(SOLVED) nimbus issue :(

[tepid sparrow]

(Couldnt find that issue sorry if asking again after someone)
Hello, i swapped my 3DS battery, causing it to obv restart everything. And i wanted to log into my pretendo account that ive been using but it gives me wrong credentials error. I saw i should try using nimbus to go to nintendo network n back to pretendo. Sadly upon doing that i realized i cant switch to nintendo therefore the issue with wring credentials persists :( could anyone give me a fix since i cant rly use anything on it currently

This is the issue im facing (networks just refuse to get swapped)

[tepid sparrow]

UPDATE:
I tried all the possible ways to swap my network but it constantly says im on pretendo (even tho im pretty sure im not due to login sceeen and the rest of the apps not connecting tru pretendo)

I also reinstalled nimbus and tried reseting the console couple of times with all the ways i remember but nothing rly works :(

[muted roost]

why can't you switch to nintendo?

[tepid sparrow]

i am not aware :(

i did whole nand backup reset and everything but

nimbus still refuses to swap networks

[muted roost]

so what happens?

[tepid sparrow]

now its stuck on nintendo

[muted roost]

huh

is nimbus up to date?

you can check / update it via universal updater

[tepid sparrow]

and everytime i open it i click to swap networks it reboots back to nintendo

[muted roost]

?

[tepid sparrow]

since i did nand restart i had to download basically everything again

so its supposed to be

[ionic wigeon]

What version of nimbus do you have because that is very important

[tepid sparrow]

let me grab my console brb

1.6.0

[muted roost]

hmm

[ionic wigeon]

That is the latest verison

[muted roost]

what about luma?

[ionic wigeon]

Just press left select and down on the dpad

Should say on the bottom screen

If it’s higher than I believe Luma3DS version 13, it will let you

[tepid sparrow]

13.0.2

[muted roost]

latest

this is odd

is it definitely still broken?

[tepid sparrow]

wait i was taking a quiick vid

its been like this since it bugged

but when it bugged it was saying its stuck in pretendo (it wasnt)

[muted roost]

idk what to suggest

[tepid sparrow]

it was still nintendo servers even tho the green text was showing under pretendo :D

[muted roost]

i can't really help, i'm pretty new to 3ds modding

sorry

[tepid sparrow]

sadly same i went tru ages of boards and i couldnt find a fix :D

thats why i asked here

i mean MK7 still works on the modded servers n i can play tomodachi life so ig its fine :D thanks alot for the time doe <3

[muted roost]

wait what

you're on pretendo for mk7?

[tepid sparrow]

oh idk if this is in any help but this all happened after i swapped my 3ds battery (i did turn console off obv before changing it)

[ionic wigeon]

Might be using CTGP7

[tepid sparrow]

no im on the ctgp servers

ye

[muted roost]

https://pretendo.network/docs/install/3ds#luma-patches

have you done this?

nimbus should detect if you havent

but maybe it bugged?

[tepid sparrow]

ye after i did the nand restore i had to enable everything back

[sweet cliff]

Hi any help needed rn?

[fickle wind]

Hello I have a question

[sweet cliff]

Go ahead

[tepid sparrow]

It doesnt work since yesterday ye :(

[muted roost]

open a separate thread please

[fickle wind]

Will Spotpass be back on pretendo?

[sweet cliff]

Yes when they add everything

Just like online for other games

[fickle wind]

Ok thanks

[muted roost]

(not a mod, just hate when unassociated issues are filling one thread)

[sweet cliff]

(Agreed)

[fickle wind]

Oh sorry

[sweet cliff]

Next time please ask in #1067162922989662360

Like make your own thread

Since they #announcements support roles

You’ll get answers in no time

[fickle wind]

Oh I thought this was the support sorry

[sweet cliff]

Support itself is a forum, you need to make a thread

[fickle wind]

Ok

Thanks

[fickle wind]

Ok I won’t forget it next time I’m new here

[sweet cliff]

No problem

[tepid sparrow]

(Will tldr my issue if someone somehow had faced it n checks the chat)
My nimbus refuses to swap networks
It happened after i changed my bat on the 3ds
After choosing a network it reboots and just keeps on staying in nintendo servers
I updated everything to last version

[sweet cliff]

Redownload nimbus on universal updater first

@tepid sparrow

[muted roost]

@sweet cliff based on other threads, you don't know what's going on. if you read the thread, you'd know that:
A- OP has already done this
B- in the videos OP has sent, it clearly states nimbus is 1.6.0, the latest version
if you don't know what you're talking about, don't try to help people, especially without reading the context of what's already been tried

[tepid sparrow]

oh nyo universal updater

after finishing the 3 loadings

goes into a crash dump :(

[muted roost]

image?

