Hacking So....I bricked my 3ds

[Jiehfeng]

You bricked your 3DS means you've got a brick now. RIP.

 

[hundshamer]

A harware mod is your only option. If you aren't confident enough to do it on your own, gamesquest1 is European based. I have fixed a few 3DS's with the same error with a NAND restore through the hardmod.

 

[ChrisX930]

I'll do HardMods, too-

 

[Fou-Lu]

I'll do HardMods, too-

I guess it's worth a shot.

 

[gamesquest1]

yeah hardmod is the only way to go.....it will probably be cheaper to post to Germany from the Netherlands, although its always good to know the reputation of the person doing the work for you,no offense by this chrisx930, just saying if you send your console to someone on the internet, its always good to know they have done this kind of work before and they ain't going to just keep the 3DS

but we all start somewhere i suppose, and it would be good to have another modder doing work for EU central, as UK international postage can be a little steep, to limit risk, just remember all you need to send is the console and maybe the SD card with nand backup....dont need to post the charger or gateway cards (if you have one)....limit your risk

 

[ChrisX930]

yeah hardmod is the only way to go.....it will probably be cheaper to post to Germany from the Netherlands, although its always good to know the reputation of the person doing the work for you,no offense by this chrisx930, just saying if you send your console to someone on the internet, its always good to know they have done this kind of work before and they ain't going to just keep the 3DS

but we all start somewhere i suppose, and it would be good to have another modder doing work for EU central, as UK international postage can be a little steep, to limit risk, just remember all you need to send is the console and maybe the SD card with nand backup....dont need to post the charger or gateway cards (if you have one)....limit your risk

that's correct
yea, that's true, I've not much reputation right now, but I'll change this

 

[gamesquest1]

that's correct
yea, that's true, I've not much reputation right now, but I'll change this

yeah don't worry i wasnt being funny, just saying its always best to be safe....will be good to be able to refer people to you when they are out of uk and postage is high....for some EU countries the UK postage is pretty steep....it varies from country to country though

Oh PS if you can take some pictures of any mods you have done so people know your capable.....i only really refer people to people if i have seen their work, i wouldn't want to get the blame if i refer people to someone and they screw up their console

 

[ChrisX930]

yeah don't worry i wasnt being funny, just saying its always best to be safe....will be good to be able to refer people to you when they are out of uk and postage is high....for some EU countries the UK postage is pretty steep....it varies from country to country though

Yea, that'S true. UK is... expensive and slow to ship from a country like netherlands, germany or france.

 

[gamesquest1]

Yea, that'S true. UK is... expensive and slow to ship from a country like netherlands, germany or france.

well not really slow, it was like 2/3 days for postage to France when i did smealums 3DS a while back....its just some countries for some reason have very high postage costs....possibly due to their countries taxes or whatever....idk, but France was ok like £10 for tracked, but i was looking at somewhere last time....i forgot where now(somewhere like Greece i think), but postage was coming in at like £20 for basic economy without tracking

as i say hit n miss, but its always good for people to have options

 

[ChrisX930]

but postage was coming in at like £20 for basic economy without tracking

Expensive o_o

as i say hit n miss, but its always good for people to have options

You got a point there, that's right.

 

[Fou-Lu]

yeah hardmod is the only way to go.....it will probably be cheaper to post to Germany from the Netherlands, although its always good to know the reputation of the person doing the work for you,no offense by this chrisx930, just saying if you send your console to someone on the internet, its always good to know they have done this kind of work before and they ain't going to just keep the 3DS

but we all start somewhere i suppose, and it would be good to have another modder doing work for EU central, as UK international postage can be a little steep, to limit risk, just remember all you need to send is the console and maybe the SD card with nand backup....dont need to post the charger or gateway cards (if you have one)....limit your risk

Well if he does decide to keep it I can make sure he gets a negative reputation here.

