Hardware Unbrick Mod via USB?

[DaisukeHideki]

Hey guys,

I've bricked my 3DS just recently and read about how to do an unbrick with a SD Card adapter.

I wanted to do a "nice looking" mod instead of having a SD Card adapter hanging out of the 3DS so I've looked for some regular PWM cables like this:

Spoiler

The male jack would be connected to the 3DS itself and glued to a hole in the case, the female would be connected to a SD Card adapter.

But PWM jacks look uglier than USB jacks to be honest

Would this work with a regular USB connection?
For example having cables connected to the 3DS and a female Micro USB jack glued to a hole in the case and then using a regular micro USB cable connected to my PC USB Port.

I know that the mod uses DAT 0, CMD, CLK, GND but a USB connection uses Vcc (+5V), Data -, Data + and GND.

Has anyone tried this before?

 

[laramie]

Yeah Hundshamer did, she doesn't use the micro usb anymore though. I'm not sure why, but that's all she told me.

 

[DaisukeHideki]

Thanks for the quick response. I will try to reach out to her

 

[sweis12]

People don't use miniusb anymore because some people put 5v into their nand chip.

 

[BringusStudios]

People don't use miniusb anymore because some people put 5v into their nand chip.

He means an integrated sd card reader in the ds

 

[hundshamer]

That is possible, but a switch would be so it will not BSOD when you want it in normal mode.

 

[dark_samus3]

What you're trying to do is pretty easy, you just need a small enough dpst switch (dual pole single throw) to turn the CLK and CMD off so you can use the console like normal this will allow a straight USB connection to the console, just flip a switch power the console on and then read/write to the NAND then flip the switch the other way and you're done