

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Okay, it didn't post the image, so I'm posting it a second time.

 

[Sono]

"little bit" of water?
That looks like it got dowsed in water for like an hour

Don't know how the new2DS is constructed, but if the actual display panel has no plastic front lens (so, you can touch the bare display panel instead of some front lens), then you're screwed. Something something capillary action, water likes to suck itself into small gaps due to surface tension shenanigans, and it will stay there. It's basically impossible to force it to evaporate from there.

If there is a front lens, then you may be able to take it apart (good luck without breaking the panel, which breaks even just by looking at it, let alone taking the thing apart), but just by how the image looks, you're most likely out of luck, and the water got into the display panel assembly.

I'm sorry :/

Edit: try to take a screenshot in a dark place, so the outside doesn't reflect on the screen, and skew what I see. It looks like there is a front plastic, so if you're really careful, you can remove the front lens, then very quickly wipe off the water before it gets sucked into the display. Although pretty sure that the new2DS display is bonded, so it should be quite difficult, but I'd get the water out as soon as I can. Don't rush though.

 

[DragonMals]

"little bit" of water?
That looks like it got dowsed in water for like an hour

Don't know how the new2DS is constructed, but if the actual display panel has no plastic front lens (so, you can touch the bare display panel instead of some front lens), then you're screwed. Something something capillary action, water likes to suck itself into small gaps due to surface tension shenanigans, and it will stay there. It's basically impossible to force it to evaporate from there.

If there is a front lens, then you may be able to take it apart (good luck without breaking the panel, which breaks even just by looking at it, let alone taking the thing apart), but just by how the image looks, you're most likely out of luck, and the water got into the display panel assembly.

I'm sorry :/

Well that's fine. When I've gotten the 2DS, we accidentally got another one in the mail and I could transfer my stuff to that. But I have a major question: if I use it, will I fry?

 

[Sono]

Well that's fine. When I've gotten the 2DS, we accidentally got another one in the mail and I could transfer my stuff to that. But I have a major question: if I use it, will I fry?

See my edit.

Also nah. I have a rusted Micro screen with two holes *in the actual display panel*, and it works perfectly. The panel itself is very difficult to be destroyed by just water sitting on it. It will just ruin the image quality by changing how it looks (see your own image), as long as the display panel is surrounded by more than one material (so, either submerge it in all water (lol), remove all water so there is just air, or bonded (similar qualities as submerging in water, but it hardens, and also acts as glue)).

 

[DragonMals]

See my edit.

Also nah. I have a rusted Micro screen with two holes *in the actual display panel*, and it works perfectly. The panel itself is very difficult to be destroyed by just water sitting on it. It will just ruin the image quality by changing how it looks (see your own image), as long as the display panel is surrounded by more than one material (so, either submerge it in all water (lol), remove all water so there is just air, or bonded (similar qualities as submerging in water, but it hardens, and also acts as glue)).

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I mean to send the images.

 

[Sono]

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I mean to send the images.

oooooooof...

Yeah, I have low hopes, especially because of the top-left corner. I can't see what you see, so I can only guess, but I hope that the water didn't get into the LCD layers yet...
Better clean out the water as soon as I can before it seeps in further.
Don't rush though, it's not THAT time-sensitive, take extreme care when opening the new2DS, as the display panel is extremely flimsy, it cracks at the slightest stress imaginable.

 

[DragonMals]

oooooooof...

Yeah, I have low hopes, especially because of the top-left corner. I can't see what you see, so I can only guess, but I hope that the water didn't get into the LCD layers yet...
Better clean out the water as soon as I can before it seeps in further.
Don't rush though, it's not THAT time-sensitive, take extreme care when opening the new2DS, as the display panel is extremely flimsy, it cracks at the slightest stress imaginable.

I'm doing the rice method to see what the outcome is until tomorrow because I am extremely limited in the options that I can do.

But even if the outcome is bad, I have a plentiful of backups but the transferring in the case of this one getting messed up, I don't know how to perform that. I remember a while back Nintendo offering DSI to 3DS, but idk if they still do that to this day. Especially since the eshop is offline. I mean I could mod the next one but how will I ensure that I'll be able to transfer through other means...

 

[Sono]

I'm doing the rice method to see what the outcome is until tomorrow because I am extremely limited in the options that I can do.

But even if the outcome is bad, I have a plentiful of backups but the transferring in the case of this one getting messed up, I don't know how to perform that. I remember a while back Nintendo offering DSI to 3DS, but idk if they still do that to this day. Especially since the eshop is offline. I mean I could mod the next one but how will I ensure that I'll be able to transfer through other means...

