Hacking The status of Gateway and A9LH

[VeryCrushed]

No one should really be complaining considering almost all of you shouldn't even be able to have access to these files. It just happened to leak.

The purpose of alpha and beta tests are to fix things like this before they actually get in our hands.

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[samiam144]

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My friend, while it really sucks, please keep in mind that the only people that are getting bricks are beta testers, as there hasn't been an official release. I highly doubt they would release such a broken update.

 

[SpencerlyEverly]

He just used an unbricked emunand he's generated in the past rather than the bricked one GW would usually put on.

That's right. I installed A9LH since February, before OTPHelper released. Come to think of it, I do have an theory to switch from Gateway, to Luma, and back to Gateway.

First, I dump my NAND that has Gateway A9LH in it by going to SysNAND mode and running Cubic Ninja (Since I installed A9LH with 9.0 sysNAND on it). Then I'll run the Homebrew Launcher and launch Decrypt9. Then I'll dump the SysNAND, and flash my Luma3DS launching NAND.bin back. If it goes well, I can launch Luma3DS again.

If I wanna switch to Gateway, I flash my Gateway A9LH SysNAND to NAND. If I wanna switch to Luma, I'll do what's on top. Unless there is a way to use BOTH at the same time, then this will have to do.

I haven't done this process yet and to see if it works or not. I'll do it tomorrow. It's 9:08 PM in my time zone right now, anyway.

Just like LupinIII from Maxconsole said:

I've got one nasty bug to report. NAND restore DOESN'T WORK (on Gateway Menu).

 

[liomajor]

Launcher.dat 371 works as well, did you try?

 

[CreAtor135]

That's right. I installed A9LH since February, before OTPHelper released. Come to think of it, I do have an theory to switch from Gateway, to Luma, and back to Gateway.

First, I dump my NAND that has Gateway A9LH in it by going to SysNAND mode and running Cubic Ninja (Since I installed A9LH with 9.0 sysNAND on it). Then I'll run the Homebrew Launcher and launch Decrypt9. Then I'll dump the SysNAND, and flash my Luma3DS launching NAND.bin back. If it goes well, I can launch Luma3DS again.

If I wanna switch to Gateway, I flash my Gateway A9LH SysNAND to NAND. If I wanna switch to Luma, I'll do what's on top. Unless there is a way to use BOTH at the same time, then this will have to do.

I haven't done this process yet and to see if it works or not. I'll do it tomorrow. It's 9:08 PM in my time zone right now, anyway.

Just like LupinIII from Maxconsole said:

The NAND thing was in the OP already.

 

[dyingyam]

The purpose of alpha and beta tests are to fix things like this before they actually get in our hands.

To fix bugs, bugs which may not be found in internal testing. This is beyond that. It just actually doesn't work on an entire platform. This shows that they didn't even try to run it on a N3DS before sending it out to beta testers. Jesus, you have to actually make it sure it works before giving it to people to test. There's no point otherwise. N3DS users can't report useful feedback because it just plainly doesn't work, so all they can say is, "it bricks".

 

[Nirmonculus]

To fix bugs, bugs which may not be found in internal testing. This is beyond that. It just actually doesn't work on an entire platform. This shows that they didn't even try to run it on a N3DS before sending it out to beta testers. Jesus, you have to actually make it sure it works before giving it to people to test. There's no point otherwise. N3DS users can't report useful feedback because it just plainly doesn't work, so all they can say is, "it bricks".

You're not the first one who said this, so move along now. If you don't like it, don't use it, no one is forcing you to. Sell your Gateway if you have one. Just get over it.

 

[Kazuma77]

Launcher.dat 371 works as well, did you try?

Well, I got the A9LH installer built. Worked. Unfortunately, all I'm getting when I hold B is a red screen, and then it shuts off.

Just to make sure I have this right. You copy 0B800000 to 0B8024EF from GW NAND.bin. And 0B400000 is where you paste it in your SysNAND.bin (after you restore SysNAND_original.bin, install DS A9LH, restore original SysNAND using "keep A9LH" then dump your new SysNAND.bin). Then you just do a forced restore on your modified SysNAND.bin. It should be working, but its not. Can anyone upload the Stage0x5C000.bin file? Maybe my GW NAND dump is corrupt or something.

