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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 #2:
After doing some testing with constant pinging, I can say that in my case it did not start rebooting again UNTIL I put it into Access Point mode. At that point once I connected to the 5GHz band, it would reboot within a few seconds.
I am not sure if there is a bug in this mode but I am doing some additional checks and tests to confirm this. But looks like something is wrong when switching to this mode. Before this I was constantly pinging the router in its regular mode and there were no reboots that I could see.
The "bricked" status is fixed but not the wifi/reboot issue. I will start a second thread specifically talking about that with a reference from this case.