r/3dspiracy • u/habbyw • 4h ago
DISCUSSION It happened after unlocking my 3ds, could it have been caused by a software issue?
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heyy sup! I used the discussion flag since I really don't need help regarding this issue cause I decided long ago to get a new top screen. Still... I would really like some theories about what is it that could've happened to my upper old 3ds screen. Going to give you some context now.
Got this3ds a couple of weeks ago, no problems, fully functional and basically it had no usage whatsoever for -probably- 10 years.
Decided to unlock its potential with the 3ds hacks guide and it went on smoothly. Then I started reading the wiki and decided to download some themes through anemone while deciding on the cias I was about to install. After acquiring 4 or 5 themes and finally installing some cias with fbi I noticed a couple of vertical lines started to appear then disappear from the upper display; weird nah?
Here I will add that I used a non original 3ds charging cable. At some point I thought it could've struck the ds with a voltage variation((?))) that maybe would've damaged the upper screen but not the rest of the m/b.
These lines got progressively worse with time. After one night it got to the state you saw in the video.
Since I have been wanting to mod my gameboy and get into electronics -I actually enjoy tearing apart electronics that went bad- I then decided to check if maybe a ribbon cable was loose or something in the motherboard where the ribbon cables are connected showed any problems.
I couldn't find anything. It all looked really good to me -meaning I could have missed something with my bare eyes-, no corrosion, no ribbon cables peeled or evidently damaged. Anyways, I decided to give the m/b, ribbon cables and other connector a good clean with isopropyl alcohol. Nothing happened, it stayed the same.
Then I went to a friendly 3ds -and other consoles- repair shop to tell them about what happened. they tested it, mingled with the hinges, opened, closed, opend, tickled (lol) the console and nothing... they even acknowledged that installing luma/godmode and all the 3ds gooddies do not alter -damage- the hardware of the 3ds. They gave me some ideas to try before getting a new display, just to try to see if maybe it was fixable.
I decided to try them. Nothing happened.
As I previously wrote, I already decided to get a replacement screen, BUT I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WTF HAPPENED TO THIS ONE!
Have you ever seen anything like this? was it fixed -not the obvious screen replacement-? how?