Is my 3DS Bricked?
Ava Mcdaniel
Published Jul 07, 2026
I was installing arm9loaderhax (at ) and it didn't turn off. I waited an hour, pressed A button and Select and nothing happened.
I removed the SD card and powered on, the screen had some color changing but I switched off Power-Saving Mode and the screen is fine.
I then formatted the SD card - (it said that the sd card was corrupted in my pc). Now I am at 2.2.1 version - my 3ds works but I don't know how to get out of it. Is it bricked? Here is my n3ds without sd card.
51 Answer
As cited from 3ds.guide:
A browser based exploit is not working
Browser based exploits (such as browserhax or 2xrsa) are often unstable and crash frequently, but they can sometimes be fixed by doing the following steps
Launch the browser, then launch the browser settings Scroll to the bottom and Initialize Savedata (it also may be called Clear All Save Data) Try the exploit again
Redo this step and use the backed up NAND.bin from the previous step. If you didn't back that up, you're screwed.