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How to unbrick the Nighthawk R7000 using OS X and TFTP
Hi,
After spending a night on unbricking my R7000 and how I struggled to work with all the manuals out there but none of them actually worked. I thought I should share what actually worked for ...
HOLY COW IT WORKED!!!
nmrpflash worked!!! Switching to a Static IP address and turning my Wifi off did the trick!!
Also, recommend using -vvv to double check when it works. Took me two tries to nail the timing because the router has to finish restarting for the packet transfer to begin before the command times out.
Thank you! This got my bricked RBS40 Orbi Satellite running!
I bought it off ebay and it came this way. So glad it's not in the trash--thanks to you.
For those searching the web for a similar woe:
Symptoms: ring was blinking white for about 30 seconds, then suddenly amber, milliseconds, green, black; repeat.
This article combined with the following is what I relied on: https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
I found it reading these articles:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Solution-to-fix-Orbi-Satellite-flashing-white-forever-failed/m-p/1588079#M33357
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/RBK40-Satellite-RBS40-Flashing-White-then-after-25s-rapidly/m-p/1505028#M23516
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-RBR50-satellite-pulsing-white/m-p/1733449
Forgot to add to my reply yesterday, 2019-11-03 05:50 PM, the key that helped me:
pinging the ip address (step 3 of kryptonix's original post). Leaving the ping running, I learned there was a pattern of connectivity and that eventually the connection stabalized. Once stabalized--like 10 minutes after the hold-reset-button-down-while-powering-on step (steps 7 through 9 in kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP )--I was able to do the TFTP transfer.