Homebrew I think my 3DS is dying of CFW?

[BillKout]

I homebrewd and then cfw'd my 3ds near july and it worked perfectly but lately,its been crashing and freezing at black screens and just doing that randomly and at one point it even deleted my fbi..i dont want it to die i only have it for not even a year

 

[dimmidice]

Yeah if it fucks up it's not cause of CFW. It's cause you did shit you're not supposed to.

 

[BillKout]

Yeah if it fucks up it's not cause of CFW. It's cause you did shit you're not supposed to.

like? pls halp

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Yeah if it fucks up it's not cause of CFW. It's cause you did shit you're not supposed to.

seriously tho can you tell me?

 

[legoinventeor]

some cias that are unstable can make a crash happen.
For example, I installed Ridge Racer 3D (USA) on my EU N3dsXL and it occasionally crashed.
But that is not the only reason. Maybe, leaving apps while loading may cause this too.
Although I do not think that this will Kill/brick your 3ds. From my experience, the worst thing that can happen is that your SD corrupts, and i was really messing with my 3ds, and even that was recoverable.

 

[BillKout]

what do you mean by leaving apps while loading?

 

[legoinventeor]

what do you mean by leaving apps while loading?

Sometimes while some apps are writing data to the sd card they say "do not turn off the power". But the most frequent one I had was when apps like Freeshop freeze to start a download and I just leave out of impatience.

 

[dimmidice]

like? pls halp

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seriously tho can you tell me?

I can't help you because you haven't really given a lot of information. What do you have? A9LH? BSS? How did you hack it? What homebrew/cias did you install when this started happening? stuff like that would be helpful.

One likely cause could be that your MicroSD card is dying.

 

[Bluespheal]

Usually when a system is "dying" it's not because of CFW, still people delete it or uninstall it, even tho CFW might be the only possibility of recovery.

 

[comput3rus3r]

Usually when a system is "dying" it's not because of CFW, still people delete it or uninstall it, even tho CFW might be the only possibility of recovery.

yeah, people usually blame the only thing that can save them. cough "Jesus" cough. in this case it's CFW though. lol

 

[Bluespheal]

Lol, yeah, I don't blame them, but it's usually a better idea to stop and ask before doing anything else.

 

[trecko1234]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/you-dont-need-to-remove-b9s-the-guide-to-proper-troubleshooting.477024/

There's a thread about this because it seems to be a common "solution" for naive people.

 

[MattKimura]

If you're having odd issues that never happened in the past, and especially if you come from hacking in the past, you can do a ctrnand transfer to fix any and all nand issues to give your system a fresh start again.

 

[Pikachuk]

Usually when a system is "dying" it's not because of CFW, still people delete it or uninstall it, even tho CFW might be the only possibility of recovery.

usually what saves them is not the cfw but the bootloader, no ?
since the cfw is only the modified system while the booloader is the thing that allows to recover in case the system doesn't boot anymore

 

[comput3rus3r]

usually what saves them is not the cfw but the bootloader, no ?
since the cfw is only the modified system while the booloader is the thing that allows to recover in case the system doesn't boot anymore

when we say cfw we're including b9s. I mean who has b9s without the cfw?

 

[Pikachuk]

when we say cfw we're including b9s. I mean who has b9s without the cfw?

lol true

 

[Xiphiidae]

I homebrewd and then cfw'd my 3ds near july and it worked perfectly but lately,its been crashing and freezing at black screens and just doing that randomly and at one point it even deleted my fbi..i dont want it to die i only have it for not even a year

Your issues are most likely the result of either a dying SD card or SD card reader. Try checking your card with H2testw, and/or use a new, good-quality SD card and see if you're still facing those issues.

 

[IanCoolio]

I had similar things happen to my 3ds about a year and a half after CFWing it. It consistently crashed and black screened on startup, and for the longest time I thought it was all software related. I asked several people for help, gave as much info as possible, but it came down to being all hardware related. I eventually took it all apart, up to the touchscreen, then put it back together, and has worked perfectly since. It's a bit tedious and annoying, but if your problem is hardware related, it might work. Only problem is getting a 000 Philips screw. (Got mine at Walmart in a set for like $6)

 

[wicksand420]

What do you mean fbi disappeared? if you installed over 300 titles it will make fbi disappear, is that what happened?

 

[Deleted-351540]

Black screen crash? Does it show a lot of hex on one of the screens or say something along the lines of "errDisplay"?

 

[DrasticGray]

If you're using ntr or anything similar make sure you arent overclocking.