NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
Recover a bricked Orbi RBR50 - flashing white light
I have an RBR50, which when I try to factory reset, the green power light stays on and will not turn red. If i have the reset pressed whilst turning on the power, I get the solid red light for a few...
Ok, solved it.
I took it apart, connected a USB to serial adapter, and through putty, discovered the mac address, model number and other settings had been wiped, in what I assume was a failed firmware update.
these were updated and firmware flashed successfully.
i wont include a link here, but there are lots of posts in this forum on how to do it.
As last resort, try a 30-30-30 reset and see what happens.
Review these:
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/custom-firmware-build-for-orbi-rbk50-rbk53-rbr50-rbs50-v-9-2-5-1-18sf-hw-v-9-2-5-1-18-1sf-hw.64414/page-3#post-590839
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Is-my-13-month-old-RBR50-bricked/td-p/2009904/jump-to/first-unread-message
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-Wi-Fi-5-AC-and-Orbi-with/ORBI-RBR50v2-bricked-Solved/m-p/2338097#M145450
will give it a try - thx
i tried the 30 30 30 , with no change ☹️.
i tried several times again with nmrpflash, and on 2 occasions, got a connection, but got a timeout message.
Can anyone help me interpret this message please...
D:\Downloads\nmrpflash>nmrpflash -i net14 -f RBR50-V2.7.5.4.img
Waiting for Ethernet connection (Ctrl-C to skip).
Advertising NMRP server on net14 ... \
Received configuration request from 00:00:00:00:00:00.
Sending configuration: 10.164.183.253/24.
Received upload request: filename 'firmware'.
Uploading RBR50-V2.7.5.4.img ... Timeout while waiting for ACK(0)/OACK.Ok, solved it.
I took it apart, connected a USB to serial adapter, and through putty, discovered the mac address, model number and other settings had been wiped, in what I assume was a failed firmware update.
these were updated and firmware flashed successfully.
i wont include a link here, but there are lots of posts in this forum on how to do it.