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Orbi RBR50 seems stuck in boot loop
Hi, After my orbi performance dropped, I restarted the router hopping it will fix it. However it doesnt fully restart now. The power led is solid green and the ring is solid white for like 20 sec...
brichter1978 wrote:Just curious, did you ever solve? I have the exact same issue.
I can start nmrp to advertise and laptop shows file is trying to load after starting nmrp on console, then console says nmrp server stopped or failed. Laptop then times out. They are communicating, but can't get an image to upload.
I solved *my* bricked RBR50 using the serial console.... there's a separate thread about it.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Is-my-13-month-old-RBR50-bricked/m-p/2009904
I'd be interested to see how you did it with the console because I've never fixed mine. But when I hit your link I get an 'invalid parameter' error
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I found your thread with the search engine. Unfortunatly I don't have the same issue that you did, the model Id matches between my board and the firmware and the firmware can be flashed. It just doesn't boot correctly...
Well I fixed mine after 10 hours or so.
I ended up booting unit and pressing space from console to stop boot. Manually set IP to 192.168.1.250.
Had ethernet cable with laptop IP at 192.168.1.5 plugged in direct.
Ran this command on laptop and noticed any time I had this command on the router would be pingable. Chnage both -t ans -T to 90000 to give me more time as pingable.
nmrpflash -v -i net19 -f c:\NG\firmware.img -t 10000 -T 10000 -A 192.168.1.5 -a 192.168.1.250
While router was pingable I ran the TFTP and flashed latest RBS40 FW.
Used TFTPd64, also worked with TFTP2.
Then noticed to error below as mentioned in post on link below. Used manual commands and that allowed a good flash. Reboot took FOREVER, but you could see all the action happening on the console. Plugged into my router and within 2-3 minutes it was in the web GUI. No reprogramming or syncing.
HW ID on board:
HW ID on image: 29765515+0+4096+512+2x2+2x2+2x2
Firmware Image HW ID do not match Board HW ID
Board HW ID mismatch,it is forbidden to be written to flash!!After this I did a set on Mac and then did a Saveenv to memory.
Here is link that was broken posted by other. This link helped me resolve.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Is-my-13-month-old-RBR50-bricked/m-p/2009904
SOLVED RBS40
tgenty wrote:I'd be interested to see how you did it with the console because I've never fixed mine. But when I hit your link I get an 'invalid parameter' error
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I found your thread with the search engine. Unfortunatly I don't have the same issue that you did, the model Id matches between my board and the firmware and the firmware can be flashed. It just doesn't boot correctly...
Sorry... looks like the editor messed up the link in the IURL somehow. If you cut and paste the displated text it works, but if you click on the link it has some bogus extra characters on the end.
If you have the router in the uboot console then there are a bunch of commands for testing various bits of hardware. And you can see much more of the logging when the system is booting, so perhaps you may see a relevant error message. But if the firrmware image looks to be correct then I dojn't know what else to suggest.
Just add HTTPS://
community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Is-my-13-month-old-RBR50-bricked/m-p/2009904
Hoping this helps. Also note the ans was a typo in NMRP command above.
Came here and created account just to say thank you! Reset button would just not work to upload the firmare that was botched by the automatic update process. But, serial port trick, following your instructions, unbricked the satelite and saved hundreds of dollars in the process.
Some minor details: While I was able to successfully login using serial port, I couldn't figure how to assign a static IP and tftp server would not start without it. Luckily a quick reboot and interrupting boot process, enabled IP address assignment somehow and TFTP server started like a charm and then followed your steps for HW and Model id configuration, save state was not needed in either case.
Thank you again.
This is the last netgear product I'll purchase.