[TUTORIAL] [Noob-Friendly] NAND Dumping 2DS/3DS/3DS XL/N3DS/N3DS XL!

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What exactly would I be looking for with a multimeter?

 

Your wires are to stripped (too much wire with no sleeve), specially the CLK one. It looks it's touching those condensers on the board.
Try to put a bit of electrical tape between the wire and the board to make sure your not short-circuiting it.
If you feel confident, you can de-solder it and go for the alt CLK. But it's very dangerous since it's so small pad and if you brake it, you might lose your console.


Green wire is alt CLK. (you can see it in OP for N3DS XL)

Just check for continuity between the CLK you know and that one I showed. In my multimeter, there's a function for it that buzzes when there's a straight connection (0 Ohm impedance)

 

So, I'm using a Eur N3DS XL with Toshiba nand and I'm unsure which of the Adapters from the frontpage in the N3DS XL part I should buy, since some users said some of them aren't working with it. I tried varoius readers at home and only one (A Hama USB2)at least show a letter in Win32DiskManager, but when I press read there, it gives out error 483 critical hardware error and then it closes.
So any recommendations which of the readers I should buy ?

 

Wires are way to long. No more than 5"

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Go with what's been recommend, anyone that says something is not working, it's probably operator error.

 

Don't know about that but I didn't managed to make neither the Anker nor the Transcend to work (N3DSXL) (tried everything I could remember).
The one which worked for me was a Startech.com USB 3.0 #FCREADMICRO3 (Realtek RTS5307).

Might have to take a better run on them but since I have one working, didn't care much for the others,

 

5 what? Centimeter?

 

I'm sure He's talking in inches, (Around 12,5 cm)

 

I have trancend, works fine. There is a bad batch of ankers selling though.

 

Yeah, the Anker might be one of those (although I bought it from amazon Uk).

 

It's from the manufacture, there is reports over here in the U.S.A I've had from customers saying it don't work as well. ( Fails with regular sd cards as well )

 

I've tried with the microSD (from the N3DSXL) and it reads/writes OK.
Now that you said that, will have to try with a SD to see what happens.

Thanks for the tip,

 

Hi guys, i have a problem....

Whenever I try to patch the nand, I get this error when injecting it into 3ds, but can back up the nand unpatched and links without errors. Any idea? I used Plailect guide, Reboot.ms. I have tested several ways, including formatting the system, spend twice the autofirm but have no results. The funny thing is that it is only in that 3ds, another worked normal.

 

12.5 centimeter is very short. Why is a longer wire not recommended?

 

I plan to do this soon to a couple (or more) 2DS consoles for the sole purpose of downgrading, what is the best way to 'clean up' afterwards? De-soldering is probably not worth the hassle/potential damage, so maybe just leave a length of wire taped down inside to the PCB?

 

I have now 12 centimeter and short stripped wires but I can still not write any NANDs on my 3DS.




Edit: The SD card adapter would have a lock, but the latch is lost. Can it be that the sd card adapter is locked?

 

Alright, so I finally finished putting my o3DS back together, and when I push the power button the light turns blue for a second and then turns back off with a popping sound. What I found on Google said it was an issue with one of the ribbon cables, but I checked and they all look secure. How would I go about troubleshooting this? Thank you

 

Maybe try another franken SD with it or a different SD reader.

Yeah, you can just keep the wires inside the console.
If you decide to sell/give it away, just inform the new owner what you done so (S)He won't do anything bad with those wires.
Pull the sleeve on the tips of the wires to isolate them.

The lack of the lock piece on SD only makes it Read Only. That will allow you to read and dump the NAND but not write.
You can bypass this by putting some tape around the frankenSD.

But the error your getting isn't the proper one. It should be like this:


The main line is the bottom one. 00000200 00000000
If it's anything different, on my experience, it will not work (maybe I'm wrong).
You should try with a different SD reader.

And, as I told you before, that CLK connection isn't the best one. You can connect it on the ALT CLK(other side of the board, slightly to the left of the micro SD slot):


Mainly saying this because the CLK your connecting to, is the bottom right one of those 4 little squares, and it looks that you tried to solder on the top right one first, and now is soldered on the bottom left one.

One user told about launching the console on recovery mode (L+R+UP+A on boot) and then connecting the reader to the PC.
He claims He had 100% read/write performance. I haven't tested this so, if you go that way, it's on you the risk.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutoria...s-xl-n3ds-n3ds-xl.414498/page-67#post-6682615

 

Looks like two other people also had this problem and its been the cable for both of them. Before I take my whole DS apart again, is there anything else it could be?

 

does it matter if the error code is?
00000000 00000000
00000200 00000000

My SD card reader isn't detecting the sd card, my current guess is maybe my wires are too long. I got this anker sd reader: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006T9B6R2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A294P4X9EWVXLJ