Rice doesn't work, don't even waste your time and resources, and don't contaminate anything.

If you can't do anything, then make sure that the water stays where it is, try to keep it away from the edges as much as possible. Oh, and make sure it doesn't drip down the flex cable hole into the main motherboard...
Otherwise it can stay on top of the screen mostly fine, and you'll have a slightly degraded visual experience.

 

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I'm doing the rice method to see what the outcome is until tomorrow because I am extremely limited in the options that I can do.

You can use silica packets, they will do the job much better and shouldn't leave any residue.

 

[DragonMals]

Now for some reason there's something stuck in the charger port and I tried getting it out but it split in half with the other part coming out but the other one getting even further in the port. I don't even know if it's possible using it.

I'll wait until I'm done camping to deal with this but I'll just get another 3DS to transfer the data from it.

 

[zxr750j]

Go and play steel diver, you'll get the full submersive experience!

Just kidding, it would be a waist of a nice handheld if you can't get it fixed.

 

[DragonMals]

If anyone can still see this, is it possible to transfer from a Modded 3DS to a Stock one? Ofc the Modded stuff won't get put on there, but is it just safe to Mod the stock to then make the transfer?

 

[Sono]

If anyone can still see this, is it possible to transfer from a Modded 3DS to a Stock one? Ofc the Modded stuff won't get put on there, but is it just safe to Mod the stock to then make the transfer?

I literally did exactly this, old3DS to new3DSXL. I just chose the SDCard method instead of the WiFi method, and got to keep some homebrew as a result
Most homebrew did turn into a black square on the Home Menu though... I have no idea how this worked, but it did. Although in hindsight, those were probably already corrupted/unlaunchable, and the Home Menu icon cache just got destroyed when re-transferring, as they don't launch on my old3DS either (I actually backed up the NAND pre-transfer, and restored it, that's how I know).

 

[DragonMals]

I literally did exactly this, old3DS to new3DSXL. I just chose the SDCard method instead of the WiFi method, and got to keep some homebrew as a result
Most homebrew did turn into a black square on the Home Menu though... I have no idea how this worked, but it did. Although in hindsight, those were probably already corrupted/unlaunchable, and the Home Menu icon cache just got destroyed when re-transferring, as they don't launch on my old3DS either (I actually backed up the NAND pre-transfer, and restored it, that's how I know).

I actually done this already and the transfer process is normal, although I forgotten to install faketik and now I've lost all my other games.

Although I do want to take the homebrew off the affected 2DS as it's pretty much unusable (i don't want to play with a screen as messed up as what i have), I have to change it to the SD card that I had on the other 3DS, and.. uh. I don't know how that works. At least the 2DS still has gmode9.

 

[Sono]

I actually done this already and the transfer process is normal, although I forgotten to install faketik and now I've lost all my other games.

Although I do want to take the homebrew off the affected 2DS as it's pretty much unusable (i don't want to play with a screen as messed up as what i have), I have to change it to the SD card that I had on the other 3DS, and.. uh. I don't know how that works. At least the 2DS still has gmode9.

For the SDCard method, you just copy the Nintendo 3DS folder *before* some step in the transfer process, and you can keep your games. Or at least, I don't remember messing around with any tickets, or reinstalling any non-corrupted programs.
Although I may be wrong, as this was ~7yrs ago after all

 

[DragonMals]

For the SDCard method, you just copy the Nintendo 3DS folder *before* some step in the transfer process, and you can keep your games. Or at least, I don't remember messing around with any tickets, or reinstalling any non-corrupted programs.
Although I may be wrong, as this was ~7yrs ago after all

I'll probably do a sysNAND backup on my "broken" 3DS in the case of a brick. I don't want to ask in the Nintendo Homebrew Discord as for every problem I've had there, it either didn't get solved, or I solved the issue myself.

 

[Kwyjor]

I actually done this already and the transfer process is normal, although I forgotten to install faketik and now I've lost all my other games.

Not sure what you mean. It's never too late to run Faketik.

 

[DragonMals]

Not sure what you mean. It's never too late to run Faketik.

even on the previous console that has been forced to factory reset due to NIntendo forcing it on the non-target system?

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Oh update: messed up screen 2ds has been turned into stock console, and decided to put it away for a bit. My (old) New 3DS is now back to being my main 3DS system, glad to have bilinear filetring on my DS games instead of the weird sharp filtering that the 2DS had.