hi all. i've been having an issue with my old3ds that i can't seem to solve with what i can find.
tl;dr, o3ds gets BOOTROM 8046 error every time i swap cartridges. ctrtransfer hasn't helped.
i've been having this problem with my 3ds for some time now. my 3ds randomly bsod'd about 3-4 weeks ago. this was the error code i got:
after a few days of trying to boot it randomly, i ended up getting the "unable to mount CTRNAND or load CTRNAND firm" luma3ds (?) error. when this error would show up, i would be able to boot into godmode9. after messing around, i found that my SYSNAND CTRNAND drive (1:\) and some others would delete themselves after a seemingly random amount of time. i forgot to record which drives were deleting themselves, but i'm pretty positive that SYSNAND TWLN (2:\) and SYSNAND TWLP (3:\) were some of them. i don't know what that means, but it explained why my 3ds wouldn't boot.
eventually i was able to get it consistently booting into gm9, and even the home menu, so i decided to try some common solutions.
first, i tried formatting my sd. twice. i checked it with h2test2w, and there were no problems. this didn't help.
second, i tried ctrtransfer type-d9.
this actually seemed to work at first. the first time i tried it, though, gm9 froze when it was doing something related to my dsiware titles. i had to force power off my 3ds. i wasn't too worried about my dsiware, so i just started ctrtransfer again. it worked fine the second time. my dsiware seemed to be causing issues though (i would get a crash), so i deleted them through FBI and it was fixed. i was able to use the 3ds for a few days, but i decided i wanted to change my cartridge.
my 3ds has always had issues with reading carts. i'd always have to blow into the slot to get it to work. so at first, i put the cart in, and it didn't work, but that didn't bug me. however, when i got it to work, the console crashed. i did not record what the crash error was. when i tried to turn it back on, i got the same BOOTROM 8046 error as before. i messed around with it a little, and got 2 bsod errors that i can't find anywhere else. they were:
and:
i haven't been able to reproduce either.
i got it to work for a while after this. every time i switched carts, i'd just hold start, boot into gm9, and reboot from there. it would work fine if i did that. however, about 3 days ago, i didn't do that. it's been bsod'ing since. i haven't gotten the luma3ds error, nor have i been able to boot gm9. i'm pretty confident that this has something to do with swapping carts. a tedious solution would be just dumping my carts to the 3ds as CIAs, but i'd have to wage on it not bsod'ing every time.
does anyone know what's causing this? i haven't found someone with this kind of issue before.
extra info:
my o3ds has been homebrewed for over a year and i haven't experienced anything like this before at all.
i have the latest versions of luma3ds, b9s, and gm9.
i have NAND backups available, but as i am unable to boot to gm9, i can't restore them.
i can't boot into recovery mode.
any and all help appreciated!
tl;dr, o3ds gets BOOTROM 8046 error every time i swap cartridges. ctrtransfer hasn't helped.
i've been having this problem with my 3ds for some time now. my 3ds randomly bsod'd about 3-4 weeks ago. this was the error code i got:
Code:
BOOTROM 8046
ERRCODE: 00F800FE
00000000 00000000
00000400 00000000
after a few days of trying to boot it randomly, i ended up getting the "unable to mount CTRNAND or load CTRNAND firm" luma3ds (?) error. when this error would show up, i would be able to boot into godmode9. after messing around, i found that my SYSNAND CTRNAND drive (1:\) and some others would delete themselves after a seemingly random amount of time. i forgot to record which drives were deleting themselves, but i'm pretty positive that SYSNAND TWLN (2:\) and SYSNAND TWLP (3:\) were some of them. i don't know what that means, but it explained why my 3ds wouldn't boot.
eventually i was able to get it consistently booting into gm9, and even the home menu, so i decided to try some common solutions.
first, i tried formatting my sd. twice. i checked it with h2test2w, and there were no problems. this didn't help.
second, i tried ctrtransfer type-d9.
this actually seemed to work at first. the first time i tried it, though, gm9 froze when it was doing something related to my dsiware titles. i had to force power off my 3ds. i wasn't too worried about my dsiware, so i just started ctrtransfer again. it worked fine the second time. my dsiware seemed to be causing issues though (i would get a crash), so i deleted them through FBI and it was fixed. i was able to use the 3ds for a few days, but i decided i wanted to change my cartridge.
my 3ds has always had issues with reading carts. i'd always have to blow into the slot to get it to work. so at first, i put the cart in, and it didn't work, but that didn't bug me. however, when i got it to work, the console crashed. i did not record what the crash error was. when i tried to turn it back on, i got the same BOOTROM 8046 error as before. i messed around with it a little, and got 2 bsod errors that i can't find anywhere else. they were:
Code:
BOOTROM 8046
ERRCODE: 00F800FF
DFDFFFFF FFFFFFFF
00000005 00000000
and:
Code:
BOOTROM 8046
ERRCODE: 00F800FF
DFCFFFFF FFFFFFFF
00000005 00000000
i haven't been able to reproduce either.
i got it to work for a while after this. every time i switched carts, i'd just hold start, boot into gm9, and reboot from there. it would work fine if i did that. however, about 3 days ago, i didn't do that. it's been bsod'ing since. i haven't gotten the luma3ds error, nor have i been able to boot gm9. i'm pretty confident that this has something to do with swapping carts. a tedious solution would be just dumping my carts to the 3ds as CIAs, but i'd have to wage on it not bsod'ing every time.
does anyone know what's causing this? i haven't found someone with this kind of issue before.
extra info:
my o3ds has been homebrewed for over a year and i haven't experienced anything like this before at all.
i have the latest versions of luma3ds, b9s, and gm9.
i have NAND backups available, but as i am unable to boot to gm9, i can't restore them.
i can't boot into recovery mode.
any and all help appreciated!