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Is my 13-month-old RBR50 bricked?
Last night we had a brief power outage - for a couple of seconds. I lost internet connectivity and expected things to come back as normal after everything rebooted. However - my RBR50 did not. ...
Well, after connecting to the internal serial console and fiddling around with the U-Boot loader for an hour I managed to unbrick my router and upload the latest RBR50-V2.7.1.60 firmware. Yay!!! :smileyvery-happy:
Serial port fun
The router had lost almost all of its configuration state - including it's MAC addresses, hardware id, model id, etc.
I needed to set these to back sensible values be able to bring up the TFTP loader and load/flash an image. (luckily the error message saying that the image file didn't macth the hardware ID told me what values I needed to configure!)
Then it took a couple of reboots to come up happy. Still had a bogus SSID and unknown passphrase (so the iPhone app was useless) - but at least I could log in on the LAN port and manually set thing up.
Now it seems to be happy I will see if I can find my configuration backup file ;-) (you know, the one you always make but have never tried restoring!)
Time for a beer!
pbarham you absolute legend. Thanks to your detailed post, especially about the image and model errors, I was able to recover my bricked Orbi. I'd buy you a beer if you were in Australia, but take my kudos and ongoing gratitude instead!!!