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hnyman May 24, 2017, 5:22am 163

Using the OEM TFTP recovery mode is the easy way to revert to Netgear firmware.

Netgear R7800 exploration (IPQ8065, QCA9984) For Developers

R7800 has an easy-to-use TFTP recovery mode in the bootloader, similar as e.g. WNDR3700. @dissent1 gave me the info, which was really useful as I managed to brick the router a few minutes ago when testing thermal drivers. I recovered from a boot loop with this process. Works like a charm. Prerequisites for TFTP recovery A TFTP client for your computer. There are both command-line tools and GUI versions available. (I use currently tftpd64 GUI tool from jounin. tftp2 tool (from dd-wrt) used to…

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