Well Hello. I am working with Ruijie RG-EW3200GX Pro router and firstly i installed openwrt-24.10.0-mediatek-mt7622-ruijie_rg-ew3200gx-pro-initramfs-kernel.bin. It was OK, it was working, i could access ssh and web interface. Then i tried to upgrade the system with Flash New Firmware Image button and uploaded openwrt-24.10.0-mediatek-mt7622-ruijie_rg-ew3200gx-pro-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin. Now it took like 3 hours and still this alert with a loading icon is there:
"Flashing…
The system is flashing now.
DO NOT POWER OFF THE DEVICE!
Wait a few minutes before you try to reconnect. It might be necessary to renew the address of your computer to reach the device again, depending on your settings."
Nothing happens and i don't see any ethernet connection in control panel, i can't access to ip address from web and i can't access to ssh, it asks me password but i didn't set any password.
Can you help me and save this case? Thanks.
What tool did you use for the second upgrade from the initramfs image? In LuCI, "System -> Backup/Flash Firmware" or from CLI sysupgrade or something else?
After three hours, it's pretty clear that something has not worked, try rebooting and see if it comes up in OpenWrt.
Thanks for the answer. I used Flash New Firmware Image tool in LuCI and chosed the sysupgrade file that i downloaded from related device hardwaredata page (https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/ruijie/ruijie_rg-ew3200gx_pro).
Wouldn't restarting/rebooting the device or computer cause it to brick?
More info: The WAN and LAN lights are not on.
If it's going to be a brick, then the damage was done within the first 20-30 seconds of the sysupgrade, so there's nothing to do at this point but reboot and see what's going on.
I left it like this and left the office. I’ll restart it in the morning. So, what should I do if it’s bricked?
Note: While performing the installation, both LAN (connected to PC) and WAN (internet) connections were active. Could this have caused a problem? Should only the LAN connection have been active?
The only recovery notes I could find for that device are in the initial commit, here: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/ce8a33b021a703b1933f627835f6cdc88c0ecdd3
Having network connections should not affect reflashing the device at all, what you did was fine.
Thank you that link helped. After some researches, It obviously says "U-Boot TFTP + serial recovery" as installation and recovery method for this model of router. I tried to install and upgrade by web and that was the mistake probably because this model of router doesn't allow you to change the operating system that easy. It allowed me to change as temporary-initframs system but didn't allow me to change as parmanent-squash.
Now i ordered a USB-TTL converter to connect J19 UART port of my router and i will try to U-Boot TFTP method.
Here is my question to relieve me: Did I kill this device? Can i make it alive with this U-Boot TFTP method again. Thanks again.