My orbir router got bricked while I was at the office and when I got home, I was greeted to magenta lights on my satellite. I was able to factory reset the satellite, but my router is unresponsive to any attempt at factory reset (light just stays lit green all the time). I've tried doing the tftp and 30-30-30 methods and those don't work. I bought the usb to ttl cable to try to access the router via the serial connection, but I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong.

These are the current serial settings in putty. (I've also updated the speed for the com port in device manager as well)

Putty Session screen before opening the connection

PIN Connections to the RBR50

Putty screen when the connection is opened.

Whenever the connection opens and I turn on the router, absolutely nothing gets printed to the screen. When I turn off the router, 1 or 2 of those characters shown in the screenshot gets printed. If I turn back on the router nothing is still printed to the screen. Turning it off just prints more characters to the screen.

Many people say that they see the router info being printed to the screen, but I'm clearly not. I'm not sure what else to do other than buy another usb to ttl cable and try again.

Forum Discussion

Accessing Bootloader via Putty on RBR50