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Unsuccessful recovery or firmware downgrade (RBR20)
Power ON: RBR20 LED ring never stops flashing white (power LED green) I seem to be able to get to recovery mode by holding reset button for 20+ seconds during power on until I see a ping response...
I had issues last time too, then I found out you have to put tftp into binary mode. So I ended up doing the following:
first type:
tftp 192.168.1.1
Then on the tftp command line type:
binary
Then type:
put RBR20-V2.1.4.16.img
Hopefully this works. It worked for me on an extender the other day when I bricked it.
Ah damn. Since your warranty is out, you can open it up and find the uart serial pins and connect them to a computer with a uart serial to usb connector. Then you can open up a terminal and run the screen application against it. Available in MacOS and linux at least. And there you can see the startup output and attempt to piece together where things are going wrong. This of course is a lot more involved. But if you're up for it, I can detail where the pins are and what pins are what. I did this the other day and documented the steps.
I am interested in the steps you took. Also how to nicely break open the box...
- I was reading entire forum trying to find out pinout for RBR60.
Can you please send me info.
I do have exactly the same problem with my Orbi. TFTP - no luck