So after my 9.9 was bricked I decided to buy a new 3ds that came with 10.3u.
I told myself that this time I would install menuhax so that I do not have to deal with another partial brick.
After installing menuhax and using the L bumper to boot into homebrew, I proceeded with the 9.2 downgrade but mid way the n3ds crashed and once it rebooted I got the same partial brick as before!
So I tried booting into menuhax but it does not work!
So when I go into settings or browser it just endlessly waits at the loading screen. I inserted my Zelda Ocarina of time and the game loads.
Not sure how to proceed now, clearly the firmware did not downgrade all the way and I have no idea what to try next.