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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 Curren...
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