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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
Another data point. I just tried reflashing after a "normal" power cycle.
The TFTP tool gives me a "Firmware was upgraded sucessfully!" message in that scenario too. So, for my N900 (in whatever state it is), it doesn't seem to matter if I hold the reset button in, for a sucessful reflash of the firmware...
If there are any of Netgear's engineers monitoring this site, is there another method to reflash the firmware? Like over the USB ports? Or can I open the case, and get to another internal re-flash method?