Dunno how else to explain it, but I'm wondering if this is an ongoing issue for others. I swear, ever since the last system update, EVERYTHING has been going wrong with this dumb thing... Internet Browser still boots me out when I try to open it, still experiencing unusual lag offline in some games, and now the mother of all issues rises up from it all.
Basically, nothing out of the ordinary appearance-wise, until I try to open my 3DS while it's closed and in sleep mode while I collect play coins and potential (read: nonexistent) streetpasses,. Upon opening, it's just stuck on black screens, and the light appears to still do its light low-to-high thing it does when its in sleep mode... sometimes. At least once, the light stopped changing luminosity altogether and was just sitting at its current brightness with the black screens.
I just don't know what the heck is causing it. I'm not violent or clumsy with the system, so it's not from physical damage, and this has only arisen since my last system update; since then, I've had like 8 instances of opening my sleep mode 3DS only to find I'm blackscreened and have to forcibly reset my system. It's gotten to a point where I had my system on for a long period of time, close it out of habit, think immediately about what would happen if it froze again, open it out of fear and it have frozen in the span of 1 second of being closed. This thing is driving me up a wall now, to the point I just don't even want to bother touching the stupid thing for fear it might pull some other stupid glitch on me mid-game and I suddenly lose all my save data or something.
Seriously Nintendo, what the heck did you mess up with your last system update? My 3DS is practically ruined because of it.