Is my 3DS dying? I'm having some issues with it recently
It started a few weeks or months ago when I noticed that the battery doesn't last very long anymore but I thought it's normal because I use it so much
Some time after that the low battery warnings started acting really weird, sometimes the power LED goes red and starts blinking in a few seconds and turns off really fast before I can save or do anything or the battery percentage keeps jumping between 5 and 10 or more percent so the power LED changes every few seconds and when it turns off the LED goes back to blue
About 2 weeks ago when I opened my 3DS it wouldn't go out of sleep mode and I had to hold the power button for 10 seconds but I thought that it happens sometimes because something like this already happened 1 or 2 times in the past 2 years and I didn't worry about anything
A few days ago I tested how long the battery will last on both my 3DS and 2DS with max brightness and my 3DS lasted only 1 hour and 5 minutes while the 2DS lasted 3 hours and I think I'll swap the batteries
Today I had issues with the wifi
It started in the morning when I opened my 3DS and went to the friend list and waited for it to go online but nothing happened so I tried pushing the wireless switch to restart the wifi but wireless wouldn't turn off even with luma menu and then I pressed X to go back to the home menu but it got stuck on the white screen with the home menu text and wireless still didn't want to turn off and it didn't even want to go into sleep mode but the 3D and luma menu still worked so I restarted with the luma menu and the wireless worked again then I played a bit and closed it
When I came back after a few hours it didn't want to go out of sleep mode again and after restarting the wireless didn't work but it sometimes said that it's connected to the internet and even after restarting multiple times it still didn't work but the wireless switch worked
When I went to the settings to try doing a connection test on multiple access points it would get stuck on connecting to access point but the status on the top would alternate between enabled and internet and I even got a generic luma error when connecting in the friend list but I didn't see anything else it said because I was pressing buttons in the friend list and it instantly restarted
I thought it was a problem with the wireless card and maybe reconnecting it would fix it but I'm not home right now and can't open my 3DS so I thought I'll just be offline for a few days and turned my 3DS off
My 3DS already had a problem with playing online half a year or more ago I think it was error 018-0201 and reconnecting the wireless card and cleaning the contacts with alcohol fixed it
I came back now after a few hours and the wireless works again but I'm really worried that there's something wrong and my 3DS might be dying
Is the not going out of sleep mode caused by the wireless card? Should I replace the wireless card? Should I transfer to my new 3DS before this 3DS completely dies?
I use my 3DS a lot so I understand that some things might break faster but this is bad
Here's a history of issues and things I did to my 3DS
It started a few weeks or months ago when I noticed that the battery doesn't last very long anymore but I thought it's normal because I use it so much
Some time after that the low battery warnings started acting really weird, sometimes the power LED goes red and starts blinking in a few seconds and turns off really fast before I can save or do anything or the battery percentage keeps jumping between 5 and 10 or more percent so the power LED changes every few seconds and when it turns off the LED goes back to blue
About 2 weeks ago when I opened my 3DS it wouldn't go out of sleep mode and I had to hold the power button for 10 seconds but I thought that it happens sometimes because something like this already happened 1 or 2 times in the past 2 years and I didn't worry about anything
A few days ago I tested how long the battery will last on both my 3DS and 2DS with max brightness and my 3DS lasted only 1 hour and 5 minutes while the 2DS lasted 3 hours and I think I'll swap the batteries
Today I had issues with the wifi
It started in the morning when I opened my 3DS and went to the friend list and waited for it to go online but nothing happened so I tried pushing the wireless switch to restart the wifi but wireless wouldn't turn off even with luma menu and then I pressed X to go back to the home menu but it got stuck on the white screen with the home menu text and wireless still didn't want to turn off and it didn't even want to go into sleep mode but the 3D and luma menu still worked so I restarted with the luma menu and the wireless worked again then I played a bit and closed it
When I came back after a few hours it didn't want to go out of sleep mode again and after restarting the wireless didn't work but it sometimes said that it's connected to the internet and even after restarting multiple times it still didn't work but the wireless switch worked
When I went to the settings to try doing a connection test on multiple access points it would get stuck on connecting to access point but the status on the top would alternate between enabled and internet and I even got a generic luma error when connecting in the friend list but I didn't see anything else it said because I was pressing buttons in the friend list and it instantly restarted
I thought it was a problem with the wireless card and maybe reconnecting it would fix it but I'm not home right now and can't open my 3DS so I thought I'll just be offline for a few days and turned my 3DS off
My 3DS already had a problem with playing online half a year or more ago I think it was error 018-0201 and reconnecting the wireless card and cleaning the contacts with alcohol fixed it
I came back now after a few hours and the wireless works again but I'm really worried that there's something wrong and my 3DS might be dying
Is the not going out of sleep mode caused by the wireless card? Should I replace the wireless card? Should I transfer to my new 3DS before this 3DS completely dies?
I use my 3DS a lot so I understand that some things might break faster but this is bad
Here's a history of issues and things I did to my 3DS
- I bought my old 3DS used in October 2017 and installed homebrew on it with soundhax
- A month later I installed b9s and luma and updated to the latest version
- In December the R button stopped responding while playing smash and my friend told me to blow into the button and that fixed it
- A few months later the issue came back on both trigger buttons and blowing would only fix it temporarily and it kept getting worse so I opened my 3DS and tried to clean the buttons from the inside but it didn't do anything
- I bought new buttons and replaced them in May 2018
- My SD card died in June 2018 but I was able to recover all files and replaced the card
- In October or November 2018 I couldn't play online and had to reconnect and clean the wireless card
- Around the same time the circle pad felt weird so I took it apart and there was hair inside
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