[sweet cliff]

I didn’t read context sorry

[muted roost]

try turning it off and on again

then see if it loads

[tepid sparrow]

Nope :(

[sweet cliff]

Ok I read everything

[tepid sparrow]

Upon trying to redownload universal

I get this

I feel like i somehow broke everything xd

[sweet cliff]

Ayo

Is that the fake eshop

[muted roost]

yeah what is that

[tepid sparrow]

Uhm what is fake eshop? (Im sorry i got this 3ds like a week ago

[muted roost]

it better not be <<piracy tool>>

[sweet cliff]

It is

Ok

[tepid sparrow]

It the app that i was told to use by the guy that sold it

:( is it bad?

[sweet cliff]

Don’t download universal from fake eshop

[sweet cliff]

Depends

[muted roost]

who sold what?

did u buy the 3ds hacked?

[tepid sparrow]

Yes

[sweet cliff]

Oh shit

[muted roost]

https://3ds.hacks.guide/finalizing-setup

download all tools from there

[sweet cliff]

@tepid sparrow

[muted roost]

i cannot stress this enough

[sweet cliff]

Well that solved our problem (almost)

[muted roost]

that is probably the cause of issues

and remove <<piracy tool>>

[tepid sparrow]

ooh im sorry i rly didnt know

[muted roost]

it's illegal

[tepid sparrow]

ok ok ill never use it again i was just doing as i was told :(

[sweet cliff]

Downloading from fake eshop

[muted roost]

you can do that in fbi (when you've redownloaded from https://3ds.hacks.guide/finalizing-setup)

[sweet cliff]

Use it if you what but don’t expect help here

[sweet cliff]

Don’t download cfw from fake eshop

[muted roost]

all i'm saying is using a version someone downloaded for you is a bad idea

[sweet cliff]

Basically^

[muted roost]

• it's illegal

[tepid sparrow]

ok ill read into it thank you

[sweet cliff]

Nintendo can’t do shit anymore

[muted roost]

yes they can

they don't care enough to

[sweet cliff]

Not really because it’s hard to pin down every user

[muted roost]

but they very much own the rights

[sweet cliff]

Yes but they can’t track everyone down and the law certainly won’t help them if they are looking to imprison a 13 yr old consumer compared to that one 26 yr old that was the distributor

But yes

Anything that happens Nintendo will not help and probably hurt them

Like the recent 11.17 update that compromised Luma users under 8.0 temporarily

But that’s off topic

@tepid sparrow the main thing is not to use that app especially for help with pretendo and other custom firmware

[tepid sparrow]

ok ok ill know that im rly sorry

i was just following the word doc i was given with it how not to brick my console

[dry storm]

Did you enable game patching and the option above that one

[tepid sparrow]

yep

[muted roost]

read thread

yes

[dry storm]

mb

[sweet cliff]

Start here @dry storm

[sweet cliff]

Did you finish the finalization?

Like all of it

[muted roost]

respectfully, you're not helping

i'm fairly sure redstarboi knows how to scroll

[sweet cliff]

I’m educating him on what not to do next time

[sweet cliff]

I’m telling him where to start if he’s lazy to do that

[tepid sparrow]

doing it rn

[sweet cliff]

Let us know when you finished

@tepid sparrow status?

[tepid sparrow]

uhm im trying to boot into godmode9 rn

it says if it fails it could be due to folder not being named correctly

i think it should be fine but ill try again

[sweet cliff]

@muted roost we got an issue let’s tackle this

[sweet cliff]

Yes please do

[tepid sparrow]

my notification led

lights up yellow

while i hold start n power

White: Your 3DS was not able to find boot.firm on your SD card or on internal memory.
Magenta: Your 3DS was not able to find boot.firm on your SD card. It was able to find boot.firm on internal memory, but the file is corrupted.
Red: Your 3DS was able to find boot.firm on both your SD card and on internal memory, but both files are corrupted.

i see no yellow doe :D

[sweet cliff]

Ask the person who sold you the 3ds what method he used

Lemme check the yellow out

[tepid sparrow]

wait

the luma menu doesnt boot up too now xd

[sweet cliff]

Shit

[muted roost]

is the sd card formatted as fat32?

right click > properties

[tepid sparrow]

it is

[muted roost]

ok...

