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PETStech
Mar 19, 2021Follower
R8500 Bricked by Firmware upgrade
Yesterday, I was alerted that a firmware upgrade was available for my R8500-v1 which I applied using the Nighthawk app. It said it would take about 3 minutes; after which I received a message that th...
DarrenM
Mar 19, 2021Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
You may want to try the TFTP method to recover the router I linked a KB on how to do this.
https://kb.netgear.com/000059633/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP-client
DarrenM