Got an issue with my SD Card, help
Hello everyone, so I got a Homebrew 3DS some time ago with many games installed on it.
The system worked quite long, for almost 2 years, but 1 day when I normally started the 3DS this issue showed up “Could not detect an SD Card.”
I cleaned the metallic part carefully, still no change.
Then I thought maybe it’s the SD Card where the problem lies, so I bought a new one and transferred all data on to it… unfortunately it’s the same issue showing up.
Is a data on the card maybe corrupted and how could I detect it? Does someone had a similar issue and was able to fix it? I would appreciate any help and answer 🙂
Big thanks
All Replies
Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)
Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
Recent Topics
-
Possible SD card issue?
by 13 hours, 37 minutes ago
-
Got an issue with my SD Card, help
by 13 hours, 36 minutes ago
-
SD Card Problems?
by 13 hours, 35 minutes ago
-
SD card not reading
by 6 days, 15 hours ago
-
Damaged Sd card
by 14 hours, 9 minutes ago
Just to make sure, does a new empty SD card read?
If a new SD card doesn’t work it may be just corroded or dirty contacts on the card reader.
I’m not sure what the “correct” method to do this would be other than taking your 3ds apart, but this is what I would try:
Turn your 3ds off and take an SD card you don’t really care about (just to be safe, It should be fine still after this) and use a cotton swab to apply some rubbing alcohol to the contacts, then pop it in and out of the 3ds a bunch of times to use the alcohol and friction to try and clean the contacts up. Wait about 10 minutes for it to dry up and then see if it can read your SD card now.
If not, it may need an SD card reader replacement.