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Fuma
Jan 31, 2022Aspirant
R6120 factory reset itself and now routerlogin.net keeps wanting to set it up.
My router somehow factory reset itself over night. So I went through the setup process on the nighthawk app and got to where it asked me to log in with my account. After I did, it said it was alre...
plemans
Jan 31, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Does it do the same thing with different browsers/devices?
Fuma
Jan 31, 2022Aspirant
Yes it does the same on different devices and browers
- plemansJan 31, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Something might have gotten corrupt in it.
I'd try reinstalling the firmware, then do a factory reset on it. That way if can overwrite the firmware and the factory reset can clear out any settings that might be causing it.
- FumaJan 31, 2022Aspirant
Yea that could do something. I'm just worried that doing the reset again would put me in the loop where it asks for an account and says it's already registered again. I just somehow got it to go through, and I wonder if there would be downsides to leaving it in this seemingly somewhat corrupted state for now.