Homebrew I thought my 3ds bricked after install boot9strap

[Maxkhoon]

Exit b9sTool, then power off your device

Section V - Configuring Luma3DS
Boot your device while holding (Select) to launch the Luma configuration menu

My 3ds will not boot after this step (only blinking blue light for 2 seconds), my heart sinked..

Turns out that 64gb card will not work when installing CFW, it works fine with vanilla console before that (have formatted to fat32)

Using my spare 4gb card (sorry New Bittboy XD) it can boot again and continue with the flashingof CFW, for safety I formatted that 64gb card again with another tool and it works like a charm!

writing this just in case someone needs it.

 

[Rickboss]

So I just had this happen to me, I didn't realize I couldn't use a 64 gb card with the CFW installation. I attempted to place the original 4gb vanilla sd card in and it still will not boot. I was wondering if you had any suggestions. When i hit the power button it just goes on for about a second and then fizzles.

 

[bennyman123abc]

Could you maybe upload a video of this blinking blue light? It sounds like you missed a step, which would be an easy fix, but I wanna make sure.

 

[Rickboss]

Hope this helps.

 

[bennyman123abc]

Hope this helps.

You don't have Luma3DS installed on your SD card properly. Go back through the guide and go to the point it walks you through installing Luma3DS.

 

[Rickboss]

You don't have Luma3DS installed on your SD card properly. Go back through the guide and go to the point it walks you through installing Luma3DS.

I used this video and followed it to the letter. At 17:24 when I had to do a hard restart is where I am now.
Could it be because I tried to install the CFW on a 64gb SD card (formatted to Fat 32)? I read somewhere that you can't install the CFW on anything but the 4gb card that comes with the system.

 

[bennyman123abc]

I used this video and followed it to the letter. At 17:24 when I had to do a hard restart is where I am now.
Could it be because I tried to install the CFW on a 64gb SD card (formatted to Fat 32)? I read somewhere that you can't install the CFW on anything but the 4gb card that comes with the system.

Never use video tutorials! Instead, use 3ds.guide.

 

[Rickboss]

Well lesson learned I guess. So are you aware of any possible way to recover this system or should I just consider it bricked. (Since I have no way of actually turning it on at this point.)

 

[TurdPooCharger]

Well lesson learned I guess. So are you aware of any possible way to recover this system or should I just consider it bricked. (Since I have no way of actually turning it on at this point.)

Most likely reason your n2DSXL doesn't boot is because the SD card isn't formatted in FAT32 + 32 KB cluster size. After the reformat, try adding the Luma3DS v9.1 boot.firm on the card root and try again.

Edit - Also, try not to follow video tutorials. They're often outdated, missing crucial details, or can be wrong on certain hacking aspects.

 

[bennyman123abc]

Well lesson learned I guess. So are you aware of any possible way to recover this system or should I just consider it bricked. (Since I have no way of actually turning it on at this point.)

Go to the point in the guide I linked about installing Luma3DS

 

[Rickboss]

i was able to place the starter package onto the original 4gb card which included the boot.firm and it did boot. It seems it was because I was using the 64 gb card to try and attempt the CFW installation. Thank you both for your help!!!

 

[TurdPooCharger]

i was able to place the starter package onto the original 4gb card which included the boot.firm and it did boot. It seems it was because I was using the 64 gb card to try and attempt the CFW installation. Thank you both for your help!!!

To use cards bigger than 32 GB, you'll need guiformat. Follow through the finalizing setup in that guide.