Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

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nikhilnh
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Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

Post by nikhilnh »

Hi ,
I recently bought a TL-WDR4300 router. The router performance with factory firmware was terrible, hence flashed Gargoyle OpenWRT. After the flash, the performance was much better ( especially stability ), however the download speeds on the wireless would still fluctuate b/w 10 -16 Mbps. Hence I want to return the router . After some googling I came upon this link for reverting back to the factory firmware

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl- ... l.firmware

As the instructions in the wiki pertain to OpneWRT, my question is do I have to cut parts of the image file as mentioned in the openWRt wiki and then use the Gargoyle interface for reverting or can I directly use the factory firmware image and revert back using the Gargoyle GUI.

Thanks,
Nikhil
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jorgemiguel4
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Re: Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

Post by jorgemiguel4 »

No, you have to do exactly the wiki's procedure.

omiez
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Re: Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

Post by omiez »

I want to flash back to original firmware too.

I am following the steps described in Wiki that you linked.

I have cut the firmware using a HEX editor to 0x20200 and the file is exactly 8,126,464 Bytes like described in Wiki.

Can you or somebody please have a look to the firmware before i flash it to ensure i made it the right way please?

Here is a link to the firmware:
http://www.4shared.com/zip/7HFS9EY-/Wdr4300_Cut.htm

pmerrill
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Re: Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

Post by pmerrill »

jorgemiguel4 wrote:No, you have to do exactly the wiki's procedure.
So once I cut the file down using dd, the OpenWRT page seems to indicate that I can then use Gargoyle Update Firmware page and load the file produced by dd into the router to revert to stock firmware.

Is that correct?
Paul
Gargoyle 1.11.x on TP-Link Archer C7 V2 H/W

pmerrill
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Re: Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

Post by pmerrill »

pmerrill wrote:
jorgemiguel4 wrote:No, you have to do exactly the wiki's procedure.
So once I cut the file down using dd, the OpenWRT page seems to indicate that I can then use Gargoyle Update Firmware page and load the file produced by dd into the router to revert to stock firmware.

Is that correct?
BUMP...anyone?
Paul
Gargoyle 1.11.x on TP-Link Archer C7 V2 H/W

antnee
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Re: Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

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Re: Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

Post by Josh2 »

Thanks for your suggestion... 8-)

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Re: Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

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markjosol
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Re: Reverting back to factory firmware on TP-Link TL-WDR4300

Post by markjosol »

Thanks for your suggestion... 8-)





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