Tutorial Simple Guide to Downgrading your 3DS

Have you been able to successfully downgrade your 3DS/2DS?


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:rofl: I just realised that I'm probably the only one here that didn't even touch any these hash, MD5 things...

probably that's why i'm stuck

Nope, a lot of people did that. Did you brick your 3DS?

Is there a link to this safemode system updater thank you

Nope, there's not such thing as a link. You can only use it if you power on your 3DS while holding L+R+A+DPAD-UP.

Finally downgrade successful ye ye ye
Thanks Ridge and Hyura for helping me ^_^
And of course TheStoneBanana for awesome tutorial :D

You are welcome.
 

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Anyone knows how to fix that problem with failed to get the cia file info! ?
Im on n3ds xl fw9.4 and tryied using diffrent entry points menuhax browserhax downloaded the files again nothing is helping.
 

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Been more then 10 second sat that screen, can I manually reboot or am I done for?

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Nope, a lot of people did that. Did you brick your 3DS?

No, yesterday, I got to 9.0.0, but I couldn't enter the Settings, so I went Safe Mode and got to 10.3, but now I can't get sysupdate to work through homehax

@Ratatapa I read here somewhere someone saying that you may manually reboot and it'll be fine, but I can't prove it, so... well... good luck
 
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Anyone knows how to fix that problem with failed to get the cia file info! ?
Im on n3ds xl fw9.4 and tryied using diffrent entry points menuhax browserhax downloaded the files again nothing is helping.

Maybe try updating to 10.3 and using menuhax again.

Been more then 10 second sat that screen, can I manually reboot or am I done for?

I'd wait at least 10 minutes. After that I'd manually reboot.

No, yesterday, I got to 9.0.0, but I couldn't enter the Settings, so I went Safe Mode and got to 10.3, but now I can't get sysupdate to work through homehax

Damn :/
 

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Anyone who is getting failed to get cia file info run ftbrony with menuhax it worked for me now I am downgrading! :D
 

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What's the % chance I have of getting a hard brick if i'm stuck like that

Are you Julian's sysupdater?

I didn't see any hardbricks while using that. A lot of people got stuck on that screen and had to manually reboot (including three friends of mine).

But you don't have any other options, actually.

I know I know but this ? really worries me :/

A lot of people are using it, guess it's kinda safe, haha.
 

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Are you Julian's sysupdater?

I didn't see any hardbricks while using that. A lot of people got stuck on that screen and had to manually reboot (including three friends of mine).

But you don't have any other options, actually.



A lot of people are using it, guess it's kinda safe, haha.

I am using Julian's sysupdater

Crossing fingers then
 
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Downgrade successful for my 10.3.0-28E N3DSXL.
I used this tuto to know exactly what to download and where to put it, except for the sysUpdate files as I used julian20's version and this method to solve the "failed to get CIA files...".
Good luck!

Huh, that version started and let me begin the downgrading process, but just gives me an error occured yet again. It's the third time this has happened to me now :blush:
Thanks for pointing me to the idea that you can replace boot.3dsx tho! I'm gonna try that for the fourth and final time with the version in OP after safe mode is done getting my careless butt back to 10.3. If not I'm just waiting for KTM :ha:

EDIT: It's on my New 3DS, of course.
 

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Does anyone knows how to solve ''that'' screen on sysupdater start
Kernel 11
#1 xxxxxxxxx
#2 xxxxxxxxxxx
#3 xxxxxxxxxxx
#4 xxxxxxx
#5 xxxxxxxxx

Something like that.

o3ds 10.3, homehax.

edit: Now i got to the #7, that's some progress.
 
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I downgraded my EU O3DS from 9.9 to 9.2 yesterday, but it seems I can't install rxTools. Is there a way to find out if the downgrade was successfull?
EmuNAND9Tool worked, I already backed up my NAND, also EmuNAND is working, but not the installation of the CFW. Homebrew is also no Problem with browserhax.

Now I'm wondering if I would have to update to 10.3 and then downgrade again or if I could just run sysUpdater on 9.2 to "fix" my problem?
 

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Does anyone knows how to solve ''that'' screen on sysupdater start
Kernel 11
#1 xxxxxxxxx
#2 xxxxxxxxxxx
#3 xxxxxxxxxxx
#4 xxxxxxx
#5 xxxxxxxxx

Something like that.

o3ds 10.3, homehax.

The method used by Sparks seems to work:
Downgrade successful for my 10.3.0-28E N3DSXL.
I used this tuto to know exactly what to download and where to put it, except for the sysUpdate files as I used julian20's version and this method to solve the "failed to get CIA files...".
Good luck!

When I tested launching sysUpdater from HomeMenuHax, it freezes on a black screen without ever displaying any text on either screen, following Sparks' method and substituting the boot.3dsx on the SD root with the sysUpdater .3dsx fixed the issue and launched sysUpdated almost instantly (so fast I didn't even see the 8 steps part).

EDIT: This only worked once, now it's back to booting to a black screen again :(
 
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