Hacking [QUESTION] NAND Restore After A9LH Is Deleted

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Can I do this?

I restore a backup of my NAND from before A9LH is installed, and I keep everything that A9LH needs to run on the sd. Could I just restore a NAND backup with A9LH installed, then after restoring, I would have A9LH back? That way, I could easily switch between Sysnand and Sysnand A9LH?

Would that work?
 
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a9lh lives in the firm, if you restore the firm is restored too = no a9lh. So you can go to before you installed it sure. I don't know how stable decrypt and emunand9 will be running from the homebrew menu opposed to boot-time payloads which seemingly always work.


Long story short, you should be able to go back and forth as long as you have the proper back-ups.
 
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ishygdaft said:
a9lh lives in the firm, if you restore the firm is restored too = no a9lh. So you can go to before you installed it sure. I don't know how stable decrypt and emunand9 will be running from the homebrew menu opposed to boot-time payloads which seemingly always work.


Long story short, you should be able to go back to how it was before.
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I would use a hardmod. (My 3ds is getting hardmodded). Would that be better than decrypt9?
 
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Skyshadow101 said:
Awesome! Thanks!
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If you use Hourglass9 you can restore using ANY of your backups and it will keep a9lh

*edit* sorry I didnt read the question in full, my bad. If you wanted to restore a version without a9lh and go back to a9lh later, I mean yeah I guess you could as long as you are still able to restore at all (ie, dont update)
 
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Neato, I've heard the newer systems are kinda hard to solder but apparently the original 3ds is really complicated.
 

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