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Jay2x
Jun 24, 2019Aspirant
R7000 bricked during update cannot recover.
I recently tried to upgrade the firmware and power went off. My router is responsive coz I followed https://kb.netgear.com/27477/How-to-resolve-amber-LEDs-or-a-blinking-power-LED-on-NETGEAR-routers ...
- Jun 24, 2019
> 15613922886085217141556636394889.jpg
First, find out how to do copy+paste from a Command Prompt window, or
else how to do a screen grab on Windows. Your photo cropped off the
useful part of the file name.> [...] But after it says "transfer successful: 224 bytes in second(s),
> 224 bytes/s" nothing happens to the router it just keeps power blinking
> led.What I see is, "Transfer successful: 224 bytes in 1 second(s), 224
bytes/s". But you were close.To me, that looks like the TFTP scheme is working, but 224 bytes is
not even close to the size of a firmware image file. For a popular
recent version, for example:pro3$ unzip -l R7000-V1.0.9.42_10.2.44.zip Archive: R7000-V1.0.9.42_10.2.44.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 32268346 09-10-2018 13:31 R7000-V1.0.9.42_10.2.44.chk 3121 10-01-2018 12:26 R7000-V1.0.9.42_10.2.44_Release_Notes.html --------- ------- 32271467 2 files
So, a typical correct file ("R7000-V1.0.9.42_10.2.44.chk") has a size
of roughly 32MB (not 0.2KB). I don't know what you sent to the router,
but it seems to have been some small, wrong thing, not the appropriate
".chk" file.
> This is the version that I'm trying to reinstall,
> R7000-V1.0.8.34_1.2.15 [...]Why?
> [...] I'm not sure if it can revert to any old firmware. [...]
I'd expect loading any version to be possible, if you can load some
version.> [...] I really feel that this is a trash unit, [...]
Perhaps, but so far there's little evidence that you're trying to
push a real firmware image file at it.