Hacking Please help can't boot

[rommie]

getting an error on boot
Luma version is 8.1.1
Firmware is below 11.3
Still have access to godmode9 but it wouldnt let me restore nand or make a back up

Just a little background. i haven't touched my 3ds in a few months after i installed bs9 and everything was working fine to playing games and installing cias ect. Turned it on today and getting this problem. Also updated my sister's and nephews and theirs are still working fine. My O3ds is the only one seeming to get the error.

 

[Quantumcat]

What do you mean by it won't let you make or restore a backup? What happens?

 

[rommie]

its gets half way through and it just says it failed and if i try to restore an old nand i have. says pretty much the same thing

 

[Quantumcat]

its gets half way through and it just says it failed and if i try to restore an old nand i have. says pretty much the same thing

Do you have enough space on your SD card? What if you move everything off except boot.firm and the luma folder?

 

[rommie]

still have 7g of space left. i just removed everything except those files and i still get the same error

 

[Quantumcat]

Maybe do a CTR transfer https://3ds.guide/ctrtransfer

If it doesn't fix it then use Decrypt9 to do the CTR transfer (put the files in a folder called files9 instead).

I think it is probably an issue with your SD card though. If you have any other SD cards try them

 

[rommie]

ok i tried what you said on 2 different sd. original and a new one and got this error

 

[proflayton123]

You're trying to use N3DS ctrtransfer files for a O3DS..

 

[rommie]

oops ur right gonna try right file this time

 

[rommie]

ok this is the error im getting

 

[Cuphat]

It sounds like it could be hardware damage to me.

One thing you can try is to format your SD card with an EmuNAND and restore the backup you have as an EmuNAND and see if you can boot that.

 

[rommie]

alright it booted up with emunand! I was ready to give up hope. Thanks a lot guys, you guys are truly heroes. I'm usually just a lurker, but i couldn't find any post with exact same problem so i made an account and it paid off. I guess it is a hardware problem that prevented my 3ds from copying or writing to sysnand, but i can live with having to use 1g on sd for emunand. Well anyways thanks again guys, I really do appreciate yall taking time to help me.

 

[proflayton123]

From the looks of it the sysNAND backup may/is somehow got corrupted, so when trying to restore a corrupt NAND that's why it's throwing out an error, although if emunand is working that's all good

 

[BL4Z3D247]

Couldn't you try the recovery combo and update overwriting the corrupted SysNAND?

 

[wormdood]

alright it booted up with emunand! I was ready to give up hope. Thanks a lot guys, you guys are truly heroes. I'm usually just a lurker, but i couldn't find any post with exact same problem so i made an account and it paid off. I guess it is a hardware problem that prevented my 3ds from copying or writing to sysnand, but i can live with having to use 1g on sd for emunand. Well anyways thanks again guys, I really do appreciate yall taking time to help me.

backup that emunand/sdcard its now your 3ds's lifeblood

 

[Cuphat]

Couldn't you try the recovery combo and update overwriting the corrupted SysNAND?

The recovery combo is a lot less helpful than you'd imagine. If GodMode9 can't backup or restore SysNAND, it's not recoverable with the recovery combo.

 

[rommie]

ya i think squall is right. i think my sysnand is just fucked. cant overwrite it or anything.

 

[Quantumcat]

alright it booted up with emunand! I was ready to give up hope. Thanks a lot guys, you guys are truly heroes. I'm usually just a lurker, but i couldn't find any post with exact same problem so i made an account and it paid off. I guess it is a hardware problem that prevented my 3ds from copying or writing to sysnand, but i can live with having to use 1g on sd for emunand. Well anyways thanks again guys, I really do appreciate yall taking time to help me.

Can you write down the steps of what you did?

 

[rommie]

1.Backed up sd to pc
2.Used godm9 to format sd to full emunand. Used gatewayemunand.(tried rednand first, but when I put all my files back on my games didn't show up)
3.Put all my files back on sd including my Nand backup
4.Use Decrypt9WIP to emunand restore using my regualar Nand backup.(tried on gm9 first but it gave me an error so I use this instead)
5.After restore, went to luma config and checked autoboot to emunand.
6.Turned it on and it booted to emunand with all my games that was on sysnand.(except like 2 games that i installed after my latest nand, no biggie i just reinstalled the cia amd everything seems to be working so far. the only thing i found wrong so far is I lost my dbz ultimate x save)