Hacking Strange Flashme problem - please help!

[clark2k]

I already flashed 30+ DS Lites (yes, I run a store so I flash it when people asks for), but the problem I am facing now is really annoying...

After the X-B-X-B pressing, I short the SL1 path, but, doing it, the DS automaticaly turns off.

I already faced it before, and it was when I did not care to plug the DS to AC adapter while flashing. In that tries, I just turned it on again and repeated the proccess until it works. But this until I brick one DS...!

So after that, I flashed all the other DSs with AC adapter plugged, and then I never saw the automatic turn off happening again.

Now, I bought for my personal use an Ice Blue DS Lite... And, no matter if I plug it to the wall and wait the battery to get fully charged, it turns off when I shot SL1... ok, I tried doing it just twice, but I'm afraid to keep trying and brick a DS again...

What do you suggest?

 

[outphase]

The power cutoff isn't a AC adapter/battery issue. It actually lies in accidentally touching components that shouldn't be touched. Using a toothpick with foil is more likely to hit the "no touch zones" more than just a single piece of wire.

 

[adgloride]

Have you tried to flash the newer DS lites? From what I've heard nintendo have made them a lot easier to brick when trying to install flashme. Touching the wrong component when flashing will brick the DS lite.

 

[arctic_flame]

I believe that you're all wrong, and the latest DS Lites require you to short SL1 with something that has some resistance, a low resistance resistor should do the trick. Try just shorting SL1 without running Flashme and see what it does.

 

[Shinji]

I believe that you're all wrong
Wow, bold statement =)

and the latest DS Lites require you to short SL1 with something that has some resistance, a low resistance resistor should do the trick. Try just shorting SL1 without running Flashme and see what it does.

Flashed 3 Lites with the good ol' foil/toothpick and UN-flashed 2 Lites with same method. No resistors built in the toothpick at all.

NOTE: dont tell people to short things "just to see what it does". Not a good piece of advice even if it does nothing.

 

[clark2k]

Thank you all, but I don't think my problem is solved yet

The power cutoff isn't a AC adapter/battery issue. It actually lies in accidentally touching components that shouldn't be touched. Using a toothpick with foil is more likely to hit the "no touch zones" more than just a single piece of wire.

Have you tried to flash the newer DS lites? From what I've heard nintendo have made them a lot easier to brick when trying to install flashme. Touching the wrong component when flashing will brick the DS lite.

I have been flashing a bunch of DS's, I don't know how new they should be to be classified as 'newer DS'

I always used toothpick with foil, but that's the first time I have this problem recurring many times with a DS.

QUOTE(arctic_flame @ Apr 2 2007, 08:33 PM)I believe that you're all wrong, and the latest DS Lites require you to short SL1 with something that has some resistance, a low resistance resistor should do the trick. Try just shorting SL1 without running Flashme and see what it does.

What do you mean "low resistance"? Have you done it yet? Any photo or video with someone doing it?

 

[fritz]

I had to use an 800 Ohm resister with one leg touching each pad for my DS Lite to flash. Using a plain screwdriver to short SL1 (the same one I used on my DS Phat) didn't get past 0%.

 

[superrob]

If you guys dont know.
There are a tiny bit of metal good hided close to the SL1!

And that tiny bit of metal is connected to the other thingy SL2 i think it is.
And when its touched the DS turns off.

Heres a guide on this forum who shows what you are doing wrong:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=33481

 

[outphase]

I had to use an 800 Ohm resister with one leg touching each pad for my DS Lite to flash. Using a plain screwdriver to short SL1 (the same one I used on my DS Phat) didn't get past 0%.

That's not why your screwdriver didn't work. The SL1 pads are not raised off of the mobo like the original DS.

If you guys dont know.
There are a tiny bit of metal good hided close to the SL1!

And that tiny bit of metal is connected to the other thingy SL2 i think it is.
And when its touched the DS turns off.

Heres a guide on this forum who shows what you are doing wrong:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=33481

And to think, I could've said that... I did...