FALSE ALARM, SD CARD ISSUE. I got a n3ds on 9.4, used OOThax to enter HBL to downgrade. After the downgrade process started, I got the error message and I thought it was a partial downgrade yet again. However, now it boots to black screen and upon long press power button, I am able to get to the power menu prompt. When I press home, it only shows the "home menu" screen and doesn't do anything. Am I bricked? UPDATE: Seems its an sd card, issue. It boots on removal of sd card. I have since removed the card, formatted it. Its possible that menuhax was the problem since I installed menuhax as well. UPDATE2: Yeap, partial downgrade again. 2nd n3ds to have partial downgrade. Perhaps this could be added into the guide? @Plailect that partial downgrades are common, at least for n3ds and to not worry and rerun downgrade?
Well, that's really weird, I never heard of that issue before... Can you boot into recovery mode? (A+DPAD Up+L+R) If you do, at least you can update to the latest firmware so your console is not totally useless.
Browserhax worked perfectly for me many times. When I followed plailect's guide back in march I used browserhax every time I was told to use menuhax and everything worked out
menuhax has been a lot more stable for this guide in my experience, maybe you were just lucky? also @Timburpton it does say in the guide this can happen, i guess it could be more clear and say it is LIKELY to happen, but... either way. It does mention it.
It mentions a softbrick, I did not get a softbrick. I got an issue which I guess was related to menuhax. On the topic of menuhax, I found OOThax to be more reliable for 9.2.0 downgrade
16. If you get an error in the middle of installation, follow the instructions in the beginning for partial downgrades >If PlaiSysUpdater crashes at any point during the downgrade (which can happen occasionally), you can power off the system by holding the power button. You will be left with what's called a "partial downgrade" or "partial", which is recoverable. Although a partially downgraded system may show 9.2.0 as the system version, you are not done. You must restart from the beginning and downgrade a second time to install any files that were not installed. Browserhax will work for partial downgrades as long as you are using the recommended version of PlaiSysUpdater.