 

[ChrisX930]

Well if he does decide to keep it I can make sure he gets a negative reputation here.

true xD
And I won't get negative reputation with my Username (I use it everywhere, not only here)

 

[zerocosmic]

Just a thought, something similar actually happened to me shortly after I got my first 3DS two or so years ago, before I had done any sort of hacking to it. I thought the system was toast, but apparently there's some weird bug where the system sometimes gets stuck in sleep mode and won't turn on. Eventually after turning it off and on a bunch of times it finally woke back up and haven't had any problems since.

Not saying that this is what happened to you, you very well may have a brick, but it's worth a shot.

 

[gamesquest1]

yeah, there is the weird bug that can happen even on stock, but you can tell the difference by pressing the power button once....on a bugged system it will still pop up with the "power down" screen, if it doesn't come up with that screen its pretty much bricked....tbh im fairly sure the OP must of not set up emunand, this happens if you update sysnand in gateway mode, the only way you can update sysnand in gateway mode is if you never set up emunand in the first place(or swapped SD cards to one that didnt have emunand set up on it)

 

[zerocosmic]

yeah, there is the weird bug that can happen even on stock, but you can tell the difference by pressing the power button once....on a bugged system it will still pop up with the "power down" screen, if it doesn't come up with that screen its pretty much bricked....tbh im fairly sure the OP must of not set up emunand, this happens if you update sysnand in gateway mode, the only way you can update sysnand in gateway mode is if you never set up emunand in the first place(or swapped SD cards to one that didnt have emunand set up on it)

Yeah my system never had the power down screen, just a steady blue light and black screens.

 

[gamesquest1]

Yeah my system never had the power down screen, just a steady blue light and black screens.

......hmmm idk, only times i have seen the home menu not working other than bricked completely it still showed the power off screen when hitting power, then if you pressed home it would just freeze on the blank screen with "HOME" on it, never actually making it to the home-screen.....idk im sure there must be many ways for the 3DS to screw up, but if its not showing any signs of like after hard rebooting a few times....and it happening specifically after updating in gateway mode, odds are its a proper brick, even the frozen home-screen thing could only be recovered by restoring a good nand backup

might be worth the OP just hard resetting a few times to make sure.....but as i said, im fairly sure it will need to be restored

 

[leerpsp]

So If I did a hard mod on my 3ds if lets say some one in the house updates it to the new fw i can restore my nand i backed up with my gateway and be good to go right?

 

[sALMAn84]

Sorry needs advise a bit, I just downgrade my 3ds xl to 4.2 and install emuNAND and update it to 9.4 and also install CFW 4.5 everything went fine, It just I cannot play my pokemon Y because it says my save is corrupted and also the same with my other game. Should I just update my sysNAND to 8.1 with game rom like ultimate nes remix or restore my backup NAND through gateway? Which one is better?

 

[gamesquest1]

Sorry needs advise a bit, I just downgrade my 3ds xl to 4.2 and install emuNAND and update it to 9.4 and also install CFW 4.5 everything went fine, It just I cannot play my pokemon Y because it says my save is corrupted and also the same with my other game. Should I just update my sysNAND to 8.1 with game rom like ultimate nes remix or restore my backup NAND through gateway? Which one is better?

restore your sysnand backup with the gateway menu, updating sysnand is gateway mode is not advised, and has lead to quite a few bricks

 

[PLEYOR]

yeah hardmod is the only way to go.....it will probably be cheaper to post to Germany from the Netherlands, although its always good to know the reputation of the person doing the work for you,no offense by this chrisx930, just saying if you send your console to someone on the internet, its always good to know they have done this kind of work before and they ain't going to just keep the 3DS

but we all start somewhere i suppose, and it would be good to have another modder doing work for EU central, as UK international postage can be a little steep, to limit risk, just remember all you need to send is the console and maybe the SD card with nand backup....dont need to post the charger or gateway cards (if you have one)....limit your risk

What else is he going to do with his Brick though? .