(Sorry if the images are flipped weird, I don't know why Reddit is doing that to me)
AFAIK, I believe I got my first 3DS in February 23rd, 2012 and February 26th of the following year was when it started messing up and I barely used it. (Ignore the 2011 dates, I think the date and time reset at some point when I tried to use it)
The screen and buttons were nearly unresponsive. The screen wasn't detecting, and only one button would register when it decided to… I took it to geek squad, they said nothing could be done about it. I just ended up getting an XL.
On and off over the years, I ended up finding this 3DS again trying to press buttons, hit the screen with my hand and whatnot, nothing would fix it. Finally a few days ago, I tried once again… this time finding people's experience on Reddit, they said they cleaned dirt from the edges of the screen and it worked for them… tried that, nope… but then today I turned to youtube, because I was willing to take the dang thing apart, but instead I found a short of somebody putting a pry tool in between the screen and the bezel… I decided to jump the gun and… I kid you not that actually worked. That one video, out of all things…
Unfortunately, the SD card is long gone (it got badly scraped, I guess me taking it in and out so much?) But it still had random stuff I decided to store in the system itself.
Sorry for the long story… but I am also posting this, hoping it could help others with the same issue. I was tired of this 3DS just sitting in my room as a prop, and I didn't wanna give it away somewhere if it still had pics of 8 year old me and our late dog from when they were a puppy. 😭
Posted by TrueWG