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Reset to factory on N900 by FTP
A couple years back or maybe a bit more, my N900 died. Rebooting, resetting did nothing. After some assistance either on here or by their support, I was told I should FTP into the router with the f...
I doubt if it was FTP. More likely to be TFTP:
How to upload firmware to a NETGEAR router using TFTP | Answer | NETGEAR Support
I doubt if it was FTP. More likely to be TFTP:
How to upload firmware to a NETGEAR router using TFTP | Answer | NETGEAR Support
Thanks, Michael. I understand the differences between the two but I wasn't really
sure what method was told to me last time so just posted it that way to make it
simple. I'll confirm later how everything works out.
So far no luck. I can update the firmware (says it's successful) but nothing changes on the router. Last time it worked easily enough so I'm guessing that something else must be going on here. I'll continue to play with it. I did purchase another router so this is not an urgent thing at the moment. I'll mark your suggestion as the accepted solution. Thanks for the help.
Hi michont,
My N900 just died/locked-up yesterday too... Weird coincidence...?
Anyway, I've tried all the steps you have: Power cycle, rebooting, reseting, trying to get to www.routerlogin.net(.com) --> "Connection timeout"... Nothing worked.
Then I found your post, and it gave me hope i could reset my router. I tried the steps in the link provided from Michael (thanks michael!). Like you, I'm unable to get that to work either. Interestingly, I do get the "Firmware was upgraded sucessfully!" message. However the LEDS didn't follow the described steps. My LED's diverge at step 9.
Here's what I observed:
Step 9) When it says the Power LED should go from solid orange to flashing orange, I never see it go to flashing orange. However, right after turning power on and the Power LED turns orange, I see several of the other LED's flash (Internet, LAN 1-4) on for about 2 sec. NOTE: This is the same sequence I see if I turn power on without holding down the reset button. However, the Power LED will stay orange as long as I hold the reset button in. Without holding the reset button, the "normal" power on cycle takes 26 seconds before the Power LED will switch from orange to a flashing green.
Step 10) Again, I never saw the Power LED switch to flashing orange, and subsequently never to flashing green (as described in Step 10), when I hold the reset button in. However, about 10 seconds (ie 10 LED blinks) after turning power on, the same "other" LED's (Internet, LAN 1-4) flashed on again, for about 2 seconds. I took this to be the equivalent of the "Count at least 10 flashing green LED and release the reset button." in Step 10. So, I released the reset button, upon which the other LED's (Internet, LAN 1-4) flashed again for 2 sec. Then it took ~34 sec. for the Power LED to change from solid orange to flashing green. (little bit longer than a "normal" power on). It was after that I tried to keep following the steps...
Step 11) This ran for me.
Step 12) I got the "Firmware was upgraded sucessfully!" message
Step 13) At this step, I never see "...the Power LED will turn green and the wireless LEDs are both lit". Despite getting a "successful" firmware upgrade message.
Also, I tried this several times, and got the same "sucessful" message from TFTP. So I'm sure I was following the steps as I've described here.
Let me know if you get the same results or different.
