The system turns on and loads to the main home screen. The top screen animation runs, I can turn the wifi on and off, the game reader reads games, the system charges, if I hold the power button to get to the power down screen, I can press the home button to get back to the home menu, and I can enter the update/safemode screen when holding L+R+A+d-pad up (Edit: was d-pad down, I meant d-pad up). I cannot enter into touch screen calibration, touch input doesn't work. On very rare occasions if I'm holding down d-pad right when powering on the system, the home menu will start scrolling right indefinitely and I'm able to "fight" against it by repeatedly pressing d-pad left and only when in this state I can enter into an app if press A at the right moment (which is how I know the cameras work), but the touch screen still wont work.⏎
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Otherwise though, the joystick, touch screen, ABXY, sound, and 3d slider do not work at all.⏎
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I've already tried cleaning under and changing out the digitizer, as well as the bezel, and cleaning under the button pad stickers. I've also tried systematically disconnecting one component at a time and testing to see if anything changes or works. Unfortunately, though, none of this has seemed to work. ⏎
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The scrolling right only happens when I have the system taken apart, but it isn't consistent with any specific component being disconnected.⏎
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The battery does have a slight curvature to it, but I'm not sure if that would cause these issues. ⏎
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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!⏎
Thanks!

⟐ Commented April 06, 2026 at 14:34 MST

At first it was working but it had the blue light and popping sound so I replaced the speaker ribbon cable (I already tried with 4 different ones) I had to solder the speakers my self no problem there.

The issue now is that after everything is connected the console won't turn on at all. But when I disconnect the speaker ribbon cable and I turn on the console, the 3D green light on the side of the top screen turns on for 1 second and fades out, that's all it happens.

What should I try next? I also tried 2 other top screens and it was the same thing

Thanks!

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I have 3ds from 2012 with Luma. It booted once luma, but since only turns on. The backlight is working, and sometimes hear the birdsongs, but does not begin. I have attemped safe mode, but no action.

It has a replaced battery, but battery was replaced many years ago. is it time to pay funeral!? I miss my children

⟐ Commented May 06, 2025 at 7:31 MST

It is stuck on a black screen with the power light on, green ‘3D’ symbol, and the WIFI light with a dim backlight on.

Sometimes, however, it does boot after waiting 5 minutes or so. The Home menu seems fine and everything works as intended. The Home menu also isn’t slow or anything. It’s just having problems loading into the Home menu when I press power. Trying to load recovery mode with L+R+A+Up doesn’t work either. Pressing L+R+Down+B to clear the Home menu data brings up the menu as intended, so the bottom screen seems to be working fine.

This is definitely a hardware related issue in my opinion as it does this with or without an SD card in. My question is, what could be causing this?

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Here's the video, as you can see it moves around from left to right and changes behaviour based on what's happening on screen. I tried this screen and the other two that were exhibiting this behaviour on a different motherboard and they are all fine, it's the motherboard itself that is causing this. Cleaned the contacts and everything, I'm at a loss. What could be causing this?

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Yours Truly,

ElectroStorm Gaming

⟐ Commented April 04, 2024 at 2:15 MST

There’s just one problem haven’t been able to figure out…

My quirky childhood 3DS.

It has this strange problem where the volume adjuster will not adjust the volume. But here’s the kicker: the 3D adjuster actually does change the audio volume. However, it slowly fades into a louder or quieter volume instead of instantly adjusting to the new volume. I also don’t think the max volume quite reaches that of a normal 3DS since I recall other 3DSs being louder when I had them next to each other, but that was in my childhood and I don’t personally own any other 3DSs so I could be remembering wrong.

This issue has been present ever since we bought it second hand back in 2013 (I’m estimating, I’d have to ask my mom for a more accurate date as she’s the one who bought it). My best guess is that the previous owners had been inside it before and did… something… I’m very uncertain as to what that issue could be though, as I’ve never heard anybody talk about this specific issue before.

I don’t think I’ll be tackling this issue any time soon, as 3DSs look very intimidating to fix for a newbie like me. Especially this specific of an issue.

I am gonna have to crack it open eventually to at least clean it as the game slot is a little sticky and I have reason to believe that the infrared sensor might need some work too. I’m just asking now in case someone might be able to pinpoint a possible reason for this problem, cuz I’d love to know what might be the cause of this hilarious issue.

Oh, I forgot to mention, the 3DS in question is one of the original red ones, if that helps.

Thanks a bunch!

It's an original CTR-001.