Homebrew Stuck on Plailect's guide

[Saternoir]

Hi, so well, I was following the Plailect's guide to downgrade to 9.2 and somehow something went wrong.

I kept only the 3ds (from the starter kit) + boot (from the starter kit) + updates folders (the 3ds one with the subfolders of emunand and plaisysupdate) on the SD and I started to downgrade. all the files were ok and were installed successfully, after the reboot, i had the black screen. I took off the sd, power on again, but the black screen was still there. I have access to the recovery, but I would like to have any solution that doesn't require to update to 11 and then do hardmod (cz i dont have the tools to do it)

thanks again

 

[Ironknight]

Hi, so well, I was following the Plailect's guide to downgrade to 9.2 and somehow something went wrong.

I kept only the 3ds (from the starter kit) + boot (from the starter kit) + updates folders (the 3ds one with the subfolders of emunand and plaisysupdate) on the SD and I started to downgrade. all the files were ok and were installed successfully, after the reboot, i had the black screen. I took off the sd, power on again, but the black screen was still there. I have access to the recovery, but I would like to have any solution that doesn't require to update to 11 and then do hardmod (cz i dont have the tools to do it)

thanks again

I am sorry to tell you, but you're fucked. What error did you get exactly?

 

[4gionz]

Take sd out and wai at least a full minute before giving up. However it sound like a softbrick and your stuck going to 11.0.

Are you sure you formatted before downgrading

 

[Saternoir]

Take sd out and wai at least a full minute before giving up. However it sound like a softbrick and your stuck going to 11.0.

Are you sure you formatted before downgrading

tried what you said, still with the error :/

Ye i formatted the SD (after doing a backup of all its content) and I put the files and folders I mentioned.

I am sorry to tell you, but you're fucked. What error did you get exactly?

i got the "something went wrong. hold power to power off the device, then power on and try again" error.

 

[olec04]

best bet is to hardmod :/

 

[4gionz]

tried what you said, still with the error :/

Ye i formatted the SD (after doing a backup of all its content) and I put the files and folders I mentioned.


i got the "something went wrong. hold power to power off the device, then power on and try again" error.

No I didn't ask if you formatted sd, I want to know if you performed a system console format before downgrading

 

[dannyboy941]

I have same problem to but i try it all time with EmuNand(Because im sure it goes bad) then OTP says all time 2 Tmds Missing or Broken i use all stuff from that Guide.
The Formating Part with Tiny Format help me not at all what does Mean with RedNand? How i get that working and not the EmuNand from GW?(That shows the Guide not how to do it really)

 

[Rodrigo Mafra]

The first time I followed his guide this happened to me, at the time the highest version of 3ds was 10.6 and I did not want to use the recovery mode , after much insistence by powering on the 3DS with SD out , it just worked .... without explanation

 

[Saternoir]

best bet is to hardmod :/

i would like to avoid the hardmod but seems it couldn't be avoided....

No I didn't ask if you formatted sd, I want to know if you performed a system console format before downgrading

Oh, i thought it wouldn't be relevant so i didnt...

 

[olec04]

Welp your screwed then :/ i dont do hardmod services but a9lh services

 

[Saternoir]

The first time I followed his guide this happened to me, at the time the highest version of 3ds was 10.6 and I did not want to use the recovery mode , after much insistence by powering on the 3DS with SD out , it just worked .... without explanation

lol is that true? how many time you tried that?

Welp your screwed then :/ i dont do hardmod services but a9lh services

damn me

 

[olec04]

:/ yeah if you need any other help ask here

 

[4gionz]

Yup it's very important to format the console before downgrading, I've noticed basically every softbrick comes from not formatting the console.

It's very possible to downgrade without doing it since I've seen people be successful, however it is what it is. Sorry for your loss

 

[Saternoir]

Yup it's very important to format the console before downgrading, I've noticed basically every softbrick comes from not formatting the console.

It's very possible to downgrade without doing it since I've seen people be successful, however it is what it is. Sorry for your loss

Damn, didn't knew that... fk myself then :/

 

[Biovirulent]

Damn, didn't knew that... fk myself then :/

Same thing happened to me. Did not feel good knowing I screwed that up. Wish it was in the steps rather than on the top of the page...

 

[Saternoir]

Same thing happened to me. Did not feel good knowing I screwed that up. Wish it was in the steps rather than on the top of the page...

Well i was following every step of the guide according to it...

 

[justln]

It's at the top of Step 2 but it's pretty easy to miss. I can see why you skipped that step.

Sell it off and buy another set I guess.

All variations of sysUpdater, not just PlaiSysUpdater, has a very small chance of causing a "soft brick" once the downgrade is complete and the device reboots. This will cause the system to boot directly to the Nintendo error screen instructing users to power off the device.

The reason for this is unknown, but can be prevented by performing a system format beforedowngrading. It seems to happen very often on systems with ambassador status or who have DSiWare installed.

Once this error happens, it can only be fixed by using recovery mode (A + R + L + Up on the D-Pad) to update to the latest system version.

As of the time this is written, the latest version (11.0.0) has completely blocked all software downgrading, and if someone encounters this error they will be locked out of any further downgrading unless they use a hardmod exploit.

 

[Rodrigo Mafra]

lol is that true? how many time you tried that?


damn me

Maaaaaaany tries, something like 2 days ...
But it was int the 2.1 downgrade and I were just starting in the 3ds hack scene, maybe I did something wrong, since then I have hacked several 3ds and never had problems...

 

[Wojton]

Yup it's very important to format the console before downgrading, I've noticed basically every softbrick comes from not formatting the console.

It's very possible to downgrade without doing it since I've seen people be successful, however it is what it is. Sorry for your loss

This should be clarly stated in Plailect's guide, it only says to format system memory on chapter 4, but not on chapter 2 (9.2 downgrade). I was dowgrading someone's New 3DS to 9.2 and it errored out because I haven't formatted the system memory beforehand. Thankfully, it crashed with just native_firm not downgraded, so the console still booted up with SD Card removed and I was able to recover it, but many people might not be so lucky. Format your system memory before starting any downgrades people!

 

[Cava]

This should be clarly stated in Plailect's guide, it only says to format system memory on chapter 4, but not on chapter 2 (9.2 downgrade). I was dowgrading someone's New 3DS to 9.2 and it errored out because I haven't formatted the system memory beforehand. Thankfully, it crashed with just native_firm not downgraded, so the console still booted up with SD Card removed and I was able to recover it, but many people might not be so lucky. Format your system memory before starting any downgrades people!

Same story with one of a new 3ds xl.. it was brand new and i turned on first but i haven't format the system before downgrading and crashed at just native firm too.. but thankfully i can able to ran plaisysupdater again and it worked for second try.