Well, I just bricked my "tp-link Archer C1200 EU V2" router.
I flashed the "Tenda AC9 OpenWrt" firmware on my router (as the chips seem to be the same), and could sucessfully boot OpenWrt on the Archer C1200 once.
After a long story(*), I basically failed to backup my factory firmware and flashed my trx and nvram partitions with garbage. Now, I can't get the bootloader to pass a partition check whatever firmware I would then flash:
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Reading Partition Table from NVRAM ... OK
Parsing Partition Table ... OK
[NM_Error](nm_api_readPtnFromNvram) 00134: partition name not found.
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Full log:
�Decompressing...doneton release...done
CFE version 9.10.178.50 (r635252) based on BBP 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,)
Build Date: Thu Sep 8 14:49:19 CST 2016 (seal@seal-pc)
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Broadcom Corporation.
Init Arena
Init Devs.
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
DDR Clock: 533 MHz
Info: DDR frequency set from clkfreq=900,*533*
No GPIO defined for BBSI interface
No BBSI device
bcm_robo_enable_switch: EEE is disabled
et0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 9.10.178.50 (r635252)
CPU type 0x0: 900MHz
Tot mem: 131072 KBytes
CFE mem: 0x00F00000 - 0x02FB912C (34312492)
Data: 0x00F6B754 - 0x00F70C04 (21680)
BSS: 0x00F70C10 - 0x00FB712C (288028)
Heap: 0x00FB712C - 0x02FB712C (33554432)
Stack: 0x02FB712C - 0x02FB912C (8192)
Text: 0x00F00000 - 0x00F5F4F4 (390388)
Device eth0: hwaddr AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-00, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Reading Partition Table from NVRAM ... OK
Parsing Partition Table ... OK
[NM_Error](nm_api_readPtnFromNvram) 00134: partition name not found.
factory boot check integer read flag partition fail.
Device eth0: hwaddr AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-00, ipaddr 192.168.0.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
CFE>
If anyone happens to be able to dump their factory firmware or knows how to extract the trx binary from the firmware available on tp-link official page or has any other idea, I'd be happy to try to unblock my router. And ideally try to have OpenWrt work on it !
(*) Long story there: http://www.florentflament.com/blog/openwrt-and-tp-link-archer-c1200-eu-v2.html
Regards