 

[Townsperson]

You're not the first one who said this, so move along now. If you don't like it, don't use it, no one is forcing you to. Sell your Gateway if you have one. Just get over it.

Well, I feel it's only fair that someone gets to bring this up every time someone parrots the "This is what alpha/beta tests are for. Go Gateway!" line.

Equal representation and all that.

 

[Nirmonculus]

Well, I feel it's only fair that someone gets to bring this up every time someone parrots the "This is what alpha/beta tests are for. Go Gateway!" line.

Equal representation and all.

All the same, if you don't like the beta, don't use it and move one. Sell, donate, steamroll Gateway and cry self to sleep.

 

[CreAtor135]

I e-mailed the GW Team. Here's to hoping they get their act together.

 

[Townsperson]

All the same, if you don't like the beta, don't use it and move one. Sell, donate, steamroll Gateway and cry self to sleep.

That literally had zero to do with what I just posted...

I'm just saying if someone is allowed to praise the "testing" in this thread, it's only right that someone can call it out for not being acceptable. If the former isn't off topic, neither is the latter.

 

[Quantumcat]

I do hope the tool gets better ... this sort of reminds me of Netflix vs just downloading what you want to watch. The latter has many inconveniences like using up hard drive space, sometimes getting Nvidia protected ones where the sound cuts off just when it gets exciting, getting low quality ones or ones that are too high quality and waste needless download/space, having to spend time searching for what you need ... Etc. $10/month is worth it for me for the convenience of being able to watch when I want with no hassle or planning. But what if Netflix randomly had 2/3 of its files failed, if you had to tell it what you wanted to watch a day before you could watch it, etc etc and ended up being less convenient than downloading stuff. Would you really pay $10/month for something worse? Probably not. For your money you expect something polished, professional, and convenient.

 

[evandixon]

To fix bugs, bugs which may not be found in internal testing. This is beyond that. It just actually doesn't work on an entire platform. This shows that they didn't even try to run it on a N3DS before sending it out to beta testers. Jesus, you have to actually make it sure it works before giving it to people to test. There's no point otherwise. N3DS users can't report useful feedback because it just plainly doesn't work, so all they can say is, "it bricks".

It's also possibly they unintentionally broke something that previously when compiling it. I've done that before several times. In Gateway's case it's a private beta.

 

[CreAtor135]

That literally had zero to do with what I just posted...

I'm just saying if someone is allowed to praise the "testing" in this thread, it's only right that someone can call it out for not being acceptable. If the former isn't off topic, neither is the latter.

No one is allowed to do either of those things. I've made several posts speaking that this thread is not for making nice remarks or complaints. It's solely for finding the bugs in the alpha and reporting them. It's also acceptable to contribute to self betterment of the alpha, like the method that @liomajor has created to get Gateway running alongside other A9 payloads.

 

[Townsperson]

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I e-mailed the GW Team. Here's to hoping they get their act together.

Nice write-up. I doubt GW will be willing to allow updated SysNand based on their previous email. Chances are they don't want to lose the "Even an idiot can't brick" protection of EmuNand, even with a9lh brick protection.

 

[crimpshrine]

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I e-mailed the GW Team. Here's to hoping they get their act together.

Great feedback for them.

Hope they listen.

 

[Kazuma77]

OK, I must be missing something. Tried it with the uploaded stage2 payload just to see if there was something wrong with mine. Still not working. Holding B is clearly trying to run the payload. But it just gives me a red screen and shuts off. Any ideas, @liomajor?

 

[urherenow]

Actually gateways Old Brick Code encrypts EMMC which prevents normal hard mods fro unbricking the Device you have to use a raspberyy PI etc to get low level formatting to do it

We aren't talking about old brick code. We're talking about the current a9lh alpha. It doesn't do that.

 

[urherenow]

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I e-mailed the GW Team. Here's to hoping they get their act together.

Post a video. Flash carts DO NOT work in sysnand or emunand. Not even in classic mode. All my flash carts work in all other CFW and stock 3ds FW as well, so I know there is nothing wrong with my carts.

And... everyone talks about 100% brick rate on N3DS. I get 100% brick rate on my O3DS. I just manually did the downgrade because I got tired of reflashing my nand...