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I have an r6700v2 which has become bricked after a firmware update. I had updated using the Android app and it never came back. The power light remains amber, and the Ethernet Port lights up which ...
- I still don't know why following the instructions didn't work, but I found this old post:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/General-WiFi-Routers-Non/Guide-How-to-quot-unbrick-quot-your-WGR614v9-after-a-bad/td-p/153385
With it started up and sound with the orange light of uselessness solid, I held in the reset button for 30 seconds as directed in the above post. During this process, suddenly it came to life. It lost all of my settings but was now running the latest firmware and the web interface is working. I was able to plug in my wireless settings and reconnect the cable modem. I had to reboot the modern and router a few times before it actually gave me a working internet connection, but now all is well. So hopefully someone will come across this post and have the solution more quickly than I did. These really are great routers. It would just be nice if someone created a troubleshooting decision tree that got users straight to an appropriate answer instead of having to resort to the Google, attempt, and pray method. I'm not sure if the firmware got there by my tftp attempts or if this is the version the app was originally updating to and it was just resetting the settings that ultimately fixed it. IDC. Good luck to anyone dealing with a brick. It's frustrating, but at least in my case, the fix was easy once I tried the right thing.
I still don't know why following the instructions didn't work, but I found this old post:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/General-WiFi-Routers-Non/Guide-How-to-quot-unbrick-quot-your-WGR614v9-after-a-bad/td-p/153385
With it started up and sound with the orange light of uselessness solid, I held in the reset button for 30 seconds as directed in the above post. During this process, suddenly it came to life. It lost all of my settings but was now running the latest firmware and the web interface is working. I was able to plug in my wireless settings and reconnect the cable modem. I had to reboot the modern and router a few times before it actually gave me a working internet connection, but now all is well. So hopefully someone will come across this post and have the solution more quickly than I did. These really are great routers. It would just be nice if someone created a troubleshooting decision tree that got users straight to an appropriate answer instead of having to resort to the Google, attempt, and pray method. I'm not sure if the firmware got there by my tftp attempts or if this is the version the app was originally updating to and it was just resetting the settings that ultimately fixed it. IDC. Good luck to anyone dealing with a brick. It's frustrating, but at least in my case, the fix was easy once I tried the right thing.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/General-WiFi-Routers-Non/Guide-How-to-quot-unbrick-quot-your-WGR614v9-after-a-bad/td-p/153385
With it started up and sound with the orange light of uselessness solid, I held in the reset button for 30 seconds as directed in the above post. During this process, suddenly it came to life. It lost all of my settings but was now running the latest firmware and the web interface is working. I was able to plug in my wireless settings and reconnect the cable modem. I had to reboot the modern and router a few times before it actually gave me a working internet connection, but now all is well. So hopefully someone will come across this post and have the solution more quickly than I did. These really are great routers. It would just be nice if someone created a troubleshooting decision tree that got users straight to an appropriate answer instead of having to resort to the Google, attempt, and pray method. I'm not sure if the firmware got there by my tftp attempts or if this is the version the app was originally updating to and it was just resetting the settings that ultimately fixed it. IDC. Good luck to anyone dealing with a brick. It's frustrating, but at least in my case, the fix was easy once I tried the right thing.
> Following the official instructions provided by Netgear. How else
> would anyone attempt to do this? [...]> I tried third party tftp client software first, and then also the
> official one included with Windows 7.Given that in "the official instructions provided by Netgear", there
is more than one TFTP client program, and that both demand user-supplied
data, ask me again why a non-psychic might ask exactly what you did?> Bottom line is I'm following the official instructions precisely as
> written [...]If that were really the "Bottom line", then I wouldn't have asked for
more details.