Thank you for pointing it out, i edited my post.lollapalooza wrote:The link I pasted was actually the guide to TFTP recoveryd3fz wrote:There is the TFTP recovery method you can still try.
The video tutorial still applies.
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Thank you for pointing it out, i edited my post.lollapalooza wrote:The link I pasted was actually the guide to TFTP recoveryd3fz wrote:There is the TFTP recovery method you can still try.
Thanks for the suggestions, but if I'm not mistaken, both of these require the router to enter failsafe mode. I have tried these before to no avail.d3fz wrote:There is the TFTP recovery method you can still try.
It saved me when i bricked my TL-WR842ND and couldn't enter failsafe mode as well.
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Bricked TP-Link WDR4300 Version 1 Recovery/Rescue Unbrick Without A Serial Connection
As noted before, I cannot get my bricked router into failsafe mode. Doesn't TFTP require that the router go into failsafe mode? From what I understand, when router is in failsafe mode, it sends a signal to a specific IP for recovery firmware, which then triggers TFTP transfer if such firmware exists on the TFTP server. If there's another way of using TFTP, please let me know.Lantis wrote:TFTP is usually initiated by the boot loader. If a router has this recovery method it is usually pretty hard to kill it unless you corrupt that as well.
It is worth trying, otherwise you're on to more drastic solutions like throwing it out the window.
Could you provide the steps you're taking to enter failsafe mode ?ku1185 wrote:As noted before, I cannot get my bricked router into failsafe mode. Doesn't TFTP require that the router go into failsafe mode? From what I understand, when router is in failsafe mode, it sends a signal to a specific IP for recovery firmware, which then triggers TFTP transfer if such firmware exists on the TFTP server. If there's another way of using TFTP, please let me know.
Sometimes you just ran out of luck. I've also bricked my router before when upgrading (without preserve settings, etc), for no apparent reason.ku1185 wrote:EDIT: Anyone have any ideas as to why my router bricked when trying to update via web interface? Perhaps I shouldn't have gone from 1.8 straight to 1.9.2?