Bricked TP Link Archer C50 v4

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hello Community,

I would to use OpenWRT but i maked a silly thing, I've install OpenWRT like it explained in the wiki under the section "Archer C50 v4 installation instructions" i decided to flash the pre compiled boot.bin from the dropbox .zip that worked well, but then i done the next step "Download tplink_C50-v4-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin for OpenWrt 19.07.x stable. You can use LuCI to install the sysupgrade.bin file." after this i didn't have anymore LuCI, then i connected me with ssh to my router and tried to install LuCI but the package wasn't found even after opkg update, then I decided to "rollback" to my first installation with the boot.img(because the most things worked there), so i pushed the boot.bin to my router over scp and made sysupgrade --force boot.bin (Now I know it was silly) and now my router goes on but after 2-3 sec it goes off and turn on again(endless).

Please Help Me.

Thanks in advantage for any help.

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From the OpenWRTforArcherC50v4(EU).zip file, try reinstalling openwrt using TFTP method using the custom tp_recovery.bin file

Installing via TFTP
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File required:  tp_recovery.bin

Place tp_recovery.bin in root directory of TFTP server and listen on
192.168.0.66/24.

Connect router LAN ports with your computer and power up the router
while pressing the reset button. The router will download the image via
tftp and after ~1 Minute reboot into OpenWRT.

Here is one randomly googled video. Uses TFTPD32/64 for Windows.
https://youtu.be/bL8wKx8qaZ4

(boot.bin is only for flashing from TPlink GUI)

May be when you install 19.07.0 stable via Luci, do Not 'Keep Settings' ?

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