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R8500 Bricked - "Decompressing... error 1"
Has anyone seen this error on R8500 or knows how to debrick it? Local Netgear support denied RMA, as its warranty expired 1 year ago. Mostly we have the output through on-board RTGV pins: Dig...
Thats usually way beyond basic user help and deeper into the problem. If normal TFTP recovery methods fail to get the router back to a operational state, seems the router would need to be replaced. You could check the DD-WRT forums and see if anyone has seen this there. They usually go deeper into the NVRAM side of things.