Homebrew Safehax PM init failed

[Stephano]

So I'm following the guide trying to downgrade an O3ds on 9.5. I get into the homebrew launcher, successfully run udsploit, but when I try to run safehax, I Get [!] PM init failed every single time. Does anyone have any insight on this?

 

[Decooter]

Yes, I ran into this exact same issue while trying to follow the guide for my brother's o3ds on 10.3.

It seems that udsploit doesnt actually work for older firmwares (and for some reason phialects guide doesn't cover this).

The way I finally succeeded was by downloading an old version of 'fasthax' (the beta 4, jan 8th release) and old version of 'safehax' (version r19, jan 8th). You can find older releases on the same github the guide links to. Use fasthax instead of udsploit and follow the guide the rest of the way.

Hope this helps you like it did for me. Also hopefully phialect will update his guide to reflect that the 11.3 methods don't work for certain older firmwares

 

[Stephano]

Yes, I ran into this exact same issue while trying to follow the guide for my brother's o3ds on 10.3.

It seems that udsploit doesnt actually work for older firmwares (and for some reason phialects guide doesn't cover this).

The way I finally succeeded was by downloading an old version of 'fasthax' (the beta 4, jan 8th release) and old version of 'safehax' (version r19, jan 8th). You can find older releases on the same github the guide links to. Use fasthax instead of udsploit and follow the guide the rest of the way.

Hope this helps you like it did for me. Also hopefully phialect will update his guide to reflect that the 11.3 methods don't work for certain older firmwares

I used fasthax and i got a different error this time. I received the error, "Failed to read the arm9 payload!" When i tried another build of safehax, i still go the "PM init failed" error.
Edit: I forgot to rename my .bin file.....
ugh, i'm dumb

 

[Decooter]

I used fasthax and i got a different error this time. I received the error, "Failed to read the arm9 payload!" When i tried another build of safehax, i still go the "PM init failed" error.
Edit: I forgot to rename my .bin file.....
ugh, i'm dumb

Glad it worked out for ya!

 

[Pokeeon]

Yes, I ran into this exact same issue while trying to follow the guide for my brother's o3ds on 10.3.

It seems that udsploit doesnt actually work for older firmwares (and for some reason phialects guide doesn't cover this).

The way I finally succeeded was by downloading an old version of 'fasthax' (the beta 4, jan 8th release) and old version of 'safehax' (version r19, jan 8th). You can find older releases on the same github the guide links to. Use fasthax instead of udsploit and follow the guide the rest of the way.

Hope this helps you like it did for me. Also hopefully phialect will update his guide to reflect that the 11.3 methods don't work for certain older firmwares

Thank you sooo much for this, you saved me. Im on 10.1 on my o3ds and this worked. Thank you! Curious if you don't mind, how do you find out this works?

 

[Decooter]

I spent about 4 hours trying to diagnose the problem and tried just about everything until I stumbled upon that solution.

Glad it's helping others

 

[AaronGH]

I spent about 4 hours trying to diagnose the problem and tried just about everything until I stumbled upon that solution.

Glad it's helping others

Thanks a lot

 

[relminator]

Mine was 10.3.0 O3DS too and the steps in 3ds.guide worked perfectly.
I had the PM init failed issue too which was fixed by turning the wifi on.