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Nighthawk RAX45 Firmware update failure with "gui language file is invalid"
Firmware Update Assistant
New firmware is found. Do you want to update the firmware? (Yes) (No)
Current GUI Language Version: 1.0.2.82_2.1.46.1
New GUI Language Version: 1.0.4.100_2.1.46.1
Current Firmware Version 1.0.2.82
New Firmware Version 1.0.4.100
Release Notes:
1. [Security Fixes] This firmware addresses security vulnerabilities. For more information about security vulnerabilities, visit https://www.netgear.com/about/security.
2. [Bug Fixes] Fixes the issue where some pages in the router web interface display incorrectly if Google Chrome is used to access the interface.
3. [Bug Fixes] Fixes the issue where the UI language selection has issues changing to Spanish, Chinese, and Italian.
4. [Bug Fixes] Fixes the issue where the port forwarding table does not display the updated service name if it was changed.
5. [Bug Fixes] Fixes the issue where Volume name displays incorrectly on the ReadySHARE USB page.
This update from the browser fails with "gui language file is invalid"
Have you tried manually installing the next update?
then seeing if it'll auto update?
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Have you tried manually installing the next update?
then seeing if it'll auto update?
While manually downloading the file and installing the firmware from your directory works, I am disturbed that Netgear allows this issue to be distributed without some clear communication on what they plan to do to fix the problem. Their QA test must be very poor.
I agree this is very unprofessional.
Agreed, there are a lot of posts on what is essentially a broken software update and/or serious problem with qa:
- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/RAX20-Firmware-Upgrade-Failure-1-0-3-96-2-1-46-1-GUI-Language/m-p/2130164
- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/RAX20-Firmware-Upgrade-Failure-1-0-3-96-2-1-46-1-GUI-Language/m-p/2130164
- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/Nighthawk-RAX45-Firmware-update-failure-with-quot-gui-language/m-p/2156357
- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/Firmware-Update-GUI-Language-Invalid/m-p/2166449
- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/Nighthawk-RAX45-AX4300-will-not-complete-a-firmware-upgrade/m-p/2169755
- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/Netgear-AX-AX4300/m-p/2166075
- https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Routers-with-WiFi-6-AX/Firmware-upgrade-AX4300/m-p/2050364