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Netgear R7200 Bricked
Hi, I made the mistake of flashing my router with OpenWRT firmware, not being happy with the change (it worked, but didn't like it), and attempting to revert back to the stock firmware for my device....
I'd check on the ddwrt forums. They might have their own recovery option. and if it was interrupted, it could still be running their firmware.
He said OpenWRT not DD-WRT, so going to DD-WRT is not the fix. OpenWRT would be the place, IMHO.
Thank you. My problem is that the router is not fully powering on and not able to complete the factory reset. All instructions I've found online explain to either hold the reset button for 7 seconds (netgear) or 30 seconds (misc forums).
I was on the phone with Netgear yesterday where we tried to hold the reset button for 90 seconds and unplugged the power cord ever 30 sec intervals. This still didn't work.
I'm not confident that OpenWRT will be able to help since I can't get a TFTP connection to work at all. I have a saved draft of this post on their site as well, so maybe I'll send it and see what they think.
I already bought a new one off amazon and will probably start looking for someone to recycle this one.
Thanks again regardless of it not working out.
