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R7000 being bricked?!?
So here is my story. I bought 2 different r7000 routers. One awhile ago and another recently. As my practice I ALWAYS upgrade to the latest RELEASED firmware for security fixes and new features. Wel...
UPDATE:
So I tried one last time after posting this but using the TFTP.EXE directly from windows as suggested in the attached forum thread: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/SOLVED-Steps-for-debrick-unresponsive-R7000-softbricked/td-p/414034
This seems to have released the router from its stuck state. Will do more testing for the 5GHz band but at least it is usable again. There were some other forum posts or something (I did a search) that suggested to use the TFTP2.exe GUI application. Obviously this did not work for me.
UPDATE:
So I tried one last time after posting this but using the TFTP.EXE directly from windows as suggested in the attached forum thread: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/SOLVED-Steps-for-debrick-unresponsive-R7000-softbricked/td-p/414034
This seems to have released the router from its stuck state. Will do more testing for the 5GHz band but at least it is usable again. There were some other forum posts or something (I did a search) that suggested to use the TFTP2.exe GUI application. Obviously this did not work for me.