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Tyler818
Aug 26, 2022Aspirant
Anywhere Accees "Something went wrong" after Factory Reset
I just finished a factory reset of my R9000 Router and I'm trying to enable Anywhere Access from the Nighthawk app. This was previously working before the Factory Reset but now when I slide to en...
- Aug 28, 2022
Remind me, did you roll back to earlier firmware to see if that helps?
Tyler818
Aug 28, 2022Aspirant
Bingo that worked. Going back to Firmware 1.0.5.40 allows me to enable Anywhere Access; Remote Management is still disabled as well.
1.0.5.42 seems to break that feature.....now I'm worried the "Security Fix" in 1.0.5.42 is Anywhere Access related......
michaelkenward
Aug 28, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Excellent result, of a bit disappointing.
One other thing we may not have talked about is the factory reset. Did you do that when you applied he newest software?
That is sometimes a way of digging yourself out of a hole.
- Tyler818Aug 28, 2022Aspirant
I upgraded to version 1.0.5.42 on August 24th, 2022 and am unaware if Anywhere Access was working or not as I didn't use the feature for several days.
I did the Factory Reset while on version 1.0.5.42 on August 28th 2022. At this point I've spent too much time on this so I'm just going to avoid 1.0.5.42 as Anywhere Access is critical to me (because I often need to reboot my R9000 while remote to resolve a Wifi "brown-out" issue I mentioned in a previous post).