[tepid sparrow]

well i was thinking just completely wiping it down to factory settings n just starting the whole jb process a new since the tutorial seems prty straight forward

[muted roost]

NO NO

that WILL make things worse

[tepid sparrow]

oh

oke i wont :D

[sweet cliff]

It could brick it if you’re not careful

[muted roost]

can you send a picture?

[tepid sparrow]

i see

This is upon pressing start/select + power

Untill i let go of it it doesnt bootup n stays like this

[muted roost]

hmm

https://github.com/LumaTeam/Luma3DS/releases/tag/v13.0.2

download and extract to the root of your sd card

[sweet cliff]

^

[sweet cliff]

^

[muted roost]

probably won't fix issue, but it could help if it's corrupted

[tepid sparrow]

doesnt hurt to try

[sweet cliff]

Wait didn’t you say you already tried this?

[tepid sparrow]

i did but

luma menu was working

[sweet cliff]

Picture?

[tepid sparrow]

oh well it was yesterday i didnt rly take one

[muted roost]

OHHH

delete the godmode9 firm

[tepid sparrow]

alright

[muted roost]

you should only have 1 in there

[tepid sparrow]

oh cuz it said there could be a list thats why i kept it

ok

[muted roost]

now boot while holding start

[tepid sparrow]

with the new

boot.firm file?

[sweet cliff]

Yes

[tepid sparrow]

ok

[sweet cliff]

Wiat

[muted roost]

make sure it's on the ROOT of your sd card

like in D:

not a folder

you may need to overwrite an existing file

[tepid sparrow]

yes i did praying now :D

OH

SHIII

IT WORKED

[sweet cliff]

Nice

[muted roost]

YESSS!

[sweet cliff]

Good job @muted roost

[muted roost]

just go through with the instructions then

[tepid sparrow]

yes on it

[sweet cliff]

I think I can go now since @muted roost has it under control

[tepid sparrow]

god bless you guys, thank you so much and sorry for taking so much of your time

[muted roost]

no worries

i love helping people

[sweet cliff]

Don’t give me most of the credit, most of the work done was from @muted roost

[muted roost]

been doing it on and off since 2022

[sweet cliff]

I tried to help

[muted roost]

(back then, i was wii only tho)

[sweet cliff]

Like original wii?

[muted roost]

yes

[sweet cliff]

Cool

What made you choose to branch off

[muted roost]

i wanted a 3ds

so i got a 3ds

and started helping with 3ds

just now

[sweet cliff]

Also sorry for acting like a goofy, should’ve asked pictures and read context first

[sweet cliff]

Nice

[muted roost]

my wii helping career was cut short

[sweet cliff]

How

[muted roost]

good old <<rc24 dev>> banned me

[sweet cliff]

Damn for what

[muted roost]

some old drama i don't want to bring up

[sweet cliff]

Ok I won’t ask

[tepid sparrow]

ok backup has been done i backup on pc and i will try to open universal updater

[muted roost]

great!

🤞

[sweet cliff]

Do you have checkpoint installed too?

[tepid sparrow]

im booting it up rn

yes i do

okaaaay universal uipdater works!

im downloading nimbus rn

[muted roost]

awesome

[tepid sparrow]

should i have removed it beforehand doe?

before downloading again from the updater

[sweet cliff]

Context?

[tepid sparrow]

BROTHER IT SAYS LOADED IN PRETENDO IM SHAKING

[tepid sparrow]

the nimbus app i had

[sweet cliff]

Yea redownload don't delete old one as it gets replaced anyway

[tepid sparrow]

i think it didnt rly work doe

[sweet cliff]

Wdym

[tepid sparrow]

well when i go to link my acc in settings

to my old acc idk if its due to the same username from nintendo acc

but it says that this acc is already in use

[sweet cliff]

Don't use same user for NNID and PNID

[tepid sparrow]

i am trying with different one rn

You guys are gods

idk if there is a way to repay you

but thank you so so much everything worked out

im sorry for takin so much of your time again but thanks alot!

[sweet cliff]

No need to

[tepid sparrow]

(SOLVED) nimbus issue :(