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Can't change icons of attached devices
Have most updated firmware. I click on attached devices and then click on say a HP printer and I change the icon to printer. Says updating, but right back to standard icon. Any suggestions?
I can comfirm this issue on my RBR20. Changing the Device Type icon used to work until the most recent firmware update. All the device types I set prior to the latest update are still there, I just can't change one. I can however change the device name, just not the type. It's stuck on Network Device.
Keith_1952 wrote:I can comfirm this issue on my RBR20. Changing the Device Type icon used to work until the most recent firmware update. All the device types I set prior to the latest update are still there, I just can't change one. I can however change the device name, just not the type. It's stuck on Network Device.
Can you please try to change the device type to something different than what it was before the upgrade, save it, then change it again to what it was before the upgrade!
So if you have an iPhone then change it first to say Bridge, save it, then change it again back to iPhone, will this work?
No, this does not work. It does not work because the firmware is ignoring any attempt to change the device type of any device. The type information is not being persisted.
Please activate telnet in the Router's debug page and run the following command from command prompt:
nvram show | grep orbi_dev_name_ntgr[0-999] | grep xxxxxxxx
Where xxxxxxxx is the MAC address of any device you have issue with, what do you see there?
